Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Thomas, > There was, many years ago, a port of X Window from Unix to DOS, known > as X-Appeal. > > One could download a crippled version or pay $199 for the full, > working (?) version. > > I never tried it. Old versions of SuSE Linux came with some X server for DOS. However, that only allo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-19 Thread TJ Edmister
It would be interesting to see a command interpreter like freecom/command.com with some basic GUI elements added to it. A menu bar with mouse support, clock, scroll bar perhaps... Does something like this exist? I saw something similar on an Atari 800XL with a variant of SpartaDOS. At the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-19 Thread Don Flowers
"It would be interesting to see a command interpreter like freecom/command.com with some basic GUI elements added to it. A menu bar with mouse support, clock, scroll bar perhaps... Does something like this exist?" I have been testing an ansi enhancer called ansiplus. I have a Compaq Armada 1700 wi

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-19 Thread Bret Johnson
> It would be interesting to see a command interpreter like > freecom/command.com with some basic GUI elements added to it. A menu > bar with mouse support, clock, scroll bar perhaps... Does something > like this exist? There are some separate DOS utilities that provide most of these functions, t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI

2015-01-19 Thread Georg Potthast
There is a free XServer and Client for DOS: Nano-X which I ported to DOS: https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/ Since programming on the X11 level is not common today, you rather use GTK or Qt, I also ported the FLTK GUI to DOS. This GUI has far more features than a sing