On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:00:53 +0400, you wrote:
Hi Arkady,
> MS-FDISK _never_ writes MBR code (at least, if MBR not empty), unless
>you do this explicitly through undocumented /MBR option.
Suddenly a flash come across my mind -- You and those replied all
correct, this is me who're wrong. I h
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:34:19 +0100, you wrote:
Hi Gerry,
>I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a
>far better and more efficient way to discuss things, plus it has the
>advantage of being able to manage archives and reduce bandwidth? Why
>would anyone want to s
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:41:13 +0100, you wrote:
Hi,
>5. SYS B: C: /oem:ms (it says "system transferred")
>
>When I reboot with the C drive marked Active I get two dots on a black
>screen and a flashing cursor, that wasn't expected...
I suggest SYS should check the target to see it's "bootable" o
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:31:08 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
>Hi Johnson, with a forum, you would have to log in
>every time when you want to get the news. I prefer
>receiving the DOS news in my mailbox automatically...
I don't mind, my software manage it well, just BAHCL feel pain.
Also this method wa
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:48:54 +0400, you wrote:
Hi,
> Not enough information: which config.sys and autoexec.bat content on
>those disk? After which statement in config.sys you get this message (what
>you see on screen before this message)? Which kernel and FreeCOM version you
>use (do you get
Hi Arkady,
Sorry, she downloaded the SR9 beta2 ISO and got MCB Chain corrupt, I
told her to try Odin 0.6, well it solve the problem.
The Kernel should be 2035a-unstable.
Rgds,
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:56:45 -0400, you wrote:
Hi,
>There are two ways I know of to do this. One is to boot a floppy disk
>or hard disk image using ISOLINUX/SYSLINUX which probably isn't what you
>want. The second is to install a FreeDOS boot sector directly to the USB
>stick.
That's a Compact
Dear Users,
A few people reporting the compatibility of Jack's QDMA driver
recently, so Jack working hard to improve them. Can anyone help to
test?
http://johnson.tmfc.net
Now QHIMEM and QDMA "should be" able to run in FreeDOS, DR-DOS and
MS-DOS without problem (I've tested FreeDOS and DR-DOS, b
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:11:42 -0700, you wrote:
Hi,
>You have to have bios that support USB disks at boot time through
>INT13H. If not then there be a usbaspi driver on the web... IIRC..
>forgot web address.
Anyone know where's the "boot sector" in the Compact Flash?
I've tried to use a combo
Dear All,
Glad to know some of the developers "back to work".
I'm frightened by someone who want to kick me away (oh! censorship?).
But I still want to help people in need, so my homepage updated with
"NEW DRIVERS", welcome to have a try on your PC.
Don't want to put advertisement here, someone
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:41:59 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Jim,
>Warning: if you have slow dialup, visit
>http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/index.html instead. The top-level page has
>a 769kb photograph. I'm on broadband, and it still took about 8 seconds
>to load the image. (Johnson: if you save the phot
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:44:11 +0100, you wrote:
Hi Gerry,
>Your site is very helpful. It makes a change to see a site that is
>active; there are too many projects get forgotten and their sites not
>updated.
Thanks.
I steal the idea from someone, to let you know what's updated ASAP.
>It's not c
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:45:00 +0100, you wrote:
>> It seems, that FRISK Software has stopped further development of the DOS
>> version of F-Prot Antivirus. File 316F.NEW reads: "3.16f is expected to
>> be the last version of the DOS scanner."
>
>Bad news?!?
Of course, I like F-PROT, small and pow
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:45:58 +0100, you wrote:
Hi,
>Yes it's a nice photo, but it took ages to load!
It's night view of Hong Kong.
I'll replace it, let me find a better photo.
Rgds,
Johnson.
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:24:06 +0200, you wrote:
Hi Robert,
>You forget to mention F-Prot's resident shield or reliability. ClamAV is
>far from perfect and so it is NOT a replacement for F-Prot.
