[Freedos-user] [BUG] FreeDOS not compatible with escape [NEW]

2009-03-23 Thread Michael Reichenbach
website: http://au.geocities.com/short_stop_pacific/freesoft/system.htm look for ESCAPE / BREAK (documentation, binary and source) it's an TSR which provides to quit any application, those without quit button and also hanging applications. In MS-DOS 7.1 with no config.sys/autoexec.bat it works.

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-22 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Michael Horvath schrieb: I have PocketDOS installed on my PDA. It loads a bootable version of FreeDOS from a floppy disk image. I'm having trouble figuring out where AUTOEXEC.BAT and FDCONFIG.SYS are located on this disk. Where can I find it? Until now I wasn't aware of the PocketDOS project

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-22 Thread Michael Horvath
Bernd Blaauw wrote: for config.sys only the root of the system is supported, and only the filenamed CONFIG.SYS and FDCONFIG.SYS (so for floppy most likely A:\FDCONFIG.SYS or A:\CONFIG.SYS) for autoexec.bat, it's either AUTOEXEC.BAT or any other batchfile indicated by a SHELL= line in the

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-22 Thread Michael Horvath
Michael Reichenbach wrote: I am using ndn, it's good, there is a DPMI32 DOS release. Dunno if it scales also well on low resources. http://ndn.muxe.com/ -mr I am trying ndn. I am able to install it in FreeDOS on Virtual PC on my XP machine, but in PocketDOS I get the error, Load error

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-21 Thread Michael Horvath
Eric Auer wrote: Very strange. Maybe you saved it in Unicode / UTF-8? Or in Word or something ;-) You could try other free or shareware editors like TextPad to make sure that your file is really text. Of course it could also be the case that something on your filesystem confuses DOS and the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-21 Thread Michael Horvath
k...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mike: I use VFD to do this under Windows. (It's easy under Linux). See http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html. You can mount the image as a floppy drive and copy files to/from it, format it, etc.. The other programs I know about cost money...

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Horvath
I am able to boot after selecting option #3 (Load FreeDOS with HIMEM XMS-memory driver), but installing the game still fails. Option #4 (Load FreeDOS without drivers) is unselectable. -Mike Michael Reichenbach wrote: Booting without emm386 will work, to make emm386 to work you need

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Robinson
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 02:12 -0400, Michael Horvath wrote: I am able to boot after selecting option #3 (Load FreeDOS with HIMEM XMS-memory driver), but installing the game still fails. Option #4 (Load FreeDOS without drivers) is unselectable. -Mike That's a bug, the 4th option not working

Re: [Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Robinson
O.K. It looks like it depends at least on pthreads, curses, termios, and linux-specific tty devices. Often (as is the case with curses), linux C libraries are available under FreeDOS with DJGPP; they are the same libraries, just re-compiled (DJGPP has a fairly POSIX-compatible c-library, it

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
John Ames schrieb: Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I want to install it on (a 3Com 3C595-TX) does not appear to be recognized by either the default packet driver or the

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi, Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I On modern PC, your BIOS already does USB disk support for you and DOS. You mean USB legacy support (for storage)?

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Do BIOS update 100 % step by step as the manual says. No experiments wit h DOS versions, TSR's, boot medium (if you shall use legacy floppy then do so). Otherwise you risk the BIOS update to fail as the developers did not thought about your modified use. Ok, well you can experiment if you have

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Horvath
Robert Riebisch wrote: Line #1 in batchfile 'A:\INSTALL.BAT' too long Please post the first line of A:\INSTALL.BAT. Robert Riebisch Good catch! When I read the batch file in FreeDOS the file is full of gibberish. In Notepad on my WinXP machine, however, it is a properly formatted text

[Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something that detects resource conflicts, flaky memory, etcetera.

