Sorry, edit error cutting off the end of my sentence:
> Also, please add the exotic modes to an updated svgatextmode port
> and not to mode! Mode is meant to stay within BIOS support limits
> and compatibility as far as possible, as far as I am concerned,
> while svgatextmode is known to be usea
Hi Lino,
In which ways does the old svgatextmode fail for you and
which VESA text modes do you have as opposed to which text
modes would you like to have? You cannot set ARBITRARY size
because the text mode has to follow a graphics mode as far
as resolution is concerned. Of course modern screens
Hi!
> So how can I check idle statistics, if not using FDAPM?
I mean try using FDAPM without using IDLEHALT.
As you say your PC fails to idle while just waiting at
the command prompt: Your command.com is a version of
FreeCOM, I guess? Which version? Any hypervisors or
virtual computers or simi
Hi! Idlehalt is just a small routine, it may
not contribute to the idle statistics shown
by FDAPM. I guess it might even make those
look lower if you use both in parallel. You
could check which apps you use which fail to
let your CPU go idle with FDAPM. Maybe there
are possibilities to tune apps
Hi!
> acpi0: sleep states S0 S1 S4 S5
> acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC
> ...
> acpicpu0 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!)
You can always use HLT to save power, which both FDAPM
and the kernel IDLEHALT support even on older-than-APM
systems. The kernel config sys option can be either
IDLEHALT=1 to use HLT w
Hi Jose,
> Does DISKCOPY makes an ISO or just an image?
In the original sense: Neither. It copies one diskette
to another diskette. However, the FreeDOS version _can_
copy a diskette to/from a rawrite compatible disk image
file, according to our HTMLHELP. ISO files are only for
use with optical m
Hi Jamie,
> Does anyone know any software to share my Desktop's 5 1⁄4-inch floppy
> drive with my laptop over a null modem cable? I have a lot of 5 1/4-inch
> disks which I don't feel like copying onto something else.
File Maven should help:
https://www.briggsoft.com/fmdosfaq.htm
https://www
Hi Jerome,
> Instead of copying the ISO, they could just copy the package
> directories directly to the HDD.
True, but not everybody who lacks optical drives has the
infrastructure to extract files from ISOs or diskimages
installed. Of course some readme / howto would help :-)
> But off the to
Hi Jerome, thanks for your answers!
Of course it would be cool if a live USB image would
be automatically treated correctly by virtual computers,
but I do not know how much or little a VMDK is needed.
Pity that boot BIOS bugs are so different that one needs
at least two boot style images to cove
Hi!
Thanks for the announcements... I have some questions :-)
If legacy avoids syslinux / memdisk, which computers can
boot from CD but can not use syslinux / memdisk? And which
computers can use syslinux / memdisk but can not boot from
el torito (did you mean boot floppy image?) bootable CD?
Hi Ralf and Dale, please check
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/dosfsck.html
to get an impression of dosfsck :-) While the DOS port
is old, it does know about LFN long file names and even
checks for their consistency, as far as I remember.
> So why didn't freedos keep dosfsck; it its better?
Hm? I expect FreeDOS to ship with both,
dosfsck and chkdsk! The former can do
fat32, but the latter is more familiar
classic DOS style, so both are good :-)
Eric
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Hi Dale,
FAT32 has too large metadata to be convenient
to handle for CHKDSK. Because of this, it is
only supported by DOSFSCK, which requires a
386 or newer CPU and several MB of free RAM.
It has been a while since DOSFSCK got ported
to DOS, but I think you will be fine with the
older version w
> I don't know if I still have the file; since it didn't work
> I may have erased it. I probablely did.
> Do you know what msg 1.6 is? It keeps asking for it.
> If I had it then it might work.
> TK is the only interesting part of TCL.
> I wonder if TCL/TK is related to TK solver.
In the MOVE sou
Hi Dale,
> I have 30 gigs of freespace. I have 2 gigs used out of 32 gigs.
