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RE: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT

by Hey Matthew

As far as i can tell, the patents don't stop the use of the FAT file system layout or structures, they only relate to the creation of long file names. Therefore we can still use FAT and even 'read' long file names, but just not generate them without infingement. -----Original Message----- From: Vizzini [mailto:vizzini@plasmic.com] Sent: Friday, 5 December 2003 11:54 a.m. To: ros-general(a)reactos.com Subject: Re: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:03, Casper Hornstrup wrote: > http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp sigh... Looks pretty bad, actually. We're going to have to think about this. This patent really can't be licensed for use with a GPL'd operating system unless the fundamental terms are changed. CDs and DVDs would still be usable, and floppy disks might be if we don't implement any patented things (FAT existed in 1985, and all those patents are expired now). Things could get really sticky with digital cameras, mp3 players, etc... I'd be curious to see how RMS would respond to this. Steven, would you care to run this by him? Also, I fear that this is just the tip of the iceberg. MS also has a royalty deal on the website for ClearType, and I guarantee they have thousands of patents that cover all of the obvious things. I guess we'll just have to deal with them as they come up. A quick US patent database search shows 2,884 patents assigned to MS since 1976. On further review, it appears that every single one has issued since 1986, meaning that every one of them is valid and enforcable. Joy. -Vizzini _______________________________________________ ros-general mailing list ros-general(a)reactos.com http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general This communication is confidential and may contain privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy or retain it. If you have received it in error please immediately notify me by return email and delete the emails. Thank you.

21 years

mplayer mingw binary test

by Tobias Ussing

I haven't currently got reactos installed, so if someone is interested in testing mplayer, here is a link for the win32 version, not sure if its binary or source: http://mplayer.ethz.ch/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/ This is for sse support http://mplayer.ethz.ch/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/mplayer-mingw32-dev-CVS-… This is generic http://mplayer.ethz.ch/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/mplayer-mingw32-dev-CVS-… There also is a gui, though its not needed. i recomend just trying the commandline http://mplayer.ethz.ch/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/mplayer-wingui-preview.z… btw. in linux atleast, the command line supports vesa. So a X enviroment isn't needed. might also work in win32, and thus also possibly in reactos. I would really like to know if its working, but currently haven't got the time to test it. Sincerly A Bastard Commie _________________________________________________________________ Få alle de nye og sjove ikoner med MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.dk

21 years

A bit of publicity for ReactOS :)

by Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood

I wrote to this magazine a while ago about ReactOS. The January 2004 issue of Personal Computer World has a screenshot of ReactOS running Solitaire and some text. The magazine cover and the bit about ReactOS are attached (or appear as inline pictures, for those of you with HTML mail readers.) Hopefully this should get more people interested in ReactOS. I've found PCW Magazine a useful way to get more people interested in my own projects (I'm still getting people requesting registration codes for something I had on their cover CD over half a year ago!) This issue is out in the UK now (a month earlier than the issue date, as always, for some bizarre reason.) It'll probably take another month or so to reach the rest of the world. ReactOS is mentioned in the Windows 2000 "hands on" column, on page 231.

21 years

AVI video playback under ROS --- now possible (first time ever under ROS :-) )

by Aleksey Bragin

Hello, I've been working for the last two years creating a videoplayer, which can play AVI file on virtually any Windows OS (excluding 3.11 and below) and MacOS X. And my first wish was to extend this to allow playback even under so early OS as ReactOS. And now my dream came true. I have created a special, 'lite' version of the videoplayer, which plays DIVX4-encoded AVI-files under ReactOS. Certainly, I needed to 'hack' it a bit so it works under ROS -- like remove common dialogs support (though AFAIK we have comdlg32.dll from Wine), and leaving out bare playback mechanism along with OpenDivX decoder (source code available at www.opendivx.org or www.projectmayo.org). The player itself can be downloaded from here: http://quake.msk.ru/VPLite.rar (please, read enclosed readme.txt file, since it contains some legal stuff --- really just a few sentences which I must write since not-lite version is a commercial product, which can't be distributed). As for AVI, you can playback any one, which is DIVX4-encoded. Just for example, I uploaded the file - http://quake.msk.ru/me1-compr.avi (2 Mb), but please, don't make any screenshots of it, it's actually me shot by a videocamera some years ago, in a very home environment, and in any way really not for broad audience :). I just couldn't find another divx4 right now on my computer. You will probably encounter a lot of bugs, which are mostly related to unimplemented parts of ROS. Known limitations: To watch video you must have 32bpp video mode set (like vmx_svga driver, or any other, but I doubt vgamp.sys will work). Only DIV4 supported Video image isn't resized if you resize windows (absence of StretchDIBits() ) many others probably. Let me know of any problems though :) With the best regards, Aleksey Bragin. P.S. I congratualate all americans here on the list with the Thanksgiving day!!!

