Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug in Freecom

2016-07-20 Thread dos386
> FreeCom allows this command: "COPY CON" confirm > After that I can write text which echoes after enter in next line and > it can't be interrupted nor with CTRL-Z worx for me ... can be interrupted with CTL-Z -- What N

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEMX - new home

2015-09-12 Thread dos386
> I created a sourceforge project for HIMEMX, here: Thanks :-) -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo

Re: [Freedos-devel] New software!

2015-01-01 Thread dos386
> Nevermind... figured it out. The IDE set the default language to QB > compatibility. Duh. Duh! Didn't know that FreeBASIC would have a DOS IDE, even less one defaulting to "lang QB". BTW, FreeBASIC 1.01.0 is out, it still mostly works, and supports DOS. > I don't see yet how your 'simple shel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Can hpa be cleared through USB port?

2014-05-22 Thread dos386
AFAIK known problem. Not only HPA, but also SMART is inaccessible through USB. -- "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-05-22 Thread dos386
> > b) this list is intended to discuss FreeDOS developer related issues. I > > don't > > see how Java, Javascript, Os/2, ... fit into this categorie > OS/2 runs DOS programs, same as DOSEMU. Don't act so innocent, you maybe it indeed runs, it's just pointless ;-) PS: this used to be about "Re:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-04-21 Thread dos386
> I personally don't care what size the exes are So do many others. Result: Wing-ZIP 100 MiB ... Abobe-ACRO 100 MiB ... "Hello world" 30 Byte's to 10 MiB (depends from compiler) ... Linux 1 to 20 GiB (depends from distro) > anyone noticed HXDOS? YES. Noticed 10 years ago, development stopped 5 y

Re: [Freedos-devel] My program with HDPMILD32.EXE it no longer works

2014-03-30 Thread dos386
FYI: http://freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22361 -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-d

Re: [Freedos-devel] RAM disk and task switching

2013-06-03 Thread dos386
> The right architecture might be > something like Windows does It's absurdly messy and bloated, but YES, they got the multitasking (mostly) ... > All the apps call for and use system resources > through calls to a common API not the firmware or BIOS Exactly. Just the API could be 100 times smal

Re: [Freedos-devel] RAM disk and task switching

2013-06-01 Thread dos386
> Now the second point is if I remember the "stuff" correctly the > problem with DOS task switching is having the CPU start again in the > right place when a session was switched back into the DOS space The primary problem with multitasking is that you must care about clean rock-solid sharing of A

Re: [Freedos-devel] asking ms to bring command.com to 64-bit win (for dos development)

2013-05-23 Thread dos386
> http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Feedback.aspx?formID=195 > You must have scripting enabled to submit your feedback. > Learn how to enable scripting on your computer. Good :-) > this is the windows 7 feedback form. > you can ask microsoft to bring back command.com > and 16-bit dos suppor

Re: [Freedos-devel] Developing GUI for none programmers

2013-02-11 Thread dos386
> Google won't give m the file, because it > says my version of safari is unsupported. > This is getting rediculous. This is CRAP. Anyone tested YTCRACK recently? omploader.org ompldr.org (can't kick your files anymore, not always working) ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] Developing GUI for none programmers

2013-02-10 Thread dos386
> Maybe a step by step instruction of how to program a GUI 0. Learn to set graphic mode 1. Learn to draw (lines, rectangles, rat arrow, text) 2. Learn to move the rat arrow (in a circle for example) 3. Learn to peek the mouse and use it to hunt the arrow around 4. Learn to define structures descri

Re: [Freedos-devel] Some questions about my write text editor for the FreeDOS project

2013-02-03 Thread dos386
> Hi all. I can be add the comment highlighting for the lines starts at > #, ', //, /* end at */, and so from { to }. It's a good? Comments are language-specific. So either allow to select language (+ possible auto-detect by file extension or content), or to manually set comment syntax. Check out

Re: [Freedos-devel] Can start a 16Bit program in 32 with Freedos ?!

