Subj : OpenXP
To   : acn
From : Oli
Date : Wed Sep 15 2021 10:24 am

acn wrote (2021-09-14):

 a> Am 11.09.21 schrieb Oli@21:3/102 in FSX_NET:

 a> Hallo Oli,

 O>> I downloaded OpenXP and tried to compile it on my Raspi, which
 O>> didn't work out of the box. Is there anything that would make a
 O>> port hard to achieve? It's FreePascal, little endian, 32 bit. There
 O>> was some assembler, but I don't know how much of it is non-optional
 O>> and needs to be ported to Pascal.

 a> As I've seen in the other messages, you managed to compile it on ARM.
 a> Very nice!
 a> I hope that you can help a little in making OpenXP future-proof :)

Not really. It was a nice point software at the time, but the UI is just a bit too weird from my today's perspective. I don't think I'm going to learn Pascal. I also don't speak assembly language. But if someone ports the asm code to Pascal I can try to compile it again.

The good thing: OpenXP has been ported to FreePascal (and Unix) and FP is quite portable, if you one can replace the few lines of asm.

 O>> It's amazing that CrossPoint / OpenXP has been ported to Linux and
 O>> has still a development team. Anyone running Z-Netz or Maustausch
 O>> software?

 a> I don't know if these networks are still online...
 a> I used to connect to a MAUS in Stuttgart, Germany, but that was back
 a> in ~2005 - and I've used a MAUS point software on a Macintosh SE/30 :)

Nice. I started with Fido and never tried one of the other networks. In retrospect I should have.

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