Re: [Freedos-user] Any way to add files to freedos?

The situation is not looking good. Are you still able to copy or create files on the drive letter that you booted from? There are two DOS programs, MS Interlink and Laplink, that could self-copy from one DOS PC to another through the serial port. But here's the kicker: the target PC has to

Re: [Freedos-user] Any way to add files to freedos?

Yes, there are ways. For instance, you could use the COPY CON command and then enter a machine language program using the keyboard (The folks on comp.lang.asm.x86 came up with a nice one using base64) although that is probably not the most time efficient method. What type of storage device

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 22:31:38 -0500, Kyle Nied wrote: What, out of all of these fdisk versions (minus vanilla fdisk, of course), can you create multiple primary partitions? I'm pretty sure WinXP itself can create multiple primary partitions. Why not create the first

Re: [Freedos-user] Would you use a native 32/64-bit FreeDOS/BIOS system?

On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 11:15:08 -0500, Samuel V. via Freedos-user wrote: I was thinking that it could become necessary to start implementing a FreeDOS version that included natively its own BIOS, and that this combination of FreeDOS/BIOS is implemented

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

MS implemented an arbitrary limit of 32GB for FAT32 volumes, but with third-party tools much larger ones are possible (up to 2TB?). Maybe those flash cards could be reformatted and used in the camera with FAT32 instead. On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 06:27:01 -0400, Dale E Sterner

Re: [Freedos-user] Which

From: "TJ Edmister" <damag...@hyakushiki.net> On Tue, 09 Aug 2016 13:57:35 -0400, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The issue I am facing now is that the mechanical drives I connected to > the > secondary IDE channel of my Vesa Local Bus controller

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: "TJ Edmister" <damag...@hyakushiki.net> On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 05:24:30 -0400, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > More to the point, who *needed* it? > > MNG is PNG with support for animation. PNG was created to be a > graphics format unencu

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

On Tue, 09 Aug 2016 13:57:35 -0400, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > The issue I am facing now is that the mechanical drives I connected to > the > secondary IDE channel of my Vesa Local Bus controller are not detected. > Windows 98 SE bootdisk does not detect them either, The

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 05:24:30 -0400, dmccunney wrote: > > More to the point, who *needed* it? > > MNG is PNG with support for animation. PNG was created to be a > graphics format unencumbered by patents. If GIF was patent encumbered, then it would seem that anyone

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 21:08:03 -0400, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jose Antonio Senna > wrote: >> >> This said, I also admit browsing from DOS >> is going to be less and less practical. >> Lynx 2.8.5 supports

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 13:11:12 -0400, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:39 AM, TJ Edmister <damag...@hyakushiki.net> > wrote: >> Since I boot Win2K/XP from FAT32, I also have the ability to put FD >> right >> on the C:

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 07:20:32 -0400, Eric Auer wrote: > > * Is it easy enough to make a bootable USB stick with FreeDOS with > plenty of software included which does NOT need to install to > harddisk but can be used as "live" operating system boot disk? Isn't there a

Re: [Freedos-user] USB

On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:30:03 -0400, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 4/23/2016 6:53 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: >> The copy command is limited to what you set the mode command to. >> FREEDOS lets you set the baud very high but other dos's and >> even windows has 9600 baud as the

Re: [Freedos-user] AMD PowerNow adjustment in DOS

chive would be > awesome :) (even as short as a copy/paste of your previous message) > > cheers, > Mateusz > > > > On 26/03/2016 02:06, TJ Edmister wrote: >> Here is a utility for adjusting speed/voltage settings on K8 CPUs (eg. >> Athlon 64, Turion 64). It won

Re: [Freedos-user] [solved] Doom unstable with LBACACHE or RDISK

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:50:25 -0400, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: On 28/06/2015 20:03, Rugxulo wrote: Below 16M? You mean for DMA or the like? I have honestly no idea what the 'low-level' implications are. If someone asked me 2 days ago, I'd say that's impossible, since an

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking: With MS Client, Error 5: Access has been denied

Did you check the NTLM compatibility mode in Vista? HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa There should be a DWORD named LmCompatibilityLevel set to value of 1 On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 13:32:34 -0400, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: I installed MS-DOS Network Client, which successfully

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:22:03 -0400, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: No, I don't think so. You'd (usually) have to use raw assembly. Maybe you could do limited stuff with debug, dunno. (Obviously you can call interrupts with debug or do a few other arcane things, but it's not nearly as

Re: [Freedos-user] Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?

