News Microsoft developer demos .NET on the NES — delivers .NES

[Admin]

Gratuitous .NET backporting goes from the arguably-practical Windows 95 platform to the Mario-practical Nintendo Entertainment System.

Microsoft developer demos .NET on the NES — delivers .NES : Read more

 

[bit_user]

2 Kilobytes of RAM and of VRAM allocation.

This is the part that utterly blows my mind about running any kind of modern software on the NES.

 

[ekio]

Instead of wasting time and money doing useless stuff like that, they could finish the UIs for win11, this mess is still unfinished.
They could drop their awful C:\ paths to embrace the infinitely superior Unix / standard.

 

[USAFRet]

They could drop their awful C:\ paths to embrace the infinitely superior Unix / standard.

Thereby breaking 3 decades of backward compatibility.

 

[bit_user]

They could drop their awful C:\ paths to embrace the infinitely superior Unix / standard.

You can run other shells on Windows, if you so desire. I use the cygwin/X11 port of GNU tools on my Windows boxes, which includes the bash shell. All of the commandline tools in the cygwin port also accept UNIX-style paths.

FWIW, people who don't want that can use the MinGW port of select GNU tools, which (IIRC) accept regular DOS-style paths.

 

[Speeddymon]

Thereby breaking 3 decades of backward compatibility.

There's a precedent for breaking compatibility: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...-killing-off-vbscript-in-second-half-of-2024/

It starts with security. Find a security flaw that forces them to change from this archaic system to a proper hierarchy and they will.

 

[USAFRet]

There's a precedent for breaking compatibility: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...-killing-off-vbscript-in-second-half-of-2024/

It starts with security. Find a security flaw that forces them to change from this archaic system to a proper hierarchy and they will.

Killing vbscript is trivial to redoing the entire drive path ecosystem.