I have an ODIN 0.7A disk image dated April 29, 2004.
Dear Steve
Hello! Actually, I was referring not to ODIN (which is listed to 0.6
online...last release February of this year...when's the nice new 0.7 coming
out? :) ), I was referring to a one-disk distro of FreeDOS created by
Kristaps Kaupe
Dear everyone
This is an email regarding the OpenGEM distribution of FreeGEM, which is a
free GPL GUI intended for use on FreeDOS (and other DOS systems).
I am proud to confirm that OpenGEM Release 4 will be released on the 31st of
January 2005. OpenGEM Release 4 will build on the highly
In addition to the OpenGEM GUI, there is a GEM based file-manager called
GEMini. It takes up only 400kb, but has features like drag and drop.
http://gem.shaneland.co.uk to download. It's under the GPL.
Regards
Shane
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- GEMini Release 3 Release Candidate 3 now online (27/5/05)
Shane Land is proud to announce the public release of the next generation of
GEMini (the tiny GUI file manager for FreeDOS). GEMini Release 3 Release
Candidate 3 can be downloaded from
This email is about the GEMini GUI file manager that I created and maintain
for FreeDOS.
I have been getting some questions about the code and license underlying the
GEMini GUI file manager, most especially because the next release of the
file manager will use a lot of Digital Research GEM
Dear everyone
I am proud to announce the official release of the OpenGEM SDK. OpenGEM SDK
Release 1 is now available for immediate download from
http://gem.shaneland.co.uk.
OpenGEM SDK is a collection of tools, source code and binary for the
creation of OpenGEM/GEM/FreeGEM applications.
I download and make short tryings for OGEM3. If you interested, I
express my impressions (wishes and bug reports).
Hi Arkady
I would really value both your opinions and any bug reports you could make.
I'm trying to position OpenGEM as the best 16bit GPL GUI choice for FreeDOS
users, and the
This message is a reply to Arkady, who had a big look at OpenGEM for me.
I'm getting ready for OpenGEM Release 4 at the moment, and preparing OpenGEM
Release 4RC1.
As most of you know, OpenGEM is intended to provide a complete 16bit
singletasking GUI for the FreeDOS community. You can find
Shane Land is rather embarressed to announce updates to OpenGEM Release
4 just one day after the official launch!
OpenGEM, the GUI intended to provide support for the FreeDOS 1.0
release, has some problems!
OpenGEM Release 4 Complete, Core and Experimental had some issues that
were
OpenGEM Core, Complete and Experimental have been updated.
Release 4 Update 2 of these software packages is now online at
http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/downloads.html. If you are an existing user
of Release 4 Update 1 you can download an update package from
http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/updates.html
- Shane Land announces a German version of OpenGEM (31/7/05)
There is a new German language version of OpenGEM being developed from
OpenGEM Core Release 4. It is still in Beta. While the GUI and internal
applications are in German, the documentation and the batch files remain
in English. With
The OpenGEM Release 4 family of software has now been updated.
The best little FreeDOS GUI is getting more stable :P
OpenGEM Core, Complete, Experimental and Deutsch have been updated to
include a metafile driver that was previously missing from OpenGEM
Release 4. The lack of this driver caused
in general here:
http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/interview1.html
There is an interview with me talking about the OpenGEM Release 4
family here: http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/interview2.html
Regards to all
Shane
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- - OpenGEM Deutsch is now available (12/8/05)
Thanks to the heroic work of Thorsten Franke, OpenGEM Deutsch is now
complete and is officially released! This German language version of
OpenGEM is almost identical to OpenGEM Core, though it has a
I was told about Ozone recently, and I had a look at it. I've not
tested it myself. It looks lovely, though I am told be a user it
suffers from reliability problems.
You said FreeGEM works on XDOSEMU. Is this OpenGEM, or another FreeGEM
distribution?
Best regards
Shane
Email: [EMAIL
Blair Campbell wrote:
Ozone is relaitively stable for me, but running certain programs under
it can cause it to crash easily. It is not very useful as there are
very few apps for it, and it is no longer in development, so it's
basically only really useable as a file manager.
Talking of
Carlos wrote:
The screenshots look great! I'm gonna use it.
