The last time we made a major update to the FreeDOS website was maybe
ten years or so. Things are definitely feeling a bit dated, such as
certain design elements. And over time, we've added content where it
seemed to "fit" so the usability has degraded since the last update.
I have been
Someone else asked me about the USBDOS license. This person
highlighted a note in the USBDOS license that suggested "if your
website collects money, then you can't distribute USBDOS" - and the
person asked about the Patreon link on the www.freedos.org website.
So I thought I'd share my reply
A user emailed me to ask about the license for JEMM. We list this as
"Artistic License" on the website, but JEMM includes a few public
domain components.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/jemm.html
I wanted to share my reply to this person on the
Hi everyone!
Thanks to Jerome for reminding me to schedule the next FreeDOS virtual
get-together. Let's do the get-together on Sunday, December 17 at 11am
US/Central (use your favorite timezone converter to find your local
time).
We are no longer using BlueJeans. They are shutting down that
We didn't set a date after the last one. I recall I also commented that I
have a conference coming up and some other things that would have made a
November video get-together difficult for me. (I need all the time I can
get this week, and the next few weeks.)
How about we try for December? Like
*Is anyone planning to attend FOSDEM? It would be great to have someone
talk about FreeDOS, I think a lot of folks would be interested.*
*Here's the invite for their call for presentations:*
--
Small update, moved the CFP URL to here:
t;
> > On 11/12/2023 11:07 AM EST Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Thanks! I always love a new Edlin release. :-)
> >
> > I've mirrored it on the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio. Here's the link:
> > https://ibiblio.org/pub/micr
Thanks! I always love a new Edlin release. :-)
I've mirrored it on the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio. Here's the link:
https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/edlin/2.23/
For anyone interested, the video Gregory mentioned is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yapAepxbaT4
Hi everyone!
For anyone who needs more info: libmpi is a Multiple Precision Integer
library, and libm is a C math library. Both are public domain. You can
find both on the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio, under
/files/devel/libs/libm and /files/devel/libs/libmpi. Thanks Gregory!
Here are the
Ben Collver emailed me about these music players, and I wanted to re-share here:
>> from https://archive.org/details/abcmidi-20231101-for-dos
abcMIDI is a package of programs written in C for handling ABC music
notation files. The software was created by James Allwright in the
early 1990 and
So now phishers are pretending to be FreeDOS emails. That's pretty targeted
phishing (aka "spear phishing" where attackers customize the email to be
very specific to the recipient).
Thanks for sharing. I haven't seen this, but I'll watch for it now.
On Thu, Nov 2, 2023, 4:39 AM Wilhelm Spiegl
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 5:58 AM Walter Oesch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> From Code:
>
> if(_setvideomode(_SRES16COLOR) == 0) /* Switch to 800*600 mode with 16
> colors */
> {
> printf("\n\nVideo mode not supported!!!\n");
> printf("Maybe the VESA driver has not
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 9:31 AM Walter Oesch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Dear Eric
>
> Hear some facts of my project:
>
> I work for embedded software on the board Vortex86DX 800MHz.
> I need at least SVGA graphic (800X600).
> I prefer to work on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux (no Windows)
> The target
On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 3:12 PM Pedro Luis Carballosa Mass via
Freedos-devel wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> The software is a basic calculator for DOS programmed in QBasic, the
> calculator is not complete because he lacks some icons and it only
> works with mouse, but this is due to that is part of a
Steve said:
> I can't see what would need to be on base to make it more than about 20
> MB? And even that's pushing it hard.
>
> Maybe because I'm measuring by PC DOS 2000, which came on 6 floppies.
