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Re: How to build a Win16 or Win32 App?

Errius wrote on 2020-02-12, 21:37: onre wrote on 2020-01-19, 08:50: I'd suggest Borland C++ 4.52 as well. It does it all and the installer background image alone is worth the install. Is that the one with the car steering wheel and install progress shown in the speedometer? Exactly.

Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

in Milliways
Can't we all just go back to Usenet? http://pessoal.org/papercut/ This + some amount of masochism just might produce something usable. If one were persistent enough, it would certainly be an option to write a backend which maintains a logged-in forum session and presents that as an NNTP feed to the …

Re: mTCP confusion

In my experience mTCP DHCP client code is rather resilient and works with all kinds of DHCP servers. I'd connect another computer to the switch and run Wireshark on it to see whether the DHCP packets sent by mTCP actually appear on the wire. If you can't see them and the card has more than one …

Microsoft C 6.0 patch

Hi, I also posted about this on winworldpc, but thought it wouldn't hurt to ask here either. So - does anyone know where I could get a patch for Microsoft C 6.0? The minor version of the compiler available on winworldpc is 6.0a and I need 6.0ax as it fixes a critical linker bug. (edit; there is no …

Re: Compiling old Nethack versions

in DOS
Figured it out. I had left COMPRESS defined and the DOS binary was trying to exec /usr/local/compress to make the save file smaller, which - strangely enough - didn't cause an error on DOS 3.3 but did so on later versions. Here's a fixed version of the whole thing. http://anteek.fi/~esp/nh3010b2. …

Re: Compiling old Nethack versions

in DOS
http://anteek.fi/~esp/nh3010b.zip This build has a bug that I just discovered. On newer than MS-DOS 3.3, saving causes a stack overflow. I've identified the reason to be an illegal instruction generated by the compiler. Here we can see MS Codeview disassembly of the situation: https://anteek.fi/~ …

Re: Compiling old Nethack versions

in DOS
The makefile bug of 3.0.10 was of my own doing as I was trying to avoid too long command lines that DOS could not execute. Using CL environment variable for compiler flags solved this. This one was also really picky about compiler version - 5.1 produced an executable with weird bugs in the overlay …

Re: Compiling old Nethack versions

in DOS
http://anteek.fi/~esp/nh313bin.zip Here's real-mode 3.1.3 with all gameplay affecting options compiled in. I set the Toshiba expanded memory (384 kB) as disk cache and it is, well, slow, but playable. This one has native screen routines, so it does not need ANSI.SYS - just unpack, adjust nethack.cnf …

Re: Compiling old Nethack versions

in DOS
http://anteek.fi/~esp/nh23bin.zip Here is the binary and a couple of support files for it. Unpack somewhere, adjust nethack.cnf, copy termcap to C:\ETC, install ANSI.SYS or equivalent and start playing. edit; oh damn, forgot one important thing: set TERM=ibmpc or set TERM=ibmpc-mono before playing. …

Re: Compiling old Nethack versions

in DOS
Here is one of many sites with Version 3.43 binaries (nh343dos.zip) for DOS/Win3.1: https://www.nethack.org/v343/ports/download-msdos.html Note: there is no real-mode overlaid binary distribution of NetHack 3.4.3 I run this stuff on a Toshiba T1200, which has 80C86 CPU. Only real mode is possible. …

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