Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] purging DOS code

2011-04-17 Thread peterb
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Paying lip service to DOS compatibility is a burden. Thus, should we put > it > out of its misery? > > Kill it with fire. -peterb PS: I think I said that when this last came up 5 years ago, too, but we didn't want to offend our 2 DOS play

Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] purging DOS code

2011-04-07 Thread Jude
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > Hi! > > ... > > Paying lip service to DOS compatibility is a burden.  Thus, should we put it > out of its misery? Off with its head! -J -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a ma

Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] purging DOS code

2011-04-07 Thread Raphael Langella
2011/4/7 Adam Borowski > Paying lip service to DOS compatibility is a burden. Thus, should we put > it > out of its misery? > Yes. -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the natio

[Crawl-ref-discuss] purging DOS code

2011-04-07 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! The DOS port has been inoperative since 0.5, and it would take pretty serious work to get it to work again. Also, due to Crawl's bloat, 640K is no longer enough for anyone -- we quite often exceed 64M. There are no machines with that much memory which can conceivably be stuck with DOS. The