I second the OpenGEM sentiment. One of the things that makes DOS special to
me, is the simplicity, both of the API, and the usage. Lack of multitasking
is a plus for me, not a minus. (IIRC GEM supports some multitasking
though.) GEM does seem to have that simple, RAW, feel, and that's a good
thing
> And that was my thinking behind it. Writing yet another nondescript
> GUI would be sort of pointless.
+1
> The main strength of FreeDOS is its
> ability to keep legacy software alive. But by definition there's no
> legacy software available for a GUI that's written in 2020.
+1
> Getting
> clos
Hi
Ralf makes a very interesting and important point here, especially as it
reminds me of my idealistic and somewhat overconfident self from 1993. Like
many people back in the day I thought I was a l33t hax0r after three years
of dabbling with Turbo-Pascal, Turbo-C and even some assembler. So,
nat
On 12/27/2020 11:10 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
The challenge we've had is lots of developers have wanted to create a
GUI for FreeDOS, but then they get halfway through building one before
they realize it's a lot of work. And then the project gets dropped.
That leaves us with things like SEAL and oZo
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 5:53 PM Danilo Pecher <
danilo.pec...@data-experts.biz> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> The ReactOS/Wine combo was what got me thinking in the first place.
> ReactOS was from the start meant to replicate WIndows NT though, which
> isn't quite what I had in mind, as that isn't quite t
Hi,
Wouldn't you reinvent the wheel with that? 32 bit DOS applications
rely on a DOS extender and run okay that way, and to run 32bit WIndows
applications, well, that's literally one of the purposes of ReactOS.
What got me thinking was when I could no longer run Borland Delphi on
Windows, because
Just a bit of FYI despite the project being nowhere near ready to go as of yet:
there is a small group of us working on moving DOS into the 32-bit realm in the
form of the [Night Kernel](https://groups.google.com/g/night-dos-kernel). As
part of that journey, we eventually want a compatibility la
Hi Eric,
The ReactOS/Wine combo was what got me thinking in the first place.
ReactOS was from the start meant to replicate WIndows NT though, which
isn't quite what I had in mind, as that isn't quite the 16 bit world
in which FreeDOS exists. Wine would be a starting point, as that
definitely has 1
Hi Danilo and merry holidays to everybody :-)
> So here's the question: Is there a process to pitch new packages
Just pitch them here. And if they are cool pitch them for our
ibiblio or other repositories of other people on the list :-)
>From there, distro inclusion would be a possible next ste
Ho,ho, everybody,
First of all, merry holidays to all and I hope you're all safe in
these difficult times.
As the new year looms, it's time to get them new years resolutions in.
I'm foregoing the usual stuff, like losing weight, because that won't
work, just like the other years. Instead, inspire
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