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Horvath
Hi! I am having trouble with FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007. I am able to install it OK, and two of the three (four?) boot options work. Option #2 (the default, and the one that doesn't work) results in the following error: Illegal instruction occured. CS= IP=EEC3 SS=D0B4 SP=0004 ES=0070

[Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
I have the C source code for the 1.7 release that is meant for Linux. I want to port this code to freedos and build a gem compatible interface for it. Drivewire, for those who don't know, is a piece of software that allows a color computer 1/2/3 to access via serial port a modern computer and

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:25 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: Hi! Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something that detects resource

Re: [Freedos-user] usb boot

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Johnson Lam schrieb: On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:05:15 -0300, you wrote: Hi, But, It works only at some machines. I've tested many PC with my bootable USB stick. USB boot heavily depends on BIOS itself, if the BIOS of that PC sucks, you have no chance whatever how hard you try. Rgds,

[Freedos-user] fdupdate won't work on my 486...

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Robinson
I have a DTK 486 with a very simple AMI bios and on it a Dlink DE220PT nic on IRQ 12 IO 0x240. Arachne works fine, but fdupdate crashes. It crashes regardless of whether or not I choose to update a package. I'm using the crynwr packet collection ne2000 driver. I get an error about 2 near

Re: [Freedos-user] fdfullcd.iso, CD-ROM auto detection

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Blair Campbell schrieb: Why isn't this CD-ROM auto detection used for menu entry 1, 3,4 and 5? I don't really understand the question... CD-ROM drivers are loaded for 1, 3, 4, and 5; XCDROM.SYS would be the CD-ROM driver. But the other CD-ROM drivers, such as eltorito.sys are only load if menu

[Freedos-user] eltorito.sys also working for not-booted devices

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! Originally eltorito.sys was only designed to work for a boot sequence like: BIOS - CD-ROM with no-emulation bootloader (for example syslinux) - memdisk - DOS - eltorito.sys eltorito.sys continues to use the BIOS to access the device. I discovered that eltorito.sys can be also used for CD-ROM

[Freedos-user] fdfullcd.iso, CD-ROM auto detection

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! I have a question about the fdfullcd.iso. It's a bit unclear for me... The menu: 1. Install to harddisk using FreeDOS SETUP (default) 2. FreeDOS Safe Mode (don't load any drivers) 3. FreeDOS Live CD with HIMEM + EMM386 4. FreeDOS Live CD with HIMEM only 5. FreeDOS Live CD only In

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on NTFS as image with full read and write access / FreeDOS installer for Windows soon?

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Reichenbach
I have created a wikipage which describes how you can install FreeDOS on NTFS with permanent and full read and write access. It's not directly installed on NTFS, but inside an raw image. There is no need to change the partition table or the bootsector.

Re: [Freedos-user] fdfullcd.iso, CD-ROM auto detection

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Blair Campbell schrieb: Why isn't this CD-ROM auto detection used for menu entry 1, 3,4 and 5? I don't really understand the question... CD-ROM drivers are loaded for 1, 3, 4, and 5; XCDROM.SYS would be the CD-ROM driver. But the other CD-ROM drivers, such as eltorito.sys are only load if

[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status???

2009-03-14 Thread Michael Robinson
What is the status of Freedos 1.1? It has been a while since the you can help link has been updated. -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging,

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot find CD

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Blair, I think using aspi.sys you can use cdrecord with it. Maybe I will test it if I can get FreeDOS to boot on my laptop (1.0 CD kernel fails to boot). Does the Rugxulo.googlepages.com kernel work? You can use the floppy images there to make boot CD / DVD...

Re: [Freedos-user] generic boot... - booting from raw cd/dvd

2009-02-09 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Bernd Blaauw schrieb: Eric Auer schreef: mode: You could use the technology of Rayer's ROMOS which allows you to boot a FAT12 image directly from ROM. This image has only 1 FAT, so MS DOS 6 does not I wonder how large such expansion ROM images can be (64K? more?). The Coreboot project

Re: [Freedos-user] generic boot... - booting from raw cd/dvd

2009-02-09 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Michael Reichenbach schrieb: Bernd Blaauw schrieb: Eric Auer schreef: mode: You could use the technology of Rayer's ROMOS which allows you to boot a FAT12 image directly from ROM. This image has only 1 FAT, so MS DOS 6 does not I wonder how large such expansion ROM images can be (64K

Re: [Freedos-user] variable for boot device?

