There was a book about word processing that maybe offers some
references or interesting interviewees: "Track Changes: A Literary
History of Word Processing" by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, published by
Harvard University press:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/30/track-changes-a-literary-hist
I came across a "Web 1.0 hosting" provider who is also offering
webmail (the login page looks like SquirrelMail?):
https://web1.0hosting.net/
https://mail.w10.host/src/login.php
Who knows for how long this provider manages to survive, but it is a
great initiative. (Edit: Whoa, according to the web
Thanks for putting the manual online. I was not aware of DOG, but got
curious already when you presented an earlier version update in this
list some time ago.
I like how all the commands consist of only two letters. Might be a
personal preference (of my particular brain :), but somehow this works
Tangentially related, but a system called lEET/OS has been linked here
and there recently: "a graphical shell and partially posix-compliant
multitasking operating environment that runs on top of a DOS kernel.
/.../ lEEt/OS is slowly but surely migrating from FreeDOS to ST-DOS,
its own DOS kernel."
> I know it might sound kind of anti-progressive or even silly, to argue with
> »slowing down« things. »Multi Tasking« is (was?) a lie. It isn’t real for us
> humans in a good sense. Single user, single task - in 2024!>
Definitely echoing this idea (not quite sure about the "lie" part,
though :)
A "distraction free" writing environment was probably one of the
reasons I tested out FreeDOS at one point. I think it must also be the
fastest-booting distraction-free system of its kind these days? Even
as compared to some bare-bones ram-booted Linux like my beloved Tiny
Core [1]. It literally ta
Hi,
On 22/11/2023, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
wrote:
> Does anybody here have experience with using a squirrelmail
> or roundcoube webmail in links? Might need less java script
> compared to gmail to use those, and one could forward the
> gmail mail to a mail provider with squirrelmail or roundcu
On 01/11/2023, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> It should be possible to use MPXPLAY to get DOS sound
> with modern hardware: https://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/
I can confirm that MPXPLAY may work out of the box with Intel HDA.
Tested on a Dell Mini 9, which has the Realtek ALC268 card.
Played
Just for reference, I'll share some of my bookmarks.
I'm just a shy hobbyist, not an engineer whatsoever, but I've been
interested in fanless, small form factor DOS computing solutions for
quite a while.
No idea if any of these are actually in production; feels like some
might be. If not, maybe so
On 30/01/2023, Jim Hall wrote:
> SAM is a window-based editor, so it uses graphics mode. To me, this
> looks a lot like the window editor on the Apollo/DOMAIN system - I
> managed a small Apollo/DOMAIN network in the mid 1990s. You can find a
> screenshot of SAM on Wikipedia:
> https://en.wikipedi
If I manage to build the command line mode of Rob Pike's sam editor
[1] for DOS, I could probably do a writeup on how to use it. Because
of the so-called structural regular expressions [2, 3], it is a really
interesting editor. Excellent for processing arbitrary strings that
spawn across multiple l
the day; sorry!
Mart
On 10/12/2022, Mart Zirnask wrote:
> Hi,
> I found a reference to EDL.COM, a "ascii assembler line processing
> utility by Herbert Kleebauer":
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/25986762
>
> I would like to try it out (on SvarDOS). Is it still available
Hi,
I found a reference to EDL.COM, a "ascii assembler line processing
utility by Herbert Kleebauer":
https://stackoverflow.com/a/25986762
I would like to try it out (on SvarDOS). Is it still available
somewhere for downloading?
Thanks and best,
Mart
Hi, just something I noticed on Hacker News -- a tiny retro computer,
apparently with integrated Sound Blaster Pro-compatible audio. FreeDOS
installation instructions included:
https://github.com/eivindbohler/tinyllama
Best,
Mart
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Not sure about the keyboard part, but there was also Sound Club, an
early 90s sound editor by Skype founders Jaan Tallinn and Ahti Heinla:
http://bluemoon.ee/history/scdos/index.html
Some music made with Sound Club:
http://digitiger.byethost7.com/sclub.htm?i=1
Some more details -- apparently it d
Hi, I am not the author, but an interesting project came up on Hacker News:
https://mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/dos-like
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28803911
>From the landing page: "Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel,
but for modern platforms. Includes a bunch of examples of class
Hi everybody,
Wow, thanks for such an active and thoughtful discussion!
I will share my motivations (the "why?" part) later. However, I think
I should stress that I was actually thinking of porting **only the CLI
/ line editor part** of Sam. The GUI, while being really enjoyable to
use, doesn't se
Hello,
I'm a new subscriber, not a programmer, but interested in lean systems
-- and also a person with a DOS-y childhood. Now I'm getting to know
FreeDOS, reading the mailing list archives. It is wonderful to find
such a lively community around an "old" system (as in, it being a
MS-DOS derivate)
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