RE: SimCoupe 0.90 beta 10

2004-03-25 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: What you actually need is to check that all interfaces you use in your program are supported on that machine. So I think your installer should rather try to obtain all interfaces used in the SimCoupe That's the thing - I don't ask for explicit interface versions, calling

Re: SimCoupe 0.90 beta 10

2004-03-25 Thread Aley Keprt
Of course, when you call DirectDrawCreate(), you get an interface. That's what I wrote, I didn't mean any special interfaces. You just call ...Create() and get the interface. If you get the interface you want to use, DX is surely installed. That's it. No registry/dll version checking is actually

RE: SimCoupe 0.90 beta 10

2004-03-25 Thread Geoff Winkless
25 March 2004 00:54, Simon Owen wrote: You're _way_ over-complicating things! It was simply looking for the DX version number in a registry key that didn't exist in older versions of DirectX. Failing to find the version key it assumed DirectX was not installed. Here's the NSIS function I

RE: SimCoupe 0.90 beta 10

2004-03-25 Thread Simon Owen
Geoff Winkless wrote: the first is likely to work (assuming the version id is correct) Agreed that checking for something specific can be a Bad Thing, but setting a lower limit on a version number doesn't seem too extreme. In this case the DDRAW.DLL file is guaranteed to be part of any

SAM Web Browser

2004-03-25 Thread Jorge Meireles
Hello, I found this site http://www.dunkels.com/adam/contiki/ and I'm wonder when a web browser and tcp/ip stack I the old SAM ;) It seems that Commodore 64 already have one :( Regards, Meireles

Re: SAM Web Browser

2004-03-25 Thread DAVID LEDBURY
In theory - possible - as a lot of work has been done in the past by Cookie and others in pracise? Converting a project like this would take a lot of work - and tbh - it would probably need a few Spectrum people starting a conversion to help speed things up..Jorge Meireles [EMAIL

RE: SAM Web Browser

2004-03-25 Thread Simon Owen
Jorge Meireles wrote: I found this site http://www.dunkels.com/adam/contiki/ and I'm wonder when a web browser and tcp/ip stack I the old SAM ;) A few groups have looked at it for both SAM and Spectrum, but I don't think anyone has got it all working. I did hear that someone got it all to

Re: SAM Web Browser

2004-03-25 Thread Colin Piggot
I found this site http://www.dunkels.com/adam/contiki/ and I'm wonder when a web browser and tcp/ip stack I the old SAM ;) A port of Contiki was briefly looked at before by Simon Owen and a few others... Colin Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe Website:

Re: SAM Web Browser

2004-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Haller
To see what can be done show here on MSX pages: http://uzix.sourceforge.net/uzix1.0/index.php?page=scrshtlang=us If someone is interested in Spectrum TCP/IP networking routines, I can send what I have for version 1.00 by (c) 1998 Juraj Rehak, Glip, (c) 1998 Lubos Janica, Lubko and (c) 1998

Re: SAM Web Browser

2004-03-25 Thread Frode Tenneboe
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:03:48 + (GMT) DAVID LEDBURY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In theory - possible - as a lot of work has been done in the past by Cookie and others in pracise? Converting a project like this would take a lot of work - and tbh - it would probably need a few Spectrum

Re: SAM Web Browser

2004-03-25 Thread Edwin Blink
And then theres also http://www.nenie.org/cpcip/ I would go for the Webbrowser though. - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Haller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To see what can be done show here on MSX pages: http://uzix.sourceforge.net/uzix1.0/index.php?page=scrshtlang=us