Only FAT32 aware software will be able to notice when
you have more than 2 GB of free disk space ;-)
Would be interesting to know which software already
has support and which not. What did you use to check
for free disk
Hi Dale,
> I tried to move post.mp4 - a 3.5.meg file. - got insufficient memory
> error with move, copy & xcopy.
Both should not have problems with files up to at least 2 GB
as long as you have enough free disk space. Please use MEM
to provide information about how much memory you have free
and o
Hi! According to Heise news, https://exodos.the-eye.eu/
has helped the Internet Archive to make a big leap
in the number of their online MS DOS game classics
which are playable using the in-browser EM-DOSBOX
emulator. Heise warns that games which involve CD
ISO images or higher hardware requireme
Hi Stephen,
repeated LBA cache write error on CF card? That sounds
like a serious bug report for lbacache! Have you tried
to keep lbacache outside UMB, in other words not using
loadhigh? You could also try the lbacache TUNS option
to allocate additional stack space. If TICKLE readahead
is used,
Hi Jim,
> When you are finally able to start the installation, be prepared for
> the install process to take a looong time. This is because
> installing all the FreeDOS packages requires a lot of disk I/O to the
> virtual freedos.img drive.
Blasphemic idea: Use symlinks to move the
Hi Bob,
if your gopherus says no packet driver found and
links says host not found, then you probably have
to install a network driver ;-) There are howtos
about that on the net. What type of network hard-
ware do you use? Onboard LAN chipset? You can use
pcisleep in DOS or other tools in other
Hi Jon,
> ... "help xcdrom32" takes me to a help page for xcdrom, which
> says its deprecated and UIDE.SYS should be used instead. There's
> a help page for UIDE.SYS, but I can't actually find UIDE.SYS
> itself anywhere.
At the moment, there are UHDD and UDVD, with UHDD integrating
CD/DVD featu
Hi Jon,
some extra details: There was a VBE sound BIOS extension,
but basically nobody used it, in any case no games I know.
And there was a project to create a virtual soundblaster,
which is mirrored on https://auersoft.eu/soft/by-others/
but it is more like a draft of implementing some very
b
Hi!
> source system. Can Q-Soft 2 run on any Linux system via Wine?
You will have to try. How fancy is the GUI / network / etc.?
How much contact to low level hardware is required?
> Can Linux still support the ISA bus
I see drivers for ancient graphics cards vanishing from
default distros fr
Hi! If you ask me, you usually only want to install
sources for one package at a time, while reading
those particular sources, not for the whole system
at the same time. Some sources are rather large.
Regarding your aim, even really old computers are
usually strong enough for a simple Linux, whi
Hi Jon,
FreeDOS supports 28 bit LBA, so depending on whether you
have BIOS bugs which require lower limits, you could use
any size of harddisk as long as all partitions used by
FreeDOS end within the first 128 GB ;-) Not sure whether
Windows 95 supports LBA. MS DOS 6 does not, but it does
not su
Hi Geraldo,
are you sure you want to start a discussion about
password cracking here?? Of course there are other
reasons why unpacking can be useful - for example
to re-package in more modern ways or to re-stub
software which uses outdated DOS extenders etc.
Regards, Eric
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Hi Jon,
for your advanced multi boot project, you could boot FreeDOS
from floppy and use the SHSU... drivers to open the ISO file
of the install CD as if it were a CD drive, after using your
Windows or Debian to copy the ISO to your DOS/Win95 harddisk.
The ISO has plenty of ZIPs to use with the
Hi Thalis!
If FreeDOS took hours for you to install, you might
have tried to install everything and the sources.
This can be 100s of megabytes and if you are not a
programmer, you will rarely touch the source code.
