I loved Ronald Blankendaal's Access for a free-dos only laptop (Toshiba Satellite 430cds, 16mb RAM, sdcard via IDE adapter) - but I was using v 5.02. Was brilliant for my young kids who could arrange their own menus for favourite dos games. Can be text-only, but I preferred to use icons. Didn't encounter any issues with it whatsoever - perhaps those earlier versions were buggy? I can't see where to get a copy though - vetusware has only v4.54, from a quick search around. Ronald has diverted most of his recent attention to his fabulous DOSBoxGameLauncher (DBGL), though I am fairly sure he'd be happy to provide anyone with the resources to his old copies - if not already on GIThub etc.
HTTH On Sun, Jul 31, 2022, at 7:48 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > I am looking for a fairly simple, ideally text-only, app menu system. > > I've found an assortment on the FreeDOS Repo: > > https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Launchers.html > > And a few on BTTR: > > https://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/desktops.htm > > All have something wrong with them. > > For example: > > I can't figure out Access 3 at all. Anything I run, it fails with an > error saying "you did something unexpected". > > Access 4 crashes the machine hard: as in, reset button needed. > > IBM Connect is complicated, and in Russian, displayed as corrupted gibberish. > > Desktop2 is partly in German when I pick English. > > Several others are under restrictive licences. > > Even OpenGEM can't draw windows, under Virtualbox or on bare metal, > and its complicated batch-file setup system doesn't work and throws > errors. > > Is there anything dead simple that isn't broken and is totally free? > > -- > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven > UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
