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Compile like it's 1992
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#12Does anyone else find it sorta ironically odd that one of the masterminds behind this great stuff is now a .... gasp Facebook ... employee?? my heart kinda aches.
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#13Will it build with a modern compiler?
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#14Does anyone else find it sorta ironically odd that one of the masterminds behind this great stuff is now a .... gasp Facebook ... employee?? my heart kinda aches.
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#16Does anyone else find it sorta ironically odd that one of the masterminds behind this great stuff is now a .... gasp Facebook ... employee?? my heart kinda aches.
No. Why would it be ironic? Facebook has a huge amount of engineering talent.
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#17Does anyone else find it sorta ironically odd that one of the masterminds behind this great stuff is now a .... gasp Facebook ... employee?? my heart kinda aches.
No. Why would it be ironic? Facebook has a huge amount of engineering talent.
An Aug 2nd tweet from John Carmack started "Onboarding at Facebook went well...". My thought was "nobody onboards that guy?!?! he onboards YOU!!" I just hope talent like John Carmack can still spread their wings in that environment and do the things that got them to that point.
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#18Its nice that they made it public domain. There are 1000 more games from that era whose code will simply dissapear despite being simply bits and bytes that may be perfectly preserved for ever.
Is that Borland C++ compiler also in the public domain? It was cool that he provides it but it made me wonder if it was ever released like that.
No. The closest any of the old Borland stuff got to public domain was their "museum," which includes free downloads of some of the old packages.
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#19I remember getting the Borland C compiler as a ten or eleven year old and thinking, twenty megabytes! What in the world could they need twenty megabytes for? That was like, my entire hard drive. N.B. you have a typo Z:/> mount c ~/systen/c
Honestly, I still think that 12MB for a system like Borland C is overkill.
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#20Will it build with a modern compiler?
Nope, the code is mean to run in Real-Mode, a mode where registers are 16 bits and memory is severely segmented.
No to mention the direct access to the VGA which modern Operating System forbid.