Well, one could also question the point of shared libraries in a
system that doesn't support multitasking.
Dynamic loading has a point in so far as to load binaries based on the
availability of hardware, as in the BGI drivers. Having the code to
support all gfx cards in the exe would be wasteful,
Hallo Herr Ralf Quint,
am Montag, 28. Dezember 2020 um 17:06 schrieben Sie:
> On 12/28/2020 2:39 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
>> Hallo Herr Ralf Quint,
>>
>> am Montag, 28. Dezember 2020 um 10:59 schrieben Sie:
>>
>>> On 12/27/2020 10:54 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
Hey, all! Just
Mercury tirtheen said:
>Was there ever any "official" format for a shared runtime library under
>MS-DOS?
>... I'm pretty sure there was no such thing
IMHO, the nearest thing are overlays, but they never were standardized.
It should be possible to define quite a few and make them available t
I second the OpenGEM sentiment. One of the things that makes DOS special to
me, is the simplicity, both of the API, and the usage. Lack of multitasking
is a plus for me, not a minus. (IIRC GEM supports some multitasking
though.) GEM does seem to have that simple, RAW, feel, and that's a good
thing
On 12/28/2020 2:39 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
Hallo Herr Ralf Quint,
am Montag, 28. Dezember 2020 um 10:59 schrieben Sie:
On 12/27/2020 10:54 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
Hey, all! Just a question I've never seen addressed here - or anywhere
else, for that matter.
Was there ever
> And that was my thinking behind it. Writing yet another nondescript
> GUI would be sort of pointless.
+1
> The main strength of FreeDOS is its
> ability to keep legacy software alive. But by definition there's no
> legacy software available for a GUI that's written in 2020.
+1
> Getting
> clos
IIRC there was never something like a standard DLL concept, but we
used to use flat binaries for that concept. Back in 1994 or something,
a friend of mine and I wrote something akin to fractint and we defined
a 'fractal driver' for each type. What it basically boiled down to was
typedef'ing a funct
Hi
Ralf makes a very interesting and important point here, especially as it
reminds me of my idealistic and somewhat overconfident self from 1993. Like
many people back in the day I thought I was a l33t hax0r after three years
of dabbling with Turbo-Pascal, Turbo-C and even some assembler. So,
nat
Hallo Herr Ralf Quint,
am Montag, 28. Dezember 2020 um 10:59 schrieben Sie:
> On 12/27/2020 10:54 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
>> Hey, all! Just a question I've never seen addressed here - or anywhere
>> else, for that matter.
>>
>> Was there ever any "official" format for a sha
On 12/27/2020 10:54 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
Hey, all! Just a question I've never seen addressed here - or anywhere
else, for that matter.
Was there ever any "official" format for a shared runtime library
under MS-DOS? Windows has .DLL files, Linux has .KO files, and MS-DO
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