Thanks for the idea and an interesting web page, but this is a plain old
IDE CD-ROM.
On 5/18/2015 10:10 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/winimage
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com
mailto:donr...@gmail.com wrote:
If you have a
I just checked my only PC with a secondary master drive. If neither of the
two configurations work, on the batch file loading UIDE try loading
UDVD2.SYS instead.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:53 AM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote:
Secondary master.
On 5/18/2015 10:35 AM, Don Flowers
Many thaks for the links.
cheers
DS
On Mon, 18 May 2015 04:40:40 -0400 Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com writes:
Untested, but here's what is probably the public shareware version:
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/graph/sea13.zip
SEA v1.3 - Graphic Viewer/Converter for DOS
The oldie-but-goodie
Is it a slave or secondary master drive?
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote:
Thanks for the idea and an interesting web page, but this is a plain old
IDE CD-ROM.
On 5/18/2015 10:10 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/winimage
I found that link but tells me my karma is bad. The photodex phone number
is now a sex hot line for women.
cheers
DS
On Mon, 18 May 2015 03:45:29 -0400 Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com
writes:
I just found Sea Dos at Vetusware
http://vetusware.com/download/Sea%20Graphics%20Viewer%201.3/?id=4806
One of these two should work. These are batch files so rename them
accordingly.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it a slave or secondary master drive?
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com
wrote:
Thanks for the idea and
Secondary master.
On 5/18/2015 10:35 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
Is it a slave or secondary master drive?
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com
mailto:free...@prpcompany.com wrote:
Thanks for the idea and an interesting web page, but this is a
plain old IDE
Re: DOS AHCI driver - My driver is AHCI.SYS. I load it then UIDE followed
by SHCDX86.COM. This is the only configuration that works. BIOS has no
option besides ACHCI,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
Hi Mateusz,
as far as I know, UIDE now supports
http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/winimage
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
If you have a AHCI/SATA CD/DVD drive, try downloading the FreeDOS - SATA
for Ghost disk here, extract the AHCI.SYS driver and use the following
configuration.
@ECHO OFF
AHCI
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
Re: DOS AHCI driver - My driver is AHCI.SYS. I load it then UIDE followed
by SHCDX86.COM. This is the only configuration that works. BIOS has no
option besides ACHCI,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Eric Auer
If you have a AHCI/SATA CD/DVD drive, try downloading the FreeDOS - SATA
for Ghost disk here, extract the AHCI.SYS driver and use the following
configuration.
@ECHO OFF
SHCDX86.COM /QQ /U
IF NOT EXIST CDROM001 DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\AHCI.SYS /D:CDROM001 /H
IF NOT EXIST CDROM001 DEVLOAD /Q /H
I previously downloaded direct from the Intel site, but the link is now
broken. This link is for various FreeDOS boot disk images and the AHCI.SYS
driver is located on one.
http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/winimage
--
I tried updating to the latest uide.sys from
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/, but
I get the same error.
I also get the same error with the last version of xcdrom.sys.
Next-best solutions?
On 5/16/2015 5:34 PM, John Hupp wrote:
Hi, all.
It's been some
I just found Sea Dos at Vetusware
http://vetusware.com/download/Sea%20Graphics%20Viewer%201.3/?id=4806
http://vetusware.com/category/Multimedia/?cat=8page=11
I'll give it a try.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote:
Hi Dale,
I use the SEA DOS Viewer since
Thanks for your research Don. That's nice of course, but still doesn't
make it opensource, or even legal :)
cheers,
Mateusz
On 18/05/2015 09:57, Don Flowers wrote:
I just downloaded two versions of Sea from Vetusware - the Version 12c
is a shareware press space to continue and Version 13 is
Untested, but here's what is probably the public shareware version:
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/graph/sea13.zip
SEA v1.3 - Graphic Viewer/Converter for DOS
The oldie-but-goodie Display is also there, closed source (ugh):
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/graph/dispt5.exe
P.S. Someone remind me to try to
I just downloaded two versions of Sea from Vetusware - the Version 12c is a
shareware press space to continue and Version 13 is a patched version
with no nag-screen, no viruses were detected from either.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:45 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
I just found Sea Dos
Hi,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Guillem guilevi2...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been thinking of dualbooting my Windows PC with FreeDOS,
Why exactly? Although it's not a totally horrible idea, it's very
tedious and a bit technical. Not worth risking anything important. As
I told one guy
?!
2015-05-18 17:41 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone darioronco...@gmail.com:
Great1!
2015-05-18 15:33 GMT+02:00, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com:
AHCI
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
Re: DOS AHCI driver - My driver is AHCI.SYS. I load it then UIDE
followed
Make sure your (fd)config.sys has a line
LASTDRIVE=Z
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
I just checked my only PC with a secondary master drive. If neither of the
two configurations work, on the batch file loading UIDE try loading
UDVD2.SYS instead.
