X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Rugxulo Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: VIRTUAL BOX and my GAME - Mr Rod Pemberton Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:16:22 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 48 Message-ID: <601f0ca6-391c-43a5-ac0d-8a6e78354ade@f30g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> References: <424122 DOT 33756 DOT qm AT web45111 DOT mail DOT sp1 DOT yahoo DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1297476983 5265 127.0.0.1 (12 Feb 2011 02:16:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:16:23 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: f30g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3639 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi, On Feb 8, 4:25=A0pm, "Matthew Petricone" 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 ...).