2013-02-03 Thread dos386
> I wonder if with freedos, there is a tool or other for run a program compiled > with PDS7.1(QuickBasic)16Bit in 32bit ? just to have access > to 4GB of memory... Use FreeBASIC + HDPMI32 :-) (Quack-Basic CANNOT brew 32-bit binaries ... you might find some XMS library at best) --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Blocek 1.34

2012-06-14 Thread dos386
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Blocek 1.34

2012-06-12 Thread dos386
COOL !!! (no other feedback ???) I'll test :-) -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussion

Re: [Freedos-devel] dosfsck, chkdsk, whatever and doslfn41

2012-01-15 Thread dos386
> chkdsk fully supports long file names. It even has checks > to ensure the long file names are correct And it has the support built-in, no need (?) to load DOSLFN. -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Ja

Re: [Freedos-devel] keypress dynamics

2011-11-23 Thread dos386
> wengier's super ms-dog 7.10 boot disk"(ette) super-piracy :-( > it's an example of a complete working solution. Next time please include TFM and license. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructur

Re: [Freedos-devel] dosbox dos emulator

2011-11-19 Thread dos386
> http://www.dogbox.com/ emulates instruction by instruction I don't need this ;-) PS: I use BOCHS -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application

Re: [Freedos-devel] hopes of an OS/2 clone

2011-11-04 Thread dos386
> by the way, if I had a cd-bootable OS/2 kind of OS, that would be really > cool!!! Why ? Get Windows 8 ;-) > it is possible you might need to come up with 2 or 3 editions, one that runs > on 8088 IIRC OSama/2 never ran on 8086 or 8088 ;-)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-20 Thread dos386
> I agree, and I wrote about similar ideas a while back in consideration of > what we might want in 2.0 > http://sourceforge.net/userapps/wordpress/jhall1/2009/04/ I like the ideas of USB driver and a __GOOD__ GUI (no Linux). Anyway, this thread degenerated ... stared with DOS drivers and ended

[Freedos-devel] Bad dates / false updates in Software List

2011-09-12 Thread dos386
http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=base The list pretends many things (HIMEMX, FREECOM, DISKCOPY, ...) to have been updated recently 2011, but this is not true. Also the directory timestamps at ibibio are bad / misleading, but surprisingly not for DISKCOPY. IIRC I had already complained about t

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-09-10 Thread dos386
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Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-09-10 Thread dos386
> Nonsense. DOS is "officially" dead before that, so it if far more > relevant than you try to make it look... There are even virii inside :-) I want to determine the size of a file. How to search for this topic in the huge RBIL ? I want to do file I/O from a TSR. What does RBIL tell me

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-10 Thread dos386
> I could see multithreading support in 7-zip. > but then again files aren't usually very big in DOS. Except movies :-) > I don't know if OpenWATCOM or DJGPP has support for POSIX threads. DGJPP has some hacks for threads on 1 CPU ?? > There are multitasking DOSes (DR-DOS, RDOS, TSX-32 ??, etc.

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-09-10 Thread dos386
> You'd likely __start__ with RBIL (Ralph Brown's Interrupt List) and I would NOT do this ... it's obsolete (last update IIRC 1998) and it's very hard to find the "still useful" stuff inside (but there is some). > languages like Assembly (NASM, TASM, WAS FASM ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-09 Thread dos386
> People still use scanners? I thought they used their > photocamera, then even the BIOS often/__rarely__ supports your > SD cardreader in DOS without any drivers... Any scanners can save to memory cards or USB sticks? Then bad drivers could f*** o** ;-) --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-04 Thread dos386
> It's possible make a stubbing for use WIN drivers under > freedos (maybe with HX EXTENDER?) Theoretically possible, but extremely difficult. -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-09-04 Thread dos386
> And for device drivers is DOSEMU better for that purpose? I doubt that. Rather BOCHS, if it emulates the device you are interested in ("PCI bridge" in BOCHS is a dream so far) ... debugging drivers is always hard :-( > No idea. I know Japheth added some config.sys version > to the DEBUG 1.25 pr

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-08-21 Thread dos386
Welcome :-) Kernel AFAIK compiles with OW 1.9 + NASM (what versions ???). Tools are OW or BC or NASM or JAWASM. (BTW: is this documented somewhere ... easy to find and up-to-date ? Wiki ?) For new code you can use any compiler, though: http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index

Re: [Freedos-devel] potential issues with freedos in virtual environments

2011-08-17 Thread dos386
> Why should we have to tell DOS users that only a certain and > small subset of all virtual environments can do FreeDOS? Alternatively, tell them to install it on a PC ;-) > Using as many different emulators/virtualisers as possible among > developers/testers might show issues earlier Would Fre

