This highlights a specific case where the "read error while reading
drive" message will pop up on boot.
I have an HP Brio 8314 which has this problem. If you don't have this
exact machine, 86Box has a machine with the same problem: Slot 1,
"[i440LX] Micronics Spitfire". It is not a hardware bug,
On 20/07/2024 23:50, Felix Natter via Freedos-devel wrote:
- is VESA framebuffer even supported by modern GPUs (i.e Intel onboard
HD graphics) or emulated by freedos? If yes, what framebuffer
layout/resolution?
If it supports BIOS booting of being UEFI-only, it'll probably be
*VGA*-compati
On 06/08/2024 04:55, Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel wrote:
I just stumbled over this old bug report referring to xcopy:
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/346/
It is still active. means: It can happen that only some files will be
copied, others not.
A comment in that thread links to a repo
On 13/11/2024 08:15, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote:
Here is what I see (attached).
[ snip]
Now that looks like it's failing to set the RAMDAC palette once it goes
into a 256-colour graphics mode.
For the record, I get the usual Mode 13h palette in DOSBox-X, DOSBox
(which randomly decid
On 22/11/2024 05:52, David Schwab via Freedos-devel wrote:
I'm working my way through Norton's Advanced Assembly Language, and in
one section he shows how to the find interrupt vector for the BIOS
keyboard service (int 9). I've found the vector and unassembled it
(being sure to use little endia
I have some corrections for some obscure things...
On 28/01/2025 01:19, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 at 16:10, Bret Johnson wrote:
It also turns out that 16-bit protected mode is EXTREMELY useful, especially
for things like TSR's. AFAIK, all CPUs that support 32-b
Tested the floppy installer in 86Box with an 80286 machine, the "[ISA]
MR BIOS 286 clone" board (because I like having a BIOS setup menu and a
PC/AT doesn't have one) with a 1200KB 5.25" floppy drive and a
1024:16:63 (504 MB) IDE hard drive.
The readme says an EGA is required, so I intentional
On 29/04/2025 10:47, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote:
The problem with SETVER style tools is their relatively large RAM
footprint, which is why CALLVER is a lot more simple, at the price
of having to be used as a wrapper for calling one app at a time.
Update: One of the posts in this thread sa
There's a few megacorps who would just love to extinguish RSS (including
Atom in that definition), but I suspect it's coming back at least for a
lot of small blogs (much easier to manage than email), and it's still
available for major news sites.
I recently started using it again... some time
My initial thoughts were "maybe we could see if 86Box emulates this and
poke around the BIOS" but after seeing the pictures and the hard drive
size... yeah, it's probably out of scope unless the BIOS somehow boots
OK on a Pentium 2.
Probably worth setting up a boot floppy and tracing the INT 1
A point to think about:
On 07/05/2025 13:26, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel wrote:
Who is really going to be editing multi-gigabyte text files in DOS? Could you
imagine making a minor change and saving such a massive file?
The sort of editor that can edit a >1GB text file in DOS is potentiall
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