To have a result more similar to MS DOS 7, simply
install only the "base" packa
Hi! The BTTR forum mentions an update of NDN a few weeks ago:
http://ndn.cba.pl/info/index.html
http://ndn.cba.pl/download/index.html
Current version is NDN v2.31.5474 for unspecified platforms
as bundle, separately downloadable versions for DOS DPMI 32 bit,
Linux (unknown bits) and Windows 32
Hi! I could imagine that Clipper relies on file locking a
lot (SHARE driver) and it may need a suitable version of
that. Working with diskimage drives exclusive to DOS may
work better OR worse than working with drives which are
emulated out of host operating system directories here,
depending on
Hi! About using USB mice with cutemouse: Sometimes
your BIOS has built-in USB drivers and the ability
to mimick (by hardware virtualization or similar)
the reactions of an imaginary PS/2 controller to
an imaginary PS/2 mouse which follows the button
presses and movements of the USB mouse. Dependi
Hi!
> Okay, so I guess I did it correctly. Now that I have FreeDOS installed, how
> do I get sound to work? I have a ESS Solo-1, I believe. I forgot to copy
> any drivers before I installed FreeDOS.
Most old DOS games only work with ISA soundcards. If your
soundcard is PCI, USB, AC97 or HDA, on
Hi!
Actually if YOU have no problem with Windows 98 files
still being on your FreeDOS C: drive, then there is no
need to format, partition or delete anything. Of course
you are free to use the normal DOS commands to delete
those files which you no longer need. You could even
install a boot manage
Hi Paul,
> And now I just saw that after boot, on the R:\ drive I have
> 1 dir(s) 2,147,123,200 bytes free
>
> And I am asking myself if the ram drive is not taking almost
> all the memory, and that's why it would try to swap things
The RAM drive is FAT16 formatted, so it can not be larger
tha
Hi!
> I realized that UDVD2.SYS driver (CDROM, DVD driver necessary
> for SHSUCDX to work) was not loading with message like:
>
> Nothing found, UDVD2.SYS not loaded.
>
> It turned out that this was due to my SATA configuration in BIOS
> (DVD reader/burner is connected with SATA on my computer
Hi Samuel,
> You can get another compatible laptop with CD just for installations.
Actually DOS is much less hardware-specific than for example Windows.
So you could indeed plug the harddisk of the laptop into "any normal"
computer (after disconnecting other disks in it!) and install DOS "on"
t
Hi! There are a few FreeDOS based floppy distros, for example
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/metados/
You can use a disk image writing tool to create a bootable
1.44 MB diskette from the included disk image file, boot
that on your laptop and do t
Hi!
> The two aren't currently compatible.
Which problems did you encounter in which context?
Can you specify error messages and their wording?
Can you give instructions for reproducing the problems?
> Any chance of lfndos getting the bugs ironed out?
If LFNDOS is not what you want, you can
Hi!
> I'd prefer to leave Linux out of this as Linux may not boot
> on an Agilent analyzer because of the proprietary
> Intel video card and proprietary touchscreen.
I think it will boot and it will support a normal VGA screen
plugged into the VGA connector at the backside of your device.
It w
Hi again,
so far I do not know which problem you have with the
Agilent device and how you plan to resolve that. Doing
network analysis with a Windows 2000 PC with special
added signal processing and other hardware is something
which you can NOT easily switch over to a different
operating system.
Hi again,
> there is a USB 1.1 driver in Freedos 1.2 packages, maybe I should try that.
> Yes it will be slow, but if it doesn't time out, that would be fantastic ;-)
USB 1.1 is very slow and there is a risk that there
could be data glitches during hours of copying...
Which graphics / screen d
Hi Michael,
> I found a site by George Potthast and unfortunately though I got his
> USB2 driver to work for a while, it stopped working. Another concern,
> he wants an atrocious amount of money for a copy that doesn't stop
> working. I'd much rather donate $600 to the freedos maintainers to
>
Hi, forwarding from BTTR forum:
> https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=15910
On 26 December 2018 the NASM development team released version 2.14.02.
Home page: http://www.nasm.us/
Download: https://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.14.02/
Changelog: http://www.nasm.us/doc/n
Hi Jerome,
sorry about the missing context: fd13flop.img comments!
