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Excerpt from Liam Proven: > I have been using NT since the first version, 3.1, in 1993. There is > no built-in facility or tool to run DOS under it and never has been. > That is why I asked. This is highly relevant and important to the > question. There are no "dots" to follow. > OS/2

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be maintained

> On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 at 06:00, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I would like to connect to the Internet using FreeDOS, but I haven't found > > a compatible packet driver. > > Main purpose in connecting to the Internet from FreeDOS would be to prove > > it can be

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be maintained

from John Vella: > I'm guessing that I'm the only one who isn't interested in connecting to > the Internet using freedos. I wouldn't have a problem with others doing > it,but for me it would be yet another distraction. 😀 I would like to connect to the Internet using FreeDOS, but I haven't

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from Jim Hall: > I don't know why the sources later had an "AMD" statement put on them, > but you cannot claim "proprietary" or "copyright" on something that > was previously released under the GNU General Public License. > It appears that somewhere along the line, someone (at AMD?) had access

Re: [Freedos-user] Print via network

> On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 01:21, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > > I copied the PRODOS.EXE file to my FreeDOS PC and entered "prodos". > > Which resulted in this error: > > "This program cannot be run in DOS mode.". X-CMAE-Envelope:

Re: [Freedos-user] Updates to the FreeDOS website?

Excerpt from Jim Hall: > The three "infobox" tiles (Games, Legacy apps, Embedded systems) come > from a survey I ran several years ago, to ask how people use FreeDOS. > People responded that they use FreeDOS for three main things: > 1. Playing classic DOS games > 2. Running legacy DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] dos ethernet drivers

> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE > I use Lynx, still updated regularly, to order at amazon.com, to reach yahoo= > news, to access on line libraries. > Actually to read loads of news sources. > Still my computer is a tool,

Re: [Freedos-user] dos ethernet drivers

> Hi, > I wanted to ask a question about dos ethernet driver. I think > it's one of the most satisfying > thing using dos to go online. You know > the problem: is to find ad load the driver you need, > especially for > laptops. > Ad it's very hard. For example I still use an old Acer aspire >

Re: [Freedos-user] yt-dl in dos?

> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 6:46 PM wrote: > > You think is there any way to configure youtube-dl in Dos? > *Extremely* unlikely. It requires Python 2.6 or 2.7. The most recent > version of Python built for DOS is a DJGPP port of Python 2.4.2. > What do you expect to use under FreeDOS to

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo Web Browser

> Hello all, > I've installed Dillo web browser a few times and it's never even started.� > I > corrected the path variable in DILLO.BAT but no success. > Can someone let me know if there are certain "tricks" that need to be > performed before I can get it going? > Thanks, > Dean. My

Re: [Freedos-user] PCI Express Network Adapter Board for FreeDos

> > Can anyone suggest a PCIe network adapter for FreeDos? One that I > > can get a packet driver or NDIS driver for. My FreeDos computer > > doesn't have a regular PCI slot and I've given up trying to get the onboard > > network adapter to work. > Realtek 8139 has NDIS drivers, E1000 both

Re: [Freedos-user] Run Linux & Linux binaries on DOS

I remember, from DR-DOS website (drdos.com to the best of my memory), in their later years DR-DOS could load Linux and come back to DR-DOS after the user exited from Linux. As far as I could see, it was not possible to run DOS and Linux software concurrently. I never tried that, believe

Re: [Freedos-user] Open source thoughts about my DOS stuff

from Eric Auer: > > Hi everybody! > I had a thought about my more or LESS working website > which has all those ZIPs of freedos and other packages: > It would probably be more modern and not require any > website on my own to put all that on one of those modern > portals where people

Re: [Freedos-user] zip programs and pure DOS?

On 8/22/2020 2:41 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > The idea that asking about msdos  in a freedos forum and raising questions > about software suggested in a freedos distribution due to date might be > strange  came from Jim.  If asking about ms dos within freedos is odd, > giving Linux solutions to

Re: [Freedos-user] best third party dos diagnostic tools?

