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Latest News

LAME 3.98.2 ported to DOS
2009-02-01 22:01 - The FreeDOS Project
Robert writes: "On 01 February 2009 I finished my 32-bit DOS port of LAME version 3.98.2 using DJGPP version 2.04 beta. A binary, a user manual in ASCII format, and fully configured sources plus some simple instructions on how to rebuild are available." http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/
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BIEW (Binary vIEW) version 5.7.3
2009-02-01 21:59 - The FreeDOS Project
BIEW (Binary vIEW) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. It contains a highlight AVR/Java/i86-AMD64/ARM-XScale/PPC-64 and other disassembler, full preview of MZ,NE,PE,ELF and other. Nick Kurshev has released BIEW version 5.7.3 on 01 February 2009. http://sourceforge.net/projects/biew/
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DOSEmu flickr
2009-02-01 20:12 - The FreeDOS Project
If you're a user of flickr.com, this is another way to spread the news about FreeDOS. stuaxo2 writes: "I've started a dosemu flickr group, we've got some screenshots already. Any screenshots of DOS software [FreeDOS, DR-DOS, MS-DOS, ..] running on DosEmu are welcome. In particular it would be nice if people could try some of the software that comes up on the FreeDOS news page and submit their pics to the group." http://flickr.com/groups/dosemu
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OpenWatcom 1.8 RC3
2009-01-24 04:25 - The FreeDOS Project
The OpenWatcom group of volunteers have uploaded yet another "release candidate" for testing before the eventual stable 1.8 release. If you have the inclination and bandwidth (esp. C++ users), testing is highly appreciated. Report bugs to the newsgroup (openwatcom.users.c_cpp). http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/C_Compilers_Release_Changes http://www.openwatcom.org
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FD Debug 1.14
2009-01-15 22:52 - The FreeDOS Project
Japheth has updated the FreeDOS debuggers, DEBUG and DEBUGX, to version 1.14. Changes: - DEBUGX bugfix: 'D ip' caused a syntax error. - DEBUGX bugfix: if debugger stepped into an INT in protected-mode, the carry flag was cleared. - H improved. - source converted to Masm syntax. - samples in Masm syntax added. http://www.japheth.de/debxxf.html
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(UPDATED) Doszip Commander 1.31
2009-01-14 22:12 - The FreeDOS Project
Hjort Nidudsson has released The Doszip Commander version 0.1.31 on 18 January 2009. It's still in Beta, but looks promising. In this release: bugs fixed, and new features added. * Unsorted view shows the files in the "natural" order they appear on the disk. The short key assigned is Ctrl-U, and the current key (Swap Panels) is moved to Ctrl-W. * F3 is now restricted to the current active object if this is a directory.
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NDN 2.31.2699
2009-01-14 22:08 - The FreeDOS Project
Stefan Weber has released Necromancer's DOS Navigator version 2.31.2699 on 04 January 2009. There are a lot of changes in this release, click Read More to see the full list. Changes include: * Editor * TurboVision * Mouse * VFS * File panel * File operations * Archives. Get it at http://ndn.muxe.com/
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Insight debugger 1.24 (for 8086+)
2009-01-14 22:06 - The FreeDOS Project
Oleg O. Chukaev has released version 1.24 on 11 January 2009. Updated in this version: * Alt+F5 and Alt+U (Show and Dump User Screen correspondingly) now work in the Dump window. * Fixed: Alt+L didn't work in the Dump window since version 1.20. * Fixed: Current line in the Code window highlighted incorrectly after entering assembler mode via Edit|Assembler. * Up and Down arrow keys sets and clears a flag in the Flags window. * Added 2 color schemes (TD and NC). * Fixed: Modification of SP or BP registers in some cases leads to general protection faults. - Download at http://www.bttr-software.de/insight/
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(UPDATED) 7-Zip 4.64 released
2009-01-14 22:04 - The FreeDOS Project
7-Zip 4.64 was released on 02 January 2009. The Win32 cmdline binary is available, with source code at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip - I'd really like to see this ported back to FreeDOS. Any takers? (UPDATE: Rugxulo has managed to compile t-Zip 4.61, but it doesn't work on "SX" CPUs.) http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/p7z461fd.zip http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/p7z461s.tbz http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/pth207b.zip http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/pth207s.zip http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/watt32s.zip
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(UPDATED) EdiTury now under GNU GPL
2009-01-02 17:13 - The FreeDOS Project
TuryL and I have been having an email discussion about his excellent editor, and he's agreed to release the source code to EdiTury under the GNU GPL. In addition to DOS (32 bit), EdiTury supports Windows 32 & 64 bit, OS/2 32 bit, and Linux 32 bit. Version 3.28 is available now. (UPDATED) Deleted redundant DOS .EXE and refreshed CWSDPMI to latest r5 2008. http://www.webalice.it/turylicciardi/editor.htm
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