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Title: Interview with Alexandre Balaban
Post by: hnl_dk on September 24, 2002, 10:05:49 AM

Mr. Balaban not only helps out with translations and more here at GFX-BASE, he also took over the source of Paul Hill's Shockwave-player, called 'swfplayer'. In our interview he answers questions regarding his development-plans, such as Amiga OS 4.0, MorphOS and Amithlon support, planned features, and supported Shockwave-formats. Read about his very interesting ideas and concepts here (http://www.gfxbase.com/interviews/balaban.shtml).

Source: gfx-base (http://www.gfxbase.com/)

Title: Re: Interview with ALEXANDRE BALABAN
Post by: Coder on September 24, 2002, 08:16:33 PM

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I don't have any PC at home (and don't plan to have one), so I don't know how I can do that :-( Sorry folks !

:-D  (About the part of not having a PC in the house)

Coder

Title: Re: Interview with ALEXANDRE BALABAN
Post by: xeron on September 24, 2002, 09:30:32 PM

Heh... I have 25 computers and none are capable of running Windows :-)

Details here (http://www.old-computers.com/club/collectors/ordis.asp?c=232)

(weeell, OK, I do have Windows 1.03 installed under PC-Task on the 4000, but that was out of curiosity ;-) )

Title: Re: Interview with ALEXANDRE BALABAN
Post by: trgse on September 25, 2002, 12:09:58 AM

Windows 1.03 ?
how the hell did you find that one,
hasn't microsoft done the same as Atari did with the ET game (meaning shoved them into a landfill)
 
:-)

Title: Re: Interview with ALEXANDRE BALABAN
Post by: xeron on September 25, 2002, 12:15:55 AM

It was on some abandonware site. The real difficulty was finding a version of MS-DOS new enough to install on a hard disk, but old enough to get Windows 1.03 running correctly.

The best I could find was MS-DOS 4, but I don't think Windows 1.03 likes it too much (too new).

Title: Re: Interview with ALEXANDRE BALABAN
Post by: redrumloa on September 25, 2002, 04:24:43 AM

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how the hell did you find that one,

hehehe a friend of mine has Windows1.x also, just for curiosity. hehehe it really is nothing more than a *VERY MINOR* front end for DOS. It is so primitave that it makes AmigaOS1.0 look robust:-P

Title: Re: Interview with ALEXANDRE BALABAN
Post by: Hammer on September 30, 2002, 09:12:10 PM

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The best I could find was MS-DOS 4, but I don't think Windows 1.03 likes it too much (too new).

I still have IBM DOS 3.30 in a box....