Jim Hall wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 8:07 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> >> I am working on an academic project that requires understanding the
> >> MAD programming language so I can pick apart (and faithfully recreate)
> >> an old MAD program. That's the Mich
[resending without photo attached]
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 2:06 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Very helpful. I thought it might be something like this. I'll update the bug
> with your info.
>
> Mind if I copy your photo into the bug report to show that it's working?
>
> On Tue,
A user entered a bug that FreeDOS won't boot on the Book8088.
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/391/
> Hi. I got myself a Book8088 2.0 recently. It's a Chinese retro computer
> with a NEC V20 processor, 640 kb ram and a CF card as a storage. It uses
> Sergei Kiselev's BIOS_8088 with XTIDE
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 8:07 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> I am working on an academic project that requires understanding the
> MAD programming language so I can pick apart (and faithfully recreate)
> an old MAD program. That's the Michigan Algorithm Decoder, from 1959
> and
I am working on an academic project that requires understanding the MAD
programming language so I can pick apart (and faithfully recreate) an old
MAD program. That's the Michigan Algorithm Decoder, from 1959 and the early
1960s.
MAD is similar to original FORTRAN, but there are some things that
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 6:29 PM tauro via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> This seems to be exactly what you're looking for.
>
> https://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/unix.htm
>
> Under "GNU Textutils", you will find fmt.
>
> Here's a direct link for a 16 bit version:
>
>
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 3:20 PM Aitor Santamaría via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Off-topic (as it is WinNT), but in this video, the author claims to
> have built a text-mode 100MB small Windows 11. It is shockingly slow,
> but it is still fun to see a text mode OS stripping the GUI.
>
>
I'm looking for a way to keep my text files (like README.TXT) tidy and
easy to read. One problem is that if I modify a plain text file in a
regular text editor, and change the line length in the middle of a
paragraph, now I have to fix all the lines around it so the lines are
all about 77
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:24 AM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> FD edlin ignores a leading space. If you want the leading space to be
> searched for, put the string in quotes; e.g.
>
> 1r"written"," written"
>
> The reason why I didn't stick a ^Z there is because I wanted to get
>
I actually do use edlin sometimes. But I have a question that might
actually be a bug report:
When I try to search and replace text, and I want to add a space in
front of my replaced text, I can't get it to work. Am I doing this
wrong?
Here's an example: In this 1-line file, I want to edit the
Hi everyone!
I promised to propose the next virtual get-together after the holiday
break, so here it is. :-)
How about Sunday, February 4 for the next get-together? That's three
Sundays from now.
Time is 11am to noon US/Central, same time as always. And we'll
probably go over that, because we
On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 7:46 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> The FreeDOS Interim Test Build T2401 for January is now available for
> download at:
>
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/
>
> Although this update consists of only a few simple
Thanks to everyone for sharing their advice on learning assembly
programming. I've started exploring how to write assembly programs in
NASM. I'm not looking to write anything "big" in NASM, just learn
enough about it so I can write a few programs here and there.
Thanks also to Danilo for pointing
I added the OpenWatcom compilers and NASM links to the
https://www.freedos.org/about/devel/ page earlier today. So now we
have three "info boxes" that call out the open source compilers
(OpenWatcom and NASM) that we recommend for working on FreeDOS. The
other tools are listed below that in the
On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 12:42 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Well done,
>
> one suggestion I oversaw the first time I looked at the new site: On
> https://freedos.org/about/devel/ I would change the order of the
> compilers, otherwise people could get the impression that DDS
at 1:39 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> FYI: I'm in the middle of the website move, and something got stuck.
>
> Right now, you can visit http://www.freedos.org/ and see the new
> website, but https://www.freedos.org/ (note the "https" instead of
> "http") is showing &
n't get
updated for https when the move happened.
I have a support ticket open for the site hosting folks to fix this.
On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 11:02 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> I wanted to let everyone know that I'm planning to (finally!) put the
> new website "live" in the next few d
I wanted to let everyone know that I'm planning to (finally!) put the
new website "live" in the next few days. This is the updated version
of the website that I've shared via email several times over the last
year or so. The "test" version of the new site is here, if you want to
preview it:
I actually never learned DOS assembly programming, but decided I'd
like to start.
