From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Received: by 2002:a05:6214:a88:b0:626:a87:283b with SMTP id ev8-20020a0562140a8800b006260a87283bmr601041qvb.0.1685224468629; Sat, 27 May 2023 14:54:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a81:4319:0:b0:55d:e173:8a73 with SMTP id q25-20020a814319000000b0055de1738a73mr2143836ywa.2.1685224468437; Sat, 27 May 2023 14:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder1.feed.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!peer03.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 14:54:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=108.162.150.35; posting-account=DDNtpAoAAAAV3hXmyMtxrpph6Q7ui96s NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.162.150.35 References: <0d848244-3182-477d-8d67-f6705c647b20n@googlegroups.com> <150b2a0b-763d-44dd-8ec0-2909748099b5n@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <8aa55948-ef5d-46d7-b612-772a561ba8den@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Please Share Ada -Freedos - Dos experiences From: Hou Van Boere Injection-Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 21:54:28 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2376 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:65255 List-Id: Thanks Joakim! this is super helpful. I downloaded the compiler cd. I have tried this: https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp It looks helpful to build dlgpp but it does not work well enough on Trisque= l Linux. I find that building GCC on current or old Slackware versions see= ms to work well and I am going to re-try this project. I know I will have t= o re-run with --enable-languages=3Dc,ada later but at least it should set u= p most of what is needed. Your Freedos environment tips will help a lot.=20 I just bought my son a new computer and I am kind of depressed after. The s= tore was huge but completely geared towards gaming. It seems like today's c= omputers are not well suited for hardware interfacing and hacking with elec= tronics. There was way more expansion in the past and I hate having to conf= igure for legacy bios. I think this will be dropped soon too and then we wi= ll be stuck