BBE version

Hi All

I have a couple of questions before I pay money.
My current Geos version is New Deal Office 2000 GreenPC 4.1.6.
Or, like Geos.ini says, ver. 3.902. Allso i have installed patches
from två katter.
I have understood, that the latest version is Breadbox Ensemle 4.20.
So I went to Breadbox site. They do not sell it, only links to
resellers. Some of them do not know anything about BBE, or did not
work att all. None of them have online shop or any information, only
e-mail address to ask more. So I mailed to SUN2K to ask more. Their
latest version is 4.01, 45 USD. So, is possible at all to buy newest
version? Who, Where and How much? And is it wort the money, time and
effort? Usable news reader? Less bugs?
Second question, When surfing around i found DRDOS 8.0 with fat32
support. What does this mean in real life? Worth of USD 25,00?
System is DOS/GEOS/Win3,11.

Thanks and regards
Markku Lehikoinen

"Markku Lehikoinen" <mlehis@sci.fi> wrote in message
news:41a797ed.189930@uutiset.saunalahti.fi...[color=blue]
> Hi All
>
> I have a couple of questions before I pay money.
> My current Geos version is New Deal Office 2000 GreenPC 4.1.6.
> Or, like Geos.ini says, ver. 3.902. Allso i have installed patches
> from två katter.
> I have understood, that the latest version is Breadbox Ensemle 4.20.
> So I went to Breadbox site. They do not sell it, only links to
> resellers. Some of them do not know anything about BBE, or did not
> work att all. None of them have online shop or any information, only
> e-mail address to ask more. So I mailed to SUN2K to ask more. Their
> latest version is 4.01, 45 USD.[/color]

When Sun emailed me within the last month, the price was $80.
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>So, is possible at all to buy newest
> version? Who, Where and How much?[/color]

You can buy it from Sun.
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>And is it wort the money,[/color]

That's a personal choice. It isn't worth it to me even if it was free.
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>time and
> effort? Usable news reader? Less bugs?[/color]

Doubtful ther is any difference.
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> Second question, When surfing around i found DRDOS 8.0 with fat32
> support. What does this mean in real life? Worth of USD 25,00?
> System is DOS/GEOS/Win3,11.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Markku Lehikoinen
>[/color]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:23:53 GMT, "Bob" <bob12754@comcast.net> wrote:
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>You can buy it from Sun.[/color]
Question was about version. They have 4.01, not 4.20. Want to know if
there is any difference.
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>That's a personal choice. It isn't worth it to me even if it was free.[/color]
Yes, everybody who has read Your posts knows that. Anyway, I do all
my real computer work and most of joy/fun with geos.
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>Doubtful ther is any difference.[/color]
I have got that impression, too.

Thanks and regards
Markku Lehikoinen

Markku Lehikoinen wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi All[/color]

Terve Markku,
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> Second question, When surfing around i found DRDOS 8.0 with fat32
> support. What does this mean in real life? Worth of USD 25,00?
> System is DOS/GEOS/Win3,11.[/color]

There is some guy coding away on the version of DR-dOS that was once
released as opensource and it supports fat32 as well as all the
othernifty stuff. The site was down last I checked but see
[url]http://www.drdosprojects.de/[/url] for downloads etc... Please let us know if
you like it etc.
Else there is the thing Hans (with some help of others) is working of:
FreeDOS for use with GEOS. Hans has made great progress in having the
emm386 fixed so it works with GEOS etc. quite nice! If you want to
customize the DPOS some more you can alsways do stuff I do like
launching "blacklout" at the beginning of config.sys resukting in a
splashscreen hiding the dos chatter etc etc... lot's of fun :-)
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> Thanks and regards
> Markku Lehikoinen[/color]

Hope this helps
Dominique
--
C:\>

AFIAK, BBE 4.2 is basically NDO 2000, with all the Tva Katter patches added
and the buggier NDO bits removed like the PDF reader...

Markku Lehikoinen wrote in message
<41a797ed.189930@uutiset.saunalahti.fi>...[color=blue]
>Hi All
>
>I have a couple of questions before I pay money.
>My current Geos version is New Deal Office 2000 GreenPC 4.1.6.
>Or, like Geos.ini says, ver. 3.902. Allso i have installed patches
>from två katter.
> I have understood, that the latest version is Breadbox Ensemle 4.20.[/color]
(snip) is it wort the money, time and[color=blue]
>effort? Usable news reader? Less bugs?[/color]
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>[/color]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:18:42 +0100, Dominique Vocat
<dominique.vocat@gmx.de> wrote:
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>[url]http://www.drdosprojects.de/[/url] for downloads etc... Please let us know if
>you like it etc.[/color]
Ah, the site was down.
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>Else there is the thing Hans (with some help of others) is working of:
>FreeDOS for use with GEOS.[/color]
I have tested it. No fat 32 support. Some compatibility problems with
EMM. Nice work, but not yet worth of change. DRDOS and PTSDOS are
still my choices.
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>Hope this helps[/color]
Not really, thanks anyway.
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>Dominique[/color]
Markku Lehikoinen

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:38:17 -0700, "Dan Ferguson"
<dferguson@lynx.net> wrote:
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>AFIAK, BBE 4.2 is basically NDO 2000, with all the Tva Katter patches added
>and the buggier NDO bits removed like the PDF reader...[/color]
OK, thanks. Anyway, I am going to make remarkable increase to GEOs
sales and try this BBE. Dollars are so cheaps in these days. Only
handful of euro coins.

Markku Lehikoinen