Uhm... excuse me? Why? Is there anyone even using DOS for anything serious these days?
because you can
SDL Now Supports DOS
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#12This is an especially funny screenshot as DosBOX itself is built on SDL.
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That honestly sounds amazing. Imagine booting into something like a grub menu that's just a list of classic games.
I would guess a modern BIOS chip is as powerful as an NES, right?
What do you mean by "BIOS chip"? Like, the flash memory that stores the motherboard's firmware? I don't think that contains any processing elements.
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#14Uhm... excuse me? Why? Is there anyone even using DOS for anything serious these days?
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#15Uhm... excuse me? Why? Is there anyone even using DOS for anything serious these days?
Most computers in Turkey come with FreeDOS preinstalled because there's a law that states all computers must be sold with an operating system. FreeDOS turns out to be the cheapest and easiest.
That's why you don't let people who have never touched a computer write tech laws. You get results like this.
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#16All that's left now is SDL for UEFI, and then all our games can run in a pre-OS environment.
That honestly sounds amazing. Imagine booting into something like a grub menu that's just a list of classic games.
I basically had this setup back in the day. I don't really know how I ended up with it, I was 7 at the time and none of it was intentional - but my bootloader had two entries: I could boot into Windows 98, or I could boot into Worms.
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#17Uhm... excuse me? Why? Is there anyone even using DOS for anything serious these days?
The real question is "why not?" :)
I think this PR is awesome, and I can totally see myself playing around with this at some point. Being able to create DOS executables of SDL projects is just ... cool!
But I do wonder about the practicality. This would, I presume (never done DOS development, never touched a memory extender) only run on 386+ CPUs, and maybe more importantly, probably require a newer CPU than that to run anything non-trivial at acceptable performance. So I wonder how many "real DOS machines" this can practically target.
Still, it is massively cool.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would guess a modern BIOS chip is as powerful as an NES, right?
What do you mean by "BIOS chip"? Like, the flash memory that stores the motherboard's firmware? I don't think that contains any processing elements.
BIOS can only manage VESA which is much much slower than the capabilities of a modern GPU, so they might have meant graphical performance in regards to that.
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#20Uhm... excuse me? Why? Is there anyone even using DOS for anything serious these days?
Most computers in Turkey come with FreeDOS preinstalled because there's a law that states all computers must be sold with an operating system. FreeDOS turns out to be the cheapest and easiest. That's why you don't let people who have never touched a computer write tech laws. You get results like this.
The really weird case is where the computer isn't actually compatible with DOS, so they put in a locked-down Linux distro that emulates FreeDOS.