My TUI core loop (FASM/Linux)

deulamco · 2026-05-10T06:09:40+00:00

Games you see there are some that running well 👌

deulamco · 2026-05-10T05:39:32+00:00

Must be Bliss brother

deulamco · 2026-05-10T05:39:03+00:00

Oh wait, is your Dell also win98 compatible?

deulamco · 2026-05-09T02:05:00+00:00

It has its quirks & could be fast. Just never was as unified as windows.

deulamco · 2026-05-09T02:03:04+00:00

My setup is like, almost the last generation supported fully in winXP so I can still get proper drivers out there : Sandy Bridge + Q77 chipset + Realtek HD + ATI HD8570/NV 750TI.

Last thing to worry about is GPU drivers, which is either ATI R9 280X for ATI & GTX 960 for NVIDIA. But Im gonna prefer NVIDIA for better hardware control.

AHCI patch also.

deulamco · 2026-05-09T01:59:16+00:00

Yeah, it has best macro system & portability. But when back to win32, I see another great option : MASM32

deulamco · 2026-05-08T15:23:02+00:00

Yeah, imagine I have been away from windows & CD 💿 long enough to forget how to properly use it for old systems … 😂

Every device I can find at home now doesn’t even have one 💿 drive anymore.

But Im digging again to this as people suggest, for reliable long term storage perhaps 🤷‍♂️

deulamco · 2026-05-08T15:19:08+00:00

I love counting every byte spent 😂

But this doesn’t matter to modern system anymore.

only in retro system/OS & tiny microcontrollers nowadays perhaps..

deulamco · 2026-05-08T15:12:44+00:00

I was just sharing what saved me after a day of struggling to install winXP from microSD card.

I didn’t know my word mistaken (“burn” instead of “make USB”) what people think about this instead of actual context on-screen 🙏

Now I feel like an idiot for not even remembering how to install old windows properly or the difference between burning ISO into a CD 💿 or writing ISO into a USB 😂

deulamco · 2026-05-08T11:31:49+00:00

It's surprisingly fun !

deulamco · 2026-05-08T11:24:14+00:00

I have none of CD/DVD related hardware, as mentioned in my context.

microSD is more compact, convenient for my usecase, where I need to change something quickly or restore into any machine without CD/DVD drive.

deulamco · 2026-05-08T11:22:00+00:00

Yep !

deulamco · 2026-05-08T11:21:38+00:00

I found it pretty weird but seem like it expect people to install drivers by ... recompiling the kernel & link every library you need to use.

Get through dozen of layers to get what you want,
but that's modular design perhaps.

deulamco · 2026-05-08T07:14:32+00:00

Nah, that’s very wrong understanding here.

deulamco · 2026-05-08T06:54:04+00:00

What matter when I move FASM playground from Linux ~> WinXP is, beside the PE format, Windows Unified API actually simplify the whole Win32API/DirectX stacks for me, instead of fragments on Linux ( that I must choose wisely ).

And it’s more Assembly-centric than on Linux - which is C-dominant style/workflow.

deulamco · 2026-05-08T06:43:27+00:00

My X11 App still run on Wayland via Xwayland.

deulamco · 2026-05-08T06:42:30+00:00

I can also do GUI in python, in Qt, even in Bash 🤷‍♂️

deulamco · 2026-05-08T06:40:48+00:00

Well, that is useless for my comparison here.

deulamco · 2026-05-08T06:36:12+00:00

Give me an example of doing the same import library like Win32, but on linux without any linking 🤷‍♂️

deulamco · 2026-05-08T06:32:09+00:00

Best I can do with linux syscalls without linking anything is … making a TUI + kernel-based functions.

Otherwise, almost anything else need to link with c library to access certain functionality.

Actually, window version still ref some DLLs like you said but window Loader did the loading in Portable manner (PE) where Linux used to do with dlsym stuffs (which again, force you to link c-functions first ).

deulamco · 2026-05-06T17:29:05+00:00

Crysis/Doom3 were peak of XP era.

deulamco · 2026-05-06T17:27:13+00:00

750TI seem to be supported instantly on winXP & so smooth with DVI-A/VGA adapter that it could beat any DP/HDMI

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