Re: [Freedos-user] Join us for the FreeDOS virtual get-together NOW!!!!

> Use these dial in numbers: > https://www.bluejeans.com/numbers Assuming that you are in USA: United States Atlanta +1.404.458.0105 Chicago +1.312.216.0325 San Jose (NEW) +1.408.915.6290 San Jose (NEW) +1.408.419.1715 San Mateo (NEW) +1.650.963.5767 Washington D.C. (NEW) +1.202.795.3352 Alte

[Freedos-user] dosfsck hangs on large drives? (re: best third party dos diagnostic tools)

Hi! Which version of dosfsck hangs for you, how large are the drives (if possible also in the unit clusters) and how much memory do you have available? How long have you waited - maybe it just took rather long? You probably want to disable swapfiles in your cwsdpmi or other dpmi configuration, d

Re: [Freedos-user] Btrieve on FreeDOS

Hi Roger, > I have install FreeDOS on VirtualBox to run an old application that > uses Btrieve5 as the file handler. Sadly, when JEMMEX is loaded I get > an Exception 06 Have you tried dosemu2 (if Linux) or dosbox (Windows or Linux) instead? Which other memory drivers have you tried? You could

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 VirtualBox compatibility?

Hi :-) I believe somebody recently tried to report a problem with HIMEMX and VirtualBox, so I checked the web and found that this was a problem with FreeDOS 1.2, but should be FIXED in FreeDOS 1.3 anyway, so the answer to the problem report MAY be "please use 1.3 instead". Could somebody tell me

Re: [Freedos-user] Moving beyond FAT

Hi! > That sounds a lot like using an initramfs in Linux. Exactly. > But kernel? Why? The idea is that ext4 would be a first- > class citizen in kernel space just like FAT16 and FAT32 Let me give some examples... The ISO9660 driver for Linux is more than 40 kB on disk. The one for UDF is 110

Re: [Freedos-user] Moving beyond FAT

Hi Michał, > Suppose I wanted to write an ext4 driver for FreeDOS and integrate it > such that it's possible to use ext4 on a system partition... You would probably write it as a protected mode TSR using the network redirector interface, similar to VMSMOUNT for FreeDOS. > ... would this have an

Re: [Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

Hallo Tom, >> As FreeDOS has the reputation of having slow disk I/O, > 'reputation' meaning that Jack told you so... Jack is indeed one pronounced critic of our I/O speed. > indeed the FreeDOS kernel is about 2* slower then necessary > *on rotating rust disks* ; the reason is known (1) Becau

Re: [Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

Hi Deposite Pirate, > I might have noticed that DR-DOS is a little faster > when operating from a floppy disk. You could try using lbacache with the flop option and tickle for FreeDOS and/or DR-DOS, and compare with a DR-DOS cache of your choice. Check whether the caches correctly notice disk c

Re: [Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

Hi Jerome and Mercury, > You got a preferred benchmark program? I have some ideas, yes... The idea is to compare filesystem performance of FreeDOS to other brands of DOS, so you would need some method of dual-booting, for example metakern or grub or lilo or similar. Typical tests would be to co

[Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

Hi DOS users :-) As FreeDOS has the reputation of having slow disk I/O, I would like to get that quantified a bit... So if you have not only FreeDOS but also other DOS brands on your computers and can run the same tests on different DOS versions on the same hardware, I would like to get in touch

Re: [Freedos-user] Realtek ethernet not working

Hi Haytam, > thx for the little help but im quitting this maillist . > Reasons : > 1 : Not always get the right answer for everyhting like > when i talked about a sb16 emulator they told me no body > will make it unles they are paid for. Which answer did you expect instead? I think the best an

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

Hi Ralf, you had said that dosbox would not be simulating any soundcard: It is simulating a soundcard, that actually is one of the more important features of dos-oriented virtual environents. It just does not contain built-in drivers for the different, physical, real sound card of the user at th

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

> hey dude on my windows xp desktop now, virtualbox or older > older version dont suppport xp, virtualpc 2007 is the only option Why not use dosbox, bochs or qemu, ...? Please answer to freedos-user. Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

Hi Ralf and Haytam, > First of all, DOS (any DOS) does not have a concept of "drivers". Any > such endeavor would be up to the application using a specific sound card > (feature). Indeed, but... > And DOSBox is not simulating any sound card, it is passing this to the > sound driver of the host

