Author: Paul
Date: 01:31:19 03/25/01
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On March 24, 2001 at 23:02:05, Christophe Theron wrote: >On March 24, 2001 at 18:27:17, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On March 24, 2001 at 18:06:38, liam hearns wrote: >> >>>write a program like rebel in dos ???????????great program but why all theses >>>years in dos? >> >>I like Dos, don't know about anyone else, but I like it. >> >>Pete > > >I like it too, and I could not work without it (I mean it would take me some >time to adapt all my tools). > >As a matter of facts, Chess Tiger and Gambit Tiger are STILL developped under >DOS at this time. My everyday work is done under DOS with the free GCC compiler >(version 2.7.2 of the DJGPP adaptation of GCC, it's a rather old version) and >the excellent RHIDE interface (editor/compiler/debugger). > >When I have an interesting version, I compile it to a Windows DLL with the MS VC >6 compiler. > >But the REAL Chess Tiger is a DOS program. > > > > Christophe Of course I've worked with DOS for years too, but you can compare it to working in a room with the lights switched off! That's why the screen is black :) You can only do one thing at a time ... ohh ... have to look something up ... close task ... startup other one ... done ... back to first one ... YUCK! And on the programming side ... far pointers ... huge pointers, no fun at all! Then came Windows ... lights on! Multitasking! GUI! Blue screens! ... ohh noooo! Allocating memory is sooo easy now ... video applications ... audio ... great! I just want to say that while I have nothing against DOS, it doesn't even begin to compare to Windows and what you can do in that environment. I always have a lot of applications open at the same time, and DOS just isn't made to do that. And once you know not to switch too quickly between apps, the number of blue screens goes down considerably :) The biggest gripe I have against Windows is the mess it makes when installing new things. Did this dll in the system dir belong just to that program or are there other dependancies? Groetjes, Paul
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