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What kind of work do you do? (Users)

posted by Zyzzle, 06.10.2023, 23:31

> From a desktop system to be useful for me, I'd need to use:
> 1- email
> 2- office documents
> 3- pdf
> 4- web stuff/ banking/ purchase orders/ assessing some other services and
> resources
> 5- print to a Brother MFC-J430W printer
> 6- scan from the same device (or optionally from a Acer flatbed if it's
> fine)
> 7- photos (save, convert, rename)
> 8- videos (save, convert, rename)
> 9- save photos and videos to DVDs as a backup
> 10- programming
> 11- listen to music
> 12- watching youtube (and other platform) videos
 Most on your list are solved in DOS. Assuming you have a compatible packetdrive and NIC card which works in DOS, there are e-mail readers, web browsers (Arachne, Dillo, links port, etc
For 2, there's Blocek by our very own Laaca, for 3, there's mupdf and other PDR readers for DOS.
Printing is a bit harder, unless you've got a printer with a parallel port, but even if it's usb-only, it may be possible to get it working through one of Bret's DOS USB drivers. Scanning I don't think is possible from DOS, perhaps only through old LPT-based scanner (which would be extremely slow, of course).
7,8,9 are covered. You've got tons of great photo viewers / converters (Display, nconvert, SEA, neopaint, our newly-minted commandline utility for JPEG2000 just discussed below will even support "modern" JP2 format in DOS.
Videos through the great DOS Mplayer port. CDBurning / DVD through the DOS ports of DosCDroast. You of course need DOS ASPI driver and CDROM drivers (many of those exist).
10 -- lots of great stuff, including a DOS port of Python, FreeBasic, lots of ASM variants, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, etc
11- many fabulous options. Now we have stupenduous SBEMU program which gives sound to modern PCI-chipsets in bare metal DOS, emulating Sound Blaster 16 and lots of great players, such as Mpxplay, Quickview 2.61, OpenMPT, LAME for MP3 conversion, .FLAC support (ports), etc.

So, DOS is indeed usable for lots of "modern" work. I use it every day for all of the above (including playing a few games!). It's a great system for emulators as well. Many are represented.

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