Hi, On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM Roderick Klein via Freedos-user <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am chairman of the Dutch OS/2 organization. We help get open source > software developed for OS/2. There is a commercial version of OS/2 > called ArcaOS.
There's a lot of good stuff for OS/2 (Rexx, OpenWatcom, etc). (Though since even Linux stopped building 32-bit binaries of Firefox, I worry for OSes like yours.) > It actually runs the build in IBM PC DOS directly on bare metal on machines > running UEFI. No small feat! Refurbished IBM Thinkpads are always popular for things like this. > I am was looking for a developer who want to help to help getting a long > standing project finished. This is a driver that emulates SB 16 in > DOS sessions with a so called Virtual Device Driver. But you need to > have experience with x86 assembly and using a debugger. Obvious question: don't you have a port of DOSBox (SDL)? (I assume yes since even Haiku has one.) Japheth is the obvious person to contact for assembly drivers. * https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/ > Again sorry for being off topic but people that master X86 assembly are > rare to find. You can reach me privately via [email protected]. Good luck, and keep retro alive! Much love and respect. (BTW, I still never opened my winter box of pumpkin spice stroopwaffels, doh.) _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
