Well, I'm not sure that I want to put anything quite like this on the FreeDOS roadmap. The effort involved in something like this is about the same as it is for ReactOS. And it isn't the basic Windows DLLs, but all the support DLLs that are necessary for applications to run properly. To be honest, we just don't have the developers needed to get something like this out in a reasonable time frame. Even if we started out with something like WINE, there still a very large effort needed to make it work on top of FreeDOS.
Now, if there's anyone out there who wants to prove me wrong, feel free. I'll be glad to give your effort a home in the FreeDOS project ;-) Pat On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Michael Robinson<plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > Most people find that they don't need Windows 3.x, but a lot of software > needs Windows 9x that won't work properly or at all in Windows NT and > it's variants XP/2000/Vista/7 etcetera. > > One example is Warcraft II Battle Net edition. A better example is Red > Alert Command and Conquer I. Wolfenstein 3D and Blake Stone don't work > properly in freedos needing either Windows 9x's version of DOS or > MS-DOS. > > I hear about people needing Windows 9x for Garmin GPS software and > Mapinfo. Well, Windows 98 second edition is fairly unstable. The > ME version of Windows is also unstable and the version of Dos under > it is kinda hokey I understand. Worse, 98SE is proprietary software > which you are supposed to have a license for. Never mind that these > days people tend to install 98SE under vmware and don't worry about > licensing. > > ReactOS is not a replacement for Windows on top of DOS, it is a > replacement for NT that may never become stable. I try to ask > what is going to get done in the next release or when XYZ is > going to get fixed and I get attacked. ReactOS is developing > very slowly, there are not enough developers. It could take > years to get to 0.5. There's no telling when 1.0 will come > out. > > So, how are efforts to replace Windows 9x coming along? Theoretically, > freedos could support an open source replacement. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
