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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Thomas,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am currently working on a new release for DOSUSB.
As you can see from the number of entries in the forums there is a much greater
interest in DOSUSB compared to G-GUI. So I have not worked on G-GUI for some
time.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>However, GUI programming allows you to work with
colors and images while with DOSUSB you may work for a week just to get the USB
controller to finally set a bit in a register. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since there are no new applications developed for
DOS any more I think maybe one could use a cross-platform approach to provide a
graphical environment to develop applications that work with Windows, Linux, and
DOS. So the new application would not be limited to DOS. One could also convert
existing DOS applications this way to Windows and Linux by adding a new user
interface to them. Or convert simple Windows applications to work with Linux and
DOS too.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The HXDOS extender allows to run SDL and OpenGL on
DOS. I also found a GUI based on SDL called AGAR which I got to run with HXDOS
and SDL. So SDL and AGAR provide a cross-platform GUI for Windows and Linux
which will run with DOS too using HXDOS. Of course you have to limit
the functions the new application uses to the subset that is offered by all
three OS's.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here are the links:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.libsdl.org/">http://www.libsdl.org/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://libagar.org/">http://libagar.org/</A> (ugly screenshots but you can
select any color or theme as a developer)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.japheth.de/HX.html">http://www.japheth.de/HX.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I intend to look into this concept when the next
version of DOSUSB is released.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Georg</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>