Oh! I forgot, thanks for reminding me, it's been a long time.
I use F-PROT because SCAN become slow li
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:28:49 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
Hi Edward,
>As I now understand DOS does not recognize the USB
>ports on this new fangled laptop. Where can I obtain
>a driver file to add to FreeDOS that will let me use
>the USB ports under FreeDOS? Then I can use connector
Try my USB Drive
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:55:32 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Eric,
Sorry to disturb you when you're watching world cup.
>In short, a nice extra for people who want to use little XMS
>and little DOS memory but still want to have a cache. Note
>that disks are so fast today that caching a fast disk on a
>s
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:24:09 +0200, you wrote:
Hi Flo,
>Jih-Shin Ho (Taiwan) developed DISPLAY:
>http://home.att.net/~short.stop/freesoft/graphics.htm#display
>
>I would like contact him, but found no current email address.
I've contact him several years ago, he stopped the development after
lea
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:40:27 -0600, you wrote:
Hi Staffanson,
>As I am basically new to the world of DOS, how easy is it to adapt the sound
>card driver from Win98 to DOS?
>
>I now await your thoughts, comments, and ideas. Any help would be
>appreciated.
You can ask BAHCL for details, he code
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:15:21 -0600, you wrote:
Hi,
>I have been to the Dell website, and downloaded the win98 soundcard driver.
>I don't remember off the top of my head, what the specific hardware is. But
>can the win98 driver be adapted to DOS?
Chris was right, VxD can't run under DOS.
For a
Hi,
BAHCL did improve the easy and tiny good old program Directory Control (DC),
the new version is V1.2.
It can show Kilobyte and Megabyte automatically without having "9 digit
bytes", added attribute change feature, also many improvements and bugfix.
Since he don't have a homepage, currently I
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:33:55 +0200, you wrote:
Hi Aitor,
>As I wish to embrace other FreeDOS projects, there will be a small
>evolution through small evolutives in the 2.X projects (leaving maybe
>some for the 3.X series). I just mention some of the planned changes:
>- A first new release with lo
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:20:04 +0400, you wrote:
Hi,
> If you need "wide array of systems" and "not need wheels support" -
>1.9.1 is your choice. 1.9.1 works with PS/2 mice on higher levels (through
>BIOS, not directly with hardware) and, thus, should be more portable and
>reliable.
Agree! 1.9.
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:19:38 -0700, you wrote:
Hi Chris,
>Dude, I have a webhost at www.aotksc.com 5gb disk quota if anyone want to I
>can host for them.. giving that the page not pull huge load of bandwidth.
>(Economy plan)
>
>I am writing a replacement for freedos move command an will add so
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:23:10 -0700, you wrote:
Hi Blair,
>What's wrong with the current MOVE? I am perfectly happy with it.
You replied the wrong topic :-)
Rgds,
Johnson.
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:05:44 +0100, you wrote:
Hi Gerry,
>I completely agree, I think it's already 100x better!
We're now in 21 century :-)
>Yes, but where do you draw the line, and how do you deal with backward
>hardware capability and how far back in history do you go? What about
Just my o
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:45:28 -0700, you wrote:
Hi Blair,
>Hi. About the 80386 code thing. It is not necessary to switch to
>protected mode to use large amounts of memory. This is possible with
>plain 8086 code. And XDEL has options close to what you wish with
>DEL.
If 8086 code can works.
W
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:47:11 -0700, you wrote:
Hi,
>no, it is much different from Michael's. It may become known as
>EMM386 3.xx, but who knows.
Just try to run those applications doesn't work before and see the
result, the program will speak for itself.
Rgds,
Johnson.
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Hi,
Please help Marton (marton=at=argentina.com), he stuck with a C
program calling COMMAND.COM:
Now that I moved onto my next step on my project, another issue
arised...
If I run this:
TestDir.bat:
dir /b c:\testdir >d:\dirout.put
The file dirout.put has the directory output...
