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Proprietary software in MS-DOS

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First post, by Perro

Posted on 2020-04-04, 18:16

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Hi.

While I wait for the arrival of the diagnostic board to review the socket 7 board, I'm going to give the software a little bit.

My first pc was an IBM PS / 1 and I had proprietary software on rom that, at the time, was not bad. I liked it.

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Later, I learned that Amstrad did something similar, but it was not in rom, it is a separate application. The counterpoint.

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Did we know of something similar from other brands or similar software? Make it more graphic, that is, not a Norton commander.
Compaq, Olivetti, Philips, ...

Reply 1 of 7, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2020-04-04, 21:17

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Tandy was the pioneer for this.

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Reply 2 of 7, by Jorpho

Posted on 2020-04-05, 01:01

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http://toastytech.com/guis/indexmisc.html has many fine examples.

Reply 3 of 7, by Jo22

Posted on 2020-04-05, 06:55

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gdjacobs wrote on 2020-04-04, 21:17:

Tandy was the pioneer for this.

And I always thought it was the Final Cardridge on C64.
Edit: Never mind. The GUI feature came a few years later after original release.

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Reply 4 of 7, by gca

Posted on 2020-04-05, 14:16

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My first PC was a PS/1 as well, replaced funnily enough by an Amstrad with Counterpoint. Amstrad also did a custom Windows shell as a replacement to progman on Windows 3.0.

Reply 5 of 7, by Perro

Posted on 2020-04-05, 15:02

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What is the name of the amstrad shell and where can I find it?

Reply 6 of 7, by gca

Posted on 2020-04-05, 15:12

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I think it was called Amstrad Program Manager, you can find it buried somewhere on the Amstrad PC4386 disk images that you can find here:

https://banjosmods.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/a … tom-win3-shell/

Reply 7 of 7, by rmay635703

Posted on 2020-04-05, 19:37

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AST did this on 486 Windows 3.11 machines, their CEO would “Personally thank you” for buying an American made AST on first boot in a nifty video introduction.
Then you would get thrown into ASTs pretty custom front end for Windows

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