Do you fancy antique PC's? Like with a diskette, maybe not even something as high-tech as a CD-ROM? Here are 12 diskettes -- one bootup diskette which can format the PC which might have something like two-three dozen of megabytes RAM (and an optional CDROM which can be activated later). Type MONET for some info on what's what in it. You can do three elementary things here: (1) sketch drawings which are inputted into a full-fledged Lisa PC in a mini-lab. For this, type FIRTHLIS LISA/NOD501 when it has been installed. All installation is explained by the bootup-diskette -- it will boot from the harddisk after install. After starting the low-ram NOD501, you can type LAB (or, for a version of Lisa's sketcher, SKETCHER). In the LAB, press ENTER to save drawing, F11 to load, PgUp and PgDn to see several drawings (up to 3 rather than 150 in this mini-version) simultaneously. (2) the grand command TEXT works also here as in the full version Lisa_OAC. (3) while it is not any game like the MANGLOV/ON.TXT example included here (for they require more RAM and speed), you can certainly experiment with many important elements of Lisa_cd programming (e.g., FIRTHLIS LISA/NOD501 followed by :TIMING IN brings up the timer program listed on the front-page of yoga4d.org, while followed by :TRANSFER IN brings up a 3-sketches max mini-version of the Transfer program which can merge sketches; NOD501.TXT contains some a dozen or so modifications of NOD.TXT to save RAM). Some degree of Vesa1-compatibility is necessary; laptops pre-2000 vary on this point. You'll have to test. LISAPORT REDISTRIBUTION? Distribute it only alongside the full version of the Lisa cd platform for art environment programming -- for only the full version has all associated acknowledgements, licenses, sources and so on. On the other hand, in some areas, where current telephone lines barely accomodate a download of a diskette (1.44 MB) sized thing, and a gigabyte download is, for a good while, completely out of the question, then some extent of moderate redistribution is acceptable given suitable links directly to the big version here at http://www.yoga4d.org/lisa, with the intent of getting the full version in due time, and done respectfully of all the GNU GPL work inside. HOW TO INSTALL IT: Get this file: ===========> lisaport.img (bootup image for 1.44MB floppy) and, if you have available something like the original msdos, use this program: ===========> diskcopy.exe and, though they are also on the diskette, you might want keep this in same folder as well: ===========> henni.exe ===========> elisabet.exe ===========> d.exe (ram handling) ===========> cwsdpmi.exe (same) ===========> unzip.exe ===========> format.exe (as said, all acknowledgements, sources where relevant, licenses etc in the full version; the henni and elisabet are programs I have written myself) and insert a blank diskette (maybe do a DIR A: followed by a FORMAT A:/U to clear it, or format it in another platform to standard 1.44 MB PC format first), and type DISKCOPY LISAPORT.IMG A: (Try maybe type CMD or COMMAND to a MsWindows 'Run This Program' window to get a DOS Command prompt line, the DISKCOPY.EXE is very compatible.) When done, it should boot any normal antique PC. It has a REM word (for REMark) in front of those parts of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS which refer to CD to save memory and avoid startup messages which are irritating if there is no CD. If you for some reason must enable CD at once, edit these two in a text editor on another platform first, so that the REM words are taken out and the remnants of those few lines which begin with them are sustained -- they are thereby activated, and the CD will be available by DIR D: (or DIR C: or the like before fixing up the harddisk). The diskette, when it boots the PC, will explain exactly how to install to the PC. It will ask you to use diskettes which has these files -- so you will maybe need 11 more diskettes, so twelve in all: (note that the following files aren't really .zip files, but only parts of them, glued together by my henni program, so don't try to unzip them independently). ===========> tiny1.zip (within 1.44 MB) ===========> tiny2.zip ====== "" ====== ===========> tiny3.zip ====== "" ====== ===========> tiny4.zip ====== "" ====== ===========> tiny5.zip ====== "" ====== ===========> tiny6.zip ====== "" ====== ===========> tiny7.zip ====== "" ====== ===========> tiny8.zip ====== "" ====== ===========> tiny9.zip ====== "" ====== ===========> tiny10.zip ====== "" ====== ===========> tiny11.zip (smaller) Check that tiny1..tiny10 have exactly the same size. The completing one is smaller. When joined by henni they form an unzippable file and all this is explained the bootup diskette, which also has the unzipper and fdisk and so forth, as in the main platform with the modified and updated early-type freedos.org kernel. As said again and again, the full version has all proper licenses, acknowledgements and sources, and this is but a sample when PC size and/or internet bandwidth makes it important to go petite. That should be all! Hail the original PC standard! Stein H Reusch (alias HvW / AT)