This is great! I tried it and enjoyed that I could read the FreeDOS Help as an AMB, with links to each section in the Help. This makes me wonder if we could adapt this to become a new version of the FreeDOS Help system. I'm thinking maybe we could create an alias or "shortcut" COM program that launches AMB to read the FreeDOS Help (with the correct language file).
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:47 AM Mateusz Viste <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > These past few days I was working on a new hobby project. It is called > AMB, and it is a simple hyperlink format that makes it possible to > create "books" that are easy to read even on very limited hardware. > > The "books" can be viewed with a tool named AMB. It is only a few > kilobytes big and requires about 80K of available RAM. > > As a demo, I converted the FreeDOS help today into an AMB book. This is > something that I will use as the help tool in the Svarog386 FreeDOS > distribution, but perhaps it could be an interesting alternative for > vanilla FreeDOS as well. The AMB reader, as well as the format > specification and the converted FreeDOS help file can all be downloaded > on the project's home page: > > http://ambook.sourceforge.net > > It is still a very much work-in-progress project, but perfectly > functional already. I will certainly add a few features during incoming > weeks (mouse support, some form of light compression, full-text search, > etc). > > I'd like also to compile the RBIL into an AMB book in some near future. > > Enjoy. > > Mateusz > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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