>
The FreeDOS distribution has a "LiveCD" component that allows users to
boot the CD. This
I did a quick comparison of the packages on the FreeDOS 1.3
distribution (both Live and Bonus) and the FreeDOS T2310 distribution
(Live and Bonus). And the differences in packages (added and dropped)
were as expected, so that's good. :-)
Then I added up the package size on T2310, both Live and
Jim wrote:
> I want to compile some things using IA-16 GCC in the new Interim Build
> T2310, but neither the LiveCD or BonusCD have the DJGPP Environment
> package on it. We had this on previous FreeDOS installs; to compile
> with IA-16 GCC, you need to set the DJGPP environment variable to a
>
I want to compile some things using IA-16 GCC in the new Interim Build
T2310, but neither the LiveCD or BonusCD have the DJGPP Environment
package on it. We had this on previous FreeDOS installs; to compile
with IA-16 GCC, you need to set the DJGPP environment variable to a
DJGPP.ENV file.
Or is
Downloaded and installed it. Looking good so far. Thanks!
Jim
On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 10:22 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> The FreeDOS Interim Test Build T2310 for October is now available for
> download at:
>
>
a new video meeting platform, I don't think
we'll have a meeting in October. I'm thinking about mid-November, to
avoid the US Thanksgiving weekend. I'll send a "save the date" email
well in advance so we can plan ahead.
Jim
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:35 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> >
>
Hi everyone!
Here's the URL for today's virtual get-together:
https://bluejeans.com/286798924/2517
See you in about 15 minutes!
Jim
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:35 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I wanted to share a reminder that the next FreeDOS virtual
> get-together
Hi everyone!
I wanted to share a reminder that the next FreeDOS virtual
get-together is THIS SUNDAY, 11am US/Central. (Use your favorite time
zone converter to find your local time, but it's the same time we've
been doing it.)
I'll share the meeting URL here shortly before the meeting starts.
Bernd wrote:
[..]
> If the project is in need of web space or something else, I think I
> could help out. So let me know...
>
For the www.freedos.org and wiki.freedos.org websites, I'm comfortable
taking care of the hosting costs on my own. We aren't set up as a
Foundation, but the YouTube
Jim wrote:
> > (This is a long email. Feel free to skip ahead to the "MY PROPOSAL"
> > section at the end.)
> >
[..]
> > MY PROPOSAL:
> >
> > I did some analysis, and the FreeDOS Wiki has 290 pages in it. That's
> > more than a few, but it's not a ton.
> >
> > My current thinking is to set up a
(This is a long email. Feel free to skip ahead to the "MY PROPOSAL"
section at the end.)
I mentioned in an earlier email that SourceForge upgraded the PHP on
the server that runs the FreeDOS Wiki. I don't know why, but the PHP
upgrade has caused the wiki to not load a stylesheet. It doesn't
On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:36 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> When SourceForge upgraded their website hosting to PHP 7.4, I didn't
> read closely enough that the final website address will change. So I'm
> in the process of updating things on the wiki.freedos.org site to
> accommodate tha
When SourceForge upgraded their website hosting to PHP 7.4, I didn't
read closely enough that the final website address will change. So I'm
in the process of updating things on the wiki.freedos.org site to
accommodate that.
We had a few things hosted there that really should be on the
Hi everyone
I wanted to share that SourceForge is upgrading the PHP to version 7.4
on the wiki.freedos.org server - sometime tomorrow, Aug 21. (This is
part of a two-step upgrade; SourceForge will upgrade to PHP 8 later
this year.)
SF gave me a test link, so I tested the site on the new PHP and
FYI: Your post was 104 lines and 618 words. How-to articles on
websites are between 500 and 800 words, so this email was a bit long.
:-/
The point is you have released a new microemacs?
:: Anyway, long story short - I have banged microemacs 3.6 into
:: shape so that it is C90 compliant with the
an into similar
> > issues at various times that have caused me all kinds of grief. There
> > are also some DOS Code Pages where other characters (besides 0, 32, and
> > 255) also are blank (they look like a normal space when they aren't).
[..]