What assembler do you recommend, and where is a good place to start
learning about DOS assembly programming? Start with a "Hello world"
program and eventually move up to writing an assembly version of TYPE
and
I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, to all who celebrate!
Also looking forward to 2024!
___
Freedos-devel mailing list
Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
(I'm re-sharing this note from my get-together "followup" email so
more people will see it)
We talked again about the test release, and focusing the LiveCD to
something you can boot and run FreeDOS without installing it to a hard
disk, but also having all the "core" packages on it so you can
(I'm re-sharing this update from the virtual get-together "followup"
email so others will see it)
We experimented with a few things on the new "test" website at
https://test.freedos.org/
The test website currently shows the classic logo (we were
experimenting with it) but I'll change it back to
Thanks to everyone for joining the FreeDOS virtual get-together today!
We had a small group (probably because of the holidays) but we had a
great conversation about the new website, asking about kernel updates,
updates to the distribution, and our upcoming 30th anniversary on June
29 2024.
Let's
: (US) +1 484-424-4824 PIN: 279 172 798#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/spq-kkvy-bgn?pin=6012394617441
See you then!
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 6:03 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> Just a reminder about tomorrow's virtual get-together. See you online
> at 11am US/Cent
Help website says Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari:
https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473?hl=en#meet_browsers
On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 7:02 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> Thanks to Jerome for reminding me to schedule the next FreeDOS virtual
> get-together. L
The last time we made a major update to the FreeDOS website was maybe
ten years or so. Things are definitely feeling a bit dated, such as
certain design elements. And over time, we've added content where it
seemed to "fit" so the usability has degraded since the last update.
I have been
Someone else asked me about the USBDOS license. This person
highlighted a note in the USBDOS license that suggested "if your
website collects money, then you can't distribute USBDOS" - and the
person asked about the Patreon link on the www.freedos.org website.
So I thought I'd share my reply
A user emailed me to ask about the license for JEMM. We list this as
"Artistic License" on the website, but JEMM includes a few public
domain components.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/jemm.html
I wanted to share my reply to this person on the
Hi everyone!
Thanks to Jerome for reminding me to schedule the next FreeDOS virtual
get-together. Let's do the get-together on Sunday, December 17 at 11am
US/Central (use your favorite timezone converter to find your local
time).
We are no longer using BlueJeans. They are shutting down that
We didn't set a date after the last one. I recall I also commented that I
have a conference coming up and some other things that would have made a
November video get-together difficult for me. (I need all the time I can
get this week, and the next few weeks.)
How about we try for December? Like
*Is anyone planning to attend FOSDEM? It would be great to have someone
talk about FreeDOS, I think a lot of folks would be interested.*
*Here's the invite for their call for presentations:*
--
Small update, moved the CFP URL to here:
t;
> > On 11/12/2023 11:07 AM EST Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Thanks! I always love a new Edlin release. :-)
> >
> > I've mirrored it on the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio. Here's the link:
> > https://ibiblio.org/pub/micr
Thanks! I always love a new Edlin release. :-)
I've mirrored it on the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio. Here's the link:
https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/edlin/2.23/
For anyone interested, the video Gregory mentioned is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yapAepxbaT4
Hi everyone!
For anyone who needs more info: libmpi is a Multiple Precision Integer
library, and libm is a C math library. Both are public domain. You can
find both on the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio, under
/files/devel/libs/libm and /files/devel/libs/libmpi. Thanks Gregory!
Here are the
Ben Collver emailed me about these music players, and I wanted to re-share here:
>> from https://archive.org/details/abcmidi-20231101-for-dos
abcMIDI is a package of programs written in C for handling ABC music
notation files. The software was created by James Allwright in the
early 1990 and
So now phishers are pretending to be FreeDOS emails. That's pretty targeted
phishing (aka "spear phishing" where attackers customize the email to be
very specific to the recipient).
Thanks for sharing. I haven't seen this, but I'll watch for it now.
