Hi Felix,
> The primary reason is that I want to keep Windows on my hard
> drive and I don't feel confident about using a boot manager.
Disclaimer: The following only works if your Windows C: drive
is NTFS! It does not work with ancient Windows on FAT C: drive.
You could try the following:
Hi Felix,
given that you have a hardware serial port speech synthesizer,
there is a lot more optimism now! By the way, why do you want
to boot from USB? While many PC can boot from USB, the access
speed can be quite low and a few BIOS fail to support writes.
I assume you also have the right
Hello Felix!
Not sure what the license of the ASAP screen reader is?
If I understand you correctly, it sends the text or an
encoded version over a serial port to the host OS, in
your case Windows? What is the license of the text to
speech tool on the Windows size?
Have people tried to do the
Hi Tom,
> now it would be interesting to hear about these 'heavy' updates, that
> happened completely in the dark for FreeDOS developers.
>
> what do they do? fix bugs? improve compatibility? where are they
> documented?
>
> it would be cool to let the freedos kernel developers decide if
G'day Bryan,
>> That would of course be the EASIEST option as long as your PC
>> and your printer both still have Centronics connectivity
>
> The PC does, but the printer doesn't. Hm, I found the following.
> {USB to Parallel Bi-Directional Cable
>
> USB to Parallel Bi-Directional Cable
Hi Jim,
the current Diskman website links to archive.org for some of
the content and "inside" the archived website you can jump to
http://web.archive.org/web/20070206182142/http://www.diskman.co.uk/license.aspx
Which contains the following, as of 2/2007, emphasis added by me:
"- Diskman is
Hi Jim, everybody,
> I get a lot of the emails you described. People email me to ask why
> FreeDOS doesn't run on their Raspberry Pi like Linux does .. or why
> FreeDOS can't take advantage of multiple CPUs and cores like Linux
> does .. or why FreeDOS can't run on their UEFI-only system (no
>
Hi Jim,
interesting that the DISKMAN website just WORKED.
The idea to view it using archive.org came from
Robert, maybe it did not work from his area? Odd.
> I downloaded 4.2.a3 from the author's website
> http://www.diskman.co.uk/ and while there's no Readme
> file, running the program prints
Hi! Recently I have noticed that our ibiblio contains "DM21"
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/disk/dm/
which has only bare binaries inside. So I wondered what it is.
Now Robert, who says I should not thank him, has found the URL
Hi! Thanks for clarifying that the installer always asks (and
hopefully explains) before choices with big consequences :-)
>> Do not tell ME, announce it during the install ;-)
> Based on my interpretation of the design constraints
> required for the installer, that ain’t gonna happen.
Not
Hi Jerome, others,
of course suggestions are just suggestions and depend on
whether you have time to work on them and what others
think :-) Some feedback to you replies...
Given the point "slow boot, slow install, too few apps",
I still think Lite should not be too lite and Live should
have
Hi Jerome, Laaca, others,
Given that I have verbose thoughts about Laaca's review and your
replies to it, I hope you have some time. Thank you for reading.
> Many people run FreeDOS on bare metal...
>
> However, the overwhelming vast majority of users do not do that.
I guess "many" are still
Hi, forwarding a verbose update of the review from Laaca on BTTR :-)
My summary: Better LFN, faster disk I/O, problem of opening many small
files on CD being slow (how about using more CACHE, Jerome? Maybe even
with read-ahead or similar speed tricks?), problem of the Live CD not
having apps
Hi Jim,
>> https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=17794
Of course, fresh replies keep coming in there, too :-)
> 1. Ugly FDISK
> 2. LiveCD is unusable
The Live CD is not useful as "Boot and get tools" CD, but
I am not sure whether that is the goal. However, just "Boot
as if
Hi Ralf,
>> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/previews/1.3-rc3/FD13-LiveCD.zip
>>
>> I don't have any blank CDs so burned the ISO onto a DVD+RW disc
>
> That won't work, not sure how you have burned a CD ISO image onto a DVD
That should actually work
Hi Liam,
there have been TSR to display a clock or other status in DOS,
at a selectable location or by reserving a whole line on screen.
About your suggestion to show which drives exist at boot: The
installer could use VOL, a FOR loop and testing whether or not
a drive exists to display such
Hi Glenn, about booting 1.3rc3 ISO from DVD+RW:
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/previews/1.3-rc3/FD13-LiveCD.zip
> Booted it up on this Intel i5 machine which has a SATA DVD+RW drive
> ERROR: Unable to initialize CD-ROM drive.
