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Title: GUI's for DOS that don't require Winblows
Post by: XDelusion on September 09, 2003, 04:05:18 AM

I am running DOSXBOX on my...

...XBOX of course. :)

 So of course we can emulate keyboard presses and mouse movement with our joypads if we so please, and I would like a simple GUI to interact with my DOS enviroment though.

 Unfortunatly DOSXBOX is exactly the same as DOS BOX, and you can not install Winblows 3.11 on it. So if anyone knows of a simple GUI than can be run from DOS and DOS BOX, please send me some links.

 Thankx. :)

Title: Re: GUI's for DOS that don't require Winblows
Post by: GadgetMaster on September 09, 2003, 06:25:03 AM

Try THIS (http://www.qubeos.com/screens/index.htm)

or find more HERE (http://pcgem.iwarp.com/)

Title: Re: GUI's for DOS that don't require Winblows
Post by: newbee on September 09, 2003, 09:29:52 AM

There are many to choose from.

For a good list of links, try going to the "Freedos.org" site: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/links/

One of my personal favourites is GEMS
http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/

Regards
Darren

Title: Re: GUI's for DOS that don't require Winblows
Post by: Floid on September 09, 2003, 10:12:07 AM

I liked the look of SEAL last I saw it, and could swear there was a port of the Lynx browser to it, but perhaps not.

If you do need a standalone browser, I think Arachne (http://arachne.browser.org/) is as good as it gets on DOS.  Whether you can find appropriate network drivers is another matter.

NewDeal Office is also interesting - based on the old GeoWorks package, itself descended from GEOS - but 1. it was designed to pretend to be an OS, so running it under DOS might be some hassle (I *assume* they built on top of Caldera OpenDOS/DR-DOS or FreeDOS, but no idea)... and 2. the company appears long-since dead.

Title: Re: GUI's for DOS that don't require Winblows
Post by: gnarly on September 09, 2003, 10:55:55 AM

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One of my personal favourites is GEMS
http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/

Huuuu?

Is that the same GEM that came on my mums Amstrad PC1512? And the Atari ST at school!?

Has it moved on at all since then?

Title: Re: GUI's for DOS that don't require Winblows
Post by: XDelusion on September 09, 2003, 08:03:57 PM

AWSOME, thank you much!

Title: Re: GUI's for DOS that don't require Winblows
Post by: Wain on September 10, 2003, 08:29:11 AM

Can we put OS/2 on it??
 :-D

Title: Re: GUI's for DOS that don't require Winblows
Post by: Floid on September 10, 2003, 09:13:36 AM

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Wain wrote:
Can we put OS/2 on it??
 :-D

From http://dcemulation.netfirms.com/dosxbox.shtml (http://dcemulation.netfirms.com/dosxbox.shtml) and http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/), you can see that it's not a full emulator.  Or rather, it probably could be, but the UI and all the work done on emulating DOS itself will probably prevent it.

OS/2 never ran 'on top of' DOS, so that's probably a no-go.  Maaaybe the original 16-bit versions (1.x?) would work, under the assumption that they'd use BIOS calls for everything, but I doubt it.

Now, if you can get http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/ (http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/) going, you could probably emulate whatever you want underneath it.  Maybe.  Actually, I'm not so sure something like VMWare would work, though Bochs should.