I know GEM SHELL has something similar that we are talking
about.Also,windows 3.0 was a GUI shell for DOS,and it had its own
'applications' (Similiar to GEM).
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Maarten Vermeulen <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Okay, that maybe is something. The last option will maybe too difficult.
> But I don’t know that because I didn’t research, yet.
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> I will look for it.
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>
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> Thank you,
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> Maarten
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>
>
> *Van: *Eric Auer <[email protected]>
> *Verzonden: *donderdag 18 februari 2016 01:27
> *Aan: *Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers.
> <[email protected]>
> *Onderwerp: *[Freedos-devel] GUI shell - and ReactOS 0.4
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>
> Hi Maarten,
>
>
>
> whether you want to make a GUI shell depends on how happy
>
> you are with the existing solutions. Also, it depends on
>
> whether you mainly want to make a file manager (various,
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> at least free, sometimes open, solutions already exist)
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> or something where you can run graphical apps. Louis and
>
> Jim already sent some pointers about the latter. If you
>
> would invent a new GUI for apps, almost no apps would be
>
> available for it, so it would not be very interesting...
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>
>
> The same holds for Jose's suggestion to make resident GUI
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> toolkit driver: Most apps simply use existing libraries,
>
> so there is no need to invent something new. However, it
>
> could be interesting to port frameworks (as has been done
>
> for FLTK, maybe SDL) to DOS, making it easier to port apps.
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>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/files/
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>
>
> The current way to run SDL apps in DOS is to use HX RT:
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> SDL only uses a relatively small list of Win API calls.
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>
>
> You could also work on supporting a complete existing OS
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> with all apps - this is what HX DOS Extender (limited DOS
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> support for Windows apps), ReactOS and Wine are doing and
>
> supporting some of the OS/2 API might give fun as well.
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>
>
> Note that your GUI would have nothing to do with FreeDOS
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> in particular. It would simply be an generic DOS app :-)
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>
>
> Regards, Eric
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>
>
>
>
> PS: Related news: www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14646
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>
>
> On February 16, 2016, ReactOS 0.4.0 (alpha) was released.
>
>
>
> Changes: "A much requested feature for ReactOS was support for 16bit DOS
>
> applications. On Windows this support is provided by the NT Virtual DOS
>
> Machine (NTVDM) and the ReactOS implementation of it was first formally
>
> released in version 0.3.17. Needless to say since then the ReactOS NTVDM
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> has seen considerable improvement to the point where many of the testers
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> are sharing examples of old DOS games resurrected. And one of the
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> biggest advantages to the way in which NTVDM is implemented in ReactOS
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> is that support for it will continue on non IA-32 platforms, including
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> AMD64 and even ARM."
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>
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> Website: https://www.reactos.org/
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> Downloads: https://www.reactos.org/download
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