yes of course. Well aware.
It would be funny to see Microsoft Sue someone for a 30 year old os shell
though. Lol.
On Tue, 11 June 2024, 9:43 am Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel, <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2024, Chelson a via Freedos-devel wrote:
>
> > Yes ob
No, win11 is not what I'm suggesting. Far from it.
Im talking about the recently leaked 3.x code as a reference to start an
opensource version of the Windows 3.1 shell.
I played around with the react os code about 15 years ago to test out what
the cmd was capable of doing for running dos applicat
> Are you sure it would be easier?
For the most part. You really only need 286 Standard Mode for basic
"completeness". Obviously 386 Enhanced Mode is needed too, but not entirely
required (what about contemporaneous users of Windows 3.1 that only had a
286?)
> Especially reimplementing Win 3.1 en
On Tue, 11 Jun 2024, Chelson a via Freedos-devel wrote:
Yes obviously the legal side of things prevents using that code, it's also
a good reference of how it all works and you could build from scratch.
Do that and you'll be sued into the ground faster than you can say
"Chinese wall".
-uso.
Yes obviously the legal side of things prevents using that code, it's also
a good reference of how it all works and you could build from scratch.
If you just want to make programs just use visual basic like I did back in
the day to make new programs.. Quite limited by today's standards.
Or take t
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 6:06 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Looking around on the ibiblio and my server:
>
> There is a version that has a timestamp from 2019 in the ibiblio mirrored
> files
>
> Then later, Jim found it as well in 2019 and mirrored it to ibiblio.
Actually, th
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 5:14 PM Richard Stoltenberg via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Just some notes; updates. People might want to stick to the pdfs if they need
> bigger font.
> LibreOffice may be able to save as html. Got the C Language book from Lulu
> on Monday 3rd June.
I forgot that eve