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

Hi Jerome, if you do not believe that anybody will fix bugs, why do you even update the FreeDOS distro? Please make at least some published list of all bugs you encounter and discuss it here, too. It CAN happen that people fix bugs, even of other maintainers. What are the new beta fdisk 131 feat

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

Hi Jerome, it worries me that you SILENTLY dropped a newer fdisk and switched to an older version because they both have bugs, but the older version has less bad bugs. Please explain all bugs which you have encountered and what keeps us from using a fixed even newer FDISK version. About the spa

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

Hey Haytam, please read my mail carefully: Dosbox is originally for Windows and Linux, so it uses the sound drivers of Windows and Linux if you have HDA. You can run some Windows programs in DOS using HX, but I do NOT know whether HX has sound drivers. Probably not! And please answer my questio

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

Hi! Looking at the 720k boot disk for the installer, I noticed that FDISKPT.INI and FDISK.INI are quite large as the former contains many "definitions" of unknown partition types and the latter contains only comments and the end of file marker, so I suggest to reduce the comments (mention that th

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

Hi Haytam, if your modern music players did detect your HDA sound chip, but nothing could be heard, you should contact the maintainer of the music player. There probably is a volume control bug for your specific chip. Regarding DOOM on your hardware: As you know, it does not contain HDA drivers

Re: [Freedos-user] Video meeting

Hi Bryan, > {Watch the FreeDOS front page at that time for a link to a *free* video > meeting. My video meeting service has a capacity of 75 people, so join > as soon as you can! To join: you can just use the link to join from your > browser. You may be prompted to download and run a desktop clien

Re: [Freedos-user] Emulation

Hi Al, while I do not know vdos, given that you use Linux, you may want to give dosemu2 a try: > https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2 > https://code.launchpad.net/~dosemu2/+archive/ubuntu/ppa Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Temu Soundblaster Emulator

Hi Bret, cool to hear that you have already started to add the I/O trap API to JEMM! :-) Not sure why JLM also needs it, but I guess it is part of your plans to port VSB together with some USB sound driver to some JEMM JLM? ;-) I think USB serial would be cool, even when you only support access

Re: [Freedos-user] Temu Soundblaster Emulator

Hi! For reference, there is a mirror of the original VSB here: http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/by-others/ > http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/by-others/dos-virtual-soundblaster--vsb202.zip > http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/by-others/dos-vi

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.3rc3 installer hangs when booting from usb and loading jemmex

Hi Haytam, this is not a chat. Please write more than one sentence in each email. Also, please 1. either do not change the subject so often, 2. or always use a subject which describes the actual topic. > well my speed to slow, You mean your USB is too slow? > well having a USB plugged in it st

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wireless network and modern audio

Hi! Maybe MPXPLAY is missing from the distro (but why?). The DOS version and for comparison Windows version are both here: http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/ > what the hell, even with the hashes correct. > unable to install games/bolitaure package a > reboot may help, let try rebooting I have to

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS wireless network and modern audio

Hi Haytam, > sorry guys, i did not download it correctly, even my browser > said it completed but the hash didnt match, now after re- > downloading it does, sorry guys, So now the game works? Good to know :-) > one thing, WLAN doesnt work, even that it shows in "pcisleep l" > as the last devic

Re: [Freedos-user] (No Subject) - FreeDOS install problem Haytam

Hi! My idea was that Haytam can write a more verbose description when he can use the language he likes most. Unfortunately, this text (saying he is using Rufus etc.) is not really long either? More verbose please! Longer problem description & details please! Regards, Eric > سلام عليكم ، انا الان

Re: [Freedos-user] Something about freedos

Bonsoir Haytam, > i tried to install freedos 1.2 rc-3 on real hw, You mean 1.3 RC3 I hope? > full installation, Have you tried a basic installation, for comparison? > encountered thus problem, it It? > has said that it cannot install a game, Which game exactly? > that starts with he, som

[Freedos-user] New cpuid by RayeR and WindowsNT port access

Hi! RayeR has updated his CPUID tool for DOS, Linux and Windows: http://www.rayer.g6.cz/programm/programe.htm#CPUID Notice that the version for Windows NT/XP/... relies on a kernel mode driver to have the necessary permissions. I wonder whether similar drivers could be used to grant that pick a