> Hi folks, > I believe I will ask the same question on the dos ain't dead list. > Still, I am curious what strict dos third party diagnostic tools you like > using? > One heart break about norton utilities, I have the last DOS edition, is that > it cannot see more than two partitions. > the

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro DOS v5.6

> Been using it 24/7 since around v5.0 in an OS/2 DOS session. It's been forever > since I tried to export to another format other than .wk1, which is done > simply > via saving with the different file extension. Anyone here remember what other > extensions are available? I don't see anything on

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Just the subject line made me immediately think of one deficiency I met with FreeDOS 1.3rc2. Installation program needs to allow the user to see where the new FreeDOS will be installed to, and to give the user choice of where to install to. I had a scary experience installing FreeDOS 1.3rc2.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Just the subject line made me immediately think of one deficiency I met with FreeDOS 1.3rc2. Installation program needs to allow the user to see where the new FreeDOS will be installed to, and to give the user choice of where to install to. I had a scary experience installing FreeDOS 1.3rc2.

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3r-RC2 installation bug

I finally, after some trouble, installed FreeDOS 1.3-RC2 onto a USB stick, but not the intended one. I downloaded the USB-stick image, unzipped and wrote to the installation USB stick using dd, from NetBSD. It seems writing the installer USB stick was OK. I subsequently booted that USB stick,

Re: [Freedos-user] What I do with the .img file?

from Rugxulo: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:32 PM OMGdaDPS > wrote: > > I use etcher because I myself am on Linux, and it handles zipped img files > > in two clicks. no need to go to the terminal > > and work some dd magic or anything. nothing against rufus, because I use it > > when I run

Re: [Freedos-user] anyone here code software?

from Thalis Agáthōn : > [-- Attachment #1 --] > [-- Type: text/html, Encoding: base64, Size: 1.9K --] > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 > Dear DOS friends, how do i unsubscribe from this group? thank you! />-- Sent from Yandex.Mail for mobile01:37,

Re: [Freedos-user] Quick FreeDOS 1.3 Live CD Poll

Jerome Shidel composed on 2019-11-14 10:27 (UTC-0500): > I’m just looking to do quick poll on you thoughts and opinion. > When FreeDOS 1.3 is booted as a Live environment from the CD-ROM, should it > be permitted access to any internal hard drive(s)? > Allowing access, can permit reading and

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

>From dmccunney: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:40 AM Dale E Sterner wrote: > > The edit command has limits on size; had to use Wordperfect on one file. > > In 2015 Dennis talked about using vedit but can't find a dos version. > > In the new world large files are common. > Large files are

Re: [Freedos-user] VOIP/Skype for DOS

Excerpts from Jim Hall: **office* > I'm glad you mentioned this! DOS dominated office environments, so there > are a lot of great office applications for DOS. > There's a real push right now for "distraction-free office environments" > that let you put all your attention to writing, or

Re: [Freedos-user] [release] Dr. Mind v1.0

> That being said (and I am not a trademark expert at all - I barely know what a > trademark is), isn't FreeDOS at risk itself, for reusing the same OS idea as > MS-DOS, same set of commands, same syntax, same INT 21h API...? That's a > honest question, I'm clueless. > Mateusz There have been

Re: [Freedos-user] links for dos.

