The PsychDOS Desktop Environment

Re:The PsychDOS Desktop Environment by fsiefken on Saturday June 12, 2021 @09:55AM (#27484525)

yes, volkov commander is good enough. i'd like to have a good win3.11/9x browser that can display current ssl and css heavy websites. For freedos I compile things like the below myself. http://www.ausreg.com/dos_ports/index.htm

I'd also like a recent jvm for windows 3.11/9x. My wishes might never come true :-(

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Re:The PsychDOS Desktop Environment by cout on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:06PM (#27487435)

I remember when it was a big deal that I could play MOD files through my PC speaker (I forget the name of the tracker I used, but the interface was in German and was fast enough to run smoothly on my 386SX/25).

That mplayer now runs on DOS is amazing to me (even if it is on more powerful hardware) -- I could never back then have imagined computers playing full color video with audio.

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Re:The PsychDOS Desktop Environment by fsiefken on Sunday June 13, 2021 @05:21AM (#27491084)

Ah that's nice, I remember the win3.11 speaker.drv with which you could play through the speaker. Full color video with audio is a bridge to far with a 386 i think unless it's something like a 320x240 mpeg-1 with low bitrate audio, or that low bandwidth codec realvideo. Did the DVD decoding run on a 386? In any case it's indeed amazing that mplayer has been ported to dos.

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