Hello Robert!
Sunday November 25 2018 07:17, you wrote to me:
Vince Coen wrote in a message to Tom Swartz:
Is it possible to get a registration key for ALLFIX v5.13 ?
Registration keys are no longer required.
Get an updated version from the allfix website.
What is the LAST updated version that does not require a key file?
I've tried the 6.xx releases and all they seem to do is peg out my /2
VM. Is there a 5.xx release that does not require a key file? And
finally, who is the current maintainer of the software?
Ken Johnson has the sources (current) and is working on
Allfix but I do not
know the status of work/s.
It is a big project, and it is still in the work. I have been reversing a lot of the mail tossing portion removed and just going back to only doing a file tossing as was originally done.
As far as I know all v5 where produced by the original
programmer so the reg
file is needed.
I do not know if Ken still maintains the reg system and
although I have the
one
from 2002 here it sits on a Linux system and it is not
straght forward to use
assuming I can or should. I got the code base to fix
allfix in the 2000's but
had a lot of issues with missing sources which required a
major rebuild and my
skill set with Pascal was just plain not good enough so I
passed it back.
I do have the key system, but all the keys that I have attemoted to creat for a
v5 setup are failing. The v6.18 is the first verion that no longer requires a key.
There may be a key system in the future again, but it is not in the works at this time.
One area I was interested was getting both Filemgr and
Allfix to compile using
the FPC (Free Pascal Compiler). That way multi platform
versions could be
compiled how ever at least for Filemgr it use both
internal Assembler and
Assembler routines. Now many if not all of to be
discontinued to use
Pascal only as speed of moderm CPUs no longer present
work flow when the
Filemgr / Allfix runs there are still various problems to
deal with and as I
say my skillset with Pascal is now very rusty so I am
hardly the right person
for the task.
The way Freepasal handels variables to Turbo Pascal caused a lot of compile failures. There were a lot of changes taht needed to be done. Changing a lot of
the assembler routines that were in the code needed to be removed (as they were
16 bit code, and Freeascal is a 32 bit) this needed to be re-written. And goin g to a 64 bit even more changes are needed. This is a reason for a bit re-write
on a lot of the code.
Can I suggest you try to use different products or
versions to run Allfix
under
and see if that fixes the problem of having CPU workloads
at 100% as this
should not be happening. MAy be look at some other
emulators of the Dos or
other environments that you can run in your systems
environment.
I am runnining my version of allfix on a esxi serverm running windows 8.1 32bit, and everything seems to be runnning without issues.
Of course I want to get a more native windows version as this will run more natively, as well as a linux version. I run a lot of FreeBSD and Debian systems
and I want to get it so I can run it on these. This is one reason for the big code change. I wosh it could happen overnight, but it is going to take time.
Thanks
Ken
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