On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> > I don't know if any of you have seen the screenshots of Seagull (a GUI
> > for FreeDOS currently in development). This GUI is entirely ASCII/ANSI
> > based and it's incredible what they have been able to do. Check out the
> > screenshots on the FreeDOS website (http://www.freedos.org). If that was
> > ported to ELKS it would probably run on anything including a lowly 8086.
It looks quite pretty, but I don't think it'd be useful on ELKS in a
hurry.
> I checked out the freedos news page, but it looks as though it rolled
> off the bottom before I got there. Did an altavista search, and found
> a page, but the download link did not work. Did anyone get a copy of
> the code from anyware, or can anyone send me a link to a page which
> has it?
It's based on VB for DOS (which I actually quite liked) so it won't run on
ELKS in its current form.
The executables VB/DOS generated were always huge, too, often approaching
1Mb, which the runtime would page in and out (dynamic linkage was sort-of
possible, though).
Matthew.
