[...] >> I'd love to see this as a feature added to FreeDOS one day. > There's always vmix, it's pretty good, and actually does true > multitasking. Last I saw, it was trying to become an os in it's own > right, where it could be used as a dos replacement. I don't think > this got very far, but if I recall correctly, it is on sourceforge, > or something similar. > That program worked so well, my screen reader would read all the > active windows simultaneously, which really reaked havoc with > understanding what was going on, but it did work, and worked very > well. :) > Perhaps freedos could talk to the vmix folks, and ask them to release > code to the 2.67 version, so we could include it into freedos as it's > own shell, or something similar (or was the latest 2.87, I forget) > It may be worth a try though.
I remember using VMiX, long ago. I don't recall having much success with it at the time, and it ran really slow on my '386. Might have been 1992 or 1993, something like that, before I started experimenting with Linux. Rugxulo found the link (http://www.sysdev.org/). They aren't on SourceForge, it seems they are "shareware" instead. However, VMiX might be worth looking into again. They do multitasking on DOS ... anyone here tried it with FreeDOS? I'll have to give it a go with FreeDOS on bare metal, since a VM would probably not run well (but they do say it supports DOS in Linux DOSEmu.) I'll email the developer and see if he'd be willing to release the code under an open source license. Their last release was 2007, so either the project went stale, or died completely. Might be willing to go open source. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
