Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEMX zip file dates

Hi Jim, > On Oct 1, 2023, at 7:05 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Eric wrote: >> You can also find updates for JEMM and HIMEMX on Japheth's GitHub "Baron von >> Riedesel", even his HIMEMSX to use more than 4 GB RAM :-) > > Mercury Thirteen wrote: > [..] >> Looks like I fell

[Freedos-user] Online Get-together

I think the monthly online get-together is today. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Announcement: lDebug release 6

Hi ecm, > On Aug 28, 2023, at 3:50 PM, C. Masloch via Freedos-user > wrote: > > On at 2023-08-26 11:30 -0500 , Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote: >> Great news, thanks! I've been following the feature request discussion >> on the tracker, so it's great to see the new version with the cool new >>

Re: [Freedos-user] gitlab change notifications lack commit messages

Hi Eric, > On Jul 18, 2023, at 3:31 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user > wrote: > >  > Hi! > > Today I have gotten more than 60 notifications about packet updates, > NONE of which mentioned why the affected package got updated. First, sorry about all the notification messages. Earlier today,

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FreeDOS Be Installed By Means Of UNIX Commands?

> On Jul 16, 2023, at 10:21 AM, Jay F. Shachter via Freedos-user > wrote: > [..] > If the answer to the first question is Yes, then I can continue this > narrative, otherwise the remainder of this posting is moot. I copied > FD13FULL.img to a USB stick, stuck it into the above-described >

Re: [Freedos-user] the freedos 1.3 floppy install edition.

Hi, > On Jul 20, 2023, at 5:47 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Hi folks, > did the obvious and visited the readme for the download section of freedos. > While there is indeed a floppy only install, I understand one should over > ride the 286 assumption with a switch to

Re: [Freedos-user] the freedos 1.3 floppy install edition.

Hi Eric, First… The Standard Install Media (CD, USB, LiveCD, etc) require a 386 or better. There are several reasons I have mentioned before why those require a 386. But for those who may have missed or forgotten why those require a 386, these are the primary reasons. USB did not exist on

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

> On Aug 6, 2023, at 5:48 PM, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user > wrote: > > On 8/6/23 23:34, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user wrote: >> DOS is using *text *mode, you just can't select a*graphics *mode and expect >> to get text output in that mode. > > BIOS text output functions still work in most

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

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 display could be in 40x25, 80x43, 80x50 and numerous other text

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

> On Aug 6, 2023, at 5:25 PM, EdzUp via Freedos-user > wrote: > > I was testing in virtualbox. Like PC speaker emulation…. I don’t think provides any support for higher resolution text modes. ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

Hi, > > To fake shifts, one can just modify the flags at 40:17 and 18. > It will not update the keyboard LEDs, but that is acceptable. > The BIOS itself uses 40:96 and 97 to track its own status. > It has been a very long time. But, if I recall correctly, I’m fairly sure you can

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

Well, If I were making something to support typing those extra/alternate characters, the driver would probably behave like this… Normal typing and continuous key press would behave as normal. This includes key repeating at the set typographic rate. I would implement some of the techniques

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

Hi Ralf, > On Feb 9, 2024, at 2:16 PM, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user > wrote: > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

During the DOS years, I used XTree a lot for moving things and general file management. During the early DOS years, I used Professional Write. Eventually, I moved on to the Lotus Suite. But as with the platforms that came before, I spent most of my time in DOS writing code. Mainly that

Re: [Freedos-user] Is networking unsupported on QEMU? Pilot error suspected.

Hi, > On Dec 27, 2023, at 1:04 PM, andrew fabbro via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Greetings! > > I'm a bit perplexed trying to get networking working for FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU. > My physical host is an M1 Mac (Apple Silicon). > > FreeDOS installs and boots fine, but I get this message: > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Date check

Hi, > On Jan 30, 2024, at 7:00 AM, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm currently facing some users which seem to have a bad BIOS battery and > therefor aren't using the current date. > Those users aren't even noticing that wrong date on their printed invoices of

Re: [Freedos-user] Date check

> On Jan 30, 2024, at 8:01 AM, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Hi Jerome, > > Perfect! Thanks for the pointer to that VSTR utility! > > wOOdy Your welcome :-) > > Von: Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user <mailto:freedos-user@lists.source

Re: [Freedos-user] documentation update

Hi, > On May 9, 2024, at 3:53 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user > wrote: > >  > Hi! >> Initially I tried Bochs, but found Bochs either cannot go full screen >> using SDL2, or I just haven't found the magical incantation... > > A quick google says "try alt-enter" (to go full screen). In 2011,

[Freedos-user] Future FreeDOS [was documentation update]

Hi > On May 9, 2024, at 6:31 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user > wrote: > >  > Hi! > > Turns out I only had some 2020 Bochs and no boot "disk" > for it, so I could not easily test any hotkeys :-o But: > >>> What if the DOS distro installer can be improved, so it no >>> longer matters which

Re: [Freedos-user] the msdos 4.0 sources has some multitasking code

Personally, I have zero interest in any on the versions of DOS that Microsoft has open sourced. Versions 1.25, 2.0 and 4.0. Really? Those aren’t even the good versions of MS-DOS. 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

Re: [Freedos-user] QEMU - Max size of Linux access folder

Hi, Since you said, the source code is about 640MB and is on an old XP machine…. Why not just boot the FreeDOS Live CD, enable LFN support by installing the driver to the Live Environment and running it. Then install the compiler to the Live Environment. Then just compile the source directly

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS install

Hi, > On Apr 6, 2024, at 8:40 PM, Norby Droid via Freedos-user > wrote: > > One issue I find alot when tryin to install FreeDos is that it would go most > of the way through the install then without any reason and no explanation as > to why, it just stops and says there is a problem so

Re: [Freedos-user] Missing CDROM drive

Hi,On Apr 7, 2024, at 6:46 PM, dnashmcp--- via Freedos-user wrote:I have a Thinkpad X301 (I think a perfect fit for FreeDOS). I was able to install to C: from the FD-13LIVE CD and it loads a driver for the CDROM as ELTORITO, but when I boot after installation it fails on the first attempt to

Re: [Freedos-user] How to try FDT2404 (Latest test version) on QEMU

Hi Paul, Just a side note about installing using the FullUSB. One of my DOS test machines is an Acer One netbook with a 1Ghz Atom processor and an ancient 30Gb SSD. This machine has no CD/DVD drive. It does boot from the FullUSB when written to a flash drive. It takes about 5 minutes from

Re: [Freedos-user] "fdnpkg update" not working

> On Jun 4, 2024, at 7:33 PM, Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user > wrote: >  > I've tried several times lately to run fdnpkg update​, but the command hangs > repeatedly at Loading > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/base...​ > ` and no progress is