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neofetch for DOS

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First post, by Jo22

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Hi everyone,

Just found something interesting on the web.: dosfetch, a neofetch clone for DOS.
https://github.com/leahneukirchen/dosfetch

I think that's really sweet.
DOS deserves more Posix or *nix style applications.

Best regards,
Jo22

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Reply 1 of 7, by WolverineDK

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That is so cool, imagine people porting dosfetch to different DOS versions, like Freedos, DR-DOS, and what have you ? 😀 Anyway I am just dreaming 😀 I could also imagine that it could be ported to some versions of FujiNet 😀

Reply 2 of 7, by Jo22

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WolverineDK wrote on Yesterday, 23:36:

That is so cool, imagine people porting dosfetch to different DOS versions, like Freedos, DR-DOS, and what have you ? 😀 Anyway I am just dreaming 😀 I could also imagine that it could be ported to some versions of FujiNet 😀

Hi there! That's possible, actually! DOS has an API or ABI for a vendor ID.
MSD checks for it,for example and shows it.
So it would be possible to have different ANSI art for each DOS version! ^^
Luckily, the source code of dosfetch is available, so it can be added.

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Reply 3 of 7, by igully

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Not to be a killjoy, but this dosfetch program is rather buggy:

Only supports XMS 2.0 (so it only detects a maximum of 64MB of extended memory), and does not support FAT32. It also has issues with networked drives.

Still ,it looks nice. But not really usable.

Reply 4 of 7, by RandomStranger

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igully wrote on Today, 04:07:

Not to be a killjoy, but this dosfetch program is rather buggy:

Only supports XMS 2.0 (so it only detects a maximum of 64MB of extended memory), and does not support FAT32. It also has issues with networked drives.

Still ,it looks nice. But not really usable.

I mean where you mostly use DOS as your main system, even with these issues it's mostly alright. Once you reach 64MB RAM and FAT32 you probably run Windows 9x and then there is AIDA32 and HWiNFO. Not that the latter doesn't exist for DOS.

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Reply 5 of 7, by BinaryDemon

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I didnt know what neofetch was and had to look it up. /shame.

Reply 6 of 7, by Yoghoo

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Thanks for the head sup! Nice that source is available. At the moment busy with adding more detected DOS types. Also want to add an uptime and changeable logo.

Maybe will add it on github when finished and add some (reasonable) requests.