Re: 16.8 million color euphoria sequence loading
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Apr 07, 2010
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still work just fine on my Windows XP systems, so this is possible.
XP is not DOS.
Anyone know why DOS is no longer supported? Are command windows no longer supported in Vista and windows 7?
Windows 7 has dropped DOS support I believe. Vista supports it but only in a limited sense (i.e very limited DOS graphics). (Although 64bit Vista does not support DOS at all iirc.)
The command line windows will continue to be supported in Wiindows 7 and beyond. This is a different and separate issue from DOS support.
I am sorry to hear DOS is no longer supported for future versions of Euphoria. It was the language feature that most attracted me to Euphoria in the first place. And it is the missing feature that will drive me to look for something else.
Part of the claim for dropping DOS was that nobody used it, so the heavy cost of maintainance was not worth it. If someone joined the dev team and worked to maintain the DOS port, keeping it up to date and fixing the bugs, I imagine there would be very little resistance. But no one has stepped up to the task.
I feel this was a mistake, as a few notable people disappeared from the community shortly after the removal of DOS was announced.
