Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo

2024-05-18 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
4 KiB < 16 GB 16 8 KiB < 32 GB 3216 KiB < 2 TB 6432 KiB Source: https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/fs/fat/fat-1.html Confirmation: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Default-cluster-size-for-FAT-compatible-OS_tbl1_261851917 -- Li

Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo

2024-05-16 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
clusters was invented (in Compaq DOS 3.31) disks in the gigabyte range were unimaginable. DOS 3.2 only allowed a max of 64MB of hard disk, in one primary and one logical partition of max 32MB each. DOS 3.1 only allowed one partition per hard disk at all (AFAICR!). -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https:/

Re: [Freedos-devel] Where is the source code?

2024-05-09 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
25.0.3 right now: « For developers FreeDOS includes lots of programming tools so you can create your own DOS programs. You can also modify FreeDOS itself, because we include the source code under an open source license. _Developers_ » -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: l

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOS 4.0 source released as open source under MIT license

2024-05-02 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
nstead, as that's now FOSS as well? https://github.com/sudleyplace/386MAX -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Te

Re: [Freedos-devel] comcom32 shell

2024-02-24 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
lazy of them, and totally unhelpful. What is it, what does it do, how does it different from other DOS command interpreters? In a word, why should anyone care? Not a troll. I don't know, and I have dosemu2 and have therefore used it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro.

[Freedos-devel] Bochs modified to run SoftICE dual screen

2024-01-31 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
This could be useful to several here, I think. https://and0uille.net/misc/debug90.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884

Re: [Freedos-devel] Simplified Chinese Edlin?

2023-11-19 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
https://youtu.be/7RNbIEJvjUA?si=V4u759Dq_EPC4OGk=1507 -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]:

Re: [Freedos-devel] VME broken on Ryzen CPU, autodetection useful?

2023-11-19 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
£5. > Another guy tried porting Project Oberon (compiler and OS) to Ultibo : > > * https://github.com/MGreim/ultiboberon I looked at that. Sadly not a port, but a port of an emulator. Oberon used to support StrongARM so a native port would be much more desirable IMHO. -- Liam Proven

Re: [Freedos-devel] Calculator for DOS with GUI

2023-10-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
S version of FreeBASIC: https://documentation.help/FreeBASIC/FaqDOS.html The system requirements specifically mention FreeDOS: https://documentation.help/FreeBASIC/CompilerRequirements.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.co

Re: [Freedos-devel] Calculator for DOS with GUI

2023-10-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
al, not as just another > program to be used. Right, good, so, if possible, please port it to a FOSS version of BASIC, which would mean the app and the tooling could be distributed alongside and as part of FreeDOS. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.u

Re: [Freedos-devel] Calculator for DOS with GUI

2023-10-09 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
ly are alive and well as FOSS. I saw a new benchmark a week ago where one of the single fastest compiled programs on test was from FBC, and it was several orders of magnitude faster than Python even using extensions such as NumPy to offload the hard stuff. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liam

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2310 - no free space on CD

2023-10-05 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
y I would also rate xNix editors like Vim and Emacs as strictly programmers' tools.) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Cz

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-11 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
Turbo Pascal, Virtual Pascal and more, but no article on Pascal-P, none on the ISO standards or anything. I think step 1 is a clear family tree laying out the differences and where they forked off one another. Step 2 is clearly identifying which are active, maintained and used today. -- Liam Prove

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-11 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 19:14, Harald Arnesen via Freedos-devel wrote: > Liam Proven via Freedos-devel [10/08/2023 19.09]: > > Pascal -> Modula -> Modula-2 -> Oberon Various companies did their own > > derivatives and follow-ons, such as Modula-3, but those above are th

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting FreeDOS kernel without a 386

2023-08-11 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
er 1GB. For a 240MB drive, reformat it as FAT16. It'll be easier. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
gt; Modula-2 -> Oberon Various companies did their own derivatives and follow-ons, such as Modula-3, but those above are the Wirthian languages, and only them. So I don't know what "Pascal 4" or "Pascal 5" could be, and "P4" and "P5" aren't standard

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
t need another. 3. It also had an edge over other DOS menu launchers: it did task-switching, too. That was quite a big win but I was *NOT* at any point arguing that FreeDOS needed that. I merely offered it as one reason that, 30 years ago, I configured DOSshell on my customers' machines. -- Liam Proven ~

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
Getting reluctant to contribute here, because I think we are discussing and aiming at different things. On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 at 01:24, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel wrote: > On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:45 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > It's not a 286 hardware feature, no.

