[GEM Development] New driver: Sigma 400

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Thu Oct 18 17:16:40 PDT 2018


On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, John Elliott wrote:

> Liam Proven wrote:
>> Good to hear from you, John. How's life? 
> Busy, and likely to remain so.
>
> By way of throwing a diversion: Given that Microsoft have now open-sourced 
> (parts of) MS-DOS 2.0 at <https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS>, and AFAIK GEM 
> runs under MS-DOS 2.0, most of the parts exist for an open source OS and GUI 
> for non-PC 8086 platforms. It would amuse me (but probably no-one else) to 
> see such a thing; the main requirement seems to be creating a suitable IO.SYS 
> for your target platform of choice.

And getting MSDOS.SYS to link.  We still haven't hit that milestone, I 
don't think...

-uso.


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