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From: | "Charles Sandmann" <cwsdpmi AT earthlink DOT net> |
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Subject: | Re: VIRTUAL BOX and my GAME - Mr Rod Pemberton |
Date: | Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:32:34 -0600 |
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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).
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