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fruity esters is my drag king name

i'm really cool and i make really cool stuff and i should get paid to keep doing really cool stuff reblog if you agree

i did not make a whole lot of progress on my DOS project today but i made my workflow a little better and did some testing with PCem 👍

@rainwarrior yeah basically 8088

djgpp can only do 32-bit protected mode so it can only make binaries that run on 386 and up, and i would like to target older machines than that so it's not a viable option

i might look into it but for now i think turbo C++ is going to work for me

@rainwarrior does openwatcom produce IA-16 binaries? the goal here is that i can support XT-class machines, which is why i'm straying away from modern DJGPP toolchains

ohhhh there's a GCC fork that can produce IA-16 binaries.... 👀 👀 👀 https://github.com/tkchia/build-ia16/releases

another reason why i don't want to use modern tools is that, say, the easy path of using DJGPP with GDB et al which you can already get an extension for is that DJGPP requires 386SX minimum because it doesn't make true DOS executables, but rather 32-bit protected mode binaries and i want to support XT-class machines

@bonzoesc however i am still thinking about your cursed idea so thank you for a successful cognitohazard

@bonzoesc i don't even want that i just want intellisense not to yell at borland's old header files going "uhhh this function doesn't exist, because the header file isn't nice and proper C++23 so i'm going to ignore the declaractions in it"

i'm sure there's better ways to develop for DOS with modern tools and forego borland turbo c++ entirely but also i want to use it because it's easier to find period documentation for it

i want to work on my DOS thing more but i don't want to type code in through dosbox but vscode c++ intellisense is too new to work with the borland headers and therefore just redsquiggles all of my code

i'm so glad it's easy to ignore the parts of mastodon you don't want to hear from

mastodon is happening again

please?

urgh i just want to be able to survive enough to make cool stuff

for the uninitiated https://codimd.maple.pet/s/ryUf18-uH

our tumblr handle is "maplesynth" and it gives us ​ good system feels

brain's just not home today