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.)


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