The FDAUTO file mentions all those drivers, but does
not give instructions which of them can be combined.
Users might try to use drivers at the same time which
were meant to be used _either_ one _or_ the other.
Have you tried
Some quick comments on the FreeDOS 1.3 RC 1 drivers:
You should only load either UIDE or UDVD2 and make
sure that they have different "/D:...". I guess if
UIDE does all you need, you could change UDVD2 to a
commented out alternative. Also, since UIDE already
does caching, you can comment out LBA
Hi Jerome,
would it be possible to add a "CD1 style" mode to
the CD2? I think it is okay for people to download
larger ISOs but they like flexibility in RAM size.
Regards, Eric
> CD1 can run with 64MB of ram and can use GBs.
> It also uses very little space on the CD.
> CD2 is probably more co
Hi! The BTTR forum post
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=15827
tells me that there is a new mpxplay version. Among other
mixed changes, it now supports more Intel HDA sound chips
when used in DOS :-)
Cheers, Eric
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Hi! Forwarding a few things from the BTTR forum:
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=15806
"It's good to see that Mikulas Patocka added my idea of saving the
clipboard to a file on DOS as a feature. It will be very useful. Now I
can call external programs such as WGET very eas
Hi!
>> UDVD2, 4-30-3013. CD/DVD name is FDCD0001.
>>> BAD Controller at I-O address C040h, Chip I.D. 80867010h.
>>> CD0; IDE0 Secondary-master, QEMU DVD-ROM, PIO.
In the context of this error message, please consider this,
from Jack's documentation:
> "BAD controller" says a chip is not usi
Hi Tom M.!
> How is that done? Where does one obtain the BIOS layer,
> and how would it be applied?
I expect others to have better answers, but I was thinking
in the direction of SeaBIOS / coreboot, which can provide
open source BIOS. After all, a BIOS is just software. You
can load SeaBIOS as
Hi Tom,
> I took the time to look into what the night dos kernel...
> what they describe as goal is some sort of OS/2, WINDOWS 3.11
While their goals are noble, I doubt that they will achieve good
compatibility with most DOS stuff. And I agree that they should
use more C in their code to avoid
Hi Sean, some general ideas:
> Thank you for the response. I have a client that wants to up their system
> BIOS and OS with a single WinPE disk. The Windows BIOS utilities are 32-bit
> and will not run in a 64-bit WinPE image. System only supports booting to
> 64-bit WinPE. The DOS command line
Hi!
> Good explanation Thanks
Not really...
> In other word TRIM keeps the cells from being over worked,
> so each cell takes part of the load. This is very new to me.
No, the disk already distributes the stress automatically.
But knowing which areas of the disk are currently unused
helps to
Hi!
To install FreeDOS on SSD is basically the same as
on harddisk. If the disk is totally empty, you will
have to use FDISK /MBR or similar to make booting
work - just using SYS will not be enough. Otherwise,
SSD are almost like fast harddisks. Other differences
which exist are not noticed by D
Hi Don, at the risk of making this thread even longer...
Yes, ebook readers tend to use Linux. Nicer brands even
publish development kits ;-) But Linux is a whole OS. So
as long as Amazon publishes any changes to the kernel
with sources, they can run any of their closed source,
DRM protected doc
Hi!
> "Re-open sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0"
> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/09/28/re-open-sourcing-ms-dos-1-25-and-2-0/
...
> Under an MIT (OSI) License.
> I'm not sure this has any value for FreeDOS...
If anything, then maybe that ancient config.sys option
to support e
> If sshdos no longer connects, then how am I sending this e-mail?
> I use dos exclusively and sshdos as packaged in ssh2021b.
I explicitly wrote _common_ SSH server configurations. As far
as I know, sshdos and ssh2dos do not support many "up to date"
encryption styles and many servers expect to
>> May be using some misinformation,
>> but what ssh client is included in Freedos
>> if any?
>> Is / was there a putty dos one for example?
