Not new, but a rabbit hole nonetheless.

  • mrkite@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Clever. I’ve always said the most portable architecture ever is the NES. You can get emulators to run NES software on pretty much everything with a CPU in it.

    • suprjami@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      I have the same opinion about MS-DOS. If you need more controls than A B Start Select then DOS gives you a full keyboard and mouse support, plus reasonably useful resolution like 640x480.

      You can emulate DOS on any computer platform, including the web so people can use software in-browser with no effort. There are even DOS emulations on 100MHz+ microcontrollers like ESP32.

      There are pre-made DOS cross-compilers for C so you don’t need to learn assembly like you might with NES: https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Damn, now I want to experiment doing that header change in a portable windows program while running linux, just to see if it’s as easy as she makes it sound

    Also, is the x86_64 architecture already patent free now? Since the post is from 2020 and she mentioned that the patent would expire “next year”

    • 0x0@programming.devOP
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      1 year ago

      I see a lot of noise about them expiring sometime this year, but no official sources.