Emax

Would one of you look at converting the EMX to a windows or Mac OSX 
program the source code is in the files section and the author Mike Prudence 
has given his permission for anyone that wants to convert it.

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Alex Pereda <alex@N...> wrote:
>
> 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@c... wrote:
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> > 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
> >
> > 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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