The two languages I know are C++ (Somewhat) and BASIC.(Visual Basic falls under the BASIC category).
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, (sorry for delay in replying) > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro > <oitofe...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Em Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:34:35 -0500 > > Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> escreveu: > > > >> I'm not sure what I'm looking at. It's impressive, but it seems like a > >> game/demo, screensaver, and some fancy NASM macros? > > > > I think you got it right. The best category for Terminal Matrix (TM) > > would be, perhaps, "Gaming". I couldn't find a category for games in > > FreeDOS software list at its website, though. > > AFAIK, Jim Hall is not majorly interested in games. Last I heard, he > thought most people either knew where to find such DOS games or they > already had them. So, while there are some few games mirrored on > iBiblio (or even sometimes bundled with various distros), it's not > been a big priority overall (and obviously there aren't too many being > written from scratch or even maintained anymore). > > > As far as I'm aware, > > FreeDOS does not distribute any screensaver currently, and I can't > > find a category where DeciMatrix would fit nicely. > > The only semi-official screensaver would probably be IDLEDPMS (from > FDAPM). Unless you count the screensaver programs from Necromancer's > DOS Navigator (NDN). > > > The link to QDot is just contextual, since both programs are written > > in that language. It would fit in the "DEVEL" category, but it's not a > > program per se, rather it's sort of an extension to NASM. > > NASM is indeed the official assembler of the project, but still not > everything is written with it. > > Since your QDot is GPLv3 and uses NASM, I've gone ahead and mirrored > it to iBiblio. Maybe someone else will find a further use for it. > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/asm/nasm/contrib/qdot/ > > > Is the FreeDOS project open to this kind of submission and are > > developers looking for new software or is it mostly static and > > developers are unwilling to extend it beyond the already available > > "core" packages? I'm asking this because I couldn't find any > > documentation on that. > > FreeDOS is very low on both developers and volunteers. It was > originally intended to only "officially" (e.g. Software List) provide > common languages that everyone knew, e.g. C or C++ or BASIC, assembly, > etc. AFAIK, Jim Hall doesn't want to clutter up the list itself with > every language under the sun (since there are hundreds). It makes it > somewhat hard to collaborate when you have to learn yet another > idiosyncratic language for every single util, hence the emphasis on > OpenWatcom (C/C++) and NASM (assembly). > > http://freedos.sourceforge.net/software/?cat=devel > > If you check, you'll see many things listed there, but they aren't all > widely used. DJGPP is a very popular toolset, as is OpenWatcom and > even others like FreeBASIC or FreePascal. But there's still plenty of > assembly as well (e.g. NASM, FASM) and lots of other tools (Rexx, > Forth). > > But that's not to say you can't ignore those (as many do), and > certainly the project is willing to mirror anything interesting to > iBiblio (as long as it's free software). > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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