I loved Ronald Blankendaal's Access for a free-dos only laptop (Toshiba
Satellite 430cds, 16mb RAM, sdcard via IDE adapter) - but I was using v 5.02.
Was brilliant for my young kids who could arrange their own menus for favourite
dos games. Can be text-only, but I preferred to use icons. Didn't
;Plug-In" brought me.
Available on vetusware I understand - but I have kept my original copies and
registration codes etc... how sad is that?
:)
Andrew Robins
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022, at 12:02 AM, Martin Iturbide wrote:
> Hello
>
> I was wondering if you know some links, articl
Dear Karen,
there have been many instances in the past where able-bodied and
differently-enabled experts have worked together in the FreeDOS threads for a
common good. I am distressed to have witnessed the escalating discord between
two of such proponents. I too have experienced "acquired
Hey Felix and co,
can I suggest an avenue such as a boot manager like Plop
https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html to get around booting into FreeDOS
from USB?
I haven't tried it this way myself, but I have used Plop in the past to boot
into Puppy Linux using native USB 1.0 in an old
Sorry - lurking, but my 2c briefly:
there's a lot to be said for the self-satisfying, validating feeling of
actually physically handcrafting your thoughts for contribution to the broader
society as a whole. Whether those efforts actually makes an impact on that
society... well, does that really
I recall seeing with delight the rural mobile blood donation units here in
Queensland, Australia, using DOS exclusively on old laptops to integrate their
data entry with their servers. The phlebotomists (nurses) I spoke with up until
about 2015 swore by the reliability, security and usability
*EDIT: USB2.0 ports via PCMCIA adapter, I mean.
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Andrew Robins wrote:
> You might like to consider using Elmar Hanlhofer's "Plop" boot manager
> https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html to assist with booting from your
> native US
You might like to consider using Elmar Hanlhofer's "Plop" boot manager
https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html to assist with booting from your
native USB1.x port. It helps with working around early BIOS versions that did
not permit /enable booting from USB as an option. (Have you checked you
Ah - I still have my MagnaRAM diskette around somewhere - (also had RAMgate) -
loved that on my AU$400, second-hand 486DX running Win3.1, circa 1995. With
PlannetCrafters enhanced GUI software (last seen on Vetusware, IIRC), I felt
that my setup was so smooth I had no need to upgrade to Win98
I haven't resurrected my FreeDOS projects for a while, but some time ago
(years?!) I posted about my intent to work on a "FreeDOS 4 Kids" project,
recycling old, Pentium-era laptops.
I think I discussed the functionality of Ronald Blankendaal's (re DBGL) most
excellent dos GUI "Access" for
Robert I am talking out of school here, on so many levels...
Have you ever heard of EVE (Embedded Vector Editor) from Barry Kauler?
https://bkhome.org/archive/goosee/
Barry hasn't supported his gem since at least 2006, when he left the Windows
environment to work almost exclusively on his next
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 8:21 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> > Mind - although I still have both 430CDS' in storage for uncompleted
> > project updates, I had to wave the white flag on productively using Puppy
> > for kids use, on those particular specs. What worked best in it
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 3:30 AM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:52 PM wrote:
> >
> >... Puppy Linux is designed for older, less powerful hardware. (A poster
> on the Puppy forums described creating a dedicated media server based
> on Puppy that ran on an ancient Toshiba laptop
Thanks FreeDOS community for such a heartening, community-minded response to
Felix's situation. It's amazing, well done team and I hope that one or multiple
satisfactory solutions can be worked out for sight-impaired users. Imagine if
the Aladdin's Cave of archived IF (interactive fiction)
into surfing.
Cheers
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013, at 04:47 PM, dmccunney wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm
wrote:
Egads - you are very right to remind me there Dennis and Rugxulo -
defragging is a bit of a reflex habit from my time as a disgruntled MS
user, I
Egads - you are very right to remind me there Dennis and Rugxulo -
defragging is a bit of a reflex habit from my time as a disgruntled MS
user, I never consider it in my (user-level) Puppy Linux. I'll give
DOSFSCK a run, as I still query the format process on the SD-card.
