Hi! Well I haven't done anything with it yet, but it will be for games and some programs (a games is a program).
Games, nice old games, cool games the bring some old memories and time well spent. On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 7:42 PM Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > Hi Jamie! > > > On Dec 6, 2020, at 2:30 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > > > > > Hi and welcome Jamie! > > > >> Interestingly enough 1.3rc reports the version as 7.10 > > > > That is the level of our MS DOS compatibility, in this > > case Windows 98 style DOS with FAT32 support and, if you > > load the right drivers, long file name support. > > > > If you request the OEM number with int 21 function 3000, > > BH will be FD like FreeDOS. You also get CX=0 and BL=the > > kernel revision (last two digits) from int 21 function 30, > > for example 39 for kernel generation 2039. > > > > As FreeDOS specific extension of the system data area > > list of lists (use int 21 function 52 to get a pointer) > > you can read internal and setver-able DOS version, the > > revision number and a pointer to the version string. > > > > Note that FreeDOS 1.3 is the version of the distro, not > > of the kernel - similar things apply for Linux distros. > > > > An easy method to get the FreeDOS release string is > > int 21 function 33ff, which returns a pointer in DX:AX. > > Function 33fc can set the setver DOS version. > > > > Cheers, Eric > > > Yup, what he said… :-) > > If for some reason you actually need the release version number, > starting with FreeDOS 1.2, under the %DOSDIR% the installer > creates a VERSION.FDI file that contains that information. > > This assumes the user did not delete this file. Also, the > boot configuration file (FDAUTO.BAT) sets an environment > variable %OS_VERSION%. Which also assumes the > user does not remove it. > > At present, there is no guaranteed method to get the > “distro” release version. For the most part, it doesn’t matter > all that much what “distro” release a user is running anyway. > > :-) > > Jerome > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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