Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use DOS a.k.a. FreeDOS for Dummies?
Jim Hall [01.05.2021 23:00]: > BTW, if anyone is interested in troff (or variants) there's an > interesting history in Brian Kernighan's book, "Unix: A History and a > Memoir." It starts on page 98. In brief: Anyone remotely interested in the history of Unix must read this book. -- Hilsen Harald ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review
Deposite Pirate [29.04.2021 19:20]: > April 29, 2021 6:32 PM, "geneb" wrote: >> On the surface of it, he's apparently asking for a "windows experience" in a >> text mode operating >> system. DOS isn't a "point and drool your way to fame and fortune" operating >> system. If he thinks >> this is bad, he'd have a stroke when presented with a non-graphical UNIX >> system. ;) > > The FreeDOS install system is the worst I've ever seen of all DOSes because > it's merely a bunch of > batch scripts (which are going to be slower) and not a proper C or assembly > program like DR/PC/MS-DOS. I shouldn't think that would matter much. Most of the time is spent on unzipping the various programs anyway. -- Hilsen Harald ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] DOS was dead...
Liam Proven [15.04.2021 16:34]: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 14:49, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> >> A while back, I was looking for a distro that still actively supported >> 32-bit hardware. Most mainstream distros have >> moved to 64-bit only. However, out of the ones I’ve tried that still do >> 32-bit, most seem sluggish at best. > > Interesting. I have a Sony Vaio P sub-netbook that only has a 32-bit > CPU. I tried: > • MX Linux (worked, has what I consider bloat and wasn't as > customisable as I would like) > • Crunchbang++ (very small text, not as lightweight as original > CrunchBang: ±210-200MB RAM in use) > • Raspberry Pi Desktop x86 (very customisable, full desktop, and used > less RAM than CB++ (±205MB) I would try Void Linux and Alpine Linux on such hardware. -- Hilsen Harald ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search
E. Auer [08.10.2020 13:48]: > Harald, thank you for your offer to extract data from my CP/M floppies! > > Going through the link list from Rugxulo, I found out that both cpmtools > and 22DISK offer dozens of possible formats, but to my surprise, none > of them seemed to work?? However, *AnaDisk* is able to check which types > and numbers of sectors exist on each track of a floppy and assuming that > using Win98 as host OS was acceptable, it manages to extract a confusing > pile of sectors from each of the CP/M floppies. I still have to figure > out whether there is sense in that data or whether I should rather seek > help from Harald and his special hardware. For now, I will pause > attempts I tried the Kryoflux, but wasn't able to read my testdisks. It may be that the floppy drive is bad. I think I have a couple others lying somewhere, but I have to go through some boxes to find them. -- Hilsen Harald ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FDD issue
dmccunney [20.09.2020 01:36]: > I have feelers out to folks who also have old hardware. I suspect I > can solve the problem by throwing money at it, and shipping the > Seagate drives to a contractor who can extract the contents and save > it to a USB flash drive. Once that's done, the old XT clone can go > away. (The XT clone hasn't even been booted in 20 years, and there > are no security concerns about anything on the drives. The XT *will > boot - I believe I still have a compatible keyboard and I can plug a > monitor into the VGA port. But I had to have the case open and a fan > blowing on it the last time I booted it because another card had > overheating problems, and even if I boot it and copy data off to 5.25" > floppies, I have no way to read them. It predates the Internet and I > can't connect it to my local network, nor is there anything I can call > via a modem and upload to.) If you have a newer computer that has a serial port, you can connect the two via a null-modem cable. -- Hilsen Harald ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] BASIC
Mateusz Viste [28/08/2020 16.55]: >> I would like to some BASIC programming but don't know what to use. > I recommend FreeBASIC (fbc), it's truly an awesome compiler. It features > a "quickbasic-compatibility" switch if you prefer to stay with old-style > basic. Quite compatible with QBasic, and generally faster than the interpreters...except when you try to use PRINT TAB and similar. -- Hilsen Harald ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC
Random Liegh via Freedos-user [23.05.2020 21:26]: > I agree with this being a better alternative to bwbasic, of course since > both are small and open source I'd request that you include both. Not better (since bwbasic is cross-platform), but an alternative. And more compatible with old BASIC programs. -- Hilsen Harald ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC
Jim Hall [22.05.2020 14:17]: > As for GW-BASIC, FreeDOS already includes other BASIC interpreters and > compilers with equivalent or better functionality, so I don't know that > we need to add GW-BASIC. I'm not a BASIC programmer, so I'm open to > suggestion on this. There's pros and cons either way (a big pro is > compatibility, a big con is I suspect no one has GW-BASIC files laying > around). Oh yes, there are tons of old GW-BASIC games and other stuff around. -- Hilsen Harald ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] HP11 Streamer?
dmccunney [04.05.2020 03:52]: > Have fun. EP was originally written for an 8 bit Atari microcomputer ^ Altair -- Hilsen Harald ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
