Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-09-17 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote: At 06:20 PM 9/16/2011, Rugxulo wrote: DOS to most people means MS-DOS, which is indeed long dead. So is any other DOS. In a technical sense at least. DR-DOS is dead, PC-DOS is dead, PT-DOS is apparently dead as well... And FreeDOS original goal was

[Freedos-devel] How does the boot sector know the partition start

2011-09-17 Thread Decheng Fan
Hello everybody, Recently I read about two examples of MBR boot code. One is Windows 98 MBR (not yet finished reading), another is Minix MBR (almost finished reading). The Minix MBR seems more advanced, but let me skip this for now. I see the MBR code essentially loads the boot sector of the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-17 Thread Jim Michaels
I am getting timeouts on that server. both web server and ftp server are dead. Status:    Waiting to retry... Status:    Resolving address of ftp.sysdev.org Status:    Connecting to :21... Status:    Connection attempt failed with ETIMEDOUT - Connection attempt timed out. Error:    Could not

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-17 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 11:14 AM 9/17/2011, Jim Michaels wrote: I am getting timeouts on that server. both web server and ftp server are dead. Yeah, looks like they closed the FTP server... is there a web site? all I can find is VMIX the video mixer. Could it possibly cross your mind to try sysdev.org? :? Ralf

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bad dates / false updates in Software List

2011-09-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=base The list pretends many things (HIMEMX, FREECOM, DISKCOPY, ...) to have been updated recently 2011, but this is not true. As mentioned, it's because the date is from when the LSM

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-17 Thread Jim Michaels
you are right, I am wrong. I've been wrong before. somehow I thought someone had said the project was on sourceforge.  (sf.net)  many projects on sf.net also have their own regular web sites. From: Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net To: Jim Michaels