Maybe it's a lost cause but you can submit the exes to McAfee as a false positive in hopes they can correct the issue. For whatever reason many EXEs produced by lesser-known compilers trip AV on Windows and have for years. Antiviruses have (at least) two layers. The classic layer scanning for known...

Use an array of pointers to point to the integers and then simply arrptr[0]=&a : arrptr[1]=&b: arrptr[2]=&c: etc then For MYSELECT=0 To 7 *arrptr +=1 No jumps, much faster. I assumed the printing was only for debugging. (and if not, print() is much slower than any case table optimization...

For non gaming applications: many programmers have 90' rotated monitors, so I think the rotated resolutions of the most common resolutions also are quite common, like 1080x1920 (which I'm using) and 1440x2560.

(iirc there is a header x86intr.h that declares iopl and ioperm to request permissions, after which you can use normal port I/O)

Pure (not fast-) CGIs are only interesting because they are the simplest native form of webserver<-> application communication. In reality you always use some fastcgi, isapi or mod_cgi thingy. I did ISAPI dll frameworks in Delphi almost two decades ago, and it ran circles around PHP The core advanta...

Keep in mind that there was a reason for interpreted BASICs in minis. It was not for some language advantage, but simply because the tokenized program would be very compact and the interpreter in ROM, making good utilization of RAM. Also it allowed things like CHAINing. This might not be what users ...

You don't know how lucky you are. Our most wellknown regional delicacy is used as a biological weapon in Roadrunner and other cartoons:

(afaik dxe files are a limited runtime loadable entity, and generated from .o's by dxe3gen or so)

deltarho[1859] wrote: ↑Dec 05, 2022 16:23 where Yorkshire was

It is something you put in pudding or so.

For the rest, when I refer to a 16-bit executable it means that the interpreter executes it in 16-bit real mode, the fact that it then loads 32-bit data into memory in protected mode this in fact does not make it a 32-bit NT executable or Linux But it doesn't make it an all 16-it process either. No...

Surely there is a misunderstanding due to the fact that you refer to the executable as if it were 32bit while I distinguish between 16Bit Binary and 32Bit Instruction, The Binary file (executable) is 16 bit while the instructions that go to create in memory are 32Bit for this requires a protected m...

Except that Dos will only use one core and no HT ? Hyper Threading is a feature of the new generation CPUs New generation since the Pentium 4 HT 2002 ? That is twenty years on x86 alone. of Doubling the number of executable threads for each Core this technology is interpreted as a second CPU or Cor...

angros47 wrote: ↑Nov 30, 2022 11:39 If you want to use Free basic for DOS you can create threads, and have then running in the background, exactly like you would do on Windows and Linux.

Except that Dos will only use one core and no HT ?

Wear is measured in total bytes written, which is typically in the magnitude of the whole drive written 200-300 times (for a typical cheap QLC SSD as the Intel 660p). If you have a gig in in temporary files on a 1TB SSD, and they are completely rewritten each day, you need to become 666-1000 years o...

But every time we add it to a quote, it gets struck down by customer's accountants. Every customer wants, no customer wants to pay. An acute situation with respect to open source where the currency is typically free time, imho. Ah, I should maybe qualify that the "we" in this thread is no...