Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Robinson schreef: > Speaking of abandonware, all the Nintendo games for the original > 8 bit system fit that description now. Should anyone distribute > what is the definition of abandonware anyway? and why would it be legal if it did fit the description? to my knowledge Nintendo is u

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Robinson
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 22:59 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: > > Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal > > use is not illegal. Downloading old commercial software that isn't > > sold anymore which the author doesn't care about is not illegal. > > To be illegal, the owner

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Robinson schreef: > Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal > use is not illegal. Downloading old commercial software that isn't > I'm not even sure this is allowed. A lot of software was distributed on physical media, of which you were allowed to make a c

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Robinson
Speaking of abandonware, all the Nintendo games for the original 8 bit system fit that description now. Should anyone distribute an emulator to run the old games on PC's? Should anyone distribute instructions on how to get a rom image of an old game so a person can play it on his/her PC? Would

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Blair Campbell
> Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal > use is not illegal.  Downloading old commercial software that isn't > sold anymore which the author doesn't care about is not illegal. > To be illegal, the owner of the intellectual property has to raise > suit and why would th

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Robinson
> But just to say the last word about this thread: please avoid warez, > sources and links to any other illegal activities. > > Thanks. > Aitor Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal use is not illegal. Downloading old commercial software that isn't sold anymore wh

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2009/4/13 Michael Robinson : > know of.  Technically, if the author of a proprietary program > doesn't care about it anymore, sharing it isn't a legal problem. That is plain wrong. Many old games are back-to-life thanks to mobile phones, and it just evidences that the authors keep the copy

Re: [Freedos-user] New problems with Windows 3.1...

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Eric, was the "windows" (partial) support" ever ported to the stable kernel? (maybe that's why). Aitor 2009/4/12 Eric Auer : > > Hi, > >> Not workgroup. >> >> If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I >> have an unsupported dos version. >> >> If I try loading windows 3.1

Re: [Freedos-user] Compressed folders?

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Besides the idea is completely other (and not bad at all, if you ask me). Appart from realtime compression, I think you save a lot from the variable-sectors-per-cluster approach... (Just the reason why a file of 1 byte of size may get compressed on a 1:32 ratio ;) ). Aitor 2009/4/12 Eric Auer : >

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Eric, what I meant is: see how many people writes to us telling that the MS-DOS-style MENUing in CONFIG.SYS does not work in FreeDOS, so I guess we would be flooded with messages like: "I wrote with LFNs to a disk, and Windows no longer recognises the filenames, and has the FILE4~1.TXT form instead

Re: [Freedos-user] New Network Howto in FreeDOS Wiki

2009-04-18 Thread Ulrich Hansen
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[Freedos-user] Wireless Networking in FreeDOS Wiki

2009-04-18 Thread Ulrich Hansen
u want , i've written some suggestion for Wavelan (wlan) under dos and > arachne browser. > Dos drivers , text, utilities for wifi can also found at : > > www.perotti.ic.cz/wavelan/ > > Cheers > > Iw2evk roberto > __ Hinweis von ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Sig

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches

2009-04-18 Thread Christian Masloch
>>> If you're waiting for further improvements to 2038 before you release >>> 2038, then you're doing this wrong. [...] I'd strongly recommend >>> making 2038 available, and putting the "few pending improvements" in >>> 2039. >> The problem is that Eric holds back at least three necessary patches,