Hi Andrew, > Mind - although I still have both 430CDS' in storage for uncompleted project > updates, I had to wave the white flag on productively using Puppy for kids > use, on those particular specs. What worked best in it was a 2GB sd-card with > FreeDOS 1.1 configured to boot up Ronald Blankendaal's "Access" most > excellent gui environment (He of DosBOXGameLauncher fame, here > http://members.quicknet.nl/blankendaalr/dbgl/). From there, my kids could > immediately access any one of dozens of top-rated classic DOS games I had > squirrelled away from a range of "abandonware" sites. For a 16MB edo-dram > laptop it would boot in about 11 seconds. *snap!* > My *intention* was to have imaged a distro-like "FreeDOS4Kids" that could be > copied to a flash card and via an ATA-adapter replacing the ancient HDD. By > using such an image route you could circumvent some native installation > issues (but probably replace them with other 'gotchas'). Life has overrun me > on that particular escapade however. > Thanks for the erudite first-hand histories in this thread guys - fascinating > reading, Cheers :)
Paul Blair once had a distro called FUZOMA: http://superkeen.com/peacecorpsweblog/?s=FUZOMA&k2dynamic=init The website seems a little broken, but downloads are still working. Cheers, Robert -- +++ BTTR Software +++ Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