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-07 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
XFDOS desktop: > > * https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/ I don't think I knew about it at all, I confess, but I do not see the relevance here. Sorry but it seems like it's off at a tangent. You are responding to my mail, quoting me, but the responses are either off at tangents and

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-28 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
SShell files and copy them into my PC DOS 7 VM. I have both PC DOS 7.01 and PC DOS 7.1 VM images available for download from my blog, but Jim does not like me posting the links here, and it's his list... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gT

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-28 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
nd just IMHO, that it would be a worthy addition. Just IMHO I think not having a replacement for DOSshell is a significant omission. That's all. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
erent directory than the one FDIMPLES puts it in. ISTM that all the other graphical shells in FreeDOS are even less useful than GEM, and it would be no loss to remove them... but adding GEOS would be a win. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 02:52, Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel wrote: > > My main interest is using Freedos+HX as a substitute for Windows 95. AFAICS you never explain. What is "HX"? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMai

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-21 Thread Liam Proven
BTW, it's taken me ages to find this -- Google really is rubbish these days -- but I thought that this link might help to set modern computer speeds in context. "Latency numbers every programmer should know -- humanized" https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375 -- Liam Proven

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-21 Thread Liam Proven
lines), instruction decomposition to micro-ops, out of order execution, branch prediction, speculative execution, and more. Saying that a Core i7 with the caches all disabled is no quicker than a 386 is as absurd as saying "well a Ferrari is no quicker than a Model T Ford, and that had a 2.9 litre e

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-13 Thread Liam Proven
PU designs, the significance of microinstruction decomposition and out-of-order execution, perhaps with reference to VLIW and a couple of examples with some discussion of their differences, and maybe demonstrating knowledge of the R area by bringing in the Mill processor, then I'd think there was some

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-13 Thread Liam Proven
e terminology in order to > be understood and make progress. [...] > You can't refer to DOSBox or other things like it as virtual machines and > expect to be understood. That's the bottom line. Just FWIW, I agree with this assessment. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven E

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-09 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 03:45, Michael Brutman wrote: > > DOSBox and DOS emulators are not virtual machines. Nobody uses the > terminology that way. Just for what it's worth: I agree with you. :-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-08 Thread Liam Proven
> Again, while interesting, none of those are what I'm talking about. I know they aren't. I specifically chose them to illustrate how your attempted explanation was amenable to misinterpretation. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB:

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-06 Thread Liam Proven
ux kernel as a user space process under the Linux kernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 793

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-04 Thread Liam Proven
hange answer (from 11 years ago) seems relevant: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1163846/what-is-a-reentrant-kernel Note this comment: « This is pretty much standard for today's desktop operating systems. » -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gM

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

2023-02-26 Thread Liam Proven
are 3.12, sitting hidden in my > storage, something like this would be a great "companion" to FreeDOS... :-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Li

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

2023-02-23 Thread Liam Proven
hen I worked for Micro Focus, I failed to obtain a staff licence key for it. >_< -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram

Re: [Freedos-devel] Proposal: remove Graphical Desktops from next FreeDOS

2023-02-22 Thread Liam Proven
quot;Keep OpenGEM but drop oZone and SEAL" Sounds good. But please _fix_ OpenGEM. Either configure it to run from the subdirectory FDIMPLES puts it in, or tweak its batch file to SWSUBST it to a drive letter of its own. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@c

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS File Sharing- was: UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware - was: Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-31 Thread Liam Proven
On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 12:25, tom ehlert wrote: > > I haven't tested this, but there seems to exist "VBSF.EXE -- a client > for Shared Folders. Oh, nice! Thank you. I will investigate when time allows. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS File Sharing- was: UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware - was: Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-31 Thread Liam Proven
e relevant services. This is why I came up with the VM's-HDD-on-USB trick. So long as you're careful not to mount the VMs' drive while the VM is running, it works a treat. If you do mount it, it will corrupt the filesystem, so it's not ideal, though. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamprove

Re: [Freedos-devel] Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-30 Thread Liam Proven
g-before-there-was-os-2/ You can run it in an emulator: https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/dos/microsoft/4.0M/ This later morphed into CP-DOS: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/before-os2-was-os2/ Which became "Football": https://www.os2museum.com/wp/playing-football/ -- Liam Proven ~ Prof

Re: [Freedos-devel] UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware - was: Goo gle Summer of Code?

2023-01-30 Thread Liam Proven
st mount a shared folder on the host PC, as DOSemu or DOSbox do. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Sig

Re: [Freedos-devel] Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-29 Thread Liam Proven
t; depends on the game. That use case is already covered and so is irrelevant to this discussion, which I remind you is about how to boot DOS on a UEFI computer. You seem to have forgotten this. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@

Re: [Freedos-devel] UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware - was: Goo gle Summer of Code?

