On the subject of freedos and dos-bases gui's in general did a bit of thinking here. Managed to come up with 3 ideas though I am not sure how useful they might be as I guess they aren't really "dos shells" to be precise. But anway;
Firstly ages ago there was an emulator called tosbox which is an atari ST emulator. It runs in dos but has two intresting features - firstly from what I remember it can access dos files directly (so they show up) but it also ran quickly on old hardware -- even an old pentium 75 could run it quickly. Though it does need an atari st rom file. Development has long since stopped but I found a copy of the emulator here -- http://www.zophar.net/atarist/tosbox.html Next one is a website I found which contains a "free" version of windows. But by "free" I am meaning that it is a demo version. It is also a very old version of windows, 3.0 . Other programs can run on it apparently but only by modifiying a programs' exe header/descriptor file (not sure how to do this) and inserting "DEMOAPP" in it someplace. Last one while I think of it and I guess it really isn't quite the right thing but there used to be an emulator (which again ran fairly quickly) called "executor" which could run old 68k mac apps. Though strangely it did not require the mac system disks, and neither did it need a mac rom image -! Unfortunatly executor has long since dropped off the internet as has the company ardi which created it (and I think the company is possibly defunct nowadays, not sure). Though I managed to dig up a dos version of executor and uploaded it here: http://slothpuck.no-ip.org/executor/dos/execdos.zip it will ask for a authentication key and serial number once run but looking through the wayback engine/internet archive I found a non-expiring key/ser. number here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120723153826/http://www.ardi.com/win_download.php apparently executor development (according to wikipedia) ended in 2005, and in 2008 became open source. Still have a few linux sources as well; http://slothpuck.no-ip.org/executor/linux/ (I did once try to compile these but with no luck). Thats all I can think of! ljones On 1/30/16, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> BTW, didn't Google Code kick the bucket? So it's no surprise you can't >> reach it. It's dead, Jim. >> >> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html >> >> "We will be shutting down the service about 10 months from now on >> January 25th, 2016." >> >> P.S. But maybe they are still archiving some of it ("read-only"??) for >> the near future: >> >> https://code.google.com/archive/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/ > > That's essentially what happened. The download link posted in Don > Flowers' last message is still valid, and you can access the files. > > The Sourceforge site in G. Potthast's message appears to be the > current repository for source, and seems to have copies of the > binaries as well. > ______ > Dennis > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- :) SP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
