Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 7 RC3 is now ready - and this should be it

Hi Shane and thanks for your work, I've given a look to the new version, nice :). Predictably the mouse experience is more fluid and comfortable so I can confirm you finally integrated cute mouse and OpenGEM very well. My newest Logitech mouse used to hang, block and prevented me from using GEM on

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 7 RC3 is now ready - and this should be it

Hi, On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Shane Coughlan wrote: > > The final(?) Release Candidate of OpenGEM 7 is ready and available for > testing. > > By the way, this RC saw some big changes. > OpenGEM Release 7 RC 3 - 9th July 2017 > - Changed SHUTDOWN 1.2

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM 7 RC3 is now ready - and this should be it

Hi all The final(?) Release Candidate of OpenGEM 7 is ready and available for testing. To try it just download the zip file from the repository and unpack to the C: drive in your relevant machine while preserving directory structure. Type GEM to execute the GEM.BAT file. The OpenGEM

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM is getting an update after 11 years

On Sat, 8 Jul 2017, Shane Coughlan wrote: Hello FreeDOS community Jim inspired me to take a look at the OpenGEM GUI again. I moved the OpenGEM 6 code and SDK to GitHub. OpenGEM 7 is being prepared. The main focus is stability and simplicity. There is also a much simpler SDK. Shane, it's

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM is getting an update after 11 years

Hello FreeDOS community Jim inspired me to take a look at the OpenGEM GUI again. I moved the OpenGEM 6 code and SDK to GitHub. OpenGEM 7 is being prepared. The main focus is stability and simplicity. There is also a much simpler SDK. Want to take a look? RC1, RC2 and the SDK are available

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

2.05 is nearing release thanks to Andris, Eli, Juan, Ozakan. Andrew Wu has even updated his build-djgpp cross-compiler to support the 2.05 beta [0]. [0] https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp/commit/7251f8f70661bafeeed9bb5172a7ae6c3bf34741 On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Mueller

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

from Louis Santillan: Will you 1) be moving your project hosting and 2) porting to DJGPP 2.05? You mean DJGPP is up to 2.05? I went to their website, and current version was 2.03. I remember there was a 2.04 beta, but never heard of DJGPP 2.05. www.delorie.com/djgpp/ Tom

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

Will you 1) be moving your project hosting and 2) porting to DJGPP 2.05? I already moved the files to Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/ But I still have to add screenshots and stuff at that site. Yes, when DJGPP 2.05 is released I plan to use that. At the moment I find

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

On 22/08/2015 04:54, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think FDNPKG is simply a binary installer, can it update? But FreeBSD ports and pkgng, and NetBSD pkgsrc, and Gentoo portage, are no doubt much more advanced. FDNPKG can install, remove, update (automatically or on demand) FreeDOS packages,

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

Perhaps a more updated alternative to opengem would be XFDOS I have tried it and found it be quite an impressive interface and its word processor alone is worth giving it a try. http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2013/04/xfdos-graphical-freedos-distribution/ On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 2:27 AM,

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote, and Rugxulo responded: I used elvis in DR-DOS 7.03 and FreeDOS, but elvis hasn't been updated since 2.2_0. I tried vim (7.0?) in DOS, had difficulty with more than one file at a time, now use vi which is nvi,

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

Will you 1) be moving your project hosting and 2) porting to DJGPP 2.05? On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Georg Potthast mail...@georgpotthast.de wrote: DOS doesn't have OpenGL (except software-only ancient versions of Mesa, which was never widely used in most DJGPP programs). There is also

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

DOS doesn't have OpenGL (except software-only ancient versions of Mesa, which was never widely used in most DJGPP programs). There is also my TinyGL port to DOS: https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/wiki/TinyGL Georg

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

Hi, On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: I used elvis in DR-DOS 7.03 and FreeDOS, but elvis hasn't been updated since 2.2_0. I tried vim (7.0?) in DOS, had difficulty with more than one file at a time, now use vi which is nvi, but this has not been

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

Hi, On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:32 AM, jubalh jub...@openmailbox.org wrote: Yesterday I installed FreeDOS for the first time. I used the latest version and did a full install because i want to have all software. The full release of FreeDOS 1.1 does not have all software mentioned in the

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:32 AM, jubalh jub...@openmailbox.org wrote, and Rugxulo responded: Yesterday I installed FreeDOS for the first time. I used the latest version and did a full install because i want to have all software. The full release of FreeDOS 1.1 does not have all

