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Subject: Re: VIRTUAL BOX and my GAME - Mr Rod Pemberton
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> (djgpp) tried to move to XP, sort of...  It hasn't, yet...

I've been using v2.03 without issue for 9 years now on XP, so this is
just wrong.

> That's still in Beta.  7 years of Beta...  No demand?

v2.04 has been in beta for around 9 years.  No one has wanted
it bad enough to complete it.  DJGPP is a volunteer effort.  Some
people have claimed the justification for v2.04 was better XP
support, but I have never agreed with that opinion.  v2.04 does
have much more support for recent function calls, which makes
porting recent "linux only" type software easier.

> I've repeatedly suggested two things that could
> breathe some life into DJGPP: GNU GLIBC, and recompiled v2.03 with 64-bit
> support enabled. GLIBC would allow GNU tools on DOS to just work.  64-bit
> would allow current users to migrate from 32-bit.

DJGPP is build on a DOS API, which requires a 16-bit DOS.  64-bit OSes
cannot run 16-bit apps directly (this is a hardware limitation) - so it 
would all
need to be emulated (SLOW), and would not launch seamlessly like 16-bit
apps currently do under 32-bit Windows.  Moving to a different API is a 
complete
re-write.  If you need to run on 64-bit windows, you need applications built
with a a different run-time to use the Windows native API (either the 32-bit
or 64-bit).