Re: [Freedos-devel] FOSDEM 21 RetroComputing DevRoom

2020-12-21 Thread Jim Hall
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I'm thinking about a FreeDOS related topic. I may submit something. On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 6:01 PM Pau Garcia Quiles wrote: > Hello > > The Retrocomputing DevRoom is back at FOSDEM 2021 (Feb 6-7, 2021, online). > Submit your proposals before Dec 28th. > > http

[Freedos-devel] FOSDEM 21 RetroComputing DevRoom

2020-12-21 Thread Pau Garcia Quiles
Hello The Retrocomputing DevRoom is back at FOSDEM 2021 (Feb 6-7, 2021, online). Submit your proposals before Dec 28th. https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/retrocomputing-devroom/2020-December/27.html We are also looking for volunteers to help speakers with the recordings. If you are intereste

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-21 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/21/2020 3:58 AM, Danilo Pecher wrote: BGI ran like a three-legged pregnant hippo in a mud pit, mainly because it used the INT10h functions. Sorry, but that is pretty much nonsense. All the drivers that I know used direct memory/register access, with the exception of the VESA drivers, ma

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-21 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Danilo, > I still have legal copies of Turbo Pascal 3.0, 4.5, 6.0 and Borland > Pascal 7.0, so if there's interest, I'd be willing to take a look at > them to see if there's any insects to weed out. It might be interesting only, if some existing project already relies on these drivers. The, p

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-21 Thread tom ehlert
> Speaking of which. I noticed that pretty much all Borland Test-mode > IDE's for Turbo-C, Turbo Pascal and Turbo-Prolog react very sluggishly > in FreeDOS while working okay on MS-DOS and PTS-DOS. Anyone got a clue > what might cause this? is FDAPM loaded? in some cases it is reported to cause

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-21 Thread Guti
AFAIK this was probably in Borland's one, but I guess not the case with Jordan Hargrave nor Ullrich von Bassewitz ones. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Remitente:Danilo Pecher Destinatario: Bitácora de Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro Fecha:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-21 Thread Danilo Pecher
BGI ran like a three-legged pregnant hippo in a mud pit, mainly because it used the INT10h functions. Pretty much everyone I know, who also started programming in the late 80s got their first taste of inline assembler and hardware programming, when we realized that you could speed up things by magn

Re: [Freedos-devel] Orphans

2020-12-21 Thread Jerome Shidel
HI Robert, > On Dec 20, 2020, at 10:41 AM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > >> […] > > Does it mean, you are mirroring ibiblio.org by uploading new releases of > active projects to GitLab? > >> Also if any package tweaking (like moving files around or modifying >> configs), it >> makes it a little ea