Thanks Shane
You're welcome Carlos! OpenGEM GUI has been under development now since
late 2001, and we've been focusing strongly on FreeDOS since around
mid-2002. With OpenGEM 4 we finally got a GUI framework that was around
the
run on as many DOS
systems as possible.
John's driver list is at: http://www.seasip.info/Gem/Drivers/index.html
OpenGEM can be downloaded from: http://gem.shaneland.co.uk
Regards
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run on as many DOS
systems as possible.
John's driver list is at: http://www.seasip.info/Gem/Drivers/index.html
OpenGEM can be downloaded from: http://gem.shaneland.co.uk
Regards
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Carl Spitzer wrote:
Are there any ports of up to date versions for GEMini or any other
GUI?
Excellent question. I'm trying to find someone to port GnuPG 1.4.1 to
DOS. That would enable us to make a little GnuPG frontend for OpenGEM
and GEMini.
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Bernd Blaauw wrote:
might be interesting to join the Portable Thunderbird project
instead. http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_thunderbird/ Let
them do the hosting :)
My project is based on a project that is based on PortableThunderbird,
Hello all
I'm delighted to announce that OpenGEM 5 Core has been released. You
can download it right away from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk.
OpenGEM 5 Core is the first release of the next generation of the
OpenGEM GUI, a GPL GUI distribution for DOS. It has many advanced
features. These
Tom Lee Mullins wrote:
Do you think it one could use FreeDOS and OpenGem on
MIT's $100 laptop computer?
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
-- I sent them an e-mail about it. :)
Hi Tom
Technically, yes...running FreeDOS and OpenGEM on the $100 laptop should
work. However, I'm not sure that it
Almost a month behind its smaller sister, OpenGEM Complete 5 is out now.
You can download it from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk
This is a massive update from OpenGEM Complete 4, with a completely new
user interface, 3D boxes, and drive auto-detection.
To install it over an existing version of
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Hi guys
The first development package of what will become OpenGEM/XM (a
multi-tasking version of OpenGEM) is now online.
You can download it here:
To run it, just run GEM.BAT after unzipping everything to your C: root
and keeping the folder
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Hi guys
The first development package of what will become OpenGEM/XM (a
multi-tasking version of OpenGEM) is now online.
You can download it here:
http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/downloads/OpenGEMxmDevelopment1.zip
To run it, just run GEM.BAT after
Hi guys
This is Shane Coughlan from the OpenGEM project. I am glad to say that
work is underway both on a new version of OpenGEM and a project to
create a multi-tasking OpenGEM.
I want to ask everyone how they use OpenGEM, what they would like to see
in the future, and to generally get a lot of
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Hello everyone
The second development package of what will become OpenGEM/XM (a
multi-tasking version of OpenGEM) is now on line. You can download it
here: http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/downloads/OpenGEMXM.zip
This development version sees a new
dima wrote:
I don't use OpenGEM, because I am disagree with installation method, which
make a much new directories on C:\
A very valid point. I am looking at fixing that issue with new releases
of OpenGEM. The latest development release of OpenGEM/XM (the
multi-tasking development
dima wrote:
I have download this archive (3244731 Mar 12 00:09 OpenGEMXM.zip). When I
try to start it: Bad command or filename - GEMVDI. Looks like
gemvdi.exe missing on x:, but:
That's interesting, because you showed me that X: contains all the
correct folders. GEMVDI is inside one of
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Hello all
Some news for people who are waiting for the next major release of OpenGEM.
Huh? Some people scratch their head. Are you talking about the new
multi-tasking OpenGEM/XM experimental code?
No. I'm not. The experimental OpenGEM/XM code
Marten Feldtmann wrote:
All that software is strange. The CD-ROm installation did not do
the work and now I tried to install via the discs and all these
installations break with missing files here and missing files
there. Especially textinst.exe is missing ...
It would be very useful if you
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BruceIrving wrote:
That is a very thoughtful and interesting article, Shane. We need more
information of this type and, you are right, we NEED to discuss it. In the
past, DRM fell into the same category as Microsoft's COM -- it does
something,
chris evans wrote:
Who defines this assumed trust in software? The user of the
manufacturer? The way I see it the file can have a crc or md5 signed
trusted info block to verify who wrote/and distributed it. and the user
can have control over which is excluded.
