announce: fdpp, a 64bit DOS in C++

announce: fdpp, a 64bit DOS in C++

[Stas Sergeev via freedos-32-dev]

Hi all DOS fans!

After a year of development, I am glad to announce
the new 64bit DOS. But as we know, all new is well-forgotten old,
so this actually is a freedos kernel port to 64 bits.
Some of you have probably already heard about
this project, as it was pre-announced on fosdem-18,
but at that time it could barely display the copyright
msg. So I bet no one believed this is even possible. :)
And here we go:
https://github.com/stsp/fdpp

The description of the project and the usage
instructions are in the readme:
https://github.com/stsp/fdpp/blob/master/README.md

The current status is on the releases page:
https://github.com/stsp/fdpp/releases

This is going to be the primary DOS for dosemu2,
but I hope it will be useful for other projects too.
For example the freedos-32 project:
http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
can likely get a very good use of it.

I don't know if the main freedos project can be
interested in a 64bit port of it, but I think there
were some talks in the past, including Pat V himself,
which I unfortunately can't google out now. Let's
see what people think.

The next target is going to be a 64bit command.com.
While it is in some distant future, the 32bit command.com
is already here:
https://github.com/stsp/comcom32

So lets move on to 64bits! Happy DOSing. :)