On Sat, 28 Sept 2024 at 22:32, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> But the GUI section of FreeDOS 1.3 list: > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/official/report.html > opengem, ozonegui and seal... and now in > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/report.html > there seems to be only seal... I think it was said there where "problems" > with the others... don't remember well. I tried all the FreeDOS GUIs and shells a few years ago when reviewing 1.3. I am sorry to say I did not find a single one without problems or issues, and most of them were incomplete or non working or otherwise not worth having. GEM is misconfigured and doesn't work. That is easily fixable though. It needs to know if it's running in a subdirectory, and currently it installs to a subdirectory but is configured to run in root. I worked around that by mapping drive G: to its folder, and then running it from G: Seal and Ozone seemed incomplete and not worth having, along with several others. PGME does work but I had problems with the mouse driver and with the graphics mode and screen fonts. Personally I'd prefer to be able to turn that stuff off and just run it in plain text mode, but I think I suggested this and Jerome was very negative about the suggestions. :-( I personally rate function above looks, and think minimal looks more professional, but maybe that is just me. > I am curious about the status of GeoWorks on FreeDOS. It is not part of the collection, AFAIK. My suggestion would be to remove all the others except FreeGEM, and fix it. Then evaluate Geoworks for inclusion. I found it crashed in FreeDOS but I received a suggestion that setting FILES=0 in CONFIG.SYS would fix that. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
