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

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

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