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Hi,

On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 1:01:32 PM UTC-5, Wiktor S. wrote:
>
> > Or are you using a third-party modified version?
> 
> I'm using original sources and quake.mak you mention about that I found 
> somewhere on the web. It compiles and runs under DOSBox.

I hope you aren't trying to compile under DOSBox itself!

But anyways, here's one of the variants I was thinking of (although
I never tried it):

http://dk.toastednet.org/QDOS/

> Yes, the resulting EXE is much bigger than original (from 400 kB
> to almost 800 kB)

Yeah, they just used an unfinished libc because it was "good enough".

> I'm not sure why it crashes on WinXP, theoretically it should work :-)
> Maybe I'll investigate that if I have some time.

No, it can't work, nearptrs don't work under NT-based Windows.

> But the problem with dos.h is not specific to Quake. Any application that 
> includes <dos.h> in more than one .c file will fail to link.

Most people here are savvy enough to work around such issues.

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