Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

Yeah, I don't think anyone in the FreeDOS project has ever aimed for it to be a replacement to Windows/Mac/Linux. That's like comparing a wheelbarrow to an SUV. FreeDOS is a niche OS for a niche market, but it's a very good one at that. Corbin On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:36

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Hi, On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:47 PM, wrote: > > BTW, I fear that VirtualBox does not have guest additions, AFAIK, you're correct, it does not support DOS. The FD wiki suggests to use FTPSRV instead: http://freedos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox_-_Chapter_6

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Dennis, we've already had this pointless conversation several times over. I'm not sure why you keep rehashing it. On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:06 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > The number of people who still

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Original message from Corbin Davenport, 2016-06-21 00:38: > Oh wow, that's some memories. I remember firing up Virtual PC for Mac on my > old > iMac G4 to run some Windows software. The DOS additions were great for running > DOS games too. Yes, I also use(d) Virtual PC on the Mac. The Windows

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Oh wow, that's some memories. I remember firing up Virtual PC for Mac on my old iMac G4 to run some Windows software. The DOS additions were great for running DOS games too. Corbin On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 6:33 PM, wrote: > I just want to point out,

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I just want to point out, that the DOS Additions for Virtual PC 2004 SP1 can be downloaded free of charge: http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=3243 This will let you download "https://download.microsoft.com/download/2/5/3/253e22d9-b8a4-4219-9596-ee30c83699bf/Virtual PC

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> I believe CTMOUSE does have support for a wheel and maybe some extra > buttons, but of course there are no apps in DOS which would use > them. CTMOUSE does indeed support a (single) wheel, and there are a few programs that can use it. >> 5. Is there a DOS driver for USB joysticks? I know that

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> On Jun 20, 2016, at 3:04 PM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > Why? > Every emulator or VM I know about will quickly install any operating > system from a virtual CD-ROM. So if you just assign the FreeDOS-ISO as > the virtual ATAPI-CDROM you will very easily install it to the virtual >

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Why? Every emulator or VM I know about will quickly install any operating system from a virtual CD-ROM. So if you just assign the FreeDOS-ISO as the virtual ATAPI-CDROM you will very easily install it to the virtual Hard Disk Drive, which will be either .VHD, .VHDX (Virtual PC and Hyper-V),

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>> Jim Hall wrote: >> >>> I'm building the new website. I'll update the notice to encourage new >> >>> users to install FreeDOS in a virtual machine. >> Tom Ehlert wrote: >> >> any reason why we don't provide ready to run virtual machines as .VHD >> >> images? >> [..] > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at

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Original message from Eric Auer, 2016-06-20 19:47: > Hi Herr or Frau Beitrag! > >> I wonder if it was possible to include the guest integration drivers for >> Virtual PC, VirtualBox, QEMU (are there any?), Hyper-V in a provided VHD > Eduardo Casino has written VMSMOUNT in 2011 :-) It lets you >

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That would be awesome! It seems that this would be an alternative to vDOS? https://www.vdos.info/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/ On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > Jim Hall wrote: > >>> I'm building the new website. I'll update the notice to

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Jim Hall wrote: >>> I'm building the new website. I'll update the notice to encourage new >>> users to install FreeDOS in a virtual machine. Tom Ehlert wrote: >> any reason why we don't provide ready to run virtual machines as .VHD >> images? Jim Hall wrote: >> Hmm... I don't know why we

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Hi, On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> I wonder if it was possible to include the guest integration drivers for >> Virtual PC, VirtualBox, QEMU (are there any?), Hyper-V in a provided VHD > > Eduardo Casino has written VMSMOUNT in 2011 :-) It lets you >

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Hi Herr or Frau Beitrag! > I wonder if it was possible to include the guest integration drivers for > Virtual PC, VirtualBox, QEMU (are there any?), Hyper-V in a provided VHD Eduardo Casino has written VMSMOUNT in 2011 :-) It lets you mount VMWare shared directories as a FreeDOS drive letter

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original message from Tom Ehlert, 2016-06-20 17:42: > .VHD is a fairly generic virtual *disk* format, and most virtual > machines providers should be able to read them. > > a tiny bit more specialized are the virtual machine configuration > files, but we should be able to provide multiple formats,

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>> I'm building the new website. I'll update the notice to encourage new >> users to install FreeDOS in a virtual machine. > > any reason why we don't provide ready to run virtual machines as .VHD > images? > > Tom > Hmm... I don't know why we haven't. I don't know anything about VHD >

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On Monday, June 20, 2016, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > > I'm building the new website. I'll update the notice to encourage new > > users to install FreeDOS in a virtual machine. > > any reason why we don't provide ready to run virtual machines as .VHD > images? > > Tom > > Hmm...

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

There are by its very nature limitations to FreeDOS. Even I (one who imagines a parallel universe where DOS still matters) have been forced to reexamine why I should "care" about this system at all and why I continue to store floppy disks all over our apartment ; ^0 It is (as Eric said "a

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> I'm building the new website. I'll update the notice to encourage new > users to install FreeDOS in a virtual machine. any reason why we don't provide ready to run virtual machines as .VHD images? Tom -- What

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On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > In case it hasn't already been made obvious, this is a warning for > inexperienced users who (surprise!) would rather NOT wipe out their existing > OS and data if all they want to do is play around and experiment with DOS. >