[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-24 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi all, Not sure that anybody cares about this, but just in case - I recently tested the 1-diskette FreeDOS distribution "ODIN" on an 8086 PC, and spotted a few more or less serious problems. I got the ODIN image from odin.fdos.org, and more specifically this: http://odin.fdos.org/fdodin06.8088

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-24 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Sun, 24 May 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hi all, > > Not sure that anybody cares about this, but just in case - I recently > tested the 1-diskette FreeDOS distribution "ODIN" on an 8086 PC, and > spotted a few more or less serious problems. > > I got the ODIN image from odin.fdos.org, and more

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-24 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Not sure that anybody cares about this, but just in case - I recently > tested the 1-diskette FreeDOS distribution "ODIN" on an 8086 PC, and > spotted a few more or less serious problems. Thank you very much for testing this, of cours

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-24 Thread Edouard Forler
Hi there, There's me. I myself own a true 4.77 MHz 8088 PC that I use from time to time. I subscribed to your list many years ago with the goal to help troubleshoot on this machine. However, I'm so busy I could not find the time to do it. When Freedos 1.0 went out, I tested it quickly and foun

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-24 Thread Antony Gordon
That is pretty old. Is that something that is still needed or wanted? > On May 24, 2015, at 5:29 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Hi all, > > Not sure that anybody cares about this, but just in case - I recently > tested the 1-diskette FreeDOS distribution "ODIN" on an 8086 PC, and > spotted a

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-24 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Edouard Forler wrote: > > I myself own a true 4.77 MHz 8088 PC that I use from time to time. Good! :-) > When Freedos 1.0 went out, I tested it quickly and found > out that it was almost two times slower than MS-DOS 3.21 (which is the > official OS of my ma

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-24 Thread Edouard Forler
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Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-24 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/24/2015 2:29 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hi all, > > Not sure that anybody cares about this, but just in case - I recently > tested the 1-diskette FreeDOS distribution "ODIN" on an 8086 PC, and > spotted a few more or less serious problems. > > I got the ODIN image from odin.fdos.org, and more

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-24 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 25/05/2015 06:33, Ralf Quint wrote: >> MEMA: Prints out garbage to screen and quits. > What is MEMA? No idea, only Steve knows probably :) I assumed it is some kind of replacement for MEM (since MEM is missing on ODIN), but because of its crashing, I couldn't check. >> KEYB: immediately cras

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-24 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Mon, 25 May 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 25/05/2015 06:33, Ralf Quint wrote: >>> MEMA: Prints out garbage to screen and quits. >> What is MEMA? > > No idea, only Steve knows probably :) I assumed it is some kind of > replacement for MEM (since MEM is missing on ODIN), but because of its > cr