[Freedos-user] How to do networking from Win7 to FreeDOS and other stuff

2012-09-15 Thread Ulrich Hansen
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[Freedos-user] Problem running a DOS game requiring EMS inside of VirtualBox

2012-09-15 Thread Louis Santillan
Hi all, I'm having trouble running an old favorite DOS game that requires EMS inside of VirtualBox (Sierra Front Page Sports Football Pro 95). The game requires 576K Conventional RAM, and 2MB EMS. I've configured VirtualBox to have 1GB and installed FPS FB Pro 95 to a 32GB FAT32 drive with

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem running a DOS game requiring EMS inside of VirtualBox

2012-09-15 Thread Mateusz Viste
1GB sounds really big. I remember some games had troubles detecting memory above a certain amount, due to some kind of overflowing in their mem counters. I'd suggest trying to set a more classic amount of ram on your vbox machine... Like 64MB or so. Mateusz / Mobile mail / Louis Santillan

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem running a DOS game requiring EMS inside of VirtualBox

2012-09-15 Thread Louis Santillan
I tried 64MB 32MB. The game still sees 0K EMS. Mem/c also reports 0K available via Int 15h which seems odd. -L On Saturday, September 15, 2012, Mateusz Viste wrote: 1GB sounds really big. I remember some games had troubles detecting memory above a certain amount, due to some kind of

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem running a DOS game requiring EMS inside of VirtualBox

2012-09-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Louis Santillan lpsan...@gmail.com wrote: I tried 64MB 32MB. The game still sees 0K EMS. Mem/c also reports 0K available via Int 15h which seems odd. Ignore MEM, it often reports wrong numbers on things other than conventional memory. Dunno exactly

[Freedos-user] fdconfig.sys syntax

2012-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
When I found http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/fdconfig.htm I expected some way to discover its syntax, but the syntax link directs to look up individual commands. This seems a poor way do discover what I see in the initial fdconfig.sys file created by the FreeDOS installer, which is

Re: [Freedos-user] fdconfig.sys syntax

2012-09-15 Thread C. Masloch
This seems a poor way do discover what I see in the initial fdconfig.sys file created by the FreeDOS installer, which is very broken and useless I think the FreeDOS 1.0 installer wrote a menu for these choices, which was more useful. If the new installer left you with no menu display by