Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
> On Jun 30, 2024, at 7:35 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user > wrote: > >  > Hi Jim, > > *Installer* > >> the installer tries to do everything for you; the user should >> just be able to respond to prompts. > > I basically wonder about something like a third choice, next to > "auto-fdisk & au

Re: [Freedos-user] DOG version 0.8.4b released

2024-06-30 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-user
Hi, On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 9:45 AM Anton Shepelev via Freedos-user wrote: > > P.S.: As one who writes and maintains some complicated .bat- > files, I wish DOG were available for Windows, too. I > am not into Powershell at all at all. I know PowerShell is default now (written in C#,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Jim, *Installer* the installer tries to do everything for you; the user should just be able to respond to prompts. I basically wonder about something like a third choice, next to "auto-fdisk & auto-format" and "exit to DOS", which lets the user run FDISK interactively and then returns to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
Jim Hall wrote: > > Join us today for the VCF Live Stream, hosted by Jeff Brace from the > > Vintage Computer Federation. Jerome Shidel wrote: > I was tied up (figuratively). So, I missed the first couple minutes. > > I was thinking it was going to be another interview. > > I just found it a littl

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
Eric Auer wrote: [..] > Interesting that MS Word for DOS looks a bit like EDIT, but > with char style highlighting and a graphical preview :-D Yes, it's probably not surprising that the company that made MS-DOS Edit and Word for DOS would make them look a bit similar. I used Microsoft QuickC in th

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
Hi Jim, > On Jun 29, 2024, at 5:03 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Join us today for the VCF Live Stream, hosted by Jeff Brace from the > Vintage Computer Federation. > I was tied up (figuratively). So, I missed the first couple minutes. I was thinking it was going to be another

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Jim and VCF, thank you for sharing the stream on > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peIYEAM9pk > > Of course, I have some thoughts about it: > > Earlier in the video, when you present some spreadsheets > and word processors, there is a point where you show the > Windows 3

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
Eric Auer wrote: [..] > Unfortunately, the rolling monthly release apparently > uses very OLD FreeDOS core components: > > A 2021 kernel with a copyright message saying 1995-2012 > and a 2021 shell version 0.85a :-( [...] > Remember that Jeremy first posted in 2021-07-26 about his proof > of concep

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
Eric, > On Jun 30, 2024, at 5:33 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user > wrote: > […] > > Unfortunately, the rolling monthly release apparently > uses very OLD FreeDOS core components: > > A 2021 kernel with a copyright message saying 1995-2012 > and a 2021 shell version 0.85a :-( What? Those are

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Jim and VCF, thank you for sharing the stream on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peIYEAM9pk Of course, I have some thoughts about it: Earlier in the video, when you present some spreadsheets and word processors, there is a point where you show the Windows 3 about screen and it mentions

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi and a belated happy 30th birthday FreeDOS! If using freedos exclusively, what tools would allow you to attend this event? As Jim mentioned accessibility (although in another context) it would indeed be a good question whether for example the audio could be provided as a non-https download

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Angel M Alganza via Freedos-user
On 2024-06-30 00:37, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote: If using freedos exclusively, what tools would allow you to attend this event? It could be downloaded with a browser using an Invidious link (either the audio, the video, or both) and later reproduced using a media player. Has mpla