Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 20:06:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: ports@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: Comments on pcemu port Message-ID: <199503311806.UAA07954@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <10495.796643375@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 31, 95 01:49:35 am
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Hey, this is a slick little port. You did all I ever wanted to do with > the whole "bootstrap" procedure and far more! Kudos! Thanks. It's nice to get some feedback for this. > 1. This thing talks about 720K diskettes all over the place. Ok, it's rather easy to bump the default to 1.44 MB, but that ends up in more wasted space, especially if several people start to use private copies of the boot image. But you're probably right, i'll bump it. > 2. It's "information" not "informations". :-) A germanism. I'll fix it. (In german, you actually can also get ``Informationen''.) > Otherwise, this looks very good! It's too bad it doesn't drop into > a little DOS program at the end that says "Please insert a bootable > DOS floppy and press return" for the image to be made automatically, > but that's kind of pushing it I guess.. :-) Perhaps possible. After getting a pointer to freedos by Andrey, i'm evaluating this nice package in order to see if we could even perhaps deliver a functional boot image at all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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