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
