Well, in extremis you could go down the ReactOS route and reverse engineer Windows 3. But I doubt you'd be doing it for much more than shits and giggles. There's simply no demand for something like that. FreeDOS itself is a niche product to begin with.
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 at 19:23, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 at 18:09, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > This is not about "something with graphics and mouse". > > > > It's like FreeDOS vs. MSDOS: it's only DOS if it executes Norton Commander. > > > > And it's only Windows if it executes MS Word and a bazillion windows games. > > I think you misinterpret me. > > I think there is basically zero chance MS will make Windows 1, 2 or 3 FOSS. > > (I suspect it's ashamed of the code, if it still has it at all. FOSS > MS-DOS 4 only happened because an external 3rd party found the code.) > > As such there is no prospect of the real thing in FreeDOS. > > So I took the stipulated suggestion of DV/X _or_ Win3 to mean > _something broadly functionally equivalent_. > > Something with: > > [_] windowing, including of existing DOS apps; > [_] with a GUI; > [_] with some of its own apps; > [_] with the ability to run others; > [_] something with some form of multitasking on top of plain unmodified > FreeDOS. > > As far as I know, PC GEOS ticks all of those boxes. I know of nothing > else that does. GEM comes closest and at best it can tick 3 of them. > > > -- > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven > IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 > Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