> I got Arachne working, somewhat. > It's good as long as you don't try to do anything risky like searching Google. > Then it locks up trying to verify images. > It wasn't updated in over 6 years (correct me if I'm wrong) and the web > apparently just changed too

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't boot Freedos from Lenovo B590

Excerpt from userbeit...@abwesend.de: > Sorry, you're right off course. Did you mean "of course" or "off course"? > Though on my Linux machine the graphics works flawlessly when booted in > native UEFI mode, but has issues with screen suspend (monitor in > stand-by) - it doesn't wake-up

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't boot Freedos from Lenovo B590

Excerpt from userbeit...@abwesend.de: > * UEFI replaced the BIOS. > * FreeDOS needs a PC with BIOS. > * UEFI, in its transitional period, supported emulating the BIOS, which > it calls CSM. > * CSM stands for "compatiblity support module" and is essentially the > BIOS emulation of UEFI. > *

[Freedos-user] Sharing announcements about FreeDOS programs

> I can't find an unsubscribe link to FreeDos. Could you point me at that, or > take me off of the list? > Thanks, > - Steve Owens My first thought was to look through the headers. I found (excerpt) List-Id: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." List-Unsubscribe:

Re: [Freedos-user] Updates to FreeDOS wiki

> My vote: Treat as a friendly project, not part of a DOS distro. > About the UEFI thing: The method of choice would indeed be to > load a BIOS layer as UEFI module and then load a normal DOS. > Regards, Eric How is that done? Where does one obtain the BIOS layer, and how would it be

[Freedos-user] Sharing announcements about FreeDOS programs

> Just wanted to share a quick update that when I see announcements > about programs for FreeDOS, I might post them as news on the website, > or tweet about them from the FreeDOS Twitter account: > http://twitter.com/FreeDOS_Project > I may sometimes share them on the FreeDOS Facebook

Re: [Freedos-user] Tandy 1000 compatibility

> Has anyone here ever tested FreeDOS on a Tandy 1000? I've been > considering getting one for some software testing, but it occurred to me > that its slight differences might not be compatible with FreeDOS. > Happy Hacking, > David E. McMackins II I researched Tandy and Tandy

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Networking with NetWare?

from Rugxulo (snippet): > You can check the old Crynwr packet driver collection (mirrored on > iBiblio) or a few other sites: * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/group-net.html * http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm *

Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting to a BBS via a modem

from dmccunney: > I'm not, and more modem information can be found here: > http://www.modemsite.com/56k/dos.asp > But the biggest challenge is likely to be "What do you call if you > *can* get a working modem?" > Dennis That was my point on my last message: BBSes now are very hard to find.

Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting to a BBS via a modem

from David McMackins: > I have a late 90s vintage laptop running FreeDOS, and I'd like to use it > to connect to a BBS system directly over a phone line using its modem. > Even if it turns out that this modem in particular won't work, I'd still > like some help finding software for this.

Re: [Freedos-user] [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.17

Excerpt from Karen Lewellen and Rugxulo: > > There was a specific lynx package written by dug Kaufman that I may request > > be updated. > I don't think he's still active, but I could be wrong. Doug Kaufman's web page is still up, but his Lynx is pretty old: The latest DOS port of lynx is

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

Excerpt from Patrick: > 3)I use vim on Linux, has anyone ported this over? It looks like there is > FreeMacs, is this my best bet for a Unix like editor ? I can't answer all your issues, but I remember using vim and elvis in DR-DOS and FreeDOS. nvi, which is the vi in NetBSD and FreeBSD, has

Re: [Freedos-user] have servers made a big change recently

Excerpt from dmccunney: > The likely issue is that the web is moving to https for connectivity. > This creates an encrypted session between you and what you are > accessing. It's more secure, but requires using a browser than can > *do* https. > What client are you using now? I don't try to

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrade my PC from FD 1.1 to FD 1.2 RE: to Rugxulo AUG 12, 2017

from Ralf Quint: > > On 8/13/2017 4:56 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > New cameras are using a new format that I can't read. > > I can read FAT 16 & FAT 32. Web search said that > > they are using FAT 64. FDISK doesn't even detect it. > > SD chips go undetected with this new format. > As Dennis

Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

from Jiri Wackermann: I'm not an active user of FreeDOS, so I'm only > a listener on this channel, just for curiosity. > Regarding 'apropos' and 'whatis' and their relatives: > these commands are related to manual pages, it's all > Unix philosophy. If you have a Linux around, try > man

