Advice about win32 apps is fairly off-topic here. win32 apps that work on HX that work on FreeDOS doesn't really make this request more on-topic.
You can find a bit of info apps that work at https://www.japheth.de/HX.html https://pmwiki.xaver.me/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.HX-DOS#toc24 On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 1:14 PM Paul Edwards <mutazi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks. > > Freedos 1.3 RC5 is now good enough for my main need > which is to do development work using gccwin (similar > to mingw) to build Win32 executables. (making use of > HX too). > > I am now looking for Freedos to be a viable alternative > to Windows for the rest of the things I would like to do. > What I'm looking for is Win32 applications that run > under both Freedos+HX and Windows 10. In particular > I want: > > 1. Something to display JPEGs. Just one JPEG at a time > is fine. I actually have some software to do this already > (public domain C code), but although it works under > Win10, it produces garbage on Freedos + HX. > > 2. Something to play MP3s. > > 3. Something to play movies like MP4s. > > 4. Something to read and write text email - for this I would > like a Win32 console mode application using ANSI escape > sequences. Currently I have "msged" working for Fidonet > technology messages. > > 5. Something to send/receive email to gmail. I am expecting > this to be DOS-specific rather than a Win32 application, and > I am expecting to need to use ethernet instead of Wifi, as I > believe the ethernet spec is open but the Wifi spec is not. > > Does such software exist? If Win32 applications are not > available, I'm interested in DOS alternatives. > > Note that I have produced my own Freedos distribution if > anyone is interested. It is available at http://pdos.org > > Thanks. Paul. > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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