On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 5:53 PM Danilo Pecher < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Eric, > > The ReactOS/Wine combo was what got me thinking in the first place. > ReactOS was from the start meant to replicate WIndows NT though, which > isn't quite what I had in mind, as that isn't quite the 16 bit world > in which FreeDOS exists. Wine would be a starting point, as that > definitely has 16 bit remnants, like WING. Back many moons ago I used > some of that source to port Microprose's Grand Prix manager to SDL > under Linux. > > My idea was more along the line of rebuilding Windows 3.11, Best > windows ever, even if Jim will probably disagree ;) > > Well, I'm not a Windows 3.x fan, but that doesn't mean others aren't. :-) The challenge we've had is lots of developers have wanted to create a GUI for FreeDOS, but then they get halfway through building one before they realize it's a lot of work. And then the project gets dropped. That leaves us with things like SEAL and oZone that look cool - until you look more closely and find a bunch of features that don't work. Or it hogs memory. Or whatever. And that brings us to the conversation we started here some weeks ago about removing some stale packages, like SEAL and oZone. I don't want to get into another situation like that. But a Win16 implementation for FreeDOS would be interesting. I wouldn't say No. If you are interested in tackling this, go ahead. Announce new releases here on freedos-devel. If it runs on FreeDOS, I'll gladly repeat the announcement on our Twitter and on the website. (There's no "set in stone" rule for what gets posted as a news item on the website vs what only gets mentioned on Twitter - but generally, I'll announce anything on Twitter if it's open source. If the project looks like it is being consistently updated, and thus not likely to disappear, then I'll also announce it on the website. I also try to share news items on our Facebook group too.) Jim
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