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> > > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400):... > >> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD > >> and ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly sync'

Re: [Freedos-user] Using USB Mass Storage on FreeDOS

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> On USBASPI and USBDOS, I had zero luck. But on a newer computer where USB drives are recognized by BIOS or UEFI, FreeDOS can boot from USB stick. Also, FreeDOS can access any USB stick with FAT32 if present at boot time. FreeDOS d

Re: [Freedos-user] A few words about AOL and Yahoo

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> from dmccunney: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > How busy are those eCS lists on Yahoogroups? > Note that Verizon has acquired Yahoo and plans to rebrand it. It > a

Re: [Freedos-user] Using USB Mass Storage on FreeDOS

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> > Thanks for replying. > After this, I won't use USBASPI on FreeDOS. > How can I use a USB mass storage that is formatted FAT16 or FAT32 on > FreeDOS with USBDOS? > Best regards, > Ercan If your BIOS o

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> > Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 02:07 (UTC): > > I ran Quattro Pro through 5 in OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 until that final OS/2 crash > > in the single-digit days of April 2001. > > OS/2 froze, did not dism

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> from dmccunney: > dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400): > > Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember > > Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I don't recall offhand

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> from dmccunney: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > > It seemed strange that a version of Quattro Pro following 5 would be 5.6 as opposed to 5.1 or 5.5. > Versions ar

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

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> > I have Qpro 5.6 but haven't used it yet. Still using version 3 > The macros are powerful and a lot earier to use than > Excel. Version 5.6 is said to have a solver built in > like TK solver. One of these days I'll find ou

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> from Dale Sterner: > On Ebay I purchased a cd with unreleased Corel dos > software. There would have been a 5.6 version had it been > released. Some woman got it from a boyfriend who > worked for Corel and then sold it

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

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> > I find that your MS dos 7.1 has been doing a little better > than FREEDOS. Jemmex sometimes hangs up. > Corel made great DOS software. I use their Qpro > to do my taxes. I fill in the blanks and it calclates my tax. >

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

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> from Dennis Fenton: > After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for > MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with. > I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot > floppy di

Re: [Freedos-user] USB fl

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> > I was asked why I cannot put FreeDOS on a floppy. Here is the reason. I > just tried another floppy disk that I found. It is original from before > 1995, so it may be broken. I can try to check on my 486 once it is up &

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com> from Jose Antonio Senna: > On 26 july, Thomas Mueller said: > > ...(I) also have run Links with graphics > > in DOS, but that was years back. > Do you remember on what machine you did this ? > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Using USB Mass Storage on FreeDOS

> Thanks for replying. > After this, I won't use USBASPI on FreeDOS. > How can I use a USB mass storage that is formatted FAT16 or FAT32 on > FreeDOS with USBDOS? > Best regards, > Ercan If your BIOS or UEFI recognizes USB mass storage, then FreeDOS should recognize it if it is in

Re: [Freedos-user] Using USB Mass Storage on FreeDOS

On USBASPI and USBDOS, I had zero luck. But on a newer computer where USB drives are recognized by BIOS or UEFI, FreeDOS can boot from USB stick. Also, FreeDOS can access any USB stick with FAT32 if present at boot time. FreeDOS did not recognize a USB stick inserted after FreeDOS was already

Re: [Freedos-user] A few words about AOL and Yahoo

from dmccunney: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > How busy are those eCS lists on Yahoogroups? > Note that Verizon has acquired Yahoo and plans to rebrand it. It > already owned AOL. It has informed Verizon email

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

> > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400):... > >> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD > >> and ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly sync'd up to > >> that in the PC hardware IBM was selling, or even when it did > > I went

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

> Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 02:07 (UTC): > > I ran Quattro Pro through 5 in OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 until that final OS/2 crash > > in the single-digit days of April 2001. > > OS/2 froze, did not dismount cleanly. On reboot, CHKDSK, run automatically, > > ran am

