Omuletzu: On
Dave's page, which you linked to yourself, there are links to
psview and
xpdf, which both claims to be able to read pdf files, although I havent tried them myself.
However I found
this link to Acrobat Reader 1.0 for DOS! This is the same one that came with my Syndicate installation, and at least it works with the pdf file I got with that game. Not sure about newer files, though...
And Eagle: I don't entirely agree that abandonia is primarily for those who didn't play those games, but for a large part it's also for nostalgia for us who DID play a lot of those games. And I think the games should be provided as original as possible, maybe zipped install disks, so it indeed could be installed and played on old computers. Hacks for making them playable on modern-day computers should be included in the archives or be available as extras.
On an end not I'd also like to mension that I have an option to dualboot my XP-system to
MS-DOS 7.1 (site seems to be down) and it works quite well. I use
mo'slo for games/progs that can't handle fast computers, and sometimes patch exe's with
CRT-fix for those runtime 200's. I can even use
Arachne web browser for dos on my ADSL! Only trouble is sometimes with VESA 2.0 games not handling my Geforce 4 card...
Of course Dosbox 0.63 is handy for staying in XP
k:
-Herman