DOS ain't dead

Aurora vs. others (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 27.05.2008, 03:42

> There's a new tip on http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Eknassen/aurora.html
> to register your copy of Aurora. This should be legally OK, because Jeff
> Wunderlich himself already provided a registration key back in 2006.

Yes, I was aware that it was closed src but freeware now. And I tried it back in the day (mid-90s??) and was quite impressed, but ended up using TDE 4.0 (public domain) instead (5.1v is my favorite nowadays). The major advantages seem to be 8086 compatibility, folding, unlimited undo, and small memory footprint when shelling out. And Trixter (8088 Corruption) dude likes it because of that. Otherwise, I think most of it has been reimplemented in various other FOSS editors (VIM, JED, FTE, TDE, SETEDIT, JASSPA MicroEmacs). See here for a list of DOS editors I think are useful.

Complete thread:

• Registering Aurora text editor - rr, 26.05.2008, 15:01 (Announce)
  • Aurora vs. others - Rugxulo, 27.05.2008, 03:42
    • Aurora vs. others - rr, 27.05.2008, 09:43
      • Aurora vs. others - marcov, 28.05.2008, 10:15
        • Aurora vs. others - Rugxulo, 28.05.2008, 11:34
          • Aurora vs. others - marcov, 28.05.2008, 13:20
            • Aurora vs. others - Rugxulo, 04.06.2008, 02:06
              • INFOPAD & Kinesics - DOS386, 04.06.2008, 03:02
                • INFOPAD & Kinesics - Steve, 04.06.2008, 03:29
                  • INFOPAD & Kinesics - DOS386, 06.06.2008, 00:43
                    • INFOPAD & Kinesics - Steve, 06.06.2008, 01:07
                      • INFOPAD & Kinesics - DOS386, 06.06.2008, 03:15
                        • INFOPAD & Kinesics - Steve, 06.06.2008, 05:58
                    • INFOPAD & Kinesics - rr, 06.06.2008, 09:44