Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Christian Masloch schreef: > >> Since disassembling MS-DOS is "considered legal" by UDOS and RBIL authors >> (and these sources are "considered legal" by all members of the FreeDOS >> project) I think there's no problem using some DLL examination tool. >> >> Regards, >> Christian >> >> > I hope you have heared about the term "clean room implementation" where > one team does the research and writes a specification, and another team > writes an implementation based on the specification. That way you never > violate anyone's copyright, patents etc. > Reverse engineering is considered illegal in many countries (DMCA > anyone, US folks?). I assume RBIL forms the specification of interfaces, > upon which you can build an implementation if you want. I'm not talking about disassembling the code. I talking about finding out what the methods are. Visual Studio does it to do intellisence etc. And I believe the tool was provided by Visual C++ 6. I don't want the code for the functions/methods. Just what methods there are and what the parameters are. I can write the internal code myself.
> I guess the only allowed tools are debuggers for virtual machines, and > general debuggers like SoftIce, just to see how software *interacts* > with Microsoft copyrighted products. > > As for running Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS, it's possible. Jeremy Davis > managed to do so once a few years ago. Seems like his FDOS.ORG website > has expired by now though. > Requirements: > * kernel 2037, specific compiled flavour of it though > * Share, specific compiled flavour. Not sure if it's the FreeDOS one, or > the one by Michael Devore, or Japheth, or whoever. > * MS memory drivers I think (HIMEM) > * FAT16 > I would prefer to keep the environments separate. For comparisons etc. I have already gotten the dual boot MSDOS\FreeDos working (just looking on a linux desktop that the laptop will run) > > Speaking of ReactOS, I think they have dropped their 486-compatibility, > but still that OS should work on anything which is i80586-compatible (or > newer/later). Recent fixes have brought the memory consumption back to > about 32MB. > I am hoping that the 486 & 16bit code will be available in older versions of the source code. I am thinking though it it may be easier to make a 32 bit app that looks like Win 3.x that can run 16 and 32 bit applications. Than to make a complete clone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
