It's a nice age, so happy birthday. We should only remember that they've spent a lot of time (years) developing this product. And they succeeded. As I remember, it was almost sure some year ago, that the project could be abandoned. But it was not. And that's great.

I'm using FreeDOS for games on my older PCs. It works very good. To be honest, it's also a very good replacement not only for older PCs,

but also for some dedicated industrial systems, on which we cannot (or maybe rather don't want) use MS-DOS.

too bad it does not adhere to the ms-dos command line specs.

for example, typing "dir /b /w > dump.txt" does NOT adhere to the width, files only basic info. those command line peramaters are just not in freeDOS. one of the main reasons i dont use it.

http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/

This always sounded interesting, and I've always wondered if it was feasable to say run DOSBox under it... Maybe even port to 64bit space, but use dosbox for old 32/64 compatability.

But then it's just my ramblings... FreeDOS has always been interesting to me but it's been the little dumb windows lacking stuff that's been.. nagging.

More important than a GUI, is there a comprehensive TCP/IP solution for DOS yet? If it had that I'd be willing to get FreeDOS running again, so far though I've not found anything via google or freedos webpages that suggest networking is any easier than it was back in the days of DR-DOS unless it's a Netware network you're trying to connect to.

congratulations on 15 years of development. To bad many of the projects that were actively developped have stopped like SEAL and Cude (Gui's. also is open GEM still being developed?), mpxplay (audio player), and a few others. Though I must say, I am anxiously awaiting the 1.1 version. If anyone has any experience in pascal I might be willing to resurect my attempts at creating a nice GUI for FreeDOS.