On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Adam Norton wrote:
> Windows 3x Issues
>
> I was reading the Undocumented Dos book and according to it Win 3.x goes
> to extraordinary lengths to insure that the operating system it is
> running on os MSDos and not one of the alternatives.
> Plus it replaces parts
> I was reading the Undocumented Dos book and according to it Win 3.x goes
> to extraordinary lengths to insure that the operating system it is
> running on os MSDos and not one of the alternatives.
Yes, but note that the described "AARD" code is not really used in any
retail release (UDOS 2nd E
Thank you
I did a mistake in my previous message: the problem exists not only in
the before-installation, but in the after-instalaltion as well - no
way to find a way) I suppose in the before-install the boot file must
not be created - as for the unique OS at the moment. But in the after-
one it sh
> I was thinking of calling the GUI Janus after the code name for windows
> 3.11. Which I think should be ok legalwise. Thoughts?
hmm you could name it after the Roman god Janus, thinking
of looking back to DOS and forward to a GUI?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus
In Roman mythology
Windows 3x Issues
I was reading the Undocumented Dos book and according to it Win 3.x goes
to extraordinary lengths to insure that the operating system it is
running on os MSDos and not one of the alternatives.
Plus it replaces parts of DOS while running. (Either for underhanded as
the book hin
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:45 AM, teo gum wrote:
> I'm not an experienced user...
> The problem is that I can't install FreeDos to boot it separately from
> WinXP and DOS.7.1: it doesn't create fdboot file (at the moment I
> can't remember the proper name of it, and not at home now to see it)
> on
I'm not an experienced user...
The problem is that I can't install FreeDos to boot it separately from
WinXP and DOS.7.1: it doesn't create fdboot file (at the moment I
can't remember the proper name of it, and not at home now to see it)
on the disk C: - while installing before DOS71 and WinXP. I do
>> Simple: If you only use WIN /S then you can use the
>> stable 2036 or stable 2038 kernel. The latter is on
>> http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ as binary snapshot.
>>
>> There are a few pending improvements before 2038 can
>> be put on "sourceforge file releases"... The sources
>> already are on s
