Notices by The FreeDOS Project (freedosproject@fosstodon.org), page 2

Not my video, but ah - love that sound!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgxrLMmyGhw

♥

I just learned about the DOS COM Game Jam, which opened a few days ago. Runs thorugh Sept 29.

https://itch.io/jam/dos-com-game-jam

→ Write a casual DOS game as a DOS .COM program. 👾 🎲 🎮

Two people asked me recently about graphics on DOS. Here's how to do 256-color graphics with an OpenWatcom C program:

https://youtu.be/0wf-KqsOfnE?feature=shared

@vrruiz @dhouard That's my preferred way too. I shut down the virtual machine then transfer files by mounting the image

https://www.freedos.org/books/get-started/24-guestmount-freedos/

https://opensource.com/article/21/6/copy-files-linux-freedos

@dhouard There are a few ways to transfer files. One way is VBADOS if you use #virtualbox
https://git.javispedro.com/cgit/vbados.git/about/

https://youtu.be/2W6fHooKRB0

Someone asked me online if it's possible to install other DOS applications without using FDIMPLES - like, can you install Borland TurboC.

And the answer is yes, of course you can! FreeDOS is just DOS, so you can install any DOS application the usual DOS way.

The FreeDOS virtual get-together is happening now for the next hour (11am-noon US/Central). This month's meeting is focused on technical issues - debugging, programming, and other tech topics.

The meeting is on BlueJeans: use this link to connect:

https://bluejeans.com/909315200/0433

@freedosproject Oh interesting. The version I had definitely didn’t have that limitation. I used it for years. When I’m back at my computer I’ll try to track down the particular version I had.

@withaveeay Maybe not, though. Chip (@bytex64) found older copies of Galaxy that look to be inspired by Wordstar. Maybe these versions used WS key bindings?

@bytex64 What a great find! 👍

@bytex64 I should be clear: I'm seeing that limitation because I'm running the unregistered shareware copy. galaxy30.zip

FYI: Our hosting provider will upgrade the wiki.freedos.org server on Tuesday, August 21.

The site may act funny or otherwise demonstrate odd behavior during that time.

@balglaas Interestingly, Galaxy was my last desktop word processor. After that, I dual-installed Linux with DOS on my home PC.

No word processor for Linux in 1993, so I learned nroff (groff) to write class papers, and LaTeX if I needed equations. (LaTeX on Linux - emTeX on DOS, just to have the same env on both.)

I still enjoy writing with markup languages. (I like groff -me) 🤓

@balglaas WordPerfect was definitely expensive - they pretty much owned the office word processor market at the time, so I guess they leveraged that.

$300 for the student edition for me. 💸

$99 for Galaxy, and it did everything (and more) that WP would do.

@klaatu Loved your article! ❤️

@withaveeay Galaxy was indeed fast, especially on my '386 at the time. I don't think you can change the key bindings though - I didn't see an option for that in the menus.

@bytex64 Very cool! I'd love to keep experimenting with Galaxy, but it looks like it has a limiter after X number of runs, or Y number of days (seems like 1 month).

I suppose I could put it on a separate VM disk image and just keep refreshing the image. 🤔

@drwho I ran WordPerfect until it was time to upgrade .. $300 (student edition) was too much for me 🤑 but $99 for Galaxy was do-able. 😃

@dellagustin Good catch - fixed!! 👍

Short version: It was a great alternative to WordPerfect. but it doesn't show page breaks or full justification.