Hello everybody,

Has somebody used Free Pascal 2.6 in DOSbox?

I'm having problems with the installer (text looks corrupted and it doesn't install) but I don't know if it's an issue in all DOSbox or it's because I'm using it in a 64bit Linux (Xubuntu 12.04).

Greetings,
Guillermo "Ñuño" Martínez

Haven't tried running FPC in dosbox.
As dosbox is aimed at supporting DOS games (and certain applications), their emulation may not be good enough for FPC.

If I wanted to test FPC for DOS, I'd probably use a FreeDOS virtual machine.

I don't know if there is a DOS crosscompiler for Linux like there is a Win32 crosscompiler, perhaps that could be useful as well too.

Just for interest: are you trying out FPC for DOS for fun or do you need to create/support DOS (not Windows) programs?

Thanks,
Reinier

From: Reinier Olislagers

Just for interest: are you trying out FPC for DOS for fun or do you need to create/support DOS (not Windows) programs?

I think I'm trying it just for fun. Actually I was angry because my Allegro.pas wrapper doesn't work (well, version 4.4 almost do but version 5 only does on "debug" mode), so I was wondering to write an actual port of the library instead of a wrapper. I did wrote a simple DOS game library in C a lot of years ago so I think it's a good place to start with, and also because I liked DOS a lot and Allegro dropped out it some time ago. Also I think that Pascal deserves its own "game library" instead of use those "C style" ones as SDL and Allegro.

I think I'll try FreeDOS in a VM. I hope I can remember how to mount a FAT32 image
on Linux...