> ... Intel DualCore
Hi TK Chia,
> Apparently the review was from Laaca --- the author of Blocek.
Yes, I mean that post. However, I have only quoted part of
the post and not mentioned the name because my impression
was that just publicly shouting how horrible and disgusting
FreeDOS is cannot be the start of a
Hi! Forwarding something from the BTTR forum:
"I tried to use the FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD. Because I found
a Dell Latitude610 notebook. And I am really dispappointed because
it is something really awful. The live system is unusable, the boot
process ends in the minimal configuration
Hi Adam,
while the ability to provide ISA-like DMA for PCI (e.g. sound cards)
or PCIe basically vanished at least 10 years ago, I am less pessimistic
about BIOS services. Can you give specific examples of too stripped
down BIOSes in recent mainboards? Wikipedia sounds more as if it took
until
Hi!
> There are PCEngines ALIX boards (AMD Geode) with VGA out, one
> minipci slot. They are known to run FreeDOS. You probably
> have to install it with PXE because there's no floppy or
> CDROM drive.
According to https://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm they are
end of life and those few with VGA
Hi Tom,
>> ...the board format does not matter much.
>> It's the CPU model/generation that matters.
>
> NOT. AT. ALL.
>
> each Intel/AMD CPU produced the last 20 years is able
> to execute the same way that the previous versions did.
The point is that everything which is remotely
similar to a
Hi Christoph,
> From what I've gathered getting FreeDOS running on "modern" hardware is
> not trivial (if certain features are required/wished for) and the
> general experience running it in a virtual environment might be much
> better. I'll probably first go this (virtual) route and later...
Hi Liam,
> CSM is short for Compatibility Support Module. It is a module that
> enables UEFI firmware to also support "legacy" booting, i.e. BIOS
> compatibility. Windows 7 required this.
>
> UEFI vs BIOS is either-or. A single machine can't have both
There are machines where you can select
Hi!
> I'm looking for ressources regarding game development for FreeDOS.
> I couldn't find anything in the wiki, but maybe I didn't use the
> correct keywords.
For game development, there is no difference between FreeDOS and
other DOS versions. You can either read the classic resources from
> which hardware would you recommend for running FreeDOS?
> Are there any "modern" main boards that provide the neccessary BIOS
> compatibility for running FreeDOS?
> Is there a hardware compatibility list available?
Regarding your hardware question: Obviously, you need a computer
which still
Hi Bryan,
> PCISCAN showed:
> Bus 1
> Dev C
> Func 0
> Slot 2C
> Vend 0006
> Dev. 100E
> Class Name Network
> Subclass Name Ethernet.
In case the vendor is something else, this might be an
Intel 82540EM Gigabit LAN controller. If 0006:100e is
indeed correct, it
Hi Thomas,
> If using a USB keyboard (and USB mouse), there is the problem that
> when starting the USB driver (USBUHCI from Bret Johnsons USButils
> collection), the Keyboard stops working. So you can’t start the
> keyboard driver next, which seems should done to get somewhere.
The trick would
Hi Bryan,
I believe you have to install DOS USB drivers first. And actually
it could work better to use the NETWORK for printing, because DOS
(wired LAN) network drivers are more evolved than DOS USB drivers
and you can use DOS versions of NETCAT or other tools to copy the
contents you want to
Hi Thomas,
> A dual boot Windows+FreeDos would be absolutely my preferred system...
Can your Windows version resize itself? Can it create a FAT partition
for DOS in some other way? Then I think you should do that, maybe
already copy the contents of the DOS install disk there and boot
the DOS
Hi Thomas,
indeed A: and B: are reserved for floppy drives. The rest
is for partitions found at boot and after that, drives
accessed by drivers can be added. So if you do not see
the USB stick after booting from harddisk, it probably
just means that the USB driver does not work. As said,
it can
Hello Jerome,
> Without functioning support for the the CD/DVD drive, the CD should
> still boot. That is not handled by a CD/DVD driver in FreeDOS.
This gives you at least two possibilities:
1. Use the ELTORITO driver for BIOS-assisted access to the CD/DVD
drive. It only works after booting
Hi!
> I never managed to install Freedos on a harddisk via the “live CD 1.3” or 1.2
> version (image).
There are two problems: 1. where the installer expects the packages
in terms of drive letters and 2. whether you can partition the disk
to create a primary LBA FAT partition, format it and
Hello Marcolino,
> Apologize me for not being very specific, but i was going to ask about
> sound drivers. My main idea is to use it for retrogaming, altough i'd
> like to know if i could use an Image Viewer or even a Media Player.
