So I also teach this university course about the history of technology, where students also learn how to use spreadsheets.
This semester, some of my students were surprised to learn that (a) spreadsheets existed before Windows 🤨 and (b) even a DOS spreadsheet could do everything we learned on the modern spreadsheets, just differently in some cases.
In this demo, we'll compare LibreOffice Calc on Linux and Quattro Pro on DOS.
Deathmatch DOOM2 running on bare metal FreeDOS @freedosproject using RTL8029 PCI network cards and BNC T-pieces/terminators! Back to the 90s! #lanparty
@davespice Brings back so many memories. My very first job was Unix sysadmin. We used 10base2 thin net for most of our network. Since we were a small company, sometimes I'd help run new lines. Good times. 😎
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SuperIlu has released DosView 1.1 and 1.2, now with support for TIFF and JPEG2000, and 24/32bpp detection (version 1.1) and NetPBM and Sun RAS formats, and added image scaling (version 1.2).
Hi @freedosproject, for playing classic DOS games, do you have any advice on what's the newest hardware working in DOS for both sound and IPX network? I have some WinXP era machines which I am thinking about installing FreeDOS on but need to think about older still sound and network cards. Thanks! 🙏
@bytex64 Very cool! I'd love to keep experimenting with Galaxy, but it looks like it has a limiter after X number of runs, or Y number of days (seems like 1 month).
I suppose I could put it on a separate VM disk image and just keep refreshing the image. 🤔
@withaveeay Galaxy was indeed fast, especially on my '386 at the time. I don't think you can change the key bindings though - I didn't see an option for that in the menus.
@withaveeay Maybe not, though. Chip (@bytex64) found older copies of Galaxy that look to be inspired by Wordstar. Maybe these versions used WS key bindings?