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Re:DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows ... by dmitriid on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:00AM (#25656564)
I’m tempted to install Win95/98 on it, run Borland Delphi 4 from 1998 on it, and develop a UI in fraction of the time and resources it takes on the Web.

The result will probably still run on modern Windows, too

Re:DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows ... by benibela on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:16AM (#25657028)
That does not actually need DOSBox, it runs great with WINE: https://i.imgur.com/YgOw2Zc.png
Re:DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows ... by dmitriid on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:46AM (#25658175)
Sorry for breaking HN conventions, but:

Oh My God

Re:DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows ... by arithmomachist on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:01PM (#25659568)
I'm tempted to install Turbo Pascal for a deep nostalgia trip. I grew up in a small-ish town in Appalachia, and when I ran out of math classes to take in high school I started learning to program. They had put together a little "computer lab" circa 1990 when cash was a little easier to come by for a public school, and hadn't updated them since.

It was 2004, and their intro programming course was still taught in Pascal. We hacked on a version of Turbo Pascal that might have dated to when the Soviet Union still existed, and I remember that cheery blue terminal interface fondly. It left me with an irrational life-long love of text-based interfaces.

Re:DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows ... by memsom on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:29AM (#25656747)
It would be better to use NT4 or Windows 2000. Delphi had a habit of crashing hard under 9x whilst debugging and taking the OS with it. I used Delphi from 1 - 5 commercially and we never used 9x because the experience was a lot less usable. I did use maybe, Delphi 3 under Windows 98 at home, but it would never have been for anything important.
Re:DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows ... by dmitriid on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:12AM (#25658402)
Thanks for the hint!
Re:DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows ... by sumnole on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:24PM (#25659893)
Lazarus is the modern alternative for Pascal coders
Re:DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows ... by benibela on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:20PM (#25662655)
But I do not think it will run on Windows 98

It needs the Unicode APIs

Re:DOSBox-X: Free, cross-platform and complete DOS, Windows ... by keyle on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:52AM (#25656878)
That has crossed my mind actually, bring me back to my youth. Just seeing the screenshot of win98 on pcem gave me strong nostalgia.