On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 17:30, Norby Droid via Freedos-user
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> Would there be any interest in a web forum for FreeDos?
Please no. :-(
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On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 15:27, Michał Dec via Freedos-user
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> Absolutely. Think of all the yachts and summer homes they're losing by
> not donating a scrap of 8086 assembly to the general public. Think of
> all those poor shareholders and millionaires.
Exactly.
This is why I do not
On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 10:07, tom ehlert via Freedos-user
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> there is no need for Microsoft to search its own archives.
> MSDOS 6.22 source leaked to the internet some 22 years ago, and a plenty of
> people have it.
Then MS would need to check this over, check it was correct and
without
On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 21:31, Roger via Freedos-user
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> Excuse #1, there's no money being acquired for going over code for
> releasing as open source.
Agreed.
It is willing to release stuff it happens to find or others happen to
find in order to sweeten the FOSS fanatics a bit, but it
On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 05:01, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
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> Those aren’t even the good versions of MS-DOS.
Agreed!
> I think if they were serious, they would release 3.3, 5.0 and 6.22. It feels
> like they are only placating to the open source community.
Agreed on all counts.
On Thu, 9 May 2024 at 22:20, Roger via Freedos-user
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> >They also have pre-compiled packages for Fedora and OpenSUSE.
> >No manual compilation is needed for either of the 3 distros.
>
> Already know about these pre-package options for SystemD Linux
> distributions.
Whoa there.
Fedora and
On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 at 16:58, Frantisek Rysanek via Freedos-user
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> Dear Mr. Ramos,
>
> > - Balena Etcher
> > - Rufus
> > - Untebootin
> > - Win32DiskImager.
>
> interestingly to me, you don't mention the trusty old `dd` ... :-)
Or Ventoy, which is quicker and easier than any of them.
>
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 02:46, Jose Senna via Freedos-user
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> Would someone please provide a copy of this article in a platform
> that is not at odds with Brazilian courts ?
Just use archive.org or archive.ph or archive.is or any one of lots of
others.
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 at 22:35, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user
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> The original version of open dos (when it was still caldera dos version
> 7.01), had a multitasking program you could load on top of the base dos
> system that allowed multitasking.
Yes it did. It is called TASKMAX and it needs
On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 at 13:30, Ramon Riera Marès via Freedos-user
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> I asked AI Gemini and he answered me this:
Do not do this.
LLM bots are not "AI", they are marketing BS. They do not and cannot
think, reason, or know anything. They are very fancy predictive text
tools and they emit
On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 at 11:36, Ramon Riera Marès via Freedos-user
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> I want to know if there is any way or utility in Freedos to have two
> applications running, for example an outliner and a text editor, and be able
> to switch from one to the other without having to exit the current
On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 at 13:11, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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> If it is not, then it
> is just some plug and play device which may come and go and
> for which you would probably have to find appropriate DOS
> drivers to let DOS handle the coming and going properly.
This sounds plausible. The
On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 22:20, tom ehlert via Freedos-user
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> I think Liam's post was not about "advocating" FreeDOS, but about "helping"
> a nooby user.
Thank you. Yes, that was exactly my intention.
If one needs DOS for something, then FreeDOS is the best option today.
If one needs
On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 23:06, Thomas Cornelius Desi wrote:
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> That is the main reason: smaller and… simpler.
There are good reasons that DOS went away some 35 years ago. It has
its uses but not being able to flip to another window or another
screen to consult documentation, or try something
On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 16:48, Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user
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> could someone from the list give me an advice, what programming language to
> learn,
> if I would want to do some programming in FREEDOS?
>
> I am an absolute »Noobie« with programming, but stumbling about some
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 at 23:00, Jim Hall via Freedos-user
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> I run Fedora and whenever the new version comes out, I backup my data,
> nuke and reinstall.
Good heavens.