21 years

Re: [ros-general] AVI video playback under ROS --- now possible (firsttime ever under ROS :-) )

by Tobias Ussing

Im pretty sure the linux mplayer is being ported to windows, and im also rather sure that they do have a working player for windows, atleast it worked once. Not to ruin your work, but i think it would be a better idea to get mplayer working, especially since it supports virtually all usable formats. Quicktime, realmedia(video and audio), sørensen(i belive all of them), wmv(all of them), mpeg1-2. divx, xvid, and some others. Good work in the player :D looks nice. Sincerly A Bastard Commie >From: "Aleksey Bragin" <aleksey(a)studiocerebral.com> >To: <ros-general(a)reactos.com> >Subject: [ros-general] AVI video playback under ROS --- now possible >(firsttime ever under ROS :-) ) >Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:02:45 +0300 > > Hello, >I've been working for the last two years creating a videoplayer, which can >play AVI file on virtually any Windows OS (excluding 3.11 and below) and >MacOS X. And my first wish was to extend this to allow playback even under >so early OS as ReactOS. > >And now my dream came true. I have created a special, 'lite' version of the >videoplayer, which plays DIVX4-encoded AVI-files under ReactOS. >Certainly, I needed to 'hack' it a bit so it works under ROS -- like remove >common dialogs support (though AFAIK we have comdlg32.dll from Wine), and >leaving out bare playback mechanism along with OpenDivX decoder (source >code >available at www.opendivx.org or www.projectmayo.org). > >The player itself can be downloaded from here: >http://quake.msk.ru/VPLite.rar (please, read enclosed readme.txt file, >since >it contains some legal stuff --- really just a few sentences which I must >write since not-lite version is a commercial product, which can't be >distributed). > >As for AVI, you can playback any one, which is DIVX4-encoded. >Just for example, I uploaded the file - http://quake.msk.ru/me1-compr.avi >(2 >Mb), but please, don't make any screenshots of it, it's actually me shot by >a videocamera some years ago, in a very home environment, and in any way >really not for broad audience :). I just couldn't find another divx4 right >now on my computer. > > >You will probably encounter a lot of bugs, which are mostly related to >unimplemented parts of ROS. > >Known limitations: >To watch video you must have 32bpp video mode set (like vmx_svga driver, or >any other, but I doubt vgamp.sys will work). >Only DIV4 supported >Video image isn't resized if you resize windows (absence of >StretchDIBits() ) >many others probably. > > >Let me know of any problems though :) > > >With the best regards, >Aleksey Bragin. > >P.S. >I congratualate all americans here on the list with the Thanksgiving day!!! > >_______________________________________________ >ros-general mailing list >ros-general(a)reactos.com >http://reactos.geldorp.nl:8080/mailman/listinfo/ros-general _________________________________________________________________ Få alle de nye og sjove ikoner med MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.dk

21 years

Linux builing ...

by Ciobanu Alexander

Are there some FAQ's on how to build ROS on linux ? I mean what do i require and things like that ... Thanx, Alex

21 years

FW: Intresting page

by Ge van Geldorp

This appeared on wine-devel, I think it's quite a nice site. > -----Original Message----- > From: wine-devel-admin(a)winehq.org > [mailto:wine-devel-admin@winehq.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Leo > Murray-Smith > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 21:23 > To: wine-devel > Subject: Intresting page > > > Lists (And screenshots) of lots of stuff m$ never released, > like windows neptune, Whistler Advanced Server, Cairo, > Nashville (Windows 96), windows titanium, windows 99, > and more. > http://ad-iso.mine.nu/~air101/ > > > >

21 years

Broad support of graphics cards

by Hey Matthew

Perhaps one of the graphics gurus (maybe Ge or Jason) could take a look at scitech SNAP graphics architecture, which has a Win32 interface. Its dual licensed, one of which is LGPL. This way we could ship the setup/installer with 150+ graphics cards in the reactos package, allowing broad support for all the latest graphics cards. (Afterwards the user could download and use a native Win32 driver if they required) Linux devices has a small article on this system: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3993798135.html This communication is confidential and may contain privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy or retain it. If you have received it in error please immediately notify me by return email and delete the emails. Thank you.

21 years

dlls...

by Richard Campbell

Could someone post a link to the dlls to make explorer work? i'd like to work on improving compatibility between it and reactos.

21 years, 1 month

GUI consoles

by Ge van Geldorp

I've implemented GUI consoles in CSRSS, see attached screenshot. If you do nothing special, you're still launched into a text-mode console, the blue screen we all know and love. If you rename /ReactOS/system32/drivers/blue.sys to blue.sys.save you will be launched into a graphical console. There are still loads of problems. The biggest is that keyboard focus is not restored when a program exits. So, from the GUI console you can start e.g. winhello, but when you close winhello you won't be able to type anything else in the console window. Activating windows by clicking on them is also not implemented yet. You can't close a graphical console by clicking on the "X", it doesn't know how to terminate the processes running inside it yet. The console code is a bit of a mess and needs to be cleaned up, it's also one of the worst offenders with respect to indenting. Gé van Geldorp.

21 years, 1 month

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