Putty is a combined terminal window and SSH client,
so it is only needed in Windows. In Linux, you use
one of the existing Terminal windows (which seem to
Hi all, I just noticed that the RSS feed of the
BTTR DOS forum "DOS ain't dead" has returned from
death itself and is working again. Welcome back
and thanks to the maintainers of the site :-)
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum.php
The resurrected site presents HTTPS support and
of course
Hi David,
> I'm wanting to set up a packet driver, but it asks for which packet int
> number to use. From the packet driver specification, I see this is
> supposed to be between 0x60 and 0x80, but how can I tell if any of these
> are already taken?
As the introduction for writing packet drivers
Hi Tom and Jamie,
> how about googling this yourself?
> '31.03.2006 - The IBMDSS14.SYS, IBMDOSCS.SYS and DICRMU01.SYS files
> are PCMCIA Card and Socket. Services for the sample model IBM laptop.'
It would be better if Jamie had told about it without being asked...
>> So you use DOS only for Wi
Hi Jamie,
> 028d 33,136 (32K) HIMEM2 device driver
> XMS0 installed DEVICE=HIMEM2
Non-Microsoft HIMEM alternatives are smaller ;-)
> 0aa5 10,464 (10K) IBMDSS14 device driver
> installed DE
Hi Jamie,
>> I was looking for an easy way to turn EMS off and ON. I guess that was
>> what the menu was for.
Yes. You do not need memmaker for that, just define a little
menu or, even easier, make the loading of EMM386 conditional.
The FreeDOS kernel will then ask you a yes/no question about
Hi! If you ask me, the easiest way to get network is
using RTL8139 or similar PCI cards and a web browser,
together with the corresponding PCI network card :-)
Example of a browser: Arachne, or Dillo as FLTK port:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/
Or do you mean some form of file tran
Hi Jamie,
no, FreeDOS does not automatically try to analyze
and optimize UMB usage with tools similar to MS
DOS "memmaker". However, most FreeDOS drivers use
less memory than the old MS DOS drivers anyway,
so you should have enough free in your low 640k.
Please give more details about your memo
Hi!
> To further isolate the Invalid Opcode issue, I extracted the floppy
> image (FDBOOT.IMG from the ISOLINUX folder) from the ISO and booted
> it as a floppy disk in VirtualBox which launched the installer
> flawlessly.
Thanks for the testing! So apparently NOINVLPG would not have helped.
Ho
Hi Jim, others,
> Mercury Thirteen means this:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/212/#1b4c
> I'm not sure why VirtualBox has this problem. I don't recall that we
> saw this when wen tested the FreeDOS 1.2 distribution, did we? Or
> did VirtualBox have some regression? I use a different
Hi!
Now if you could enlighten us what "hitting tab"
and "adding raw" after which command when in which
file and in which editor means, it would be a lot
easier for others to reproduce your repair :-)
Thanks! Eric
> It worked. Thank you very much.
> On 7/29/2018 9:05 PM, Mercury Thirteen via
Hi!
256 MB should be plenty, but I do not know
what the default configuration is. HIMEMX is
supposed to be okay, but you can try other
provided boot options with other drivers.
Also note that it might matter which style
of A20 gate your virtual machine offers,
as misunderstandings about that ca
> After booting the CD (FD12CD.iso), selecting the option "Install to
> harddisk" and waiting a little while it starts showing error messages
> with "Invalid Opcode". When I skip config.sys/autorun.bat on startup and
> run "setup.bat" manually it shows the language selection properly, but
> ends
Hi Leroy, others,
if your "editing" only is about having a file manager
for adding and removing files to disk images, then it
would be a lot easier to MOUNT your disk images. For
example FreeDOS has drivers which can open ISO files
as if they would be actual CD or DVD :-) I do not know
enough ab
Hi Jim,
> You can modify the code code to do this.
Still it seems easier to use a batch wrapper? Also, because
EDIT has so few preferences, how about a command line option
to set all of them, overriding the prefs file, in case you
do prefer recompiling EDIT? ;-)
Regards, Eric
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Hi David!
