Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Micheal Muniko
I've tried the DOS host. So far it doesn't work right. It can't read makefiles correctly and VI crashes when loading a file from command line. There are some more bugs but these are the ones that bother me personally. I've reported both bugs but I've haven't seen a reply yet.

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:21 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > >> The big question is if OpenWatcom continues to be a viable option to be >> used with FreeDOS. If the official site would be down for good and >> Jiri's fork doesn't work right, the t

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 5/23/2015 8:12 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> The question is why Jiri forked the code, and how much he *cares* >> whether it works in FreeDOS. >> > The changelog for his version lists a couple of things related to DOS. Hopeful. > The big questi

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/23/2015 8:12 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: >> On 5/23/2015 7:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >>> Like Dennis said, there's an OW fork available on SourceForge, which >>> does have 2.0-pre binaries (even for DOS), that was updated last >>> month. >> That's th

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 5/23/2015 7:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> But what's the problem? It's not like 1.9 disappeared. It's still >> mirrored in various places (not to mention iBiblio): > > Well, the source repository, with the latest daily/weekly builds is not

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 5/23/2015 7:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> Like Dennis said, there's an OW fork available on SourceForge, which >> does have 2.0-pre binaries (even for DOS), that was updated last >> month. > > That's the problem, going by all the discussions tha

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/23/2015 7:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: >> Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the >> www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... >> >> Does anyone know what is going on with that site? > No i

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/23/2015 4:09 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: >> Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the >> www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... >> >> Does anyone know what is going on with that site? > Seems to h

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > > Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the > www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... > > Does anyone know what is going on with that site? No idea, but I thought I had successfully visited

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the > www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... > > Does anyone know what is going on with that site? Seems to have been down for a while. The last successfu

[Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Ralf Quint
Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... Does anyone know what is going on with that site? I just hope that this not the result of the spat with Jiri's Open-Watcom 2.0 fork... :-\ Ralf --- This email ha

[Freedos-user] Sudoku86 -- new release

2015-05-23 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hello all, This quick news just to let you know that I released a new version of my Sudoku game for DOS today: Sudoku86 v1.0.3 This new version brings only speed optimizations, so it might be interesting for people with very slow machines. The (very short) changelog is pasted below: Sudoku86