Hello Rugxulo! Em Sat, 22 Aug 2015 17:15:08 -0500 Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> escreveu:
> > 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). So, does it mean that there is no place for Terminal Matrix in FreeDOS? DOS games usually are distributed in abandonware sites, where virtually all games are legacy commercial proprietary software. Personally, I think it would be nice for the FreeDOS project to distribute free software games, after all an operating system is incomplete without games. ;-) Other thing worth saying, I think, is that I haven't come across a free software game like Terminal Matrix in all these years searching for, in any platform. Do you know any proprietary DOS game that does a similar job? Perhaps, Terminal Matrix is a good candidate to be the FreeDOS forerunner game. ;-P > > 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). So, does it mean that there is a place for it in FreeDOS? :-P > > 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/ That's good, Thanks! How would people know about it, though? Doesn't QDot satisfy the requirements to be listed on the main site? > > 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). People have different takes on what they expect from a free software project like FreeDOS. Many people just want to run legacy software and live in the good old days' nostalgia. On the other hand, people like me are more interested in advancing and maintaining the free operating system for its own sake, so it can be nourished in the free software community and evolve independently to a point where we have replaced all non-free components that once were necessary and have added several more that weren't available in the DOS original days. -- ,= ,-_-. =. Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF] ((_/)o o(\_)) http://oitofelix.freeshell.org/ `-'(. .)`-' irc://chat.freenode.org/oitofelix \_/ xmpp:oitofe...@riseup.net GNU maintainer: ccd2cue DMOZ free software editor (Portuguese) UFU FAMAT PET member [GNU DISCLAIMER] I'm a GNU hacker, but my views don't necessarily match those of the GNU project. Hereby I express my own opinion, style and perception, in good faith, aiming the betterment of GNU.
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