Re: [Freedos-devel] Simplifying FreeDOS

Hi, If I don’t mention removing or keeping something, I don’t have much of an opinion on it. > Over time, FreeDOS has grown to include lots of interesting programs. The > FreeDOS 1.2 and 1.3RCx distributions are very big. > > As we look to the next FreeDOS 1.3 Release Candidate, I think we

Re: [Freedos-devel] Simple Senet v 1.0

Hi Jim, > On Jul 7, 2020, at 8:34 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Senet is a very old board game for two players, dating back to ancient Egypt. > The game is simple to play, and requires a combination of luck and strategy. > I've written a version of Senet for FreeDOS, called Simple Senet. As you >

[Freedos-devel] Language translations

Hi all, The state of NLS translations was a bit of a mess and is in a sorry state. Numerous programs (even BASE) that support NLS have few or none of the additional 28 total different languages (excluding english) that I have seen for FreeDOS packages. For example, MORE only has help in

Re: [Freedos-devel] Large Partitions in FreeDOS.

Good morning, > Let's face it, people will try the floppy distro on old, but > less than 35 years old PC, create FAT32 partitions because > their disk size asks for that, fail to format them, say only > to themselves that FreeDOS is crap and go back to dosbox :-( You may be right. But, I think

Re: [Freedos-devel] Large Partitions in FreeDOS.

> On Jun 6, 2020, at 9:45 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > >>> The 8086 kernel can be compiled with FAT32. > > The question is whether the floppy installer should use > an 8086 FAT32 kernel. Pro: It works with FAT32 partitions > which people may create even for 250 MB drives because > they believe

Re: [Freedos-devel] Large Partitions in FreeDOS.

> On Jun 6, 2020, at 8:42 PM, perditi...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 8:29 PM Jerome Shidel <mailto:jer...@shidel.net>> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > ... > > Overall, I think a better solution would be for the kernel team (PerditionC) > to >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Large Partitions in FreeDOS.

> >> Like I originally said... By design or a bug. > > No, you ASKED whether it was by design. Sometimes I’m overly brief. I rarely (if ever) proofread my emails and other messages. My exact wording was: So, I guess it is either be design that larger partitions do not work on the 16bit

Re: [Freedos-devel] Large Partitions in FreeDOS.

Hi Eric, Although we sometimes (or quite often) disagree on things, you are a very well informed and knowledgeable person and I do respect your opinion. > On Jun 6, 2020, at 7:39 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> Current shipping kernels 2042, not modified nor recompiled. > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Large Partitions in FreeDOS.

> On Jun 6, 2020, at 6:29 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > >  > Hi Jerome, > > let me summarize: You can fdisk, format and use 100 GB FAT32 LBA > partitions using a certain (which?) version of a non-8086, e.g. > 386 optimized kernel of FreeDOS. However, doing the same on some > (which?) kernel which

Re: [Freedos-devel] Large Partitions in FreeDOS.

I thought I made it clear and easily reproducible for anyone concerned enough to look into the issue. Current shipping kernels 2042, not modified nor recompiled. FreeDOS LiveCD 1.3-RC3 (Kernel386) FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 x86-Floppy Edition (Kernel86) Issue occurred on real hardware, but is easily

[Freedos-devel] Large Partitions in FreeDOS.

After helping a user on twitter who was having an issue while using the new FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 Floppy Edition, I learned the problem was not in the installer. But, it was a problem in either the 16-bit kernel, fdisk or format command. Let me explain, so someone else can dig into it further and

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3

FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 is now available for download and testing. https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/previews/1.3-rc3/

[Freedos-devel] News in regards to FreeDOS 1.3-RC3

https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2020/05/freedos-13-rc3-coming-soon--update-on-floppy-edition/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Missing FDOS utilities

> On May 19, 2020, at 4:41 PM, thraex wrote: > >  > > On 18.05.2020 23:28, Jerome Shidel wrote: > >>> Hehe, I have bad news for you Jerome. I reviewed French translations and >>> I (or rather, the spellchecker and the Grammalecte tool) caught sever

