On Friday 19 June 2009 00:30 (CEST), Michael Robinson wrote: > I haven't gotten the positive response I had hoped for trying > to drum up some interest in a Windows 9x replacement.
Simple - that's far beyond the scope of the FreeDOS project. Personally, I would lose any interst in FreeDOS, if it tried to be some kind of a "replacement" for Windows. If you like Windows so much - use it, and pay for it. > Wolfenstein 3D has the same problem because it's probably based on the > same underlying engine. It starts under Freedos, but none of the keys > work. Are you speaking of native FreeDOS there, or some emulated environnement? Under native FreeDOS, Wolf3D has *always* worked for me. It works very well on my Linux box via DOSemu, too. > ...Insert other programs that need Windows 9x or Windows 3.x to work... FreeDOS (as its name imples) is meant to run *DOS* programs. If you want to run Windows program, run windows. For Linux programs, go with Linux. We have enough troubles developping FreeDOS to be a DOS replacement of quality. Of course, feel free to pick up the current FreeDOS developpement and start coding your own (windows-compatible) OS. Regards, Mateusz Viste -- You'll find my public OpenPGP key at http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/pub_key
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