Mail Archives: djgpp/2011/02/11/21:30:06
Hi,
On Feb 8, 4:25=A0pm, "Matthew Petricone" <strstr DOT DOT DOT AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> ________________________________________
> From: Pablo Marty [mailto:tigrepotrazosalv DOT DOT DOT AT yahoo DOT com DOT ar]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 4:52 PM
> To: dj DOT DOT DOT AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: VIRTUAL BOX and my GAME - Mr Rod Pemberton
>
> I have just got 2 ideas: 1st I could give my code files to the list so th=
e
> ones who want could learn to write games (like Mario) though=A0my code is
> quite untidy ....
> 2nd perhaps you, Rugxulo, could upload somewhere my Mario game, so everyo=
ne
> can see it, for though it is running from Windows XP (without music) but =
I
> think it would be good that djgpp people knows it .... modestly I think i=
t's
> good,=A0mainly it took me 2 or 3 years working a few hours some days ... =
then
> probably all members will be happier to help me with VBox
Quite honestly, FreeDOS just doesn't have enough volunteers (or aren't
organized enough), hence the 1.0 CDs (and .ISOs) are kinda old by now
(2006). I still struggle with my own heavily-modified floppies. Maybe
one day I'll find the energy to update 'em, who knows. A floppy is
much easier to modify (for me) than .ISO, but like I mentioned, it
should (in theory) be fairly easy to create our own .ISO (CD-RW ftw!).
Yeah, maybe DJGPP needs to make its own distro (hosted on SourceForge)
based upon FreeDOS. (Please don't think old uDos or whatever counts,
it's too old and buggy, last I checked.) But personally I would prefer
we packed everything in .7z to keep download size down. (I hate seeing
so many 600+ MB .ISOs.) But we'd have to agree what goes on there.
Personally I think FreeDOS "BASE" + enough to rebuild GCC, Bash, etc.
should suffice. But I'd have to check my installs and scripts first.
Better (but much harder) would be minimal Linux (terminal?) + DOSEMU,
but I'd have to spend a year or two poring over Linux From Scratch
first. :-(
Anyways, if (and only if) you're willing to share your sources ("open
source", see OSI), you could create a public site/page on SourceForge
or Berlios or Google Code. Otherwise you could maybe use Google Sites,
Tripod, 110mb, or similar. All I've got is a (messy, wimpy) Google
Site myself, and even some of that should probably be transferred to
SourceForge to clear up some room (though I'm skeptical anybody cares,
but for archiving ...).
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