Re: [Freedos-devel] Missing Translations

Well since thraex was hoping for something a little easier... I threw together a Linux/MacOS bash script (status.sh) to make it easier to update the package listing.csv files. https://github.com/shidel/fd-nls/tree/master/packages

Re: [Freedos-devel] Missing FDOS utilities

Hi, > On May 18, 2020, at 3:42 PM, thraex wrote: > > > > On 18.05.2020 15:17, Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> First, http://freedoslocal.sourceforge.net is no longer maintained. > > Indeed, that's a resource I miss sorely as a translator :( > >>

Re: [Freedos-devel] Missing FDOS utilities

> On May 18, 2020, at 2:59 PM, Emir Yâsin SARI via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > [..] > I have updated a couple of translations, and opened a PR for them. Thanks. > >> The best solution, is to send translations to the actual developer of the >> individual project the translation was created.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Missing FDOS utilities

Hi, > On May 18, 2020, at 7:23 AM, Emir Yâsin SARI via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Lately I have been translating FreeDOS utilities into Turkish, and most of > them are merged into their respective master repositories, thank you very > much. After submitting the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Is the build process broken?

Hello, > On Mar 17, 2020, at 12:47 PM, joseph.nor...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi: > > No problem. > > I also found one more thing that was causing a minor problem, but, it wasn’t > a show-stopper. > > Anyway, I’ll just tell you about it, just in case. > > If I tried to put more than one

Re: [Freedos-devel] Is the build process broken?

Hello, Some follow up… Turns out, the RBE was not broken but working as intended. A few months back someone provided an much improved Turkish translation. However, it must have been missing the RU language selection data for whatever reason. When I approved the merge request, it

Re: [Freedos-devel] Is the build process broken?

Hi, > On Mar 17, 2020, at 9:37 AM, joseph.nor...@gmail.com wrote: > >  > Hi: > > I just tried to build the distro under leap 15 and got an error very early on. > > Here are the last 10 lines of the output: > > List PKG_ASSIST > List PKG_FDI > List PKG_FULL > List PKG_LIVE > make[2]:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update to MKEYB Russian Keymaps.

Hi, > On Jan 19, 2020, at 1:25 PM, tom ehlert wrote: > >  >> Hi, > >>A while back, > 2 years back. and I haven't got any complains about MKEYB's russian > key mapping in the meantime. so probably of low priority. > >> a user submitted some keymap updates to MKEYB >> on the

[Freedos-devel] More Russian Translation Stuff

Hi again, I should have put this in the MKEYB post. Oh, well. The user also supplied translation updates to FreeCOM and several utilities. I hope those responsible for the respective projects can look at and potential include his submissions. In total he submitted Russian updates

[Freedos-devel] Update to MKEYB Russian Keymaps.

Hi, A while back, a user submitted some keymap updates to MKEYB on the FreeDOS sourceforge bug report. The updates were for Russian (standard, DOS and typewriter), I was hoping Tom Ehlert might get a change to look at them and possibly incorporate them into MKEYB

Re: [Freedos-devel] Frotz upstream updated to 2.50

Hi David, > On Dec 18, 2019, at 2:44 AM, David Griffith wrote: > > > How do I get the Freedos repository updated to include the current version of > Frotz? It’s fairly painless to expedite an update or sometimes add completely new software. We often have a lot of stuff on our plate and it

Re: [Freedos-devel] RC2 - Turkish translations not applied

Hi Eric, I usually put a good deal of thought into such things before I implement them. I more or less completely agree with what you suggest. As it turns out… What I implemented is very similar to what you propose with only a couple minor differences. Albeit, those would improve space

Re: [Freedos-devel] RC2 - Turkish translations not applied

Hi Eric, > On Dec 17, 2019, at 10:30 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >  > Hi Jerome, > >> FDI itself can switch display font’s and for reasons I don’t >> feel like going in to at the moment, it does not use >> the codepage system. It uses transient bitmapped text mode >> fonts... > > Does that mean