On Thu, Nov 2, 2023, 4:39 AM Wilhelm Spiegl
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 5:58 AM Walter Oesch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> From Code:
>
> if(_setvideomode(_SRES16COLOR) == 0) /* Switch to 800*600 mode with 16
> colors */
> {
> printf("\n\nVideo mode not supported!!!\n");
> printf("Maybe the VESA driver has not
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 9:31 AM Walter Oesch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Dear Eric
>
> Hear some facts of my project:
>
> I work for embedded software on the board Vortex86DX 800MHz.
> I need at least SVGA graphic (800X600).
> I prefer to work on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux (no Windows)
> The target
On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 3:12 PM Pedro Luis Carballosa Mass via
Freedos-devel wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> The software is a basic calculator for DOS programmed in QBasic, the
> calculator is not complete because he lacks some icons and it only
> works with mouse, but this is due to that is part of a
Steve said:
> I can't see what would need to be on base to make it more than about 20
> MB? And even that's pushing it hard.
>
> Maybe because I'm measuring by PC DOS 2000, which came on 6 floppies.
>
The FreeDOS distribution has a "LiveCD" component that allows users to
boot the CD. This
I did a quick comparison of the packages on the FreeDOS 1.3
distribution (both Live and Bonus) and the FreeDOS T2310 distribution
(Live and Bonus). And the differences in packages (added and dropped)
were as expected, so that's good. :-)
Then I added up the package size on T2310, both Live and
Jim wrote:
> I want to compile some things using IA-16 GCC in the new Interim Build
> T2310, but neither the LiveCD or BonusCD have the DJGPP Environment
> package on it. We had this on previous FreeDOS installs; to compile
> with IA-16 GCC, you need to set the DJGPP environment variable to a
>
I want to compile some things using IA-16 GCC in the new Interim Build
T2310, but neither the LiveCD or BonusCD have the DJGPP Environment
package on it. We had this on previous FreeDOS installs; to compile
with IA-16 GCC, you need to set the DJGPP environment variable to a
DJGPP.ENV file.
Or is
Downloaded and installed it. Looking good so far. Thanks!
Jim
On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 10:22 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> The FreeDOS Interim Test Build T2310 for October is now available for
> download at:
>
>
a new video meeting platform, I don't think
we'll have a meeting in October. I'm thinking about mid-November, to
avoid the US Thanksgiving weekend. I'll send a "save the date" email
well in advance so we can plan ahead.
Jim
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:35 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> >
>
Hi everyone!
Here's the URL for today's virtual get-together:
https://bluejeans.com/286798924/2517
See you in about 15 minutes!
Jim
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:35 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I wanted to share a reminder that the next FreeDOS virtual
> get-together
Hi everyone!
I wanted to share a reminder that the next FreeDOS virtual
get-together is THIS SUNDAY, 11am US/Central. (Use your favorite time
zone converter to find your local time, but it's the same time we've
been doing it.)
I'll share the meeting URL here shortly before the meeting starts.
Bernd wrote:
[..]
> If the project is in need of web space or something else, I think I
> could help out. So let me know...
>
For the www.freedos.org and wiki.freedos.org websites, I'm comfortable
taking care of the hosting costs on my own. We aren't set up as a
Foundation, but the YouTube
Jim wrote:
> > (This is a long email. Feel free to skip ahead to the "MY PROPOSAL"
> > section at the end.)
> >
[..]
> > MY PROPOSAL:
> >
> > I did some analysis, and the FreeDOS Wiki has 290 pages in it. That's
> > more than a few, but it's not a ton.
> >
> > My current thinking is to set up a
(This is a long email. Feel free to skip ahead to the "MY PROPOSAL"
section at the end.)
I mentioned in an earlier email that SourceForge upgraded the PHP on
the server that runs the FreeDOS Wiki. I don't know why, but the PHP
upgrade has caused the wiki to not load a stylesheet. It doesn't
On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:36 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> When SourceForge upgraded their website hosting to PHP 7.4, I didn't
> read closely enough that the final website address will change. So I'm
> in the process of updating things on the wiki.freedos.org site to
> accommodate tha
When SourceForge upgraded their website hosting to PHP 7.4, I didn't
read closely enough that the final website address will change. So I'm
in the process of updating things on the wiki.freedos.org site to
accommodate that.