On
Your link goes to a blank page for me. Don't know why?
cheers
DS
On Mon, 18 May 2015 07:25:21 +0200 Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr
writes:
Hi Dale,
I use the SEA DOS Viewer since years, I have only the shareware
version
though, with the annoying Press F6 message at start. Must have
Great1!
2015-05-18 15:33 GMT+02:00, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com:
AHCI
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
Re: DOS AHCI driver - My driver is AHCI.SYS. I load it then UIDE
followed
by SHCDX86.COM. This is the only configuration that works. BIOS has no
Taking the next obvious step, I can even successfully condense the last
5 lines as below (which lets me access the drive as E:, not D:), but I
have not succeeded beyond that.
===
REM (some commands)
SHSUCDX /QQ /D3
LH SHSUCDHD /QQ /F:FDBOOTCD.ISO
REM (some commands)
REM
Thanks, that sort of works. Based on the cdrom.bat commands, this
snippet from my current autoexec.bat works:
===
REM (some commands)
SHSUCDX /QQ /D3
LH SHSUCDHD /QQ /F:FDBOOTCD.ISO
REM (some commands)
REM DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\BIN\UIDE.SYS /H /D:FDCD0001 /S5
DEVLOAD
If you have other partitions they will always be seen by FreeDOS diskinit
before any of your drivers are loaded therefore it is best to reassign your
drive letter. FreeDOS 1.1 uses a default of X: and I follow that
assignment. This will result in a consistent drive assignment for your CD.
Also
Point well taken about diskinit and a consistent drive assignment,
though in this case it will probably not matter.
I don't have any plan to boot CDROM images on this -- the FDBOOTCD.ISO
command was just part of the auto-installed configuration.
If I substitute SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,X /Q in
lifts hand from back of class
But that is what I seem to be missing about freedos.
I run DOS only, and have no interest in having 8 different operating
systems on my main desktop to get the job done.
I have a d-link Ethernet card. The card is very good with a ton of
drivers, including the one I
Karen, I also use the D-Link card (PCMCIA) in my home and it is an
outstanding card for DOS/FreeDOS, I get the desire to maintain a pure DOS
machine (I have one desktop and two laptops that are DOS only). Have you
tried DIllodos (the lasted build not the one in the FreeDOS repo)? Using
that, I can
John, actually you probably don't need to unload shsucdx, like you I used
that command line from my install (I used the all_cd.iso).
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:29 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote:
Point well taken about diskinit and a consistent drive assignment,
though in this case
You're right, I get exactly the same result if I rem out that line.
I then arrive at this as the most economical working configuration:
===
REM (some commands)
SHSUCDX /QQ /D3
REM (some commands)
DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\XCDROM.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /H
SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,X /Q
are you using only xcrdom.sys or combining it with UIDE or UDVD? I prefer
UIDE instead of xcdrom.sys on my IDE drives, and on one of my quirkier
machines shsucdx doesn't work but shcdx86.com does.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:02 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote:
You're right, I get
Try these links
https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads/detail?name=DILLODOS-302b.zipcan=2q=
http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/New-release-of-the-Dillo-web-browser-for-DOS-td19097.html
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net
Hi Don,
no on that browser where Might I find it? I think I looked at the freedos
edition and it did not suit compared to what my ssh telnet options present.
Now if I could find a wireless d-link card sigh.
I do not understand what web security has to do with Dos, or browsers that
pose no
got it, thanks.
On Mon, 18 May 2015, Don Flowers wrote:
Try these links
https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads/detail?name=DILLODOS-302b.zipcan=2q=
http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/New-release-of-the-Dillo-web-browser-for-DOS-td19097.html
On Mon, May
Hi,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
The wiki article is good as far as it goes, I collected all the pieces of
the networking puzzle mentioned in the article, but can't seem to assemble
them correctly. My currebn method of file transfer is via USB, and I
My USB method is between the various Computers and also between Kubuntu
and FreeDOS. I was not aware of the data corruption risk from unplugging
the device, although I should have known Thanks for the tip.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, May 18,
Sure thing John! It's going to bug me for a while though - I'm a bit anal
;^o
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:03 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote:
I also tried, by the way, mscdex + uide.sys, which did not work.
Thanks, Don, for working with me all the way through and contributing many
Hi,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Karen Lewellen
klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:
Granted, I am not using a browser directly on my computer, but this
of mouse because I cannot. it is because no one has done a dos build of Lynx
in a grand while.
Juan Manuel Guerrero did a DJGPP build
Continuing to think in other directions at the moment, I tried mscdex +
a cdrom driver of unknown origin named ide-cd.sys (dated 1998). Those
two worked.