Re: [Freedos-devel] RC2 - Turkish translations not applied

Hi, In regards to the installer (FDI) and boot welcome messages, the problem is not bad strings or translations. What is lacking is configuration and mapping from UTF-8 to a DOS codepage. Without those, the text needs to be down converted to the standard default DOS code page character set.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

> On Mar 9, 2019, at 5:14 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Thanks for the package list pointers! :-) Your welcome. > >> All release specific settings are in that >> https://github.com/shidel/FDI/tree/master/SETTINGS > >> Boot floppies are PKG_FDI.LST with files and directories >> in CLEANUP.LST

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

Hi Eric, > On Mar 9, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> LiveCD1 size is flexible... > > Looking at your links (PS: typo "intalled") the current :-) I’ll have to fix that. > list seems to be, in that order: > > BASE, FDI,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

Hi Eric, > On Mar 9, 2019, at 10:42 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > > questions about the dynamic size semi-live CD, which are > the minimum amounts of memory for which package sets? > > You say with 24 MB you get a system, then at some point > you get BASE, much later FULL or even

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

Hi Eric, > On Mar 9, 2019, at 8:19 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, thanks for the insights :-) Your welcome. > > So what is the combined size of all "programs which have settings > or high scores" which the user would like to be updated? Remember > that high scores in ramdisk are lost

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

> On Mar 8, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Louis, > >> Do you mean something like the SHSU* Image/ISO to RAMDrive utils [0][1][2] >> when you said, " If we had a driver that could directly use CD/DVD media >> like a hard drive and cache changes to RAM, then things could be

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

> On Mar 1, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > >> This one was me. I was able to use LiveCD2 on QEMU to boot and install >> FreeDOS 1.3 RC1. > > When I suggested that FreeDOS 1.3 should contain a LiveCD, I had > something more useful in mind than the thing that materialized now; How

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

> On Feb 11, 2019, at 11:49 PM, Andy Stamp wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:34 PM Andy Stamp wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:32 PM Random Liegh via Freedos-devel >>> wrote: >>> Hi, thanks for repl

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

dows 10 home edition computer. > This is very interesting. Are you all running the latest version of QEMU? If so, you all should get the same result (good or bad). > Thank you! > > -Random > >> On 2/9/2019 6:50 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> &

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

> On Feb 10, 2019, at 12:48 PM, Harald Arnesen wrote: > > Jerome Shidel [10.02.2019 17:39]: > >> Hi again, in regards to using LiveCD2 with QEMU this is what I’ve been told… >> >> LiveCD2 booted up just fine, even with an unpartitioned C: drive. This >&

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

Hi again, in regards to using LiveCD2 with QEMU this is what I’ve been told… LiveCD2 booted up just fine, even with an unpartitioned C: drive. This is what I did: $ qemu-system-i386 -m 256 -k en-us -rtc base=localtime -soundhw sb16,adlib,pcspk -device cirrus-vga -display gtk -boot order=d

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

> On Feb 9, 2019, at 11:14 AM, Harald Arnesen wrote: > > Jerome Shidel [09.02.2019 16:50]: > >> CD2 is probably more compatible (CD1 doesn’t run under QEMU). It needs 128mb >> of ram. More RAM is unused. It requires a good chunk of real estate on the >> CD (

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

Hi everyone, We really do want to hear your opinions on which LiveCD we should keep. They both have very specific advantages and disadvantages. Just to pick a couple. CD1 can run with 64MB of ram and can use GBs. It also uses very little space on the CD. CD2 is probably more compatible (CD1

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1

In case you haven’t heard. FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 is now out. More info on www.freedos.org. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] DO FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi all, Some significant improvements were made to the LiveCD Type-1 today. So, if you’ve been building the early 1.3 release pre-beta versions, you should pull the latest GitLab source and do a clean rebuild. More or less like so... git pull make clean translate all make cdrom release Or...

