Re: Kolibri OS and Euphoria
- Posted by Igor Kachan <kinz at pet?rlink.r?> Oct 15, 2007
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Igor Kachan wrote: > > Igor Kachan wrote: > > > > Hi Ricardo. > > > > Ricardo Forno wrote: > > > > > > Hi Igor. > > > I am about to try Kolibri OS. Two questions: > > > 1) I own an old Toshiba Notebook, a 486 I think. Do you think Kolibri will > > > work > > > in it? > > > > The Menuet OS seems to work from 386 and up, I do not know exactly, > > but Kolibri seems to want Pentium, I tried it on my old good 386 > > mainframe with 8Mb RAM - doesn't want to load. > > > > > 2) How can I download the DOSBox extension? > > > > You'll need the 7-zip archiver, it is free: > > > > <a > > href="http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/sevenzip/7z442.exe">http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/sevenzip/7z442.exe</a> > > > > It is Windows installer. > > > > Then get DOSBox, version for Kolibri platform: > > > > > > <a > > href="http://diamondz.land.ru/dosbox.7z">http://diamondz.land.ru/dosbox.7z</a> > > > > You'll unpack it with 7-zip into any folder > > with strongly 8.3 format of name. > > > > > > > 3) Are there any manuals or help file for Kolibri? > > > > Yes, but I'm not sure about English versions. > > This link: > > <a > > href="http://www.kolibrios.org/?&lang=en">http://www.kolibrios.org/?〈=en</a> > > will give you the English home page of their site. > > > > Now I'm working on some bilingual (English, Russian) > > instruction on how to launch DOS32 Euphoria in Kolibri > > environment. > > > > In day or two, I plan to post it to RDS contrib page. > > I'm sorry, I was out of town these days and now am > still working on the instruction, too many pictures > with screenshots. I'll finish it ASAP. Hi All interested, I've uploaded these instruction just now, you can get them here: http://www.rapideuphoria.com/uploads/kolibri.zip It is about 3M download with many pictures 1024x768, bilingual - English/Russian. I'm sorry about delay Good Luck! Regards, Igor Kachan kinz at peterlink.ru PS Sorry, Salix, I'll do not post it to you privately, it gets too big for e-mail, it seems to be, and your address is on my Windows box, and I do not have it for now under my fingers.