fdbox
A new shell for FreeDOS (by elcuco)
Minibox
Small Linux commands for resource limited systems (by ercanersoy)
| fdbox | Minibox | |
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| 5 | 1 | |
| 10 | 36 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | over 3 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fdbox
Posts with mentions or reviews of fdbox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-26.
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What is DOSShell, and how do I get to it?
FDBox from GitHub Note that it's technically meant for FreeDOS but could work
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Little project program on C
Cool, waiting for your PR: https://github.com/elcuco/fdbox/
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fdbox - a new shell for MSDOS/freeDOS
Regarding the code: its modern C code. It does not look outdated, my main target is Linux/OSX/Windows, but I keep it in such way that good old TurboC can compile it (on modern OSes I use cmake for the build system). I even made a script that creates a "D:" drive for me to develop, so I start dosbox and then I can run "tc" and compile the project (see the readme file on the github project, and also https://github.com/elcuco/fdbox/blob/main/etc/create_dosbox_dir.sh). As part of the CI/GithubActions I build on every commit the code and tests for Linux/Mac/Windows/DOS. Tests are run on all 3 modern platforms, and I will eventually run this on a dosemu session or something. I invested a lot in tooling.
- Write a minimal shell in pure win32
Minibox
Posts with mentions or reviews of Minibox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-02.
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fdbox - a new shell for MSDOS/freeDOS
I found this cool project: https://github.com/ercanersoy/Minibox and ... I found myself writing this cool project. I always wanted to do this... so why not? I also took a lot of inspiration from Andreas Kling, from SerenityOS. "If you split every problem to smaller problems, and continue working, eventually you will finish" (or something similar...).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fdbox and Minibox you can also consider the following projects:
hashpling - hashpling allows you to use shebang on non-UNIX platform
fdpp - FreeDOS plus-plus, 64bit DOS
Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
FastLZ - Small & portable byte-aligned LZ77 compression
dosbox-x - DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project
jSH - A Javascript scripting engine for DOS
ansiscape - Color your output using Ansi Escape codes
DOjS - A MS-DOS Creative Coding IDE/platform based on JavaScript