Hello Jim,

I believe I saw your name as one of the creators of this neat invention.
Seems great but I spent the last 2 days setting in with the virtual box and
watching your channel's you tube video and it is set up but I hit a brick
wall. I don't see anywhere on your page for help either! I even went on
facebook and thought I posted for help and it seemed to have gotten
deleted. Very difficult to get help here. I have a CD of games from
Interplay and when I launch it in virtualbox/freedos it loads the menu
briefly then stops and goes to a black screen. That's one problem. The
other is HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU SET UP SHARED FOLDERS?????? I watched a YT
video on it and followed the steps  but when I type dir it still doesn't
show my folder c:/dosgames. This seems so difficult. I am not tempted to
download Dosbox and see how that goes. I don't know what I am doing wrong.
Any tips?

Thx,
Matt


On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-user <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Even in the "DOS days" of the 1980s and 1990s, it was true that
> different programs needed different memory configurations. This was
> more common in games, but "work" programs too.
>
> That's why the MS-DOS boot menu feature was so useful. And that's why
> FreeDOS has a boot menu feature too.
>
> Before the boot menu, you might have a boot floppy for a specific
> config.sys/autoexec.bat .. I did that for games, so I didn't mess with
> my parents' computer just to play a game. :-)
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM Dan Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > No, I did not think of trying jemmex.  Once again, I should have
> > performed better research; my fault!  The links web browser seems to
> > like jemmex much better, as does word perfect.
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM Dan Schmidt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Wow... these two programs do not get along.  I get a page fault when
> >> I have HimemX loaded.  Which is too bad - links is not at all stable
> >> as a GUI, but it's "LESS not-stable" as text only and thus may greatly
> >> add to my desired "quick booting retro computer" experience.
> >>
>
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