> I know about ReactOS, ReactOS is garbage right now. It will probably be > garbage for 2-3 more years.
Realistically, writing a Windows 9x replacement for FreeDOS would take years, probably more than 2 or 3 because developers are hard to find and it's a huge project, probably (correct me if I'm wrong) even more challenging than writing a dos kernel. And FreeDOS's kernel has been in development for much longer than 2 or 3 years and still isn't 100% compatible to MS-DOS. I would recomment simply waiting for or helping out with ReactOS if you're interested in open-source Windows replacements. > There is no reason for an MSDOS Windows replacement to be MSDOS > compatible. Freedos doesn't > need to be munged to do those things that MS-DOS did that don't make sense. > > As far as Linux and Wine, Warcraft II BNE does not work under wine. If > I had the dos version, I could > use dosbox or freedos. Wine is not much better than ReactOS at > supporting Windows progams. Under > Wine, I have never gotten sound for example. On a less than 1 Ghz > machine, who wants to run Wine? > > Need I remind people, you cannot legally run MS-DOS anymore. It's not > something you can legally > install to a system that never had MS-DOS. MS-DOS is not freeware, > that's why Freedos exists > after all. > > I've tried to talk to the ReactOS community to find out when this or > that will be fixed or what is currently > being worked on, all it does is make people angry. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
