[Freedos-user] To emulate or not to emulate...

2012-04-14 Thread Michael C. Robinson
I'm using a Freedos system on a play computer, a PIII coppermine system. I'm also multi booting Windows 98SE and Windows 2000. Question is, should I be multi booting or should I be emulating all of these OSes from a more powerful OS on a more powerful computer? For example, there is talk of wanti

Re: [Freedos-user] VMware - increase text fonts

2012-04-14 Thread STF
Without getting into too technie, but you have to know that FreeDos is just a guest O/S within a VM, so it's impossible to control the font as you want it to be. How the display is fitted to the real physical screen depends on the virtualization program -- in your case, it's VMware Player. Howeve

Re: [Freedos-user] Best GUIs for DOS

2012-04-14 Thread nospam
As Eric mentioned, FLTK is cross-platform, it can be used with Linux, Windows, Apple MAC plus my port for DOS. So if you develop applications with FLTK for DOS these can easily be ported to Linux, Windows and MAC. This will provide a larger user base for an application than if it would run on

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode support in languages

2012-04-14 Thread nospam
My FLTK/Xlib port supports Unicode and truetype fonts. This allows to use Unicode character sets with DJGPP. Georg http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/ -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In