Hi everyone! I wanted to remind you that our next FreeDOS virtual
get-together is tomorrow (Sunday) at 11am US/Central for about an
hour. Use your favorite timezone converter to find your local time.
For example:
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We alternate topics every month, and this month the
+1 - Open Watcom 1.9 is stable and safe. I think those factors make it the
default for inclusion in a distribution.
Something actively under development and in between releases sounds like a
bad idea.
On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 5:42 AM wrote:
> Hi Bernd,
>
> > On Mar 17, 2023, at 2:12 PM, Bernd
> ...
> By no means is VINFO perfect. In fact, there is a known issue in
> detecting some 486 based machines that I have not got around to
> fixing. Also, there some other things that could be done better.
> But, they are mostly minor issues that I have not found the time or
> motivation to
Hi Bret,
> On Mar 17, 2023, at 9:41 PM, Bret Johnson wrote:
>
>> Tom's suggestion of using IDLEHALT is most likely the best solution.
>>
>> As you suggest, Using IDLEHALT for VM's and FDAPM for real
>> hardware on installed systems will be easy to do.
>>
>> Since such decisions cannot be made
Hi Bernd,
> On Mar 17, 2023, at 2:12 PM, Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
> IDLEHALT=1 works for my machines and reduces the CPU load under VirtualBox to
> nearly zero at the command prompt.
>
>> Am 17.03.2023 um 15:25 schrieb jer...@shidel.net:
>>
>> On a side note… Why run the
Hallo Herr Bret Johnson,
am Donnerstag, 9. März 2023 um 23:27 schrieben Sie:
> The computer I'm currently using is a few years old, old enough
> that I can boot DOS on the actual hardware. The CPU is an Intel i5-4590
> running at 3.30 GHz.
> I have a DOS program I wrote a long time ago,
Hi all,
sometimes trying to write FD help makes me crazy.
Mode is a typical example. At
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/mode/-/blob/master/DOC/MODE/MODE.TXT
there is a big explanation what the original mode.com from 1995 can do
for me. But the last change was in 2015 - and as it looks like a