BUT, if I
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:29:02 -0700, you wrote:
Hi Blair,
Thanks. Sent him email.
>Hi. It almost sounds to me like the destination file isn't getting
>flushed to the disk. I would recommend doing the recirection
>internally in the C program, and then you have direct control of the
>file. A sim
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:17:34 +0200, you wrote:
Hi,
>> Is FreeDOS' boot sector 100% compatible with a DOS boot sector?
>No, not even 50% compatible. :-)
That's why Virtual PC refuse to read the FreeDOS floppy?!
Rgds,
Johnson.
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:18:05 +0200, you wrote:
>Virtual PC doesn't refuse to read the FreeDOS floppy at all, neither
>Version 2004 nor Version 2007 beta.
Weird, last 2 week I've download Virtual PC from M$, but all FreeDOS disk
can't read in Virtual PC, but MS-DOS have no problem.
>VPC is fully
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:25:32 + (UTC), you wrote:
Hi,
>After upgrading RAM from 512 MB to 1.5 GB FreeDOS won't load.
I'm using 2GB RAM, works fine.
>Next, lbacache won't load:
>
>INSTALLHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\LBACACHE.COM 8192
QCACHE did the same job as LBACACHE, choose neither but not both.
>DE
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:06:01 +0200, you wrote:
Hi Richard,
>I have tried to install msclient but I get the following error on boot:
>Error 3658: The IFSHLP.SYS driver is not installed.
Because FreeDOS use FDCONFIG.SYS that MSClient fail to modify, try
manually configure FDCONFIG.SYS to:
DEVICE
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:45:17 +0100 (MET), you wrote:
Hi,
>> QCACHE did the same job as LBACACHE...
>A similar job, not the same ;-).
Of course not 100% the same.
Users will pick what they like.
>>> DEVICE=D:\FDOS\BIN\QHMBOOT.SYS /T7
>Why does he use T7?? What is QHMBOOT,
>some HIMEM placeholder
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:53:57 + (UTC), you wrote:
Hi,
>Maybe someone more familiar with qxumbpci could comment here.
Seems it's better to quote a part of README in QHIMEM32 package:
QXHIMEM is an "all in one" driver having all needed functions for users
who prefer the UMBPCI upper-memory
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:43:14 +0100, you wrote:
Hi,
>How about licensing? Is qxumbpci GPL/open source?
Free and closed-source (sorry).
>If it is closed source it may give you better performance, but you
>risk that the program may be abandoned and no-one to be able to take
>it back.
Correct.
R
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:48:00 -0500, you wrote:
Hi,
>I have updated my procedure and bootable CD for installing
>FreeDOS on almost any WindowsXP computer. You can install
>FreeDOS beside WindowsXP without damaging the WindowsXP
>installation.
Great!
>The download links will be valid for three w
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:41:21 +0300, you wrote:
Hi,
> Q-drivers are positioned by their author as opposition for FreeDOS
>project and its contributors, because authors thinks we all are "NAZI".
This is not true, a single word different means millions of mis-understanding.
1) The author don't
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:16:13 +0300, you wrote:
Hi Arkady,
>This is test letter to test
>8-bit texts handling on sourceforge.
>
>Это тестовое письмо для теста
>работы с 8-битным текстом на sf.
>
>PS: There 2 paragraphs above (with empty line after each), each with 2 lines
>in it.
Very good, thoug
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:28:00 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Hi,
>In what way? There are TSRs to provide the 8x14
>font which is misssing in some modern VGA BIOSes
>(to save space). You can do a lot with VESA VBE 2
>already (VBE 1: no framebuffer, slow), so even in
>DOS, not many people will notice prob
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:56:12 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Hi,
>My nVidia 7600 works okay in DOS, both with text mode and
>graphics mode, but maybe NDN wants some mode which is not
>supported. Please give more details, where do I download
>NDN and what do I do to reproduce the problem? Which modes
>did
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:05:40 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Eric,
>Hi, as said, please test which of the modes
>reachable with MODE do work. As you did not
>tell which modes NDN is trying to use, and
>as I would not know how to find out easily,
>doing some tests with MODE first seems good.
