Hi
>Hi Flamengo - and welcome to FreeDOS!
Thanks!
> Amiga emulator - Looks like there's a DOS version of an Amiga emulator already. DOSUAE is at http://uae.is.free.fr/
>However, I don't know if there's source code.
Yep, no mention there afaik, so I downloaded the zip and apparently there IS source inside, hard to tell if complete but I would assume so. Thanks for this btw.
>More generally, we recently started a thread to discuss "simplifying FreeDOS."
hehe, yes, I've found that quite ironic when I went to send my message, as I typed it the day before, and a couple emails about it arrived. No problem, adding to the repo would be nice tho and that thread idea of having some sort of "package manager" to download stuff automatically is really cool.
>But some people like to have more control over how they install FreeDOS. For that, you can enter an "Advanced" mode of the setup process.
oh nice, didn't see this anywhere, how does one enter that mode? Also, I'll watch the video you mentioned, should be enough. I was under the impression that you made things a bit more complex than the simple "sys c:" :-) and needed the installer to keep things structured or something. I see now it's basically copy/unzip etc, which is what I liked about DOS :)
>But it's not the mode we present by default, because most people will not use it.
yep, that's better.
> You have some experience in DOS. Are you also a programmer?
a little rusty but, as you may have noticed I was bit by the lisp bug so I'll probably postpone it for the moment, although I really liked the idea someone posted about the game programming enciclopedia and I do have an old tutorial to do it in BASIC, I was curious about.. :)
Cheers,
F
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 10:52 PM
From: "Jim Hall" <[email protected]>
To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] New Old Timer reporting :-)
From: "Jim Hall" <[email protected]>
To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] New Old Timer reporting :-)
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 5:39 PM zz zz <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello, everyone. Didn't see anything resembling posting guidelines so just posting here anyway, there are dev ideas below after all.[..]
Hi Flamengo - and welcome to FreeDOS!
You have some interesting ideas. To respond to a few of them:
Amiga emulator - Looks like there's a DOS version of an Amiga emulator already. DOSUAE is at http://uae.is.free.fr/
However, I don't know if there's source code. The DOSUAE website is very hard for my eyes to read, but I didn't see a link to the source code. May not be available?
More generally, we recently started a thread to discuss "simplifying FreeDOS." As part of that thread, we're discussing removing the emulators from the distribution. They just aren't useful enough to many people.
You can find other emulators here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/group-emulator.html
You also suggested an "Advanced" method to install FreeDOS. My goal with FreeDOS 1.2 and later was to streamline the installation. Most people who install FreeDOS today are running it in a virtual machine of some kind. And these users don't care about fine-tuning their installation. So I wanted to make the installation process really simple - if all you want to do is "install FreeDOS" then it's just a few taps on the Enter key, and you're done.
But some people like to have more control over how they install FreeDOS. For that, you can enter an "Advanced" mode of the setup process. But it's not the mode we present by default, because most people will not use it.
You have some experience in DOS. Are you also a programmer? It would be great to have more folks working on FreeDOS stuff, fixing bugs, and adding features. If you need suggestions for what to work on, click the "How to Contribute" link on the front page: https://www.freedos.org/contribute/
Jim
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