Re: Just spent 5 hours bug fixing HLA Adventure (my head's about to roll off!)

Charles A. Crayne wrote:

.... 
Although I am not changing the scroll region, I found that if I write the
banner to row 2, it will be at the top when the screen does its normal
scroll.


Hmmm... once it gets to the bottom and starts scrolling...

If you had a slightly newer kernel,

2.4.26 now... but I don't think I'm keeping it (may just try out some different window managers - it's the new KDE I'm not likin', mostly) I'd go back to the 2.2.19 if I hadn't accidentally formatted the partition :( Really intended to keep that around as a "test platform", at least. I may reinstall it (or some older kernel) just to test things on.

I've had to reboot via "Big Red Switch" twice already - and fsck is less happy when I do than 2.2.19 was when the power went out, so I'm not sure we're making "progress". I was stuck with the thought, during the install, that the "bloat doesn't matter" attitude is *really* catching up to us! MenuetOS is lookin' better and better :) But I should try a "brand new" kernel - the CDs I burned for this one are dated June 20 - last year! I knew it was something I'd been "meaning to do" for quite a while :)

or if I could figure out a way to
make (old) mmap work without a file descriptor,

It worked with MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, as I recall. Okay for a "malloc", but no use for "communication". (FWIW, Jonathan's book shows a "malloc" implementation using "sys_brk" rather than mmap.)

I could send you a beta
version, and let you see for yourself.

You know where I live! I always like to look at code. Fasm was one of the first things I installed (Nasm came with - 0.98.38... not too bad. I was afraid I'd see 0.98.37 - which had *badly* broken ELF output!) Haven't gotten to HLA yet (hdc2 is a big enough swap partition so I can compile the beast without running out of memory, hopefully). I may install Wine and see how RosAsm goes under it, too. That's if I think I'm going to "keep" this install... my inclination is to think it isn't going to be long 'til my next upgrade... (or retrograde :)

Best,
Frank
fbkotler@xxxxxxxxxxx
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