2009-02-08 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Michael, I need a variable %bootdevice% (or w/e) pointing to the current session's boot device (A:\ or C:\). Nice :-) Is there such a variable or can you tell me how to set this variable automatic in batch? I do not remember one, but it is extremely easy to do

Re: [Freedos-user] variable for boot device?

2009-02-08 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: On read-only media the 'set /e bootdevice=bootdev' will create an error due to write protection. How this can be solved? Did you set the TEMP or TMP environment variable to a directory on a writable drive? No, there is no writable device. Well, I could

Re: [Freedos-user] RxDOS

2009-02-07 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: Besides, I'm too egoistic to write or re-write major parts of something when this new version isn't accepted because it isn't tested enough. That was the case with the unstable DOS-C version 2037 (which had many features version 2036 and the upcoming 2038 don't

Re: [Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file? - versatility of grub4dos explained

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: Note that this would mean that you have to find the sources of ELTORITO.SYS - nu2.nu says it is now free / unmaintained but sources are not yet public - and add ELTORITO and also SHSUCDX into the kernel itself. Otherwise you will be able to boot the kernel, but

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
pcdos2k schrieb: i don't recommend creative SB pci cards for use in DOS. it's great in windows and linux, but it is a pain to setup in dos. Only the setup is a pain? Rest ok? if you already have it, then go for it. here are two websites to help you setup your SBPCI:

[Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file?

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! sys can write the FreeDOS bootsector into a file. Today I recognized that my freedos.bin working on one harddisk did not work on another harddisk after a simple copy. I know grub4dos as a bootmanager has a generic binary bootable file or memtest+ also has. Can you provide such a generic

Re: [Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file?

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! sys can write the FreeDOS bootsector into a file. Today I recognized that my freedos.bin working on one harddisk did not work on another harddisk after a simple copy. I know grub4dos as a bootmanager has a generic binary bootable file or memtest+ also has. Can you

Re: [Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file?

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
For demonstration purposes I created a fdos.bin. I would like to send it to the list but I don't think sending files to the list will work or is warm welcomed. It's a generic file you can use to chainboot finally kernel.sys. If you want it tell me and I send it private. In boot.ini you just need

[Freedos-user] Problems after adding more RAM

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! Recently I did expand my computer from 1 GB to 2 GB of RAM. Finally I checked that it's running well with Memtest86+ V2.11. I am also pretty sure that the harddisk can not be the problem as it's a mobile disk and working on other configurations ok. For now I found two strange behavior. At

Re: [Freedos-user] dd for DOS?

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! If I wanted to protect my mona lisa, I would encrypt it and put the key in the first 640k where I can be sure the BIOS wipes them :-p You can only encrypt the harddisk, not the RAM. Yes you can encrypt and/or compress RAM, but of course you get lower performance.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Santiago Almenara schrieb: Thanks for all your answers. From all your mail, I understood this: - There is not such thing as VESA audio Unfortunately... - SoundBlasters, especially SB16, are the common de facto for DOS system (I used to have an ISA one, so I won't be able to use

[Freedos-user] variable for boot device?

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! I need a variable %bootdevice% (or w/e) pointing to the current session's boot device (A:\ or C:\). Is there such a variable or can you tell me how to set this variable automatic in batch? regards, -mr -- Create

Re: [Freedos-user] dd for DOS?

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Thank you! Is there also some documentation about the DOS part available? What is the equivalent for /dev/mem or /dev/hda under DOS? Jim Hall schrieb: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Michael Reichenbach michael_reichenb...@freenet.de wrote: Is there a port of dd for DOS? http

Re: [Freedos-user] dd for DOS?

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Reichenbach
the whole RAM (mainly only 32 bit - 2 GB, but 4 GB or even more in 64 bit are also interesting) and write it into a raw image (also called sometimes flat or .img). - Also interesting for disk cloning, reading a whole drive and storing it as a raw image. -mr Michael Reichenbach escreveu: What

Re: [Freedos-user] dd for DOS?

