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What are using as a linker? Also, do you use protected mode and if yes, what do you use for that, PMODE or CWSDPMI or something else?

• TacticalCoder 6mo ago
  It's an old MS-DOS .EXE. Actually it compiles with the ".286" directive too. So I don't use protected mode. It requires a VGA card and those were more common in 386 IIRC and, anyway, performance-wise to run at 60 Hz it needs a 386. I never tried to run it on a 286 with a VGA card: don't know if that was a thing. It's funny looking at that old assembly code and see ax, bx, cx, dx registers and not the eax, etc. ones. The utilities I've compiled to .EXE so far are self-contained in one file and I just use UASM to create directly the .EXE: uasm -mz myutil.asm UASM v2.57 does the job in my case (note that I compile from Linux: UASM exists for several platforms/OSes): https://www.terraspace.co.uk/uasm.html https://www.terraspace.co.uk/uasm.html I haven't tried yet to compile the entire game yet: that one is more involved as it implies many files.
  • Narishma 6mo ago
    VGA was pretty common on 286, I even had an SVGA card on my own back in the day. And it also had protected mode but was still 16-bit.
    • TacticalCoder 6mo ago
      > VGA was pretty common on 286, I even had an SVGA card on my own back in the day. And it also had protected mode but was still 16-bit. Oh that's intriguing. Well I still have one, so now I'll have to find a VGA card and see if my code even works on a 286!