2012/3/11, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl:
Please let us know if/when you're able to pinpoint a culprit.
You might want to start with a MSDOS/Win9x bootdisk (www.bootdisk.com)
to eliminate FreeDOS components as the culprit, and to have a proven
reference platform.
With a help of Ed (DXForth
In the recent threads there have been many mentions to the fact that
FreeDOS is only 16bit (of course, that is what it is meant to be)
and that it is out of touch with the modern computing world.
I was wondering what would it take to upgrade FreeDOS to 32bit,
whether it would be worth and whether
2012/4/6, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de:
The most comprehensive GUIs are probably Windows (3.0, 3.1 or
Windows for Workgroups 3.11, all non-free, 3.x standard mode
works okay, WfW and 386enh mode can be hard, too much RAM as
well) and GEM. There is a free GEM distro by Shane, see also:
There
At 02:06 AM 4/7/2012, Zbigniew wrote:
2012/3/11, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl:
Please let us know if/when you're able to pinpoint a culprit.
You might want to start with a MSDOS/Win9x bootdisk (www.bootdisk.com)
to eliminate FreeDOS components as the culprit, and to have a proven
At 03:15 AM 4/7/2012, Alex wrote:
In the recent threads there have been many mentions to the fact that
FreeDOS is only 16bit (of course, that is what it is meant to be)
and that it is out of touch with the modern computing world.
You do realize that it is kind of 'out of touch with the modern
At 04:19 AM 4/7/2012, Zbigniew wrote:
I was wondering what would it take to upgrade FreeDOS to 32bit,
whether it would be worth and whether we would have the human
resources.
32bit user programs tend to be available already in the form of
protected mode software, using one of the
El 07/04/2012 01:02 p.m., Ralf A. Quint escribió:
At 03:15 AM 4/7/2012, Alex wrote:
In the recent threads there have been many mentions to the fact that
FreeDOS is only 16bit (of course, that is what it is meant to be)
and that it is out of touch with the modern computing world.
Check
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote:
Check Kolibri OS, is very nice 32 bits, simple,
ligth, GUI, boot from floppy...
The sole thing is missing there is a DOS
emulator so we can run our beloved DOS
apps.
Kolibri OS has a DOS emulator: Dosbox.
At 11:39 AM 4/7/2012, Marco Achury wrote:
Check Kolibri OS, is very nice 32 bits, simple,
ligth, GUI, boot from floppy...
The sole thing is missing there is a DOS
emulator so we can run our beloved DOS
apps.
So what CAN you run on that, beside playing Minesweeper?
Ralf
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
At 11:39 AM 4/7/2012, Marco Achury wrote:
Check Kolibri OS, is very nice 32 bits, simple,
ligth, GUI, boot from floppy...
The sole thing is missing there is a DOS
emulator so we can run our beloved DOS
apps.
So what CAN
For hard-core application programming where you need to use a few BIOS
and DOS interrupts I like to use C and C++ (carefully). C gives you a
tremendous amount of control and flexibility.
My two favorite compilers are:
Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS: I did most of my early mTCP work. It
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