dosbox and dos software
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Hi edu folks,
I recently found a great piece of educational software: rocky's boots.
It is an educational game created for the DOS platfrom in the 1980's by
'the learning company' that taught about logic circuts and won awards.
It seems to be avaiable to download and the author does not seem to mind
it, as far as I can tell. One of the two authors has a web site. I can
find it, if needed. There are other such DOS software out there. With
DOSBOX which is in Debian, I was able to play this. Is dosbox included
in the edu projects? If not, would it be within the project's goals to
include software (dosbox) that facilitates the use of software that
Debian can not distribute but the end-user can obtain? Would that be
classified as a 'non-free' repo?
If someone can persuade the authors to 'free' the dos code, would that
be the only acceptable option? Is it possible to produce a DFSG or GPL
version of dos code that works on a DOS emulator? Or would the objective
be to port the DOS code to a GNU/Linux version which might be harder?
Cheers,
Kev
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