Re: Version 4.1.4b No Longer Supports Dos
- Posted by bugfinder Sep 23, 2010
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DOS IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED IN VERSION 4.1.4B. I vehemently oppose this decision. Half my programs are written in Dos(.ex) Some programs like animal.ex (in the Demos) do work in Version 4.0.b4 But a lot of my programs I get pallet() is not supported. So do I have to change them all to Windows(.exw)? No, I can still run them using Version 3.1.1. But this requires running two Versions (3.1.1 and 4.0.b4).
Don:
I am also very disappointed with the decision to drop DOS.
I think that it was a total disaster for Euphoria.
I had a lot of code written for 4.0 that I dropped because of the loss of DOS support.
Ver. 4.0 is bloated with features that were not needed or necessary.
It is over complicated to use to write programs with.
It has lost the original concept of being fast and easy to use.
I wonder how many users have left for these reasons.
The only features I think are valuable are forward reference and scoping.
I think these should have been applied to ver. 3.0 keeping DOS support.
The rest of the features should have been optional add on libraries or features for the users who wanted all the bloat.
Anyway that is only my opinion which doesn't count.
The only solution you have is to use DOSBOX.