> Maybe even a eReader.
You could probably use a media player
Hi Marcolino,
> I've restored an HP 2133 Mini-Note PC recently and i've
> installed FreeDOS on it.
>
> Is there some driver compatible with this laptop?
If you could tell us which components you cannot use
at the moment because you are looking for DOS drivers,
I could give a more specific
Hi Liam,
if I understand you correctly then you say I behaved as if
you were not well-informed when you said that config files
have different names in FreeDOS. Now given that you ARE
well informed, you must have been talking about something
else than config.sys and autoexec.bat because those 2
Hi Liam,
>> Please mention a few examples of differences :-)
> Different names for config files are the start.
If you have only autoexec.bat and config.sys then FreeDOS
will use those. The reason why FreeDOS first tries fdconfig.sys
is that you can install FreeDOS and MS DOS on the same drive
Hi Liam,
> I personally prefer running PC DOS 7.1 or DR-DOS. The small differences
> in FreeDOS irritate me, and I am more familiar with these versions.
Please mention a few examples of differences :-)
> I was an expert in DOS manual memory management and could usually get
> circa 620 kB free
>> Or something like Dosbian Linux on Raspberry Pi which
>> just immediately boots into only a DOS window.
>>
> Is it known here whether this supports proprietary SVGA text modes, (e.g.
> Trident's 132x43, 132x30,
Hi Thomas,
> I just found a recipe regarding USB-Sticks & MS-DOS.
> SOURCE: https://slomkowski.eu/retrocomputing/usb-mass-storage-on-ms-dos/
Well, the old USBASPI drivers might work for you, yes.
Or those by Bret Johnson. Or those by Georg Potthast:
http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/
The
Hi!
> - want to get rid of networking on my „composing tool“
If that means you want audio in DOS, then I strongly
recommend running DOS inside a hardware simulation
and NOT directly on hardware. Because VERY few apps
for DOS will be able to work with modern sound chips
directly. Accessing a
Hi Thomas,
> Any particular Linux flavor you suggest for this?
> (I would go for a „command line interface“ only.)
That sounds masochistic ;-) As long as you do not
need 3d accelerated drivers, a graphical desktop
for Linux should work on almost all hardware just
automatically. Of course you
Hi Stephanos,
> Dell ... looked at the problem and confirmed that:
> 1) there is no BIOS update offered for my laptop, N5030
> 2) that the BIOs update that I was using is for model M5030,
> which has an AMD processor. Mine has an Intel processor
That explains a lot!
> 3) they are not going to
Hey!
> I want to boot to freeDOS using a CD ROM. Then I want to insert a
> memory stick into the computer and copy a file from the Windows HDD onto
> the memory stick. Is this possible and if so which version of freeDOS
> do I use?
If you ask me: Do not use DOS for that. Your Windows is
Hi!
> The Raspberry Pi which is sadly a proprietary hardware
> platform, does nut support DOS. I thought it did by some miracle. It
> doesn't. Apparently, nobody has released a hypervisor for the Raspberry
> Pi 4 that will emulate an 80386 or earlier well enough to run FreeDOS or
> any DOS
Hi!
Changing the subject to make this link-collection easier to
find, but feel free to reply in the original thread instead.
> Greetings one and all, here is an update
>
> I followed the instructions on the Dell website:
>
Hi!
> OK, and thanks to all. I have now read the Dell website about updating
> from within Linux and noted the fact that I should use FreeDOS base 1.0
Or newer, I guess.
> Although the upgrade will not give me Virtualisation, I have another
> reason for continuing with upgrading the BIOS. It
Now that we have clarified that the BIOS update tool can be
used with either Windows or DOS...
>> get a copy of RUFUS for Linux.
> https://www.how2shout.com/tools/rufus-for-linux-not-available-use-these-best-alternatives.html
Those tools are mostly for making bootable USB sticks from
ISO
Hi Thomas,
> I have a (normal) two button mouse and want to change the behaviour
> of a mouse button to act as if I pressed the »CONTROL« key on the
> keyboard.
> Use case: A DOS application where the mouse acts as a pointer without
> the need to click. This suggests to use the mouse buttons
Hi!
> Has anyone out there achieved programming the right
> mouse button to a modifier key, e.g. Control?
>
> I can‘t find any info on the forum or at CTmouse
> (CuteMouse) in Freedos which otherwise works fine.
