port to OS X was Re: vDos-lfn is now officially vDosPlus!

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

I can think of an excellent reason not to allocate resources to port to
OS X: it would potentially have to be updated every time there was an OS
X update (usually once a year). Lovely as it is, MacOS is not a platform
designed for users interested in backwards compatibility.


At 19/09/2016 22:30, you wrote:

Hi Fred,


vDos(Plus) uses a lot of Windows-specific functions, and currently I
don't have a real Mac machine. So it is difficult to port it to OS X
directly at the moment. However, you may try Windows emulators available
on OS X and see how it works...


Wengier


On Sep 19, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Fred Weiner
mailto:fw1948@xxxxxxxx
wrote:


Any chance of porting this to OS
X? That would be great for those of us using XyWrite on a Mac . .
.


On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Wengier W
mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx wrote:



Hi all,



Since I am adding more and more features and other improvements to
vDos-lfn, the differences between vDos-lfn and original vDos have become
greater and greater. Since it now contains far more features than LFN
support, which was its initial focus, the name "vDos-lfn" is no
longer a descriptive name for this project. Both Carl and Kari suggested
the new name "vDos Plus", and Jos (the creator of vDos)
recently suggested to me that "vDosPlus" (without the space)
can be even better. Therefore, vDos-lfn is now officially vDosPlus, which
represents the many unique features and extensions to original vDos, such
as LFN support, enhanced keyboard and display handling, and so
on.



The download links for vDosPlus have become the following:



The latest build of the vDosPlus 2015.11.01 branch:



http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-201511.zip
http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-201511.zip
(ZIP package)



http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-201511-setup.exe
http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-201511-setup.exe
 (offline installer)



http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-201511-checkinstall.exe
http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-201511-checkinstall.exe
 (online installer)



The latest build of the vDosPlus 2016.06.01 branch:



http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-current.zip
http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-current.zip
(ZIP package)



http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-current-setup.exe
http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-current-setup.exe
 (offline installer)



http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-current-checkinstall.exe
http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/vDosPlus/vDosPlus-current-checkinstall.exe
 (online installer)



A new vDosPlus website should launch soon.



Enjoy!




Wengier