DOS ain't dead

> > Is it true that you're intended to add JS capabilities to Arachne?
> Nope, I just mentioned that I have a working cURL/HTTPS/SSL/TLS layer on
> top of Watt32 which could be used to implements HTTPS for Arachne

On that point... DOS Arachne v1.99 has now reached the
absolute limit of my programming skills.

Therefore, unless & until someone much more skilled than myself
is willing to take over its development, she will be getting
neither HTTPS nor JavaScript capability.


BTW,
We are nearing the 25th anniversary of her first official public release.

(clipped from http://www.glennmcc.org/ara-gpl/ancient-history.txt
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1.02 (first official release)
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Release date: 30th April 1997
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Oh, also later this year is the 20th anniversary of v1.71

1.71 stable for DOS (*First co-op compilation!*)
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Release date: Oct 30, 2002

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Tiny release: Added INI file reader and bumped the versions of cURL, OpenSSL and KubaZIP.

> Another quick release: updated zlib and ported a minimal version of p5js to
> DOS text mode
>
> > Quick maintenance release with OpenSSL 1.1.1n available
> >
> > > In order to test some of the upcoming changes for DOjS I did a new
> > release
> > > of jSH:
> > > https://github.com/SuperIlu/jSH
> > >
> > > jSH is the text mode little sister of DOjS.
> > >
> > > I did port the packagemanager for DOjS to jSH. Now you are able to
> > download
> > > and install Javascript packages directly from GitHub using HTTPS.
> > > For that to work I also ported some ZIP file updates and cURL from
> DOjS
> > to
> > > jSH.
> > >
> > > There is an extra GitHub-Repo for Javascript packages for jSH and
> DOjS:
> > > https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjSHPackages

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