Then I tried shsucdx + ide-cd.sys and those two worked.
I wish I knew the origin of ide-cd.sys (or maybe I don't want to know),
but I'm
Hi,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de wrote:
Ability to run Windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode.
has been discussed multiple times. conclusion: forget it
Okay, but let's be clear here:
1). It's proprietary, so it's not redistributable.
2). It's old, so most
My reason for wanting to use Windows 3.1 in FreeDOS is for some very
specific apps (yes among them are a couple of bible programs) and just
having access to some utilities such as Winimage Winzip, etc. That said,
since 1993 I have always had Compaq DOS/Windows 3.1 on at least one of my
PCs so, I
Hi,
(specifically to Mateusz)
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
P.S. Someone remind me to try to recompile Pace Player later this
week. Uses ancient Allegro but shouldn't be too impossibly hard.
https://www.allegro.cc/depot/PacePlayer
FYI, it is indeed GPL,
Hi,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry Mateusz,- I assumed this was well-known.
I have an Acer Aspire E5-571 laptop which has a quirky BIOS - the IDE
emulation option is specific to the hard drive only and not the CD/DVD
drive. I had though that the
I also tried, by the way, mscdex + uide.sys, which did not work.
Thanks, Don, for working with me all the way through and contributing
many good ideas!
On 5/18/2015 5:33 PM, John Hupp wrote:
Continuing to think in other directions at the moment, I tried mscdex
+ a cdrom driver of unknown
I’ve been thinking of dualbooting my Windows PC with FreeDOS, and the only
things that are preventing me from doing that right now are the fact that USB
serial controllers don’t work all the way, and also that there’s apparently no
way to use applications that require a sound blaster reliably.
Hi Guillem,
On 18/05/2015 08:16, Guillem wrote:
(...) the only things that are preventing me from doing that right now are
the fact that USB serial controllers don’t work all the way (...)
So Better/wider USB support. Already on the list.
Is there any way to make some kind of driver that
About networking -- have you looked at the wiki article?
http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networking_FreeDOS
It contains already quite a lot of informations, on many aspects of the
DOS networking world.
Mateusz
On 18/05/2015 10:52, Don Flowers wrote:
I have a HP Elite 8000 with 12gb
I'm the one who maintains and develops Frotz these days, a program that
emulates the Z-machine[1] for modern computers. I worked to make sure the
old DOS interface code works with the current core code. Release 2.44 is
coming up Really Soon Now and I was wondering if I could get some of you
I have a HP Elite 8000 with 12gb RAM, I use XOSL to boot Kubuntu 14.04,
Windows 7, Compaq DOS 5.0, MS-DOS 7.10 and FreeDOS. When running Compaq DOS
and/or MS-DOS 7.10, I use the native HIMEM and Windows 3.1 runs fine in
enhanced mode; on FreeDOS even standard mode seems buggy, so it is not
The wiki article is good as far as it goes, I collected all the pieces of
the networking puzzle mentioned in the article, but can't seem to assemble
them correctly. My currebn method of file transfer is via USB, and I am
experiencing quite a bit of data corruption.
I have 3 desktops (one full
For the wish list has the AHCI/SATA issue been mentioned? I have an Acer
which will not access CDROM using GCDROM or any thing else in the FreeDOS
repo, but works only with the intel SATA driver first followed by UIDE.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
The
Ability to run Windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode.
has been discussed multiple times. conclusion: forget it
Tom
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Sorry, I don't think I have followed this AHCI/SATA issue - do you have
any reference? An URL to a past mailing list message, or a bug report on
sourceforge?
Will add it to the wishlist, I just need some reference to attach it to,
since it doesn't sound self-explanatory as you worded it.
Sorry Mateusz,- I assumed this was well-known.
I have an Acer Aspire E5-571 laptop which has a quirky BIOS - the IDE
emulation option is specific to the hard drive only and not the CD/DVD
drive. I had though that the GCDROM drive was supposed to enable a SATA
drive, but it didn't and I actually
Okay, I understand.
Have you wrote about this to Jack? He might be still interested in
GCDROM feedback, and it could be an interesting case for him perhaps.
However, the problem is larger I think anyway - today you are unable to
set your CD controller to legacy IDE mode, but tomorrow it might
Hi, just a semi-automatic reply for this classic topic ;-)
Is there any way to make some kind of driver that would sit between
the application and the actual soundcard (in my case a realtek) and
forward what the app is trying to send to the soundblaster to the
realtek the right way?
Yes
Hi Mateusz,
as far as I know, UIDE now supports harddisk and CDROM/DVD/BD
with IDE and SATA controllers, but not in AHCI mode*. Also, I
am not aware of any other DOS AHCI driver. What you can do is
using the BIOS as driver: This is normal for harddisks, but
only works for CD/DVD when you boot
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