> I would like to save my settings for EDIT in such a way that they take
> effect everywhere. Seems to me, when I choose to save, it puts a file in
> the current directory, and the settings only work when launching from
> that directory. Is there a way to do this?
As far as I remember
>> Is MODE command remove loaded previously CPX file and
>> free allocated memory?
>
> I don't think it frees any memory. I think DISPLAY permanently loads
> enough for four (4) codepages, aka 64 kb. I don't know all the
> details, though.
The obvious answer is to read the DISPLAY docs ;-) Here
Hi Dale,
> The bad thing about Crosstalk is that it only works
> on RS232 now extinct. At work I'd splice in an extra
> link on RS232 lines to our samplers. Xtalk was able to
> capture ... command codes known only ... Then came usb and
> xtalk was useless. With the source code I was hoping
> I w
Hi David & others, I think there are two answers to this:
1. Diskcopy could have a command line option to treat
a floppy as flat sequence of sectors and copy anything
onto any disk as long as there is enough or more space
2. Diskcopy is right that it is a bad idea to waste
half of the space of
Hi :-) To make some obvious suggestions: The MODE and TERMINAL
tools in the FreeDOS software list should help you to get low
level status of the serial port. They use mostly BIOS and some
functions might use even more low level I/O, so if you have a
form of simulation of a classical RS232 port, whi
Hi people, the whole bttr-software.de website no
longer shows me any content, just a login popup.
This has started a while ago, but is persisting.
Does that mean that the forum now requires a form
of "to be acquired by magic" login for new privacy
law's sake and I missed the announcement? Or is
Hi JAS,
> An e-mail address is not a reliable means
> to find one's address: even Eric Auer had an
> e-mail address in Brazil sometime ago.
Website mirror, not e-mail address...
> My point in sending these messages was to show
> one more issue that reduces
Hi!
Actually Android is a modified version of LINUX with
stronger separation of the directories between apps
and other differences. App install files (APK) for
example are vaguely similar to JAR, but with DEX
(which you can decompile to Java) instead of CLASS
files... Wikihow says, to use Java on
Hi Dale,
> Can I ask what country you live in.
> I hope that doesn't happen in the US.
> A lot of people don't have computers here.
> Either they're too expensive or they just
> don't like them.
> I just can't imagine not having paper forms.
For example both in the NL and Germany, you
are pret
Hi Thomas,
> Some of the PCI-Express and USB modems had actual controller,
> meaning they would work with Linux, the BSDs, and maybe DOS.
In spite of what the name suggests, most winmodems are
fully supported on Linux as well as far as I know :-)
> I also don't know if dialup Internet or BBS wo
Hi again,
sorry to write two mails about one topic...
> My laptop has a hardware modem, internal. It's a Pentium III machine,
> so I'm not sure what risks that may imply about it being a Winmodem
> I've heard such nasty things about.
Winmodems basically are soundcards: You need a driver which
d
Hi Rugxulo, others,
> Eric Auer also wrote a simple terminal program years ago, but I'm
> afraid I never tried it (and probably wouldn't know how!):
>
> * https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/terminal/
> * https://www.auersoft.eu/soft/
That ter
Hi Kevin,
the point was that if you have a modern BIOS, it will
just look for a data file on a FAT-formatted USB stick
and then update *itself* - You do NOT have to boot any
DOS from the stick to do that. Of course you can exit
the setup of FreeDOS 1.0 or 1.2 or skip entering it.
Trying to follo
Hi guys,
>> I just need to figure out the best way to network...
>> FreeDos starts so fast I might try transferring to a qemu image...
If you ask me, it is easiest to copy the files to your
target disk while it is connected directly to Linux.
As you are interested in small computers, you might
Hi list!
>> Thanks for the SBC link Eric, I will look at these in detail...