Re: [Freedos-devel] File directory buffering and updates

2011-08-06 Thread dos386
Interesting ... but lacks details. AFAIK DOS has no good multitasking design so you can't do reliably file I/O (even more writes) from a TSR. - file not closed after update ? - file updated using lower level sector access ? - updating of the file fails while your FTP server is runnig (check after

Re: [Freedos-devel] New FreeDOS 1.1 test ISO (#3) released

2011-08-06 Thread dos386
BTW, I had IIRC seen a GUI FreeDOS installer back in 2005 ? 2004 in 0.9 ? 0.8 distros. NO, I don't recommend those distros ... -- BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-04 Thread dos386
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/history.txt COOL :-) Eric wrote: > Thank you, that is more search engine friendly than having to browse > the www CVS/SVN page on sourceforge. However, you still need to use > a search engine to find the history.txt, maybe we c

Re: [Freedos-devel] New FreeDOS 1.1 test ISO (#3) released

2011-08-04 Thread dos386
> I did a test of this CD too. First I would suggest to make an El-Torito hard > disk instead of using ISOLinux. DOS I feel should boot directly and not by > booting a version of Linux first. + 1 Definitely. I'd prefer to see no Linux and no ReactOR is FreeDOS distros. BTW, the ReactOR on the Fre

Re: [Freedos-devel] New FreeDOS 1.1 test ISO (#3) released

2011-08-04 Thread dos386
> > When I select "Use FreeDOS as LiveCD system.." and have a Flash disk > > inserted, the El-Torito Bootable CD-Rom driver results in the error: > > "JemmEX: exception 0D occured". > That is the good old general protection fault (GPF) :-D > that you also know from Windows. VMM32.VXD brewed a GP

Re: [Freedos-devel] New FreeDOS 1.1 test ISO (#3) released

2011-08-02 Thread dos386
Test of "1.1test3" CD : http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/fd11t3.png Issues: [-3.] many messages running over the screen but too fast to read [-2.] not prominently documented what's going to be installed (for example "FreeDOS distro 1.1test3 2011-07-10 with kernel 2

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
> Will be removed then. WDE is cool, but version 0.30 please :-) > Internet-based installation of FD1.1 possible through > packet driver, DHCP program and HTGET/FTP (not WGET, size > constraints). VMware-specific so I hope it will work on real PC too :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ --

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX and XFDISK (was: EXE2BIN)

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
PS: I really prefer binaries NON-UPX'ed -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX and XFDISK (was: EXE2BIN)

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
> As for UPX terms, I could try LZMA and Ultra Brute settings indeed, but > wonder what effect (decompression possible at all? loading times? memory > uses? does resulting binary work?) they have on ancient machines. 2011-07-11 Michael B. Brutman wrote: > I tested UPX on one of the slowest machi

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
OK, obsolete WDE is on the CD in FREEDOS\3RDPARTY ... The CD has a "strange" and obsolete kernel: - NOT UPX'ed - 2040 from May-25 The floppy DOES have kernel 2040 ... but I really would kick anything except 2040 and maybe 2038 and maybe 2036 (as from 1.0 distro). No need for 2039 or even 20

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-29 Thread dos386
BTW, what's the goal of EDLIN ??? Never used it ... But please keep DEBUG, I'm using it (but not as ASS'embler, maybe add FASM also ?) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. C

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-29 Thread dos386
> Who gives a shit? It's included in MS-DOS 6.22, it'll be included in > FreeDOS. It's not hurting you is it? You don't suffer from erectile > disfunction because you ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erectile_dysfunction <- because you can't wr

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-07-02 Thread dos386
ixed, it should be a very very easy patch The problem is, that I have more issues to fix, preferably at same time. > > They are still in ... what archive listing do you see ??? > > http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/fbmd5.zip > Okay, it's there now, but I promise (!) it wasn&

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-06-10 Thread dos386
> HEH ??? It has DOS and Win32 binaries too ... > No it doesn't, not the one you linked to above. I double-checked. They are still in ... what archive listing do you see ??? http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/fbmd5.zip NEWS: * new FBC 0.22 is out (untested) * new HX 2.17pre 2011 is out