>Thanks!
Pl
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:32:58 +0800, you wrote:
Hi,
For the NDN display mode problem, finally I found that after press SHIFT-F10
(NextVid) the 6th times, screen will have garbage characters on the right
pane, continue to the 9th time will hang up whole PC, need to press
ALT-CTRL-DEL.
IBM NetVista
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:28:17 -0300, you wrote:
Hi,
>Yes, there is active development in NDN...
That's good, it's a fine software.
>As for impouving it's display functions I can help, but only if somone
>can make a detailed howto of how to set up it's compile environment.
>Usualy this can take
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:38:30 +, you wrote:
>I like the open source program GAG for this. It doesn't require a partition
>and I find it MUCH easier to set up and configure than GRUB. It isn't
>quite as pretty, but you only see it for a few seconds.
Thanks Mark.
Still using your multi-OS boot
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:10:26 +0200, you wrote:
Hi Florian,
>Nice. LAME's source code is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen.
Any plan to clean it up?
Rgds,
Johnson.
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On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:48:30 +0200, you wrote:
>I am using UDVD and UDMA and am happy! :-)
Glad to hear that those drivers benefit DOS users.
If anyone can help Jack to find S-ATA native control, he may consider
implement it, but all the resources seems need to pay ...
Why? They're only specifi
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Sorry, I've made a mistake and let the old pages stay for a while,
actually the binary was there.
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On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:07:11 +0100, you wrote:
>Eric, you are a wag. :))
Sorry my English sucks, I didn't even have a chance to go to University.
I check up the WIKI and found the following ...
Wag can also be:
* A verb expressing a rocking movement, as in the wagging of a dog's tail,
also used
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:57:20 +0100, you wrote:
>The guys you mentioned to be your witnesses, Kuhnt and Lucho, they are
>"slightly" biased, aren't they?
Great!
BIASED or not, let the world judge it, I think it's the best answer!
History have no mercy on bad guys, and it reminds us what's the na
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:11:12 +0100, you wrote:
Hi Flo,
>Please test the new ftp-client in DOS, because the author has only
>tested the windows-part...
Thanks for the news.
Too bad my test machine was broken, now busy playing DOS within Vmware Fusion
and VirtualBox.
Rgds,
Johnson.
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:23:01 -0300, you wrote:
Hi,
>Why is it that you don't need sources to get drunk for free?
>Why dou need sources to get on your soap box and make a speech?
>
>For me this is one of the greatest misteries in the internet...
Be respect the author, even no source available.
E
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:32:09 +0100, you wrote:
Hi,
>I'm not sure about the status of XGCDROM.SYS, was it open source yet
>like earlier of Jack's no longer available versions? If it is, it means
>the closed-source ASPI.SYS could be replaced as well if someone's able
>to write an ASPI driver for
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:05:15 -0300, you wrote:
Hi,
>But, It works only at some machines.
I've tested many PC with my bootable USB stick.
USB boot heavily depends on BIOS itself, if the BIOS of that PC sucks, you
have no chance whatever how hard you try.
Rgds,
Johnson.
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On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:20:29 -0500, you wrote:
Hi,
>Is MSCLIENT the only choice? Has anyone tried to create something open
>sourced for FreeDos?
Seems only MSClient available, didn't see anyone do this, maybe too complex.
>Like FDCLIENT? :)
Big project :)
1) New NICs stop providing NDIS drive
Hi Everyone,
1-May-09 -- Fixed XMGR "Port 92h" logic error. Added XMGR /PA and /PN
switches to control use of "Port 92h" logic.
