From: Rugxulo <ru...@gm...> - 2012-09-03 18:09:49
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Hi, On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Zoltán Bacskó <zb...@gm...> wrote: > > Thanks for the mirroring! (anyway I would like to inform you that > Zoltán is my forename and there are many Zoltáns in Hungary, so if > more hungarian contributors will join, this could be a problem > :).Bacsko, or falcosoft would be more ideal) Doh! I wasn't sure, just assumed it was often surname first in Hungary. Anyways, I renamed it (as requested): http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/falcosoft/ > Turning to the subject, I updated PWR to 1.2, now the program shows > the processor frequency in MHz too. Updated the .ZIP. > And the big news is that I'm ready with an all around Athlon64 p-state > setting solution named A64LOWP. > The program is written in turbo pascal... Yeah, I know, I know :) . What? Nothing's wrong with that, several people here love TP and Pascal in general. > Surprisingly it was very much fun to work with, and the program's > frame can be written more easily with the help of it. FD KEYB sympathizes. ;-) > Maybe one day a I will write a full aseembly port. > I have not used the crt unit so the dreadful division by zero error is > not a problem. Don't worry, there are patches, replacement units, TSRs, etc. for that. > Moreover I find a free TP7 compatible compiler, so the source can be > compiled with a free tool. Re: Turbo51, I've seen it but am quite skeptical. TP55 is freeware, but you have to register (give your info) to Embarcadero to get it (and can't redistribute it, doh). And it lacks asm (BASM). There are vaguely similar languages and compilers out there (e.g. XPL0, Modula-2, Oberon), including FreePascal, with better licenses. Your tool is already 386+, and FPC supports inline asm and DOS, so I don't see any huge reason not to use it here, but it's your decision, of course. |