Re: [Freedos-user] Quake2 for FreeDOS

Hello, > On Jan 23, 2022, at 5:09 AM, Michał Dec wrote: > > Perhaps Quake2 could become a FreeDOS package? This was just a quick and cursory examination. It could be completely wrong... I see two problems with providing it as a package included with FreeDOS. First, I took a quick look at the

Re: [Freedos-user] UDVD2 vs SHSUCDX

> On Jan 18, 2022, at 10:47 AM, Michał Dec wrote: > > I used this version of OAK > https://www.hiren.info/download/dos-files/oakcdrom.sys > > and the problem persists. I even tried 3 different sound cards with the CDROM > in UDMA and P

Re: [Freedos-user] DN /2, File Wizard 1.35 etc.

Hi Robert, > On Jan 14, 2022, at 4:40 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > > Hi Jerome, > >>> Any suggestions ? thankfull for advice. >>> >>> >>> *Bear* >> >> As for installing, assuming you have the LiveCD inserted. You can run >> FDIMPLES and select to install it. >> If for some reason that does

Re: [Freedos-user] DN /2, File Wizard 1.35 etc.

Hi, > On Jan 13, 2022, at 6:19 AM, Björn Morell wrote: > > > (New try without attached BMP) > Hi I am a new here. > > I am testing what can be done on a IBM Value Point M# 6482 100DX4 whith > 3c509 and SB16- > > Have among other OSs Freedos 1.3 RC5 and am testing file managers, allways >

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSHEXED - memory bug

Hi, > On Jan 12, 2022, at 8:58 AM, Michał Dec wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to edit different files with DOSHEXED from FreeDOS 1.3RC5 CD and > it's just disappointing. This editor will complain it's out of memory if > we're trying to open a file that won't entirely fit into the left

Re: [Freedos-user] DJGPP (was Re: FYI: Social media URLs updated)

DJGPP has not been updated in a while for a couple reasons. I have nothing against it. But, I don’t use it. There are numerous pieces. Which aren’t needed? What relies on other things? Which are the most popular? Which should be included? I look at that large collection of components and hav

Re: [Freedos-user] Free? Games

Hi, > On Jun 13, 2021, at 10:38 AM, Rafael Angel Campos Vargas > wrote: > > Two new free 2020 games of mine with Freedos version (freepascal without > sound for now, i am working on it but it is complicated). Both of them are > some simple. > > Aventura trivial only have spanish version > h

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 error when installing

> On Dec 27, 2021, at 9:19 PM, Pyros wrote: > > http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/img/uploaded/image24.jpg > > > while installing freedos 1.3 rc5 i get the error that you see in the image. > Now this is not your modern pc it's from

[Freedos-user] FDIMPLES support for BonusCD

Hello All, > On Dec 19, 2021, at 2:58 PM, Radek Krzyśków wrote: > [..] > > 1) How to use `FDIMPLES` with Bonus CD? > > Running `FDIMPLES` with "FD13BNS.ISO" shows "Package media not > found!", so I install additional software by ma

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and LFN

Hi Joseph, > I do notice that the dir command doesn’t seem to display them, and I saw > nothing in the help for dir about lfn’s. I keep thinking about doing a new directory lister. I’ve never been fond of the DOS one. It’s been decades since the last version of my D.EXE program. If I ever fin

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy Installer repack of FreeDOS 1.3-RC5

> On Dec 18, 2021, at 4:19 PM, Darik Horn wrote: > >> That starts to get complicated when trying to just use a program like UNZIP. >> At nearly 200K for just the binary, > > The unzip-5.52 binary in the repack is 50,229 bytes. Which versions > are you using? The latest version we have 6.0.

