I've installed freedos because I'm writing my second novel, but I'm easily distracted, so I wanted a machine with a decent word processor, (Wordperfect 5.1) and no internet access or games to distract me. I have deleted the games folder, but accidentally installed MS Word 5, which will do the job.
It also means I get to give my IBM Thinkpad T43 a second life, which is nice. 😁 On Mon, 24 Jul 2023, 22:47 Christopher Evans via Freedos-user, < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Well, I installed dosemu on my Linux machine, so I could run older dos > games like doom and descent as well as work on dos c sources. > > > > -Chris > > Intelligencia Computer Consulting > > An open-source and computer help company > > http://icctechconsult.com/ > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:14 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user < > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 3:46 PM Daniel Essin via Freedos-user >> <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm following this list and find it very interesting. I found it when I >> > was trying to prepare myself to help a friend whose business in built >> > around a DOS app. It's clear that many/most/all? have access to other >> > computers and OSes. This would be obvious if only because one needs >> > access to the internet even if only to get this list. This has made me >> > curious. >> > >> > What are others using freedos for: business, curiosity, running retro >> > games and apps for fun, to avoid total dependence on the evil empire, or >> > something else? >> > >> >> >> Hi Dan >> >> We ran a survey several years ago, and then last year, to answer >> exactly that question: How are people using FreeDOS? >> >> Several years ago (around 2014?) we found people were running FreeDOS >> for 3 or 4 main use cases: >> >> 1. To play classic DOS games >> 2. To run legacy DOS applications >> 3. To support/develop embedded systems >> >> and sometimes 4. To install firmware updates on certain motherboards >> >> I recall that the legacy DOS software was often in a business setting, >> such as organizations that needed to retrieve information from an old >> DOS application. You discover that some data is locked up in some data >> files that are only accessible by the program that wrote the data. So >> you find the software (or download it if you don't have it), then >> install FreeDOS + the application, and "save as" the data to some >> format that you can use. >> >> We did this when I served as CIO for a university. One of the faculty >> found some old floppies with old research data. They wanted to get the >> data back (I think to write a paper that referenced the historical >> data). We installed FreeDOS on a spare PC that had a floppy drive, >> found the original program on a DOS apps archive site, installed that, >> and loaded the data. That program could also dump the data into a >> plain text file (similar to CSV) which the faculty researcher could >> load into a spreadsheet to do further analysis. >> >> More recently, we found that people were running FreeDOS for (mostly) >> 3 main uses: >> >> 1. To play classic DOS games >> 2. To run legacy DOS applications >> 3. To develop new DOS programs >> >> For #3, I think that mostly represented FreeDOS developers responding >> to the survey. >> >> The survey had a few outliers (we still see people who use FreeDOS to >> install firmware updates, for example) but in 2022, those were pretty >> low compared to the other 3 uses. >> >> >> Jim >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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