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Yesterday, in an attempt to avoid all sorts of responsibilities, I started pulling apart another #Psion SIBO C SDK tool.

ECOBJ.EXE takes an Intel OMF file (.OBJ) for a class and moves the class descriptor data into the code segment. Unlike #CTRAN, I have absolutely no docs on how it does this. I also have no experience with the object file format.

This has never stopped me before.

So, armed with a hex editor, a PDF documenting OMF (link below), and my beloved #Pascal, I've set to work.

So far, so good!

https://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/Omfg.pdf

#Pascal #FreePascal #16bit #DOSBox #DOSBoxStaging #RetroComputing #RetroDev

Two OMF files open in a hex editor, side be side. On the left is the original, compiled with TopSpeed C. On the right is the file processed by ECOBJ.EXE.

A screenshot of the help information for TSDA.EXE, the TopSpeed Object File Disassembler, running in DOSBox Staging.

Output from TSDA.EXE in NeoVim. On the left is the original OMF file, compiled with TopSpeed C. On the right is the file processed by ECOBJ.EXE. The original has class information in DATA records, whereas the processed one has class information in CODE records.

NeoVim and tmux. On the left is a small Pascal program that shows all OMF records in a file. On the right is the output.

@martindehf looks like it works quite well in DosBox Staging.
#vgaplanets #dosboxstaging

Screenshot of VGA Planets Dos Client showing Turn info for Player One.

10 days left in the #gog #summersale! For those of you enjoying #dos games from GOG, if you didn't know, #dosboxstaging offers a much better experience than the default #dosbox.

I also wrote a tool to seamlessly replace it for you when playing on gog galaxy: https://tinyurl.com/dbstgrplcr

#gaming #retrogaming #dosgaming

Playing my newly bought dos game called wacky races, a game that clearly is inspired by super mario kart

If you want to use the precompiled Linux version of @DOSBox_Staging 0.81.0-RC2¹ under Fedora:

cd /usr/lib64
sudo ln -s libSDL2-2.0.so.0 libsdl2.so
sudo ln -s libSDL2_net-2.0.so.0

(Surprisingly I didn't need to do that with the RC1.)

¹ https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/releases/tag/v0.81.0-rc2

#Fedora #DOSBoxStaging

#DOSBoxStaging

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