In the past I had half a dozen machines with various ESS chipsets which were (mostly) SB Pro compatible. Under DOS I would run ESSCFG followed by ESSVOL, and maybe set a BLASTER environment variable (or did the utility do that itself??? I can't remember) and then it would work. Check this

Re: [Freedos-user] Any open-source DOS picture viewers out there?

I've been working on a program which can load BMP/JPG, and optionally apply various color adjustment/reduction and scaling. It's mainly for my own use, but if there is interest I could release it under a specific license. It is written in FreeBASIC (with some inline assembly), and hence

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

It would be interesting to see a command interpreter like freecom/command.com with some basic GUI elements added to it. A menu bar with mouse support, clock, scroll bar perhaps... Does something like this exist? I saw something similar on an Atari 800XL with a variant of SpartaDOS. At the

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:29:56 -0500, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Hi! The DOS format utility is kind of an anachronism at this point. Usually it takes a long time to format a partition because it's iterating through every sector of the disk. It's completely unnecessary these days.

Re: [Freedos-user] FAT format process - was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60

On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 05:16:25 -0500, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: This limitation should not be present in FreeDOS: Default there is for harddisks to do a quick format, either with or without saving unformat data depending on whether there already was a filesystem. This behavior makes

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:13:59 -0500, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: I can think of only 2 ways an engineer can get those speeds out of a serial device. A very fast clock or big external buffers. I think DOS could handle a fast clock It is a very fast clock, 1.5 GHz and beyond. It

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 07:55:59 -0500, Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote: On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 06:44:52 +0100, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: from Rugxulo: One of the big problems (not counting HTML5 or Javascript or Flash) is HTTPS. Not just for DOS but for any OS

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:16:19 -0500, Dennis Holierhoek dennis...@hotmail.com wrote: But can it also run 8-bit programs? And 4-bit? In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30 CPU which is 8086 compatible while also featuring an 8080 emulation mode. NEC also

Re: [Freedos-user] Com1: corruption from PS2 mouse

On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 07:33:47 -0500, Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de wrote: FreeBasic doesn't support FIFO, and most likely no IRQ. try Open Com COM1:600,n,8,1,cs0,ds0,cd0,rs For Random As #CP and see if that changes your problem. sorry, not true. FreeBasic seems to use IRQ,

Re: [Freedos-user] Com1: corruption from PS2 mouse

On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:55:42 -0500, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote: There is an argument that can be passed in the Open Com statement to specify a buffer size. Is it supported in DOS? Maybe I will have to whip out FB DOS compiler and experiment. BTW, I'm not sure why you

Re: [Freedos-user] How to install FA511 PCMCIA Network Card

Is there any documentation included with the FA511 driver? Using PCMCIA cards under DOS often required some socket services crap to be installed. I had a network card working under DOS on a Toshiba of that era. I'll look in my backups and see if I still have the files and/or config.sys On

Re: [Freedos-user] how pass on command line general non-zero bytes to DOS program?

Does holding ALT while typing the ASCII code on the numeric keypad not work under FreeDOS? http://www.irongeek.com/alt-numpad-ascii-key-combos-and-chart.html On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:43:09 -0400, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: Hi, I need pass general non-ASCII non-zero strings as

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

On Fri, 16 May 2014 11:29:09 -0400, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:31 AM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:30:22 -0400, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Dale E Sterner

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:13:29 -0500, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: It supports FAT12/16 and NTFS out of the box, and with a patched system file it will support FAT32 also (same goes for NT3.51) Is the patch officially part of some service pack or is it third-party? I checked the site

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:36:49 -0500, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote: ... irrelevant comments by me deleted ... PS: I just wrote all that and found this:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 18:22:40 -0500, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: The two main files seem to be (as mentioned) fdos0138.exe (.ZIP sfx of .IMA) and jis4pack.lzh (three .fnt files, the first of which is huge, presumably only useful with something on the .IMA, perhaps FONTNX.EXE ??). Yes,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Amiga BridgeBoard

On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:55:45 -0400, Payton Byrd plb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I am trying to setup FreeDOS on a PC BridgeBoard on an Amiga 2000. I have MS-DOS 3.3 running fine, but want to upgrade to FreeDOS. I can read 720K floppies from the Amiga (and copy the files to the

