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2015-02-08 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, From: dmccunney on 8 Feb 2015 15:14:17 -0500: > As mentioned, on the machine FreeDOS is installed on, I have > multiple partitions and file systems. When I set it up to begin > with, I assumed FreeDOS would use FAT16 and have the 2GB volume > size limit in consequence, so that determined the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Franta, > struct dosemu_detect { > char magic[8]; > unsigned char ver[4]; > }; > static struct dosemu_detect far *p = (void far*) 0xF000FFE0; Note that the way how you create far pointers can differ between compilers. In particular, with any 32

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-08 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > >> I'm trying to think of what I might store there using DOS that would *need* >> more space, and can't think of anything. > > Ha - I had 14gb allocated on my Compaq Armada 1750 and ran out of space > after discovering that it plays "tunes" (via

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-08 Thread Don Flowers
>I'm trying to think of what I might > store > there using DOS that would *need* more space, and can't think of > anything. Ha - I had 14gb allocated on my Compaq Armada 1750 and ran out of space after discovering that it plays "tunes" (via MPXPlay) better than any laptop I've ever owned, so it ha

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-08 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Hi all, I'm trying to write a small program that will distinguish whether running under dosemu/FreeDOS or not, and accordingly do other things. I ran into problems which I can not solve, so please, if someone here will be able to help. I'm using Open Watcom C 1.9 compiler on FreeDOS 1.1. And it is

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-08 Thread Dale E Sterner
Varies - takes almost anything. AVI movies get long and I use Quickview to watch them. DS On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 12:21:33 -0500 dmccunney writes: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Dale E Sterner > wrote: > > Most camera chips today exceed 2 gig. > > True. It might be fun to find a 2GB CF card

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-08 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Most camera chips today exceed 2 gig. True. It might be fun to find a 2GB CF card. Prices have been dropping and capacities increasing in flash media for years, and small models are at the point of being prizes in CrackerJax boxes. I got

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-08 Thread Dale E Sterner
I'm glad mine is doing so well. A big help at tax time. DS On Sat, 07 Feb 2015 06:10:56 + "Thomas Mueller" writes: > from Dale E Sterner and dmccunney: > > > > Qpro 3 works great. I hate to mess with sucess. Sometimes the > new version > > > isn't as good as the old - it happens. > > >

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-08 Thread Dale E Sterner
Most camera chips today exceed 2 gig. DS On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 21:18:55 -0500 dmccunney writes: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Dale E Sterner > wrote: > > > Freedos can give me fat 32 capabilities. Reading & writing to > bigger chips. > > Why would you *need* to? > > I still have my or