DOS ain't dead

Hello all!

Maybe some of you are interested in translating NDN (Necromancer's Dos Navigator) resources into your native language? I can provide resource compiler and available resources.
Among other things, Ukrainian, Czech or German are missing. Unfortunately, this is not a job for money. I'm not forcing anyone. If you take it and want it, your name will be visible in the program.

Best regards,
CandyMan

Hello!

I am not a big fan NDN, but can help with Ukrainian translation. ("not big fan" I am
talk about small expirience).

Could you please provide link to required info
for start.

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> Hello!
>
> I am not a big fan NDN, but can help with Ukrainian translation.
>
> Could you please provide link to required info
> for start.

Are you sure? The help file itself is 10k. lines, and the resources file the same. Half of these lines are compiler commands like "MENU/DIALOG" etc.

Yes

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Make DOS great again!

Carthago delenda est, Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse.

All you have to do is change the language in the RCP.INI files
from english to ukrain and run one of the files mkd32.bat/mkw32.bat/mkw64.bat depending on the ndn version you are using to test.
Only files in the RESOURCES directory need translation.
These are ansi files. The current versions of the program are in the BIN directory.
To change language in NDN press Alt-F12.

Resources are here:
https://megawrzuta.pl/download/615076c9a243775e5f9daccff737f1d7.html

Thanks and good luck!

I could try to create the Czech version.

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> I could try to create the Czech version.

Really? I didn't expect to find volunteers so quickly. Thanks.

I forgot to replace the last parameter in the BAT file from /Q to /D to disable help file compression and make TVHC run faster.
If something cannot be translated, please leave the English version. English help files are the most complete.

> I forgot to replace the last parameter in the BAT file from /Q to /D to
> disable help file compression and make TVHC run faster.
> If something cannot be translated, please leave the English version.
> English help files are the most complete.

Is there any reason why ndn 3 is freeware but no source code available?
I ask this because the freedos live cds still work with version 2 because there is no source available.
Yesterday I tested chat gpt with translating to turkish and Berki Yenigün was absolutely happy with the text. The only problem is that it stops at in about 2 or 3 kb of text, so translation has to be splitted.
Does anybody know if there are problems with right of origin?

> Is there any reason why ndn 3 is freeware but no source code available?
> I ask this because the freedos live cds still work with version 2 because
> there is no source available.

There is no specific reason why NDN source code is not freely available. It's just that NDN has always been closed source. Maybe someday this will change, but I can't promise that for sure.

> I could try to create the Czech version.

Hehe, I think that you and me and a few cz users that can be count on a fingers of one hand can understand english enough to use NDN, it doesn't worth that effort... Even if cz translation would exist I will continue to use eng. version as I'm used to...

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Hungarian and Ukrainian languages for NDN are already prepared. All I need is help to correct potential errors. I used Google translate for this purpose. If anyone is interested, please contact me.

Below are actual resources that works with current nightly build release from ndn.muxe.com/download :

https://megawrzuta.pl/download/fe621318c5df12f2b77ca11219b7430f.html