Re: [Freedos-devel] Simplifying FreeDOS

Why not have a simple floppy that can install the system via internet connection? Base cd, extras cd and boot disk with internet install? On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 05:37, Mark Olesen wrote: > Why not have a minimal install iso. Then have separate additions iso > for each category? Could the inst

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Old Timer reporting :-)

I am working on these esp01/8266 with at commands from dos you can connect to a wifi in dos and other retro machines. This should be a viable option for freedos. https://www.instructables.com/Getting-Started-With-the-ESP8266-ESP-01/

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

Unless something huge changed about freedos I think “1.4” should be the next version apposed to a jump to 2.0 and while its nice to update packages to the latest versions what is the problem developers are trying to fix? What is the roadmap? Like its been a while since ive actually used freedos

Re: [Freedos-devel] 16-bit Windows development

Yes, get the official code. The current kernel has the 3.51 NT kernel. On Tue, 4 June 2024, 9:54 am Kirn Gill via Freedos-devel, < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Does anyone here have any experience with systems programming for 16-bit > (DOS-based) versions of Windows? > > Do you k

Re: [Freedos-devel] 16-bit Windows development

Yes obviously the legal side of things prevents using that code, it's also a good reference of how it all works and you could build from scratch. If you just want to make programs just use visual basic like I did back in the day to make new programs.. Quite limited by today's standards. Or take t

Re: [Freedos-devel] 16-bit Windows development

No, win11 is not what I'm suggesting. Far from it. Im talking about the recently leaked 3.x code as a reference to start an opensource version of the Windows 3.1 shell. I played around with the react os code about 15 years ago to test out what the cmd was capable of doing for running dos applicat

Re: [Freedos-devel] 16-bit Windows development

yes of course. Well aware. It would be funny to see Microsoft Sue someone for a 30 year old os shell though. Lol. On Tue, 11 June 2024, 9:43 am Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel, < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2024, Chelson a via Freedos-devel wrote:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Suggestions Many future DOS Flavors and uses...

Why make anything then? Lol. It doesn't matter how trivial if it's fun the chances are someone else is keen to do it. Bear in mind that an x86 watch would be more funny than practical. Psu on your back with a bunch of cables running up your arm lol. Cyberpunk 1996 kinda look to it. On Tue, 2 Ju

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wayback

Terrible thing to say. Who will play dos games and on retro machines if you're not around? Hacks are a part of the computing world and always will be. On Tue, 15 Oct 2024, 7:03 am Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel, < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I just don't get it. What are tho

Re: [Freedos-devel] GeoWorks

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