Hi! Japheth found an interesting problem and explains on BTTR:
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=21818
It turned out that Mkeyb and MS SmartDrv don't like each other. The
root of the problem is that MKEYB's Int 15h handler expects the carry
flag to be set, else it does
Hi!
Would there be any interest in a web forum for FreeDos?
You mean something like
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board.php ?
;-)
Regards, Eric
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Hi Karen,
the utilities recommended by Rober To sound useful:
HDAT2 harddisk repair and diagnostics ATA, ATAPI, SATA, USB, SCSI
ASTRA Advanced Sysinfo Tool and Reporting Assistant
HWiNFO system information, monitoring and diagnostics
Do you recall the items in norton utilities?
There is
Hi Karen,
please specify the type of diagnostics you would be interested in.
For example PCISLEEP can give you a list of PCI devices in your PC,
but you seem to be interested in disk or filesystem analysis etc.?
Maybe tools which display the SMART health status of your disks?
I remember having
Hi!
Turns out I only had some 2020 Bochs and no boot "disk"
for it, so I could not easily test any hotkeys :-o But:
What if the DOS distro installer can be improved, so it no
longer matters which emulator or virtualizer people use? ;-)
As I’ve mentioned many times before, it already does
Hi!
Initially I tried Bochs, but found Bochs either cannot go full screen
using SDL2, or I just haven't found the magical incantation...
A quick google says "try alt-enter" (to go full screen). In 2011, this
had the side-effect of risking to switch to a resolution DOS dislikes,
I have not
hi! as jim prefers all dos related things to be discussed on-list:
why would a https server which is "not in real working condition"
and a dos port of gnupg where important features cannot be used
because dos has no /dev/random (see bttr thread) be newsworthy?
the changes to nasm do not seem
Hi! Not all USB sticks are enabled for booting. And maybe it is disabled
in your BIOS setup. The MBR of the stick may matter as well, and whether
you boot UEFI style (not possible with FreeDOS) or classic style ;-)
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Hi Robert and Davi,
The system's keyboard and layout are already configured to "br" (for
Brazilian Portuguese) and working perfectly. Other accentuated
characters display just fine. That is the case of "á", "à", "ô".
However, "ã" shows as something else entirely. Image below:
oIh6TW8.png
How
Here is a neat summary of the DOS PPP drivers:
http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/internet.html#I
...but, someone has already raised this question:
Do you have a "counterpart"?
I mean - a dial-in service answering with a modem and a PPP stack.
Or at least a null-modem connection to a PPP
Hi :-)
Following the postings on BTTR, I collected some GIT links for you:
1. Japheth has released VSBHDA (Virtual SoundBlaster for HDA, I guess)
now with 16-bit support, improved emulation and Runtime Error 200 fix.
https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA/releases
2. The DIY
Hi!
If I have to guess: If your CF is at least a POTENTIAL boot
device, the BIOS may add it to the list of harddisks for
which no DOS drivers are required. If it is not, then it
is just some plug and play device which may come and go and
for which you would probably have to find appropriate
You could try a DOS port of (GNU, diffutils?) "diff", for
example from the Delorie DJGPP compiler website.
Diff can be used to list differences in text content of files
or directories full of files, but you can also use it with
options "-qr" to just get a list which files only exist in
which of
Hi Jim,
while this is a bit off-topic: Turning a 32-bit Ubuntu into
a 64-bit one is tedious, so the recommended way is to just
install the new over the old and keep your home directory.
A few commands in the shell can help you to, more or less,
clone your old package selection into the new
How about using Dosemu2? When you add their PPA, you get
frequent updates. Unfortunately focused on 64-bit distros,
but performance is quite okay and it can map any Linux
directory to a DOS drive letter, so size is "unlimited".
Eric
Hi Jim
Thanks again. My problem is that I have assembler
Hi!
You probably want to use XMS based ramdisks, not EMS.
Also, the max size for FAT16 ramdisk is a bit below 2 GB
and you can only have far less than 4 GB combined size
because some of your first 4 GB address space are used
for graphics etc.