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

Hi, >> Does QSoft need Windows? > > Exactly. Hmm. >> But you claim neither Win9x nor MS DOS runs on the Evoc? > > Officially, they don't. Unofficially, if you stay away from the SATA > and not having a real floppy controller is not an issue you can run > these operating systems. Some websi

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

Michael, > Booted the Freedos 1.3 RC3 live cd and the SATA I works!!! Glad to hear that but... > Windows XP is the only supported system Officially yes, but as long as it works, it works. Even when you illegally run Linux or FreeDOS :-)) > I cannot run XP because of HAL and special hardware

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

Hi! FreeDOS is neither Win98 nor WinXP. Just use UDVD2 with your available settings and tell us which work and which do not, in the latter case please mention the exact messages. Thanks! Eric > I have an 865GV ICH5 chipset. There is SATA enhanced mode yes/no and > that's it in the bios. You

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

Michael, > My DVD RAM drive is SATA I... > Will Freedos support SATA I in the future? FreeDOS already supports SATA. Use the UDVD2 driver, which should be part of the distro already. If you can not find it, I can give you some link / hint ;-) Eric __

[Freedos-user] interesting dos things from bttr

Hi everybody, some nice current topics from BTTR: https://www.hwinfo.com/download/ now has HWiNFO 611 (and a typo in the HTML title ;-)) https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=16700 mentions a new Lua for DOS for 2d games, https://libraries.io/github/rxi/lovedos https://www.b

Re: [Freedos-user] 8086 boot sector compatibility

Hi ECM, > https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/svn/1835/log/?path=/kernel/trunk/boot/boot32lb.asm > -- also last change 2004. Note that this requires a 386 and doesn't > check for it. My take on a FAT32 boot sector loader allows to load > FreeDOS KERNEL.SYS too, but automatically detects either CHS

Re: [Freedos-user] Encrypted USB Flash Drive

Hi Anand, > I'm new to FreeDOS. Could you please help if the FreeDOS supports > hardware/software encrypted USB flash drives? Something like below. > > https://apricorn.com/aegis-secure-key-3 The description sounds as if all security software is running on the stick itself: Once you unlock i

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News / 8086 compatibility

Hi Jerome, > I thought you knew [that V8 means V8 Power Tools] Anyhow... Me maybe, but some who are interested in floppy distros not yet ;-) > They are a set of command line utilities written in assembly that > can provide a Text based User Interface (TUI) and other... I guess you could save s

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News!

Hi Jerome, what is V8PT and which beyond-text features does it need? If the FreeDOS kernel does not boot on 8086, that would definitely be a bug. Remember that it is a compile time option whether you want 8086 compatible or whether it is okay to optimize for 186 / 286 / 386. I do not think we us

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News!

Hi Jerome, > https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2020/05/freedos-13-rc3-coming-soon--update-on-floppy-edition/ The page (by Jim and Aitor, it says) writes: > FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 coming soon + update on Floppy Edition > > Work on FreeDOS 1.3 has slowed since FreeDOS 1.3-RC2, but things are > st

Re: [Freedos-user] Backslash key on UK keyboard not recognised

Hi! MKEYB has a few built-in maps, so you need no separate map file. Check the command line help. If you do use full keyb, remember to remove the REM which comments it out ;-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourcefo

Re: [Freedos-user] HP11 Streamer?

Hi Vincent! I would say as long as it has at least a few megabytes of RAM and at least a 386 CPU, FreeDOS should run on any PC ;-) Which specific parts are you worried about? The BIOS will usually support "legacy" OS such as DOS in helping with USB keyboard and mouse access and access to any buil

Re: [Freedos-user] R: Freedos for IBM PCDOS 3.30 software

Hi Mattia, if I understand you correctly, you cannot transfer data from an old harddisk on your IBM PS/2 computer to the new system, because the PS/2 floppy drive is broken? In that case, it probably does not help to suggest tools for data transfer because you can not copy them to PS/2. Wikipe

