Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

2024-04-12 Thread Mart Zirnask via Freedos-user
Tangentially related, but a system called lEET/OS has been linked here and there recently: "a graphical shell and partially posix-compliant multitasking operating environment that runs on top of a DOS kernel. /.../ lEEt/OS is slowly but surely migrating from FreeDOS to ST-DOS, its own DOS kernel."

Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

2024-03-17 Thread Mart Zirnask via Freedos-user
> I know it might sound kind of anti-progressive or even silly, to argue with > »slowing down« things. »Multi Tasking« is (was?) a lie. It isn’t real for us > humans in a good sense. Single user, single task - in 2024!> Definitely echoing this idea (not quite sure about the "lie" part, though

Re: [Freedos-user] One use case for FreeDos

2024-01-27 Thread Mart Zirnask via Freedos-user
A "distraction free" writing environment was probably one of the reasons I tested out FreeDOS at one point. I think it must also be the fastest-booting distraction-free system of its kind these days? Even as compared to some bare-bones ram-booted Linux like my beloved Tiny Core [1]. It literally

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos, or dos based mail clients?

2023-11-22 Thread Mart Zirnask via Freedos-user
Hi, On 22/11/2023, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote: > Does anybody here have experience with using a squirrelmail > or roundcoube webmail in links? Might need less java script > compared to gmail to use those, and one could forward the > gmail mail to a mail provider with squirrelmail or

Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question / Sound in DOS and FAT huge file support

2023-11-01 Thread Mart Zirnask via Freedos-user
On 01/11/2023, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote: > > It should be possible to use MPXPLAY to get DOS sound > with modern hardware: https://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/ I can confirm that MPXPLAY may work out of the box with Intel HDA. Tested on a Dell Mini 9, which has the Realtek ALC268 card.

Re: [Freedos-user] Can you recommend a good single-board-computer for legacy OSs?

2023-03-10 Thread Mart Zirnask
Just for reference, I'll share some of my bookmarks. I'm just a shy hobbyist, not an engineer whatsoever, but I've been interested in fanless, small form factor DOS computing solutions for quite a while. No idea if any of these are actually in production; feels like some might be. If not, maybe

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

2023-01-29 Thread Mart Zirnask
On 30/01/2023, Jim Hall wrote: > SAM is a window-based editor, so it uses graphics mode. To me, this > looks a lot like the window editor on the Apollo/DOMAIN system - I > managed a small Apollo/DOMAIN network in the mid 1990s. You can find a > screenshot of SAM on Wikipedia: >

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

2023-01-29 Thread Mart Zirnask
If I manage to build the command line mode of Rob Pike's sam editor [1] for DOS, I could probably do a writeup on how to use it. Because of the so-called structural regular expressions [2, 3], it is a really interesting editor. Excellent for processing arbitrary strings that spawn across multiple

Re: [Freedos-user] EDL.COM line processing utility by Herbert Kleebauer

2022-12-09 Thread Mart Zirnask
! Mart On 10/12/2022, Mart Zirnask wrote: > Hi, > I found a reference to EDL.COM, a "ascii assembler line processing > utility by Herbert Kleebauer": > https://stackoverflow.com/a/25986762 > > I would like to try it out (on SvarDOS). Is it still available > somewh

[Freedos-user] EDL.COM line processing utility by Herbert Kleebauer

2022-12-09 Thread Mart Zirnask
Hi, I found a reference to EDL.COM, a "ascii assembler line processing utility by Herbert Kleebauer": https://stackoverflow.com/a/25986762 I would like to try it out (on SvarDOS). Is it still available somewhere for downloading? Thanks and best, Mart

[Freedos-user] tinyllama - A tiny x86 retro computer

2022-11-22 Thread Mart Zirnask
Hi, just something I noticed on Hacker News -- a tiny retro computer, apparently with integrated Sound Blaster Pro-compatible audio. FreeDOS installation instructions included: https://github.com/eivindbohler/tinyllama Best, Mart ___ Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS music creation software?

2022-09-01 Thread Mart Zirnask
Not sure about the keyboard part, but there was also Sound Club, an early 90s sound editor by Skype founders Jaan Tallinn and Ahti Heinla: http://bluemoon.ee/history/scdos/index.html Some music made with Sound Club: http://digitiger.byethost7.com/sclub.htm?i=1 Some more details -- apparently it

[Freedos-user] dos-like, an engine for modern platforms

2021-10-08 Thread Mart Zirnask
Hi, I am not the author, but an interesting project came up on Hacker News: https://mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/dos-like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28803911 >From the landing page: "Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms. Includes a bunch of examples of

Re: [Freedos-user] Building Plan9's Sam text editor on FreeDOS? (+ Edlin without line numbers?)

2021-06-22 Thread Mart Zirnask
Hi everybody, Wow, thanks for such an active and thoughtful discussion! I will share my motivations (the "why?" part) later. However, I think I should stress that I was actually thinking of porting **only the CLI / line editor part** of Sam. The GUI, while being really enjoyable to use, doesn't

[Freedos-user] Building Plan9's Sam text editor on FreeDOS? (+ Edlin without line numbers?)

2021-06-20 Thread Mart Zirnask
Hello, I'm a new subscriber, not a programmer, but interested in lean systems -- and also a person with a DOS-y childhood. Now I'm getting to know FreeDOS, reading the mailing list archives. It is wonderful to find such a lively community around an "old" system (as in, it being a MS-DOS derivate)