On Thu, December 6, 2012 01:25, waldo kitty wrote:
>
> w2k with FPC 2.6.0 release using lazarus 1.1 only as an editor... no GUI
> stuffings at all... i'm using -Mtp in the project options...
>
> i have finally gotten around to trying to convert the old FTN/BBS MKSMG
> library
> to FPC... it was wri
On Thu, December 6, 2012 08:46, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> waldo kitty wrote:
>> w2k with FPC 2.6.0 release using lazarus 1.1 only as an editor... no GUI
>> stuffings at all... i'm using -Mtp in the project options...
>>
>> i have finally gotten around to trying to convert the old FTN/BBS MKSMG
>>
At 04:25 PM 12/5/2012, waldo kitty wrote:
i know this is using direct access to the timer ticker from the BIOS
but at this time, i don't know how to best handle it in FPC...
Well, it might depend on what that timer is being used for
PPS: sorry if this is rambling... today is my birthday a
Tomas Hajny wrote:
Thinking back to when people started doing this sort of conversion, as a
general point keep an eye open for any code that loops to poll a key or
e.g. display an on-screen clock. That sort of technique might be fine in
DOS, but as soon as you have a multitasking OS you need to
On 12/5/2012 23:53, Chad Berchek wrote:
Perhaps it would be sufficient to supply the time value from another source
converted to the units the other code is expecting to see. Assuming the
frequency for the BIOS timer is about 18.2 Hz:
function TimeCounter: LongInt;
begin
Result := LongInt(Round(
