Seal is not in the distro because there are very few useful programs written for it, and it in my experience is highly unstable compared to GEM or even FloX's OzoneGUI (which both have much better file managers than SEAL imho as well).
On 12/21/06, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Blair, Markku, > there is a simple solution for your problem: > Add the games to the DOS GAMES distro on > bootablecd.de :-) That distro contains both > open and closed source games. The "normal" > FreeDOS distro focuses more on non-game > categories anyway. By the way, yesterday we > found out that the SEAL desktop works in > DOSEMU only at 8- and (if you have 24- or > 32-bit colors in X) 32-bit colors but not > usually at the default 16-bit... Two things > to be learned from this: 1. It works while > it does not work at first glance and 2. why > is there no SEAL in our distro? Its 2 MB. > > Eric > > > In if-archive there are also open-source games not included, eg. Adventure > > (precedessor of Zork 1-3), Colossal Cave, etc. Also many text adventure > > development systems like TADS, Inform, Hugo, Agility/Magx etc are > > open-source and compiled under DOS. > > in /ifarchive/games/source and /if-archive/programming > > is a lot of open-source projects. > ... > >> Nethack is already in FreeDOS 1.0. Also, I prefer not to include > >> shareware/free-closed-source games, but to promote open-source DOS > >> games in the distro instead. Nethack is open-source. > ... > >>> I wonder nobody has suggested text adventures as one of FreeDOS games. > >>> There is good place http://www.ifarchive.org > ... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