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

On 8/17/2015 1:32 AM, jubalh wrote: What am I missing? How to install software on FreeDOS? In most cases, you do not need to install software on (Free)DOS. Most programs will just work if they are located within the PATH environment variable. And that seems to be the biggest (though actually

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

On 8/19/2015 4:14 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: I believe I took a look at opengem but didn't get far. Opengem couldn't integrate with other software as X Window system can. Integrate in which way? I don't have a DOS system running GEM handy right now, but all it takes is a short cut for it and

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/19/2015 4:14 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: I believe I took a look at opengem but didn't get far. Opengem couldn't integrate with other software as X Window system can. Integrate in which way? I don't have a DOS system

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

Hi, You can install additional software in FreeDOS using packages. Either by downloading a package first, and then installing it on your PC, or (if your FreeDOS setup is connected to the internet), installing it online. For both steps, please make sure you have the FDNPKG tool. I'm not sure

[Freedos-user] opengem

Hello, Yesterday I installed FreeDOS for the first time. I used the latest version and did a full install because i want to have all software. I would like to run http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=opengem which I suppose should be installed on a full install. But I cannot open it via gem

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM, batch files and application icons

Hi all, I gave a test run for FreeDOS 1.0 (my main system is linux and use occasionally DR-DOS-7.0.3 + Breadbox Ensemble) and also installed OpenGEM5. I find GEM is appropriate/acceptable, but yet I could not figure out: - how to ran batch files from the GEM desktop (they are opened by default)

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM, batch files and application icons

Hi Christian, - FreeDOS installer is hanging if WATTCP configuration stops for any reason. Yeah I would recommend to install without network, see: http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall You can find a list of internet-using packages here:

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM - GEM.BAT fails with ChDir under FreeDOS 1.0

al Message - From: Eric Auer To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM - GEM.BAT fails with ChDir under FreeDOS 1.0 Hi John, ... the GEM.BAT installed by GEM 6 bundled with FreeDOS 1.0 fails at CD \GEMAPPS\GEMSYS if you tr

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM 6 is coming (get a testing copy right now!)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Boys and girls I'm very glad to announce OpenGEM 6 is (finally) about to be released. As you know OpenGEM is intended to provide a great GUI file manager for FreeDOS. Over the years we've made some real advances in usability and stability. John

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

that the problem appeared on FAT32 partitions and not on FAT16 partitions. Perhaps that will further narrow the inquiry. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: Michael Devore To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 2:35 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

John Hupp wrote: In the course of off-list discussion, I tested this problem much more extensively than I reported here. My own conclusion was similar to your Situation #3: HIMEM and EMM386 are not at issue, and OpenGEM has one or more incompatibilities with the FreeDOS kernel. But I

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

Shane M. Coughlan wrote: John Hupp wrote: In the course of off-list discussion, I tested this problem much more extensively than I reported here. My own conclusion was similar to your Situation #3: HIMEM and EMM386 are not at issue, and OpenGEM has one or more incompatibilities with the

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2 Shane M. Coughlan wrote: John Hupp wrote: In the course of off-list discussion, I tested this problem much more extensively than I reported here. My own conclusion

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

John Hupp wrote: I went into this round of tests with this configuration, and cut back progressively as I describe below: LASTDRIVE=Z BUFFERS=30 FILES=40 DOS=HIGH,UMB DOSDATA=UMB DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEM.EXE DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=TEST VDS SHELL=C:\command.com C:\

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

I have more to report on this problem. I am using current stable: kernel - 1.1.35 Build 2035b-cvs, 2006-05-21 freecom - 0.84-pre XMS_Swap, 2006-05-21 himem + emm386 - from emmx208 or emm208x ZIP archive I might have added to the original postby saying that this problem does not occur on

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

At 11:38 AM 6/5/2006 -0400, John Hupp wrote: I could also have added that all my DOS games (Doom, Quake, Duke, Spacequest, Beneath A Steel Sky) run fine on this computer and configuration. On the chance that there was a physical memory problem I dropped from 16 to 8 MB (no difference), and

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

the fact that GEM has always had such minimal requirements for hardware and operating system support. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: Michael Devore To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

I'll be posting this to the OpenGEM list next, but some recent issue there seemed to implicate the FreeDOS kernel, so I'm starting here. I just loaded OpenGEM 5 (full version) on a pure FreeDOS 0.9 SR2 machine (Pentium 100, 16MB, Mustang socket 7 motherboard). The only installation hitch I

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

Hi! 4-Июн-2006 13:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hupp) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: JH hitch I noticed is that a message flashed by at the outset - something about JH TZ environment variable not found, I believe. This is dumb message from InfoZip. JH But the installation did

