15 Dec
2005
15 Dec
'05
1:22 p.m.
On 12/15/05 4:11 PM, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/14/05, Gary Sparkes <mokuba at gmail.com>
wrote:
But, that's not the point! I'm doing this to play around and improve my
coding skills by doing low level stuff I normally otherwise wouldn't do,
just a fun project :)
I'm rather bored, so I thought I might try
and hack together a small project
OS compatable with at least DOS 1.x or similar, is there any decent resource
for information on dos compatability and how to achieve it, or is it left as
a reverse engineering exercise for 'the reader' ? :)
There are already several DOS clones out there, some free, some not.
Why not go help out the folk working on FreeDOS or the DR-DOS
Enhancement Project instead?
http://www.drdosprojects.de/
DOS is still in use and useful, especially for people who cannot
afford modern hardware.
Failing that, other open-source projects that could do with help include:
FreeGEM
http://www.deltasoft.com
FreeVMS
http://freevms.free.fr/indexGB.html
AROS
http://www.aros.org/
Haiku
http://haiku-os.org/learn.php
Syllable
http://www.syllable.org/
... And many more!