We had a few things hosted there that really should be on the
Hi everyone
I wanted to share that SourceForge is upgrading the PHP to version 7.4
on the wiki.freedos.org server - sometime tomorrow, Aug 21. (This is
part of a two-step upgrade; SourceForge will upgrade to PHP 8 later
this year.)
SF gave me a test link, so I tested the site on the new PHP and
FYI: Your post was 104 lines and 618 words. How-to articles on
websites are between 500 and 800 words, so this email was a bit long.
:-/
The point is you have released a new microemacs?
:: Anyway, long story short - I have banged microemacs 3.6 into
:: shape so that it is C90 compliant with the
an into similar
> > issues at various times that have caused me all kinds of grief. There
> > are also some DOS Code Pages where other characters (besides 0, 32, and
> > 255) also are blank (they look like a normal space when they aren't).
[..]
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 3:55
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 3:38 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> Those extra "spaces" may not really be spaces at all -- they may
> actually be ASCII 0 or ASCII 255, which look like a regular space (ASCII
> 32) on the screen even though they aren't. I've ran into similar
> issues at various times that
A user emailed me with what they thought was a bug, but to me it looks
like everything is okay. Ironically, I think it's QBASIC that has the
issue.
Here's the "bug" as described to me:
The user ran PC Tools on FreeDOS and navigated around. They exited PC
Tools into a directory (BAS_DAT) that
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 11:03 AM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
> >
> > Wasn't a virtual get-together supposed to happen about now? -- Gregory
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 11:06 AM Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Maybe Jim is still under the weather?
>
I'm so sorry I missed the
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:56 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Today I released FDISK 1.3.8 into the wild:
>
> https://github.com/FDOS/fdisk/tree/v1.3.8
>
[..]
Thanks Bernd!
I mirrored this release to ibiblio, and posted a news item about it on
the website.
Jim
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 1:07 PM Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>[..]
> Well, there is/was a PC version of GEOS, which for a while now is Open
> Source and available as PC/GEOS
[..]
>
> https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
>
> PS: I don't think that GEM would be useless for use with FreeDOS,
Resending with a new Subject line so it doesn't get hidden/missed by
some email clients:
On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 10:19 AM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
> I was traveling for a conference this week, and now I am sick. (My
> COVID test was negative, though.) I cannot host t
Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I just wanted to send a reminder that our next FreeDOS
> virtual get-together is coming up on Sunday, 11:00
> a.m. to noon, US/Central Time. Use your favorite time
> zone converter to find your local time.
>
> As usual, we will do
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to send a reminder that our next FreeDOS virtual get-together
is coming up on Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to noon, US/Central Time. Use your
favorite time zone converter to find your local time.
As usual, we will do the meeting using Bluejeans. Folks have said that you
get best
Thanks! I've mirrored this at the FreeDOS Files Archive on Ibilbio.
I've also posted a news item on the website about it.
Jim
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 3:07 AM Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Hello!
> New version of test editor Blocek is out. Now in version 1.74.
> Project page is
I am also an editor for Technically We Write (a website about
technical writing) and yesterday I wrote an article about how to write
"ebooks" in AMB format. If anyone would like a walkthrough that shows
how to write documentation in AMB format, here's the preview* article:
On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 6:46 AM Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Till now amb files were created by Mateusz Viste. If I remember right,
> e.g. Hyperlinks within the text look absolutely different.
>
They were created by Mateusz because AMB was new at the time, so only
Mateusz really
On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 10:06 AM Jim Hall wrote:
> I recall that Mateusz had a tool that could convert HTML files into
> AMA format, but I can't find it [..]