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 3:55
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 3:38 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> Those extra "spaces" may not really be spaces at all -- they may
> actually be ASCII 0 or ASCII 255, which look like a regular space (ASCII
> 32) on the screen even though they aren't. I've ran into similar
> issues at various times that
A user emailed me with what they thought was a bug, but to me it looks
like everything is okay. Ironically, I think it's QBASIC that has the
issue.
Here's the "bug" as described to me:
The user ran PC Tools on FreeDOS and navigated around. They exited PC
Tools into a directory (BAS_DAT) that
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 11:03 AM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
> >
> > Wasn't a virtual get-together supposed to happen about now? -- Gregory
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 11:06 AM Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Maybe Jim is still under the weather?
>
I'm so sorry I missed the
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:56 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Today I released FDISK 1.3.8 into the wild:
>
> https://github.com/FDOS/fdisk/tree/v1.3.8
>
[..]
Thanks Bernd!
I mirrored this release to ibiblio, and posted a news item about it on
the website.
Jim
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 1:07 PM Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>[..]
> Well, there is/was a PC version of GEOS, which for a while now is Open
> Source and available as PC/GEOS
[..]
>
> https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
>
> PS: I don't think that GEM would be useless for use with FreeDOS,
Resending with a new Subject line so it doesn't get hidden/missed by
some email clients:
On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 10:19 AM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
> I was traveling for a conference this week, and now I am sick. (My
> COVID test was negative, though.) I cannot host t
Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I just wanted to send a reminder that our next FreeDOS
> virtual get-together is coming up on Sunday, 11:00
> a.m. to noon, US/Central Time. Use your favorite time
> zone converter to find your local time.
>
> As usual, we will do
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to send a reminder that our next FreeDOS virtual get-together
is coming up on Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to noon, US/Central Time. Use your
favorite time zone converter to find your local time.
As usual, we will do the meeting using Bluejeans. Folks have said that you
get best
Thanks! I've mirrored this at the FreeDOS Files Archive on Ibilbio.
I've also posted a news item on the website about it.
Jim
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 3:07 AM Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Hello!
> New version of test editor Blocek is out. Now in version 1.74.
> Project page is
I am also an editor for Technically We Write (a website about
technical writing) and yesterday I wrote an article about how to write
"ebooks" in AMB format. If anyone would like a walkthrough that shows
how to write documentation in AMB format, here's the preview* article:
On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 6:46 AM Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Till now amb files were created by Mateusz Viste. If I remember right,
> e.g. Hyperlinks within the text look absolutely different.
>
They were created by Mateusz because AMB was new at the time, so only
Mateusz really
On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 10:06 AM Jim Hall wrote:
> I recall that Mateusz had a tool that could convert HTML files into
> AMA format, but I can't find it [..]
I found it:
https://osdn.net/projects/amb/scm/svn/tree/head/samples/fdhelp2amb/
(note: the OSDN website is very slooow
I sent a separate email to Willi that included screenshots (the list
doesn't like screenshots) but I wanted to repeat this thought with the
list:
>>
BTW, I created my own index.htm file and ran a few tests. HTML Help
supports HTML coding structures - this is awesome! I honestly don't
remember if
On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 6:25 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> I sent a separate email to Willi that included screenshots (the list
> doesn't like screenshots) but I wanted to repeat this thought with the
> list:
>
>
> >>
> BTW, I created my own index.htm file and ran a few te
Fritz emailed this announcement to me off-list, and I wanted to fwd it here:
> From: "nidud"
> Subject: Re: [nidud/doszip] Problems with adding diskettes and HDs without
> label / ".." (doubledot) (Issue #12)
>
>
> The code is somewhat sensitive as it needs to test if the
> drive exist for the
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 6:11 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Jim, do you still have the original announcement? Would be an interesting
> read I guess.
>
Here it is:
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.msdos.apps/c/oQmT4ETcSzU/m/O1HR8PE2u-EJ
The original name from the
In 1994, several of us got together around a pretty neat idea.
We liked DOS, but Microsoft was clearly moving completely to Windows. "The
next version of Windows," they said, "would do away with DOS."
