[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2015-01-31 Thread John Price
MONTHLY REMINDER FOR THE FREEDOS MAILING LISTS Hi! If you are new to the FreeDOS mailing lists, welcome! If you have been a list member for some time, then you can skip this as you should be familiar with the rules by now. --- The

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS install aborted into VirtualBox - Help please

2015-01-31 Thread Knute Myhrvold
Can you help, please?... I finally installed FreeDOS into VirtualBox, except at the very end of the install instead of the window where the instructions say "Now we boot FreeDOS in our virtual machine" (select "1")... instead of that the DOS window says "Bad or missing Command Interpreter: C:\FD

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS SVN 2041 and/or SVN 2042 (FcbParsename)

2015-01-31 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > How would I go about compiling a FAT 16 kernel with the same patch - or do > Messrs. Rugxulo or Davis have one already compiled. I am working on my own > rendition of Carbon OS and need it for a "lab experiment". > Thank you. What exact

Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)

2015-01-31 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> I have an assortment of sites bookmarked that make effective use of >> Flash, but Flash is an option, and they can be used without it. >> (The sites are art, design, and fashion sites... > > Please give some example what they do with flash. Do

Re: [Freedos-user] dosbox

2015-01-31 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from dmccunney and Ralf Quint: > >> > You may want to look at vDOS instead. vDOS is a fork of DOSBox, >> > specifically intended to run character mode DOS business apps on >> > Windows. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/ >> >> +1 v

Re: [Freedos-user] Clock

2015-01-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On 1/29/2015 9:24 PM, Michael Brutman wrote: > > Let's think about this critically. Is somebody really going to use a > > personal computer or a virtual machine running DOS to perform the > > functions of an alarm clock in the year 2015? > Well, if you look at everything this way, you could ask

Re: [Freedos-user] dosbox

2015-01-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
from dmccunney and Ralf Quint: > > You may want to look at vDOS instead. vDOS is a fork of DOSBox, > > specifically intended to run character mode DOS business apps on > > Windows. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/ > +1 vDOS is a much better choice than DOSBox if you do not intend to ru