Hi,
I'm not sure this is anything that anybody but me would find
interesting. Still
In lieu of %RANDOM% (Win32's CMD) or whatever 4DOS offers, I just now
had to hack up my own stupid way of doing things. Really, the only
reason is to use ANSI escapes in my prompt and change the color
Does anyone know the origin of Bootsplash that was included in FreeDOS
1.0? I'm going through the software list, making sure everything is in
order before Bernd makes the next 1.1-test release, and realized that
Bootsplash was included in 1.0 without source code.
There aren't any doc files with
Op 21-7-2011 21:21, Jim Hall schreef:
Does anyone know the origin of Bootsplash that was included in FreeDOS
1.0? I'm going through the software list, making sure everything is in
order before Bernd makes the next 1.1-test release, and realized that
Bootsplash was included in 1.0 without
Blackout has a gif2raw that's available as binary-only. The
documentation indicates that source code is NOT available for gif2raw,
so I separated this out of the zip file, and left the sources and
other source-provided binaries. (Ok per the license, which is
literally do what you want.) gif2raw is
Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 à 14:36 -0500, Jim Hall a écrit :
Blackout has a gif2raw that's available as binary-only. The
documentation indicates that source code is NOT available for gif2raw,
so I separated this out of the zip file, and left the sources and
other source-provided binaries. (Ok
Writing entire installation procedures in 4DOS should be possible as
well, just takes lots more research.
For sure 4DOS is more useful, but it might be overkill here. I don't
know if Jim would prefer FreeCOM exclusively instead or not (though I
probably would).
Yes, I prefer using the
Long story short: Doszip is pretty perfect unless you need 8086 support.
http://sf.net/projects/doszip
(Anyways, a decent file manager isn't essential by any means, and
surely there are dozens of other file managers, I'm probably
forgetting a few. Maybe they're open source, who knows, I
Hi again,:-))
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote:
Does anyone know the origin of Bootsplash that was included in FreeDOS
1.0? I'm going through the software list, making sure everything is in
order before Bernd makes the next 1.1-test release, and realized
whitepaper from AMI on the BIOS-to-UEFI transition (very informative).
http://www.ami.com/support/downloadwp.cfm?DLFile=AMI_UEFI_Transition_Whitepaper_PUB.pdfFileID=1387
how long will be be before BIOS function support is totally gone? I don't know.
UEFI is taking over and slowly(?)/fastly(?)
