Dukonnector or How to hijack a thread and bitch about $#!+
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Dukonnector or How to hijack a thread and bitch about $#!+
Hunting around for DOSBox utilities, I came across this little ditty. The author, aaBlueDragon, makes note of writing up new version of the connector with Hamachi like features to alleviate the port forwarding issues. Might be something to watch.
Last edited by DustyStyx on Fri Oct 05, 2007 04:41 am, edited 1 time in total.
Then again aaBlueDragon redistributed Doom2.wad on his site at one point and still has DosboxEasy around (which is a dosbox bundled with illegal full scftware like norton commander plus the drive is mounted directly to C:\).
Not really promising.
Not really promising.
Sorry to say this, because I got confused about some facts, but...
About Norton Commander,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander
They claim it's license free, IDK about that
And he didn't even need to ask for permission about using DosBox & DB Easy, do he?
Even so, what about mounting to C:\? makes thing quick & happens to be less of a problem
Doom2.wad at one point, back the days Steam had not its fangs on itleileilol wrote:Then again aaBlueDragon redistributed Doom2.wad on his site at one point and still has DosboxEasy around (which is a dosbox bundled with illegal full scftware like norton commander plus the drive is mounted directly to C:\)
About Norton Commander,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander
They claim it's license free, IDK about that
And he didn't even need to ask for permission about using DosBox & DB Easy, do he?
Even so, what about mounting to C:\? makes thing quick & happens to be less of a problem
Sure.leileilol wrote:Not really promising.
:facepalm:NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO REDISTRIBUTE COPYRIGHTED COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE WITHOUT PERMISSION, THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS INCIDENTAnonymous wrote: Doom2.wad at one point, back the days Steam had not its fangs on it
:facepalm:NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO REDISTRIBUTE COPYRIGHTED COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE WITHOUT PERMISSION AND EVEN WORSE MERGING IT WITH FREE SOFTWAREAnonymous wrote: About Norton Commander,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander
They claim it's license free, IDK about that
:facepalm:NO ONE ADVISES THAT, BECAUSE IT IS RETARDED, AND UNSAFE, AND DOSBOX ALSO WARNS ABOUT IT, AS WELL AS THE MANUAL.Anonymous wrote: Even so, what about mounting to C:\? makes thing quick & happens to be less of a problem
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I assume there's some gripe about Steam having its fangs in Doom? Doesn't matter, doom2.wad is still a part of Doom 2 and still under Doom 2's license (the media license, not the GPL). If you want it you buy it. If you can't buy it, you go without.
The links on that Norton Commander page link to abandonware sites. There is no such licence as Abandonware; all they are doing is redistributing copyrighted material. Unless Symantec come out and say "it's free, go grab it and spread it around" then it's not legal.
Mounting to C:\ is problematic because it introduces read/write access to the host OS files. Yes, you could go and delete and screw up files anyway, but a virtual OS gives one more level of ignorance to the user. Plus, if something screws up with the virtual mount you put your host OS at risk. Anyone remember the first version of Nero 7 (think it was 7)? It had a feature where you set your temporary folder and it would automatically clear it; it just so happened it would let you set C:\ as a folder option....
I assume there's some gripe about Steam having its fangs in Doom? Doesn't matter, doom2.wad is still a part of Doom 2 and still under Doom 2's license (the media license, not the GPL). If you want it you buy it. If you can't buy it, you go without.
The links on that Norton Commander page link to abandonware sites. There is no such licence as Abandonware; all they are doing is redistributing copyrighted material. Unless Symantec come out and say "it's free, go grab it and spread it around" then it's not legal.
Mounting to C:\ is problematic because it introduces read/write access to the host OS files. Yes, you could go and delete and screw up files anyway, but a virtual OS gives one more level of ignorance to the user. Plus, if something screws up with the virtual mount you put your host OS at risk. Anyone remember the first version of Nero 7 (think it was 7)? It had a feature where you set your temporary folder and it would automatically clear it; it just so happened it would let you set C:\ as a folder option....
Correct, and ID f*** up all the fun of Doom by not letting it be Abandonware anymoreKazashi wrote:I assume there's some gripe about Steam having its fangs in Doom? Doesn't matter, doom2.wad is still a part of Doom 2 and still under Doom 2's license (the media license, not the GPL). If you want it you buy it. If you can't buy it, you go without
Huh. well, on EVERY Wiki, they say IT IS, don't ask MEKazashi wrote:The links on that Norton Commander page link to abandonware sites. There is no such licence as Abandonware; all they are doing is redistributing copyrighted material. Unless Symantec come out and say "it's free, go grab it and spread it around" then it's not legal
Oh, yeah?Kazashi wrote:Mounting to C:\ is problematic because it introduces read/write access to the host OS files. Yes, you could go and delete and screw up files anyway, but a virtual OS gives one more level of ignorance to the user. Plus, if something screws up with the virtual mount you put your host OS at risk.
Remote PC control! lolz, that got owned by OpenWindows best flaw
Anonymous wrote:Correct, and ID f*** up all the fun of Doom by not letting it be Abandonware anymoreKazashi wrote:I assume there's some gripe about Steam having its fangs in Doom? Doesn't matter, doom2.wad is still a part of Doom 2 and still under Doom 2's license (the media license, not the GPL). If you want it you buy it. If you can't buy it, you go without