Hi, I've seen this message on the FreeDOS/32 developer list, and I think it can be of some interest. The project is slowly showing some progress, but it still needs volunteers.
Ciao. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luca Abeni Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FreeDOS-32-dev] Some news... Hi guys, after a very long time, here are some news about FD/32: - There are some improvements (bugfixes and new features) in the "devel" branch of the cvs. I created it to avoid experiments that can break stuff in the main branch - We have a basic win32 support!!! Thanks to Hanzac Chen, that developed a new PE parser and a "minimalistic mscrt", FD/32 can execute a win32 "hello world" program! - The wrapper for loading unmodified DJGPP programs is "kind of working". I have been able to run our command.exe, but it crashes after some time... I am still debugging the problem - Some memory leacks have been fixed - Hanzac is working on a graphic driver Summing up, FD/32 can currently: - run DPMI programs compiled with DJGPP, if they are linked at a proper address (proper means that such address must be free in your system, after loading kernel and drivers) - boot our command.exe - run simple win32 programs - run simple unmodified DJGPP programs (linked at their original address). This can sometime fail and there probably is some memory corruption somewhere. My todo list: 1) fix some bugs related to the vm86 calling mechanism 2) find and fix memory corruption problems 3) fix the wrapper Is anyone else interested in working on FD/32 (there are a lot of areas where your work is needed... ;)? If yes, just send a mail to the list. Luca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
