Emax

How about a Mac OS X version?.  I  could look into porting it once  
the linux port is ready. I have not programmed in C in a long time,  
but would like to get back in to it..




On Nov 7, 2005, at 2:48 AM, poeml@... wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:06:29AM +0100, Peter Poeml wrote:
>>> So porting to Linux or whatever platform is definitely an option,
>>> though I'm using some tricky MS-DOS calls. But these can easily be
>>> replaced by MAX/LINUX system calls or maybe even by C-calls (I'm a
>>> bit lazy in checking all C-libraries :-)
>>
>> Actually, I'm not worried too much about those calls.
>> I once had the intention to port the DOS program EMX (written in  
>> C) to
>> Linux, and I found that all those DOS C calls were not needed in  
>> Linux
>> because all is managed transparently in the kernel when simply
>> reading/writing from/to /dev/fd0u800. In fact, I ended up with a  
>> simple
>> 20-lines shell script.
>
> ...this is the archived message with the script:
> http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emax/message/1837
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> Peter, who looks forward to get back to his EmaxII which is currently
> 500 km away :)
> -- 
> the big machine that goes "ping" ate the pink cardinal
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