I just tested wbat after a very long time. It does not only support A-Z but also arrow up/down left/right, mouse, can create OK buttons etc, even a X close button, so it
is not SO out of date.
If you want to test it, you can try my absolutely outdated games CD (I noticed that a lot of things do no longer work, especial not all CD drivers work, FD kernel/himem etc is from 2005 so don't be to hard with this CD. The idea was to save the game results on a diskette and to load it for the next game.
https://www.bootablecd.de/indexeng.html - click on installation disk and the first bootCD game, in virtualbox it worked for me with VIDE ATAPI - US keyboard, no sound driver - Sokoban - Sokoban clone - START - or read manual etc. If a Windows user does not understand this he should never think about DOS.
Willi
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2024 at 7:34 PM
From: "Liam Proven via Freedos-devel" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
To: "Bret Johnson" <bretj...@juno.com>
Cc: "Liam Proven" <lpro...@gmail.com>, freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] GeoWorks
From: "Liam Proven via Freedos-devel" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
To: "Bret Johnson" <bretj...@juno.com>
Cc: "Liam Proven" <lpro...@gmail.com>, freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] GeoWorks
On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 18:06, Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote:
>
> Attached is a screen shot of what I used a long time ago for a menu program. It is both similar to what the solution using V8 Power Tools is and what I think you are wanting. It is a combination of a (complicated) batch file along with a few utilities, some provided by DOS and some of my own.
Thanks very much for this!
Yes, it's the kind of thing I experimented with doing at the end of
the 1980s and start of the 1990s, using Norton Utilities tools and
others. The snag was that I couldn't deploy it on customers' machines,
because I couldn't rely on them having NU or whatever -- and
businesses were often Not Happy about you putting shareware and so on
onto production kit.
(For comparison think of VirtualBox and the Extension Pack today. VBox
is FOSS and free even for production use. The ExtPack is not and could
result in a bill for $thousands. NB: don't confuse the VBox Extension
Pack with the VBox Guest Additions, which are also free and FOSS.)
I would like to make this look good and at least somewhat
professional. Confronting a Windows user with DOS is going to cause
culture shock anyway, but a numbered batch file and a "TYPE A NUMBER"
prompt would be even worse, and I suspect that to 21st century users
it would look very amateurish and give a bad impression.
This is not a criticism of your work!
FreeDOS is not MS-DOS or PC-DOS, but I think that many people many not
realise just how far DOS got in the 1990s... And in some ways FreeDOS
hasn't caught up, even now.
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> Attached is a screen shot of what I used a long time ago for a menu program. It is both similar to what the solution using V8 Power Tools is and what I think you are wanting. It is a combination of a (complicated) batch file along with a few utilities, some provided by DOS and some of my own.
Thanks very much for this!
Yes, it's the kind of thing I experimented with doing at the end of
the 1980s and start of the 1990s, using Norton Utilities tools and
others. The snag was that I couldn't deploy it on customers' machines,
because I couldn't rely on them having NU or whatever -- and
businesses were often Not Happy about you putting shareware and so on
onto production kit.
(For comparison think of VirtualBox and the Extension Pack today. VBox
is FOSS and free even for production use. The ExtPack is not and could
result in a bill for $thousands. NB: don't confuse the VBox Extension
Pack with the VBox Guest Additions, which are also free and FOSS.)
I would like to make this look good and at least somewhat
professional. Confronting a Windows user with DOS is going to cause
culture shock anyway, but a numbered batch file and a "TYPE A NUMBER"
prompt would be even worse, and I suspect that to 21st century users
it would look very amateurish and give a bad impression.
This is not a criticism of your work!
FreeDOS is not MS-DOS or PC-DOS, but I think that many people many not
realise just how far DOS got in the 1990s... And in some ways FreeDOS
hasn't caught up, even now.
--
Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven
Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com
Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven
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