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

from dmccunney: > dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400): > > Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember > > Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I don't recall offhand > > whether there was an actual Quattro 5.5 release.) > QPro 5.5 was

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

from dmccunney: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > > It seemed strange that a version of Quattro Pro following 5 would be 5.6 as > > opposed to 5.1 or 5.5. > Versions are frequently skipped when software is release

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

from Dale Sterner: > On Ebay I purchased a cd with unreleased Corel dos > software. There would have been a 5.6 version had it been > released. Some woman got it from a boyfriend who > worked for Corel and then sold it on Ebay for about $150. > I was high bid. Eric Auer: Hi Dale, > is

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

> I have Qpro 5.6 but haven't used it yet. Still using version 3 > The macros are powerful and a lot earier to use than > Excel. Version 5.6 is said to have a solver built in > like TK solver. One of these days I'll find out. > cheers > DS Last Qpro version for DOS was 5. Was there a 5.6? DOS

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

> I find that your MS dos 7.1 has been doing a little better > than FREEDOS. Jemmex sometimes hangs up. > Corel made great DOS software. I use their Qpro > to do my taxes. I fill in the blanks and it calclates my tax. > cheers > DS I too used Borland Quattro Pro for DOS, through v5, to

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

from Dennis Fenton: > After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for > MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with. > I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot > floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot from the external > SCSI CD drive. >

Re: [Freedos-user] USB floppy cannot read medium on modern PC and Linux.

> That brings back memories. Back in the day, there was discussion of > which *brand* of floppies to use, if you wanted to write something to > floppy, put it on a shelf, and be able to read it again 5 years from > now. At the time, the "gold standard" was Dysan. Floppy disk media > varied in

Re: [Freedos-user] USB floppy cannot read medium on modern PC and Linux.

> I was asked why I cannot put FreeDOS on a floppy. Here is the reason. I > just tried another floppy disk that I found. It is original from before > 1995, so it may be broken. I can try to check on my 486 once it is up > and running, but for now this is what I get on Linux when I put the disk >

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation on a ThinkPad 340?

from Eric Auer: > > - I have just managed to find a Disney Sound Source on eBay, how > > compatible is FreeDOS with MS-DOS drivers? I hope it would work on > > FreeDOS... > There are no real DOS sound DRIVERS on most systems: > > Just programs to init the sound hardware and driver > libraries

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

from Jose Antonio Senna: > On 26 july, Thomas Mueller said: > > ...(I) also have run Links with graphics > > in DOS, but that was years back. > Do you remember on what machine you did this ? > > I used Doug Kaufman's DOS port of Lynx for > > online commerce but

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

> On 21 July Eric Auer said: > > indeed I am trying to motivate people to use TLS/SSL ;-) > > There must be SOME browsers for DOS which can handle it! > You talk as if you know for sure there is one. > Is this the case ? > I did look at Mikulas' Links before Rugxulo > mentioned it in this

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

from dmccunney: > And sometimes it's correct advice. The computer world changes with > enormous rapidity, and one area where change is fastest is web > browsing. These days, the push is to support HTML5, and CSS3, with > current JavaScript. HTML5 is a big push because the keyword > makes it

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > In case it hasn't already been made obvious, this is a warning for > inexperienced users who (surprise!) would rather NOT wipe out their existing > OS and data if all they want to do is play around and experiment with DOS. >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Regarding packages to be dropped for failing LSM verification, I have some comments. I see ZOO listed in FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc, open-source, but may be very little-used nowadays. PACIFICC is probably very outdated now, I never heard of TPPATCH and don't find it in NetBSD pkgsrc or

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

I see your (Jerome Shidel) list of packages, BASE and ALL, no need to quote the list. I think there is only one web browser, Dillo? Are others available as add-ons: Lynx, Links-GUI, Arachne? I can't think of any other current or recent web browsers for DOS. This so far is mainly a matter of

