Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

How can a .jar be run on Android or iOS? Android is built on some bastardized version of JAVA but AFAIK nobody has yet produced a fully functional JAVA Runtime Environment (JRE) for Android. As for iOS, Apple seems to hate JAVA with as much fury as they do Flash. Apple sayeth "#%#@ Flash and

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

What hardware? That of course needs an 80386 or newer CPU. Another thing is any drivers loaded in config.sys and autoexec.bat have to be compatible with 386 enhanced mode. The OAK CD-ROM driver and later MS-DOS MSCDEX should be compatible. IIRC old sound card drivers were pretty bad about being

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

It was partitioned, with an MBR, accessible to Windows when connected to a USB to IDE adapter. Currently it's bootable to a DOS prompt. I used the "China DOS Union" DOS 7.1 boot floppy with a USB floppy drive to fdisk and format the DOM installed in the thin client. I could go ahead and put

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I'm going to try using RMPrepUSB to put the FreeDOS USB install image onto a USB stick. Why? Because it's supposed to be able to be selected to emulate an A: floppy drive (or as C: or D:) instead of presenting itself as C: like the FreeDOS image does. Recall that the FreeDOS installer initially

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS floppy from a BIOS chip

If a way could be found to replace ThinOS on various models of WYSE thin clients, they'd be ideal platforms for an embedded DOS. ThinOS usually shares space in an extra large BIOS chip. Installing it might involve a bit of hacking to make the OS installer creator utility setup a USB flash drive

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I used CloneDisk to rip a RAW image of the booting DOM with FreeDOS. Mounted that with Qemu. Booted Qemu with the FreeDOS install image and installed FreeDOS to the image copied from the DOM. Then I used CloneDisk to write that image back to the DOM. "Missing Operating System". On

[Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I found an "MS-DOS 7.1" boot floppy image and *this one* had no problems booting the S30 with a USB floppy drive, wiping the DOM and creating a fresh partition with FDISK, then rebooting and using format c: /s NOW it's booted to a DOS prompt from the DOM. So I'll try FreeDOS again.. Nope.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

gxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > The workaround at the bottom of this page will have to be implemented in > FreeDOS in order to install it from USB. Writ

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I just tried installing FreeDOS 1.2 Lite from a 512 meg USB drive onto a WYSE S30. Result? Failure. It boots and launches the setup. First is says there's no fixed disk, then is says drive D: is not partitioned. So I have it partition and reboot. Repeats this exactly the same. The BIOS *does*

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

The CNC control software has to have EMS. Without it, it can't use any more than low memory. It's *old* software, capable of running on a 1981 vintage 5150 IBM PC. So I would assume it knows nothing of newer EMS types with their fancy features. If only Light Machines, then Intelitek, had

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

Here's the FreeDOS image. Volume label is FREEDOS2012. Will mount in Quemu as a RAW image. Can't relocate the site I downloaded it from.https://anonfile.com/J8sau4d4bc/FreeDOS.rar The storage is an IDE Flash Disk, AKA Disk On Module. It has a 44 pin female header connector, same electrical

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I'm attempting to get some DOS onto a WYSE Sx0 thin client. The problem is right after the OS starts to load from the IDE flash module, the BIOS steps in and hides the IDE controller. So it comes up missing operating system. Boot from USB and it's there. I have a FreeDOS image for a 64 megabyte

Re: [Freedos-user] challenging dos question.

No problem if you know the full path and file name. If you have ATTRIB you can hit it with -H to make it visible. https://www.computerhope.com/attribhl.htm On Saturday, December 2, 2017, 11:56:07 AM MST, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, its complicated. 

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

What do these "Jack's Drivers" actually do? On Friday, November 17, 2017, 1:59:11 AM MST, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Rugxulo, you are not going to make Jack any more kind by publicly sharing all private email details of your private fight... Jack does update drivers

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

512 meg? Luxury! My first hard drive was FIVE megabytes. A full height 5.25" MFM made by Tandon. I installed MS-DOS (3.1 IIRC) and all the software I had, mostly games. It was *half full*! Then I backed it up, onto 360K floppies. By the time I put the last disk on the stack, I was thinking

[Freedos-user] PCMCIA sound cards

I had a look and found there were a lot of different ones. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=30840-- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org!

Re: [Freedos-user] Disabling Internal Speaker

Does that laptop by chance happen to have a CardBus slot? Some companies were still equipping laptops with CardBus in 2008 instead of switching to ExpressCard, or using both, like Lenovo. If you have a CardBus slot, then it may be possible to use a PCMCIA soundcard from the 90's for DOS games.

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: What gives?

Several hundred messages from this list, I just deleted the whole lot. On Sunday, May 7, 2017, 3:00:48 AM MDT, Robert Riebisch wrote:Hi Rugxulo, >> I just opened my inbox and found a pile of list emails from 2016-09-11 right >> up >> to 2017-04-8. >> >> Has it happened

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

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Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of yo

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Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

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[Freedos-user] Small install onto 64 meg flash disk?

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[Freedos-user] OS/2 Re: Quattro Pro releases

Have you ever installed OS/2 Warp 3 Upgrade from floppies? I did, on a Packard Bell 486 SX system with a 63 Mhz Pentium Overdrive. For some reason once it got to the GUI stage and I was feeding it disk after disk, I'd have to keep the mouse in constant motion while it was reading a disk or it'd

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

The original WordStar for CP/M was written in Z-80 assembly language by Rob Barnaby, in about a month. He was the principle coder on it until the last release prior to 4.0. When he left the company is when thing started to go downhill for MicroPro. WordStar for DOS used slow DOS system

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

Any plan to share this find? :) On Monday, April 24, 2017, 9:07:19 AM MDT, Dale E Sterner wrote:It is pure dos abandoned when corel went to windows. Sounded like it came out of the trash can type. It is somewhat unfinished - a few nasty bugs but nothing to make it

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

Microsoft has done such things deliberately. I had a Compaq server with dual slot Xeon CPUs. XP (with a 1-2 CPU license) could be installed but no matter what, was only going to be allowed to use ONE CPU. Manually forcing the multi CPU HAL to install during setup (or after) would make it crash.

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting HP & Lenovo

I have a couple of Lenovo T61 laptops that seem to be very picky about what they'll boot off a disc. The latest Hiren's, FalconFour, MS DaRT 5, ERD Commander - they are all based on Windows XP PE and they start to load and just stop. I also tried Ubuntu and Lubuntu. They get to a certain point

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

It is possible to format a floppy a bit over size. Most drives will accommodate 2 to 4 extra tracks. Depending on the drive and the controller it's possible to alter the number of sectors per track, but all tracks must have the same number of sectors. Typically, altering the number of sectors