BloodyCactus wrote:

I have an old dos installer system I wrote and messed with over the years.
http://mega-tokyo.com/si103.zip
You can make multifloppy install or large hd install etc.

do you have a guide how to use it?

Suppawer wrote:

BloodyCactus wrote:

I have an old dos installer system I wrote and messed with over the years.

http://mega-tokyo.com/si103.zip

You can make multifloppy install or large hd install etc.

Interesting.
Do you have the source code?

I wrote it, so ya. I did a quick re-build + test last night with openwatcom2 before I uploaded it, but the code goes back to like 1997 I think.

dr.zeissler wrote:

BloodyCactus wrote:

I have an old dos installer system I wrote and messed with over the years.
http://mega-tokyo.com/si103.zip
You can make multifloppy install or large hd install etc.

do you have a guide how to use it?

there is a doc under DOCS and example under EXAMPLE. The basic example is its own install script, and a more complex one is there that has questions too for doing optional part. One thing it does not do is mod config.sys/autoexec.bat. It was designed to have a multi-floppy spanning datafiles that install to a HD. hence its name "Simple Installer".

Back in the time when my primary box was a pentium MMX @ 200 MHz I really wanted to write the same kind of application as the OP is wanting.
But I had no programming experience (almost) and after couple tries with Turbo Pascal 7.0 I gave up.
Today I could write this kind of stuff but have no time 🙁 However maybe I will give a try Borland C++ some day and create something similar using Borland Turbo Vision library.

BinaryDemon wrote:

But since I spent my time reading the thread and then googled for this Instalit tool, I wonder if this is what TheMobRules is looking for:

http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/smsw-vol1 … ALIT/index.html

Interesting find BinaryDemon! I don't think it's the same tool, the one I'm talking about was likely a fully commercial, non shareware application, so I doubt it would be easy to find it out in the wild. It looked like this:

That annex.retroarchive.org site is pretty cool though, lots of interesting stuff there!

Any news!

leileilol wrote on 2013-01-24, 01:44:

I'd like to know too, since I liked them.

I remember one scriptable install program I forgot the name of, but it was for DOS and Windows 3.1, it parsed the same syntaxes in their scripts, and was used by quite a few companies. No, it isn't Wise or InstallShield. I'll post screenshots of it later.

The software I was thinking of then was 2020 Software's PC-Install