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To: "Bret Johnson"
Cc: "Liam Proven" , freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] GeoWorks
On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 18:06, Bret Johnson wrote:
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> Attached is a screen shot of what I used a long time ago for a menu program
On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 18:06, Bret Johnson wrote:
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> Attached is a screen shot of what I used a long time ago for a menu program.
> It is both similar to what the solution using V8 Power Tools is and what I
> think you are wanting. It is a combination of a (complicated) batch file
> along wit
On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 13:59, Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel
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> I am not sure if I understand you correct. You want a very very simple start
> menu for several programs - maybe without colours?
> What about this very simple solution? It is only a batch file with checking
> errorlevels.
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2024 at 1:25 PM
From: "Liam Proven via Freedos-devel"
To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers."
Cc: "Liam Proven"
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] GeoWorks
On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 10:53, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 10:53, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
> Unfortunately, I think my goals and the desires of most of PGME’s users is at
> odds with what you want.
Um. Your program, your baby. But how do you know that?
Also, I think you misunderstand me because of what you said next
> On Oct 2, 2024, at 5:13 AM, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 at 23:10, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
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>> PGME has a crazy level of customization support. It could be configured to
>> appear with a very simplified layout, no effects, two colors and
On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 at 23:10, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> PGME has a crazy level of customization support. It could be configured to
> appear with a very simplified layout, no effects, two colors and a completely
> different way of interacting with menu options. But, such a “theme
If that's the Qube GUI I'm recalling in my mind, cool - you should put that up
on your site or GitLab or something. I always thought it had a sweet 90's MacOS
aesthetic, which I find quite visually pleasing.
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On Monday, September
Hi Liam,
> On Oct 1, 2024, at 5:59 AM, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
> [..]
> Maybe some context would make my position clearer.
>
> I want to make a live bootable USB with FreeDOS and a few word
> processors and other writer's tools, such as an outliner, maybe a
> spreadsheet, as a
On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 11:59 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel <
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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> I want to make a live bootable USB with FreeDOS and a few word
> processors and other writer's tools, such as an outliner, maybe a
> spreadsheet, as a distraction-free writing tool.
>
>
On Mon, 30 Sept 2024 at 20:32, Chelson a via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> ozone is quite well developed using widgets and an internal compiler to test
> them live.
Sure, but it's 2024 and who wants or needs that? Nobody will ever
develop for it again.
> Lwp works great under dos and I often wondere
On Mon, 30 Sept 2024 at 15:09, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> This must have been a long while back.
According to this, 2 years:
«
PGME (Program Manager Eternity) is a fully customizable multi-menu
application launcher for DOS. It also includes Font Designer and
several other utiliti
ozone is quite well developed using widgets and an internal compiler to
test them live.
It even has a registry database but the issue is the source code is 20
years old, uses an old as hell version of gcc and c89.
While it can support a multithreaded kernel, c89 and the threading code is
not comp
Hi Liam,
> On Sep 30, 2024, at 8:08 AM, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
> [..]
> GEM is misconfigured and doesn't work. That is easily fixable though.
> It needs to know if it's running in a subdirectory, and currently it
> installs to a subdirectory but is configured to run in root. I wo
On Sat, 28 Sept 2024 at 22:32, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
> But the GUI section of FreeDOS 1.3 list:
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/official/report.html
> opengem, ozonegui and seal... and now in
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stu
I just listen to that interesting new video:
Microsoft and Apple Wanted This OS – GeoWorks Rise and Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j76USDqEfNc
At the end of the video, we learn that GeoWorks have become an open source
project.
Searching: FreeDOS and GeoWorks had me land on:
https://github.
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