Hi,
Le 07/11/2018 à 16:01, Rugxulo a écrit :
> Hi, Jim,
>
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 6:50 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>>
>> I have been working to create a list of packages for FreeDOS 1.3.
>>
>> I mentioned back in June (as part of a discussion thread about "Removing
>> non-free packages")
>> that I
Hi there,
we had a nice talk about DOSemu and FreeDOS last year, but maybe someone
wants to talk about other FreeDOS topics next?
François.
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Date : Sun, 28 Oct 2018 23:12:58 +0100
De :
On 04/05/2012 07:01, Martin Kelly wrote:
Thanks Jim for your encouragement and support. What your suggesting is an
interesting idea, like Pat Villani's original idea of implementing FreeBSD
drivers into DOS. This idea intrigues me alot, i am a big BSD fan especially
NetBSD and DragonflyBSD,
On 02/05/2012 21:29, Georg Potthast wrote:
I agree with Eric. Some additional points:
You could write a 64bit DOS extender but you would also have to change e.g.
Watcom C or DJGPP to work with a 64bit DOS extender or you cannot write
application programs in C or C++ using 64bit. Also while
Le 21/09/2011 06:48, Decheng Fan a écrit :
Hi,
Thank you for so detailed explanation! This helps me a lot! I'll take time
to read it more carefully and search through the Web for clearer
understanding. Thanks again.
IIRC there is a convention that the MBR partition info (somewhere in the
Le 13/09/2011 15:37, Tom Ehlert a écrit :
An easy way to get there, of course, is by simply using instances
of a lightweight VM emulator like DOSemu, on a stripped down version
of Linux. An even better way would be to support true multitasking.
But I would be thrilled if we provided even task
Maybe there could be some common developments...
François.
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Sujet: [vbox-dev] win 95/98 guest additions ?
Date : Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:30:05 -0700 (PDT)
De : Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com
Pour : vbox-...@virtualbox.org
We are exploring the possibility of
Le 05/09/2011 20:52, Bernd Blaauw a écrit :
Op 5-9-2011 20:39, iw2evk schreef:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdisWrapper
why possible in linux and not under DOS?
Because of manpower, working in protected mode etc? DOS is a realmode
operating system. Best option I know is shims around
Hi,
Le 23/08/2011 13:32, iw2evk a écrit :
Hi,
a greath problem with freedos it's the lack of drivers for new hardware .
I.e.
For wifi only 11Mb pcmcia exist.
No drivers for wifi usb key or umts wifi key.
Anothers lack it's a free Usb cd rom drivers.
Others item are : scanners,
Le 08/08/2011 09:20, Jim Michaels a écrit :
the folks who gave us IPV6 gave us IPV6 for *corporate and enterprise*
entities who need large blocks of IP addresses, with the needs for tunneling
and so on. their reaction to home users requests for IPV6 was Home Users?
you mean there are home
Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 à 14:36 -0500, Jim Hall a écrit :
Blackout has a gif2raw that's available as binary-only. The
documentation indicates that source code is NOT available for gif2raw,
so I separated this out of the zip file, and left the sources and
other source-provided binaries. (Ok
Le mardi 05 juillet 2011 à 03:23 -0500, Rugxulo a écrit :
That's not helping a hey
let's boot from floppy, configure internet access and install from
downloaded/mounted ISO file
Floppies just don't hold enough. Add to that the fact that they fail
semi-frequently, and you have a
Le mardi 05 juillet 2011 à 15:17 -0500, Rugxulo a écrit :
http://www.torlus.com/floppy/
Good to know (SD card reader / USB floppy emulator hardware), but
there's still probably some drawbacks.
I've got a USB floppy drive, and it works with FreeDOS, but other
non-BIOS-using OSes need
Le samedi 02 juillet 2011 à 09:32 -0500, Michael B. Brutman a écrit :
Thanks for the plugs for mTCP - I am buried in work and away from email
for a good part of the day.
There are a lot more WATTCP apps out there because WATTCP has been
around a lot longer, and there is a benefit to that
Le 24 févr. 2011 à 06:30, Jim Michaels a écrit :
I expect it to be able to do something to make dpmi work. but all dpmi fails
under vbox.
vbox said it supported dpmi, but it doesn't. I get failures from djgpp's
runtime, and I even installed himem.exe in c:\config.sys
Where did you
Le 12 févr. 2011 à 13:39, Liam Proven a écrit :
VirtualBox OSE no longer exists as of VirtualBox 4. The whole product
is now FOSS and the small proprietary components are bundled into
extra Additions, such as USB2 support for guest OSs.
As a result, all of VirtualBox 4 is free and Free.
Le 12 févr. 2011 à 22:09, Rugxulo a écrit :
There are several dialects of Pascals for DOS. And don't forget
Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon. Unfortunately, most are abandoned. But
yeah, I agree, C is weird. Nevertheless, the FreeDOS kernel uses it.
(VirtualBox probably uses C++, but I forget
Le 2 févr. 2011 à 05:22, dos386 a écrit :
In some countries, at least France, it is illegal to force people
to buy 2 things when they only want one.
COOL :-)
So you can acheter a PC without Windaube en France?
In theory yes.
In practice, the 15y ongoing fight has finally led to some
Le 10 janv. 2011 à 01:57, Aitor Santamaría a écrit :
Hello Eric,
2010/5/14 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de:
Hi Jim,
I have a problem. the only OS microsoft offers now is windows 7.
machines from HP only have drivers for windows 7. I want XP. so I
am up a creek without a paddle trying
Le Thu, 13 May 2010 10:25:40 -0700 (PDT), Jim Michaels a écrit :
can you point me to an emulator that has windows binaries that can be
used
by a business person for more than personal use
As was said, the GPL doesn't preclude any business use. It only imposes
duties (offering the source)
Hello,
This year, the FOSDEM (in Brussels, 6-7th February 2010) will host the
Alt-OS devroom on sunday from 9:00 to 17:00.
This devroom is meant as a place for Free and OpenSource Alternative
Operating System projects to share ideas and work on topics like:
* distinguishing design and
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