It turns out that FrontDoor 24.01 (OS/2) was released on this day, the 22th of December 2024.
And thanks to all of you who helped me get there, and thanks to all of those that still consider this to be something cool to tinker with. I do too! :-)
Oh, the link you say? Here you go:
https://defsol.com/downloads/definite-solutions/frontdoor-re-boot/
It turns out that FrontDoor 24.01 (DOS) was released on this day, the 20th of December 2024.
And thanks to all of you who helped me get there, and thanks to all of those that still consider this to be something cool to tinker with. I do too! :-)
Oh, the link you say? Here you go:
defsol.com/news/frontdoor-re-boot
Well, the re-boot in progress seems to be moving in the right direction. FM, FD, FDSETUP, and FDNC now compile properly as they should.
Furthermore, they can talk to other FroDo:s, which is good. So the “commercial version” (which will be ditched, it’ll all be the same) can run in unlicensed mode. That’s one of the goals with this re-boot.
I also discovered that DOSbox-X plays very nicely with FrontDoor, even in a virtual Windows 10 32-bit environment under VirtualBox.
For some reason, I decided to check one of my laptops that I was using at the time of the crash. It was my go-to environment for the “Free Pascal conversion” project.
It turns out that I had actually not lost everything I thought I had lost. So I have tinkered some with an alternative setup here to see if I can get things to compile and build again.
I need to get a version out that doesn’t require a license. As previously stated, there will only be “mL” releases from now on. The “license” will be “free for non-commercial use”.
So far, FM has been re-compiled at version 2024.1 and handles an “invalid license” (or missing license) as it should.
I’ll keep you posted.