> being worked on, all it does is make people angry. > > Because you are unable to describe your problem in a way > understandable to other people ;-)
It's not that simple. Asking questions about when XYZ will work or what is being worked on raises people's ire because they can't give good answers, or so I'm told. The ReactOS newsletters stink, they are short leaving you with more questions than answers. There seems to be a shortage of dedicated developers for the ReactOS project and the problems the project is running into appear to be extremely difficult to solve ( meaning they will be time intensive ). Warcraft II BNE version 2.01A runs in Windows 9x and Windows XP. It was designed for 9x, which shows when you install it to XP and you have to be Administrator to play it. I would prefer to be able to play it under Freedos. I also have a program called Drivewire that allows my COCO 3 via the serial port to use my PCs hard drive like it's a disk drive. There's a Linux version, but the old machine I use is too slow for that and Linux doesn't support W2BNE without emulation of some kind ( processor intensive ). There is another program I like, Red Alert Command and Conquer Windows 95 edition, that only runs in Windows 9x. I would love to have a clone of Windows 9x handy that runs on top of Freedos so that I don't have to dual boot and I don't have to worry about licensing. I am not interested in a Windows 9x clone being MS-DOS compatible as I won't be running it on top of MS-DOS. Freedos should be better than MS-DOS where adding an MS-DOS compatible GUI might create a problem. I realize that a Windows 9x replacement for Freedos is a down the road sort of thing. I also hear people who complain that this is just DOS and not Windows. ReactOS is not useful at this point and even if it were it is not a DOS compatible replacement for Windows. There is a lot of DOS based Windows software that is orphaned because Microsoft switched everyone over to NT. The ReactOS project, originally called something else, was going to clone Windows 95. Asking for a clone of Windows 9x or 3.x is another way to make the ReactOS community extremely angry with you these days. Where is dos based Windows relevant? The ReactOS community doesn't want to discuss it. I naturally assumed that the Freedos community feels differently. Was I wrong? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
