Re: [Freedos-devel] UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware

2023-01-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Thanks, these work! Aitor On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 21:46, Robert Riebisch wrote: > Hi Aitor, > > > Both links give me a 404, maybe a problem with pasting? > > https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3ADOS-Installation-in-DOSBox%E2%80%90X >

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS install ebook (Spanish)

2023-01-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, Another curiosity I've found on the web: FREEDOS 1.0. - Curso de Técnico de Redes y Sistemas 2011 (yumpu.com) This site features an eBook, 24 pages (in Spanish) explaining how to

Re: [Freedos-devel] UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware

2023-01-25 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Aitor, > Both links give me a 404, maybe a problem with pasting? https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3ADOS-Installation-in-DOSBox%E2%80%90X https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3AManaging-image-files-in-DOSBox%E2%80%90X Cheers, Robert -- BTTR Software https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead

Re: [Freedos-devel] UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware

2023-01-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Ben, Both links give me a 404, maybe a problem with pasting? Aitor On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 18:21, Ben Collver wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2023, Bret Johnson wrote: > > > > > For purposes we're discussing here, I don't think DOSBox (or any of its > > > forks, including vDOS) is a viable

Re: [Freedos-devel] UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware

2023-01-25 Thread Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
> You can install FreeDOS in DOSBox. See the links below for more details. In > my experience qemu and VirtualBox are not really geared toward supporting DOS > and they have annoying BIOS bugs that are not present in DOSBox. So while > FreeDOS runs more quickly in qemu and VirtualBox, it

Re: [Freedos-devel] UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware

2023-01-25 Thread Ben Collver
On Tue, 24 Jan 2023, Bret Johnson wrote: > For purposes we're discussing here, I don't think DOSBox (or any of its > forks, including vDOS) is a viable solution. > > DOSBox really isn't DOS. It's an environment designed to run certain > DOS applications. A lot of stuff is missing in DOSBox

Re: [Freedos-devel] UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware - was: Goo gle Summer of Code?

2023-01-25 Thread Louis Santillan
This would be ideal if coreboot supported more machines ( https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html). I believe you did some work some years back to prove out cooreboot+SeaBIOS+FreeDOS. I’m not sure a typical user or even experienced FreeDOS users would be keen to swapping out their board’s

Re: [Freedos-devel] UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware - was: Goo gle Summer of Code?

2023-01-25 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Friends, the final solution to "UEFI problem" - is switching to the opensource coreboot BIOS (although that may involve switching to the worthy hardware compatible with coreboot). coreboot's default payload - SeaBIOS - is a modern implementation of a classical BIOS, which is written in C and is