Re: [Freedos-devel] Severe bug in kernel 2040

2011-06-10 Thread dos386
Kernel mirrored here: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/kernel.sys Silly stuff: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/freedos7.png -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced co

Re: [Freedos-devel] Severe bug in kernel 2040

2011-06-10 Thread dos386
> in fact the SVN kernel was fixed 10 days ago (I saw the bug somewhere > else) but the binary at http://dosemu.org/bart/kernel.sys > was not. I uploaded a new binary now Result: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/fdkernsh.png NOT fixed: * minor "can't-save-after-FSINFO-invali

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-05 Thread dos386
???). > > Guess EDIT 0.9 should be added, hope it can open files with 64K+ file size > No, and that's a "minor" problem, also with Freemacs: 64k file size > limit. But at least you can have __multiple__ __64k__ __files__. COOOL :-) So please add INFOPAD (

Re: [Freedos-devel] Need help with project coordinator role

2011-05-04 Thread dos386
Anyone having the super editing power needed can please update this one: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Unstable_Kernel_Branch ? -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Ma

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-04 Thread dos386
DOS stuff:NO NASM (both latest 2.xx and 0.98.39 ??? - BTW, XXX-64 support is useless for DOS) JAWASM (free & OS, not GPL) WATTCOM (anyone dares to reduce the bloat before adding ???) DOS Extenders: DOS32A D3X http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/d3x.zip WDOSX http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386

Re: [Freedos-devel] pointers to CWSDPMI (was: freedos emulation under 64-bit...)

2011-03-08 Thread dos386
> I was duly informed by the djgpp forum that even though you add cwsdstub.exe > to your executable stub after EXE2COFFing it, you still need to include > cwsdpmi.exe (the DPMI server) for it to properly execute everywhere. Strange. Where did you find this "information" ? With CWSD-stub, WDOSX-st

Re: [Freedos-devel] pointers to CWSDPMI (was: freedos emulation under 64-bit...)

2011-03-02 Thread dos386
Hi > www.freedos.org/freedos/links/ does not link to > DJGPP either, so __we__ really __have__ a documentation > __problem__ with DPMI on freedos.org, unfortunately. More problems: DGJPP "ZIP PACKER": http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html pressures me to get Windaube 2000/XP :-( E

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2011-02-22 Thread dos386
> it's a whole distribution package, not just a piece of something > and it doesn't run my programs 2 GiB and it does nothing useful ??? > because it has no DPMI [code] INC CR0 ; Enter protected mode (needs 80386 or above) [/code] -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-devel] documentation for FreeDOS filesystem or other programming functions/interfaces?

2011-02-22 Thread dos386
> XP - no dice to my knowledge. no 7303h support, only 36h support see above / 5 days ago: > > alas, I tried my disk free space program, and I got nonsense results from > > windows xp... > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364937(VS.85).aspx (!!! WtF !!!) > winmerge is a windows progra

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2011-02-20 Thread dos386
> I just did. What ? > http://JesusnJim.com/code/dos/fdos/fdoem-emulator.7z 2 GiB of bloat ??? -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading

Re: [Freedos-devel] documentation for FreeDOS filesystem or other programming functions/interfaces?

2011-02-16 Thread dos386
> alas, I tried my disk free space program, and I got nonsense results from > windows xp... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364937(VS.85).aspx (!!! WtF !!!) > am going to have to have somebody else test it who has a proper OS Install it yourself ;-) > my spare box has linux on it. I

Re: [Freedos-devel] documentation for FreeDOS filesystem or other programming functions/interfaces?

2011-02-14 Thread dos386
> RBIL is pretty much it (right? > http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/rbinter/id/40/32.htm NO, see above. > I am hoping to implement some sort of fallback mechanism into the program > so that if int 21h, 7303h fails, I have int 21h, 36h to fall back on > but I need to know exactly how to detect fai

Re: [Freedos-devel] documentation for FreeDOS filesystem or other programming functions/interfaces?

