Re: Found something interesting re MS-DOS

Den Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:11:51 +0000 skrev smf <smf@null.net>:
> On 20/02/2018 14:07, Michał Pleban wrote:
> 
> > The bad thing - I looked cursorily through the disassembly and noted
> > that there is lots of I/O ports accessed, PC keyboard interrupt is
> > hooked etc, and also it accesses video memory directly at B000 or
> > B800. So it will not work on the CBM-II without a major rewrite
> > (probably writing most parts from the scratch) - I am not sure if
> > there is enough interest/demand to do that?
> 
> It's got to come down to whether you're interested enough in doing it.
> 
> I don't even have hardware to run it, but I think it would be
> amazingly cool to see a patch that allowed it to run.
> 
> If you don't do it then maybe one day I will....

I'm also lacking the B/8088 hardware. My theoretical
in-a-distant-future-feature-creep go at it would be some kind of B
replica but with ISA bus slots :)

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