Rgds,
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On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:59:27 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
Hi,
>Dumb question: Is UIDE.SYS _only_ for native [[motherboard]]
>controllers? I tried it with two PCI adapter card controllers -- one IDE
>controller and one SATA controller and UIDE.SYS did not find drives connected
>to either of the
Hi,
Jack R. Ellis did a lot of "hard work" to change the RDISK.SYS to a
".COM" file, and now RDISK.COM can specify a drive-letter for it (load
with AUTOEXEC.BAT), please download and report if any problems found.
Please read the README.TXT for detailed information.
[ http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:19:33 -0300, you wrote:
Hi,
>Unfortunately it is only free for personal use...
Too bad, it's coded in BASIC, also it's not free.
Jack did thinking of a "small and beautiful" USB driver for DOS (with BIOS
call), but he have no sample code (I don't think Intel will have sam
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:02:59 +0200, you wrote:
Hi,
>PS: Have you tested the drivers from http://bretjohnson.us/ yet?
>That one is more open source but only does UHCI USB 1.1. :-).
Finally someone did the job: Code USB programs with assembly language.
Rgds,
Johnson.
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On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:43:05 +0200, you wrote:
Eric,
>Well, 17 lines of Assembly and 5000 of C, who will ever be
>able to understand and update that code? I hope at least Bret
>still understands it :-). By the way, what is the license?
There're always SOMEONE can do it, if HE wish.
>I am re
documentation.
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On Thu, 6 May 2010 22:07:55 -0800, you wrote:
Hi,
>> Anyone whom has successfuly installed FreeDos to a portable USB HD ?
Yes, need some tricks in the 1st time ... also not all mainboard's
BIOS can boot the DOS hard disk. But most of the new BIOS (after 2008
should work).
Rgds,
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Hi,
I suggest you code a simple batch to copy the game to a RAMdisk, after
quit copy the save game back to ZIP.
Play it on the ZIP is slow and wear out the disk.
Sent from Johnson's iPhone
On 21 Jun 2010, at 12:54 PM, "Michael C. Robinson" wrote:
> I have a zip 250 atapi drive where I am wo
;
> On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 13:25 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I suggest you code a simple batch to copy the game to a RAMdisk,
>> after
>> quit copy the save game back to ZIP.
>>
>> Play it on the ZIP is slow and wear out the disk.
>>
>>
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:03:38 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
Hi,
>> Better luck next time.
>
>Hm, this message starts to smell like troll.
If a person get angry, he'll say anything in anger, but I think he
didn't intend to troll.
Personally I think FreeDOS can be much user-friendly, now IMO FreeDOS
sti
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 18:34:52 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
Hi Julien,
>Thanks. I got the SCSI drivers to load now, and the
>CD-ROM is visible. Unfortunately I get hangs trying to
>run the installer program (TEXTINST).
If you know what it does, try skip it and copy files manually. (some
of the install p
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:06:01 -0600, you wrote:
Hi Jim,
>Does anyone have some examples to send me?
I'll try some old games.
http://abandonware.universal.av7.net/default_dhtml.htm
Rgds,
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:05:54 +0200, you wrote:
Hi George,
>So is it legal to download and play all theses games?
Since they're abandoned, I think ... for personal only should be no
problem. Make sure don't re-distribute and involved with money.
But I can't guarantee anything.
Rgds,
Johnson.
Hi,
Works under FreeDOS:
1) Lemmings
2) Xenon2
3) ApplePC 2.52 (Apple ][ Emulator)
4) EMU][ (Apple ][ Emulator)
I'll try more in coming weekend (or holiday).
Rgds,
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:25:58 -0600, you wrote:
Hi,
>To answer the original question: In the US, it's illegal to download any
>copyrighted material (including abandonware games). In Canada, I
>believe it is okay to download, but not to share. Not sure about other
>countries.
Thanks Jim, you
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:45:31 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Joe,
>Is there anything I can do to figure out what the problem is?
It should be cause by a specific program, please notice which program
cause INVALID OPCODE. I'll try to reproduce on my test machine.
Rgds,
Johnson.
