Hello Rugxulo, hello Dennis, >> What exactly does "semi-working" mean? It seems like graphics commands >> aren't supported? That's no biggie (IMHO) as long as it can do simple >> file I/O.
Well, direct commands seem to be working quite OK. But yes, large chunks of functionality --- graphics, (PC speaker) audio, serial/parallel ports, etc. --- are simply not there yet. And, I have not quite fully tested the parts that are there. There is still a long way to go, and I can probably use some help here.
Thank you. I never understand when people prefer ancient MASM over modern JWasm.
Well, this GW-BASIC version (1983) was written before JWasm even existed. (I guess we cannot fault the Microsoft developers then for not catering to a build tool that simply wasn't.)
On a side note, you're using GNU Make and AWK (to cross-build?). I do wonder if DJGPP Make (or even other AWK implementations) would work for us here.
DJGPP make is mainly just a port of GNU make, is it not? As for the AWK portion, I have tested my script for munging the GW-BASIC source files with both GNU awk (gawk) and mawk.
Awk is still useful on *nix - various things like build recipes may use it in scripts - but for most purposes, perl has replaced it. (I consider that a pity. Awk is smaller and faster, and perl may be overkill for a lot of what you might need to do. Former Busybox
Agreed. In fact I wrote an earlier version of my source-file-munging script in Perl, but later rewrote it in AWK. :-) Thank you! -- https://github.com/tkchia _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