You can use "super extended" XMS 3.5 for a combined
Hi Thomas,
many screens will resize the signal you send them to
full screen, probably with black bars either on top
and bottom or left and right to match aspect ratio.
This will usually give you large pixels or a fuzzy,
blurred experience, so it has downsides nevertheless.
So it is not common
Hi Ed,
Is there any major differences between FreeDOS
and MSDOS under the hood?
FreeDOS aims to be highly compatible with MS DOS, so even
if you rely on some "reasonably inner workings" of DOS
beyond the normal int 21 interface etc. everything should
still work very much the same with
Hi! Here are some recent news from the BTTR forum :-)
Japheth has updated JEMM, DEBUG and vSBhda:
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=21356
- VSBHDA is a fork of crazii's SBEMU which creates a
virtual SoundBlaster and sends the sound to your real HDA,
ICH, nForce,
Hi!
So it would need a »timer« to count from pressed key to released. if >500 ms,
it should send an ASCII
We understood that. But be aware that you normally set the
typematic function to start typing MULTIPLE characters after
a selectable delay of between 250 and (at most) 1000 msec.
So if
Hi!
Indeed I was hinting at "manipulating 40:17 does not automatically
sync the physical LED, but we might not care for auto shift anyway".
Regarding your idea to show shift LED status on screen, check out
the old LOCKTONE with audible feedback: https://auersoft.eu/soft/
Regards, Eric
Hi!
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/xkeyb/xkeyb-1994/XKEYB.TXT
This seems one of those nifty keyboard drivers, but it has not time-critical
functions
I was more thinking in the direction of MKEYB or other int 15.4f
based drivers: They see all key press
Hi!
I am not aware of such drivers, but it would not be hard
to write one. I think there already are drivers to make
shift keys sticky, or to give audible feedback, as in
my ancient locktone experiment inspired by Mielke.cc :-)
Eric
is it possible in DOS (using BIOS?) to implement a tsr or
Hi Thomas,
actually I was looking for a laptop with FreeDos using a photovoltaic system…
That should be relatively easy. Photovoltaics can output 12V DC,
230V AC with an inverter, or higher DV voltages directly via USB-C
which some newer laptops use for charging. However, those will not
Hi!
Why a typewriter? Because where I write, I don’t have electricity (!).
Well there always is sun and photovoltaics...
What type of text input hardware would you like, given that you dislike
the current style of keyboards? Apart from sliding a pen over an
on-screen keyboard? Is your
Hi Bill,
Today I built an adapter that translates USB keyboard and mouse to PS/2
signals.
https://docs.pikvm.org/pico_hid_bridge/
It works great!
Great to hear :-)
From another thread on another forum, here are some suggestions for VGA
to HDMI converters:
- the current best choice
Hi!
Does the Shutdown- Command merely provide for those »spinning down« delays to...
The idea is that it is better for mechanical harddisks to first
spin down and park heads before you switch off the power supply.
Spinning down may take a moment. Also, this gives the disk the
chance finish
Hi!
FAT is always a finicky filesystem, especially if you're utilizing a
caching or BIOS emulation for USB HDDs. Are you using a caching program
like lbacache, cdrcache, smartdrv, etc?
Of those 3, only SMARTDRV can cache data before it gets written.
Even this delayed write caching is a
Hi Bill,
group. The short version: With the coming of Wayland I have little
choice but to get new display adapters for all of my Linux machines.
You probably are not technically forced to use Wayland: Most
distros give you a choice of drivers to pick from, even when
they recommend one
Hi Bill,
if I understand you correctly, your Linux PC stopped
to support VGA or PS/2, so you upgrade everything,
including the DOS PC, to HDMI and USB?
It should be no problem to use HDMI and USB directly
with DOS. The BIOS will have USB legacy support to
convert keyboard and mouse data into
Hi Anton,
The machines are indeed physical with custom made ISA Bus controller
cards, built on prototype board, and only 4 were made, 2 in production
That sounds exciting!
plan is to eventually replace ... with something more ubiquitous.
Looking at other forums, people do impressive
Hi folks!