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:25:03 +0100, you wrote:
Hi,
>I've managed to use the Odin bootdisk to get a basic DOS system onto the hard
>drive. The Oak Technology "OTICDROM" driver seems to work quite well with
>FreeDOS - the 8x CDROM now "feels" like an 8x and not a 0.01x. INSTALL has
>been running fo
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 20:02:44 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Hi Eric,
>He is using a K6-2 based system,
One of my test PC is K6-3-400MHz, lucky that I install with Odin 0.5
instead of ISO.
>Looks like an incompatibility between the used ISOLINUX MEMDISK version
>and the BIOS? I wonder if it helps to bo
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 17:57:22 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Hi Eric,
>Hi, tried to mail Johnson directly, but got "relaying denied"... So on-list:
Strange ... I can get FreeDOS-user without any problem
>Hi, this is NOT a problem with the CPU if you ask me. It is one with
>the BIOS for all what I can t
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:13:23 -0400 (CLT), you wrote:
Hi,
>i want to move the server to a better machine running samba, but samba means tcpip.
I didn't see any DOS port of SAMBA, I also want to try
>is it doable with freedos on those floppies and that great amount of ram?
I think 4MB of RAM is e
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:54:28 +0200, you wrote:
Hi,
>just as it would be a good idea to deliver a game on ODIN bootdisks for example.
>real-world stuff.
How about a real DOS discussion board?
Or DOS Bit Torrent (no DOS Python ...).
I've successfully start a web server under FreeDOS, however shor
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:41:56 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Nicholas,
>I know this sounds rather --- anti-freeDOS, but if the MS-DOS bootable
>floppy works fine and you have them and they're all well and good... why're
>you needing freeDOS?
Imagine someday you got a letter and say you have to pay 1 millio
On Tue, 11 May 2004 15:01:28 +0200, you wrote:
Hi,
>well... when i turn on my pc, the green led of the cdrom reader blinks, the
>tray opens and closes regularly but i cannot read any data from there. i
>tried this morning to connect the cdrom to a pc with win98. bios detected
>the device on boot
On Tue, 11 May 2004 15:28:18 -0700, you wrote:
Hi,
>Should the progress indicator show anything after 5-10 minutes? How long should I
>expect for a 40G or 80G volume?
Yes, the percentage did change, depends on what kind of hard disk you
have. I've tried it take several hours (5 hours as I reme
On Sun, 09 May 2004 10:02:42 +0200, you wrote:
Hi,
>Arachne is under GPL now!
Quite some time ago, and some fans have new cores up to version 1.73
>I was very happy when i heard this news and wanted to help developing
>it. But i am very said, that the code is very bad.
I guess, ARACHNE's guy
On Sun, 2 May 2004 00:47:28 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Hi Eric,
>You can NOW start sending flowers, meals and gold bars to all
>FreeDOS developers. They have problems with revenues, too ;-).
Sure, otherwise we can have a bit more time to work on FreeDOS.
You can live without gold bars but die of
ester here :-)
>Other than that, I'm impressed. Did I mention I like the size of it all? Good stuff.
Our nice programmers spent many hours or working to make them small
and powerful.
Also remember to put "DOS=HIGH,UMB" in FDCONFIG.SYS to squeeze more
low memory.
Rgds,
Johnson La
On Thu, 13 May 2004 23:07:22 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Hi Eric,
>I could improve this a bit, but am NOT planning to get FreeDOS FORMAT's
>disk wiping / surface scan function to any "Windows like" speed. You
>do not need surface scans on modern harddisks, and if you do need them,
>the very best way
On Tue, 18 May 2004 00:59:11 -0400, you wrote:
Hi,
>How do I go about creating a boot disk with just the extended memory drivers? I tried
>stripping down the fdconfig.sys, and I still get the menu at start-up?
I try to set a simple FDCONFIG.SYS for you. I assume you boot from
floppy without any
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:31:33 -0500, you wrote:
>> (but hey, he's just a paperclip!)