2023-01-29 Thread Liam Proven
ccess to parallel-port devices * Access to ISA devices * Emergency diagnostics booted from removable media > And it's probably getting better over time. Not for any of these reasons I've given it isn't, no. In fact it's getting worse as the host OS requirements increase. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-27 Thread Liam Proven
a single V86 session 4. boot FreeDOS into that Then FreeDOS loads some kind of shim that talks to the memory manager that is already resident. The DOS sessions in Windows NT and OS/2 ≥2 both do this already. It is, or was, a thing. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS / Jim on TheRegister

2023-01-27 Thread Liam Proven
y thing. Since we spoke, I've moved house and country. I hope there will be more time here for my hobby side project with FreeDOS... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (

Re: [Freedos-devel] Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-22 Thread Liam Proven
tps://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ Wh

Re: [Freedos-devel] Native SAS (SCSI) and SATA drivers?

2023-01-22 Thread Liam Proven
ring too. > while maintaining the BIOS/DOS environment. BIOSes are a problem but not in the way you seem to think. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bonus/Devel CD

2022-11-01 Thread Liam Proven
rtualPC, converted it to VBox format, and blogged about it. It's here: https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/76183.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bonus/Devel CD

2022-10-28 Thread Liam Proven
ecifically, PC DOS 2000, which means PC DOS 7.01 with Y2K fixes. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bonus/Devel CD

2022-10-28 Thread Liam Proven
ls of NIC. This makes the detection logic much simpler. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 70

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bonus/Devel CD

2022-10-28 Thread Liam Proven
erm, but I am only an occasional participant here at best. > I would say games are low priority (but still vaguely important) and > thus harder to get working. My main interest is in getting old utils > and compilers to run. Graphics (and especially sound) are a whole > other ball of wax.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Toy CPU simulator

2022-07-06 Thread Liam Proven
e. It's an interesting device all right. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signa

Re: [Freedos-devel] Toy CPU simulator

2022-07-06 Thread Liam Proven
www.hackster.io/news/digirule-2-ruler-and-binary-computer-in-one-68b269af283f ... so now I guess you'd have to build your own. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+

Re: [Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?

2022-05-04 Thread Liam Proven
n full of horrid ugly graphics, animations and other time-wasting junk. I would need to check tens to hundreds of websites to see if anyone commented, instead of it all coming to 1 email inbox I can access from anywhere. Email beats all of them. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to work with FAT12 in FreeDOS 1.3

2022-04-23 Thread Liam Proven
the maximum size _for FAT16_ was 32MB. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420)

Re: [Freedos-devel] >512MB C:\ for USB BOOT install maybe?

2022-04-20 Thread Liam Proven
plug the key into a Linux box and use GParted to resize C to as big as you want. With FAT16, 512MB minus 1kB is the most efficient size. At 1024MB (1GB) or 2GB you get very big clusters and a lot of space wastage. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMa

Re: [Freedos-devel] Contemplations, Considerations and some Conclusions

2022-01-17 Thread Liam Proven
s on Linux years ago: https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/50416.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-0878

Re: [Freedos-devel] Contemplations, Considerations and some Conclusions

2022-01-17 Thread Liam Proven
both "small" and "fast" are good priorities, and Ventoy may be easier for many people. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: ACPI auto power ON

2022-01-14 Thread Liam Proven
be doable without a program specifically tailored to that motherboard. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420

Re: [Freedos-devel] Pushing source code to Github

2022-01-10 Thread Liam Proven
the repos for openSUSE and Ubuntu and can easily be installed on other distros. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 70

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir /od

2022-01-03 Thread Liam Proven
i.e. Linux. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

2021-12-01 Thread Liam Proven
isor on Windows -- used to bundle PC DOS 2000 for free as its sample VM. So I suspect that a bunch of new users first encountered it that way. I run it PC DOS some of my Thinkpads, simply because it feels artistically _right_ somehow to run an IBM OS on what was originally IBM-designed hardware. :-)

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

2021-12-01 Thread Liam Proven
appeared first in PC DOS 5.02, and then MS-DOS 6. That I did not know! Fascinating. A little-regarded but very useful tool, Interlink. I think I wrote somewhere that it still works with NT, if you just run one end in a DOS command prompt (can't find it now, though.) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: htt

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

2021-11-30 Thread Liam Proven
t and has LBA+ disk support (that is, EIDE >8GB) and FAT32. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_DOS#PC_DOS_6.3 The former IBM project lead for 7.x has his own site with a lot of info: https://sites.google.com/site/pcdosretro/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Em

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

2021-11-30 Thread Liam Proven
still on active sale. If a related product is still on sale, then I myself do not consider that "abandoned". I merely offered a freeware (no, not FOSS) alternative. Lest anyone accuse me of spamming: this isn't mine; I make nothing from it; I do not work for IBM or any part of it. I'm ju

