Subj : Guess what is going on?
To   : all
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Sep 06 2017 11:15 am


i was pointed to this li'l tidbit concerning FrontDoor... i was asked to share
it so here it is :)

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There's something going on ...
24-Aug-2017 joho  Leave a comment

So I guess I took another three years to think about this, judging from the
previous post(s) :-) But this time, I have actually managed to make some
"progress". That is, if you consider reviving a 30 year old DOS program
progress.

I have been able to get FreeDOS up and running under VirtualBox. I have been
able to locate my old copies of Borland Pascal, TASM, MASM, VirtualPascal, and
Watcom. I was also very glad to see that there's something called Open Watcom
these days. That may prove to be very useful for this mission. The OS/2 stuff
will have to wait for just a bit, I need to compile all the DOS stuff and see
that the code actually still works.

The first version of FrontDoor was released in 1986 (and I managed to locate
the original announcement). If I'm not mistaken, the first version of FrontDoor
with mailer capabilities was out in 1987. That's 30 years ago!


https://reboot.defsol.com/2017/08/24/theres-something-going-on/
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and there's this nice present, too...

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Do you need a FrontDoor license?

If you would like to obtain a FrontDoor license, simply drop an e-mail to
[email protected]. Please include your name (as used in FrontDoor), your
FTN-address, and anything else you think we may find interesting and we'll get
you a license as soon as we can.

There is also a FrontDoor group on Facebook, and you may find reboot.defsol.com
to be of some interest, perhaps.
But.. why? Who cares about FrontDoor these days?

We do; well, I do anyway :-) I wanted to clean up the web site, regardless of
software activity.

https://defsol.com/
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