2011-02-13 Thread dos386
> I think to recall that on DOS versions that support function 7303h you > can usually obtain > information about FAT12 and FAT16 file systems using this function too IIRC worked for me on a FAT12 floppy ;-) > on DOS versions which do not support the FAT32 calls, this function > returns [BUG]CF

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2011-02-01 Thread dos386
> In some countries, at least France, it is illegal to force people > to buy 2 things when they only want one. COOL :-) So you can acheter a PC without Windaube en France? Is it cheaper (preferably by plus que 1 Euro) than a PC with Windaube? -- ~~~ wow ~~~ ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] UEFI+GPT has/is replaced/replacing BIOS?

2010-12-23 Thread dos386
> > for the DOS folk, this is maybe a wake-up call to start implementing > > additional partitioning schemes? (by the way, the last version of fdisk I > > used > > is broken, it started creating empty partitions) > Which version is this? Painful but works for me in very limited tests (version

Re: [Freedos-devel] Edlin 2.15 is on Sourceforge!

2010-12-21 Thread dos386
> Thanks, but real developers use a magnet > To manipulate raw bits on their disks Magnetic disks are obsolete. What now ??? -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-24 Thread dos386
> I'm thinking it would be a good idea to standardize on one C/C++ compiler for > the > project. I'm looking at the Open Watcom compiler and would like your opinion OK, see below ... > I'd like to see gcc for all 32- and 64-bit development What's the design goal ??? > > it really needs to > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] is anybody even using my apps?

2010-07-26 Thread dos386
> has asked for feedback FOR HIS DOS TOOLS ONLY, > and you should respect this. Right, but then they should be easier to find ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In De

Re: [Freedos-devel] is anybody even using my apps?

2010-07-24 Thread dos386
> http://jesusnjim.com/polls/continue-dos-development.html > polls should be working now Looks slightly better but the "argument" is still false - the ability to develop for DOS depends from whether you HAVE DOS (instead or at least besides Windaube), not whether the Windaube is 32-bit or 64-bit o

Re: [Freedos-devel] is anybody even using my apps?

2010-07-13 Thread dos386
> am wondering if I should continue doing DOS development > http://jesusnjim.com/polls/continue-dos-development.html > poll - continue DOS development? > Parse error: syntax error, unexpected > T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in > /home/jesusnji/public_html/polls/continue-dos-development/poll.php on lin

Re: [Freedos-devel] is anybody even using my apps?

2010-07-13 Thread dos386
> Are any of my applications being incorporated into FreeDOS? Where ? I can't find them ... > my software is at http://jesusnjim.com in the Software section OK ... > Compress/Archive: WinZip > $30-50 pay-for zip program. easy integration, easy to use. good to have. > when I bought 6.1, it was l

Re: [Freedos-devel] Developer Contirbution

2010-05-22 Thread dos386
> Hi, I am a hobby programmer and I am interested in submitting small > utilites that I have written for DOS to the FreeDOS project What is it ? What language ? YES this is the correct place to boast :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread dos386
[2^10B=1024B=1KiB][2^20B=1048576B=1MiB][2^30B=1073741824B=1GiB][2^40B=1099511627776B=1TiB] Good :-) > Note: disk size is measured in MB, GB, or TB I use KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB only ;-) > I want XP Better place for such issues: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/34-windows-xp/ -- ~~~ wow

Re: [Freedos-devel] exFAT as a freedos filesystem?

2010-05-12 Thread dos386
> what about the exFAT filesystem? Already on my CRAP LIST ;-) > - it is 64-bit (63-bit?) in any case, the filesystem handles huge amounts of > data. maybe true > - it is supported by windows vista SP1 and 7 (but not by xp prior to SP2) maybe true > - it doesn't have the shortsighted 32GB l

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread dos386
> I have a problem. the only OS microsoft offers now is windows 7. Private problem of Macro$oft :-D Use DBAN to delete it and install FreeDOS then ;-) > machines from HP only have drivers for windows 7 Many devices are sufficiently generic (USB, IDE/SATA, ICH/HDA sound, Graph usually has some V

Re: [Freedos-devel] Comments & suggestions

2010-02-24 Thread dos386
> Where are all the updated files? No clue myself ... http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/ > But it is the latest available for download! True ... > I thought that maybe I could help to demonstrate > what DOS can do. At the moment, the system as installed from the > "full" C

Re: [Freedos-devel] Comments & suggestions

2010-02-23 Thread dos386
See mail archive few lines below or sf.net/projects/freedos -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applicati

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 post-install experience, pt 2: dumped at a prompt

