Re: [Freedos-devel] Bare Metal installation of FreeDOS

2021-12-27 Thread richardkolacz...@hotmail.com
Jerome Wilhelm Just to let you know how I went with FD RC5 bare metal installation only on usb stick. Summary - Rufus formatted FAT32 16 GByte usb flash drive -> c:\ 512 Mbyte d:\ 14000 MByte which so far seems to boot up OK. If you are interested, the following link is camera screenshots

[Freedos-devel] Working on a new game

2021-12-27 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone! Just wanted to share that I started working on a little game. It's a match-3 game, but not exactly another Bejeweled clone. This one is player vs player. You take turns selecting a single gem on the board. That gem is destroyed (the gems above it drop down to fill in the gap). You

Re: [Freedos-devel] Two remarks about FreeDOS 1.3 RC5

2021-12-27 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Juan, > Hello. > > I can access the site without any issues at all but anyway an > alternative location is: > ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/languages/djgpp/current/v2tk/l290d10b.zip > ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/languages/djgpp/current/v2tk/l290d10d.zip >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Two remarks about FreeDOS 1.3 RC5

2021-12-27 Thread Juan Manuel Guerrero
Am Sun, 26 Dec 2021 11:25:22 -0500 schrieb Jerome Shidel : > Hi, > > > The second issue is that the DJGPP port of lynx distributed with > > RC5 is broken. As I have announced in: > > https://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp/2021/12/02/18:54:50 > > the fixed port is available as: > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bare Metal installation of FreeDOS

2021-12-27 Thread richardkolacz...@hotmail.com
Jerome I think I may have worked out what the error with RUFUS was all about. I went into Windows anti-virus (AV) and set up RUFUS.exe as an "exclusion file". Re-ran the RUFUS formatting exercise on the usb stick and this time NO ERRORS. Below is a simple DIR of my usb stick Volume in

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Bare Metal installation of FreeDOS

2021-12-27 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
rufus makes usb sticks bootable with freedos command.com and kernel, or when installing linux with syslinux or something like this. so you should see c: when booting from usb, but i assume with an older kernel. nothing else. if there is a big img file on the stick, it will not start all

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bare Metal installation of FreeDOS

2021-12-27 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hello, > On Dec 27, 2021, at 7:41 AM, richardkolacz...@hotmail.com wrote: > > Jerome > > > Thanks for your detailed instructions - HOWEVER nothing seemed to work for > me. > > > With my Windows 10 computer, I could not even get to any install screen (for > FD13 RC5), even IF I wanted to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bare Metal installation of FreeDOS

2021-12-27 Thread richardkolacz...@hotmail.com
Jerome Thanks for your detailed instructions - HOWEVER nothing seemed to work for me. With my Windows 10 computer, I could not even get to any install screen (for FD13 RC5), even IF I wanted to use full install USB stick for hard drive install (maybe I just misunderstood your instructions).