On 5/19/2024 2:25 AM, Frantisek Rysanek via Freedos-user wrote:
Are there any PCI cards that live at IO adress 378 so they are
compatible with DOS ?
I'd argue that the devil's in "subtle detail", and forecast hard
cheese for you :-/
In order to decode the IOport window at 0x378 by a PCI card,
On 5/18/2024 3:56 PM, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Does spinright still have a dos version of their software posted
anywhere? I seem to recall, that was a really good utility. I
unfortunately never had the money to purchase it, and I gave up on
Norton Utilities after paying 50 bucks
On 2/22/2024 7:43 PM, DAMON GRAY wrote:
Augh!! Ralf, that's so much not what I wanted to hear.
Don't kill the messenger! LOL
But, it is what it is. I was under the impression that FreeDos had
dealt with the USB peripheral issue.
Well, no. Just what exactly gave you that impression? No DOS is
On 2/22/2024 7:18 PM, DAMON GRAY via Freedos-user wrote:
Greetings all.
I have a working MS-DOS system running on 6.2.2 but it has gigantical
problems with the USB Mouse. I've attempted multiple USB DOS driver
solutions. Some work half the time. Others not so much.
I'm working on the
On 2/9/2024 11:25 AM, Thomas Cornelius Desi wrote:
Well, if it would work, changing the keyboard should be an easy task. / E bay
has c a couple of accessible AT Keyboards )
Thanks for considering the problem!
Well, a XT/PC keyboard will only work with an XT or PC, and an AT
keyboard will
Are you guys trying to have DOS behave like macOS?
Beside that any trickery with the keyboard controller would only work on
an AT keyboard, where the controller chip is actually on the motherboard
of the computer, and thus accessible with an I/O port, on XT/PC
keyboards the controller is in
On 11/3/2023 5:55 AM, Alain Mouette via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi, I would like to clarify some things:
FreeDOS is limited to 2Gb files, some special programs can use 4Gb
(full 32 bits sector number) but it is not the norm.
In which way is "FreeDOS" limited to 2GB sized files? (Sorry, never
On 11/1/2023 12:32 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
I am sorry if this question is very very silly.
My goal is to extract, not to create a 7zip file.
The file referenced by Eric, seems to have archiving tools, but not
extracting ones.
Unless I am missing something profoundly obvious?
Well, there is
On 10/31/2023 1:27 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
I do not have a freedos install cd.
I understand that 7 zip files require the 7zip program...which is why
I am seeking it somewhere.
are such files given names like
file.7zip?
the latter does not keep the three character extension
On 10/2/2023 5:13 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user wrote:
I discovered that if I comment out the two while (in vga.c):
void wait_vsync()
{
//while (inportb(0x3da) & 8);
//while (!(inportb(0x3da) & 8));
}
Then the game under dosbox run just like under VirtualBox.
I have tried all the
On 9/14/2023 1:15 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi! Does anybody here know the user nicknamed Candyman?
There is a strange thread on BTTR started by that account,
maybe somebody could contact Candyman via another channel
and ask what has happened.
Regards, Eric
You do not take this
On 8/15/2023 3:28 AM, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 at 18:36, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
wrote:
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".
On 8/10/2023 10:11 AM, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 18:00, zerofive--- via Freedos-user
wrote:
Any idea on what should I do?
This seems to obvious to mention, but hey...
Turn the volume knob on your speakers down?
Well, Liam, you owe me a full cup of coffee (I
On 8/6/2023 2:35 PM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user wrote:
First…
There seems to be a general misunderstanding that DOS only supports
80x25 columns. While it is possible that an extremely lazy programmer
would hard code for that resolution, most did not. Even back in the
early days the
On 8/6/2023 1:37 PM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello! Just tested it.
It changes the resolution, but now I just don't see anything. I tried
doing Ctrl+C exiting it but to no avail :(
Any reason why could this happen?
Because you don't pay attention to the replies you get.
DOS is
On 8/6/2023 5:39 AM, EdzUp via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi all, I could cobble together a Command line app to chuck the system
into VGA/SVGA resolutions :)
-Ed
EdzUp
And what would this going to be accomplishing?
Ralf
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On 8/6/2023 2:51 AM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
A VGA resolution (?), 640x480 resolution so the text doesn't look
messy when I am cURLing a website, for example, or when the --help
parameter is too long.
There seem to be a serious misconception on your end. FreeDOS, like any
DOS,
On 8/5/2023 5:08 PM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
This question may been asked a million times but I just can't figure
it out, and googling it gives no results (except telling me that I
need to use `mode` and some parameters but this just wouldn't give me
what I am trying to achieve)
On 8/5/2023 1:02 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
And yes Ralf, if the servers or companies have strict security
standards requiring newer protocol versions, then curl will fail or
will eventually fail to communicate with them.
Well, he stated that an attempt to use http instead failed, so I
On 8/5/2023 12:51 PM, Louis Santillan via Freedos-user wrote:
Don’t do anything that requires security (banking, personal info,
connecting to work) if you decide to use a 3rd party proxy. All of
these proxies can potentially see your credentials and sensitive
information. It would be best
On 8/5/2023 12:37 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
zerofive, you did not provide us actual error messages. We can only
speculate.
At least with curl on Linux, you can bypass cert checks with “-k”. If
you still believe it’s certs and you have a known good certificate and
private key, you pass
On 8/5/2023 12:34 PM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Then what do I do if I want to make a cURL request or WGet to a secure
HTTPS page?
Do I just use HTTP?
But then it will forcefully redirect to HTTPS connection...
What do I do?
Use a properly Internet enabled operating system.
Yes, I
On 8/5/2023 5:35 AM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello everyone! I am new to FreeDOS.
When I try to use cURL or WGet, they sometimes error and refuse to use
secure HTTPS connection.
I figured it was from outdated certificates. Is there any way I can
update them, manually or
On 7/31/2023 2:06 PM, DAMON GRAY via Freedos-user wrote:
Greetings all. I'm new to this list, so I hope to not post anything
inappropriate or out of order.
I have an old Dell Optiplex 745 I'm trying to "FreeDos" and am having
a couple of issues.
I have yet to get the USB Laser mouse to work
On 7/24/2023 6:06 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi folks,
Too many layers in the process for me to try the install.
That and the thinkpad, which is a thinkpad 600x is not in condition
for the work it seems.
I do wonder though if the freedos networking options would have
functioned
On 7/23/2023 1:50 PM, Rugxulo via Freedos-user wrote:
The alleged 4 GB file size doesn't work on some OSes (FreeDOS, Windows
NT?), only on old Win9x. So you're only guaranteed 2 GB individual
file sizes, universally.
Wrong. You can use files of up to 4GB size on any Windows version that
On 7/21/2023 2:01 PM, John Vella via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi,
I installed freedos on my IBM Thinkpad T43 and I installed a usb
driver, which works. Sort of.
I can access a 2gb usb stick, which is formatted to FAT32, and that's
great, but I want to use a different stick.
This is where the
On 7/21/2023 1:51 PM, Jay F. Shachter via Freedos-user wrote:
Esteemed Colleagues:
A little bit less formal might be more appropriate...
slice, Microsoft Windows was still able to boot, and then I recreated
the third primary slice, and I installed FreeDOS onto it. I had to
change its 8-bit
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