Re: [Freedos-devel] drives.exe

2014-12-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Mercury Thirteen wrote: > > In keeping with Tom's earlier suggestion, I give you Drives, the disk info > tool - now in standalone form! :) > > It's still a bit buggy - I have to sort out an issue with repeating drive > labels and a couple other odds and ends -

Re: [Freedos-devel] New software!

2014-12-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Mercury Thirteen wrote: > > No problem! Yeah, PowerBASIC was a great product which produced some of the > fastest apps around. "Fast" is subjective (unless you mean compile-time speed, which I'm assuming here). There are too many diverse x86 machines (with di

Re: [Freedos-devel] drives.exe

2014-12-23 Thread Travis Siegel
I don't know how thorough you want to be, but msdos 5+, and some versions of both opendos and ptsdos, you can actually have more than 26 drives, up to 32 if I remember correctly. I saw (once) which characters they used for the additional 6 drives, but I don't remember what they were. Looking i

[Freedos-devel] drives.exe

2014-12-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen
In keeping with Tom's earlier suggestion, I give you *Drives*, the disk info tool - now in standalone form! :) It's still a bit buggy - I have to sort out an issue with repeating drive labels and a couple other odds and ends - but 90% of the program is usable and functional. Just type "drives" and

Re: [Freedos-devel] New software!

2014-12-23 Thread Dave Kerber
TrueBasic (www.truebasic.com) still sells the DOS version of their compiler, but it's not actively developed any more. > -Original Message- > From: Travis Siegel [mailto:tsie...@softcon.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 2:16 PM > To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS de

[Freedos-devel] Project 16

2014-12-23 Thread sparky4
I am making a new dos game with the help of a few friends! wanna help out? search "sparky4 project 16" on github ~ -- with love, sparky4 Administrator of 四葉の芽◇ちゃんねる -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The G

Re: [Freedos-devel] New software!

2014-12-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen
> > Thanks for that, grabbed it. > As far as I know, powerbasic is the only company that still actively sells > and supports a dos compiler. Their version 3.5 is still available for > purchase. I have their windows version too, though I'm 1 version back > (running pbcc 5.0, and pbwin 8.0), but st

Re: [Freedos-devel] New software!

2014-12-23 Thread Travis Siegel
On Dec 23, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Mercury Thirteen wrote: >> (btw, I'm a huge powerbasic fan, do you have your old code available > somewhere? I'd love to have a look at it. > > I hear you there, PowerBASIC was awesome in its day and in fact it was the > using of this language that let me get my GUI

Re: [Freedos-devel] New software!

2014-12-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen
Hi, Travis, and thanks for the feedback! > Are you kidding? There's been many many times I wanted a feature that would allow me to do a dos function in the background while I kept doing whatever it was I was already doing in the foreground. A way to switch to a second shell, do something, and swi

Re: [Freedos-devel] New software!

2014-12-23 Thread Travis Siegel
Are you kidding? There's been many many times I wanted a feature that would allow me to do a dos function in the background while I kept doing whatever it was I was already doing in the foreground. A way to switch to a second shell, do something, and switch back would be fantastic. (btw, I'm a

Re: [Freedos-devel] New software!

2014-12-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > in a new implemented, most likely buggy way (FreeCOM also had bazillion of bugs which were removed over much time and effort) Hopefully not! :) > can it run batches? As of right now, no, but in its final form, yes. It supports all the env

Re: [Freedos-devel] New software!

2014-12-23 Thread Tom Ehlert
> It will provide all the typical features of the base shell, in a new implemented, most likely buggy way (FreeCOM also had bazillion of bugs which were removed over much time and effort) can it run batches? whats the resident footprint? > including the following new features: > -The new "drive