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! - I would like to read the whole RAM (mainly only 32 bit - 2 GB, but 4 GB or even more in 64 bit are also interesting) and write it into a raw image (also called sometimes flat or .img). The BIOS int 15.87 lets you access the first 4 GB, if you want to access more

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Alain M. schrieb: if you use VMware you will nedd another driver... VMware creates a virtual machine and that means that everything is virtual. Including that your virtual machine will allways be the same regardless of what your real hw is, and will remain unchaged forever which is fery

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! I am not using any kind of virtualization software for it. Okay so you use DOS in real hardware. Do you think this card is also compatible with the Intel HDA ??? Depends. Modern mainboards use HDA or AC97 for sound. Only modern DOS software like MPXPLAY can use

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! Off-list reply from me: Basically most of the information can be summarized by giving the DevelSound and that other sound related URL in the drdoswiki, so maybe you could post those along with a summary of what can be found there in a mail to this thread here? The

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi, was some effort to collect funds to make people like Japheth, Tom, Georg, Arkady (just examples!) do it. You mean the thread in bttr? Yes. And I mean please mention ALL URLs in ONE easy to google in the list archive mail: DOS soundcard Wiki, VSB ponderings Wiki,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Santiago Almenara schrieb: Thanks Alain: n Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Alain M. ala...@pobox.com wrote: if you use VMware you will nedd another driver... VMware creates a Virtual machine and that means that everything is virtual. Including that your virtual machine will allways be the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
And I must add, if you have a newer notebook without DOS-compatible sound hardware then there is unfortunally no way to get sound to work. -mr Michael Reichenbach schrieb: Hi! Sorry, but I think depending on what you plan to do you will not have much fun in DOS with that card. But look

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS USB installation

2009-01-25 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Some options: a) installing just means creating MBR, creating bootsector, copying system files plus copying some applicaitons, there is no force to use an installer, you can do this copying steps yourself b) you can boot grub4dos from USB and emulate then the freedos installer iso and install to

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Robinson
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:26 -0600, Steve Owens wrote: As Marco said, Word's Find and Replace does this easily - you need to click on the 'More' button in the Find and Replace dialog, then click on 'Special', then insert as many of the characters as you like in sequence - in this case,

[Freedos-user] Purpose of dos...

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Robinson
I like dos when I have an old computer and some old games that work under dos. Running Windows on a 486 is a pain in general. Even a low end Pentium these days is slow. As far as web browsing and dos, isn't dos susceptible to almost every single virus on the planet? Another thing, some

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll FreeDOS and NTFS

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi again, recently I had an off-list discussion about the possibility of booting DOS from NTFS... This leads to the question, how happy are you with the existing solutions? Unhappy. - you can boot DOS from FAT, then load NTFS4DOS which is read/write, free for

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: Eric Auer wrote: - would you want a compressed filesystem to be writeable? The question to me is: Would you want a compressed filesystem at all? My discouraging answer: I just don't need it. I never used compressed filesystems anywhere, rather I buy a bigger

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Robert, Travis, Robert wrote: Would you want a compressed filesystem at all? My discouraging answer: I just don't need it. I think, what FreeDOS needs for daily use is a good graphical web browser, a nice e-mailer, a word processor like Abiword, FOSS USB drivers,

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Michael Robinson schrieb: As far as compressed filesystems are concerned or supporting NTFS, you are getting away from being 100% MS DOS compatible. No, it depends on how it's being implemented. Freedos isn't 100% compatible yet, more reverse engineering needs to be done to make it so. True

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-13 Thread Michael Robinson
I don't want a graphical web browser at all in freedos. The current option does not support out of the box filtering or plugins comparable to what Internet Explorer and Firefox have. Freedos is not a system that completely insulates the hardware nor is it a multiuser system, so it's

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS4DOS

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Blair Campbell schrieb: NTFS4DOS has one problem...it isn'T a TSR you can start it at commandline or autoexec.bat and it will start a second layer of command.com. This will eat memory of 640k but should work with most programs. Could it be loaded as the shell so it only stats a first

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

2008-12-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
- You have no floppy. - You have IDE harddisk? - You have USB CD-ROM. - You have no legacy CD-ROM? There was a similar question recently... http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6599 First you must tell us if you are able to boot from USB. Does your BIOS have options to boot USB?