Re: [Freedos-user] R: Freedos for IBM PCDOS 3.30 software

Hi Mattia, I would be generally optimistic: You can still get mainboards with DOS compatible parallel printer port and FreeDOS should be okay for running PC DOS 3.30 based apps. Also, keyboard, mouse and VGA graphics should still be supported by the BIOS of modern PC, with some luck even the har

Re: [Freedos-user] IDE vs. SATA

Hi Michael, > Freedos in general is an IDE only system, > but why not support SATA I/II/III? That is what your BIOS already does for you :-) > No MS-DOS, DR-DOS, etcetera don't support SATA They all support SATA, too, because they use BIOS. > What are the implications of adding SATA > support

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

Hi! There is no need to use Linux to replace the MBR boot code, you can easily do that with DOS tools. Of course if you prefer Linux tools, they can be used for the same purpose :-) I assume you want to get rid of Windows, so you do not need to convert from GPT to MBR. Deleting the partitions an

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

Hi! Which tools in which versions did you use? For example which FORMAT, FDISK...? Let me start by saying the choice for MBR was good: GPT partitions are not visible for DOS. Not sure what the purpose of that EFI partition is, but it is easily possible that Windows had a boot loader on the first

Re: [Freedos-user] HWiNFO (for DOS) version 6.0.4 available

Hi! According to BTTR, version 6.0.5 is available now :-) > https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=16512 > https://www.hwinfo.com/download/ > https://www.hwinfo.com/files/HWINF605.ZIP Note that the current non-dos version is 6.24 already while 6.05 is not even listed in the ver

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

Hi Ralf, >> https://gitlab.com/yrizoud/gfx2_dos/-/tree/translation " > > Well, those sources are only partially translated, but that might > at least be a start if someone is eager to work on the sources... As mentioned, the parts in Pascal have no translation, but those only have a few dozen

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

Hi Ralf, Yves has fixed the issue and writes: "I then hosted the files on gitlab, where they should stay visible for quite some time: https://gitlab.com/yrizoud/gfx2_dos/-/tree/translation " Regards, Eric >> Here is an upload of the modified files: >> >> https://file.io/eh88lzKo >> >> (the t

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

Hi everybody, >> So the task would be to translate 5000 snippets of >> French, are there any GrafX2 fans who feel in the >> mood to help FreeDOS as source "interpreters"? :-) > Nobody? > > Cheers, > Robert Good news! Yves Rizoud has contacted me and asked me to forward the following to you. T

Re: [Freedos-user] DVD-R Drive Implementation Help

Hi CChip_21, > So, I recently got around to tinkering around with FreeDOS recently, and I > already know some basic stuff, such as loading programs, etc. But for some > reason, I cannot add my DVD-R drive to the list of available drives, > especially when I'm trying to install Windows *alongside

Re: [Freedos-user] SHSUCDX Updated to 3.07

> SHSUCDX was updated to 3.07 recent it looks like. See > http://adoxa.altervista.org/shsucdx/index.html "SHSUCDX v3.07 (56k). Fixes some programs not finding the CD (e.g. Quake will now play audio)." ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@list

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - was 4DOS...

Hi all :-) > 3) GrafX2 > by Guillaume Dorme and Karl Maritaud is GNU GPL v2, but docs and > Watcom C and TP7 source code names and comments are in French. That caught my interest so I made some stats: - all the TXT already exists in Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

Hi! Some ideas regarding the possibility to use native Mac tools for your RX580 graphics card BIOS update task: http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2018/05/07/definitive-mac-pro-upgrade-guide.html#efi-flashable https://www.reddit.com/r/macpro/comments/al3kk2/flash_rx_580_to_show_boot_screen/ Apparen

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

Hi! > Would that work if I have a second graphics card ? To be honest, I am pessimistic. I once tried to use the real graphics card of a commercial VMWare server workstation for GPU calculations by making it visible to the OS inside the virtual computer and just got the ability to crash the real

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

Hi RJ, the short story is that VMWare creates a fully virtual computer. You can not install VMWare on Apple to use a DOS program to update the BIOS of your REAL VGA card. You would have to run the BIOS update tool on real hardware. Maybe you can find an Apple tool for VGA BIOS updates? Or you c

[Freedos-user] Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate

Hi! Laaca writes on BTTR: > Hello! > > After quite a long time is a new FPC version available. > For us is important mainly the improving DOS realmode target. > > The Dos-32 (GO32V2) packages are here: > > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/3.2.0-rc1/i386-go32v2/ Enjoy :-)

