Hi Jevgenij :-) Indeed very interesting download stats, Jim, thanks!
> Please add on the FreeDOS website in the page of download the form is > required to fill before download the FreeDOS with questions about who > and for what who download the FreeDOS for collect more complete > information about usage the FreeDOS. That would probably be too annoying for people who want to download DOS. But we could put a poll to the homepage, some form saying "What do YOU use DOS for? Pick a choice to tell us your DOS style: ..." or similar. The idea would be as on https://isc.sans.edu/ where today you can vote about Java worries (need it / avoiding it / not needing it / disabled in web browser / using default install) and optionally you can send a comment along with your vote. > In the FreeDOS distributive want to have more stable BASIC > interpreter and more stable and more usable text editor? Sounds nice :-) Some Borland text windowing toolkits have slightly limiting licenses, but you can probably use free alternatives if you were using those. > GENTEXT - multiwindow text editor, more stable but standard EDIT. Actually FreeDOS EDIT already is multiwindow, but limited in file size. For big files, an interesting editor is: http://setedit.sourceforge.net/ (SETEDIT, for 386/newer) > And so, I can give to the FreeDOS project my BASIC interpretter like > the GW-BASIC - iBASIC (immortal BASIC interpreter). But this up to > 50% more speed about BW-BASIC; to 90% more smaller about BW-BASIC and > to 99% more stable (my interpreter cannot be crashed). I remember that BW-BASIC is annoying, so it is cool to have a small and stable and fast alternative. For those who do have more disk space, FreeBASIC is a nice BASIC with extra QBASIC compatibility mode for 386/newer computers: http://www.freebasic.net/ > to 80% with GW-BASIC/QBASIC. All of my can give software is GNU GPL > and written on the Turbo Pascal for 8086. I can be compiled the 80386 > versions, but standard EDIT must be only the 8086 - for compatibility Although those computers are very hard to find now, somebody actually made a FreeDOS boot floppy with all-8086 selection of DOS software from our distro, might be interesting for you. I think it was Joris van Rantwijk, who used it in his tiny, Java based, emulator for PC-XT. See his page: http://jorisvr.nl/retro/ See for a bigger Java PC emulator and FreeDOS boot floppy: http://jpc.sourceforge.net/download_download.html Other floppy distros that might interest you: http://odin.fdos.org/ (720k, 8086 and 1.44 MB, Lucho et al) http://www.finnix.org/Balder (inspired by ODIN, Ryan Finnie) www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/bare_dos/ by Rugxulo https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ RUFFIDEA (3 disks) Maybe some of those distros could use some fans and motivation to update the software inside them :-) Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