FWIW my oldest running Ubuntu installation is now on its 3rd laptop
host and it's 11 years old. It started out as Ubuntu
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 at 17:52, hms--- via Freedos-user
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> I have stayed with Lubuntu
> 18.04 as the later versions use SNAP and no longer support old hardware.
That is a fair point. 20.x and onwards no longer support x86-32 hardware.
Debian still does, although support is being removed
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 at 15:31, Jim Hall via Freedos-user
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> For what it's worth: Lubuntu 18.04 LTS is quite old.
True.
> I understand the
> release "number" is actually a date, so 18.04 was released in April
> 2018.
Cirrect.
> Wikipedia says this was supported for 3 years
Yes. This is
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 11:08, Manuel Sobral via Freedos-user
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> My question is, is it possible to use a PCMCIA to Compact Flash adapter?
Speaking as someone who built and supported systems with PCMCIA on DOS
in the 1980s and early 1990s: don't.
Yes, it is possible. But it's really hard
On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 18:44, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user
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> There should be only one active primary partition at any given time.
Picky-picky. OK, then, reorder the adjectives so that it is no longer
grammatical English but is more technically accurate.
The active, first primary
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 16:47, Charles Hudson via Freedos-user
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> I could in other words reinstall the Linux system but as a learning exercise
> I though I would see if GRUB could be rebuilt.
Sure, it can.
My suggestions are based around Ubuntu as I don't like Fedora much,
but the same
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 at 14:42, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
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> I dare say you intended this for the list.
You continue to be just amazingly rude and hostile.
You mailed me privately offlist. I did you the courtesy of replying
the same way.
You put it back on the list.
Previously I
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 03:21, DAMON GRAY via Freedos-user
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> I'm working on the assumption that FreeDos will handle the USB mouse and
> keyboard.
No, it won't.
But in my limited testing, what I found that might is this:
Install DOS onto a USB key, and boot from that, not from a HDD
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 09:10, Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user
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> Does anyone around know if BIOSes in general differentiate between »floppy
> drive« or »hard disk« because of an existing MBR (or partition table) or not?
Interesting question.
Some (older) BIOSes do distinguish
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 18:26, Santiago Almenara via Freedos-user
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> It is a 2014 article, I believe he might have discovered Youtube, Email,
> Facebook and all other distractions.
> He haven't written any complete book since 2011, except for short stories. :(
I last met GRRM in 2019
On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 22:27, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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> According to this site, you can connect IDE storage, so a compact
> flash card with a suitable adapter indeed sounds like a great idea.
> CF usually support IDE I/O, which means that a simple mechanical
> adapter with a power
On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 21:13, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
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> ***
> Next problem: I tried to get printer support via USB (currently they use
> classic LPT, but those printers get very rare).
This could help there:
https://www.retroprinter.com/
I interviewed the
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 19:59, ashembers via Freedos-user
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> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to install 1.3 on an iMac 2011
I *think* Intel Macs only fake BIOS compatibility for booting from
removable media. Once the OS is on the fixed disk, I'd expect it not
to work.
If the fans are on
On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 at 18:36, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
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> Well, Liam, you owe me a full cup of coffee (I might be able to salvage
> the keyboard)...
:-D
(I saw the to/too typo the second I hit "send"...)
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 18:00, zerofive--- via Freedos-user
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> Any idea on what should I do?
This seems to obvious to mention, but hey...
Turn the volume knob on your speakers down?
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 18:50, Alexandro Hipólito via Freedos-user
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> HI,
Hi. Please do not hijack other people's threads. Start your own new thread.
Then we will try to answer.
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On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 15:37, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
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> FreeDOS, like any DOS, works only in text mode, so you can't just select any
> graphics mode on the console.
I have a copy of a very handy program from the early 1990s called
Laptop UltraView.
It was designed for laptops in
On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 15:23, Jay F. Shachter via Freedos-user
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> Microsoft Windows is installed on three primary
> partitions, because that is what Windows does, and every other
> operating system on this computer must find a home for itself within
> the logical partitions carved out of
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