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Mercury, some short answers :-) I think dates as version numbers are fine when there is no explicit version numbering. I would use the date of the most recent file, leave the decision to you whether that means the version is this week since YOU yourself have made per-driver excerpts of the re

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips

Hi Eric ;-) > Freedos runs pretty well on modern devices. But are there any > drivers for the generic realtek soundchips? I that is not the > case, is there a kind of soundcards wich can be used as well > under FreeDOS as under Windows 10? You probably refer to AC97 or HDA compatible sound hard

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Jerome, > The package UIDE contains UHDD. > It was updated to the latest versions almost a year ago. Mercury has recently created separate packages for all different drivers, with separate readme, source and so on. Please use those for 1.3, so people do not have to search for UHDD in the UID

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared Folders on FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 VirtualBox in the Lubuntu ... problems

Hi Everaldo, > I don't get to configure "Shared Folders" after to have installed the > FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 on VirtualBox from Lubuntu 16.04. I did the step by > step, but when I installed the package "Guest Additions for VirtualBox" I think those are not for DOS. For DOS, we have VMWARE drivers :-)

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems network in the installation FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 on virtualbox lubuntu 16.04

Hello Everaldo, please do not use screenshot files: The ones you used were too small to read and using larger ones would make your email too big for the list. Instead, copy paste the text shown on screen :-) You can also redirect the output of DOS commands like "tree > mytree.txt" and use the te

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

> I noticed that, but the driver itself reports it is 3.34. Basically > we have two 3.34 versions: one from 2015 and one from 2020. The new > 2020 version should have been bumped to 3.35, but it was kept at 3.34 > for some reason. Yay, clarity! lol > > It seems the 3.35 version mentioned in read

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Hi Michael, I see what a SMD pick and place machine does, yes :-) So basically there are two apps, one for DOS and one for Windows, and you would prefer them to run on some still supported DOS and Windows (or Wine). What are the issues with this at the moment? I do not expect you to have Q-Soft

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Hi Mercury, > Where would one find the most recent UHDD sources? They can be found in > ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/uide/drivers-2019-03-31.zip which alas is a VERY generic name to google for... The zip contains: readme.txt, uhdd.asm and uhdd sys 2019-04

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Hi Michael, long mail ahead ;-) Please do not mix long file names and FAT32: The former can even be used on FAT12 floppy. In FreeDOS, you have to load a LFN driver TSR to use it, but I think most of command.com already is LFN-aware. You may have to set some shell options in your startup files (c

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Hi Mercury, > "Creating packages for FreeDOS software that are not packaged yet." > > ... any "top requests" as it were? If you ask me: UHDD (only UIDE and UDVD2 listed yet?) and the new HIMEMX version by Japheth, as discussed here recently :-) HIMEMX should get some tests in particular by us

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Hi everybody, it seems that https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/feature-requests/ has not been updated for a while: A few wishes seem to no longer apply or would be easy to cover with current distros. On the other hand, the wishlist still is a classic ;-) > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.ph

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 RC2...

Hi :-) Rugxulo: what are the pros and cons of Links2, Dillo, Dillo Plus? > DOSLFN [TSR] is probably your best bet (although there are other > alternatives). But LFNs don't work by default (except for DJGPP > stuff), so not everything supports it. Michael and others: For which tools would you

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 RC2...

Hi Michael, > One request, MS-DOS 6.22 has a tool called MSD. I like that the tool > shows resources and memory and other useful debugging information. > If someone can clone that clone that tool I'd be very appreciative. I think MSD had very mixed features, which specifically do you want? Qua

Re: [Freedos-user] EVOC 1714VNA does not support a real floppy controller...

Hi! > I had as a goal work around the floppy issue, but I'm hitting a wall Maybe some other tools could work better? VGA-COPY once was nice for copying even exotic formats and it can also format: https://moenk.de/pages/vgacopy.html (Download link at the end of the German description text) Ro

Re: [Freedos-user] EVOC 1714VNA does not support a real floppy controller...