>I'm not really sure why, but this phrase is making me laugh way too much.
I know why, that means M$ advice just equal to a paperclip!
"You still follow it's advise?"
That's why Japanese version didn't use paperc
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:06:04 +0200, you wrote:
Hi,
>Hello, everybody. Please, is there some text editor - word processor for freedos,
>supporting writing for example bold text, underline, italics, or some fonts,
>and is there some support for displaying / printing such texts?
Most popular was Wo
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:07:36 -0230, you wrote:
Hi,
Wow ... you're quick!
>FDCONFIG.SYS (or just CONFIG.SYS)
>
>DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM64.EXE
>DOS=HIGH
DOS-HIGH,UMB
Don't waste the UMB!
>FILES=20
>BUFFERS=20
FILES=50
BUFFERS=10,0
When loading LBAcache, no need to let FreeDOS handle caching.
>STA
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:24:57 -0230, you wrote:
Hi,
>> DOS-HIGH,UMB
>> Don't waste the UMB!
>UMBs should only be used if you're desperate for memory. I don't trust them.
For some stupid game or demo I've to reserve enough room in base
memory ...
>> FILES=50
>> BUFFERS=10,0
>FILES=50? What a wast
Hi,
I wonder Michael is still watching the mailing list or not ...
I've installed a new USB hard disk with DUSE 4.9 driver and found that
DUSE must run under "non-protected mode". So I put the driver before
HIMEM64 and found that it'll affect the HIMEM detection and cause the
Kernel or FreeCOM to
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 10:29:28 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Michael,
>Nothing unexpected here. You cannot use EMM386 with a program which is
>(badly) written so as to not work under virtual 8086 mode. Use HIMEM only.
IMHO, device drivers is so IMPORTANT.
The manufacturer should maximum the stability an
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:41:49 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Michael,
>I agree, but what can you do? It doesn't work; it won't ever work. The
>driver was written to be fundamentally incompatible with EMM386's environment.
I've spent a lot of money to because of the sucking driver!
I prepare External US
Hi Eric,
Maybe someone got the same message as me, so I post the here for
everyone to see what happened.
=
Extract an archive with PKUNZIP
=
PKUNZIP: (W18) Warning! HOCUS.SAV already exists. Overwrite
(y/n/a/r)?a
Inflating: HOCUS.SAV
Inflating: HOCUS.EXE Bug! DOS->XMS.10b0
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:14:47 +0100, you wrote:
Hi,
Try this ...
http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/drivers/67/67830.htm
>I`m looking for a working sound card driver, for FreeDOS.
>My card is a creative pci 64 , also known as ensoniq 1370.
>I found some drivers for windows95 on the creative main
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:53:44 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Hi Eric,
You seems know a lot about sound cards!
Do you know how to make SBLIVE work under FreeDOS?
I've 3pcs of SBLIVE but I can make SB16 work only ...
Or anyone know please help, I got reboot everytime ...
Rgds,
Johnson.
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:32:06 +0300 (EEST), you wrote:
Hi,
Make sure you got exactly same kind of hardware, otherwise you'll
destroy the BIOS and fail to recover.
>Has anyone did this ? Any problems of using FreeDOS with BIOS flashing
>software ? Anyone has some hints ? (like how to get only the
Hi,
Just for your reference, full message can be seen on this page:
http://news.grc.com/news.exe?cmd=article&group=grc.news&item=530&utag=
[--- quote begin ---]
Folks,
I have been tinkering around with the Russian PTS-DOS 32 MS-DOS
clone, which is a potential candidate for replacing FreeDOS
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 08:54:16 -0500, you wrote:
Hi,
>Tell me please -- does this blurb tell me that I CANNOT use
>the FreeDOS programs under Windows XP!!! What a waste of all
>your efforts!
I don't understand why you want to run FreeDOS programs under WinXP.
No one expect FreeDOS programs can r
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