As you know, crazii has taken the idea of VSB on a whole new level
by writing a simulation of a Sound Blaster 16 for DOS, which is
able to output the calculated sound on modern HDA sound hardware,
ICH, nForce, SB Live, SB Audigy, VT82C686 or VT8233, -35 or VT8237.
Checking Vogons
Hi Jose,
> PS: The older POP3 only allowed access to the inbox,
> while IMAP also allows access to your other mail folders,
> so I expect most mail providers to support IMAP now.
I thought that folders were a client-side
convention, and mail (POP3, IMAP) servers kept
all
Hi!
a few years back, before the Pandemic, we had a serious Shellworld
crash. At the time I sought to contact them, did not reach a person,
however.
Likewise at the time, I believe? they did not allow mail to be sent.
it has been a few years.
If you use a Linux mail client to access your
Hi!
Thanks for your roundcube webmail tests! Both interesting
and annoying that most features work with most text based
browsers - except sending mail, due to JS in the send button!
Anyone at all know if roundcube has a support team?
This tool could be amazing with some slight JavaScript
Hi!
As it seems that sshdos (ssh) and the links text mode browser
for DOS support current security protocols and https:
Does anybody here have experience with using a squirrelmail
or roundcoube webmail in links? Might need less java script
compared to gmail to use those, and one could forward
Hi! Forwarding from Rugxulo on BTTR:
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=20850
R. Swan's A72 assembler 1.05 (self-assembling, 8k .COM)
posted by Rugxulo
A72 1.05 was released on Oct. 9 on Github.
Changes:
* Listings are generated by default along with binary output.
To
Hi!
SBEMU is a project based on MPXPLAY, DOSBOX, HX and JEMM superpowers
to create a virtual SoundBlaster soundcard on real computers with
more modern sound hardware (HDA, AC97 etc.) which sounds quite
exciting! The BTTR thread has been silent since mid-March, so now
I wonder whether there
Hi! SuperIlu is has recently released version 1.1 of DosView:
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DosView
It uses Allegro and compiles with DJGPP 12, so with a 386+ CPU,
enough RAM and VESA, you can now view those WEBP, JPEG2000, TIFF
and other modern file formats in truecolor graphics modes on DOS.
Hi!
I said it before but I'll re-iterate - any filesystem with proper
journaling would be a total banger. I still remember how Rayman ate my
FreeDOS and I still have dosfsck in my fdauto as a preventative measure.
It's slow as molasses in January however. The same program under Linux
blows
Hi!
I did download Eric's file, as I do not use freedos.
While you get extra package management features by opening
our zipped app packages with a package manager, unzipping
them with any UNZIP style tool will usually be sufficient.
So you should be fine.
The information indicates that it
Hi!
You use to promote MSdos 7.1. Have you ever found
a way to get sound on it.
Sound, network and graphics are not related to DOS as
operating system: Because the kernel does not support
those, the applications, not the operating system, are
the ones who have to support it. This also means
Hi!
Before rebooting my Linux to activate the newest kernel updates, I
have booted into DOS to find out how DOS games deal with my new
GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card. It is surprisingly bad as a VGA.
According to VESAINFO, only packed pixel and direct color modes
are supported, with 256 or
Hi! According to
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/report.html
you can download
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/unstable/archiver/p7zip.zip
for 7zip. Regards, Eric
Hi again,
see the new, separate thread for more USB-printer solutions :-)
A new thought: I got a VERY good suggestion for the problem of
FAT filesystems and file contents getting corrupted by those
power outages when the drivers restart the engines of the
trucks. You remember, I wondered
Hi again,
somebody in another DOS forum pointed out that you can get ready
to use LPT2USB online, although expensive, from various shops:
https://www.future-x.de/rotronic-secomp-parallel-adapter-usb-ieee-1284-schwarz-p-7343484/
Hi Ramon,
If I use FDAPM APMDOS in my fdauto.bat I get the following message:
Performing action: APMDOS
If APMDOS slows
APM not available, skipping APM setup.
Going resident.
