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Hydra: A hybrid runtime for x86-16 MS-DOS and Aarch64
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openwatcom #1

Open niki-sp opened 5 months ago

niki-sp commented 5 months ago

About your blog post - openwatcom.org

xorvoid commented 5 months ago

Do they have source releases?

LowLevelMahn commented 5 months ago

Do they have source releases?

use OpenWatcom v2 - activly maintained fork for DOS/Windows/Linux: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2

xorvoid commented 5 months ago

Excellent! Thanks for this. I’ll make a note to update my article.

Do you know if any others have opened the source code? In particular, my project was compiled with Borland.

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Do they have source releases?

use OpenWatcom v2 - activly maintained fork for DOS/Windows/Linux: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2

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LowLevelMahn commented 5 months ago

Do you know if any others have opened the source code? In particular, my project was compiled with Borland.

sadly no, all others keep their centuries old stuff very closed :(

xorvoid commented 5 months ago

Huge bummer. I can't imagine it has any economic value. But also no economic value for them to make the effort to gather it all up into a tarball

Has anyone tried hunting down the current IP owners and offering a small payment to get it released?? Could raise money with crowdfunding perhaps

LowLevelMahn commented 5 months ago

Huge bummer. I can't imagine it has any economic value. But also no economic value for them to make the effort to gather it all up into a tarball

its often a problem with license problems of third parties or source code is lost or just no people around still knowing what legacy project your talking about - there is at least one 20 years old developer that sometimes stumbles over an borland_3.1_source_code folder on the company server not knowing anything about it :)

Has anyone tried hunting down the current IP owners and offering a small payment to get it released?? Could raise money with crowdfunding perhaps

money and attention always helps - starting a growdfunding and letting all news-pages report about it could make it easier to get in contact - and i think some will spend money to get the source code