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy Installer repack of FreeDOS 1.3-RC5

> On Dec 18, 2021, at 11:43 AM, Darik Horn wrote: > > Jerome, > >> Did your repack include ALL packages included in the FloppyEdition not just >> i386. > > Yes, the repack contains 1,177 files. > > >> For example, VirtualBox and VMWare include FDNet as well as the set for 386s. > > Note t

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy Installer repack of FreeDOS 1.3-RC5

Hi Darik, Quick questions… Did your repack include ALL packages included in the FloppyEdition not just i386. For example, VirtualBox and VMWare include FDNet as well as the set for 386s. Does it make any accommodations for different hardware? Or just install everything wether or not it is su

Re: [Freedos-user] slicer-0.17 error code #2

Hi, > On Dec 16, 2021, at 1:49 PM, Darik Horn wrote: > > NB: https://gitlab.com/DOSx86/slicer/-/merge_requests/1 > > There seems to be a related bug with /e and /i handling, which are > no-ops on my test machine. Could be. Originally, those switches we designed for mostly creating an archive

Re: [Freedos-user] slicer-0.17 error code #2

> On Dec 15, 2021, at 7:05 PM, Darik Horn wrote: > >> Please post a bug report at https://gitlab.com/DOSx86/slicer > > NB: https://gitlab.com/DOSx86/slicer/-/issues/1 > > >>> On DOSBox-X, slicer will fail on random files in a way that looks like a >>> race condition. >> >> Under the same

Re: [Freedos-user] slicer-0.17 error code #2

Hi Darik > On Dec 15, 2021, at 5:11 PM, Darik Horn wrote: > > Hi, > > In FreeDOS 1.3 RC5, the new slicer handles file overwrites inconsistently in > interactive mode. Reproduce the bug by doing this: > > C:\> SLICER /x /f \SLICES\FREEDOS.SAF /g * /O OUT > ... > Overwrite BI

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC5

Hello FreeDOS Community, The wait for 1.3-RC5 is over. It has arrived! There are so many changes, improvements and updates that it is not practical to go into it all. But, I’ll point out a couple special things to look forward to in RC5. New FreeCOM 0.85a New Kernel 2043 and an 8086 version wi

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about FreeDOS 3.0

Hmmm, I should get one. It would save me a lot of work. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] How to redirect STDOUT and STDERR to file

If all you want is a list of files and directories in a directory… veach /a+ /d *.* /l >out.txt VEACH is part of V8Power Tools that comes with FreeDOS. However, there have been important updates to V8Power Tools since the 1.3-RC4 release. I recommend updating the version you have to the latest

Re: [Freedos-user] SvarCOM - a nimble COMMAND.COM shell

Hi Mateusz, > On Nov 24, 2021, at 12:51 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Hello all, > > I tend to use FreeDOS mostly on old computers that often have no more than 1 > MiB of RAM. On such setups FreeDOS doesn't leave much memory to applications, > mostly due to FreeCOM. > > This is the main reaso

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS game compatibility mass testing results/questions

I have Wolfenstien 3D. It’s been a while. But, I’m fairly sure I’ve run on top of FreeDOS. I’ll need to check when I have the time. I also have a couple PQ and other Sierra games laying around. I think most of them worked without issue. But, again it’s been a while. I do recall that Battle Che

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

Hi Darik, One more thing… The “workflow” for packages… I download, restructure, compile, etc. the software. It then gets staged in completely uncompressed package format as a project at https://gitlab.com/FDOS (The sub-groups & projects there will probable be moving

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

Hi Darik, Also... > On Nov 16, 2021, at 1:00 PM, Darik Horn wrote: > [..] > This bash script does the same thing. The file is also in the shared > folder in case the listserv mangles it here. I will submit PRs for > additional work now that I know about the Gitlab account. FYI, I still need t

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

Hi Darik, > On Nov 16, 2021, at 1:01 PM, Darik Horn wrote: > > Jerome, > >> First, the new versions would need to be checked to ensure compatibility. >> They would probably be fine. But, testing would still need done. I honestly >> just done have the time for that at present. > > This work

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

Hi Darik, > On Nov 15, 2021, at 5:08 AM, Darik Horn wrote: > > Jerome, > >> If you can figure out how to get it to work, then it will be worth >> considering. > > It works. Updated builds are posted here: > > https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b7IE-EsK5R1ROmXTaEvYNi9-kfVvH5wi?usp=shar

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

Hi Darik, I appreciate the effort you put into creating a PowerShell script to repack the repository. However, I do not know if we are going to do that. First, the new versions would need to be checked to ensure compatibility. They would probably be fine. But, testing would still need done. I

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

Hi Darik, I did not read every entry in that list of files. But there were a couple things I noticed while skimming it… Those files are in the mirrors section of the ibiblio server. They don’t really have anything directly to do with the packages in the software repo area. Nor do they have any

