DOS ain't dead

DosView 1.3.1 (Announce)

posted by fritz.mueller , Munich, Germany, 24.11.2023, 18:48

I just started testing dosview, here some proposals / results:

dosview /? does not show the help but exits with "can`t load image /? ERROR".
So far okay on a real machine. But I noticed that this text is not visible in the small windows of virtual machines.
The exe is so big that I had problems to move it to this real machine with a diskette drive. I had to zip/unzip.
In vmware 17 player with FDT2308 and 32 MB inside I only got a black window when trying "dosview file.jpg" (small picture, slower than 100 k, no idea why) - and there was no chance to come out of the black window, I tried ESC,
STRG-C, ALT-X etc. Upgrading RAM to 1 GB RAM didnt change anything.
With virtualbox I was able to open a 2 MB big jpg - ESC worked, but then there was only a big black screen, no C:\ or something else was visible.
I will try some more vms asap.

But: It works! A great job!

Complete thread:

• DosView 1.0 - SuperIlu, 03.11.2023, 20:23 (Announce)
  • DosView 1.0 - Zyzzle, 03.11.2023, 22:23
    • DosView 1.0 - SuperIlu, 03.11.2023, 23:02
  • DosView 1.0 - dggionco, 04.11.2023, 01:47
    • DosView 1.0 - SuperIlu, 04.11.2023, 06:38
      • DosView 1.0 - dggionco, 04.11.2023, 19:40
        • DosView 1.0 - SuperIlu, 04.11.2023, 20:59
  • DosView 1.0 - bocke, 04.11.2023, 16:00
    • DosView 1.0 - SuperIlu, 04.11.2023, 20:43
      • DosView 1.0 - Zyzzle, 05.11.2023, 02:01
        • DosView 1.0 - SuperIlu, 05.11.2023, 14:22
          • DosView 1.0 - jadoxa, 06.11.2023, 02:02
            • DosView 1.0 - SuperIlu, 06.11.2023, 18:11
            • DosView 1.0 - SuperIlu, 08.11.2023, 17:57
  • DosView 1.0 - Laaca, 04.11.2023, 20:32
    • DosView 1.0 - SuperIlu, 04.11.2023, 20:44
  • DosView 1.1 - SuperIlu, 05.11.2023, 14:24
    • DosView 1.1 - dggionco, 05.11.2023, 20:33
      • DosView 1.1 - SuperIlu, 05.11.2023, 21:03
        • DosView 1.1 - Laaca, 05.11.2023, 21:52
          • DosView 1.1 - SuperIlu, 05.11.2023, 22:01
            • DosView 1.1 - Zyzzle, 08.11.2023, 10:19
              • DosView 1.1 - SuperIlu, 08.11.2023, 17:55
          • DosView 1.1 - Zyzzle, 05.11.2023, 22:27
    • DosView 1.1 - Zyzzle, 06.11.2023, 04:29
      • DosView 1.1 - SuperIlu, 06.11.2023, 18:15
        • DosView 1.1 - Zyzzle, 06.11.2023, 23:12
  • DosView 1.2 - SuperIlu, 08.11.2023, 19:26
    • DosView 1.2 - dggionco, 11.11.2023, 15:44
      • DosView 1.2 - Doug, 12.11.2023, 06:21
  • DosView 1.3.1 - SuperIlu, 12.11.2023, 13:33
    • DosView 1.3.1 - mceric, 13.11.2023, 00:36
      • DosView 1.3.1 - SuperIlu, 13.11.2023, 00:47
    • DosView 1.3.1 - Zyzzle, 13.11.2023, 02:36
      • DosView 1.3.1 - dggionco, 13.11.2023, 11:08
      • DosView 1.3.1 - SuperIlu, 13.11.2023, 22:14
        • DosView 1.3.1 - Zyzzle, 14.11.2023, 05:52
          • DosView 1.3.1 - SuperIlu, 14.11.2023, 20:01
            • DosView 1.3.1 - mbbrutman, 15.11.2023, 04:01
              • DosView 1.3.1 - glennmcc, 15.11.2023, 07:00
                • DosView 1.3.1 - Zyzzle, 15.11.2023, 11:02
                • DosView 1.3.1 - mbbrutman, 16.11.2023, 05:28
                  • DosView 1.3.1 - fritz.mueller, 21.11.2023, 12:59
                    • DosView 1.3.1 - Laaca, 21.11.2023, 18:03
                    • DosView 1.3.1 - glennmcc, 21.11.2023, 22:52
                      • DosView 1.3.1 - mceric, 22.11.2023, 00:37
                        • DosView 1.3.1 - glennmcc, 22.11.2023, 03:56
                          • DosView 1.3.1 - fritz.mueller, 24.11.2023, 18:48
                            • DosView 1.3.1 - fritz.mueller, 25.11.2023, 19:39
                    • DosView 1.3.1 - SuperIlu, 21.11.2023, 23:12
                      • DosView 1.3.1 - Zyzzle, 22.11.2023, 01:46
                        • DosView 1.3.1 - SuperIlu, 22.11.2023, 20:51
                          • DosView 1.3.1 - Zyzzle, 24.11.2023, 03:22
    • DosView 1.3.1 - dggionco, 13.11.2023, 11:01
      • DosView 1.3.1 - SuperIlu, 13.11.2023, 22:15
  • DosView 1.4 - SuperIlu, 24.11.2023, 17:46
    • DosView 1.4 - Zyzzle, 26.11.2023, 11:30
      • DosView 1.4 - SuperIlu, 26.11.2023, 14:03
  • DosView 1.5 - SuperIlu, 26.11.2023, 16:36
    • DosView 1.5 - fritz.mueller, 26.11.2023, 19:48
      • DosView 1.5 - SuperIlu, 26.11.2023, 19:52
        • DosView 1.5 - fritz.mueller, 26.11.2023, 20:17
    • DosView 1.5 - Zyzzle, 26.11.2023, 23:32
  • DosView 1.5 - dggionco, 15.12.2023, 13:18