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

> On Jan 2, 2019, at 4:05 PM, stecdose wrote: > > >>> * If the installation language is Russian, the text is garbled, no >>> Cyrillic letters are displayed. >> Yeah, that’s a known issue. Cant really think of a “good” way to solve it. >> >> Here’s the problem. >> >> Language and translation

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi, > On Jan 2, 2019, at 12:38 PM, thraex wrote: > > > 2.01.2019 02:30 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: >> >> Sorry, I didn’t notice. Displaying the found translations is a new feature >> in the build environment. I know there are a couple missin from the German

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

> On Jan 1, 2019, at 6:30 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > > >> On Jan 1, 2019, at 1:31 PM, thraex wrote: >> >> >> >> 29.12.2018 18:18 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: >> >> >>>> Finally, if there is other stuf

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

> On Jan 1, 2019, at 1:31 PM, thraex wrote: > > > > 29.12.2018 18:18 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: > > >>> Finally, if there is other stuff that can be translated for FreeDOS, >>> feel free to yell at me. >> >> :-) > > Well, you

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi > On Dec 31, 2018, at 11:51 AM, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > > I do not trust clouds since many of them have been compromised > already, and all those Snowden revelations etc... So I sincerely hope > that it will be always possible to build FreeDOS locally. Happy coming > New Year ! :) > > Best

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi, > On Dec 31, 2018, at 8:44 AM, TK Chia wrote: > > Hello Jerome, > >> The short answer is — At present, the online repo management tools do not >> support multi-line descriptors. Everything after the first line is ignored. >> So, stuff on additional lines is excluded from the automatically

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi, > On Dec 29, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > […] > Making the installation depend on having one of two Linux distributions is > severely limiting, I would say a show stopper. There really is no technical reason it couldn’t be built on other Linux distros. However, the build

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi again, >> On Dec 29, 2018, at 7:47 AM, thraex > > wrote: >> […] >> Looking at all this scrolling text (after the make clean translate all >> command), I noticed that some packages (edict, fdtui and others) didn't >> have their descriptions translated, so I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi, > On Dec 29, 2018, at 7:47 AM, thraex wrote: > > > Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> Hi everybody. > > Hello Jerome, > >> If you want to see 1.3 built in the cloud on DigitalOcean, check out >> the https://youtu.be/XZoWCFJDdqY > > Looking

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi, > On Dec 29, 2018, at 8:38 AM, TK Chia wrote: > [..]\ > The i16butil.zip description glitch (I just checked the packages I uploaded > onto GitHub) may be because the .lsm file in it has a multi-line description, > similar to this: > > Description: GNU binary utilities, for ia16-elf

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi Tom, > On Dec 28, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > Hi Jerome, > > >> We are still hard at work on the upcoming FreeDOS 1.3. > it would be cool to know who 'we’ is That is a tricky one. I guess it all depends on what part of 1.3 is being referenced. Obviously, the OS is made up

[Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Hi everybody. We are still hard at work on the upcoming FreeDOS 1.3. But, I just couldn't help sharing something really cool about the new version. It has a completely new release build process. It can even create stock or custom releases on compatible cloud hosting. If you want to see 1.3

Re: [Freedos-devel] Regarding translations for FreeDOS

> On Oct 31, 2018, at 1:30 PM, thraex wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > For some reason the private e-mails I send end up in the antispam box of > the recipients, so I'm sending to the list instead. I just wanted to > remind that for French and Turkish all the packages have been translated > on

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations for LSM data files.

e of chars, but it is way more convinient >> to do it with a 1280px wide screen... >> >> It is also not that easy to find a editor that open more than ~64k, >> you'll have to try with a few editor, if you don't know which one >> supports it. And win2k notepa

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations for LSM data files.

> On Sep 19, 2018, at 4:45 AM, stecdose wrote: > > I just have downloaded the csv-file and had a look at it. It isn't as > big as I thought. > > I am going to translate the whole list to german. It will take a few > days, I have some real-life work to do, but I think I am done >

[Freedos-devel] Translations for LSM data files.

Hello again everyone, Thanks to one of the community members, we now have translations in French and Turkish on hand for all of the FreeDOS packages in the repository. These translations will definitely make it into the upcoming 1.3 release and be supported by FDIMPLES for package browsing

Re: [Freedos-devel] VGA frame rates and mouse

Hi, > On Jul 24, 2018, at 6:40 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi :-) Glad that we are inspiring you, Jerome ;-) I don’t really have the time to do it. Arg!! :-) > > But I disagree about spending 35 for a book - you > can find plenty of information on the web, because > that topic was

Re: [Freedos-devel] VGA frame rates and mouse

Argh…. All of this talk about VGA frame rates, alpha masks, sprites and pixels, you are really making me want to write a 2D DOS gaming engine. lol. Anyhow, you said you wanted to do your code in “Pure C”. From my personal experience, a lot of the information on the web pertaining to very low

Re: [Freedos-devel] Check if VGA is available

Just an FYI. I dove back into that Supported Video Card detection function and changed it over to what was referenced by Mateusz. https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/blob/master/INFO/INFO.PAS Reminds me. I really need to put more of my old stuff in there. I just haven’t been very motivated

Re: [Freedos-devel] Check if VGA is available

> On Jul 16, 2018, at 3:35 PM, David McMackins wrote: > > I was replying to Jerome who is the original author of the Pascal one. > > I get that VGA is widely available. I'm writing a library, so I want to > support as much as possible. My intended targets (in the order of planned >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Check if VGA is available

2296972) > Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) > > www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com > www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org > >> On 2018-07-16 10:26, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> :-) >> On Jul 16, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Mark Olesen >> wrote: >>&

Re: [Freedos-devel] Check if VGA is available

:-) > On Jul 16, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Mark Olesen wrote: > > https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/blob/master/INFO/INFO.PAS > Wow, that’s some ancient Pascal code. Pretty sure it pre-dates FreeDOS and the Internet. LOL It’s been so long. If I recall correctly, it was made with information in

Re: [Freedos-devel] Removing non-free packages

Hello, CDP is not listed as being included on any of the FreeDOS 1.2 release media. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/compare.html It is still available on the software repository.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Starting FreeDOS 1.3

> On Jul 12, 2018, at 11:22 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > [...] > Sep 30 - no new packages > Oct 31 - no new languages > Nov 30 - RC1 > Dec 31 - RC2 > Jan 31 - 1.3 release Sounds fine to me. -- Check out the vibrant tech

Re: [Freedos-devel] Starting FreeDOS 1.3

> On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:57 PM, thraex wrote: > > > > 10-07-2018 23:46 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: > >>> On Jul 10, 2018, at 3:06 PM, Jim Hall >> <mailto:jh...@freedos.org>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone >>> >>

Re: [Freedos-devel] Starting FreeDOS 1.3

Hello, :-) > On Jul 10, 2018, at 3:06 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi everyone > > I'd like to start work on FreeDOS 1.3! > > We talked before that the next release would be an iteration on FreeDOS 1.2. > That means the next distribution will be FreeDOS 1.3 - and not 2.0. We wanted > the next

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Branded C/C++ Toolchain

Hello, Not sure I like renaming someone else’s tools and slapping the FreeDOS name on them. You really need to ask Jim Hall if he is fine with you using the FreeDOS name this way. Putting that issue aside for the moment, what is the advantage of this toolchain? You said you spent over a

[Freedos-devel] EDICT for DOS

Hello all, To make a long story short(er), I recently acquired a 5.25 1.2mb floppy drive to image a box of ancient disks I had laying around. As so many things in life go, only a few diskettes in and problems reading a couple occurred. The normal DOS disk image creation tool just didn’t feel

Re: [Freedos-devel] splash screen

> On Nov 22, 2017, at 10:04 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > [...] > Not really. We had a similar discussion about a much earlier FreeDOS > release, and it doesn't make sense to have a graphical splash screen > for FreeDOS. Since FreeDOS runs in "text mode" and isn't a GUI on its > own,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling with gcc

I didn’t read most of the messages in this thread. So, forgive me if I have completely missed something important. Why allocate any memory for reading the environment variables? Why not just examine them in place? They are just Null terminated strings.