There is a similar discussion ongoing on the BTTR DOS forum,
related to the plan to make a game cabinet running DOS :-)
The most recent post wonders whether the
> http://www.icop.com.tw/en/product/3.5-Embedded-Module-V
Hi Patrick,
> I want to program on FreeDos, I want to use GCC and I want to port
> over GnuCOBOL. Are there any books or resources you could recommend
Well DJGPP (Gnu C / C++ for DOS) is reasonably compatible
to the Linux version when you compile text oriented tools
and http://www.delorie.com/dj
Hi Jamie :-)
> As a temporary work around I got SVGA(800x600 with 256 colors) by
> patching the bult-in SVGA driver to work on more hardware (unoffically
> patches are available online). I used the Sound Blaster Pro emulator
> built into my sound card to load Sound Blaster Pro drivers and use tha
Hi Ella,
> I run Win 3.1 under DosBox. It's effortless. Just install and go.
>
> I use FreeDOS for as much free as I can muster (except
> WordPerfect. I'm a lifer with that software. :) )
>
> Ella
This is probably related to DosBox simulating a DOS and suitable
hardware instead of running a fu
ere by DOS).
Win3.1 WDCTRL,386 driver insists on using - else it aborts with
"Invalid DOS version" (replaces handler by dummy, probably to find
out which int 13 drive is behind which drive letter!?).
Win3.1 DOSX calls int 2f.4a01, query free HMA
Hi everybody
> I have Windows 3.11(not WFW) and can't find an
> option to turn off 32-bit disk acass in BIOS.
Not in BIOS, just the Windows 386+ driver for it.
On empowermentzone.com, I must have once found the
win31faq.txt - you can probably find it on other
websites as well:
"Microsoft Wi
That didn't happen until Win 98 or
98SE, though they still had the 16bit subsystem to support olde
software. Win 95 could still use Windows 3.1x printer drivers. Win 98
all drivers and other system stuff had to be 32bit.
On Monday, February 19, 2018, 7:00:43 PM MST, Eric Auer wrote:
> Win
> Windows 3.11 (OEM release between 3.1 and WFWG 3.11) has either 32bit
> disk or 32bit file access, I can never remember which. Either way
> it's useless because both are needed (which only WFWG 3.11 has) to do
> any speed improving. 32bit incompatible drivers in config.sys and
> autoexec.bat can
Hi list, forwarding some tech details from Jamie:
I am using a Thick Pad 380Z and the drivers here:
https://thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad-Drivers/download.lenovo.com/lenovo/content/ddfm/380z.html.
This problem is present even with no special drivers loaded. I have
loaded the audio and video d
Hi Jamie,
> I can't seem to get Windows 3.1 to run in 386 mode,
> is this a limitation for FreeDos?
Windows 3.1 and even more so Windows for Workgroups
3.11 are very picky in where they want to run if in
386enh mode. People HAVE managed to do this as far
as I remember, but you have to get ALL se
Hi Vladimir,
> I installed boom (doom clone) via fdimples command, and it works.
>
> I try to launch Master Of Magic and I get the message: "You must have at
> least 2700k of expanded memory." ...
> Extended (XMS) 31,680K 472K 31,208K
> Total Expanded (EMS) 31M (3
Hi TJ and Brian,
> There are two DOS programs, MS Interlink and Laplink, that could
> self-copy from one DOS PC to another through the serial port.
As far as I remember, they do not work well with FreeDOS. But
as mentioned, FileMaven / FM3 has similar functionality. Both
methods have the problem
Hi Brian,
this sounds like your BIOS contains the driver for USB sticks
present at boot, but has no support for plug and play. It is
strange that trying to change the memory stick even threw out
the USB keyboard support but I guess you cannot expect too
much help from your BIOS with USB without r
Hi Brian,
FreeDOS is an operating system, so the question is probably
not what you really want to ask. You booted FreeDOS from
some type of drive, either real or virtual, and you want
to know how you can copy files to that drive. Please give
more information what drive you have booted from and wh
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