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Re: Euphoria on DOSbox

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluef?og?com> Oct 30, 2007
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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > Really?
> > The code in be_machine.c has some interrupt #31 calls which are specific to
> > Causeway according to RBIL v61:
> > * long_to_short(): AX=#FF21 (GetMemDOS) and #FF01 (RM interrupt)
> > * InitGraphics(): AX=#FF08 (GetSelDet32)
> > * user_allocate_low(): AX=#FF21
> > * user_free_low: AX=#FF23 (RelMemDOS)
> > * dos_interrupt: AX=#FF01
> > 
> > So... I expect these areas of the backend source will require some
> > alternative
> > variant selected by an #ifdef ... #else directive.
> 
> Thanks for spotting those calls. They are specialized bits
> of code you would probably have to change to 
> achieve 100% compatibility, but I think the bulk of 
> Euphoria for DOS should work OK without any source code changes. 
> For instance, Bernie recently said he got pmodew working:
> 
>    <a
>    href="http://www.openeuphoria.org/EUforum/m17215.html">http://www.openeuphoria.org/EUforum/m17215.html</a>
> 
> I switched over to the Causeway DOS extender,
> from DOS4GW, more than a decade ago.
> I compared against a couple of other DOS extenders at that time.
> I recall that things pretty much worked immediately, 
> without any source changes, whichever extender I used.
> Though, as you observe, I did eventually code a few
> Causeway-specific calls to support some tricky stuff,
> such as the Euphoria dos_interrupt() library routine etc.
> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>


I got it to compile but it crashs .

Bernie

My files in archive:
WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API 

Can be downloaded here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan