RE: BAJA question
BY: Digital Man to Aragorn on Mon Nov 29 1999 04:45 pm
OTE: DCTEdit v0.04 [14]
I looked at it, _being_ a programmer (a C programmer, no
less!), but stil no idea where to start with it! It's
compilcated. It's 16-bit. It uses cu libraries that aren't
included (at least not in source form, which means porting
to other compilers is next to impossible unless you know
exactly those libraries do and can thus write replacements)
I realize this is an old message, but felt compelled to
respond. o The released source code is not 16-bit only: The
OS/2 and Win32 versions (both 32-bit) were compiled from the
same code. o The only included library that didn't come with
source (because I don't ha it) rciol.obj, was for the DOS
version only. I wrote a native OS/2 and Win32 version of
this same library in C and included the source code for it
(riolib.c). You could still build the DOS version and modify
it to your hear content without the source to rciol.obj. And
if you wanted to know how the A worked, you have the C
version (in riolib.c) to reference. rciol.obj was written in
assembler and was not written for any specific "compiler".
You ju link it with your C obj files (compiled with any
16-bit x86 C compiler) and would work. If you wanted to port
the code to Linux or some other non-x86 platform, you would
more likely start with the riolib.c source code as a
reference. So I'm not sure what this talk of "custom
libraries" was all abou Rob
Hi! I just dropped in for a visit to see what's up with SBBS and DoveNet =)
Well it's been well over a year since I looked at it, but I seem to recall seeing at least 2 or 3 .obj libraries (16-bit libraries compatable only with certain Microsoft and Borland compilers) that didn't come with any matching .c code that could be used in place of them (or as a basis for writing ones that could). Maybe you released the .c source for riolib in a newer source release than the one I had, or (more likely) I didn't see the riolib.c file.
Anyways, congratulations on the native Win32 port of SBBS! If I ever get a DSL or cable connection to the Internet, I might revive Mars Base again (or maybe it will be called Reflex Point BBS, since my parents' box [that MB ran on] was named "Mars Base" by me, and the PII-450 I have now I call ReflexPoint =)
I can't believe there are still posts from me here in the Dove subs... Looks like I didn't do much Dove after 1998, although my BBS was up until July '99.
Ok I'm going to ramble now (as I have always been famous for) because I thought someone might be interested to know that there's an entire computer lab at the U of W whose NT boxes are named after characters from Red Dwarf =)
Later,
Aragorn (actually I go by HunterZ these days, but SBBS still doesn't allow capital letters in the middle of a word that's part of a handle =)
P.S. Please reply via e-mail if you want me to see your reply =) =)
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