Hi Michael, as you say WinXP sees the controller but can not format, can it at least read existing floppies? Will the drive spin up when XP tries to access it? About your project to connect either an ISA floppy controller or directly a classic floppy drive without a controller (I am not sure wh

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

Hi Mateusz, hi speech experts, >> DJGPP is a complete 32-bit C/C++ development system for Intel >> 80386 (and higher) PCs running DOS. > I am saying that DOS is a 16-bit, real-time operating system. You say > that DJGPP is more powerful. Yes, but DJGPP is not DOS. Then of course, > one could im

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

Hi Ralf, >> How about first installing to a directory or diskimage stored >> in a ramdisk on the host OS, then copying that to mass storage? > This would be a bit like the old chicken and egg problem. The time you > would spend to copy the contents of the FreeDOS distro from the SD card > to a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

Hi Jim! > Installing FreeDOS on the Raspberry Pi will take a long time regardless of > what options you use in QEMU. It's because of the high disk I/O when you > install an operating system like FreeDOS. It's made worse by doing it > inside an emulator, but the biggest slowdown when *installing*

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

Hi Joseph, > If your computer can boot a cd, or can boot a floppy, you can install > FreeDOS. Booting from USB stick is an option with many modern BIOSes, too, and supported by FreeDOS. > I could probably boot it up on this laptop since it's in legacy mode, > but, I don't think FreeDOS would r

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip 750 Atapi and freedos...

Hi Michael, > I propose an optional USB driver in Freedos. I propose that you first test the already existing free USB drivers for DOS ;-) Not with floppy or CD but with harddisks and USB flash sticks. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/usb

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

Hi! Interesting that ftp between guest and host OS is popular even for DOS. So maybe you want to try VMSMOUNT: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/vmsmount.html "A DOS redirector for mounting VMware's shared folders" Current version is from

[Freedos-user] OT: book reading via text to speech on e-book readers

Hi! As inspired by the current thread about screen readers etc.: > One reason why those used to speech synthesis dislike  tools l such > as Kindles though is because the speech quality is poor and the > pronounciation abilities reprehensible. [but Apple might be better?] Excuse the off-topic, bu

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

Hi Mateusz, > Hello Karen, indeed the screen-reading protocols seem to be not as easy > as I imagined they would be. Eric hinted off-list that they may work on > a phonem-by-phonem base rather than being able to process "normal" > written phrases. Also it seems each screen reader uses its own pr

Re: [Freedos-user] USB floppy saga...

Hi Michael, > I'm working with an EVOC brand SBC on a PICMG 1.0 backplane. That sounds exotic, but still your BIOS has a menu item where you can enable an on-board hardware floppy controller. Do you imply that there is no header on the board to plug a classic floppy to that classic controller?

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

Hi Felix, actually Linux and Windows are rather similar to use for sighted people, just click around in menus. While it is possible to have speech or Braille (if you use that?) already on during the install, I would feel a lot safer with having separate machines for separate operating systems. O

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

Hi Felix, welcome to FreeDOS! If you do not like dosbox, you may want to try dosemu2 in Linux. That way, you can use Linux audio drivers and speech synthesizers, which is probably easier than using DOS ones, while still being able to switch away from dosbox. While dosemu2 is more modern, you ca

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

Hi! CD-ROM connected to controllers on the sound card might be overlooked by generic drivers. Try to boot using a floppy where you can manually add specific drivers for your CD-ROM. If you already have another DOS on the computer anyway, you can boot *that* and then invoke the installer on the CD

[Freedos-user] fresh compile for himemx anybody?

Hi all, > https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=16187 tells that not only Japheth's JEMM got updated recently, but also HIMEMX source codes received an update for improved int 15.e820 "multiple memory block" support. Unlike the old Pemberton patch the update by Japheth does not

Re: [Freedos-user] floppy drive won't format disk...

Hi Michael, > Research suggests that ACPI breaks ISA floppy in Windows XP Unlikely, if you ask me? > Under Advanced -> SuperIO Configuration > > OnBoard Floppy Controller Disabled > Floppy Drive Swap Disabled You should probably enable your floppy controller again ;-) Eric __

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy only

Hi! >> I am trying to install freedos on a computer without USB port. >> Just floppy and a little hard drive inside. If you have internet and another operating system on that computer, you could download the ISO and a boot floppy image. Then make sure to have a FAT partition on the harddisk and

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Rugxulo, Skipping over the FUD undertone, here are some answers :-) Yes the UHDD updates in 2019 are useful and by the author. Yes UHDD + UDVD2 works better than using only UIDE alone. No this is not about RDISK or XMGR updates, although if you can be more specific, I can check whether ibibl

Re: [Freedos-user] DMA error trying to format floppy...

