DOS ain't dead - COOL (?) DOS (?) page discovered

DOS386

21.02.2010, 14:01

COOL (?) DOS (?) page discovered (Miscellaneous)

http://a.hatena.ne.jp/lukewarm/?gid=43554

Anyone is able to decrypt the text also ? Me not :-(

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This is a LOGITECH mouse driver, but some software expect here
the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***

RayeR

CZ,
21.02.2010, 14:51

@ DOS386

> http://a.hatena.ne.jp/lukewarm/?gid=43554
>
> Anyone is able to decrypt the text also ? Me not :-(

Did you tried google translator? Helps little bit
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&pre...lukewarm%2F%3Fgid%3D43554&sl=auto&tl=en
But I don't see nothing exciting just a few links to well known dos projects/sw/forums...

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

roytam

22.02.2010, 07:22

@ DOS386

> http://a.hatena.ne.jp/lukewarm/?gid=43554
>
> Anyone is able to decrypt the text also ? Me not :-(

BizLingo did better job.
http://excite.co.jp/world/english/web/?wb_url=http...rm%2F%3Fgid%3D43554&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2

and this is a News aggregation service by hatena.jp.

P.S.: lukewarm is a DOS/V(Japanese localized version of *DOS(FreeDOS/DR-DOS/etc.), and /V means VGA(640*480) mode) developer and wrote DOS/V Extension drivers.

His site (Japanese):
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA003720/lpproj/