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  • 8088ify (translating CP/M-80 programs to DOS 8088 programs) works ?

    From Peter Dassow@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 22 13:10:58 2021
    Does anybody tried already https://github.com/ibara/8088ify ?

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  • From dott.Piergiorgio@21:1/5 to Peter Dassow on Fri Nov 5 14:03:24 2021
    On 22/10/21 13:10, Peter Dassow wrote:
    Does anybody tried already https://github.com/ibara/8088ify ?

    These type of program (8080 to 8086/8) ought to have never worked...

    Best regards from Italy,
    dott. Piergiorgio.

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  • From Tom Lake@21:1/5 to dott.Piergiorgio on Fri Nov 5 10:41:17 2021
    On Friday, November 5, 2021 at 9:03:26 AM UTC-4, dott.Piergiorgio wrote:
    On 22/10/21 13:10, Peter Dassow wrote:
    Does anybody tried already https://github.com/ibara/8088ify ?
    These type of program (8080 to 8086/8) ought to have never worked...

    Best regards from Italy,
    dott. Piergiorgio.
    Why shouldn't they have worked? Intel designed both chips and specifically made the 8086/8088 architecture
    be upward-compatible with the 8080. Once the 8086 segment registers are initialized, it's almost a purely mechanical translation
    from 8080 to 8086. It's the ideal job for a computer program.

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  • From dott.Piergiorgio@21:1/5 to Tom Lake on Thu Dec 2 23:51:37 2021
    On 05/11/21 18:41, Tom Lake wrote:
    On Friday, November 5, 2021 at 9:03:26 AM UTC-4, dott.Piergiorgio wrote:
    On 22/10/21 13:10, Peter Dassow wrote:
    Does anybody tried already https://github.com/ibara/8088ify ?
    These type of program (8080 to 8086/8) ought to have never worked...

    Best regards from Italy,
    dott. Piergiorgio.
    Why shouldn't they have worked? Intel designed both chips and specifically made the 8086/8088 architecture
    be upward-compatible with the 8080. Once the 8086 segment registers are initialized, it's almost a purely mechanical translation
    from 8080 to 8086. It's the ideal job for a computer program.


    Because this mech xlation has led to mess-dog...

    Best regards (and apologies for the nonsense coming from a misguided compatriot...) from Italy,
    dott.Piergiorgio.

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  • From dxforth@21:1/5 to dott.Piergiorgio on Fri Dec 3 11:06:07 2021
    On 3/12/2021 09:51, dott.Piergiorgio wrote:
    On 05/11/21 18:41, Tom Lake wrote:
    On Friday, November 5, 2021 at 9:03:26 AM UTC-4, dott.Piergiorgio wrote:
    On 22/10/21 13:10, Peter Dassow wrote:
    Does anybody tried already https://github.com/ibara/8088ify ?
    These type of program (8080 to 8086/8) ought to have never worked...

    Best regards from Italy,
    dott. Piergiorgio.
    Why shouldn't they have worked? Intel designed both chips and specifically made the 8086/8088 architecture
    be upward-compatible with the 8080. Once the 8086 segment registers are initialized, it's almost a purely mechanical translation
    from 8080 to 8086. It's the ideal job for a computer program.


    Because this mech xlation has led to mess-dog...

    Best regards (and apologies for the nonsense coming from a misguided compatriot...) from Italy,
    dott.Piergiorgio.

    Any mess was due to IBM adopting an old filesystem for a new product :)
    One more reason (were it were needed) had IBM gone with Kildall, it
    wouldn't have lasted.

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  • From William Gallant@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 16 12:55:31 2021
    William Gallant here -

    Does anyone have an already compiled 8088ify executable which runs on MS-DOS? Need one bad.

    -- Merry Christmas

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to sigma.r...@gmail.com on Thu Dec 16 16:23:37 2021
    sigma.r...@gmail.com schrieb am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2021 um 21:55:32 UTC+1:
    William Gallant here -

    Does anyone have an already compiled 8088ify executable which runs on MS-DOS? Need one bad.

    dBase 2.41

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  • From William Gallant@21:1/5 to Udo Munk on Thu Dec 16 18:01:28 2021
    On Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 7:23:38 PM UTC-5, Udo Munk wrote:
    sigma.r...@gmail.com schrieb am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2021 um 21:55:32 UTC+1:
    William Gallant here -

    Does anyone have an already compiled 8088ify executable which runs on MS-DOS?
    Need one bad.
    dBase 2.41

    Yes. But where can i get a copy of dBase 2.41 for MS-DOS?

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  • From Chris Syntichakis@21:1/5 to sigma.r...@gmail.com on Fri Dec 17 02:30:31 2021
    On Friday, 17 December 2021 at 02:01:29 UTC, sigma.r...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 7:23:38 PM UTC-5, Udo Munk wrote:
    sigma.r...@gmail.com schrieb am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2021 um 21:55:32 UTC+1:
    William Gallant here -

    Does anyone have an already compiled 8088ify executable which runs on MS-DOS?
    Need one bad.
    dBase 2.41
    Yes. But where can i get a copy of dBase 2.41 for MS-DOS?

    https://winworldpc.com/product/dbase/ii-v2x

    Not sure if this is what you are looking for, says 2.4 anyway.

    hth

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  • From Peter Higgins@21:1/5 to Udo Munk on Sat Dec 18 17:08:43 2021
    My assumption is that William is looking for an 8088ify executable application that has already been compiled from its C source code, that he can use to run his own 8080->8088 assembly code translations.... and not an example of an old DOS application (
    like dBase 2.4) that likely was developed by translating the CPM-80 version.

    On Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 4:23:38 PM UTC-8, Udo Munk wrote:
    sigma.r...@gmail.com schrieb am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2021 um 21:55:32 UTC+1:
    William Gallant here -

    Does anyone have an already compiled 8088ify executable which runs on MS-DOS?
    Need one bad.
    dBase 2.41

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  • From Peter Higgins@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 19 18:01:59 2021
    Thank you for posting that information! I discovered 8088ify a couple of months ago, but lost interest when I realized how difficult it would be for me to figure out how to compile it into an executable.

    I e-mailed Brian Callahan who wrote 8088ify and he gave me this github link -

    https://github.com/ibara/8088ify/releases/tag/v1.2

    The MS-DOS executable is located there.

    -- Merry Christmas
    -- William Gallant

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  • From William Gallant@21:1/5 to higgin...@gmail.com on Sun Dec 19 17:30:47 2021
    On Saturday, December 18, 2021 at 8:08:44 PM UTC-5, higgin...@gmail.com wrote:
    My assumption is that William is looking for an 8088ify executable application that has already been compiled from its C source code, that he can use to run his own 8080->8088 assembly code translations.... and not an example of an old DOS application (
    like dBase 2.4) that likely was developed by translating the CPM-80 version.
    On Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 4:23:38 PM UTC-8, Udo Munk wrote:
    sigma.r...@gmail.com schrieb am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2021 um 21:55:32 UTC+1:
    William Gallant here -

    Does anyone have an already compiled 8088ify executable which runs on MS-DOS?
    Need one bad.
    dBase 2.41
    I e-mailed Brian Callahan who wrote 8088ify and he gave me this github link -

    https://github.com/ibara/8088ify/releases/tag/v1.2

    The MS-DOS executable is located there.

    -- Merry Christmas
    -- William Gallant

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