Hi Paul,
as you mention Nano-X and Turbo Vision, Georg Potthast has ported some apps to DOS using Nano-X and FLTK, with screenshots: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/ > https://sourceforge.net/p/fltk-dos/wiki/NanoX_Introduction/ > https://freedos-user.narkive.com/bIGRt11t/new-xfdos-freedos-distribution He also has written shareware USB drivers with USB 3.0 support: > http://georgpotthast.de/usb/ "DOSUSB" The unregistered version only works 20 minutes after you load it and you can load it only 5 times in one session. After each reboot, 5 times 20 minutes can be used again. He supports printers, serial ports and storage media. Turbo Vision has been released into the public domain by Borland when they did the same for the rest of their IDE: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision As you can imagine, it looks like your Turbo Pascal and Turbo C IDE looked like. Colored text, frames, menus etc. As only the C version became open source, Free Pascal has made a Free Vision clone for those who prefer Pascal. For comparison, Nano X and FLTK apps look pretty much like your usual GRAPHICAL apps known from Windows or Linux, of course with a bit of a retro look given the very lightweight approach of the building blocks. License: LGPL for FLTK and MPL and GPL for Nano-X see the FAQ on their website: > http://www.microwindows.org/ Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