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable USB stick

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Wouldn't it be a good idea to get a backup of the wiki in case it's gone someday? Jim Hall schrieb: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Florian Xaver f...@drdos.org wrote: Hi! Nice, but why a blog post and not a new wiki site? I think you should move it. We also have a FreeDOS Wiki now. I'm

[Freedos-user] Arachne filtering plugin...

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Robinson
Aside from arachne not support horde webmail imp sites completely, is there a filtering plugin for it? I like firefox because I can add Procon to it. With the amount of smut on the Net, running an unfiltered browser has a few downsides.

[Freedos-user] Netware 4.11 in vmware...

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Robinson
What network card driver do I need on the server side and client side and where do I get it from? I am running vmware workstation 6. All my attempts to grab the netware driver for an AMD PCnet PCI II card have netted me Windows executables. Argh! I wish vmware could emulate a different type of

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: Michael Reichenbach wrote: I was curious if any SCSI drivers could work and created that disk http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/scsitool/ with all SCSI drivers but most of them are for PCI SCSI cards and therefore none was working. Why do you think, that SCSI drivers

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: Michael Reichenbach wrote: I didn't think it, it was just try and error. It could have worked for the same reason the eSATA PCI card is compatible with my BIOS if booted SCSI. This is a false conclusion. ;-) In your BIOS setup the setting is just *wrongly

[Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Me was writing most of that page so I am aware of booting / AHCI / IDE Emulation and such... http://www.drdos.org/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.HardDisks I was curious if any SCSI drivers could work and created that disk http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/scsitool/ with all SCSI drivers but

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable USB stick

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! :) Nice, but why a blog post and not a new wiki site? I think you should move it. By the way we have already a similar page http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.USB merge it? Didn't you know that great page? :) The syslinux method is imho a bit complicated,

Re: [Freedos-user] help: need a tool to write MBR to harddisk

2008-12-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Which utility you are talking about? Джандуарлем Абдулаихим schrieb: These utility you can write itself in the Turbo-C 2.0. It's a simply - reads write series of sectors as one big string of data. Use biosdisk() function for make them result.

Re: [Freedos-user] ReactOS and Freedos 1.0...

2008-12-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Michael Robinson schrieb: Is there a way to install ReactOS and Freedos together in the same vmware 6 virtual machine? -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future

Re: [Freedos-user] kernel.sys; command.com - debug versions?

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Debug versions of kernel.sys produce a lot of technical messages, which might scroll away before you can type them over ;-). I will solve this as this problem will appear, see below. For now, please link to the debug version! :) Well, is there even some? You can, by the

Re: [Freedos-user] Sector read-writes.

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Reichenbach
If you like testing and don't want to kill your running system I recommend using an emulator and testing in a virtual system. regards, -mr kurt godel schrieb: Was following this thread. Dowloaded findpart; according to the readme, type findpart followed by the name of the utility,say, getsect

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric schrieb: Alternatively, you could search for a dos port of dd dd for DOS sounds interesting. Was there ever a DOS port? There is dd for Windows, does someone got it to run under HX DOS Extender? -- SF.Net email is

[Freedos-user] kernel.sys; command.com - debug versions?

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Having kernel.sys and command.com are the most minimal way to start FreeDOS I know. I've successfully managed to find a configurations of parameters where FreeDOS is crashing before I can use the command prompt. The reason for the freeze couldn't be detected just by describing the parameters

Re: [Freedos-user] W-LAN under DOS / DOS Hardware Database

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
, but only the PCMCIA and some PCI models. Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Alain M. ala...@pobox.com wrote: Michael Reichenbach escreveu: Wouldn't

Re: [Freedos-user] W-LAN under DOS / DOS Hardware Database

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
- ) See ya On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Alain M. ala...@pobox.com wrote: Michael Reichenbach escreveu: Wouldn't it be a good idea to create a DOS Hardware Database? Similar to http://www.drdos.org/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.SoundCardChip We could just use that one :) DrDOS