Re: [Freedos-devel] splash screen

I gave thought to this when creating FDI. I figured that the standard release could have one. But, it was not needed and would use more precious disk space on the boot floppy. However, an OEM vendor that shipped on of those FreeDOS systems may desire to display their logo or something. So,

Re: [Freedos-devel] row4 (was: Compiling with gcc)

> On Oct 28, 2017, at 5:39 PM, Andreas K. Foerster wrote: > > Am Samstag, dem 28. Okt 2017 schrieb Mateusz Viste: > >> It is not supposed to work unpacked as-is. The archive, even though it >> looks like a standard zip file, is in fact a FreeDOS package that needs >> to

Re: [Freedos-devel] What is FreeDOS 2.0?

> On Oct 17, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi all > > I don't know if you saw on our Twitter or on Facebook, but since its > release on December 25 2016, FreeDOS 1.2 passed 500,000 downloads in > June 2017. And passed 600,000 in August. As of this week, FreeDOS 1.2

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wait don't fix you code bug!

> On Jun 30, 2017, at 10:56 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> >> In case you haven't heard, there is a severe bug in Intel Skylake and Newer >> C

[Freedos-devel] Wait don't fix you code bug!

Hello all, In case you haven't heard, there is a severe bug in Intel Skylake and Newer CPUs. I only know a little about it. From what I heard, it crops up with hyper-threading inside loops less than 64 bytes effecting several high byte registers (AH, BH, etc). They are working on a microcode

Re: [Freedos-devel] Unix-like utilities for FreeDOS

irectory. I have put them here: >>> >>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/unix/ >>> >>> >>> If I missed something on ibiblio that didn't get moved and should >>> have, please let me know. > > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 4:35

Re: [Freedos-devel] Unix-like utilities for FreeDOS

> On May 29, 2017, at 3:25 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > >> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Jim Hall wrote: >> We have a few Unix-workalike utilities on ibiblio. >> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/ >> >> I think over the

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Software Repositories Update

Hello again everyone, I just finished adding some new stuff to the fdrepo.sh Software Repository Management Utility. These new features added support for automatic RSS feed creation and updating. It automatically adds any new or updated packages into the feed. The Official software

Re: [Freedos-devel] SOUND Program for FreeDOS

> On Apr 18, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Looks like your program generates specific frequencies for a defined duration: > > printf("SOUND - Output sound from PC speaker.\r\n"); > printf(" SOUND frequency delay\r\n"); > printf("\r\n"); >

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Online Software Repository

Hello All, Just an update. There were some requests that there was a CSV of the FreeDOS software packages. So, I finally found a few minutes to add it to the repository management utility. It should automatically update when software packages are changed or added. It includes the fields

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

> On Feb 2, 2017, at 5:26 PM, Mark Olesen wrote: > > Skinning at the moment can only be done by modifying code (skin.c). I left it > out because I do not know the best method of providing a decent configuration > file without adding allot of code bloat. FLTK has a

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Translations?

Well, I just saw that http://freedoslocal.sourceforge.net has gone into a “No Maintainer” state. I am wondering what is going to happen to future FreeDOS localizations?-- Check out

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure: fixed

Hello Tom, Did you get hold of the maintainer? The package lists that as Eric Auer. But, that could be incorrect. I just haven’t heard anything for a couple days and was wondering what was going on with find. Jerome

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 - Turkish Character Layout

> On Dec 17, 2016, at 3:45 PM, thraex <thr...@numericable.fr> wrote: > > Jerome Shidel wrote: >> >>> On Dec 10, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: >>> >>> I'm using Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.10. I installed FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 on >>> virtua

