Time to retire the MS-DOS port...

jj_frap · Post by **jj_frap** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:13 am

Now maybe some of you still like to impersonate Fred Flintstone, but I don't see the point in spending time that could be devoted to other things (either in your personal lives or with regards to ZSNES) to maintain a piece of software for an OS that's been dead since prior to the new millennium.

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:40 am

Well, it has a debugger, and there are some other advantages apparently.

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Sat May 21, 2005 3:43 am

I remember pagefault saying that little or no more DOS-port-specific updates will be made. The SDL and Win ports are more prioritized now.

Dos port binaries, however, will still be released.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Sat May 21, 2005 4:41 am

If I remember right, there are some people that still use the DOS port due to having an older computer with an OS older than Win XP. I say, let the dev's do what they wish, as it is their project and all.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat May 21, 2005 4:49 am

SquareHead wrote:If I remember right, there are some people that still use the DOS port due to having an older computer with an OS older than Win XP.

That was what I was about to say.

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Sat May 21, 2005 7:35 am

One of the developers *cough* Nach *cough* doesn't use the win port, he uses the dos port.

Post by **Agozer** » Sat May 21, 2005 10:30 am

snkcube wrote:
SquareHead wrote:If I remember right, there are some people that still use the DOS port due to having an older computer with an OS older than Win XP.
That was what I was about to say.

I must agree with this.

No. I'm against the retirement of the DOS port. End of discussion.

Post by **grinvader** » Sat May 21, 2005 10:51 am

SquareHead wrote:I say, let the dev's do what they wish, as it is their project and all.

You win the internet.

Serious Callers Only · Sat May 21, 2005 12:01 pm

There might be some people that use an lightweight emulator (like dosbox) to play in zsnes on the mac or BSD for example. Its the one platform that is most widely emulated.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:15 pm

If you look at the changelog for the newer WIPs, specific changes to the DOS version are quite low. I believe the developers are concentrating on the Linux and Windows ports right now. I think when the debugger is ported to the other ports it will eliminate most of the need for the DOS port (but not entirely since people still have old PCs dedicated to ZSNES)

Post by **Agozer** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:52 pm

Clements wrote:If you look at the changelog for the newer WIPs, specific changes to the DOS version are quite low. I believe the developers are concentrating on the Linux and Windows ports right now. I think when the debugger is ported to the other ports it will eliminate most of the need for the DOS port (but not entirely since people still have old PCs dedicated to ZSNES)

True, but I still don't like to see the DOS port get buried for the reason you mentioned - old PCs dedicated to ZSNES.

kieran_ · Post by **kieran_** » Sat May 21, 2005 6:19 pm

Who is this jackass?

Post by **Agozer** » Sat May 21, 2005 6:24 pm

kieran wrote:Who is this jackass?

Someone who doesn't like DOS.

Sol · Post by **Sol** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:43 pm

Serious Callers Only wrote:There might be some people that use an lightweight emulator (like dosbox) to play in zsnes on the mac or BSD for example. Its the one platform that is most widely emulated.

BSD? Pshhht. Just compile the Linux version on it.

Sol · Post by **Sol** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:51 pm

jj_frap wrote:Now maybe some of you still like to impersonate Fred Flintstone, but I don't see the point in spending time that could be devoted to other things (either in your personal lives or with regards to ZSNES) to maintain a piece of software for an OS that's been dead since prior to the new millennium.

Since most people here seem to be incapable of anything beyond 1-dimensional thought: having a DOS port goes far beyond people simply using "an OS that's been dead since prior to the new millennium." It's easily possible to re-use old motherboards, laptops and those tiny PCs as universal gaming machines that have NES, Gameboy, SNES, Genesis, and various other emulators with collections of hundreds of games - they can easily be set up, managed and automated with DOS. Sticking windows/x11 on such a machine would be much more of a pain in the ass.

bztunk · Post by **bztunk** » Sun May 22, 2005 2:04 am

Sol wrote:BSD? Pshhht. Just compile the SDL version on it.

fixt

Mexandrew · Post by **Mexandrew** » Sun May 22, 2005 4:17 am

I still use the DOS port. If for some reason the DOS binaries aren't released anymore, the last one will be my treasure.

So, my point is, I like DOS. Period.

AspiringSquire · Post by **AspiringSquire** » Sun May 22, 2005 7:02 am

Mexandrew wrote:I still use the DOS port. If for some reason the DOS binaries aren't released anymore, the last one will be my treasure.

So, my point is, I like DOS. Period.

I feel pretty much the same way. The DOS port was the original, the only ZSNES, and I've been using it since before the Windows version of ZSNES was reliable*, and maybe even before the Win port existed.

*(i.e. before it started using DirectX8—though ZSNESW still wasn't on par with the DOS port until v1.337)

I'll always cherish the DOS releases of ZSNES.

Post by **Nach** » Sun May 22, 2005 3:58 pm

If you don't know what you're talking about don't talk.

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