I forgot the link to the "free" windows 3.0 (which so I read was also once a magazine coverdisk demo version) ----> https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-3/30-testdrive
ljones On 2/1/16, lee jones <slothp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On the subject of freedos and dos-bases gui's in general did a bit of > thinking here. Managed to come up with 3 ideas though I am not sure > how useful they might be as I guess they aren't really "dos shells" to > be precise. But anway; > > Firstly ages ago there was an emulator called tosbox which is an atari > ST emulator. It runs in dos but has two intresting features - firstly > from what I remember it can access dos files directly (so they show > up) but it also ran quickly on old hardware -- even an old pentium 75 > could run it quickly. Though it does need an atari st rom file. > Development has long since stopped but I found a copy of the emulator > here -- > > http://www.zophar.net/atarist/tosbox.html > > Next one is a website I found which contains a "free" version of > windows. But by "free" I am meaning that it is a demo version. It is > also a very old version of windows, 3.0 . Other programs can run on it > apparently but only by modifiying a programs' exe header/descriptor > file (not sure how to do this) and inserting "DEMOAPP" in it > someplace. > > Last one while I think of it and I guess it really isn't quite the > right thing but there used to be an emulator (which again ran fairly > quickly) called "executor" which could run old 68k mac apps. Though > strangely it did not require the mac system disks, and neither did it > need a mac rom image -! > > Unfortunatly executor has long since dropped off the internet as has > the company ardi which created it (and I think the company is possibly > defunct nowadays, not sure). Though I managed to dig up a dos version > of executor and uploaded it here: > > http://slothpuck.no-ip.org/executor/dos/execdos.zip > > it will ask for a authentication key and serial number once run but > looking through the wayback engine/internet archive I found a > non-expiring key/ser. number here: > > https://web.archive.org/web/20120723153826/http://www.ardi.com/win_download.php > > apparently executor development (according to wikipedia) ended in > 2005, and in 2008 became open source. Still have a few linux sources > as well; > > http://slothpuck.no-ip.org/executor/linux/ > > (I did once try to compile these but with no luck). > > Thats all I can think of! > > ljones > > On 1/30/16, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> BTW, didn't Google Code kick the bucket? So it's no surprise you can't >>> reach it. It's dead, Jim. >>> >>> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html >>> >>> "We will be shutting down the service about 10 months from now on >>> January 25th, 2016." >>> >>> P.S. But maybe they are still archiving some of it ("read-only"??) for >>> the near future: >>> >>> https://code.google.com/archive/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/ >> >> That's essentially what happened. The download link posted in Don >> Flowers' last message is still valid, and you can access the files. >> >> The Sourceforge site in G. Potthast's message appears to be the >> current repository for source, and seems to have copies of the >> binaries as well. >> ______ >> Dennis >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance >> APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month >> Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now >> Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > > > -- > :) > > SP > -- :) SP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