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

2021-11-30 Thread Liam Proven
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 09:24, Mark Olesen wrote: > > I bought an MS-DOS 7.1 disk on ebay IBM PC DOS 7.1 is a free download from IBM. It is part of the Server Guide Scripting Toolkit. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-serverguide-scripting-toolkit-dos-edition-version-1307 -- Liam

Re: [Freedos-devel] video FreeDOS running Windows 3.1

2021-07-26 Thread Liam Proven
3.1 and 3.11 because they enabled more free RAM for DOS apps. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Sign

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why games have bad color in VirtualBox

2021-06-17 Thread Liam Proven
umption D0=0 for QEMU. VBox has 3 different emulated video adapters, IIRC. Tried them all? But for super-timing-critical stuff, a VM is not the ideal thing. And for games, I'd recommend DOSbox over VirtualBox. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTa

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problems on 1.3rc4 on VirtualBox and QEMU - Paku Paku 160x100 mode

2021-06-14 Thread Liam Proven
u can double or triple the image if you want to avoid scaling artifacts. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Tel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-02 Thread Liam Proven
t > the latest version is always on the bottom. Such a filename is not DOS-compatible. Subdirectories are. Could you please bottom-post on mailing lists? Top-posting as you are doing breaks threading. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTa

[Freedos-devel] Live CD

2021-03-03 Thread Liam Proven
, either for FreeDOS 1.2 or the forthcoming version, if it would help. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS as a unikernel?

2021-03-02 Thread Liam Proven
osemu2.github.io/dosemu2/ Most DOSes run under it, and the Ubuntu version comes bundled with FreeDOS. It is in essence a FOSS version of Locus DOS/Merge, which I was using in the late 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_(software) -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven

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

2011-02-12 Thread Liam Proven
major PC OS I've found that /doesn't/ work is OS/2. However, this does work under VMware Player, which is freeware but proprietary. -- Liam Proven • Info profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498

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

2011-02-12 Thread Liam Proven
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:56 PM, François Revol re...@free.fr wrote: Le 12 févr. 2011 à 13:39, Liam Proven a écrit : The only major PC OS I've found that /doesn't/ work is OS/2. However, this does work under VMware Player, which is freeware but proprietary. You can always sent patches

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

2010-07-21 Thread Liam Proven
to be technical have no reason to refer to the owner's faith. Keep it to yourself, just the same as you'd keep your preferences in food or sex to yourself. It's irrelevant and frankly rather crass. -- Liam Proven • Profile links: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk

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

2010-05-14 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Robert Riebisch r...@bttr-software.de wrote: Liam Proven wrote: ... Player works but can't create VMs. That's wrong. Since version 3.x VMware Player allows to create new VMs. Really? Wow! That's remarkable. I thought that was its primary limitation. Thanks

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

2010-05-13 Thread Liam Proven
. And can only use 1 CPU core. Big limitation, that. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven

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

2010-05-13 Thread Liam Proven
work and do what you want. Both are free. They will cost you nothing to try. Stop asking questions, *read the answers* and *go try these products*. Make your *own* decisions about what you like, don't believe in all the hearsay and reports on the web. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http

Re: [Freedos-devel] Realtek cards and DOS

2010-04-27 Thread Liam Proven
manually add one, click have disk and browse to the folder with the .INF file in it. That's about it. You may have to manually assign resources, but that's all. (This is from nearly 20Y old memories, so I can't 100% swear to it, but that's the outline.) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http

Re: [Freedos-devel] (no subject)

2010-04-07 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Antony Gordon toneb...@hotmail.com wrote: http://membres.multimania.fr/eaoyjpa/ Spam from a spammer. Members, don't click it; moderators, ban him! -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut

Re: [Freedos-devel] Comments suggestions

2010-02-24 Thread Liam Proven
well, even though it contains lots lots of programs. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven

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

2010-02-23 Thread Liam Proven
batch-file menus to navigate through these, for instance for systems with no mouse or no graphics or Braille display users, etc. Again, happy to help implement them; I did such things routinely in the 1980s on my production systems. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 post-install experience, pt 1: mystery commands

2010-02-23 Thread Liam Proven
no idea what it does. I am not happy to have unknown programs of unknown purpose that are not mentioned in the help in my default configuration files. I removed them. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 setup program

2010-02-23 Thread Liam Proven
conflicting components by default. [4] If there is no detected network config, then skip networking stages [5] If there is a detected network, then save the DHCP into into a RAMdisk or something, because it is /way/ too slow to reacquire an address dozens of times -- Liam Proven • Profile: http

[Freedos-devel] Comments suggestions

2010-02-22 Thread Liam Proven
with the setup/install procedure in the CD ISO for FD1.0... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven

Re: [Freedos-devel] Comments suggestions

2010-02-22 Thread Liam Proven
now, though, it's 2AM GMT, so it will be tomorrow before I write, I think. :¬) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat