Hey, i know people come and visit The Orginal Atrodo(s) Company website (dwin.sourceforge.net), but i never hear from anybody. I want to hear from you. Yes, you! I know you come around here because i have not vistited my own site over 2000 times. I want to hear from you about DWin, what you think of it, how you like the direction i'm taking with it, what you would change if you had your way, how you like my site, if you accually like our products or what ever you want to say. So stop by our sourceforge.net forum and tell us what you think. While you are there, you can check out our other resources, and expecially check out our bug database. Thank you.
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Anonymous
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2001-06-08
Arrrh now this brings back memories..
memories of my own fabled Dosshell/OS...
Let me tell you a story, it was about the summer of 93. I was a young lad sharp on computers in Australia, I realised Win 3.11 really didn't cut it, and had decided to make my own shell..
I deemed it must be beutiful, it must be fantastic. Windows was cruddy, so I would base it off the best tech at the time, unix boxes (irux), Nextstep and OS/2 and system 7 for the mac...
So I started coding away, except for some bazzar I programmed it in Quick Basic, which was still popular back then and was supprisingly capable.
I started building up functions, mouse, video blah blah blah.. I worked on it until my fingers bled.. bashing away first on my 386 then my cyrix 166+... Big project, getting qb to do all these lower level stuff, building up functions.. Getting the OS to work.
As a side project I decided to program a text editor to help me test the code and the interface and the speed of it all..
Anyway, 95 came and went, win95 destroyed what was left of DOS, of OS/2, of mac, and all the other minor systems that were running in hiding,left overs from the early 80's late 70's struggle..
It seemed pointless, 95 would have killed my little project. Everyone wanted fancy graphic acceleration, plug and play, even if they didn't work.
I had mine up to a nice desktop stage (I used gifs for a background) and nice little icons, and little applications like a calculator. I wanted it to use virtual memory to get around some of the memory limitations I had.
And it did, By 96 I was burnt out, school was too demanding and I bowed out, I returned to it in 97 to mostly finish off my Text editor. Over the years, HD crash, accidential deletions, corruptions, recodings, little remains of my project...
All that survived was the name. I called it Ivory Tower. The logo (a sort of boxed in initals, IT) and my little text editor, known as Red Edit.
It featured some of the graphic routines, some of the input output.. It had varible windows colours and wonderful stuff..
Anyhow one thing I learn.. YOU WILL NEVER GET ANY FEEDBACK.. Well rarely anyway.. People will rarely comment unless you drag them infront of a computer... Also people will ask whats the point about a million times..
But its worthwhile to sit infront of your own little creatation and play withit.. Amazed in its sophysication, how a window opens, and text is drawn (dam it I had multiple bitmapped fonts)..
Good luck... Your os looked kinda like mine did before I overhauled the GUI. Very dark, graphical dos.. Oh the memories...
email me at 98143838@scholar.nepean.uws.edu.au if you wish for me to reminise some more
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Thanks for responding! It feels good to see that i no longer look like a moron (athough debateable) with a singular message in these forums. Just wanted to say thanks before i go off to camp for the week. Even if i do get a very small amount of response from people at DWin, the little i do inspires me to continue. This is a personal project, to call it anything else would be a blatent lie. Nevertheless, it do it so that maybe i can help someone, or inspire people. I'm in this partially for some kind of glory, but i know that won't happen any time soon, and that's okay with me. When i'm done, i'm going to know how to work a computer inside out. Multi-tasking, relocation, dynamic linking, 32-bit, OS-porting are all in plans for the future of DWin, but they are only plans, and i need something to work with in order to get there, and i will get there someday, it'll just be later. Until then, i'll continue working on the program, and watch in amazement as 13000+ visits to my front page in little over a year increase, and 10000 downloads increase ever so slowly. I'm farly comfident that there are some people out there that have tried it. So, i continue.
-Jon Gentle(atrodo@geocities.com)
And yes, it'd be nice if you were to reminise. I'd enjoy that.
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Hey, i know people come and visit The Orginal Atrodo(s) Company website (dwin.sourceforge.net), but i never hear from anybody. I want to hear from you. Yes, you! I know you come around here because i have not vistited my own site over 2000 times. I want to hear from you about DWin, what you think of it, how you like the direction i'm taking with it, what you would change if you had your way, how you like my site, if you accually like our products or what ever you want to say. So stop by our sourceforge.net forum and tell us what you think. While you are there, you can check out our other resources, and expecially check out our bug database. Thank you.
(note: orgianally appeared on dwin main index page.)
Arrrh now this brings back memories..
memories of my own fabled Dosshell/OS...
Let me tell you a story, it was about the summer of 93. I was a young lad sharp on computers in Australia, I realised Win 3.11 really didn't cut it, and had decided to make my own shell..
I deemed it must be beutiful, it must be fantastic. Windows was cruddy, so I would base it off the best tech at the time, unix boxes (irux), Nextstep and OS/2 and system 7 for the mac...
So I started coding away, except for some bazzar I programmed it in Quick Basic, which was still popular back then and was supprisingly capable.
I started building up functions, mouse, video blah blah blah.. I worked on it until my fingers bled.. bashing away first on my 386 then my cyrix 166+... Big project, getting qb to do all these lower level stuff, building up functions.. Getting the OS to work.
As a side project I decided to program a text editor to help me test the code and the interface and the speed of it all..
Anyway, 95 came and went, win95 destroyed what was left of DOS, of OS/2, of mac, and all the other minor systems that were running in hiding,left overs from the early 80's late 70's struggle..
It seemed pointless, 95 would have killed my little project. Everyone wanted fancy graphic acceleration, plug and play, even if they didn't work.
I had mine up to a nice desktop stage (I used gifs for a background) and nice little icons, and little applications like a calculator. I wanted it to use virtual memory to get around some of the memory limitations I had.
And it did, By 96 I was burnt out, school was too demanding and I bowed out, I returned to it in 97 to mostly finish off my Text editor. Over the years, HD crash, accidential deletions, corruptions, recodings, little remains of my project...
All that survived was the name. I called it Ivory Tower. The logo (a sort of boxed in initals, IT) and my little text editor, known as Red Edit.
You can down load red edit,
http://scholar.nepean.uws.edu.au/~98143838/REDEDI6.EXE
It featured some of the graphic routines, some of the input output.. It had varible windows colours and wonderful stuff..
Anyhow one thing I learn.. YOU WILL NEVER GET ANY FEEDBACK.. Well rarely anyway.. People will rarely comment unless you drag them infront of a computer... Also people will ask whats the point about a million times..
But its worthwhile to sit infront of your own little creatation and play withit.. Amazed in its sophysication, how a window opens, and text is drawn (dam it I had multiple bitmapped fonts)..
Good luck... Your os looked kinda like mine did before I overhauled the GUI. Very dark, graphical dos.. Oh the memories...
email me at 98143838@scholar.nepean.uws.edu.au if you wish for me to reminise some more
Thanks for responding! It feels good to see that i no longer look like a moron (athough debateable) with a singular message in these forums. Just wanted to say thanks before i go off to camp for the week. Even if i do get a very small amount of response from people at DWin, the little i do inspires me to continue. This is a personal project, to call it anything else would be a blatent lie. Nevertheless, it do it so that maybe i can help someone, or inspire people. I'm in this partially for some kind of glory, but i know that won't happen any time soon, and that's okay with me. When i'm done, i'm going to know how to work a computer inside out. Multi-tasking, relocation, dynamic linking, 32-bit, OS-porting are all in plans for the future of DWin, but they are only plans, and i need something to work with in order to get there, and i will get there someday, it'll just be later. Until then, i'll continue working on the program, and watch in amazement as 13000+ visits to my front page in little over a year increase, and 10000 downloads increase ever so slowly. I'm farly comfident that there are some people out there that have tried it. So, i continue.
-Jon Gentle(atrodo@geocities.com)
And yes, it'd be nice if you were to reminise. I'd enjoy that.