Hi! If you get floppy DMA errors with FreeDOS FORMAT (which version? error message?) then consider avoiding UMBs (EMM386, UMBPCI) or using helpers such as LOWDMA of DOSLFN or DMACHECK of UMBPCI to ensure usability. There should also be separate helpers to protect floppy access from crossing 64k

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Jim, > I think this is an oversight in FreeDOS 1.3. I did review UDVD2 and the > others and said they were ok for FreeDOS 1.3. They are listed as such > (green) on the Packages page. > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Packages > > Unless I'm missing something? I agree: It

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Rugxulo, Jerome, Jim et al, > The full 1.2 release was from late 2016 / early 2017. > It hasn't changed. Good point, although 1.3 is still pending, so people might still want to update while they only have 1.2. > As far as I'm concerned, UIDE [sic] died in 2015. Another reason to switch to

[Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2

Hi! It seems that FreeDOS 1.2 currently includes UIDE. It would probably be better to use UHDD and UDVD2 instead: Those have better performance and better 80386 style XMS compatibility on old computers, as well as improved drive detection, DMA choices, support for disks above 128 GB size and mo

[Freedos-user] fwd: jemm final version 5.79

Japheth - https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=16223 At last a bug was fixed in JemmEx that caused shrinking EMBs not to work correctly. It happens with Volkov Commander, for example - I always thought this a bug in VC, but finally realized it was a bug in JemmEx. https://githu

Re: [Freedos-user] Impulse Tracker on freedos

Hi Robert, Alex and ZB, > Extracted from `it214v5.zip\it214v5\DRIVERS.TXT': > 01. PC Speaker > 02. DAC on LPT ... So like any good old MOD player software, Impulse Tracker can output mono music using the PC speaker using pulse width modulation and a timer interrupt. Many desktop PC still have

Re: [Freedos-user] Impulse Tracker on freedos

Hi! Please specify the EMM with command options from your autoexec or config. You can also use specific MEM options to get info about your EMS page frame. For example you can use the /d /e or /f options as explained in MEM /? or HTMLHELP. You can also use MEM ...options... > file.txt to save th

Re: [Freedos-user] qt and DOs?

Hi Roderick, > I am the chairman of the Dutch OS/2 VOICE organisation. On OS/2 we had > the port of QT 4.78 for OS/2. A port of QT 5.13 took about 12 months by > on person working 40 hours a week. So a 32 bit platform is supported by QT. > > https://github.com/bitwiseworks/qt5-os2 That is valu

[Freedos-user] New Bochs version 2.6.11 available

Hi! Forwarding from the BTTR-Software.de version: There is a new update of the virtual PC software called Bochs :-) > Bochs version 2.6.11 available (Announce) > > posted by rr(R) Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 15.01.2020, 20:17 > > The Bochs Project released version 2.6.11 on 05 January 20

[Freedos-user] JEMM update available - better handling of fragmented memory maps

Hi! As posted by Japheth on the BTTR-Software.de Forum today: > Hello, > > finally, after many years of inactivity, an update to programs Jemmex/Jemm386 > is available. > > The main reason for the update was: on "newer" machines the available > physical memory is somewhat scattered, with man

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help installing on virt-manager

Hi! > Another quick question- what does error 0C from format indicate? It > printed values of all registers. I was trying to access D: without > running format on it, then ran format with wrong options for the > first few times. But the help page does not have 0C as a part of the > error ranges

Re: [Freedos-user] Debian 9 64b / QEMU 2.8.1 / FreeDOS 1.3rc2 as a guest: DHCP requests end up zero-padded

Hi! As the links got line-wrapped, here are the contents: > http://support.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/FreeDos/zero_padded_pkt_dump.txt contains the following text: > # tcpdump -n -i tap0 > 16:47:39.592071 00:00:00:00:00:00 > 00:00:00:00:00:00 Null Information, send > seq 0, rcv seq 0, Flags [C

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