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

2015-02-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:18 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: I allocated the 2GB slice for FreeDOS expecting to use FAT16, and FAT32 support was a happy fringe benefit. Even with a full FreeDOS installation including pretty much everything on the ISO, and an assortment of

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

2015-02-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
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] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Feb 7, 2015 12:11 AM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: FreeDOS is rather difficult to run on my system, won't run at all with EMM386, and forget other DOSes. I know you've mentioned Linux and FreeBSD. Have you not tried FreeDOS under QEMU, VirtualBox, or Bochs?

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

2015-02-06 Thread Dale E Sterner
Freedos can give me fat 32 capabilities. Reading writing to bigger chips. Qpro 3 works great. I hate to mess with sucess. Sometimes the new version isn't as good as the old - it happens. cheers DS On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:29:42 -0500 dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Feb 3,

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

2015-02-06 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Freedos can give me fat 32 capabilities. Reading writing to bigger chips. Why would you *need* to? I still have my original PC clone running DOS in a shelf. I has a replacement motherboard with a NEC V20 chip running