On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:59 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: [..] > Not sure what you mean by embedded apps for DOS, but as > the tile linking there mentions Linux, this might be a > good place to discuss the ins and outs of dosemu2, qemu, > dosemu1, dosbox and other ways to run DOS on modern OS: > > While some use old DOS apps because they need them to > control old hardware, others would be happy to move > towards more modern hardware while still sticking to > their old DOS apps. Linux as a wrapper can help both > in a variety of (but not all) cases.
The three "infobox" tiles (Games, Legacy apps, Embedded systems) come from a survey I ran several years ago, to ask how people use FreeDOS. People responded that they use FreeDOS for three main things: 1. Playing classic DOS games 2. Running legacy DOS applications (such as for business, or for fun) 3. Developing for an embedded system However, I think I ran that survey in 2015. And five years is a long time. I don't know how many people use DOS these days to run an embedded system (when I served as CIO in government, I retired our last DOS embedded system in 2019 - and government is often the last to retire such things. So it might not be useful to mention "embedded systems" on the updated site. I might remove the "Embedded" infobox or replace it with something else. > > The "apps" page should probably link to the LSM list > and the files archive, as it only presents a few nice > examples, so it asks for links to "all the rest", too. > > Regarding the "games" page, I do not understand how > that would make the links collection page obsolete? > My goal is to remove the "Links" page entirely by moving that content into other, more readily accessed pages on the website. A "Links" page is the equivalent of a "Misc" page - it's not really anything. The current "Links" page has these groups of links: -PC Emulators -Games -Utilities -Programming -Networking -Technical Information -Power Tools Most of these links will instead go into the other "About" pages - for example, the "Games" links will go into the "Games" page, and the "PC Emulators" links will go into the "Download" pages. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
