| --- Log opened Sat Oct 07 00:00:29 2017 |
| 00:01 | <&McMartin> | (DOSBOX is specifically only focused on getting old *games* to work, which means other software will only operate properly if it restricts itself to network or character-stream file operations, and it will only *excel* if it was trying to command early 1990s-era multimedia technologies) |
| 00:02 | <&McMartin> | Win2k was infamous for its lack of real compatibility with previous consumer versions of Windows, so I'm impressed that it's able to provide the necessary DOS-like environment. |
| 00:04 | <@himi> | It's more that although the code is available (and GPLed) it's not actually /useful/ since it requires a proprietary and expensive development environment - a different kind of "legacy" situation |
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| 00:06 | | * Mahal derps. |
| 00:06 | < Mahal> | I was thinking of FreeDOS, not DOSBOX. |
| 00:06 | < Mahal> | brain |
| 00:08 | <&McMartin> | If for some reason you have a program that controls a Yamaha OPL2 chip in the usual way x86 machines did, though, DOSBOX is the best at it >_> |
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| 06:34 | | * McMartin prototypes an algorithm in C, with a program of 8,408 bytes |
| 06:34 | | * McMartin then implements it in assembler, in 35 bytes. |
| 07:01 | <&jeroud> | Every now and then I long for the sort of problem I can write asm code to solve. |
| 07:01 | <&jeroud> | Then I go and refactor pypy's JIT optimisations or something and come to my senses. |
| 07:04 | <&McMartin> | "Programming an embedded system that is at least 20 years old", it turns out~ |
| 07:08 | <&jeroud> | I should probably clarify that refactoring pypy's JIT optimisations didn't directly expose me to any asm. It did expose me to a whole bunch stuff that operates on VM bytecode. |
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| 08:58 | < ToxicFrog> | McMartin: 2k came with NTVDM, the NT Virtual DOS Machine, which was specifically designed to run DOS business apps |
| 08:59 | < ToxicFrog> | It was quite unsuited for gaming and in the pre-dosbox days there were a number of grevious hacks to get it to, e.g., reliably support sound so that you could play System Shock in it |
| 09:00 | < ToxicFrog> | But for what it was written for it worked surprisingly well. |
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| 09:39 | <&McMartin> | Aha |
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