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Do not say win...ect I tried dosstart, also opengem I want something simple, but good, like the amiga gui but for ms-dos.
Do not say win...ect I tried dosstart, also opengem I want something simple, but good, like the amiga gui but for ms-dos.
Windows
Quikmenu 3 is what I use. Supports windows 16-color icons, very light memory footprint and has some fairly flexible scripting options too 😀
If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble.
there is nothing like workbench on DOS (except.... windows) but you could take a look at QuickMenu III , see some shots of it here: 486DX2 build
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I should update that thread one day, I've chopped and changed that system so much that it doesn't really exist any more... new motherboard and case, now its a DX4-100 with a VLB ET4000 and a YMF719, I've even upgraded the hard drive... but it still runs quikmenu 😀
In that thread I talk about using a batch file with CHOICE to launch games with seperate episodes. I've discovered a much more graceful way of doing it with Quikmenu.
In the 'Command' box for a program icon simply add a space after the filename and then [q,What would you like to choose?|option1|option2|option3]
This will bring up a dialog box with the options you specify, for the user to click on. The option will be passed to the command as an argument.
So you can have a batch file like this:
@echo off
if %1 == option1 goto game1
if %1 == option2 goto game2
if %1 == option3 goto game3
exit
:game1
cd game1
game1.exe
exit
:game2
cd game2
game2.exe
exit
:game3
cd game3
game3.exe
exit
If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble.
Oh, now with quickmenu does it have a rightclick context menu approach? Or will I still have to open console and type "copy c:/dos/dos_games/lol.txt c:/dos/document"?
Doom isn't just a game, it's an apocalypse survival simulator.
Also, to clairify I meant no suggesting "uh...windows 3.1" or something stupid like that.
Doom isn't just a game, it's an apocalypse survival simulator.
Quckmenu is more of a launcher gui.... don't expect it to do file management or have it's own apis...
Okay, also where am I supposed to procure a license for an almost 20 year old program that the company no longer even acknowledges it exists?!
Doom isn't just a game, it's an apocalypse survival simulator.
wrote:Oh, now with quickmenu does it have a rightclick context menu approach? Or will I still have to open console and type "copy c:/dos/dos_games/lol.txt c:/dos/document"?
Quikmenu doesn't do anything if you right click. But if you click the FILES button up the top it gives you a basic mouse driven file manager. However, for DOS file management you can't go past XTree Gold (although its a textmode application and predominantly keyboard based, but very powerful).
Okay, also where am I supposed to procure a license for an almost 20 year old program that the company no longer even acknowledges it exists?!
The same place everyone else gets their 'abandonware' (not here 😉 )
Not quite a GUI, but I used to use the DOS Shell program with MSDOS 4.01. It simplified a lot of functions that would have required a lot of typing on a command line.
Maybe not exactly a GUI, but Norton Commander or MS-DOS 6.2 Dosshell will do the job.
wrote:MS-DOS 6.2 Dosshell will do the job.
MS-DOS 6.2 actually didn't include the MS-DOS 5 dosshell; it had to be added separately. (You can get it from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135315 via olddos.exe .)
Aside from Norton Commander, Norton Desktop for DOS is pretty nice.
Wikipedia calls Norton Commander clones "orthodox file managers"; there's a list of them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Orthodox_file_managers , but it doesn't say which ones are for DOS.
And there's SEAL, which hasn't been updated in a long time. The Wikipedia page links to FreeGEM and QubeOS. For that matter, there's GEOS, now Breadbox, but I'm not sure if that's free.
wrote:MS-DOS 6.2 actually didn't include the MS-DOS 5 dosshell; it had to be added separately.
I wasn't sure if it was 6.2, had to recall it from memory. 😉
MS-DOS 6.2 actually didn't include the MS-DOS 5 dosshell; it had to be added separately. (You can get it from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135315 via olddos.exe .)
That doesn't seem to be the case. olddos.exe provides...
-Append.exe
-Graphics.com
-Help.com
-Interlnk.exe
-Intersrv.exe
-Loadfix.com
-Memmaker.exe
-Print.exe
-Replace.exe
-Sizer.exe
-Tree.com
-Undelete.exe
...but doesn't seem to include DOS Shell.
What does have it is the MS-DOS 6.22 supplemental disk...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/117600
Graphic Vision File Manager, looks a bit like windows but without much of an installation procedure:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gvision/gv/download.htm
Some Listings of GUI's / File Managers for DOS:
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/dr … in.FileManagers
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@gerwin I looked at the ntlworld stuff and I looked into the unet one, I might checkout the software available on resoo.
Doom isn't just a game, it's an apocalypse survival simulator.
What about Central Point Software's PC Tools? I just couldn't tell you which version is best since I haven't seen it since 1992.
Personally, I like(d) versions 6 and 7 of PCShell best.
In the early 90's I used PC Shell v5.5 a lot. But it is kinda unusable since: It fails when there is a FAT32 partition present on the system.
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