Lots of undefined reference to 'romfopen' and ad1848 errors. Another forgotten file?

Makefile needed updating. Now done.

First, I'd just like to say that PCem is an absolute godsend for a vintage-PC buff such as myself--SarahWalker, thank you so much for your dedication and the years of hard work you've poured into this fantastic emulator. I'm thrilled that you're still working on it and that it's getting better by the day!

Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but as of 0.7 I can't seem to find any way to go fullscreen (other than by maximizing or dragging out the window, which isn't very palatable). With all due respect, this seems like quite a strange omission; fullscreen is rather essential for proper gaming, and in my experience it's one of the quickest and simplest features to add to a project like this. Assuming I'm not just missing it, I'd like to know if there's some particular reason a fullscreen mode hasn't been implemented, and whether the addition of one is planned for any time in the near future (or far future, for that matter).

Again, thanks to SarahWalker and everyone else who has so generously invested time and effort into this project. 😀

There's no fullscreen. If one were implemented now it'd be a little hard to escape the locked input since you're emulating a system that also takes alt+enter...

I seem to recall VMware gets around the problem by making the left and right Alt keys act differently.

Bit of a red herring, surely? Just make the fullscreen toggle something like Ctrl+Alt+Pause/Break, which would rarely if ever be used for anything else. That's the combination a lot of VMs/remote desktops/etc. use, including Microsoft RDP, and it's never caused anyone any problems from what I can tell.

Edit: I see that Pause/Break doesn't exist on some smaller Mac keyboards, but there appear to be reasonable workarounds, and a lot of Apple software does assume the existence of that key.

Hi. Can anyone post a step-by-step for compiling pcem? What you download, what you type in, etc? I'm not a programmer. I'm all for the "teach a man how to fish", but I do need the instructions to do so!

Oh, and thank you Tom for the wonderful work you are doing. 😎

I usually type this in msys (after cd''ing my way to the src directory)

make -f makefile.mingw -j 4

I forgot the dependencies however 🙁

About Windows 2.x (mostly the 386 editions) and PC-DOS 2.x and 3.x, I get this log while booting from hard disk after I sys'ed the drive with sys from PC-DOS 3.x (both 3.0, 3.1) and booting with win386.exe on Windows 2.x. (This happened in the latest svn release of the emulator, but not in the stock 0.7 release from 2012)

1x86 illegal 0000 00000000 0000:00000627 82

I couldn't post the full log because it was too big for the uploader.

What system configuration are you using?

IBM AT, AMI 286, AMI 386, AMI 486, AMI 486 PCI, Award 430VX PCI, but does not happen in the IBM XT and IBM PC as well as the Olivetti M24, Amstrad clones (1512 and 1640)
Edit: the same issue happens while starting Windows 3.0 and 3.1 in standard mode with the 286 clones and the IBM AT.

Here you go, friends.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4pIOIy0EbSj … dit?usp=sharing

Compiled Windows-i686 binary for those who can't compile 😀

One bug I've found so far. When configuring using a 386 or higher, the options available in the CPU Type drop-down box are kinda screwy.
There are invalid entries such as "430VX" and "486 class" that will cause a CTD if clicked. The only valid entries are Intel, AMD, Cyrix, and IDT. There are also duplicates, but you can click either one if they are valid like I mentioned.

Otherwise, everything seems to work.

A few warnings during compilation. I should've piped out a logfile. Will report shortly.

Sarah, you are doing an excellent job so far. A badass little utility if I do say so. Keep up the good work.

And to those wanting a Linux build, it appears that PCem currently uses win32api/DirectX libraries exclusively atm. Perhaps one could reroute commands/calls to SDL/OpenGL?

There is a Linux port in the works, but I don't know if it will be in the next release (which should be before the end of the year).

I'll have a look at the CPU Type selection, I had thought this was working.

Just committed a fix for the Windows issues SA1988 reported.

Now I found a circular bug, basically in 386_ops.h, in the "ILLEGAL" function, PC-DOS 3.0 wont boot from hdd, but if I comment out everything from it, it boots, but Windows 3.1 fails to boot to the GUI setup, I'm fixing it though alone

http://www.os2museum.com occasionally has some in-depth articles on some hopelessly obscure boot bugs that occur in older operating systems.

One post links to PC DOS Retro which in turn has a rather cryptic article on DOS 3.0 INT 21h. Maybe if DOS 3.1 works but not DOS 3.0, that has something to do with it? See also http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=1242 .

nvm, I solved the issue.

btw, what about ne2000 support? just a suggestion.

Feel free to write NE2000 support if you want. It's not something I'm particularly interested in.

ok, I was about to port it from DOSBox MG6 😀