I found it:
https://osdn.net/projects/amb/scm/svn/tree/head/samples/fdhelp2amb/
(note: the OSDN website is very slooow
I sent a separate email to Willi that included screenshots (the list
doesn't like screenshots) but I wanted to repeat this thought with the
list:
>>
BTW, I created my own index.htm file and ran a few tests. HTML Help
supports HTML coding structures - this is awesome! I honestly don't
remember if
On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 6:25 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> I sent a separate email to Willi that included screenshots (the list
> doesn't like screenshots) but I wanted to repeat this thought with the
> list:
>
>
> >>
> BTW, I created my own index.htm file and ran a few te
Fritz emailed this announcement to me off-list, and I wanted to fwd it here:
> From: "nidud"
> Subject: Re: [nidud/doszip] Problems with adding diskettes and HDs without
> label / ".." (doubledot) (Issue #12)
>
>
> The code is somewhat sensitive as it needs to test if the
> drive exist for the
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 6:11 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Jim, do you still have the original announcement? Would be an interesting
> read I guess.
>
Here it is:
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.msdos.apps/c/oQmT4ETcSzU/m/O1HR8PE2u-EJ
The original name from the
In 1994, several of us got together around a pretty neat idea.
We liked DOS, but Microsoft was clearly moving completely to Windows. "The
next version of Windows," they said, "would do away with DOS."
We wanted to keep DOS around, so we decided to write our own. That project,
announced 29 years
edos-devel <
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 6/27/2023 2:28 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 3:38 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> >> Thanks to Mateusz for pointing out a mail list setting that we think
> >> will stop the annoyi
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 3:38 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Thanks to Mateusz for pointing out a mail list setting that we think
> will stop the annoying bounce messages.
>
> When you send an email to the email list, you might get a bounce
> message. This is because of a cha
Hi everyone
I've uploaded Gregory's new libm library to the FreeDOS Files Archive
at Ibiblio:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/libs/libm/
I've also posted a news item on the website.
On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 8:56 PM Gregory Pietsch wrote:
>
> This is the latest
Hi everyone
We had a lot of folks on today's virtual get-together! I love seeing
people "in person."
The next FreeDOS virtual get-together will be on Sunday, July 23 at
11am US/Central. We alternate topics every month, and July's focus
will be "technical." This is a great time to do live
Hi everyone! The virtual get-together is just 10 minutes away. Here's
the URL we will use for the meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/622720727/1803
This uses BlueJeans, which I use for my consulting business. You can
use a browser to connect, but most people say the desktop client gives
better
Yes, 11am Central Time is just under two hours from now. :-)
On Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 8:56 AM wrote:
> Hmmm, that will be a little later today. :-)
>
> > On Jun 4, 2023, at 4:15 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I wanted to share a reminder t
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 9:50 AM wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Logger is now out of BETA.
>
> Version 1.00 is now available.
>
> https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/logger.html
I'm a month late on this, but THANKS for this very useful program!
I've just posted a note about it on the website.
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 9:31 AM Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > Logger version 1.00 was released several weeks ago. That
> > should have been sufficient time those who are interested
> > in it to have a chance to try it out. I feel it is now
> > time to pose a few questions and
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 4:05 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> Rather than merely trying to copy the way MS did/does things regarding
> IF EXIST X:NUL, I think we can discuss what the "right" way to handle
> things should be.
We should still fix the FreeDOS behavior to match the MS-DOS behavior.
But if
Hi everyone!
I wanted to share a reminder that our next FreeDOS virtual
get-together is coming up on Sunday, June 18, 2023 at 11am US/Central.
That's two weeks from today.
We alternate topics every time. This month's focus is "social time."
We'll probably cover technical topics too, but this is
I posted this as a news item on the website, but I wanted to share it on
the email list too:
Richard Hulse emailed me about releasing his DOS programs as open source:
> I recently released a couple of things I wrote back in 1991, for use in
> DOS, which may be of interest to your community.
>
>
On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 10:03 AM Ladislav Lacina wrote:
>
> Today I released a new version of my text editor and image viewer Bloček.
> The project page with download links is: http://www.laaca.borec.cz/blocek/
>[..]
Thanks! I'll mirror this to ibiblio and post a news item on the website.