[Freedos-user] W-LAN under DOS / DOS Hardware Database

2008-12-10 Thread Michael Reichenbach
I've just read the article about W-LAN under DOS. Very interesting. It's unclear to me which W-LAN hardware has drivers for DOS. Perhaps my Realtek USB key doesn't have DOS drivers, if I would have know this before I might have selected another product. (I am still thinking about.) The supported

[Freedos-user] prepackaged USB driver bootdisk

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! There was a prepackaged USB driver bootdisk with all available DOS USB drivers, trying to connect a device and if failed automatically unloading this driver and trying the next driver from another producer. I found it in past somewhere on google. Unfortunately I've deleted it by mistake and

[Freedos-user] image (.img) mount / manipulation software?

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Under XP I am using Virtual Floppy to to mount and edit virtual floppy images (.img). Is there a similar software for FreeDOS? -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of

Re: [Freedos-user] image (.img) mount / manipulation software?

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Seams like you can temporary mount the disk and start an application. But it can't permanently mount it with a drive letter? Mateusz Viste schrieb: On Saturday 06 December 2008 18:34, Michael Reichenbach wrote: Under XP I am using Virtual Floppy to to mount and edit virtual floppy images (.img

Re: [Freedos-user] Updated Antivirus for dos

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Antivirus for DOS is good like Antivirus for *any barely used OS*, because the barely used OS isn't target for viruses. Therefore you can use it as second operating system and/or other boot medium (USB, CD or w/e) and do a robust scan. -mr Jonathan W. schrieb: I'm not sure there'd be much to

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Compatable Soundcards in PCI?

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Reichenbach
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.SoundCardChip Spiro Gulgas schrieb: Now that i got a new PC, i'll be using my older one (2001 - not that old, today's standards make it seem like an IBM PC). Just Wondering is there any dos compatable soundcards with PCI

[Freedos-user] freedos 1.1

2008-11-23 Thread Michael Robinson
How much longer till this much anticipated release? I see the occasional compiler update or arachne update... where is the freedos 1.1 project as a whole though? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos and 98 dual boot.

2008-11-09 Thread Michael Reichenbach
The dual booting thing shouldn't be hard. Perhaps you do it a lot more complicated then you need. Two things you need to confirm: 1) Does FreeDOS work as single as like you want? 2) Does Win98 work as single as like you want? If you can answer both questions with yes then you are ready for multi

Re: [Freedos-user] porting for DOS of aircrack

2008-10-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
How often do you need to recover you wlan key? :) -mr iw2evk schrieb: Hi, i've found this intersting command line program for wavelan users. it's possible make a porting for dos? http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php open source drivers for wavelan can be found via this page:

[Freedos-user] dmake download?

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! Can anyone sponsor please a download for dmake for DOS? I can't find it anywhere on the net. Regards, -mr - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based

[Freedos-user] dmake usage

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! I am reading and following http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Building_wxMGL_Port Currently I am stuck at the first mentioned dmake. I've downloaded http://www2.inf.fh-rhein-sieg.de/~skaise2a/ska/sources/suppl26a.zip from http://www2.inf.fh-rhein-sieg.de/~skaise2a/ska/sources.html and copyed

Re: [Freedos-user] dmake usage

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: Michael Reichenbach wrote: I am reading and following http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Building_wxMGL_Port A very complicated way for a library only. ;-) Yeah. :| But the demos are very impressive. wxWidgets on pure DOS sounds very well. Currently I am stuck

Re: [Freedos-user] greetings

2008-09-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Welcome. :) Regards, -mr Braden Mailloux schrieb: Hello, Everyone; My name is Braden and I'm a new user to FreeDOS. I've successfully installed FreeDOS to my old Dell laptop (the cd-rom drive held out!). I'm pretty new to computers, even though they've been in my life for some time now.

[Freedos-user] article about sound programming in DOS

2008-09-10 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi, I've created based on the original contents in drdos.org wiki, the discussions here on the mailing list and some of my own researches an article about sound programming DOS. It's purpose is a summary of all available informations floating around.

