https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxCrackSupport/comments/1051f17/installing_repacks_using_reactos_in_a_vm/
someone does that by bundling the game+liberation+wine into a flatpak and publishing it
idk if the dude is still active tho
BieHDC
Chungy
wtf is a "repack"?
Chungy
seems like a weird way to phrase it.
Anonymous
seems like a weird way to phrase it.
Because the game files gets "repacked" (aka compressed) for easier transfer
Dmvrr
Yeah, and custom installer is being used
Chungy
I guess making audio/graphics resources smaller?
I remember that being a big thing on Dreamcast to shrink GD-ROM games to fit on a CD-R
Anonymous
I guess making audio/graphics resources smaller?
I remember that being a big thing on Dreamcast to shrink GD-ROM games to fit on a CD-R
Yes, makes it much easier to pirate liberate the gaems
Mark
Like old twilight cd's
Vladislav Brezgin
Hello there
Timofej
Developers chat
Chungy
out of weird things in executable formats.... Microsoft's already defined a value to denote a PE executable for RISC-V.
No announcements at all on porting Windows to RISC-V where that might actually be relevant :V
Chungy
out of weird things in executable formats.... Microsoft's already defined a value to denote a PE executable for RISC-V.
No announcements at all on porting Windows to RISC-V where that might actually be relevant :V
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-format#machine-types
Chungy
I half-way want to order a RISC-V SBC just to port ReactOS to it. :P
MethanoVicky
good
Chungy
could be fun to be ahead of the curve
MayTheChimken
Star64 could be a good candidate
Victor
I half-way want to order a RISC-V SBC just to port ReactOS to it. :P
if you really want that, getting a real hw is too early
Victor
make it work it qemu first
Chungy
Why would it be too early?
Victor
Why would it be too early?
because you need several man-month of work, before it can even build
Chungy
Perhaps. ReactOS certainly isn't the only thing I could run on a SBC too. :P
Chungy
Linux and FreeBSD have very mature RISC-V ports.
Matrix Telegram Bridge
Anderson Torres: Why not try to port netbsd? :)
Stas'M
Because this channel has no "netbsd" in its name?
Chungy
Few reasons:
* NetBSD appears to already have a port
* I'm not interested in NetBSD
* Even if I were, I probably wouldn't be announcing the port in a ReactOS channel
Stas'M
☝️ Makes sense
Chungy
Thinking about the hypothetical though: I wonder if a ReactOS RISC-V port could be rendered incompatible with Windows if or when Microsoft ports Windows to RISC-V. Calling conventions and such.
Matrix Telegram Bridge
Because this channel has no "netbsd" in its name?
Anderson Torres: He cited FreeBSD and Linux. I was following the flow of semi-offtopic.
Stas'M
Stas'M
Stas'M
aka PPC64
Stas'M
but no Windows yet
Chungy
Winelib doesn't have a presumption of binary compatibility. It builds applications, using the Win32 API, to the host OS's native binary format. Like on Linux on POWER9, it'd still be an ELF file loading Win32 libraries that are also ELF files.
Stas'M
Yes, but that would be the same for ReactOS when porting to architecture that has no Windows variant
Matrix Telegram Bridge
Thinking about the hypothetical though: I wonder if a ReactOS RISC-V port could be rendered incompatible with Windows if or when Microsoft ports Windows to RISC-V. Calling conventions and such.
Anderson Torres: What about the current ports of Windows to other platforms besides intel?
Chungy
for Winelib's purposes, binary compatibility with Windows is not even a consideration.
If ReactOS had a RISC-V port, it may become important if Windows can run ReactOS programs and vice-versa, given a Windows RISC-V port too
Stas'M
Windows devs adapting their code to run ReactOS apps? Highly unlikely
Chungy
Using the same calling conventions so compatibility is automatic? That'd be nice. :P
Chungy
Anyway, given that neither port exists at current, it's not worth musing over too much.
Chungy
if I want to do a RISC-V port I'd just do it
Chungy
At least MS has already defined all three RISC-V ISAs with magic numbers in the PE format. That part doesn't need to be done from scratch. (I know, it's minor, but still)
Alejandro Jeditobe
Julio
ЯЄДҪҐФS ЯЏLЄS
Timofej
ReactorOS
matt
Momade
Linux and FreeBSD have very mature RISC-V ports.
(Haiku too - tho I'm not sure if it's "very mature" already)
Momade
Thinking about the hypothetical though: I wonder if a ReactOS RISC-V port could be rendered incompatible with Windows if or when Microsoft ports Windows to RISC-V. Calling conventions and such.
Probably, unless the port uses exactly what MS uses for Windows and ReactOS follows... No?
matt
microsoft next target is ARM
matt
until x86 compatibility layers becomes mature, we may see a bigger shift into ARM devices.
matt
at least in the consumer market
matt
as it's happening with the current microsoft surface line of desktops
matt
until other vendors follows suit, we may never see a far bigger push into alternative architectures like ARM (apple is already in).
matt
only thing stopping most average people from adopting alternative architectures like ARM is the lack of compatibility with most entertainment software products like games and other kinds of legacy applications that won't run anywhere else (a problem ReactOS is trying to solve).
amelia
On my Mac everything Just Works™
amelia
I did need to install Rosetta for some things though
Anonymous
If they don't introduce retarded locked bootloader on ARM PCs like they do with the smartphones, then it is a good alternative
matt
If they don't introduce retarded locked bootloader on ARM PCs like they do with the smartphones, then it is a good alternative
I guess this is what most vendors would actually want to do otherwise.
Martin
matt
Alejandro Jeditobe
https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-18773
Absolutely Katayamed!
Anas
I'm sorry, what is this the meaning of this word "katayamed"?
Esteban
It's the last name of a ReactOS developer: Hirofumi Katayama.
He's been implementing the IME (Input Method Editor) stuff required to type complex languages like Japanese.
Anas
Oh
Anas
So what is the meaning of this expression "absolutely katayamed"?
Esteban
His new features seem to have broken some applications, they're using Katayama as verb.
Matrix Telegram Bridge
Hyperbased in Hyperspace: whenever he does anything its "absolutely kataymad"
Julen
Yeah, he usually to do good job.
Julen
In this case, he takes a tiny regression, but will be fixed.
MethanoVicky
is our youtube channel deserted?
MethanoVicky
Matrix Telegram Bridge
The_DarkFire_#2772: Not exactly, everyone that has access has just been too busy to make things ATM.