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Is Windows 3.xx an OS or a GUI for DOS?
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Look! A Tyrannosaur!<P>Is not! It's an Allosaurus!<P>It's a Tyrannosaur, you moron! Look at the teeth!<P>What a fucking idiot! Any palientologist can tell it's an Allosaurus!<P>You moron! Allosaurus' didn't get that big!<P>Oh, what a fool you are! Here, look at this picture I took of one 150,000,000 years ago! See? It's an A-l-l-o-s-a-u-r-u-s!<P><a href=http://www.pbs.org/barney>Kids...</a><P>
Two things.<P>First, interesting bit of source code, I'm not going to run the EXE since something that short should not be 70 KB, what's it supposed to do?<P>What, will it pull up the amazing console window? Standard C library functions aren't DOS though.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR><I>Originally posted by AndersW:</I><BR>Then, Mr. Hill, explain to me why neither "Terra Nova -- Strikeforce Centauri" nor "Little Big Adventure (Relentless)", two of the greatest games ever, won't run on my Windows 98 box...<BR>And why on earth I was able to play DOS games in OS/2 on a 486 with 8 MB of RAM, despite the fact that the games <em>should</em> require 16 MB? Yup, virtual memory is a lot of fun, no?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>For the record, I currently have Terra Nova installed and running on my Win98 box. I can even run the impossible-to-run Ultima 7 Part II (even if it does require a reboot). It's all in the configuring.<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR><I>Originally posted by AndersW:</I><BR>Then, Mr. Hill, explain to me why neither "Terra Nova -- Strikeforce Centauri" nor "Little Big Adventure (Relentless)", two of the greatest games ever, won't run on my Windows 98 box...<BR>And why on earth I was able to play DOS games in OS/2 on a 486 with 8 MB of RAM, despite the fact that the games <em>should</em> require 16 MB? Yup, virtual memory is a lot of fun, no?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>For the record, I currently have Terra Nova installed and running on my Win98 box. I can even run the impossible-to-run Ultima 7 Part II (even if it does require a reboot). It's all in the configuring.<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR><I>Originally posted by Zer:</I><BR>Two things.<P>First, interesting bit of source code, I'm not going to run the EXE since something that short should not be 70 KB, what's it supposed to do?<P>What, will it pull up the amazing console window? Standard C library functions aren't DOS though.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>hehehe. Just run it. It's about 70kb coz it's a Win16-program routine. It won't run in DOS. It's just a time/date routine using ctime(). Run debug or disassembler on the executable zer.exe.<P><BR>--treatment--
Sorry, was it about 10k I might run it, but 70k for 3 lines of code...uh yeah...
btw If it does what I think it does, both Win16 and Win32 (NT, even!) have Console APIs. That doesn't make them DOS. When you type "Net stop blah" or "Net start blah" you honestly don't believe those are DOS apps, do you?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR><I>Originally posted by Zer:</I><BR>btw If it does what I think it does, both Win16 and Win32 (NT, even!) have Console APIs. That doesn't make them DOS. When you type "Net stop blah" or "Net start blah" you honestly don't believe those are DOS apps, do you?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>You're dragging, man. If you don't want to run it, then don't speculate further. You asked for stuff, I gave you one. Dissassemble it if you think there's something bad in it. Geezuz!<P>It's a valid win16-app using MS runtime-lib ctime(). The only win16-dev I have here is BC4.52 and zer.exe was made from it. <P><BR>--treatment--<BR>
Treatment:<P>So you have a small app that makes a Win16 call?<P>What does this prove other than backwards compatability?<P>
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