Jim
See you in about half an hour!
https://bluejeans.com/358432980/6741
FYI that I can only be online for about an hour today. I'll need to
wrap up a little after noon (US/Central).
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 11:27 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> I wanted to remind everyone that our next FreeDOS virtu
I teach university courses part-time, including a class about general
computing topics, open to all majors. This is not a computer science
class - it's an introductory course that teaches students about how
technology works, to remove the mystery around computing.
To help teach the unit on "how
I wanted to remind everyone that our next FreeDOS virtual get-together is
coming up soon - Sunday, April 16 at 11am US/Central. Use your favorite
timezone converter to find your local time.
As always, we'll do the meeting via Bluejeans. I'll share the meeting URL
here shortly before the meeting.
A user emailed me (late last year) with a bug/issue report on
FreePascal in FreeDOS 1.3. I was going to (finally) reply to say they
really should ask the FreePascal people about this, but I realized I
couldn't really make out what they were saying. This is the part of
their email that relates to
Hi everyone!
Here's the URL for the FreeDOS virtual get-together, starting in ten minutes:
https://bluejeans.com/683879830/9370
See you there!
On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 6:35 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi everyone! I wanted to remind you that our next FreeDOS virtual
> get-together is
Hi everyone! I wanted to remind you that our next FreeDOS virtual
get-together is tomorrow (Sunday) at 11am US/Central for about an
hour. Use your favorite timezone converter to find your local time.
For example:
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
We alternate topics every month, and this month the
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 4:27 PM Gregory Pietsch wrote:
>
> Twenty years in the making, FreeDOS Edlin 2.22 is now released unto
> an unsuspecting world. The latest bug report/feature request that I
> have tried to tackle is one that backup files aren't created if the
> backup file already exists
Tom wrote:
> > I also dislike Richard. we can leave it at that.
Ralf wrote:
> That makes two of us.. He had a basically good idea decades ago and then
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I wanted to start a new thread for this request. Based on the
discussion from the "FreeDOS package issues" thread, Jerome identified
that the CDP package didn't include source code. Robert suggested
SJGPlay as a replacement.
Could anyone with a CD player and a sound card on their computer
please
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2023, E. Auer wrote:
>
> > Well, you can tell a CD drive to play track X using my
> > minimalist cdrom2ui, but I think that would be sort of
> > an INdecent open source alternative because it is too
> > minimal :-D On the other hand, a QuickBasic solution
> > sounds like something
Jerome wrote:
> > 4) CDP, This is not open source software. It is Freeware without
> > sources. Should this be removed. Is there an decent open source
> > alternative?
Robert wrote:
> Maybe someone wants to ask Steve J. Gray
> to release source code (QuickBASIC 4.5) for his SJGPlay TUI player:
>
Thanks to everyone for joining the FreeDOS virtual get-together this
morning! We had a great discussion about various technical topics,
including packages, looking at Jerome's V8Turbo command shell,
discussing patches, and other tech topics.
We usually do the get-together every month, so watch
It's been a few days since the last comment on this thread, so I think
those who have an opinion on this have voiced it.
The consensus appears to be "Keep OpenGEM but drop oZone and SEAL" so
let's remove oZone and SEAL in the next monthly test release. (These
will not be removed from Ibiblio, so
Hi everyone!
The FreeDOS virtual get-together is happening in 20 minutes. See you there!
This month's focus is technical. But as always, we have some social
time at the start anyway. :)
Here's the URL for the meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/438758366/8332
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:38 PM Jim
Hi everyone!
I wanted to send a reminder that on *Sunday, Feb 19*, we have the next
FreeDOS virtual get-together. It's at *11:00am US/Central Time*, use your
favorite timezone converter to find your local time.
We alternate topics every time. This time, the focus is *technical*. (And
probably
Danilo Pecher wrote:
> > Quite frankly, I would throw them all on the scrap heap.
Rugxulo wrote:
> I wouldn't quite "throw them away", but for simplicity we really don't
> have to include them. I don't use any GUI in DOS (by default).
>
> [off-topic comments dropped]
And to be clear: I don't
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