winfile VS dospad

Ask and ye shall receive: https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile

File Manager, or winfile.exe, was the predecessor to Explorer's file management aspects. You can use it on Windows 10 and 11 (and all the others) if you want to.

Program Manager, or progman.exe, was the predecessor shell to Explorer. It was included with Windows through Windows XP SP1 before finally being stubbed in SP2. You can probably grab the binary from XP SP1 and run it in newer Windows versions, though.

> Plenty of open source apps are abandoned. The maintainers get tired, too busy, or whatever.

Other people can pick up the baton. For example my window manager of choice is Window Maker which was abandoned for literally years (fortunately since the underlying tech doesn't change every other month, it still kept working) before someone else it picked it up and nowadays there are a few developers working on it.

> If it was open source, the odds are no one would care to take over maintenance (though they could) since it’s basically redundant at this point.

When Microsoft opensourced winfile[0] (the file manager from Win3.x/NT 3.x) some developers did flock to it (i personally even added a small feature to allow for multiple file masks which was merged), so i'm pretty sure the same would happen for an opensourced wordpad.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/winfile

There's always winfile lol. I wish they'd drop the 95 era file explorer source. That was the best one imo.

The ancient winfile (that get revived by microsoft), ctrl+shift drag to make symlink.

Joke comment: WinFile if you do not have Windows 11 22H2.

Here's the WinFile link, enjoy :) - https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile/

Good old Windows File Manager from the early 90s! In the Microsoft Store or github https://github.com/microsoft/winfile

idos2 is still available via patreon (https://litchie.com/dospad) - and really good as I purchased it when it was available from the appstore, alternatively any dos emulator via altstore - then heroes II... it's by far the best experience you can have on ipad/iphone. Tried many clones and while some are OK, heroes II blows them all away.

there was idos 2 available, but sadly was pulled out from sale (ofc because of apple) and if you didn't purchase it back then - now you can't. Now the only two ways without jailbreaking are: 1) https://litchie.com/dospad - via patreon the idos2 dev sign up the newest version for you

AFAIK this is the latest IPA available on GitHub: https://github.com/litchie/dospad

This seems to be a bug/feature (depending how you look at upgrades breaking existing features). I filed https://github.com/litchie/dospad/issues/139 to track this.

I’m doing all of this through iDOS (which is just a DOSBox variant compiled for iOS/iPadOS devices). I don’t own an Android tablet, but a quick search shows multiple versions of DOSBox available on the Google Play store you could install on your Android device. Once installed, there is usually a way to drop DOS game files into a folder accessible by DOSBox as a drive mount. You CD to the directory and run the game.

Also for MS-DOS games in general, iDOS is an awesome Dosbox emu for iOS. Supports Bluetooth keyboards and MT32 emulation and a bunch more.

-iDOS, based in DOSBox: DOS and Windows up to 3.11. Used to be in the app store, but no more. IPA in Github