On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 10:28 AM <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: [..] > However, there are 4 other packages remaining with issues. All of > which are included somewhere on at least of one of the release media. > > 1) CPIDOS, this is basically just a package of codepage font > files. Those files have been assembled in some fashion into the > CPX files and distributed as such. However, there is no utility or > information present in the package to create such CPX files. We should > probably do something to remedy that.
Agreed > 2) ROMOS, It appears the ROMOS sources are present. But, the package > contains several other utilities under the TOOLS directory. No sources > for those utilities are included in the package. From the original LSM file, the description is: >>ROMOS can boot FreeDOS from external ROM or system BIOS without disks This is a tool to allow power users to put FreeDOS onto a ROM, without using a floppy or hard drive. Is this really something that needs to be included in the FreeDOS distribution? This seems very niche. I expect only one or two people use this - and they can download it from the FreeDOS Files Archive just as easily. I think we should remove ROMOS from the FreeDOS distribution (next monthly). That removes a program that I suspect no one really uses, and solves the problem of no source code. > 3) OPENGEM, contains a corrupt nested zip archive that fails to extract > '/SOURCE/OPENGEM/SOURCES.ZIP/PROGRAMMING TOOLKITS AND UTILITIES AND > BUILD TOOLS/atari gem programming library hexaid manual for games.zip’ > with a CRC error. This needs fixed by someone familiar with OpenGem. I wonder if we need to have Graphical Desktops included in FreeDOS? This was a neat experiment, long ago. The OpenGEM packages were "broken" (wrong paths) for a long time before anyone noticed. But whether or not to include GUIs in FreeDOS is probably a larger discussion. I'll start a new thread for that. > 4) CDP, This is not open source software. It is Freeware without > sources. Should this be removed. Is there an decent open source > alternative? I liked Robert's suggestion to ask Steve J. Gray about SJGPlay. I've emailed Steve to ask if he will release the source code under an open source license so we can include it in FreeDOS. If yes, I think we should replace CDP with SJGPlay. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
