On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 4:33 PM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:39 AM ZB <zbigniew2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home > > > > > > (see "Files Section") > > > > > > it seems it may be interesting to some > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:38 AM dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm the person who created and maintains that site. > > > > VDE is a clone of the WordStar editor and uses the WordStar command set, > > > > VDE's home page had been on the Short Stop DOS software site created > > by Steve Adelewitz. Steve died of a heart attack and Short Stop went > > off the air suddenly. VDE also had a mailing list hosted on the > > Topica site. Topica changed its business model and mailing lists went > > away. In cooperation with VDE author Eric Meyer and List Mommy Ben > > Cohen, I migrated the mailing list to a Google Group, and in > > cooperation with Eric created a new VDE home page. > [..] > > I'm curious if the source code to VDE has even been released. I don't > see any source code on the website, so I suspect the answer is no.
Correct. It has not been released, and won't be. Why should it? VDE is pure assembler, and IIRC, the assembler Eric used is no longer available. You would have challenges trying to build and extend it if you *had* the source. (And given the issues getting folks to update FreeDOS and other packages, who would actually try to do anything with the source? ASM programmers are something of an endangered species, because hardware is fast and cheap enough that you don't *have* to write in assembler to get needed performance.) In the early DOS days, VDE was a shareware product, along with editors like Qedit. These days it's copyrighted freeware. Use it and pass it along all you like, but you can't get the source. So VDE isn't something you might want to mirror on Ibiblio, but it *is* something people might find worth running under *DOS. > Jim ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
