Technically this already worked with HXDOS, which emulated DirectDraw well enough that SDL could use it.
SDL Now Supports DOS
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Re: SDL Now Supports DOS
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
You can do substantially more in UEFI than NES-level games. (See https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.9_A/12_Protocols_Console_Suppo...)
Re: SDL Now Supports DOS
#23Uhm... 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.
Is there a reason they don't go with Ubuntu or something like that instead?
Re: SDL Now Supports DOS
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Wasn't it Dell or HP that did this? IIRC it was FreeDOS-on-QEMU-on-X11-on-Linux.
Re: SDL Now Supports DOS
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Is there a reason they don't go with Ubuntu or something like that instead?
I guess they don't want to get support's call. DOS looks like firmware for non techies.
Re: SDL Now Supports DOS
#26Awesome. I wonder how this would work with a 386+ targeted MS-DOS executable from FreeBASIC, which supports binding to SDL.
Re: SDL Now Supports DOS
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's a similar idea, but that's a DOS menu. At the point when the menu appears, MS-DOS 7.1 has already been loaded.
Re: SDL Now Supports DOS
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Probably your parents setting it up?
As far as I know, Worms is a normal DOS game, so the only way for that to happen should be a DOS install configured to just auto-start Worms on boot. Which makes sense as a way to keep a kid away from anything that could cause trouble.
I very vaguely recall that there used to be a very few PC games that worked as boot floppies and possibly didn't use DOS at all, but it was a rarity and Worms definitely wasn't one.
Re: SDL Now Supports DOS
#29Uhm... 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.
Those types of laws aren't all that bad.. they got us this: https://segaretro.org/Dottori_Kun
Re: SDL Now Supports DOS
#30Perfect! I was just doing some Turbo C development inside DOSBox-X inside Debian GNU/Linux inside VMware Fusion inside macOS this morning.