So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and my Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my start with a 486 DX 8 mgs of Ram. I mostly did Visual Basic 3.0 programming to start after I finished college. VBA/ MS Access then to Dot Net. I can read C / C++ but never really did anything with it. So I thought it would be cool to mess around with it again
So I plan to multiboot on the laptop Linux Dos 6.22 / Windows 3.11 and FreeDos Is there an 'Order that this would need to be done in? Any Recommendations? I found on those old cds copies of desQview/X 2.1 and XAppeal (and if they could port it I might be able to) and DragonLinux which runs on UMSDOS so install on the same partition. Borland C++ 3.0, so much other fun stuff. Anyway I am having some problems, and I really don't remember my autoexec.bat/config.sys stuff anymore but I remember getting all the dos and stuff loaded to high memory or something like that. This is my fconfig.sys that I found in one of the FREEDOS folders..,. ****************************************************************************************** SET DOSDIR=C:\FREEDOS !BUFFERS=20 !FILES=40 !MENUCOLOR=7,0 MENUDEFAULT=4,5 MENU 1 - Load FreeDOS with JEMMEX, no EMS (most UMBs), max RAM free MENU 2 - Load FreeDOS with JEMMEX (more compatible) MENU 3 - Load FreeDOS with JEMM386 (Expanded Memory) MENU 4 - Load FreeDOS low with some drivers (Safe Mode) MENU 5 - Load FreeDOS without drivers (Emergency Mode) 123?DOS=HIGH 123?DOS=UMB 123?DOSDATA=UMB 1?DEVICE=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS X=TEST I=TEST NOVME NOINVLPG 2?DEVICE=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS X=TEST NOVME NOINVLPG 34?DEVICE=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\HIMEMX.EXE 3?DEVICE=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\JEMM386.EXE X=TEST NOVME NOINVLPG 12?SHELLHIGH=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM C:\FREEDOS\BIN /E:1024 /P=C:\FDAUTO.BAT 345?SHELL=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM C:\FREEDOS\BIN /E:1024 /P=C:\FDAUTO.BAT ****************************************************************************************** The only options that seem to work are 4 & 5. . Where can I get all the info to relearn all of that? Is there a website / documentation or an old dos book I can buy that would still be relevant to FreeDos. It sees all of the memory on the laptop 4gigs just I have not tried anything that needs 32 bit protected mode. but eventually once I get it figured out I will need it to do stuff in djgpp. So I think I need to get this all working. Mouse , CDROM all worked out of the box that was amazing. I'm not really good with mailing lists, too much overload. LOL Do we have a Discord server or something along those lines? Web based forum etc. If not, I'll re-adapt. Any direction / sites / books :) Thanks a bunch and this is awesome btw. Adam
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