[Freedos-user] UMB & UMBPCI

from Don Flowers: > There is a newer version of UMBPCI available which works with many of the > 2012-2015 PCs (including my Acer E5-571), This provides an alternative UMB > configuration for those PCs which cannot handle the EMS drivers. > http://www.uwe-sieber.de/umbpci_e.html I can't say

Re: [Freedos-user] Something to look forward to when Preview 17 is released.

from Don Flowers: > I use a custom kernel and found that on the USB image the system files are > hidden and read only. I used ATTRIB -R -S -H and then SYS with no problem. I thought SYS knew the system files were hidden and read-only, as was also true with MS-DOS. Do I just run ATTRIB -R -S -H

[Freedos-user] Something to look forward to when Preview 17 is released.

> Well, FDI Preview 17 is not out yet. But, I though I would tell you about a > new feature for the Power Users. The USB stick versions will contain a > command line utility to recreate the entire FDI Build environment. So, all you > FreeDOS hackers out there can build your own personal

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

> Yes, that would be nice. But, time is scarce lately. :-) > Lets not forget. You could build the FDI install media from scratch to any > size > you wish. > I really need to put that in the github wiki and do a series of FDI hacking > videos > to cover all the basic tweaks and enhancements

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

On the issue of what to do with a preexisting MBR on installation target, my installation target would be a USB stick, or I could possibly use an old 1.2 GB IDE hard drive in a Sabrent enclosure with USB 2.0. So then I would not worry about overwriting the MBR, though I would want to be sure

Re: [Freedos-user] UltraDMA warning corrected

Excerpt from Eric Auer: > Absolutely NOT TRUE! "V86" mode was created by Intel to provide a > way of (a) running 16-bit programs on 32-bit systems, (B) providing > protection for the system from such programs. EMS hardware is NOT > "simulated" but is REQUIRED to access extended memory, which

Re: [Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS boot/work under UEFI?

> Using syslinux I could set up a bootable CD that does boot FreeDOS with > UEFI. During boot a disk image of FreeDOS would be loaded into a memdisk and > run from there. Don't know if anyone would be interested to use that though. > Georg How do you prepare such a disk image of FreeDOS? I

Re: [Freedos-user] USB

from Marc LaPierre: > Does FreeDOS support USB ports? Sort of. I believe USB support is from the BIOS or UEFI. I believe USB keyboards are OK, not sure about USB mice. My experience with USB sticks in FreeDOS is that they are treated as fixed disks: must be present at boot, and FreeDOS won't

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

from Louis Santillan: Will you 1) be moving your project hosting and 2) porting to DJGPP 2.05? You mean DJGPP is up to 2.05? I went to their website, and current version was 2.03. I remember there was a 2.04 beta, but never heard of DJGPP 2.05. www.delorie.com/djgpp/ Tom

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote, and Rugxulo responded: I used elvis in DR-DOS 7.03 and FreeDOS, but elvis hasn't been updated since 2.2_0. I tried vim (7.0?) in DOS, had difficulty with more than one file at a time, now use vi which is nvi

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:32 AM, jubalh jub...@openmailbox.org wrote, and Rugxulo responded: Yesterday I installed FreeDOS for the first time. I used the latest version and did a full install because i want to have all software. The full release of FreeDOS 1.1 does not have all

Re: [Freedos-user] XIDE Updated; UIDE Support TERMINATED!

Sad to see UIDE/XIDE switching to closed-source, undermining my interest in FreeDOS for anything beyond low-level access to hardware and spreadsheets with Quattro Pro 5 for DOS (already migrating to Gnumeric). This is the first I've heard about any feud between Rugxulo and Jack Ellis. I don't

Re: [Freedos-user] XIDE Updated; UIDE Support TERMINATED!

