Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:15:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOS Emulation KLD Message-ID: <200012192315.eBJNFIQ13895@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:44:09 PST." <001101c069da$e95654b0$aa240018@cx443070b>
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> > Cool! Careful though, or you'll end up as its maintainer. 8)
>
> That wouldn't bother me a bit. :) I've been trying to bring my BSD
> programming skills up to par so I can contribute to the project, but haven't
> yet found an area in which I would really be of use. However, as I said,
> DOS programming is something I excel at, having been programming in DOS
> since I was 11 years old. Once I knock off this stupid Borland Builder NTP
> project for my boss, I'm going to contact the current maintainers.
You just have. 8) Actually, several people have sort of nibbled around
the edges of doscmd for a while; you should check the commit logs and
poll to see if any of them still have uncommitted changes lying around.
> > I'm glad to hear that. For better or worse, I spent quite a bit of time
> > working on doscmd some years back, and I might be able to help you if you
> > get stuck. I can certainly dig out a few of the ideas that I thought
> > ought to be implemented, if you find yourself looking for new things to
> > add. 8)
>
> Cool. Go ahead and give me any improvement ideas, and if they're within my
> capabilities, I'll implement them.
Sure.
- You should be able to do fullscreen mode in a terminal window using
curses. I did this for pcemu, and it was a bit slow but otherwise OK.
Getting the keyboard translations right is a bit hard.
- X mode should support at least 640x480x16 graphics, as well as other
text modes. This will involve expanding the video BIOS emulation.
- The DOS emulation for standalone mode could probably be improved a lot.
- I recall that path translation in standalone mode was very
nonintuitive. I'm not sure what could be done to improve this.
If I come up with any more, I'll try to pass them on.
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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