The guy produced PIXEL dos by recompiling it as a dos program from a windows program as a demo. The demo was so very good that I offered him $500 to do a full dos version. He declined; said he doesn't do dos. He had a full version at one time, destroyed it because it was dos - not worth keeping.
DS On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 17:06:49 -0600 Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> > wrote: > > > > You might list dos payfor software, a link to it, price , > > and user rating. If people get paid there might be more > > activity in some types of sofware. I have a dos version > > of PIXEL, looks just like windows. My copy is crippled > > but I'd be happy to buy a full version if it every exists. > > Put some money into the pot and people might start > > writing high end stuff for dos which could make dos > > more popular. > > People won't pay. Even phone apps typically bottom out at $1 or $2 > because everyone expects them to be cheap or free. (Although most > apps > aren't worth using anyways. Too buggy, too limited, not > well-supported > on "older" devices.) And microtransactions (usually not necessary) > also pollute the pool. It's like the "bad old days" when every > crappy > util was shareware. We don't want to return to that. People are lazy > and greedy. We don't want to shame those who gave away their work > freely either. They will feel miffed if we suddenly decide to > endorse > a few developers. (And let's be honest, most of us aren't exactly > rich > anyways. There's only so much we can spare, and the cost of living > has > gone up tremendously in recent years. Greed kills.) > > Besides, nobody has the skills (anymore). The experts who used to > program DOS have forgotten everything or "moved on" to more modern > systems, where they can be lazy and not worry about 8.3 or limited > RAM > or small stack or similar restrictions. > > It's easy to say "money fixes everything", but it doesn't. Even with > Free tools and Free OSes and working makefiles, even then they can't > be bothered to support DOS/DJGPP/etc. Money won't change that. (And > don't forget that "professional" developers demand dozens of dollars > *per hour*! So don't expect a fully-developed, brand-new compiler > for > $10.) > > I'm not really trying to discourage anybody. You can *try*, but > don't > get your hopes up! (And don't encourage bad behavior like > you-know-who > driver dude, he's not worth one cent!). > > (Money is just trash, and time is always limited. Sorry, I'm too > cynical, it just doesn't work. We don't need laborious restrictions, > even if we do gain one or two utils. Is it so hard for people to use > Free tools? Apparently hard enough!) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ We Say Good Bye To Sally Fields iflperfecttouch.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5a00846f93cf546f7592st03duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