We wanted to keep DOS around, so we decided to write our own. That project,
announced 29 years
edos-devel <
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 6/27/2023 2:28 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 3:38 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> >> Thanks to Mateusz for pointing out a mail list setting that we think
> >> will stop the annoyi
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 3:38 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Thanks to Mateusz for pointing out a mail list setting that we think
> will stop the annoying bounce messages.
>
> When you send an email to the email list, you might get a bounce
> message. This is because of a cha
Hi everyone
I've uploaded Gregory's new libm library to the FreeDOS Files Archive
at Ibiblio:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/libs/libm/
I've also posted a news item on the website.
On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 8:56 PM Gregory Pietsch wrote:
>
> This is the latest
Hi everyone
We had a lot of folks on today's virtual get-together! I love seeing
people "in person."
The next FreeDOS virtual get-together will be on Sunday, July 23 at
11am US/Central. We alternate topics every month, and July's focus
will be "technical." This is a great time to do live
Hi everyone! The virtual get-together is just 10 minutes away. Here's
the URL we will use for the meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/622720727/1803
This uses BlueJeans, which I use for my consulting business. You can
use a browser to connect, but most people say the desktop client gives
better
Yes, 11am Central Time is just under two hours from now. :-)
On Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 8:56 AM wrote:
> Hmmm, that will be a little later today. :-)
>
> > On Jun 4, 2023, at 4:15 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I wanted to share a reminder t
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 9:50 AM wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Logger is now out of BETA.
>
> Version 1.00 is now available.
>
> https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/logger.html
I'm a month late on this, but THANKS for this very useful program!
I've just posted a note about it on the website.
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 9:31 AM Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > Logger version 1.00 was released several weeks ago. That
> > should have been sufficient time those who are interested
> > in it to have a chance to try it out. I feel it is now
> > time to pose a few questions and
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 4:05 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> Rather than merely trying to copy the way MS did/does things regarding
> IF EXIST X:NUL, I think we can discuss what the "right" way to handle
> things should be.
We should still fix the FreeDOS behavior to match the MS-DOS behavior.
But if
Hi everyone!
I wanted to share a reminder that our next FreeDOS virtual
get-together is coming up on Sunday, June 18, 2023 at 11am US/Central.
That's two weeks from today.
We alternate topics every time. This month's focus is "social time."
We'll probably cover technical topics too, but this is
I posted this as a news item on the website, but I wanted to share it on
the email list too:
Richard Hulse emailed me about releasing his DOS programs as open source:
> I recently released a couple of things I wrote back in 1991, for use in
> DOS, which may be of interest to your community.
>
>
On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 10:03 AM Ladislav Lacina wrote:
>
> Today I released a new version of my text editor and image viewer Bloček.
> The project page with download links is: http://www.laaca.borec.cz/blocek/
>[..]
Thanks! I'll mirror this to ibiblio and post a news item on the website.
Jim
See you in about half an hour!
https://bluejeans.com/358432980/6741
FYI that I can only be online for about an hour today. I'll need to
wrap up a little after noon (US/Central).
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 11:27 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> I wanted to remind everyone that our next FreeDOS virtu
I teach university courses part-time, including a class about general
computing topics, open to all majors. This is not a computer science
class - it's an introductory course that teaches students about how
technology works, to remove the mystery around computing.
To help teach the unit on "how
I wanted to remind everyone that our next FreeDOS virtual get-together is
coming up soon - Sunday, April 16 at 11am US/Central. Use your favorite
timezone converter to find your local time.
As always, we'll do the meeting via Bluejeans. I'll share the meeting URL
here shortly before the meeting.
A user emailed me (late last year) with a bug/issue report on
FreePascal in FreeDOS 1.3. I was going to (finally) reply to say they
really should ask the FreePascal people about this, but I realized I
couldn't really make out what they were saying. This is the part of
their email that relates to
Hi everyone!
