Hello Everyone,
Recently, I noticed we had translations for a program that was not in the
online repositories. This caused me to to do some digging and I found out
something rather interesting.
Many years ago when FreeDOS 0.9 SR2 was released, it included several things we
seem to forgotten about. There are programs and drivers present that are not in
more modern releases. Some of these are were not in any of the repositories or
even the file archives on ibiblio. They were only on the CD itself.
One such item I noticed was the ATAPICDD driver. It might be nice to have an
alternate CD driver that might cover some additional hardware. So, I added to
that one to the repos. But, I don’t know much about this driver other than it
is open source. I don’t know if it will cover any hardware not currently
supported. I don’t know if it is rock solid or buggy. I don’t know if we should
include it in the release or not. I know very little about it.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-html/atapicdd.html
<https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-html/atapicdd.html>
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/drivers/atapicdd
<https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/drivers/atapicdd>
I’m going to try to find some time over the next few days to do some testing of
that driver. But, I’d appreciate any feedback on it the group has regarding it.
Does anyone remember anything about it?
I would assume that when it comes to old programs most things that have been
replaced or removed for good reason. But, this also raises an additional
question. Are there other programs that we may have included long ago that we
should re-examine now?
:-)
Jerome
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