Hi Eric, If Jack Ellis has switched open-source UIDE to closed-source XIDE, what will be for FreeDOS 1.2 or 2.0? I believe FreeDOS 1.2 or 2.0 has to be open-source? I was never able to read a CD or DVD on new computer, SATA drive; all I'd get was the title, but file directory never

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

Excerpt from Eric Auer: High Definition Audio controllers are currently not supported. By the way: I think it works like these stupid win printers; it waits for windows to start it up. After all dos is dead isn't it - ha. I will have to search for this dossound. It might be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS in a browser

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:44 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=freedos __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 This is interesting, not only for FreeDOS, but for other possible disk images I can find or produce! I briefly

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

Excerpt from Eric Auer: Hi Karen, What discouraged me from using freedos was first the for legacy games use only, suggestion on the site, That probably was a while ago: Now I would say this is more the target audience of dosbox, in particular for Windows. and second, the lack of

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS compatibility issue according to Asus caf4ajdwoaejygyp9rhwngdmnl23o1ynev6oj2qh8hq8wbh6...@mail.gmail.com

I don't think any motherboard has any DOS, Windows or other OS, though IBM computers back in the 1980s came with ROM BASIC. I have motherboard from MSI; now I am scared away from Asus, though perhaps the newer, UEFI-equipped motherboards would be OK. But there is also ASRock. I have no actual

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

I see a subject line of No subject; I must have forgotten to copy the intended subject line. Going back to 2001, I used Enhanced Editor (EPM) in OS/2 Warp 4, but was forced off this editor cold-turkey when the system crashed sometime during the single-digit days of April 2001. CHKDSK,

Re: [Freedos-user] GridPad 1910

from dmccunney: See http://oldcomputers.net/gridpad.html But since it came with MSDOS 3.3 built in, the question is why you would need FreeDOS. Thanks for the link, it was interesting out of curiosity, but of course nobody would pay $2370 nowadays for something like that. Tablet sounded

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I remember using IBM's Tiny Editor, 16-bit for DOS and OS/2, in DR-DOS 7.03, not open source. Tiny Editor was useful on IBM OS/2 installation floppies because of tiny size, could edit up to about 350 KB file or a little larger, more in OS/2 1.x. Using elvis 2.2, I was able to view and edit

Re: [Freedos-user] GridPad 1910

from Bob: Does anyone know if Freedos would work on a GridPad 1910? For those that don't know this is a PC/XT tablet computer. 10 Meg hard drive in this one. No floppy, so install will be interesting. How do you transfer data to GridPad 1910? Surely there would be no USB or CD, and hard

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

from Rugxulo: I know you've mentioned Linux and FreeBSD. Have you not tried FreeDOS under QEMU, VirtualBox, or Bochs? I've never used any of these emulators so far. Now I can boot FreeDOS with Syslinux from USB stick, either with XMGR.SYS (menu option 3) or without drivers (option 4). First

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

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. As long as QPro 3 does what you need from a spreadsheet, splendid. Most of us upgrade to get things the current versions of what we run

Re: [Freedos-user] dosbox

from dmccunney and Ralf Quint: You may want to look at vDOS instead. vDOS is a fork of DOSBox, specifically intended to run character mode DOS business apps on Windows. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/ +1 vDOS is a much better choice than DOSBox if you do not intend to run

Re: [Freedos-user] Clock

On 1/29/2015 9:24 PM, Michael Brutman wrote: Let's think about this critically. Is somebody really going to use a personal computer or a virtual machine running DOS to perform the functions of an alarm clock in the year 2015? Well, if you look at everything this way, you could ask why

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

There is a free XServer and Client for DOS: Nano-X which I ported to DOS: https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/ Since programming on the X11 level is not common today, you rather use GTK or Qt, I also ported the FLTK GUI to DOS. This GUI has far more features than

Re: [Freedos-user] USB to serial adapters and sound card emulation on FreeDOS

from Guillem: Hello, I am currently considering the possibility of dualbooting my Windows computer with FreeDOS. I have the resources to do so (FreeDOS installation CD image which I can burn to a flashdrive, 512mb unallocated space on my main drive which I will make a FAT32 partition on,

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