This is because I have freedos poorly configured or because my hardware
does not support it. (My laptop is
Hi Aitor,
I would assume that right alt DELIBERATELY does not act like
a generic ALT key in EDIT: In German, for example, you need
that right "Alt Gr" key for some accented characters, so it
must not act as a function shift key. I remember not being
able to use some other editor exactly
Hi! Moving this topic to a new thread:
Next problem: I tried to get printer support via USB (currently they
use classic LPT, but those printers get very rare).
Asking around and looking around a bit, people have suggested to run DOS
inside vDOSplus, DOSBOX-X, DOSEMU2, VirtualBox and so on
Hi Woody,
Unfortunately, using the internal IDE is out of question, since the
whole process in that company is used to take that stick after the
salestour, go into the office and plug it into a transfer PC, where
some other software reads in all sales data, then updates the stick
with new
Hi Woody!
You probably mean a HP t510 thin client, with VIA Eden X2 U4200 CPU,
VIA VX900 Chipset, 2 GB RAM, some flash storage, VIA ChromotionHD
graphics (DVI/VGA), audio, GB-LAN, Atheros WiFi, 6x USB2, 1x RS232,
1x LPT, 2x PS/2, 65W 19V power brick:
Hi Ramon!
I have IDLE HALT=1 in my fdconfig.sys and in config.sys - FreeDOS 1.3
FullUSB
You probably mean
IDLEHALT=1
without space.
How can I know if IDLE HALT=1 is working on my laptop? because the fan
starts up very frequently at full power.
You could try IDLEHALT=-1 for a stronger
Hi Mercury and Jerome,
I typically do modify the times to reflect the version number. Of
course that's not necessary by any means, but it's a habit I started
doing as a quick and easy contingency to help me in the event of files
becoming crossed, e.g. if I were to accidentally drop files into
Hi!
FreeDos need's update in the keyboard and languages, there is support for
that in open-source environments, but I don't know how to implement them.
For example I'm using a portuguese keyboard and it doesn't support it, so
Iam in trouble's
Actually FreeDOS has no problems with Portuguese
Hi!
I just installed Freedos 1.3 via USB. It works OK, but will not load the
UDVD2 driver (it gets a #255 error). Will UIDE work instead? Or is the
problem a bad HDD sector?
The problem probably is not a bad sector in your harddisk.
If you want to access a CD/DVD after booting from that
Hi! Does anybody here know the user nicknamed Candyman?
There is a strange thread on BTTR started by that account,
maybe somebody could contact Candyman via another channel
and ask what has happened.
Regards, Eric
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Hi!
Assuming that you just want to have MORE text on your screen,
without actually wanting to use graphics mode, you can select
quite a few modes with MODE CON or with various VESA tools.
For example in dosemu2, the following works just fine:
MODE con cols=132 lines=60
This will search for
Hi Damon!
I have an old Dell Optiplex 745 I'm trying to "FreeDos" and am having a couple
of issues.
I have yet to get the USB Laser mouse to work properly.
Try enabling USB legacy support in your BIOS. The mouse should then
be visible to drivers like CUTEMOUSE as if it would be a PS/2
Hi! Have you tried using dosemu2? They have active development and
support, so even if it does not work out of the box, they should still
be able to give you advice on how to make it work :-) Regards, Eric
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Hi!
The CPU detection utility used by the installer has compatibility issues with
some processors.
For example, there are some 486 systems that are detected as a 186. This has
been a known issue
for a while. Unfortunately, I just have not had the time to resolve that.
As a stop gap, if the
Hi Jay!
I tried to do the same thing with a logical slice of disk but FreeDOS
failed to see it. If it is possible to install FreeDOS onto a logical
slice of disk, inside of the extended slice, the technique for doing
so is unknown, or, at least, unknown by me.
DOS can not be installed on a
Hi!
Today I have gotten more than 60 notifications about packet updates,
NONE of which mentioned why the affected package got updated.
I would REALLY like those notifications to include more details and
metadata. This would also allow looking up update details in the
archives later.
In this
Hi!
To bump this thread and wish FreeDOS a happy birthday,
I would like to point out that this:
>set "KEY=value|dir
>echo %"KEY%
... will run the DIR command!
may be an instance of the 5th most dangerous software weakness:
https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2023/2023_top25_list.html
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