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First post, by lucky7456969

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I am continuing on with my ansi patch of dosbox. It can turn on ansi depending on your wish.
And I want to write a helper executable on z:? so that the user can turn it on and off at any times.
I wonder what is the correct way of writing such a utility, how to determine its size?
Do I mock instructions with those fake executables?
Thanks
Jack

Reply 1 of 4, by mr_bigmouth_502

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You'd have to compile it into the source. I'm not sure how you'd do this, however. AFAIK, the "executables" on DosBox's Z: drive aren't actually MS-DOS executables, but rather they're just representations of DosBox's inbuilt functions.

My NEW(ish) desktop:
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Reply 2 of 4, by Qbix

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yep, just check how we implement them.

(for example MEM is a nice one to start with)

Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!

Reply 4 of 4, by Dominus

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Why don't you look the source up instead of guessing?

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper