DOS ain't dead - DR-DOS 8.1

DR-DOS 8.1 (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 22.11.2007, 11:44

> Not to say Vista sucks, but ...

I say it sucks. But I don't force it to vista users it doesn't have any effect.

> 1). No full-screen CMD prompt at all!
> 2). 32 MB DPMI limit
> 3). Weird bugs (no symlink support for DOS apps, duped entries in root dir
> via DOS findfirst function).

And I read about limitation of running VESA graphics because some crippled WDDM display drivers. But be kind to this poor NTVDM because Vista 64 doesn't have any (or have?)

> Vista does some things well (eh, ACPI? Multitasking? GUI?), but DOS
> compatibility ain't one of 'em. And it surely can't be that hard to

XP also does it well. Fot me there's no advantage on vista I can't get in XP. I'm not HC gamer of latest games so I don't need DX10. Vista eats more RAM, CPU and lot of HDD space with some garbage I would never use and immediatelly replace it by 3rd party's SW. The problem will rise when a lot of new apps (which I'll need for work such as OrCAD) will run Vista only, then I'll be forced to upgrade but no earlier. Keeping resist :)

> Oh well, whatever, people still like DJGPP, old DOS games, MPXPLAY, so
> they still download FreeDOS. As long as I'm still alive, I've got plenty
> of things/projects/ideas for free DOS stuff to work on (as well as bug
> reports, heh, since I'm not that great a coder).

Fully agree. I'll too will keep to write my DOS SW (with advantage of DJGPP triyng make it source-portable for compiling also under MinGW and Linux version if possible).

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

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Complete thread:

DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 21.11.2007, 18:02 (Announce)
- DR-DOS 8.1 - Laaca, 21.11.2007, 18:55
  - DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 21.11.2007, 19:13
    - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 12:50
- DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 00:50
  - DR-DOS 8.1 - david, 22.11.2007, 08:33
    - DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 10:14
      - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 10:41
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 11:17
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 11:23
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 11:44
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 12:28
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 12:54
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 13:05
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 16:39
        Vista - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 17:32
        Vista - Steve, 22.11.2007, 17:59
        Vista - sol, 22.11.2007, 18:11
        Vista - Steve, 22.11.2007, 19:06
        Vista - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 18:12
        Vista - sol, 22.11.2007, 19:43
        Vista - sol, 22.11.2007, 20:01
        Vista - sol, 22.11.2007, 20:37
        Vista - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 21:31
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 13:23
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 13:26
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 13:31
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 14:02
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 14:49
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 14:59
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 15:12
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Laaca, 22.11.2007, 15:24
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 15:55
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 13:37
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 15:07
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 15:43
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 16:26
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 17:13
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - Steve, 22.11.2007, 17:18
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 17:18
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - Steve, 22.11.2007, 16:28
        Vista's pre-SP1 (in)compatibility - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 17:19
        Vista's pre-SP1 DOS (in)compatibility - flox, 22.11.2007, 17:00
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 12:39
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 13:06
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 13:18
      - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 12:23
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 12:29
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Steve, 22.11.2007, 14:42
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 26.11.2007, 20:20
        DR-DOS 8.1 - DOS386, 12.12.2007, 02:09
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 16:58
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 22.11.2007, 20:51
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 21:16
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 23.11.2007, 02:06
        DR-DOS 8.1 - rr, 23.11.2007, 09:27
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 24.11.2007, 14:33
        UIDE caches even disks for which it doesn't do UDMA - lucho, 24.11.2007, 09:09
        UIDE caches even disks for which it doesn't do UDMA - RayeR, 24.11.2007, 17:39
- DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 10:13
  - DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 10:27
    - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 10:53
      - DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 11:31
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 12:36
        DR-DOS 8.1 - RayeR, 22.11.2007, 17:11
    - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 11:19
      - DR-DOS 8.1 - flox, 22.11.2007, 15:37
        TriDOS -- DPMI bug? - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 16:20
        TriDOS -- DPMI bug? - flox, 22.11.2007, 17:02
        DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 26.11.2007, 20:24
    - DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 26.11.2007, 20:23
      - DR-DOS 8.1 - jaybur, 27.11.2007, 02:12
- DR-DOS 8.1 - Rugxulo, 22.11.2007, 13:45
- DR-DOS 8.1 piracy :-( - DOS386, 12.12.2007, 02:00
  - DOS -- single-tasking? - Rugxulo, 12.12.2007, 18:26
    - DOS -- single-tasking? - Steve, 14.12.2007, 06:06
      - DOS -- single-tasking? - Rugxulo, 14.12.2007, 08:24
      - DOS -- single-tasking? - DOS386, 15.12.2007, 18:59
        DOS -- single-tasking? - Rugxulo, 16.12.2007, 00:44