Re: [Freedos-devel] Updating the FreeDOS website

I think the new web site design looks great. For those who want a retro look, it works great in lynx too. -Ben p.s. The devel page has a typo OLD: coimpiler NEW: compiler ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lis

Re: [Freedos-devel] Learning DOS assembly programming

In the early 90's, i learned assembly on DOS using the A86 assembler and the book Using Assembly Language by Allen Wyatt. It was enlightening to use the D86 debugger to step through other code, including the code in the BIOS ROM. The IDA disassembler came in handy later on. A86 & D86: http:/

Re: [Freedos-devel] Make make great again! (tom ehlert)

> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 11:39:55 +0100 > From: tom ehlert > > So you don't understand Borland make, but hope that gMAKE comes > along with some magic sauce and solves all your problems. > > Could you please share the ammazon.com link where you buy your > weed? Seems to be exciting stuff;) It's

Re: [Freedos-devel] Contributing

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel wrote: > But this whole thing I've seen about people trying to turn FreeDOS > into a modern OS with a GUI, multitasking and native AMD64 > support and failing because they can barely write hello world...it's > because they've got stars in their

Re: [Freedos-devel] Contributing

> A lot of FreeDOS novices seem to want to turn it into Linux, the same > way a lot of Linux novices seem to want to turn it into Windows - and > I think it probably galls some of the old-timers here. Seems to me there is an old tradition of trying to turn DOS into Unix that predates even MS-DOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] Need ZULIA for Hercules/CGA emulation

I don't know about ZULIA, but back in the day, I used SIMCGA for this purpose. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listin

[Freedos-devel] No UMBs on 1.4rc1

Greetings, The FreeDOS 1.3 MEM command reports Total Upper memory of 100K. The FreeDOS 1.4 RC1 MEM command reports Total Upper memory of 0K. I get the same results from the live CD and an installed system running as a qemu guest. Any idea where my upper memory blocks went? Thanks!

Re: [Freedos-devel] Useful tool: stuffkey

> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:32:20 +0100 > From: Julius Schwartzenberg > Subject: [Freedos-devel] Useful tool: stuffkey > > Looking for a tool to automate keyboard presses, I came across this page: > http://www.retroarchive.org/garbo/pc/keyboard/index.html > > And found this tool: > stfkey40.zip

Re: [Freedos-devel] CSMWrap

> Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 10:06:41 +0100 > From: Liam Proven > Subject: [Freedos-devel] CSMWrap > > CSMWrap is a cool little hack that brings back the good old PC BIOS on > those fancy-pants UEFI-only systems. It utilises the CSM > (Compatibility Support Module) and VESA VBIOS from SeaBIOS project