OK i don't know much but please let me in. I can learn quickly!
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To get you started, ProgrammingFreak, here's a helpful page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands
A Google search should get you some help as well.
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ProgrammingFreak wrote:
OK i don't know much but please let me in. I can learn quickly!
I'll think about it.
@meowmeow Ok.
EDIT: Outposted by the cat! Ok, ProgrammingFreak, you're in.
Last edited by fire219 (2010-10-11 18:45:11)
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THANK YOU WON'T LET YOU DOWN! *stops yelling at the top of his lungs*. um i'll read and learn as fast as i can. tell me what i need to help out on as soon as I learn!
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fire219 wrote:
EDIT: Outposted by the cat!
Also, ProgrammingFreak (and SRR, while we're at it), you should sign up at the site here.
And @ your most recent post, fire219, I'll try and see what I can do. I'll probably use some free bootable DOS program and make the batch file run at startup using AUTOEXEC.BAT.
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ProgrammingFreak wrote:
THANK YOU WON'T LET YOU DOWN! *stops yelling at the top of his lungs*. um i'll read and learn as fast as i can. tell me what i need to help out on as soon as I learn!
Ok.
And you probably should thank meowmeow too, because if he hadn't outposted me assuming you were in, I was going to say no.
EDIT: Dang, that cat is as fast as lightning! Outposted AGAIN. Yeah, they need to sign up. Also, that idea for booting would work, but it feels like cheating because it isn't running as the OS itself. I have gotten into looking at GRUB, the Linux bootloader.....
Last edited by fire219 (2010-10-11 19:08:23)
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The only other way I can think of to boot SIMPL-DOS would be to rework freeDOS to "become" SIMPL-DOS, but I can't do that. Even if I could do that, it would mess up the current system for the text editor that I have (though I suppose we could just add the EXIT command again), and I'm not sure that the saving would work, either (or any of the typed commands, for that matter; IIRC, using "set /p choice=" to set a variable to user input only works in Windows 2000 and newer).
And making that system for external apps would be pretty easy, and they could even be included in the EXE as well.
Also, what's with the new habit of calling me "the cat"? XD
Last edited by meowmeow55 (2010-10-12 17:06:05)
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Ok, forget the boot idea. It won't work, it seems.
I know that using that isn't compatible with 98 and below, but noone uses them anyway.
I call you the cat because it is quicker to type than meowmeow55, meowmeow, or meowX2. Also, cats are fast, and you seem to always outpost meh.
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guys i wont be able to be on for 2 weeks! i got in trouble.
but i will keep learning
check out sig
Last edited by ProgrammingFreak (2010-10-13 07:44:57)
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SIMPL-DOS is well written, great as a shell replacement if it had much more features like a built-in file browser, ran the GUI-style DOS apps straight in the prompt (CMD does support that I think) and had other things of the like that made it more dynamic and better. I'm an Intermediate Level batch programmer, so I'll start now if you want. Additionally, you can simulate GUIs in DOS with things like
============================================================================
WELCOME TO SIMPL-DOS 0.37!
============================================================================
_____________________________________________________________________________
| SIMPL-DOS is a smaller, batch-based version of MS-DOS and i386 that can fit on a |
| floppy and still have 1.44 MB left on a floppy disk! This awesome system was |
| made by Scratch user fire219. We hope you enjoy SIMPL-DOS and help develope |
| it. For the Scratch users, (scratch.mit.edu) Scratch On! |
______________________________________________________________________________Hope that helps!
WindozeNT
Last edited by WindozeNT (2010-10-18 22:22:42)
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WindozeNT wrote:
SIMPL-DOS is well written, great as a shell replacement if it had much more features like a built-in file browser, ran the GUI-style DOS apps straight in the prompt (CMD does support that I think) and had other things of the like that made it more dynamic and better. I'm an Intermediate Level batch programmer, so I'll start now if you want. Additionally, you can simulate GUIs in DOS with things like
Code:
============================================================================ WELCOME TO SIMPL-DOS 0.37! ============================================================================ _____________________________________________________________________________ | SIMPL-DOS is a smaller, batch-based version of MS-DOS and i386 that can fit on a | | floppy and still have 1.44 MB left on a floppy disk! This awesome system was | | made by Scratch user fire219. We hope you enjoy SIMPL-DOS and help develope | | it. For the Scratch users, (scratch.mit.edu) Scratch On! | ______________________________________________________________________________Hope that helps!
WindozeNT
Glad you like it. But i must point out that it does have a file browser (FileSnake, accessed through the FILES command), and I am not the only one who makes SIMPL-DOS. meowmeow55, ThePCKid, and ScratchREALLYROCKS also are on the dev team (even though only meowmeow has made contributions right now.).
I have actually experimented with ASCII-based graphics, but batch doesn't seem to like it.
Also, you can join.
Last edited by fire219 (2010-10-19 16:41:19)
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