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.