Hello everybody, I just joined this newsletter and I hope the community, I had a few tries with FreeDOS but mostly in the VM and mostly for the use cases that DOSBOX handles much better.
None of these are related to my current deployment, which was hacking the UEFI boot manager that comes with Intel Mac on one of my old iMacs and installing both Windows (7) partition and FreeDOS to boot natively, no VM, just on the bare metal computer inside the aluminum box. It works, I can boot into it. I can run lots of software and I rather installed it to try something new than to emulate SB and play old games. My research will be mostly development and to test how I can switch from FreeDOS to long mode (64bit protected mode) but I cannot even use dev tools provided in packages as they often return DOS16/m exceptions and hang the computer out. With this I have few starter question as a user: - DOS16/m is a 16bit protected mode extender. Does it mean that FreeDOS runs in 16bit protected mode from the command line or perhaps some driver is interfering or rather the iMac I use has hardware that may cause some obvious incompatibilities. I'm happy to dedicate some time for further testing and even debugging but I need some hints how to start. Will somebody here be available to assist me a bit with starter points?
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