Here's the URL for the FreeDOS virtual get-together, starting in ten minutes:
https://bluejeans.com/683879830/9370
See you there!
On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 6:35 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi everyone! I wanted to remind you that our next FreeDOS virtual
> get-together is
Hi everyone! I wanted to remind you that our next FreeDOS virtual
get-together is tomorrow (Sunday) at 11am US/Central for about an
hour. Use your favorite timezone converter to find your local time.
For example:
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
We alternate topics every month, and this month the
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 4:27 PM Gregory Pietsch wrote:
>
> Twenty years in the making, FreeDOS Edlin 2.22 is now released unto
> an unsuspecting world. The latest bug report/feature request that I
> have tried to tackle is one that backup files aren't created if the
> backup file already exists
Tom wrote:
> > I also dislike Richard. we can leave it at that.
Ralf wrote:
> That makes two of us.. He had a basically good idea decades ago and then
+1
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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
> 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
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:
>
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
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
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
Hi everyone!
I wanted to send a reminder that on *Sunday, Feb 19*, we have the next
FreeDOS virtual get-together. It's at *11:00am US/Central Time*, use your
favorite timezone converter to find your local time.
We alternate topics every time. This time, the focus is *technical*. (And
probably
Danilo Pecher wrote:
> > Quite frankly, I would throw them all on the scrap heap.
Rugxulo wrote:
> I wouldn't quite "throw them away", but for simplicity we really don't
> have to include them. I don't use any GUI in DOS (by default).
>
> [off-topic comments dropped]
And to be clear: I don't
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:10 PM E. Auer wrote:
> >> What does CDP do? Can you mention some features of that?
Jim wrote:
> > As Robert already mentioned in this thread:
> > "CDP is a non-TSR CD player."
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:18 PM E. Auer wrote:
> Well, you can tell a CD drive to play track
Hi Louis,
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 2:07 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> >
> > As I mentioned in my other email, I don't think we need to have
> > Graphical Desktops included in FreeDOS. I propose that we remove
> > Graphical Desktops from the next FreeDOS, starting with the ne
Jerome Shidel 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?
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:10 PM E. Auer wrote:
> What does CDP do? Can you mention some features of that?
>
As Robert
As I mentioned in my other email, I don't think we need to have
Graphical Desktops included in FreeDOS. I propose that we remove
Graphical Desktops from the next FreeDOS, starting with the next
FreeDOS Test release.
Graphical Desktops were a neat experiment, long ago. We used to have a
few
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 10:28 AM wrote:
[..]
> However, there are 4 other packages remaining with issues. All of
> which are included somewhere on at least of one of the release media.
>
> 1) CPIDOS, this is basically just a package of codepage font
> files. Those files have been assembled in
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 1:31 PM Robert Riebisch wrote:
[..]
> Maybe someone wants to ask Steve J. Gray
> to release source code (QuickBASIC 4.5) for his SJGPlay TUI player:
> http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/software/sjgplay/sjgplay_dos.html
>
Good suggestion, didn't know about that one. I'll
Replying to my own comment:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 3:28 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>[..]
> Sifting through the several conversation threads on this, I think the
> only project that would really be worth "Google Summer of Code" is a
> "loader" to boot FreeDOS on new
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 10:09 AM Wilhelm Spiegl wrote:
>
> While this discussion is miles away from my original proposal,
> I understand that my proposal with GSoC is buried. Thanks for this
> interesting discussion.
Sifting through the several conversation threads on this, I think the
only
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 7:19 AM tom ehlert wrote:
[..]
> after all, an OS is not an end target:
> people need the OS to run their applications like
>
> 1. Play classic DOS games.
>
> 2. Run legacy software.
>
> 3. Develop embedded systems.
>
> none of this is open source.
Liam wrote: [response
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 at 15:54, tom ehlert wrote:
> > most people around here already have a working machine, most likely
> > Windows or Linux.
