X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Rugxulo Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: CWSDPMI r5 test update status? Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:14:03 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 38 Message-ID: <95a954b6-c23f-400a-928b-0d750d8b315b@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1229642043 9298 127.0.0.1 (18 Dec 2008 23:14:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id mBINFEgU016207 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi, On Dec 15, 11:02 pm, "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > Just wondering if the CWSDPMI r5 test update will be promoted to release > anytime soon. > >         -hpa The original announcement / comments on news://comp.os.msdos.djgpp is here (Aug. 21, 2008): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.msdos.djgpp/browse_thread/thread/342a99650ada1447# I haven't heard anything from Charles lately, but since his time is 1000x more precious than mine (and most), that's normal. ;-) Of course, I haven't e-mailed him any recent results either (due to lack of more testing on my part until recently). He still checks the newsgroup occasionally (weekly or so), so he'll probably respond. Just for the record, it works for me (enables SSE if found) in pure FreeDOS booted from USB floppy on my laptop. But as mentioned, besides SSE support it's not very different than the (2002) r5updtst.zip, which BTW is here: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2/r5updtst.zip (hint hint: DJ, please update that and maybe the /current/ version also to use the latest 2008 refresh). P.S. CWSDPMI is built with Borland C (3.1?) and TASM although the "no cost" TC++ 1.01 also works (http://dn.codegear.com/article/21751). In fact, TASM32 (5.3 from 2000) is "no cost" (Turbo C++ Explorer 2006), and it's been suggested that somebody convert the srcs in CWSDPMI to use OpenWatcom + JWasm, NASM, or whatever "free" tools. If I wasn't so limited in skills, I'd do it myself. I could probably convert the TASM part, it's the C part that bothers me. :-/ Kudos to Charles Sandmann (et al.) for all that hard work over the years!