On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 8:21 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > > Mind - although I still have both 430CDS' in storage for uncompleted > > project updates, I had to wave the white flag on productively using Puppy > > for kids use, on those particular specs. What worked best in it was a 2GB > > sd-card with FreeDOS 1.1 configured to boot up Ronald Blankendaal's > > "Access" most excellent gui environment (He of DosBOXGameLauncher fame, > > here http://members.quicknet.nl/blankendaalr/dbgl/). From there, my kids > > could immediately access any one of dozens of top-rated classic DOS games I > > had squirrelled away from a range of "abandonware" sites. For a 16MB > > edo-dram laptop it would boot in about 11 seconds. *snap!* > > My *intention* was to have imaged a distro-like "FreeDOS4Kids" that could > > be copied to a flash card and via an ATA-adapter replacing the ancient HDD. > > By using such an image route you could circumvent some native installation > > issues (but probably replace them with other 'gotchas'). Life has overrun > > me on that particular escapade however. > > Thanks for the erudite first-hand histories in this thread guys - > > fascinating reading, Cheers :) > > Paul Blair once had a distro called FUZOMA: > http://superkeen.com/peacecorpsweblog/?s=FUZOMA&k2dynamic=init > > The website seems a little broken, but downloads are still working. > > Cheers, > Robert > -- > +++ BTTR Software +++ > Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ > DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Thanks Robert for the heads-up on Fuzoma - for posterity I downloaded a cd iso version of v1.7 - the last version Paul Blair had up. Really interesting project he had going there, with the Peace Corps. Cheers :) _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