Please explain your problem. Do you have a mouse with
only one button and want
Hi Stephanos,
> 1) I have WINE on my laptop and run several MS applications. Is it safe
> to treat the BIOS upgrade file as an application and run it in WINE?
That will not help. Wine can run Windows apps, but you want to update
the BIOS in your real hardware, not inside a Wine window on
Hi Michael,
so if I understand correctly, he has both DOS and Windows
versions of the update tool. I would NOT recommend to run
any of those in a virtual environment like DOSBOX and hope
to have any effect on the actual hardware. So indeed, to
use the DOS BIOS update tool, booting FreeDOS on
Hi! I do not understand where Windows and ReactOS are
getting into the equation here. If you have Linux, you
can search in your software center whether you find an
app to install BIOS updates. If you have some DOS tool
for that, you should run DOS for the tool, not Windows.
As your update is
Hi Rugxulo,
> Richard Stallman has not been convicted by a court. He is not in
> prison. Let's not burn his house down over pathetic words.
That is not the point.
> He's not perfect. He doesn't have to be.
To be in a leading position in an organisation which tries
to be a good example in the
Hi all!
Looking at the links provided by TK Chia and in Jim's blog,
Stallman has (and caused) a real problem, so I agree that
he should not be in that new powerful position he now got.
And I do not think that this is cancel culture censoring
unpopular thoughts. He can share his thoughts as
Hi Bob,
> I need to low level format a bunch of older 1440k floppies that are
> starting to lose their integrity. A low level format often works to
> revitalize them. But, I could not get the FreeDOS formatter to do
> anything but reformat the directory area. Can a full low-level format
> of
Hi! To add some thoughts, rambling and brainstorming here...
interestingly, classic PCI is the sweet spot for DOS networking.
It has better plug n play detection than ISA and is not too new
for DOS drivers to exist.
Fast and easy interfaces include printer (sound: Covox), IDE and
maybe even
Thanks for the links, Louis :-)
While the price could be a lot lower, the
https://www.cbmstuff.com/proddetail.php?prod=WiModem232
https://www.cbmstuff.com/proddetail.php?prod=WiModem232=all
mentioned on one of the pages is pretty similar to what
I had in mind: some WiFi controller plus a RS232
Hi!
> Hello
>
> I'm having issues with booting FreeDOS 1.3 in live environment in my
> Lenovo Ideapad S145 Laptop. After booting syslinux and isolinux, both
> options, either install or boot into live environment, fail to load. It
> loads memdisk and the fdlive image and hangs.
>
> I've
Hi! To do some additional name-dropping on the DOS WiFi topic here:
https://www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP32/ESP32-GATEWAY/open-source-hardware
https://www.hackster.io/techbase_group/arduino-esp32-serial-port-to-tcp-converter-via-wifi-66d341
Hi!
> Am just wondering if this is the current status, or some old comment:
>
> "Wireless devices connected via USB can not yet be used with FreeDOS."
>
> (http://freedos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/WiFi)
This meant "USB dongles which serve as WiFi or Bluetooth modems
have no DOS drivers"
Hi!
> lspci -nn -vvv | grep Ethernet
You can also use PCISLEEP Q02 to get a list of network
devices in DOS, or you could use PCISLEEP L to get a
full list of PCI devices in your system :-) As this
tool is quite small, it will at most tell you the
brand names, not the product names, but you can
Hi!
If that means that fdnet knows which driver WOULD match
a given PCI ID, could it DISPLAY that info and let the
user dig up the recommended driver manually? What does
the current fdnet version do in such cases, silently
load another driver in the hope that the hardware would
actually be
Hi Jon,
actually I do not expect "drivers" like OnTrack, Ez Drive etc.
to mess with host protected areas. They just redirect attempts
to access the disk by BIOS to their own code, which modifies
the BIOS call parameters. Which is why OS which access disks
without using the BIOS have to be
Hi!
First, a short note to Dave, Mercury and Random: You can safely
ignore the mails with "[OT]" in the subject, as the thread has
been forked to keep faith and BIOS separate topics. Thanks :-)
https://www.discovery.org/m/2020/04/Scientific-Dissent-from-Darwinism-List-04072020.pdf>
"The
Hi everybody,
my impression of "evolution is faith, not science" is that
it is a bit like "my leg is not broken until I believe it"
but actually I rarely read signatures at all, so I have not
even NOTICED Felix' statement until Tom complained about it.
Sure, free speech could let you say
Hi!
So you have a computer with VGA output but no HDMI output?
And some sort of hardware which converts the VGA signal to
HDMI, so you can view it on your TV? I guess it would be
easier to connect a normal monitor or have a direct HDMI
output on your computer? Monitors are more likely than TV
> Did anyone else look at this ?
> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00263-0
> Command line is still (much) alive.
"Five reasons why researchers should learn to love the command line
The text interface is intimidating, but can save researchers from
mundane computing tasks. Just be
> I just wish we had some OSS CD/DVD driver alternatives.
But our drivers already are OSS?
Eric
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Hi Jerome,
just wondering, does your ISO use the newest UDVD2 driver
from http://mercurycoding.com/downloads.html#DOS ? Note
that the readme in those downloads might need some double-
checking, but as far as I remember, the binaries are fresh.
Note that when you BOOT FROM VIRTUAL FLOPPY, you
Hi Ralf!
After using FDISK (with described problems) and
rebooting and then using FORMAT, you say you were
unable to run the FDIMPLES tool to install further:
Your A: (and B: as mirror) were the virtual boot
floppy, C: etc. were the harddisk, as far as
formatted, F: was a mostly empty RAMDISK:
>>> Did you try to google for "freedos numlock"?
>>
>> ... duckduckgo does not find that page.
>
> Better get a barge pole, because DuckDuckNoGo won't find jack **t...
To join that little off-topic: Is there ANY search
engine remaining which RESPECTS my search keywords?
No matter if google or
Hi Jon,
sounds as if your BIOS has various issues with
large drives indeed :-o Have you tried the usual
workaround software which installs a "driver" in
the actual MBR and shows the geometry-sanitized
rest of the drive as if it were the drive? There
even are Linux kernel options to correct for
Hi Tomas, Jim, Jeremy and others :-)
> On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:16:19 +0100, ZB wrote:
>>
>> http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-internet/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/numlock.htm
>
> Thanks. Maybe this should be under freedos.org somewhere, and
> available for search engine indexing...
>
>
Hi Jim,
> -PC Emulators
> -Games
> -Utilities
> -Programming
> -Networking
> -Technical Information
> -Power Tools
>
> Most of these links will instead go into the other "About" pages - for
> example, the "Games" links will go into the "Games" page, and the "PC
> Emulators" links will go into
Hi Jim, thank you for updating the new design test page!
> http://test.freedos.org/
The "tiles" with popular topics are nice, but they sort
of hide the other menu items for example in the top menu
bar which look like fine print in contrast - those links
are a lot smaller and lack any immediate
Hi!
Which hardware are you using and which command line
options have you tried? Have you compared to other
cutemouse versions, in particular in the 1.9 range?
Regards, Eric
> I've got a feeling there's something in a need for fix; I tried today to
> play Civilization, but using this mouse
Hi Pirate!
To add my 2 cents: While it is good when the package
manager has a built-in unzip function and extra features
to keep your DOS installation well-structured, it also
is desirable to have a normal ZIP and UNZIP tool around
as part of the install boot disks. The next question is
which
Hi Regan,
> I had always assumed that it was a whale because other operating
> systems are large and bloated and a whale would be irony.
In spite of the official fish status, I also like the alternate
identity of our FreeDOS mascot Blinky as a whale ;-) Note that
Tux also has unusual
Hi!
You can configure Wine to simulate any Windows version
from Windows 2.0 to Windows 10, including the popular
versions Windows 98 and Windows XP, so I would not be
too worried about your apps being too old for Wine.
> http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/news.php?item.828.8
>
Hi Simon,
> I tried to install windows 95 on my PC. But it ended up with an error.
> So I installed Windows 3.11. Is anyone able to make zip file of C: drive
> with Windows 95 and send me link to download.
Nice try, but that would be illegal. If you want to run
Windows applications for Windows
Hi Tomas,
if you want to use DOS directories to be visible as drives,
if your install program refuses to open subdirectories, you
can indeed explore ASSIGN and its relatives:
http://help.fdos.org/en/index.htm
http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/assign.htm
(maps drive letters to other drive
Hi! If you want a fresh boot sector for your DOS partition,
you can simply run SYS C: on the DOS prompt after booting
from another medium. You could also use a tool such as my
sys-freedos-linux, which uses Perl and NASM to write a boot
sector to a given disk device or disk image, but because it
Hi Jim,
> *2. Make it easy to share stuff*
> Sometimes it would be nice to share a news item with Twitter or other
> social media. I'm working on an update to the News system that will provide
> "share" buttons to share a news item on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
> I'd also like to include
Hi Tomas,
While the paid version of serva has more features, I
would really assume that booting ISO over network is
one of the things you can do for free. And I believe
you said booting from usb is not supported on aopen?
