wraggster
February 23rd, 2014, 21:25
First off, sorry for my lack of blog updates for the recent weeks. I have not had time to work on rpix86 for a few weeks now, as I have been busy working on stuff relating to my license agreement with Retro Infinity (http://www.retroinfinity.com/). I am currently porting my x86 emulation core to a new platform, but this work falls under a NDA so I can not tell you more about it. This work has a deadline, and I prefer to get all stuff that has a deadline done sooner rather than later. Thus, rpix86 is on hold until this work is done.
I can however tell you about one enhancement that will be in the next version of rpix86. I will add a simple CD-ROM support to the next version. This means that you can give a second file folder parameter to rpix86, and this will be used as a D: drive and will show up as a CD-ROM to the DOS programs. This will allow you to run some programs that expect the CD to be present, and will also help installing some DOS programs distributed on a CD. This is also a small step towards ISO image support, which I hope to eventually have in rpix86.
In any case, thanks again for your continued interest in rpix86, and I hope to be able to get back to working on it within a few weeks or so.
http://rpix86.patrickaalto.com/rblog.html
I can however tell you about one enhancement that will be in the next version of rpix86. I will add a simple CD-ROM support to the next version. This means that you can give a second file folder parameter to rpix86, and this will be used as a D: drive and will show up as a CD-ROM to the DOS programs. This will allow you to run some programs that expect the CD to be present, and will also help installing some DOS programs distributed on a CD. This is also a small step towards ISO image support, which I hope to eventually have in rpix86.
In any case, thanks again for your continued interest in rpix86, and I hope to be able to get back to working on it within a few weeks or so.
http://rpix86.patrickaalto.com/rblog.html