Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 08:54:55 03/25/01
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On March 25, 2001 at 04:31:19, Paul wrote:
>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!
I should have added that I think that the Windows multitasking system is the
best thing that ever happened to DOS.
I run DOS inside Windows, of course.
>And on the programming side ... far pointers ... huge pointers, no fun at all!
No, this is history. With a 32 bits extender (and the DJGPP has one built-in),
you just use flat 32 bits pointers.
>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?
Yes that's a big problem in Windows. You have no control on what's happening on
your system.
Christophe
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