2010-02-23 Thread dos386
> No version message, no free-memory display, no "Welcome, thanks for > trying FreeDOS!" message, nothing. Blank screen, C prompt. That is > about as friendly as a kick in the nuts. Agree, there is space for improvements. > When I ran GEM, there were no links to any of this 150MB of programs. Ba

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 setup program

2010-02-23 Thread dos386
> (Odd, in my day, DOS apps generally didn't have dependencies!) Examples ??? AFAIK the only one is CWSDPMI (blame DGJPP, not FreeDOS ...) > [1] I suggest removing the different memory configs as they will confuse > novices Agree, tuning EMS/UBM and legacy crap depending on such should be depre

Re: [Freedos-devel] Vacation reply

2010-02-22 Thread dos386
> Electronic products like laptops, gps,TV LCD,cell phones,ps3,MP3/4 Also MP5 ? FYI, I deprecate MP3/4 :-D -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compilin

Re: [Freedos-devel] Comments & suggestions

2010-02-22 Thread dos386
> Just wanted to ask if this was the right place to report or discuss Welcome :-) > comments, suggestions, bug reports &c in FreeDOS 1.0? I've just The 1.0 distro is obsolete. many things got fixed: HIMEM/EMM, DEVLOAD, ... some partially: kernel (2038), EDIT (yeah), FDISK (patch pending), DEFR

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Build

2010-02-13 Thread dos386
> haven't been able to reproduce the data corruption bug you someone else > reported, and could not find any > file start cluster 32->16bit truncation in the source code :( > If there exists a batch file that could reproduce it (which includes > formatting the hard disk partition, putting files o

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Build

2010-02-08 Thread dos386
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Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] how to create a large freedos image

2010-02-05 Thread dos386
Create empty file of cca 16 MiB (exact multiple of 512*63 Byte's !!!), go into BOCHS (host OS = DOS) with FreeDOS floppy + this file as HD, create MBR area + primary partition ("FDISK"), brew fs ("FORMAT"), copy and install FreeDOS ("SYS"), copy other files, done !!! -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Build

2010-02-04 Thread dos386
> http://pastebin.com/m30e0a3e DEAD. They seem to have much ABUSE recently :-( > My environment is Windows XP sp3. Standard User account. > Building on a fat32 filesystem I wonder whether FreeDOS can compile on itself at all ... -- ~~~ wow ~~~

[Freedos-devel] Patch (AKA Crack)

2010-01-30 Thread dos386
> Tracker artifact added > davemueller created the Patch for PDISKIO.C artifact > posted by davemueller 4 days ago http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=2940061 There is also a "MungaBunga-BUG" available -- The Planet: d

Re: [Freedos-devel] GCC Freedos kernel compile

2010-01-26 Thread dos386
> and besides that, cygwin generates windows (win32) code. it will not run on > DOS. NOT necessarily true. Even worse, GCC core itself (Linux-GCC/DGJPP/MinGW/CygWin) does not generate win32 code, it generates just 32-bit code ;-) You can't use GCC to compile FreeDOS kernel because GCC supports

Re: [Freedos-devel] On the road to v1.1

2009-12-13 Thread dos386
> Or just testing some components. Check the crosslink BUG in kernel 2039 ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev

Re: [Freedos-devel] 7-zip LZMA encoding is here

2009-11-15 Thread dos386
> For those wanting to produce LZMA-encoded archives there is now version 907 For me it had been working since 4.20 cca all the time ;-) > apparently it is as simple as 7z a ..\something.lzma You just need a DOS port (got one ???) or HX DOS Extender;-) BTW, we got disk image support: http://www

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE-type code editor

2009-11-06 Thread dos386
> What is everyone else using to develop/debug their DOS apps here? FASM IDE (compiler hard merged in, cca 100 KiB total bloat), INFOPAD (some bugs, doesn't like HDPMI32), FreeDOS EDIT (some bugs, 64 KiB limit), Kinesics (needs HX, not feature rich). -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -

[Freedos-devel] WATCOM http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/OpenWatcom

2009-11-05 Thread dos386
What version of WATCOM is the most recommended one ? Almost 1 year elapsed since 1.8 release, there were some complaints by Japheth about "JWASM doesn't compile with 1.8 anymore" in the past, but latest releases report to compile fine with both 1.7a and 1.8, although nothing has been fixed in WATC