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

Hi Eric, > On Nov 11, 2021, at 4:13 PM, E. Auer wrote: > >  > Hi! Please describe that "normalizing" process which makes > the source codes inside the distro packages behave like a > solid archive. If you remove them from the ZIP and add a > TAR of the sources to the ZIP instead, you would get

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

Hi Darik, > On Nov 11, 2021, at 1:56 PM, Darik Horn wrote: > [..] > RAR implements the PKZIP listfile syntax, so the SETUP.BAT invocation > would change to this; > > SET TCPU=8086 > REM vinfo stuff goes here... > unrar x freedos.rar @%TCPU%.txt > > Where the @LISTFILE corresponds to a SLICER

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

Hi Travis, > On Nov 11, 2021, at 10:37 AM, Travis Siegel wrote: > > I have never used slicer, so can't comment on it. > I wouldn’t expect you to use it. In almost every case, there are other utilities that are in common use. And/or, better suited to a task. Slicer was created specifically to

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

Hi Darik, > On Nov 11, 2021, at 12:12 AM, Darik Horn wrote: > [..] > SLICER is small. Less than 1/10th the size of RAR. While, this does not > matter as much for a 1.44mb diskette. It matters a lot if a user only has a > 160K drive to work with. With RAR being roughly 353K, that is not going to

Re: [Freedos-user] ISO repack reduces size by 10%

Hi Darik, > On Nov 8, 2021, at 6:55 PM, Darik Horn wrote: > > Hi all, > > The FreeDOS repo ISO file that was published today can be reduced from 632MB > to 579MB by repacking it. This adds 53MB of media headroom, which should > reduce pressure to bump packages in future point releases. Just

[Freedos-user] Smiley

Hi all, Earlier today, I made Smiley available. It’s a simple game mostly to test some things in te Inferno Game Engine. But, it’s definitely playable. You can grab it from my DOS repo at https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/smiley.html and give it a whirl. :-) __

Re: [Freedos-user] a tad Bit Pixelated

Hi all, Just found and fixed a critical bug effecting ImgEdit causing corrupt saves and random crashing. Basically, it had to do with image compression. So make sure you fetch the new 10/24 version from https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/imgedit.html

[Freedos-user] a tad Bit Pixelated

Hi all, I’ve been working on something for a while now. It’s all be prep-work towards my latest project. One of the things I needed for that project is a special kind of image editor. So, I made one. :-) ImgEdit is more or less just a side benefit from what I’m actually working on. But never-

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNET missing from FreeDOS 1.3-RC4

Hi Jim and Everyone, > On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 10:58 AM Jim Hall wrote: > [..] > *If you agree or disagree, I'd appreciate your reply to this email. > Agreement can be simply "agree" or "+1". If you disagree, please > discuss. (But consensus from the last discussion favored including > FDNET, so i

[Freedos-user] Minor but nice update to PGME

Hi All, Just released minor (but nice) update to PGME. Fixed a non-critical (visual only) bug. Tweaked a couple fonts. And if you use the TIME screen saver, it will now "remember" what scale it was last left it. You could change scale before. But, it would always reset. You can download the up

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessing real floppy drive after booting the LiveCD

Hello, > On Aug 20, 2021, at 8:19 AM, Exilas wrote: > > Hi Eric, > thank you very much for your help, really appreciated! > > First of all, my drive letter issue has been solved... more or less. > > In my first attempt, I picked the "Install to HD" menu item to see the > available options, th

[Freedos-user] Major Update to PGME :-)

Hello all, I’ve just released a major update to PGME. Lot’s of general improvements, a bunch of stuff under the hood, a few user facing new features, some new screen savers and on and on. You can download the latest version that uses an installer at https://up.lod.bz/PGME

[Freedos-user] PkgTools Initial Release

Well, I’m sorry to say there won’t be any PgkTools release today. I’m just joking. 8P I just finished squashing the last serious bug a few minutes ago. At least I hope it was the last. You can download it from my server at https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/pkgtools.html

[Freedos-user] Coming soon...