Re: [Freedos-user] [super long subject line]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:45:45 -0400, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: ... My first question is, what OS is currently installed on your machine? Second, can it boot from LAN? If you are trying to install Linux from Windows you should look into a thing called wubi:

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:03:15 -0400, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:41 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: My usual response to worries about privacy is You *wish* you were

Re: [Freedos-user] uHex - a hex editor for DOS released under GPL

I like it. I have to ask though, when editing a large file, is there a way to seek to a particular offset aside from scrolling for ages? If not I think that would be a high priority feature to add (2nd place would probably be a search function). On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:53:45 -0500, Mateusz

Re: [Freedos-user] vfd(2)

Another DOS utility which I have used for dumping/writing floppy disk images is here: http://www.msxarchive.nl/pub/msx/utils/othersys/dcopy.zip It allows for specifying drive geometry, so in the case that you are having trouble creating a dump because of a flaw in an unused area of the

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos-98

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:58:34 -0500, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: So yes, if I can run hxrt on top of freedos and come up with some sort of packet driver for the PCI Realtek network card... that will

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE and ipxwrapper...

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:32:18 -0500, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: Windows 98 sort of running on top of a DOS system doesn't work with ipxwrapper-0.4.0. There is an error that iplphapi.dll can't be found or something similar. Why do you need an ipx wrapper on win98? You

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

Hi, have a couple ideas for you below... On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:28:39 -0500, bruce.bowman tds.net bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote: This may be a FAQ. I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it uses VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported by later

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support

It might be possible to get a PCMCIA card working, depending on the particular hardware. Most likely, you would need a set of card and socket services DOS drivers for your PCMCIA chipset and a true PCMCIA card (rather than the newer Cardbus type, which almost everyone seems to refer to as

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

The highest clock rates that were sold were 200MHz for Pentium, 233MHz for Pentium MMX, and 300MHz for Mobile Pentium MMX. The late mobile chips were made with a finer process (250nm IIRC). On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:25:01 -0400, David C. Kerber dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:33:00 -0400, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: Back in 1980, I told an old friend of mine about a 750K video-driver package which I had seen (written in C, of course!), and he noted, They've got GUTS, calling that a DRIVER! Wow, that sounds familiar. Was your

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Support

On Fri, 04 May 2012 21:32:52 -0400, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: Well, this is an open source project. FreeDOS users should be familiar with the roll your own concept of software acquisition. The chief engineer is leaning toward using compiled QuickBasic. Any well seasoned

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Support

On Wed, 02 May 2012 19:14:27 -0400, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: As I understand it the plan is to run DOS on an older tablet and use USB to interface directly with the sensors and actuators. Hardware interrupts will be used as timing events to keep everything in sync with the

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Support

On Tue, 01 May 2012 21:16:35 -0400, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: Hey Y'all, Does FreeDOS provide support for USB ports? There were no such thing as USB ports back in the MS-DOS days. ;-) My friends on the rotary engine mail list want to know so they can use it to control the

Re: [Freedos-user] To emulate or not to emulate...

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:26:04 -0400, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I want to be able to play vinyl records, I have a Hauppage PVR150 card connected via PCI to my P3 system. Under Windows 2000, I can use the card to run my Playstation II through the monitor. It may also

Re: [Freedos-user] A tool for CPU-load measurement

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:33:42 -0400, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote: This time I would compare, how much CPU time will my toy program need on different machines. I would to make it show, how many percent of CPU time was needed, if this can be possible. Why? Because I'm not going to

Re: [Freedos-user] questions on installation and acpi

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:47:10 -0500, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 17-1-2012 4:31, TJ Edmister schreef: I`m also wondering if it is possible to install FreeDOS onto a FAT16/32 partition alongside Windows NT4/2K/XP and add it to the Windows boot menu by pointing it to a file

[Freedos-user] questions on installation and acpi

Greetings, I wanted to try out FreeDOS on an old laptop where I have replaced the HDD with a CF card. I am looking to avoid floppies/CDs however, so I am wondering if anyone has an image that could be written to the CF card that would then boot into FreeDOS. I`ve found that once I have a

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:51:36 -0500, Bob Cochran bcochra...@verizon.net wrote: Hi, I have an MSI brand motherboard which I need to flash to the latest BIOS. However, all my systems run Linux or *nix; I do not have a Microsoft Windows-based system for creating a bootable floppy. MSI seems