Thanks too for the Chess
Firstly - many thanks to all those offering help in this thread. It has
digressed somewhat from the OP but I hope the suggested tips will help
other 'newbs', I will certainly revisit here to refresh my memory (no
pun intended), follow links when I have more time etc. Thanks Robert
Riebisch for
Hi Rugxulo,
many thanks for your detailed reply. As it turns out, I have been
plugging along sporadically with the SD-card FreeDOS OS integrating with
USB flash drive (games repository). I've slowly been weeding out various
games that I've downloaded holus-bolus from various abandonware sites,
I'm stumped I'm afraid - how do include the requisite instructions in
fdconfig.sys (and? autoexec.bat) to have USBUHCI and USBDRIVE resident
and functional in a fresh Freedos 1.1 install?
I'm in the process of constructing small DOS games environment on a 2Gb
sd-card drive (IDE adapter). The
PS. Begging pardon - the zip file I mentioned earlier was USB19.zip
from Jack Ellis and, I see from Bret Johnson's USB support forum, a
colourful debate there on UIDE/USB extensionality I am too dense to
fathom. Also - usbhosts showing 2 OHCI and 1 EHCI (2.0) usb ports,
matching the BIOS. I'm
Thanks cordata2 and Mark - no I've tried repeated reboots while ironing
out the kinks in my re-install, chiefly to get my autoexec.bat working
nicely, and while the BIOS detects the USB flash drive on bootup, no
letter is automatically assigned to it (although I must test the ports
at the rear).
cordata2 - I stand corrected, and absolutely flabbergasted. Pleasantly
surprised indeed - troubles with a dying floppy drive had me flip a
spare usb-floppy over to the test rig, and on reboot I tried B: and
bang - there was my usb-floppy! (Not asking me to swap the floppy in
the infernal A drive,
Aha - thanks Dennis for the rescue (on yet another OS thread) - I must
have included an extra space after my semi-colon in previous
experiments. Cheers and kuDOS
The second PATH statement above will override the first, so Access
will work, but stuff in FDOS\BIN won't. To have more than one
, EagleEye from memory?) to take its place in
that respect... shamefully my kids don't 'dig' ascii games much, I think
due to modern game bling-related imagination deprivation :(
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Tycoon will bite them yet...
Thanks again Rugxulo for the EMS/XMS tips - I have a lot of
experimenting to do - and I haven't started on tinkering with memory
environs for Allegro - I occasionally see allocation errors with it, but
mostly on newer hardware running the Access shell,
BFN
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I think that MSFN has some great support for Win98 - I followed it for
some time a few years back and there are quite a few dedicated
volunteers there who had included USB 2.0 drivers, perfected the various
security updates etc. Plenty of debate there as to the legality of the
unofficial upgrades,
probably outlive the laptops I have in mind
for them - but any surviving components will just be added to the next
candidate to rescue from landfill,
Many Thanks
Andrew Robins
On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 6:39 PM, Jack
gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote:
Andrew,
I anticipate replacing the dying
My primary interest in FreeDOS was both in sustainable computing
and edutainment for primary-shool age children. That is, using
classic, award-winning DOS games freely available from the Web on
ancient laptops (e.g., 48mb max RAM, pre-USB vintage) to provide
a living example of Reduce, Reuse,
:
Op 16-7-2011 5:00, Andrew Robins schreef:
Congratulations, firstly, on getting on SourceForge's Top Projects list
this month. I think the accolade is long-overdue. I've finally signed up
here partly to thank you for your base that I have used on a Toshiba
430CDS Satellite Pro (48MB, P1
Dear Jim Hall and all contributors, FreeDOS users-
Congratulations, firstly, on getting on SourceForge's Top Projects list
this month. I think the accolade is long-overdue. I've finally signed up
here partly to thank you for your base that I have used on a Toshiba
430CDS Satellite Pro (48MB, P1,
To partly answer my own questions earlier:
1) How do I install kernell.?
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27324018
- yup, I tried a straight over-write when the update was released, but
over the last week the filesystem gradually corrupted to a point that
CHKDSK (0.9)
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