Re: [Freedos-devel] Reminder: FreeDOS virtual get-together on Sunday

2023-02-19 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/19/2023 8:41 AM, Jim Hall wrote: Hi everyone! The FreeDOS virtual get-together is happening in 20 minutes. See you there! This month's focus is technical. But as always, we have some social time at the start anyway. :) Here's the URL for the meeting: https://bluejeans.com/438758366/8332

Re: [Freedos-devel] Proposal: remove Graphical Desktops from next FreeDOS

2023-02-19 Thread Jim Hall
It's been a few days since the last comment on this thread, so I think those who have an opinion on this have voiced it. The consensus appears to be "Keep OpenGEM but drop oZone and SEAL" so let's remove oZone and SEAL in the next monthly test release. (These will not be removed from Ibiblio, so

Re: [Freedos-devel] Reminder: FreeDOS virtual get-together on Sunday

2023-02-19 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone! The FreeDOS virtual get-together is happening in 20 minutes. See you there! This month's focus is technical. But as always, we have some social time at the start anyway. :) Here's the URL for the meeting: https://bluejeans.com/438758366/8332 On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:38 PM Jim

Re: [Freedos-devel] Reminder: FreeDOS virtual get-together on Sunday

2023-02-19 Thread Jim Hall
Thanks to everyone for joining the FreeDOS virtual get-together this morning! We had a great discussion about various technical topics, including packages, looking at Jerome's V8Turbo command shell, discussing patches, and other tech topics. We usually do the get-together every month, so watch

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS package issues

2023-02-19 Thread Jim Hall
Jerome wrote: > > 4) CDP, This is not open source software. It is Freeware without > > sources. Should this be removed. Is there an decent open source > > alternative? Robert wrote: > Maybe someone wants to ask Steve J. Gray > to release source code (QuickBASIC 4.5) for his SJGPlay TUI player: >

[Freedos-devel] IFS API

2023-02-19 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hello, Does anyone know if the IFS (Installable File System) API is documented anywhere? Thanks in advance, Aitor ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

[Freedos-devel] Needs testing: SJGPlay

2023-02-19 Thread Jim Hall
I wanted to start a new thread for this request. Based on the discussion from the "FreeDOS package issues" thread, Jerome identified that the CDP package didn't include source code. Robert suggested SJGPlay as a replacement. Could anyone with a CD player and a sound card on their computer please

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS package issues

2023-02-19 Thread Jim Hall
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2023, E. Auer wrote: > > > Well, you can tell a CD drive to play track X using my > > minimalist cdrom2ui, but I think that would be sort of > > an INdecent open source alternative because it is too > > minimal :-D On the other hand, a QuickBasic solution > > sounds like something

Re: [Freedos-devel] Proposal: remove Graphical Desktops from next FreeDOS

2023-02-19 Thread jerome
> On Feb 19, 2023, at 12:50 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > It's been a few days since the last comment on this thread, so I think > those who have an opinion on this have voiced it. > > The consensus appears to be "Keep OpenGEM but drop oZone and SEAL" so > let's remove oZone and SEAL in the next

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS package issues

2023-02-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, Well, you can tell a CD drive to play track X using my minimalist cdrom2ui, but I think that would be sort of an INdecent open source alternative because it is too minimal :-D On the other hand, a QuickBasic solution sounds like something needing FreeBASIC in QB mode, or something

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS package issues

2023-02-19 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Sun, 19 Feb 2023, Jim Hall wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:30 PM Steve Nickolas wrote: Would it be something not too hard to bang out with a decent C compiler? I've never written a CD player interface per se, but if all the information can be retrieved, and all the commands can be