About WinDOS
WinDOS is a GUI DOS shell which has been designed to use EMS memory, icons and most of the things that you would find in Microsoft's Windows 3.x, 95 and 98. It is being constantly updated and is well worth a look. Remember Win 3.x was an employees lunch time hobby, and Linux was origionaly a one man job.

NEW! WinDOS 1.0	R E L E A S E D SEP.8.98
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Screen grabbing to 6Kb (approx.) GIF file. Uses EMS memory (Important in DOS). Checks if you are running from within Windows (3.x -> 95/NT). Internal DOS commands - No need to shell. Zip file viewer - No compressor/uncompressor yet. Checks labels/space on HD's, floppies, CD's etc. RC4 file encryption. External LZW compressor and decompressor - very fast.

NEW! WinDOS Documentation	R E L E A S E D
WinDOS Documentation Some features that WinDOS includes are:- How much does it cost? WinDOS is free, and although it is free it is not 'Public Domain'. Changes can be made to WinDOS source code by all means, as long as you follow these simple rules:- Help me! I've got problems As WinDOS is free there is no customer support i.e. You can't ring me up and tell me your problems with WinDOS. Here are a few pointers though:- When you run WinDOS in Windows, you loose some of the graphical quality such as:- * ' x' buttons are too high * Different fonts look the same and other little things that don't look correct. It will still work fine though. There are several ways that you can get WinDOS to run at boot up:- This means that you haven't loaded emm386.exe To do this you must edit your config.sys to say:- device=himem.sys device=emm386.exe ram or a value - see help.com ems386 for more info Add mouse.com to your autoexec.bat (If you have it, or get it from a friend) This is because of the 640Kb limit in most DOS programs. WinDOS avoids alot of this by using most of the RAM, but this should do it:- Look at your config.sys and autoexec.bat, in your config.sys put DOS=HIGH,UMB - this gives dos acces to above 640Kb and below 1Mb For all com's,exe's in your autoexec.bat put Loadhigh in front of the file as this will try and load it into upper memory. For all exe's,com's and sys's in your config.sys put devicehigh= as this will also try and load them into upper memory. Check for all programs that you don't really need and REM them out. It should now allow you to 'shell-out' to dos Currenly WinDOS doesn't do much. Things that you can do with it are:- * Get a file listing from a drive. * View a zip file. * Play a sound(wav) file. * Perform most DOS functions/jobs from within a grapical environment. * Take a picture of WinDOS (Gif or Bmp). * Set/view drive labels * Get drives free space * Compress a file. * Encrypt a file. There's not alot so far. There will be much more when I get the following things:- * An idea of how to make a WinDOS external application * A way of multitasking * Some help in WinDOS's developement (So far the people that have helped me I doubt that they know it, i.e. 'Borrowed' code etc) * A way of creating an external helpfile. * More ideas for WinDOS (I have programmer's block at the moment!)
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Have you ever noticed that the net is becoming slower and slower? One minute you can be going really fast, and then wham Internet Explorer tells you that a 200Kb download will take 20 minutes to complete. This sort of thing really ticks me off, so here are some of my techniques for fast downloading:- Use the right click menu to download files, this appears to be faster than just plain clicking on them. Use Netscape Navigator, as this appears to be alot faster around the net. Turn of graphics in the options of you browser, do you really need to see them? Now to the website 'owners' please don't have huge graphics on your sites, cut them down in size, compres them as jpg's or gif's, reduce the number of colours, or even gray scale them. These will save a huge amount of downloading time for users. Also don't EVER use java applets, even from a harddisk they are as slow as molases.
Tha Files..	R E L E A S E D
Here are some of the files for now, as I had to rush to get this site uploaded in time. MP3 Encoders Dwav2mp3 - Denials WAV2MP3 supports the encoding of wav files upto about 40Mb. Command line. High quality at 54Kbits/s. Size - 116KB Canna MP3 maker - Range of bits 32 -> 320 kbits/s, with different losses (i.e. Acitt etc) - GUI based. Size - 116Kb Compilers Basm 6.0 - Not a true compiler, translates slightly modificated Basic to pure assembler. Size - 80Kb Masm 5.1 - Microsofts assembler - one of the best. Size - 205 Kb. Tasm 5.0 - 32bit version of Borlands Tasm. Only Tasm, no extras. Size - 215Kb. Tasm 2.1 - Tasm & Tlink & Tlib + rest of the kit. Size - 205Kb. Disassemblers Sourcer - Best dissasembler in the business. Also includes a BIOS disassembler. Size - 185Kb. Source Intel's list of opcodes - Need I say more? Size - 20Kb. - Written in C/C++ needs a compiler. Made for UNIX, will need altering to run on x86 systems. 90Kb Cpu Pentium Optimization docs - How to make your programs run faster on a pentium. 160Kb.