If you google: "pxe" iso freedos then you get a list
of other people
Hi!
> Yes... Linux creates a boot menu, I thought that was obvious.
Maybe, but you said you cannot boot Linux yet and
therefore prefer to use a DOS installer.
> So format in Windows OR Linux but NOT Freedos, okay.
You can format in DOS, too, but the problem is that
our FDISK has no support
Hi Tomas,
while you cannot use Linux, but have made a DOS partition
in another way, maybe even directly using Windows, you
will have to make sure that it is FAT16 or FAT32. As you
can boot via Serva, it does not have to be bootable!
It MUST not be bootable if you want Windows to stay the
main
Hi!
> The line that triggered the error was (I believe) calling
> "himem.sys". I could not find a himem.sys on the disk.
Could also be himemx and probably exe, not sys. But if
you cannot find it on "the disk", maybe you mean ISO
image? That contains a separate floppy image for the
boot process
Hi Tomas,
> Serva is a windows program. You put a .img/.iso file somewhere and
> that's it.
>
> There is no `line with boot options' that I mess with. Theoretically,
> I guess I might open the .img, mess a bit, put it back together, but...
You can press F5 or F8 while DOS boots to skip
all or
hi dennis,
>> It's an `Aopen Digital Engine.'
>
> Okay - a small form factor device intended for digital kiosk, POS,
> smart signage and other retail solutions.
>
> You *can't* install FreeDOS, or any *other* OS. It only supports ChromeOS
>
>
Hi! Not sure what Serva is, but as you mention PXE,
you probably use a Linux type boot loader and a
MEMDISK style bootable ramdisk to load DOS? Then
you will have to be careful with memory managers
such as HIMEM or EMM386 to not accidentally get in
conflict with the PXE and MEMDISK
Hi Šimon,
> OK
> I will try to explain more properly. I plugged in my Laptop. Pushed down
> the power button and nothing happened. I cleaned up and I did not found
> anything leaked or broken. I think there is a problem with power supply
In my experience with laptops of people I know, the most
Hi Šimon Dobeš,
> Almost I forgot.
> If I will install FreeDOS on that pentium PC that have about 60 GB of
> Hard Disk. May I been able to install some Windows OS? (e.g. Windows 95,
> 98, 2000)
You can even install a current Linux on 60 GB without
problems, but many modern apps will run very
Hi Šimon,
of course a 2002 Pentium with 256 MB RAM is
more than enough for FreeDOS :-) Which type
of apps do you plan to use it? If you want
to use games, be aware that most only work
with ISA soundcards. Some might work with
PCI soundcards which try to be compatible,
but only in old computers
Hi! As ctmouse supports the usual interfaces for user preferences,
but has no app to control them, I would like to hear which free app
you can recommend for this. For example EDIT and GEM do not have a
menu item to send updated mouse sensitivity settings to the mouse
driver, but if I had any app
Hi Bryan,
> {If this error persists, consider to increase some internal buffer,
> such as history, directory stack, etc.}
That sounds like a problem with FreeCOM, if I have to guess,
and maybe one cannot change buffer sizes without recompiling,
So the question would be: Which FreeCOM version
Hi Jim,
as I am referring to the BTTR thread, "both" versions means:
> There are currently 2 binaries delivered in the fdisk package:
>
> - FDISK.EXE, version 1.2.1, dated 4/2003
> - FDISK131.EXE, version 1.3.1, dated 11/2008
See:
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=17440
Hi Ray,
> I have posted pics of some stuff. ...
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/aTdSyfEHbbdhKkxV7
One of your pictures shows MagnaRAM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM#MagnaRAM
WinWorld says "MagnaRAM, from Quarterdeck Corporation,
is a utility that speeds up virtual memory swapping by
Hi Ralf,
>> It failed to work at all in one version and created
>> overlapping partitions :-o in another version when
>> tested in a rather normal context.
...
> That kind of shows what I referred to at the last online meeting. Too
> many different versions by different people rather working
> Like GEM?
>
> https://winworldpc.com/product/gem/
You mean OpenGEM ;-)
http://www.opendawn.com/opengem/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/opengem.html
https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengem/files/opengem/OpenGEM%20SDK%203/
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