from Michael Polak: > It doesn't really make money, but it is steady income without need to > pretend that I am programming genius ;) (which I never was...)
I guess then that webhosting, even if it can't make you rich, will keep you financially solvent better than Arachne could. > Arachne and Net-Tamer has almost nothing in common. Arachne was trying > to take advantage of as many existing standards in DOS as possible, and > to port as many new standards, as possible. I failed to support various > resident TCP/IP stacks - but they have never become standards anyway... > Nettamer was minimalistic application, never intended to be portable to > anything but the minimal DOS based PC.... I haven't browsed http://www.nettamer.net/tamer.html recently, but Net-Tamer is rather backward. I couldn't even set it up because the setup program only allowed three hex digits for nonstandard modem address, and then the data go to a non-text binary file whose format is not documented. My modem is at base address 0xd400, IRQ 11. Net-Tamer, being only for PPP connections, is rendered obsolete and unusable by broadband, as well as some of the newer dialup modems. > ;-) DOS Internet community can learn only from Linux community - and > learn to share as much as possible (as people who do DJGPP, Allegro, > etc. already do). It is not just Linux community - it is open source > community, and it includes many operating systems, including FreeDOS. > The trouble of DOS is, that all programmers with enough skills to port > open source code to DOS will soon learn, that using directly Linux is > simply easier and more fun... :-) Semi-commercial shareware development > of DOS versions of multi-platform software may be some kind of solution > - this is my plan. But at least you should understand, that developing > anything on DOS platform is hell. The greatest games for 8-bit computers > (ZX Spectrum...) were also not developed on ZX Spectrum, etc. - they > were developed on emulators running on early PCs, because it was > superior development platform these days... I follow newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp , devoted to DJGPP development system for DOS. A great effort to keep DOS software alive, but up against much more powerful OSes including Linux and the BSDs. I wonder if DJGPP is really worth bothering with when Linux has so much more to offer. Remember what Richard Menedetter has been saying about the difficulties of programming for DOS and the superior power of Linux.
