I certainly wouldn't release anything I wrote back then. My coding style at the time is best described as anarchist - you know, comments are for girls, and variables longer than two characters are a waste of disk space, things like that.
I did, however, write a windows application in 1996 that some people still use today, 28 years later. When I learned about that 3 years ago, it completely blew my mind. On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 17:19, Paul Dufresne <dufres...@zoho.com> wrote: > > ---- Le mer., 15 janv. 2025 08:10:55 -0500 Danilo Pecher a écrit ---- > > > To be honest, it looks like just another student project cobbled > > together while flunking math lessons. I've written at least two of > > those in the nineties and soon learned I was going nowhere. To be > > frank, we shouldn't try to bloat FreeDOS's software base, and instead > > concentrate on software that really adds value. > > I wish you had publicly released your nineties programs... > Me I was mostly: > 10 print "Hello!" > 20 goto 10 > > I tried it for about 40 mins on my real hardware and... > > I love it! > > The program does what it says... > > Tic-Tac-Toe, Icon Editor, Mine Sweeper, all does works. > Sadly I was not able to run command.com inside it. > > But you can add icons for your favorites programs... change the icon with one > you drawed, > move icons from one of the 5 desktops to the other, > > It correctly remember your changes from one execution to the other. > > I hardly see how you cannot see the added value for this! > > But indeed, VirtualBox mouse being so buggy as it is... I would really not be > surprised to have problem under VirtualBox. > I not tested it under VirtualBox yet. > But as the instructions says, you don't need a mouse to use it... tab allows > you to navigate between icons. > > And it is not perfect... in the first 2 mins, I had a runtime error... the > only time (maybe because I did not know how to use the program). > Also, when the DOS programs hang... you get out of Costa GUI. > _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
