Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Developer Studio

2015-06-03 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
Oobe should be be a part of the fd distro to ever be considered serious. Whether it be for dev or new users. And stop comparing it to Linux because Linux developers made the forward choices to make it what it is today and freedos people are too scared of the ideas of adding features to the

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Developer Studio

2015-06-03 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
Out of box experience On 04/06/2015 10:07 am, Louis Santillan lpsan...@gmail.com wrote: What is oobe? On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Chelson Aitcheson chelson.aitche...@gmail.com wrote: Oobe should be be a part of the fd distro to ever be considered serious. Whether it be for dev

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit FreeDOS

2015-06-08 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
And I said MJ for Michael Jordan not Michael Jackson. On 09/06/2015 10:51 am, Steve Nickolas usots...@buric.co wrote: On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, Antony Gordon wrote: Hi snip Do ZM EXEs actually exist? Yes. Any 16-bit MS-DOS target compiler generates MZ executables. FreeDOS is full of

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit FreeDOS

2015-06-05 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
, Chelson Aitcheson chelson.aitche...@gmail.com wrote: Haha I got laughed at and criticized for these ideas. +1 Just make it don't worry about the community. +10

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit FreeDOS

2015-06-05 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
Low end *nix apps could be ported in place of over dos apps hell we could just make a Linux distro and slap a freedos sticker on it lol. Problem is there are two arguments here.. why and why not. If you build it they will come. If you don't then be happy carrying your xt's on your back. On

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit FreeDOS

2015-06-05 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
Doesn't matter, Mac os power pc applications dont work on new Mac os but it's still the same os. (rosetta comparability layer aside) I see this as more of a chance for a new generation of dos. Freedos 1.x has accomplished the needs for the existing replacement or clone requirements of a dos with

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit FreeDOS

2015-06-05 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
...@buric.co wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2015, Chelson Aitcheson wrote: Doesn't matter, Mac os power pc applications dont work on new Mac os but it's still the same os. (rosetta comparability layer aside) I see this as more of a chance for a new generation of dos. Freedos 1.x has accomplished

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit FreeDOS

2015-06-01 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
Haha I got laughed at and criticized for these ideas. Just make it don't worry about the community. On 29/05/2015 6:47 am, Antony Gordon cuzint...@gmail.com wrote: I was re-reading some emails and I think I have an idea of how this would work. The goal is existing compatibility so that older

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-10-24 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
This is like wanting Netflix on a dial up modem lol. On Oct 21, 2015 14:35, "Mateusz Viste" wrote: > Well, I'd say it's rather likely to be the other way around - your > massive zip is an incorrectly formatted version of the things I already > maintain since many years through

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-29 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
What would be the point of freedos ? Might as well be another Linux distro On 29/09/2015 1:09 pm, "Geraldo Netto" wrote: > Hi All, > > First of all, thank you all very very much for your support :) > Indeed, i have to follow the whole thread as Eric said > Also, all tips

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-29 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
eDOS.Our goal is to make an IBM PC compatible > OS. :) > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Chelson Aitcheson < > chelson.aitche...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What would be the point of freedos ? Might as well be another Linux distro >> On 29/09/2015 1:09 pm, "Ger

Re: [Freedos-devel] XFTOOLS - exFAT access a la LTOOLS

2015-09-30 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
Multi format support is not the worst idea in the world. Open up freedos more I say whether it's tsr and or native Because freedos doesn't have ext2/3 support as such I had planned to add the support into aura gui either way. Support doesn't mean you have to use it but it allows other users to

Re: [Freedos-devel] XFTOOLS - exFAT access a la LTOOLS

2015-10-01 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
Nicely put Eric. On 01/10/2015 7:33 pm, "Eric Auer" wrote: > > Hi Rugxulo, > > as mentioned earlier in this thread, generic operating systems > are allowed to implement VFAT (FAT32 and LFN) without fees, so > I would not be too worried about those two more years. Regarding >

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-27 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
Has anyone considered the lean file system at all? On 25/09/2015 9:13 pm, "Eric Auer" wrote: > > Hi Mercury, > > (note: 2 GB and one core are no problem even for DOS - but > for example 8 GB and several cores are supported by almost > nothing in DOS, as there are no nice DOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] What is FreeDOS 2.0?

2017-10-20 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
Maybe you could implement Morse code instead of tcp On Oct 18, 2017 2:09 AM, "Jim Hall" wrote: > Hi all > > I don't know if you saw on our Twitter or on Facebook, but since its > release on December 25 2016, FreeDOS 1.2 passed 500,000 downloads in > June 2017. And passed

Re: [Freedos-devel] Arduino Port of FreeDOS

2018-01-12 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
but cool, I’m planning on the 650c2 chip so its 3mhz instead of 1mhz > On 13 Jan 2018, at 9:20 am, Mercury <mercury0x0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm dabbling in the 68060 arena, it would be awesome to get this running on > the 68K family too. > > > On 01/12/2018 05:49

Re: [Freedos-devel] Arduino Port of FreeDOS

2018-01-13 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
Of course it is, not implying that it should be the next move by any means. Freedos has been a "me too" product for many years. On Jan 13, 2018 6:03 PM, "Ercan Ersoy" wrote: > I think developing FreeDOS Arduino port through source code changes and > some

Re: [Freedos-devel] RES: HD graphics in FreeDOS ? Possible?

2020-08-15 Thread Chelson Aitcheson
I have cross compiled newer versions to dos, Currently using it for a new dos game and I think the largest vesa mode I got was 1280*800 or something like that On Sun, 16 Aug 2020, 2:07 am Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel, < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Instead of an official