Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
someone schrieb: Open source software is not as author dependent as traditional commercial software, but a lot of people fail to understand this and they give up on an OSS project when it's author quits. It's very hard to learn programming for hobbyists and professionals can rather earn

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Robert Riebisch
Michael Reichenbach wrote: ... 95/98 on top. Why? Windows 9x always comes with underlying MS-DOS 7.x. There's just no need for FreeDOS here. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ - This SF.Net

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: Michael Reichenbach wrote: ... 95/98 on top. Why? Windows 9x always comes with underlying MS-DOS 7.x. There's just no need for FreeDOS here. - It's cool. - You can start and exit Windows and back to FreeDOS and back to other Windows version, pretty practical. - A

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! ... 95/98 on top. Why? Windows 9x always comes with underlying MS-DOS 7.x. There's just no need for FreeDOS here. Note that this is how MS pushed DR DOS and PC DOS (etc) out of the market - they made it alternatives obsolete by bundling their own stuff. Now if you look at web

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! ... 95/98 on top. Why? Windows 9x always comes with underlying MS-DOS 7.x. There's just no need for FreeDOS here. Note that this is how MS pushed DR DOS and PC DOS (etc) out of the market - they made it alternatives obsolete by bundling their own stuff. Now if

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! By the way which features are missing in FreeDOS a) for 100 % MS-DOS compatibility Missing features in the stable kernel are: - country sys / nlsfunc support: present in unstable branch, would be nice if that could be ported to stable but WITHOUT breaking the compiled-in support for

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Thanks for detailed answer. So... If I understand right. Most things are in but some cool addons are still missing. Any non Windows applications, better said any pure DOS legacy application should work on FreeDOS the same way it would work on MS-DOS? (this test on same hardware of course)

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Tom Ehlert
Any non Windows applications, better said any pure DOS legacy application should work on FreeDOS the same way it would work on MS-DOS? (this test on same hardware of course) right. we (the kernel and emm386/himem developers) put a lot of effort into exactly this. after that, we declared the

[Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-29 Thread flox
Hallo, read this post from the author of Mpxplay :-( https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=5128817 Bye Flo - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Flox, read this post from the author of Mpxplay :-( https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=5128817 Dunno if Arachne supports https, so I better paste it ;-) The post mentions that Emu10k SB PCI / SB Live 24 Audio LS support got added, other cards from that family planned, but

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-29 Thread someone
Quoting Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Flox, read this post from the author of Mpxplay :-( https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=5128817 Dunno if Arachne supports https, so I better paste it ;-) The post mentions that Emu10k SB PCI / SB Live 24 Audio LS support got added,

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael! My personal opinion here is that MPXPLAY is very nice for DOS users because it supports many soundcards :-). The ability to Note: The drivers are inside MPXPLAY, but as it is open source, you can use the MPXPLAY sources to make VSB (virtual sound blaster) able to output sound

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-29 Thread someone
ReactOS might support Windows 98 programs... Well, ReactOS is an NT clone. Freewin95 was the original project that later became ReactOS when progress was too slow. The developers, according to the bulletin boards, have given up on dos based Windows. That is too pessimistic, years for

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, Well, ReactOS is an NT clone. Freewin95 was the original project that later became ReactOS when... Hmmm. Why? The facts are not encouraging as far as the time it took for ReactOS 0.3.5 to be released and 0.3.5 is an alpha. Things count in different ways in open source,

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-29 Thread someone
Quoting Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Michael, Well, ReactOS is an NT clone. Freewin95 was the original project that later became ReactOS when... Hmmm. Why? The facts are not encouraging as far as the time it took for ReactOS 0.3.5 to be released and 0.3.5 is an alpha. Things