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fw: Re: About my driver, HIMEM/EMM386 and interrupts

2009-11-05 Thread dos386
> > > but then virtual-86 mode is set and I can no loger use 32bit real-mode > > > pointers! > > IF you need PM from V86 there is VCPI. > Protected mode isn't the same as flat real mode. NO, but there is no absolute need to use flat [un]real mode. > flat-real mode, VCPI and DPMI work and how the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fw: Re: About my driver, HIMEM/EMM386 and interrupts

2009-10-29 Thread dos386
> I'm building a driver (for DOS) :-) For what hardware ?? > means that the driver will have to do different things to get to the tables > depending > on whether HIMEM, or EMM386, or both, or none of them are currently there. NO. Just use XMS, it is still available even if EMM386 is additionall

Re: [Freedos-devel] Closed: FIXED

2009-06-18 Thread dos386
91 Bytes instead of IUP: "IUP-BUG" is no longer owned by IUP: http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=10301 :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified lice

Re: [Freedos-devel] Closed: FIXED

2009-06-18 Thread dos386
> > and leaves both (!!!) files present in the directory and empty ... > Which both do you mean? It deletes the original, > so only the temp file still exists? YES, but the following rename call apparently recreates the original name, but without deleting the temp name, and both are now empty :-(

Re: [Freedos-devel] Closed: FIXED

2009-06-18 Thread dos386
Hi > If you set VERSION to something different than 5.xx so "5" is the default ? > in config sys then FreeDOS will behave in the more common DOS 3/4/6/7 style Is this documented somewhere ??? Still, FreeDOS IMHO should default harder to FDCONFIG, FREECOM etc. ;-) > Please explain. What didn't

Re: [Freedos-devel] New RxDOS memory subsystem source code

2009-06-18 Thread dos386
> You're saying development of free DOS software is not on > topic in the "FreeDOS devel" list? Sorry, not __MY__ list, by I personally prefer this tiny piece of NASM code from the bloated WtF/WfW 100% compatibility crap :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -

Re: [Freedos-devel] Closed: FIXED

2009-06-18 Thread dos386
I possibly know what the problem is (re-confirmed with FD 2038 and EDR 2009-03-28) : ** UI21DEB 2009-05-02 CFG: sel=<> hcb=$0400 ver=$3205 dcm=$02FB fif=$ APP: ree=0 psp=$0528 nam= N/A * AX=$4800 | C=0 AX=$16A4 * AX=$7147 [

Re: [Freedos-devel] Closed: FIXED

2009-06-18 Thread dos386
I wrote: > Oops, the "IUP-BUG" needs retest. DONE !!! Tom wrote ( http://www.drdosprojects.de/forum/drp_forum/posts/6667.html ) : > IUP bug reproduced here. will try to fix this Lack of time or forgotten ... :-( > If reproducable, I'll try to fix those, too (if time allows) At least 2 are fi

Re: [Freedos-devel] Closed: FIXED

2009-06-17 Thread dos386
> - int 2f.4a00 callback for DJ mechanism GUI now supported WOW ... it's new ;-) but I have a safer method anyway. > see what else needs attention? - The CTMOUSE tracker, see above - http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2475007&group_id=5109&atid=105109 2475007 "Debug generates unoptimized co

[Freedos-devel] Closed: FIXED

2009-06-16 Thread dos386
It took very long time but FreeDOS got 2 bugs "Closed: FIXED" now: sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2380828&group_id=5109&atid=105109 "[kernel] GetDiskFreeSpaceEx bug if no slash" sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2362450&group_id=5109&atid=105109 "#1953 21/29 returns 0 (valid) for all drive root"

Re: [Freedos-devel] New RxDOS memory subsystem source code

2009-06-16 Thread dos386
Nice :-) Although "memory subsystem source code" is not yet a fully working kernel. -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimi

Re: [Freedos-devel] Support for new soundcard in Mpxplay - ES1371/1373

2009-05-31 Thread dos386
New cards are heavily appreciated of course, however, the ES1371/1373 support as of 2009-05-28 doesn't really work, see forum :-( -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT

[Freedos-devel] test

2009-05-17 Thread dos386
as Eric suggested :-D -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing serve