[Freedos-user] which open source libraries work?

2009-06-15 Thread LM
Just wondering what Open Source libraries in the graphics/multimedia/audio areas anyone's had any luck getting to build and work with on FreeDOS? I read programs with SDL library work in some cases with HX Extender. Am assuming SDL doesn't build on its own in djgpp or a similar C/C++ compiler

Re: [Freedos-user] Documentation

2009-06-12 Thread LM
I noticed there's already a links page at the FreeDOS wiki (http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Links). However, the page is pretty full already and looks like it's more oriented to internal FreeDOS links and sites to get you started. If someone wanted to start a community links page (or maybe a links

Re: [Freedos-user] X for DOS

2009-06-10 Thread LM
Marco Antonio Achury Palma wrote: >Exist newer ports to X on DOS. > >Some times appear here people asking for a free win3.1 replacement. >Why not to have X Windows system for DOS? Would like to see an X Windows implementation for DOS if only to get some nice apps that will work on X Windows por

[Freedos-user] Documentation

2009-06-09 Thread LM
Have some general suggestions for documentation at the FreeDOS web site, mostly as a temporary measure until FreeDOS version 1.1. is released. I think, for new users like myself, it would be extremely helpful if there was a note on the download page (http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/) that

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-07 Thread LM
>> My favorite DOS programming editor >> (ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/editor/edwin15c.zip) >> fails and won't run. Has anyone been able to get edwin working on FreeDOS? Eric Auer wrote: >Please describe the failure in more detail. Tried with >minimal drivers, HIMEM or HIMEMX and nothing else? Tried

[Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-06 Thread LM
I've been tracking FreeDOS development on and off for years. I finally had an excuse to install FreeDOS on one of my computers when I found it didn't have enough memory to run many of the newer operating systems. I have a Sony PCG-F540 laptop 500 MHz with 64 MB RAM and a 6 Gig hard disk. It