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 - Turkish Character Layout

> On Dec 10, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm using Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.10. I installed FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 on virtual > machine. I selected Turkish language in setup. In setup and after install, > Turkish characters isn't applied by FreeDOS. > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

> On Dec 4, 2016, at 3:31 AM, Philip Hoefer wrote: > [..] > 4. The error message was invalid opcode, but scrolled very fast and > indefinitely. I have seen this before with modern linux distributions when an > old CPU is not supported. > > The note on the website

Re: [Freedos-devel] slow FreeDOS install - was: FreeDOS 1.2-RC1 onHyper-V 2012 R2

> On Nov 16, 2016, at 9:04 AM, > wrote: > > I know it’s in first boot order. It also boots first. Try just booting the FD12FLOPPY, then don't connect the CD until you are greeted by the installer. Don't use the boot.img on the CD. Humm, at present

Re: [Freedos-devel] fdnpkg: Repository download failed (ibiblio)

There is also the Intel e1000 gigabit packet driver to try. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/e1000pkt.html-- Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors

Re: [Freedos-devel] fdnpkg: Repository download failed (ibiblio)

Hello Paul, > On Nov 7, 2016, at 9:37 AM, Paul Dufresne wrote: > > I just copied ping.exe (WATTCP) and I now see I get ** Transmit fault ** > Guess I need to put even more time to figure out how to configure network. > Sorry for noise. Did you try the FDNET package? I do

Re: [Freedos-devel] keyb us does not work

> On Nov 6, 2016, at 7:11 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi people, > > it might be sort of obvious but... > >>> US is much more usable for us. >>> >>> But then, when I type >>> keyb us >>> >>> the 2 output lines, seems to suggest that it worked. >>> >>> But I still have

Re: [Freedos-devel] development workflow?

Some of the stuff on the current site is out dated. I think that mostly Jim has been working on the new site and keeping the old one in static mode. I could be wrong. I haven't been following that aspect very closely. The new 1.2 repo creates HTML pages for the packages automatically. These

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 -- Keymap

Hello All, This is my plan. I will try to find the time over the next couple days to implement the keyboard mapping in the installer. If the user is in advanced mode OR selects a non-English language, the installer will prompt for a couple of keyboard settings. US, UK, GR, GR2, SG, NL, FR

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Juan, > On Oct 12, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero > wrote: > > I have installed > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/previews/1.2-pre23/FD12CD.iso > on a VMware virtual machine. The host is linux. The installation

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Auto NET Config

Hello, Rugxulo pointed me at a custom FreeDOS release that has some networking support. I haven't had time to look at it closely. But, initial quick and simple tests showed support for VirtualBox and VMware (bridged NIC). > On Jul 31, 2016, at 8:32 PM, Louis Santillan

Re: [Freedos-devel] Useful Tools for FreeDOS: Bilgisayarcılık DOS Tools

Hello, First and foremost, I took a look at your GitHub sources and would definitely like to encourage you to continue with developing software for DOS. Assembly can be a very difficult language for many to understand. Your code is very clean looking and easy to read. We all learn by doing.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI remaining issue

There is an additional option. 5) just do something similar FreeDOS 1.1. Make a backup of old MBR, then just blast new MBR. > On Feb 20, 2016, at 7:02 PM, Maarten Vermeulen wrote: > > > Those 3&4 , prompting we can translate. That’s bo problem because it’s > writing.

[Freedos-devel] A note on Preview 13

Floppy image, installer only. Requires a repo CD. Two USB images available. Slim, at present 32mb image. Contains BASE and ALL only. Next, I'm going to work on what is actually in those sets. USB, a 500mb image. Also contains additional packages. Only a couple at present. But, intend it to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI, updated

Ah, sorry. Didn't realize it was in there. Will do. Sent from my iPhone, ignore bad sentence structures, grammatical errors and incorrect spell-corrected words. > On Jan 26, 2016, at 3:53 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > I'd like to make a minor suggestion here. > > When

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