>
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 5:21 AM Liam Proven wrote:
> Are these people the target market for FreeDOS?
>
> Is there an overlap between this demographic
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 5:50 PM Aitor Santamaría wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Founder of FreeDOS recounts the story so far, and the future • The Register
Thanks to Liam for the interview. We discussed the history of FreeDOS,
and some of the directions we've been talking about here, off and on.
I think
Let's plan for the next virtual get-together on Sunday Feb 19 at 11am
US/Central. The focus for this one will be "technical."
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> > What core programs or components should we put into the application -
> > if we apply and can get accepted?
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 12:11 PM Robert Riebisch wrote:
> A mouse-driven GUI...
>
> SCNR :-D
Funny! :-)
Mouse-driven GUI is always at the top of the list for new DOS
developers,
Thanks to everyone who joined the FreeDOS virtual get-together! It was
a small group (7 or 8 people) but this was more of a social meeting so
the small size was good for conversation.
We'll plan to do it again next month and focus on technical topics.
Watch for the date!
After several reboots, my router is back online. Hopefully it will
stay that way.
Here's the meeting URL:
https://bluejeans.com/202946130/6751
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 10:59 AM Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> On 1/22/2023 8:56 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
> > My internet router needs to be rebooted.
My internet router needs to be rebooted. At least, I hope that will get me
back online.
I'll share the URL when I'm back online and can login to Bluejeans.
I'm sending from my phone right now.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023, 10:49 AM Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 1/20/2023 4:45 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> &
Willi mentioned the Google Summer of Code, and I wanted to start a new
thread here for us to discuss the program:
I'd love for FreeDOS to participate in Google Summer of Code. IIRC,
this program doesn't require the participating open source projects to
have funds to join? [website is
Looks like the application period for open source projects starts in a
week or so. I'll start a new thread to see what folks would suggest we
put into the application.
Jim
> Jim Hall wrote:
>>
>> Like last year, I wanted to have a FreeDOS-themed 2023 wall calendar
>> for my
Like last year, I wanted to have a FreeDOS-themed 2023 wall calendar
for my office. So I just made one for myself, and made it available
for anyone to buy. If you'd like a printed copy for yourself, you can
order it on Lulu:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/jim-hall/freedos-calendar-2023/paperback
DON'T FORGET: The FreeDOS virtual get-together is Sunday at 11am
US/Central. I'll share the link here shortly before the meeting
starts.
The meeting is on BlueJeans, which is what I use for my consulting
(training). While you can use your web browser to connect to the
meeting, we've found that
Hi everyone
The book project has been very slow going. Sorry about that. I
mentioned that I took on too much in the second half of 2022, so I
wasn't able to do editing on the book.
But that's clearing up, so I am back on the book project. My goal is
to have the book/ebook available in about two
Jerome wrote:
> Like Tom said, there are books available.
>
> With few exceptions, the books are much better than trying to learn this
> stuff from websites. Most of the stuff you will find online probably
> will not go into the details you need. In my opinion, most of the
> online stuff requires
On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 11:55 AM wrote:
>
> Hi Jim,
> (and all)
>
> It’s been a couple months.
>
> I’m just wondering if there are plans to do a get-together next week.
>
> :-)
>
That's a great idea - let's do it! I miss seeing everyone.
Let's plan for NEXT Sunday, 22 January, 2023 at 11am
I wanted to share Rugxulo's announcement about the Mined editor:
Thomas Wolff has released MinEd 2022.27, the Unicode text editor.
Mined is free software provided under the GNU Public License.
* https://mined.github.io/
* mined-2022.27-dos.zip (DJGPP, 392 kb .ZIP)
Quick list of changes:
*
I needed to have a simple running calculator when I was using FreeDOS
- something that would let me add a list of numbers and do some other
simple math operations. So I wrote one.
RC (Running Calculator) lets you do simple arithmetic operations: = + - * /
Place the operator first, then one or
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