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Up to Windows 3.1 at least parts of WIndows were written in Pascal. I could find not a single source for that. Windows 95 was written in Watcom C. God, it was taking hours to compile anything! At that point they had their own C compiler for 10+ years, why would they use the competition? In 98 where...

1. Challange of uQLx and sQLux which already have working SCR_XLIM and SCR_YLIM integrated.

and SCR_BASE/SCR_LLEN in sQLux!

Save a few bytes, really, when there was 640 K and we know an OS with a language can fit in 48 K. I don't go round just claiming stuff, my source is one of the most well known Microsoft developer on the net https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040102-00/?p=41213 By the way, he's been postin...

AmigaOS 4.1 seems to run natively on costly and unavailable ACUBE hardware.I found a 25 minute Youtube video that describes how to install the OS on a PC, but it did not seem like an activity suitable for a noob. I know its a little counter intuitive, but the latest version of AmigaOS is 3.2.1 and ...

It might not be unreasonable to suggest that SMSQE is the last or only serious and fully operational system in/on which it is realistic for a noob to learn how to write a windowing application program in assembly. (By the way is it "in" or is it "on". Could someone please enligh...

Cant help feel sorry for you messing with the poor quality TOSEC archive though.

Have you discovered http://www.dilwyn.me.uk where most of the software is present in better form with in a lot of cases instructions?

nitrofurano wrote:thanks.. and i mount these subdirectories as "imagedisks" somehow? and on which emulators should i do it? (mame/mess? qpc2? qemulator? qlay? or any other emulator?)

If you use Q-Emulator (its well worth paying for) you can just use zip files as disks.

Hi No problems, I just not get it to work. I generally uncompress archive files to a QDOS environment, which preserves the executable header eithout messing about wilth the QDOS file header. Using your own test I have tried. ./x86_64/qem-unzip -d~/test "~/Downloads/flightdeck.zip" with th...

Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,

How do I get sQLux to execute a QDOS executable file unzipped with qemi-unzip.

I made a DEVICE as qdos-like but the rxecutable file teturns a bad parameter when loaded with EX or EW

It should just work with the latest in git, but its still in development so there might be some bugs!

Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,

I had to put the complete file path to the decompress directory and the zip file.

Maybe I am a little bit out of date.

I will look at an upgrade.

No need, I've just pushed what should fix this for you. Code now does shell expansion of passed filenames!