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DR-DOS 8.1 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 22.11.2007, 12:23
(edited by Rugxulo on 22.11.2007, 13:07)

> > DR-DOS 8.1 kernel is patched Udo`s EDR-DOS 7.1.0.6 with collect of old
> > utilities from others authors? The DR-DOS breaks GPL-d licence.
> > David
>
> Hm. I expected more. Then hail to
> http://www.vetusware.com pirates to
> make it free againg, hehe :-D

Just a quick look at the Vetusware site shows a lot of old (!) commercial apps as well as some (mostly outdated) freeware. In particular, though, I wonder why anybody would want the following instead of better alternatives:

TASM            (LZASM, FASM, NASM, OCTASM)
SMARTDRV        (UIDE, LBACACHE)
A86             (WASM, ArrowASM, OpenWatcom's WASM)
ACROREAD        (XPDF, DOSPDF)
NEOPAINT        (VGAPaint/386)
ASIC            (FreeBASIC, Moonrock, BASM286)
AUTOCAD         (DESICAD?)
AZTEC C         (OpenWatcom, Dev86DOS, Turbo C, DJGPP, CC386)
BATTLECHESS     (Rose's Chess, Ken's Chess, Chenard, Minimax)
BLOOD           (Ken's Labyrinth)
BC++            (see "Aztec C" above)
BRIEF           (VIM, VILE, JASSPA, TDE, FED, FTE)
COMMANDER KEEN  (Jetpack, Alien Carnage)
DR. SOLOMON     (F-PROT, RHBVS, older compile of CLAMSCAN)
DR WEB SPYDER   (latest Arachne or DOS-Lynx)
MS F77          (GNU/DJGPP G77)
FreeDOS B9RC3   (uh ... my updated mini distro? anyone??)
GW-BASIC        (BWBASIC, SmallBASIC, UBASIC)
IBM DOS 1.1     (anything from /dev/random, actually, heh)
IDA Pro 4.5     (freeware version??, BIEW)
King's Quest    (Lure of the Temptress)
LSICQ           (again, anything from /dev/random since this no longer works)
Linux 0.99      (also DOS-MINIX? ELKS boot image? NetBSD? OctaOS?)
MASM            (OpenWatcom's WASM)
NORTON CMNDR    (DOSZip, DC-SK)
Personal C      (Desmet C)
PKUNZIP         (Info-Zip, p7zip)
QEMM            (JEMM386)
Raptor          (Major Stryker)
Spear of Dest.  (dunno, NetHack:SMASH 'EM ???)
SYMDEB          (GRDB, OpenWatcom's WD, 386SWAT)
TopSpeed M2     (FST 4.0 Modula 2)
Zortech C       (Digital Mars w/ HXRT or stubbed by WDOSX?)


Granted, if any original copyright holders want to make this stuff free, be my guest! Otherwise, I'm sticking to freeware. (I'm sure Steve knows of a bunch of stuff I'm forgetting, too.)

 

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