Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

2012-04-02 Thread Alex
Hi all, mateusz (mate...@viste-family.net) wrote: An alternative would be to distribute not the application/program itself, but just a small *.torrent file... ;) I wonder if it would really all that much of a risk if we post links of copyrighted programs (which are already hosted on other

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

2012-04-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Alex alxm...@gmail.com wrote: mateusz (mate...@viste-family.net) wrote: An alternative would be to distribute not the application/program itself, but just a small *.torrent file... ;) I wonder if it would really all that much of a risk if we post links

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

2012-04-02 Thread Mark Brown
as usual, we all need more and better freeware, and like the gnu flag says, free thinking...   maybe someday someone will invent an operating system that promotes user programming instead of suppresses it. ..

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

2012-04-02 Thread Marco Achury
El 02/04/2012 03:35 p.m., dmccunney escribió: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Mark Brown eufdp...@yahoo.com wrote: as usual, we all need more and better freeware, and like the gnu flag says, free thinking... maybe someday someone will invent an operating system that promotes user programming

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

2012-04-02 Thread Alex
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote: El 02/04/2012 03:35 p.m., dmccunney escribió: But is easier to learn how to write DOS programs than Windows or Linux programs. DOS is a great OS to introduce programming. A simple programming language as Qbasic or

[Freedos-user] New topic: makeing a ISO

2012-04-02 Thread Garry Ricketson
Hello everyone, I am having a hard time, figureing out how to make a ISO image, of the FreeDos partition on my computer.The intention is to make a image (ISO) I can install to Virtual Box, I did install Freedos, to Virtual Box, using the tutorial posted here some time ago, But I could not

Re: [Freedos-user] New topic: makeing a ISO

2012-04-02 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 04:55 PM 4/2/2012, Garry Ricketson wrote: Ok, 1 more question, I also installed Freedos to a laptop, (Acer aspire series 150), runs fine, but I can not get the touch pad ,(mouse), or a USB mouse, to work. I tried CTMOUSE, but it says it is not installed ? Do I need to download CTMOUSE , and

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

2012-04-02 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote: El 02/04/2012 03:35 p.m., dmccunney escribió: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Mark Brown eufdp...@yahoo.com wrote: as usual, we all need more and better freeware, and like the gnu flag says, free thinking... maybe

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

2012-04-02 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alex alxm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote: El 02/04/2012 03:35 p.m., dmccunney escribió: But is easier to learn how to write DOS programs than Windows or Linux programs. DOS is a great OS to

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

2012-04-02 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 08:45 PM 4/2/2012, dmccunney wrote: And don't forget Lua. It's very simple and quite powerful at the same time. An excellent language indeed. But it's specifically intended for embedding within other programs as a script language. (There are an assortment of text editors (like SciTE)