FUN500
Graphical User Interface for MS-DOS
This is FUN500 GUI for DOS v6.3 from 2011.
It's a rather simple GUI that seems to have been done by someone who had some programming experience, rather than a beginner seeing what they could achieve in Basic.
Bundled with it are a File Manager, Paint program, Calculator, RSS reader and a Web Browser (QML) - and also a Text viewer that isn't shown as an option anywhere but is used to display file content.
It also has a configuration utility that lets you change GUI colours and screen resolution, which is unusual for a hobbyist GUI.
Runs DOS programs just fine from the File Manager window.
The main drawback with this is that the font size is very small and becomes a bit of a pain to read - very quickly.
Perhaps if you were running this native on a 17" display that wouldn't be so much of an issue but in a VM with the standard 640x480 screen resolution it's a bit of a pain.
That aside, it's a pretty reasonable build of a simple yet functional GUI that doesn't seem to have gone ahead.
The GUI will load on startup.
If you need to restart it, cd to C:\FUN500 and run "cwsdpmi" first, then run "F56".
As well as the VHD I've also uploaded a zip with the install files.
If you want to install for yourself, it's a drag and drop install, so just drop the files into C:\FUN500.
The VHD was created using VirtualBox 6.1.26.
< Click here to download the VHD > < Click here to download the install files as a .zip >
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