4DOS

[josh]

Hi,

anyone know if there are software synthesizers that work in DOS? I now the 
old keynote gold multimedia worked in dos. I have a demo copy if anyone 
wantw. also got a demo of keysoft for windows95/DOS. these products are no 
longer supported or sold and humanware doesn't care what ya do with them.

email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: 4DOS


> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:46:30AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote:
>> While we're here, remember the BBS era?  Telnet
>> BBSs are still around and can be accessed from DOS if you have a packet
>> driver for your NIC card.
> :End-Quote:
>
> <grins>  Used to run WWIV BBS on the old 25 Meg hard drive so I
> didn't have to log in long distance and peruse the newsgroups.  Only
> cost me an extra $5/month to transfer a compressed packet each day, and
> contained the entire day's messages.  My first foray into networking and
> C Programming.  The BBS sourcecode was available for $80, and mods were
> being published for it all the time.  Had a blast until they switched
> over to the $600 Borland compiler, which I couldn't afford (and didn't
> see any reason in paying).  Was still sighted back then and ran up a
> small fortune in long-distance charges downloading things like Commander
> Keen and DooM! demos.  If I ever get phone access again, I plan on
> calling up the old BBS I was networked with (Maxie's Toy).  I call the
> number on the cell every once in awhile and still get a carrier detect
> warble, though it might be a fax number now.  Might be fun porting WWIV
> BBS to Linux, but the last time I looked, the author had started
> including object code in the source.  Bugrit.
>
> Michael
>
>
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