-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear everyone I thought I would share some news that may be of interest to a lot of people out there.
First of all, OpenGEM is after going German! OpenGEM Deutsch is now at release candidate 1, and should be a fully functional German OpenGEM! We'd love if you downloaded it and tested it on your FreeDOS machines (or DR DOS, REAL/32 etc etc), and let us know if everything works okay. You can download OpenGEM Deutsch Release 4 RC1 from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk Thank you to Thorsten Franke for making this possible. Secondly, OpenGEM is nearly ready to go multi-tasking. This is big news. OpenGEM is a stable GUI with applications, bindings for many languages, and a SDK. It's popular, and growing its userbase all the time. Once we're multi-tasking (IMHO) we'll be a pretty killer app for FreeDOS. Windows 3.1 eat your heart out :P OpenGEM/XM will be based on the FreeGEM/XM beta 4 code, which is almost stable and is itself based on the DR GEM/XM code. It has functioned on several machines already. However, it needs debugging and some additional programming. Therefore, consider this a call for programmers! If you can use C please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and help me get this system out there. I'd love to see FreeDOS get a stable, mature multi-tasking GUI as soon as possible. Meanwhile, if you are interested in developing for OpenGEM, don't forget that there is a SDK at http://gem.shaneland.co.uk New GEM applications are always welcome, and if you use the GDScript language to make GEM front-ends to DOS applications as well. That could be an interesting idea. Imagine if users had the option to call FreeDOS applications from inside GEM? Now, before we all get too excited (or bored), I'd like to ask something. I want to know what you guys would like to see OpenGEM become for its future with FreeDOS. What functions and abilities do you want to see, what do you want to avoid, and what do you think would be cool? For some of my own ideas, you can see a small interview with me talking about OpenGEM 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 - -- Shane M. Coughlan BA(hons) MA EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: www.shaneland.co.uk MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL: ShaneMCoughlan Yahoo: shane_c ICQ: 32280303 - -- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFC9LfdROnltWY8uXARArRKAKDLc5gUci9MZ7/a2Muzptq2hgOd+ACg5alb KAMyp3lOHEbh0sWx/jD6Zmw= =Bd9Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
