Comments on: More ports… more tradewars… https://virtuallyfun.com/2009/11/28/more-ports-more-tradewars/ Fun with Virtualization Mon, 07 May 2018 03:43:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2009/11/28/more-ports-more-tradewars/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:44:42 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=180#comment-80 thanks for the info… it doesn't surprise me… What's more funny to me is that QuickC for Windows can produce a Win16 & MSDOS exe that can read/write the same data, but Microsoft C produces an OS/2 exe that CANNOT…

I'm slowly going insane trying to 'think' of a way to store floating point data in a binary method without basically feeding the 8087 by myself….

I do have SQL server 4.21 (the first NT version) but the CD doesn't have any client components… I wonder where those would be for MS-DOS & OS/2…

]]> By: cdman83 https://virtuallyfun.com/2009/11/28/more-ports-more-tradewars/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:17:29 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=180#comment-79 The article brought to mind a problem which I confronted some time ago, when trying to load binary data generated by some old compiler:

did you know that Microsoft even had their own floating point format dubbed MBF (Microsoft Binary Format)? You can read some basic information about it and find code to convert them to more "modern" formats in the article I've wrote several years ago for CodeProject: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mcpp/cpp_data_caster.aspx

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