Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom packaging (was: FreeDOS FDNPKG install CD)

2013-07-29 Thread Mateusz Viste
I don't know OW well since I never used it, so I am not very well aware of what parts it needs exactly, but maybe a nice solution would be to create multiple packages, where every package would contain a part of OW - then the end user could download only what he wants/needs/uses. That's more

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom packaging (was: FreeDOS FDNPKG install CD)

2013-07-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote: maybe a nice solution would be to create multiple packages, where every package would contain a part of OW - then the end user could download only what he wants/needs/uses. Well, I figured a full DOS only

[Freedos-user] Jack Ellis' drivers (UIDE, etc.) 2013-07-28

2013-07-29 Thread Rugxulo
Jack Ellis has released a minor update to his drivers: UHDD/UIDE save 600 bytes of runtime (HMA) space by omitting their binary-search buffer and related code (they did not improve speed very much).Their /F switch is now deleted, and UHDD/UIDE will always set 64K blocks with a cache of

[Freedos-user] Zmiy - a snake-like game for 8086 (like Nibbles)

2013-07-29 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi all, I had a few minutes of free time lately and felt the inexplicable need to write a Nibbles clone (remember this game that was shipped with QBasic ages ago?). I called it 'Zmiy'. It's written in C89, compiled with Turbo C, and, as usual, released under GNU GPL 3 (yes Rugxulo, I *am*

Re: [Freedos-user] Zmiy - a snake-like game for 8086 (like Nibbles)

2013-07-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi :-) I had a few minutes of free time lately and felt the inexplicable need to write a Nibbles clone (remember this game that was shipped with Hehe :-D The first (best so far) is checking the time in a loop (at 18,2Hz), and performing an int15h AX=5305h at every iteration to notify