Hi Thomas,
actually I was looking for a laptop with FreeDos using a photovoltaic system…
That should be relatively easy. Photovoltaics can output 12V DC,
230V AC with an inverter, or higher DV voltages directly via USB-C
which some newer laptops use for charging. However, those will not
addendum: as an example about what i intend to say about "How smooth is the
mouse in the character matrix of Dos?«
In the mentionend »Captain Blackbeard« you could regulate the »Mickeys« of your
mouse mouvement or the size of the cursor.
You can do this with modern OS of course, and maybe it
Thomas, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post.
In it, you wrote:
*I would want to focus more on the topic of the tool itself, i.e. the
computer as a writing aid, or writing machine. Historically the computer
has nothing got to do with writing texts, and in some way I do see this
still today.
Hi Eric again!
> On 01.02.2024, at 12:26, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi!
>
>> Why a typewriter? Because where I write, I don’t have electricity (!).
>
> Well there always is sun and photovoltaics...
sure: actually I was looking for a laptop with FreeDos using a photovoltaic
Hi!
Why a typewriter? Because where I write, I don’t have electricity (!).
Well there always is sun and photovoltaics...
What type of text input hardware would you like, given that you dislike
the current style of keyboards? Apart from sliding a pen over an
on-screen keyboard? Is your
Hi Andrew,
these are all nice anecdotes!
I would want to focus more on the topic of the tool itself, i.e. the computer
as a writing aid, or writing machine. Historically the computer has nothing got
to do with writing texts, and in some way I do see this still today. Hardware
and software
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 12:57 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> It's a different sort of thing, but a colleague shared his editor's
> advice to write in a way that makes it difficult to go back and edit
> what you've done, while you're writing it. The
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 18:26, Santiago Almenara via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> It is a 2014 article, I believe he might have discovered Youtube, Email,
> Facebook and all other distractions.
> He haven't written any complete book since 2011, except for short stories. :(
I last met GRRM in 2019
The Captain_Blackbeard test editor actually has a couple of nifty ideas
realized.
Ex.g.
the company delivered the editor with helper programs:
- a little program that generates a help file and a manual of the editor based
on the key bindings you have chosen yourself. So those helpers are
I've got a similar setup, however I use WordPerfect 5.1. I really am too
easily distracted!
On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, 22:52 Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Now, that's an interesting use for a Dos/FreeDos retro computer:
>
>
>
the real distraction is … you
> On 29.01.2024, at 19:55, Jim Hall via Freedos-user
> wrote:
>
> Thomas Cornelius Desi wrote:
>>
>> Apropos authoring on DOS Software: As I was looking for
>> someting nifty that would enhance my writing workflow on
>> the computer, I decided for VDE by Eric
There is even software that shuts down if you stop writing for more than a
couple fo seconds. ouch!
And here is a funny writing software, unfortunately only for Windows …
It only lets you write like on a Typwriter. But you can save it either as html
single pages or as a txt - file.
Thomas Cornelius Desi wrote:
>
> Apropos authoring on DOS Software: As I was looking for
> someting nifty that would enhance my writing workflow on
> the computer, I decided for VDE by Eric Meyer writer.
> ( have a look here: https://archive.org/details/vde-197 )
> It actually does sort-of-UTF8
Yeah, sure, Martin writes on Word perfect. Still does.
> On 29.01.2024, at 19:24, Santiago Almenara via Freedos-user
> wrote:
>
> It is a 2014 article, I believe he might have discovered Youtube, Email,
> Facebook and all other distractions.
> He haven't written any complete book since 2011,
It is a 2014 article, I believe he might have discovered Youtube, Email,
Facebook and all other distractions.
He haven't written any complete book since 2011, except for short stories.
:(
El sáb, 27 ene 2024 a la(s) 5:52 p.m., Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user (
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net)
You may also be interested in the Blocek editor -
http://www.laaca.borec.cz/blocek/#blocek
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 7:55 AM Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Apropos authoring on DOS Software: As I was looking for someting nifty
> that would
Anton Shepelev:
> Jim Hall:
>
> > No ChatGPT assistant/coauthor.
>
> "Doesn't have ChatGPT or a co-author tool" is actually not
> a problem for a professional writer. It can actually be a
> bonus. :-)
Yes, but the temptation to use such a tool is great, and the
commerical pressure quite strong.
Apropos authoring on DOS Software: As I was looking for someting nifty that
would enhance my writing workflow on the computer, I decided for
VDE by Eric Meyer writer. ( have a look here:
https://archive.org/details/vde-197 )
It actually does sort-of-UTF8 encoding which in my case (German
Mart Zirnask wrote:
>> As for writers with DOS, I recalled and managed to dig up a video with
>> Philip Roth using a standing desk and a Blue DOS Screen - is this also
>> Wordstar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBlVEcMSOGw=201
>>
>> The video is dated 2004, though - back then, I imagine it was
> Dan Schmidt wrote:
> > Now, I might have gone with WordPerfect 6 instead of
> > WordStar 4, but the idea itself is solid: A computer that
> > you just use for writing, sans distractions. No YouTube,
> > no Email, no Facebook -- you sit -- you write. I mean,
> > it's hard to argue it didn't work
Dan Schmidt:
> Now, I might have gone with WordPerfect 6 instead of
> WordStar 4, but the idea itself is solid: A computer that
> you just use for writing, sans distractions. No YouTube,
> no Email, no Facebook -- you sit -- you write. I mean,
> it's hard to argue it didn't work well for this
That looks like Wordperfect for DOS.
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 9:29 PM Mart Zirnask via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
[SNIP]
> As for writers with DOS, I recalled and managed to dig up a video with
> Philip Roth using a standing desk and a Blue DOS Screen - is this also
A "distraction free" writing environment was probably one of the
reasons I tested out FreeDOS at one point. I think it must also be the
fastest-booting distraction-free system of its kind these days? Even
as compared to some bare-bones ram-booted Linux like my beloved Tiny
Core [1]. It literally
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Now, that's an interesting use for a Dos/FreeDOS retro computer:
>
> https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716232/george-r-r-martin-uses-dos-wordstar-to-write
>
> How many computers destined for the landfill still have
Now, that's an interesting use for a Dos/FreeDos retro computer:
https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716232/george-r-r-martin-uses-dos-wordstar-to-write
How many computers destined for the landfill still have perfectly good
screens and keyboards? (Recalling those heavy, grey, indestructible PS2
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