Re: [Freedos-user] Games report...

2008-09-07 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Mateusz Viste schrieb: Frankly, I'd like to see Microsoft forced to open source it's abandoned operating systems. If Microsoft can do something totally different like Vista, there's no excuse for keeping something ancient like MS-DOS 7.0 closed. Well... I'm not sure we would really need

Re: [Freedos-user] Games report...

2008-09-07 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Travis Siegel schrieb: I agree that abandon programs such as win 3.x and msdos should be opensourced, but I'd settle for uninforcable copyrights. I'm personally of the opinion that if the company no longer sells, supports, or in the case of most companies, actively discourages the

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FreeDOS EDIT 0.9a (FD-Dflat+ based)

2008-09-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
I am interested in dflat+ and know dflat was made for gcc 3.x and doesn't compile with gcc 4.x anymore. Did you fix it? Which version of watcom is dflat+ now designed for? -mr - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin

Re: [Freedos-user] Games report...

2008-09-06 Thread Michael Reichenbach
robinson-west user schrieb: ... games not working ... Interesting report. You want to say these games are working with MS-DOS but not with FreeDOS? You may post the configuration (config/autoexec) for MS-DOS and also for FreeDOS. Maybe it can be improved. I wish the ReactOS project hadn't

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound Blaster PCI 128 - Is There a Compatible Driver? Also EMM386+EMS Crash

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
not even loading cd drivers (ShsuCD and xcdrom) because games run from hd. If it's still not working post back again. I can give you my config or even upload a whole working image. Regards, -mr Elrich2k3 schrieb: Michael Reichenbach wrote: You can download the drivers here http

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound Blaster PCI 128 - Is There a Compatible Driver? Also EMM386+EMS Crash

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
! Sound card interrupt is already in use by another card. [Heart of China] Trying to fix this, I edited autoexec.bat and sbpci.ini to set both MT32 and SB16 emulation to I7, but got the same error message. So I put MT32 on I5 and SB16 on I7... and still got the same error message. Michael

[Freedos-user] licence questions

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! I want to create a distro (inherited the term from linux distro) based on FreeDOS. The first release may be an Free emulator (Bochs) fully preinstalled, preconfigured and portable for windows (maybe later follow other Free emulators in the same package like qemu). Both is Free Software. (no

Re: [Freedos-user] licence questions

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Jim Hall schrieb: I hope that helps! Yep, alright. Thanks! :) - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound Blaster PCI 128 - Is There a Compatible Driver? Also EMM386+EMS Crash

2008-09-04 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Elrich2k3 schrieb: Hello, new FreeDOS user here. Is there any way that I can get a Sound Blaster PCI 128 to work with FreeDOS? I've tried every method I could find on any forum anywhere. PCI soundcards for SB legacy stuff are always more worse then ISA ones. See here

Re: [Freedos-user] ftp server as TSR / map ftp server as drive letter TSR

2008-09-01 Thread Michael Reichenbach
But it's not really what I asked... -mr Larry schrieb: arachne has an ftp capability. I've used that to share files to my local host. --- On Sun, 8/31/08, Michael Reichenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Michael Reichenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freedos-user] ftp server as TSR

Re: [Freedos-user] ftp server as TSR / map ftp server as drive letter TSR

2008-09-01 Thread Michael Reichenbach
pcdos2k schrieb: Maybe you find something there. I used EZ-NOS2 as DOS ftp-server for some time. But it won't run as DOS TSR. eznos2 can shell to dos. Shell to dos is nearly the same as TSR? Nice, but unfortunately it isn't working under VMware. Perhaps I should switch to Bochs for DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] ftp server as TSR / map ftp server as drive letter TSR

2008-09-01 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Alain M. schrieb: Michael Reichenbach escreveu: pcdos2k schrieb: Maybe you find something there. I used EZ-NOS2 as DOS ftp-server for some time. But it won't run as DOS TSR. eznos2 can shell to dos. Shell to dos is nearly the same as TSR? Yes, only will probably have very little free

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