brostenen wrote:Here in Denmark, they add something to the rubbing alcohol, that makes one sick if one drinks the 97/98 percent proof rubbing alcohol. It leaves a kind of sticky resedue, and is perfect to clean keyboard springs in. I think it will prevent more rust from forming. So I have used it to clean the springs.
I trust you didn't buy something like "Mentholated rubbing compound", so what you're describing is something ethanol-based where they've "denatured" it. Here in Canada, it varies from brand to brand, so I just had to find a pharmacy chain that made theirs with 99% isopropyl alcohol.
However, if you're of legal drinking age, there's actually a pretty easy way to specifically ask for pure alcohol (within the limits of the chemistry between alcohol and atmospheric moisture): Drop by your local seller of alcoholic beverages and pick up a bottle of "rectified spirit".
Rectified spirit, also known as neutral spirits, rectified alcohol, or ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin[1] is highly concentrated ethanol which has been purified by means of repeated distillation, a process that is called rectification. In some countries (e.g. India), denatured alcohol or denatured rectified spirit may commonly be available as "rectified spirit", but it is poisonous and ingestion can be fatal.
In its undiluted form, it contains at least 95% alcohol by volume (ABV) (190 US proof) in the United States, or at least 96% ABV in the European Union,[1] respectively. The purity of rectified spirit has a practical limit of 97.2% ABV (95.6% by mass)[2] when produced using conventional distillation processes, because a mixture of ethanol and water becomes a minimum-boiling azeotrope at this concentration.
The stuff is normally intended for making mixed drinks, medicinal tinctures, and certain kinds of cooking.
The other option I've heard of is that some of the products in automotive supply shops are apparently pure isopropyl alcohol. (I think it was some kind of line cleaner.)
Damaniel wrote:I don't have binaries but I can throw some together. Otherwise, if you have DOSBox and Turbo Pascal installed, then running make.bat from the MOVEIT directory should work.
Have you looked into how much work it would take to support Free Pascal? I always like to support open-source compilers and Free Pascal currently supports both DPMI and real-mode DOS targets. (The DPMI target can be DOS-hosted or cross-compiling while the real-mode target must be cross-compiling)
(They're also working on support for Win16 but their Win9x support bit-rotted and was dropped for want of a maintainer for non-Unicode Wn32 support, so you'd need to install a 2.4 or maybe 2.6 release if you want to target Win9x.)
Damaniel wrote:I use version 7. I haven't tried using any older versions so I don't know if they'll work.
All the more reason to consider supporting Free Pascal. Last I checked, the newest version available in the Embarcadero museum was 5.5 and I don't like to implicitly encourage people to violate the letter of copyright law by posting projects that rely on "abandonware" compilers. (Plus, the oldest thing I personally have in my collection is the copy of Borland Delphi 1 included on my Delphi 2 CD for Win16 compatibility.)
Damaniel wrote:RE: LOCGAED - Another bug - an overly aggressive .gitignore was actually keeping essential files out of the repo. Fixed now. This is why it's useful to have other people checking these things for me.
We all make mistakes like that from time to time. For more modern stuff, it's usually my CI testing that catches that.
I've been meaning to look into stacking Sikuli on top of DOSBox on top of Xvfb to unit-test the retro ideas I've been planning.
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