Absolutely no problem about credit or anything. It's all his work. All I did is a few commands to make boot disks. :-)
It is a couple of years ago now, and I'd forgotten that there were some differences in there. I will try to update these images when I can!
So, in the meantime, copy the files from one, then the next, then the next. That will update the released 7.0.1 to the latest.
But, to re-iterate:
I had some problems with the last-ever WIP build. Some stuff did not seem to work right in testing in VirtualBox and I haven't had time to test again in VBox 7.x.
So for my own use, I avoided 7.0.1-08 and I was using the previous version.
I wish some company would come along, buy up the IP and update this. :-(
I can see 2 potential opportunities here:
[1] A 21st century Amstrad PCW: a modern DOS word-processor on a USB key. WordPerfect is still around and still current. Corel could buy DR-DOS and release the last ever DOS WordPerfect, 6.2, on a bootable USB key, as a distraction-free writing tool.
Snag: DOS can't boot on any UEFI PC.
[2] Multiuser DOS is a true native 32-bit PC OS. It is probably easier to make Multiuser DOS run on UEFI, and offer that as the modern successor version.
One of the things that killed Multiuser DOS in the old days is that it wasn't compatible with DOS device drivers. So, you could not easily use it with sound card, SCSI cards, DOS network stacks, etc.
But they are all gone now anyway. So that is much less of a problem. Most people don't want or need to network DOS in the 21st century.
Now, Multiuser DOS is just a multitasking 32-bit DOS. So long as it can boot off USB and run DOS apps, that's all most DOS users would want or need.
I have written about that more recently for my day-job:
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Absolutely no problem about credit or anything. It's all his work. All I did is a few commands to make boot disks. :-)
It is a couple of years ago now, and I'd forgotten that there were some differences in there. I will try to update these images when I can!
So, in the meantime, copy the files from one, then the next, then the next. That will update the released 7.0.1 to the latest.
But, to re-iterate:
I had some problems with the last-ever WIP build. Some stuff did not seem to work right in testing in VirtualBox and I haven't had time to test again in VBox 7.x.
So for my own use, I avoided 7.0.1-08 and I was using the previous version.
I wish some company would come along, buy up the IP and update this. :-(
I can see 2 potential opportunities here:
[1] A 21st century Amstrad PCW: a modern DOS word-processor on a USB key. WordPerfect is still around and still current. Corel could buy DR-DOS and release the last ever DOS WordPerfect, 6.2, on a bootable USB key, as a distraction-free writing tool.
Snag: DOS can't boot on any UEFI PC.
[2] Multiuser DOS is a true native 32-bit PC OS. It is probably easier to make Multiuser DOS run on UEFI, and offer that as the modern successor version.
One of the things that killed Multiuser DOS in the old days is that it wasn't compatible with DOS device drivers. So, you could not easily use it with sound card, SCSI cards, DOS network stacks, etc.
But they are all gone now anyway. So that is much less of a problem. Most people don't want or need to network DOS in the 21st century.
Now, Multiuser DOS is just a multitasking 32-bit DOS. So long as it can boot off USB and run DOS apps, that's all most DOS users would want or need.
I have written about that more recently for my day-job:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/the_many_derivatives_of_cpm/