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM 6 Development 2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello all Some news for people who are waiting for the next major release of OpenGEM. Huh? Some people scratch their head. Are you talking about the new multi-tasking OpenGEM/XM experimental code? No. I'm not. The experimental OpenGEM/XM code

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM/XM Development 2 now out

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello everyone The second development package of what will become OpenGEM/XM (a multi-tasking version of OpenGEM) is now on line. You can download it here: http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/downloads/OpenGEMXM.zip This development version sees a new

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM Complete 5 is out now (GUI for FreeDOS)

Almost a month behind its smaller sister, OpenGEM Complete 5 is out now. You can download it from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk This is a massive update from OpenGEM Complete 4, with a completely new user interface, 3D boxes, and drive auto-detection. To install it over an existing version of

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 Core GUI for FreeDOS released

Hello all I'm delighted to announce that OpenGEM 5 Core has been released. You can download it right away from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk. OpenGEM 5 Core is the first release of the next generation of the OpenGEM GUI, a GPL GUI distribution for DOS. It has many advanced features. These

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM and GEM Drivers for DOS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello guys I wanted to let you know that John Elliott has created a special section in his website listing all the GEM video, printer, metafile and imaging drivers that he could find. To quote from his release email: Those drivers which I've been

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM and GEM Drivers for DOS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello guys I wanted to let you know that John Elliott has created a special section in his website listing all the GEM video, printer, metafile and imaging drivers that he could find. To quote from his release email: Those drivers which I've been

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM GUI goes German! Official release today...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - - OpenGEM Deutsch is now available (12/8/05) Thanks to the heroic work of Thorsten Franke, OpenGEM Deutsch is now complete and is officially released! This German language version of OpenGEM is almost identical to OpenGEM Core, though it has a

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM goes multi-lingual, and development of a multi-tasking GEM is underway

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear everyone I thought I would share some news that may be of interest to a lot of people out there. First of all, OpenGEM is after going German! OpenGEM Deutsch is now at release candidate 1, and should be a fully functional German OpenGEM!

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM Release 4 Update 3 now online

The OpenGEM Release 4 family of software has now been updated. The best little FreeDOS GUI is getting more stable :P OpenGEM Core, Complete, Experimental and Deutsch have been updated to include a metafile driver that was previously missing from OpenGEM Release 4. The lack of this driver caused

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM Core, Complete and Experimental have been updated

OpenGEM Core, Complete and Experimental have been updated. Release 4 Update 2 of these software packages is now online at http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/downloads.html. If you are an existing user of Release 4 Update 1 you can download an update package from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/updates.html

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM Release 4 IMPORTANT UPDATE!

Shane Land is rather embarressed to announce updates to OpenGEM Release 4 just one day after the official launch! OpenGEM, the GUI intended to provide support for the FreeDOS 1.0 release, has some problems! OpenGEM Release 4 Complete, Core and Experimental had some issues that were

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM SDK Release 1 now out!

GEM can do word processing, DTP, spread sheets, draw vector graphics and do some basic web browsing. GEM can also execute DOS applications from inside GEM (so that you'll return to GEM when the DOS application exits). It can also play MP3s (although some versions of GEMP3 don't seem to like

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM SDK Release 1 now out!

Dear everyone I am proud to announce the official release of the OpenGEM SDK. OpenGEM SDK Release 1 is now available for immediate download from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk. OpenGEM SDK is a collection of tools, source code and binary for the creation of OpenGEM/GEM/FreeGEM applications.

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM SDK Release 1 now out!

This is mirrored at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/gui/opengem/sdk/ Shane M. Coughlan wrote: Dear everyone I am proud to announce the official release of the OpenGEM SDK. OpenGEM SDK Release 1 is now available for immediate download from

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM SDK Release 1 now out!

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 03:14:56 +0900, you wrote: Hi Shane, I am proud to announce the official release of the OpenGEM SDK. OpenGEM SDK Release 1 is now available for immediate download from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk. Thanks for your work. Can you please tell me any applications that can run

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM Release 4 confirmed, GEMini Release 3 announed

Dear everyone This is an email regarding the OpenGEM distribution of FreeGEM, which is a free GPL GUI intended for use on FreeDOS (and other DOS systems). I am proud to confirm that OpenGEM Release 4 will be released on the 31st of January 2005. OpenGEM Release 4 will build on the highly

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM Release 3 is now out

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Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM Release 3 is now out

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Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM Release 3 is now out

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Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM Release 3 is now out

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