In 'Trusted Computing' the user
Gerry Hickman wrote:
As I see it, the way forward for DRM and trusted computing will annoy
people and they will end up shunning it. To some extent this is
happening already, but even Adobe is in on the act now with their secure
PDFs and most end users will simply end up with what they're given
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As you may or may not know, the European Union is reconsidering patent
law once again. This is a very serious matter, as there is a distinct
possibility that software patents could be introduced in Europe. We
might even see the US software patent
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What a load of nonsense this is.
Johnson Lam wrote:
Forward an email from Jack, hoping everyone can understand what's
going on, I'd like the others to understand the whole thing, not out
of context:
That was not a particularly useful thing to
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Hi everyone
The FreeDOS Beta9sr2 distribution has some errors with the installer,
and needs to be replaced. I'm having a look at the CD ISO and the
floppy image this week.
Does anyone have a neat list of what updated files could go into a new
Hi guys
I was trying to access the FreeDOS mailing lists through the website,
but I got
Not Found
The requested URL /mailman/listinfo/freedos-user was not found on this
server.
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freedos-user
I wanted to help a new user subscribe, but that's looking
Escorter wrote:
What's going on? What happened to FreeDOS? Everybody talking
about a memory manager, but I can't imagine what happened.
Who started the trouble?
Let's just get back to work, eh?
Lots to do. FreeDOS is in great shape, but some edges need polishing.
The main distro needs
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Legal TV, a TV channel broadcasting on Sky 885, will have a show at noon
tomorrow (Friday) about copyright and the Internet. DRM will also be
addressed.
I've been asked to take part in the show, and will fly the Free Software
flag. If there is
John Hupp wrote:
I went into this round of tests with this configuration, and cut back
progressively as I describe below:
LASTDRIVE=Z
BUFFERS=30
FILES=40
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DOSDATA=UMB
DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEM.EXE
DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=TEST VDS
SHELL=C:\command.com C:\
John Hupp wrote:
In the course of off-list discussion, I tested this problem much more
extensively than I reported here. My own conclusion was similar to your
Situation #3: HIMEM and EMM386 are not at issue, and OpenGEM has one or more
incompatibilities with the FreeDOS kernel.
But I
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Boys and girls
I'm very glad to announce OpenGEM 6 is (finally) about to be released.
As you know OpenGEM is intended to provide a great GUI file manager for
FreeDOS. Over the years we've made some real advances in usability and
stability.
John
Eric Auer wrote:
maybe not the best article, but please rate it as good, so that it
will be on the front site ;-)) (also if you don't speak German)
http://www.readers-edition.de/neu
I want to write a new article, when FreeDOS 1.0 is out ;-)
Hi Florian, the URL of your article is:
Eric Auer wrote:
Hi, FreeBASIC seems to be a nice QuickBASIC alternative...
If there are still BASIC users, I would like to get some
comments about whether FreeBASIC is as nice as it sounds :-).
The only real note I have is that it does have differences from QuickBASIC.
* Default
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Jim Hall wrote:
Hi. I'd like to take a moment to start cleaning up the ibiblio
archive.
Er...hope you're not chopping out the OpenGEM stuff...
Shane :)
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Florian Xaver wrote:
now a small binary-version is vaiable too.
Hi Flo
This is Shane from OpenGEM :)
I'm very interested in oZone. Can you tell me more about the technical
details? How does it run, what limitations and advantages does it have?
Shane
Hi Jack
Jack wrote:
I am not a lawyer, and I have no wish to be one. Anybody is
free to use the source files for the UDMA/UDVD/XMGR drivers
any way they wish. I hope THAT is clear-enough for you all.
I really appreciate that you are making your development available for
everyone. It's
Christian Simonyi wrote:
Probably my fault, but I did not find users guide on your site (except
the faq). It would be nice to have one in the \DOC directory after
installation.
I'm really sorry. We don't have enough documentation right now.
Would it be possible (is there anyone who have
Eric Auer wrote:
Good morning Shane :-)
Morning.
BAT opens as text by default on purpose,
as it's very easy for people to double-click BAT
files and start applications that might break the GEM
desktop session.
Hmmm make it harder for BAT to break the session then?
Why are normal COM /
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