Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-13 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 11:46 AM 9/13/2011, jhall wrote: >>>I emailed the contact person of VMiX yesterday, to see if he might >>>be interested in opening VMiX as open source software. >> >>clicking on the [download] button leads to >>ftp://ftp.sysdev.org/pub/VMiX-3/ >> >>>so it's pos

Re: [Freedos-devel] Pat Villani

2011-09-13 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Sad news indeed!! The first stone towards the big building called FreeDOS. My condolences too, Aitor 2011/8/30 Jim Hall : > FreeDOS friends: > > I must share the sad news that Pasquale "Pat" Villani, 57, passed away > on Saturday night, at his home. Many of you knew Pat. For our new > members: P

[Freedos-devel] New KEYB ahead

2011-09-13 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, I have managed to patch a couple of bugs I found on KEYB 2.0, and have KEYB 2.01 ready to launch (I just have to create the packages and such). I haven't been able to reproduce the bugs that some people have occasionaly mentioned here on the list when in use with JEMM, so I don't know if the p

[Freedos-devel] Heads up: "DOS ain't dead" forum is closing

2011-09-13 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Here is the link to the announcement: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=10488 To me this is a serious problem - losing a piece of the DOS community is bad. Losing the place where a lot of the programmers hang out is even worse. Mike

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-13 Thread jhall
> >> I emailed the contact person of VMiX yesterday, to see if he might >> be interested in opening VMiX as open source software. > > clicking on the [download] button leads to > ftp://ftp.sysdev.org/pub/VMiX-3/ > >> so it's possible no one is working >> on VMiX anymore. If they would be willin

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-13 Thread François Revol
Le 13/09/2011 15:37, Tom Ehlert a écrit : >> An easy way to get there, of course, is by simply using instances >> of a lightweight VM emulator like DOSemu, on a stripped down version >> of Linux. An even better way would be to support true multitasking. >> But I would be thrilled if we provided eve

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Ehlert
> An easy way to get there, of course, is by simply using instances > of a lightweight VM emulator like DOSemu, on a stripped down version > of Linux. An even better way would be to support true multitasking. > But I would be thrilled if we provided even task switching, such as through a > shell.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-13 Thread jhall
> [VMiX ...] >> Rugxulo found the link (http://www.sysdev.org/). They aren't on >> SourceForge, it seems they are "shareware" instead. > > I don't know, I didn't look too too closely, esp. since it was > confusing. I'm not sure if all versions are shareware or just the > newer (2007? beta? 3.x?)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-13 Thread jhall
I agree, and I wrote about similar ideas a while back in consideration of what we might want in 2.0. http://sourceforge.net/userapps/wordpress/jhall1/2009/04/ An easy way to get there, of course, is by simply using instances of a lightweight VM emulator like DOSemu, on a stripped down version o

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bad dates / false updates in Software List

2011-09-13 Thread Jim Hall
The Last Updated dates in the Software List represent the last time the LSM entry was modified, NOT the date of the most recent release. We might have done some cleanup on some of those items, or updated the maintainer, and the Last Updated would have been automatically set to when we touched that