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anyDOS Enhancement Project (Announce)

posted by lproven  , Prague, Czechia, 16.11.2017, 16:49

Thanks for the reply!

> may I suggest FreeDOS for this effort, as FreeDOS may be distributed, and
> should perform essentially identical.

I know about FreeDOS, yes, but I am not a big fan. I find it more interesting, and more fun, to use the authentic 1980s code. That is the retrocomputing angle.

I also hope to get some more interesting stuff running on top, such as DESQview, GEOS, DR-DOS Task Manager and so on, and I do not trust 100% compatibility in FreeDOS.

Secondly, bootable FreeDOS USB images already exist.

> RUFUS https://rufus.akeo.ie/ might help
> you as a starting point to get a bootable USB stick with a tiny FreeDOS
> configuration.

You appear to assume I am working on Windows. I am not.

Main dev platforms here are Ubuntu and Mac OS X.

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Complete thread:

• DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 16.11.2017, 13:21
  • anyDOS Enhancement Project - tom, 16.11.2017, 15:58
    • anyDOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 16.11.2017, 16:49
      • anyDOS Enhancement Project - Rugxulo, 17.11.2017, 01:24
  • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - roytam, 17.11.2017, 00:20
    • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 17.11.2017, 00:49
      • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 08.12.2017, 23:33
        • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - Rugxulo, 09.12.2017, 18:29
          • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 09.12.2017, 18:54
            • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 09.12.2017, 20:25
            • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - Rugxulo, 09.12.2017, 20:42
              • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - RayeR, 17.12.2017, 04:23
            • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - RayeR, 17.12.2017, 04:26
              • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 17.12.2017, 16:00
                • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - RayeR, 18.12.2017, 00:26