FATE On DOS
March 6th, 2009 by 
Multimedia Mike
FATE cycles coming from DOS? Sure, why not? As long as someone is willing to do the work to maintain such a machine and contribute continuous build/test data for FFmpeg, let’s let them. That’s why I designed FATE with its distributed model.
Meet Michael K. He has set up a DOSEMU/FreeDOS session on a modern machine that has all the amenities of a typical Unix system, including gcc provided by DJGPP. Python 2.5+ must also be available and that’s all that’s really needed to run FATE (that and TCP/IP networking, somehow).
And now I really need to get some kind of front page revision rolled out. I happen to know some people are getting annoyed at having to sift through the, ahem, less relevant platforms at the top to get down to the real meat.
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6 Comments »
March 6th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Indeed, sort them alphabetically at least. I don’t care about x86 much anyway ;)
March 6th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
I’ll be revising it shortly so that you can sort the list by any number of criteria.
March 6th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Something is a bit broken though, the regression tests don’t find the tiny_psnr program…
March 8th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
How about FFmpeg on iPhone/iPod Touch? The basic stuff builds fine… do you need a dedicated device? How does that work?
March 8th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
@Reimar: fixed, now there’s a different error
@woo: http://hardwarebug.org/2009/01/28/rotten-apple/
March 8th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
So it’s not got the assembler speedups, it still compiles and runs (see: http://code.google.com/p/ffmpeg4iphone/ for instance) what better way to show improvements as bintools is updated?