Lua for Watcom builds from 7th of August 2025

What's new:

• Added DIFF.LUA and PATCH.LUA scripts
• Small improvements to existing scripts

File contents:

• WLE098bd.zip - Watcom Lua Executables: A zip file containing binaries for each platform.
• WLIbac89.zip - Watcom Lua Images: A zip file containing floppy disk images
  (for direct use on floppy drives, 86Box, MISTer FPGAs AO486/PCXT cores, etc...)
  • 1.44mb disk image containing binaries for each platform
  • 160kb disk image containing just LUA16.EXE

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Lua for Watcom builds from 8th of July 2025

What's new:

• Fully self contained Linux i386 build (LUAUX.ELF)
• Corrected default package path in DOS and OS/2 interpreters
• Reduce the size of several scripts to make disk space for LUAUX.ELF

File contents:

• WLE608bb.zip - Watcom Lua Executables: A zip file containing binaries for each platform.
• WLI11c03.zip - Watcom Lua Images: A zip file containing floppy disk images
  (for direct use on floppy drives, 86Box, MISTer FPGAs AO486/PCXT cores, etc...)
  • 1.44mb disk image containing binaries for each platform
  • 160kb disk image containing just LUA16.EXE

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Lua for Watcom builds from 22nd of June 2025

What's new:

• Added support for PE32+ binaries to PE95TIME.LUA
• Added FATSTAT.LUA A script that prints what sectors on a ima image are allocated to the disk (similar to mshowfat) and optionally can zero out any unallocated sector
• Use FATSTAT.LUA in CI builds to make disk images determenistic and compress better

File contents:

• WLE15c48.zip - Watcom Lua Executables: A zip file containing binaries for each platform.
• WLIcdc4a.zip - Watcom Lua Images: A zip file containing floppy disk images
  (for direct use on floppy drives, 86Box, MISTer FPGAs AO486/PCXT cores, etc...)
  • 1.44mb disk image containing binaries for each platform
  • 160kb disk image containing just LUA16.EXE

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Lua for Watcom builds from 15th of June 2025

What's new:

• Improvements to PE95TIME.LUA
• Use PE95TIME.LUA in CI builds to give LUANT.EXE a repeatable hash like the other EXEs

File contents:

• WLE50f60.zip - Watcom Lua Executables: A zip file containing binaries for each platform.
• WLI6c82f.zip - Watcom Lua Images: A zip file containing floppy disk images
  (for direct use on floppy drives, 86Box, MISTer FPGAs AO486/PCXT cores, etc...)
  • 1.44mb disk image containing binaries for each platform
  • 160kb disk image containing just LUA16.EXE

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Lua for Watcom builds from 5th of June 2025

What's new:

• Lua v5.4.8
• Zip files have been given names unique to their version going forward:
  • Watcom Lua Executables (WLE)
  • Watcom Lua Images (WLI)
  • Followed by the first 5 characters of the zips SHA256 checksum
• Added PE95TIME.LUA: This script converts a PE executables build date & time metadata fields to 24th of Augest 1995 (The release date of Windows 95). This is used on LUANT.EXE in the GitHub workflow to ensure repeatable builds and checksum verification.
• Updated DOSFREN.LUA: No longer requires a unix shebang at the start of a file to convert LF to CR/LF

File contents:

• WLEe91af.zip - Watcom Lua Executables: A zip file containing binaries for each platform.
• WLIf7ce8.zip - Watcom Lua Images: A zip file containing floppy disk images
  (for direct use on floppy drives, 86Box, MISTer FPGAs AO486/PCXT cores, etc...)
  • 1.44mb disk image containing binaries for each platform
  • 160kb disk image containing just LUA16.EXE

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Lua for Watcom builds from 21st of March 2025

What's new:

• Added icon and version infomation to LUANT.EXE
• Added description metadata to LUA21.EXE and LUA22.EXE
• Added DOSFREN.LUA: This script converts file line endings so that if first line has a shebang it is properly formatted for UNIX execution while maintaining readability in legacy DOS/Windows systems.
• Added DICE.LUA: A tiny script to roll dice
• Capitalise require() arguments in scripts to maximise UNIX compatibility
• Refactored all existing scripts to take no more than 3kb of disk space each. This frees more clusters in the floppy disk image builds for the end users own scripts

File contents:

• Lua Exe.zip: Zip file containing binaries for each platform and all scripts
• Lua Ima.zip: Zip files containing two floppy disk images (useful for emulators)
  • 1.44mb disk image containing binaries for each platform and all scripts
  • 160kb disk image containing just LUA16.EXE and a minimum set of scripts due to space constraints

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Lua for Watcom builds from 16th of March 2025

What's new:

• Added md5sum.lua and s256sum.lua. These two simple scripts that mimic md5sum and sha256sum from GNU Core Utilities respectivly.

  While slower than their C counterparts these scripts will work on any Lua 5.3+ interpreter and make these utilities available on platforms where no native version exists.

• Added tictac.lua. A simple game of tic-tac-toe against the computer.

• When present, exbench.lua will add additional benchmarks to bench.lua:

  • Checksum MD5
  • Checksum SHA256

File contents:

• Lua Exe.zip: Zip file containing binaries for each platform and all scripts
• Lua Ima.zip: Zip files containing two floppy disk images (useful for emulators)
  • 1.44mb disk image containing binaries for each platform and all scripts
  • 160kb disk image containing just LUA16.EXE and a minimum set of scripts due to space constraints

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Lua for Watcom builds from 13th of March 2025

File contents:

• Lua Exe.zip: Zip file containing binaries for each platform
• Lua Ima.zip: Zip files containing two floppy disk images (useful for emulators)
  • 1.44mb disk image containing binaries for each platform
  • 160kb disk image containing just LUA16.EXE

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Lua for Watcom builds from 8th of March 2025

File contents:

• Lua Exe.zip: Zip file containing binaries for each platform
• Lua Ima.zip: Zip files containing two floppy disk images (useful for emulators)
  • 1.44mb disk image containing binaries for each platform
  • 160kb disk image containing just LUA16.EXE

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Lua for Watcom builds from 28th of Feburary 2025

File contents:

• Lua Exe.zip: Zip file containing binaries for each platform
• Lua Ima.zip: Zip files containing two floppy disk images (useful for emulators)
  • 1.44mb disk image containing binaries for each platform
  • 160kb disk image containing just LUA16.EXE

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