Hi everyone Mike emailed me to say he recently discovered FreeDOS and how much he enjoys working with it. It takes a community to make FreeDOS happen, and I wanted to share Mike's email with all of you: (I have removed his email address)
> I have been looking for an operating system that would let me use > an older Pentium laptop with my all-time favorite MS-Dos program, > WordPerfect 5.1 > > I spent a few hours today setting up and installing Freedos. I then > had to scrounge around for my 3.5 USB floppy drive and the original > 5.1 discs. I couldn't be happier with the way it turned out. I have a > native fullscreen WP5.1 running as it should and still able to save to > a 3.5 floppy so I can move the final file over to my desktop to print. > I have tried DOSBox on Linux as well as VirtualBox on Windows 11 and > I just couldn't get it to work seamlessly. > > Thank you for your great OS and please keep the lights on, there are > dinosaurs like me out in the mist that truly appreciate what you do. > > Mike Donovan > Canada _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