Hi All, Have you installed a package in FreeDOS but can't find the EXE? Or maybe if your like me, it has been a little while since you have used something. You find yourself to wading through dozens or more directories, scanning file names all in order to find it? Worry no more! This upcom

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS get-together

Hi, > On Jul 18, 2021, at 5:47 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 4:39 PM Eric Auer wrote: >> [..] >> There was a link, sent by Jim earlier today, when the meeting had >> just started. Maybe it could better have been sent an hour before, >> and not only on freedos-devel, but also o

Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS get-together

Hi Jim and everyone, Had fun during the get-together. Playing around with Virtual Cameras, OBS and live streaming the video from my good old Pentium Pro. :-) During the online get-together, Jim wanted to know what was the font I was using in FreeDOS. It was one I created decades ago in my ea

Re: [Freedos-user] Old school: I work in DOS for an entire day

Eric, > On Jul 5, 2021, at 3:53 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Tom, thanks for sharing > >> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/07/dos-boot-ars-spends-a-day-working-in-freedos/ > > "The official current version (FreeDOS version 1.1, > released in 2011) is available as a live CD

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a FreeDOS compatibility page in the wiki?

Eric, > Another VERY annoying detail about our new packages is > https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/feature-requests/78/ > the fact that they have lost all timestamps so you > have no chance to know which file changed when :-( > Probably another collateral casuality of GIT, sigh. It is. And I’m

Re: [Freedos-user] Misc FreeDOS Stuff [was: Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel]

Hi, > On Jun 15, 2021, at 11:38 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi! > >> Basically, If a version for a specific platform doesn’t exist. The Default >> version is used. >> >> Extensions are >> 086-686: for CPU specific. >> DBX: for DOSBox >> VBX: for VirtualBox >> VMW: for VMwa

Re: [Freedos-user] Misc FreeDOS Stuff [was: Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel]

Hi, > On Jun 15, 2021, at 7:36 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > > thanks for reading the flood of mails :-) :-) > [..] >> Its not really the bad > > As it is difficult for me to predict which config > file contents will be used on which hardware, it > could be useful to start a thre

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

Wow there is a lot unpack here on several different posts…. > I think you're referring to time index 2:46 in the video, after > partitioning, when the system reboots and you can briefly see the > "warmboot" message. > > The difference is: (from "FDAPM /?") >> COLDboot / WARMboot - do a reboot wit

Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedos-devel] LSM: Entered-date means modified date

Hi Paul, There are two completely separate FreeDOS File Repositories on IBIBLIO. There is the “Online Software Repository”. It contains packages that are ready to use in FreeDOS. Programs that can perform package updates or installations over the internet point to this section. This packages in

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos Install Problem

An additional fact to be aware of… All the normal install media for FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 uses and always installs the 386 kernel with large file system support. Thats the CD media, USB media and CD Boot Floppy. However, the alternate x86 installer uses the 8086 kernel. The current version of this

Re: [Freedos-user] How to list "active" drives?

Hi Paul, > On Jun 9, 2021, at 8:48 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user > wrote: > > I am reading back the list... and I am at the critique of 1.3rc3. > > I think I saw some post about problems of identifying which drives are > "active" (have a driver that drive them). > Somehow it was mentions

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS make better compatibility with DOS games [current status]

Hi Eric, [reply on-list as asked] > On Jun 3, 2021, at 7:38 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Why cannot FDIMPLES free the allocated memory before calling FDINST? It is not that it can not do it. It is only that it’s original design (as a list editor) meant that all remaining memory was available for

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS make better compatibility with DOS games [current status]

Hi Eric, > On Jun 2, 2021, at 7:47 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > > if FDIMPLES is specifically used in advanced mode, where > more data has to be processed, I would suggest to consider > automatically enabling support for XMS when XMS is found. Not really needed. When run by the ins

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS make better compatibility with DOS games [current status]

Hi Eric, > On Jun 2, 2021, at 6:33 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >  > Hi Jerome, > > thanks for the explanation, but are we talking about DOS > RAM (at most 640 kB) here? Or EMS, XMS, protected mode? FDIMPLES and FDINST are both made for 8086. FDIMPLES is limited to only using low memory (640k). I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS make better compatibility with DOS games [current status]

Hello Tom, > On Jun 2, 2021, at 6:35 AM, tom ehlert wrote: > > Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel, > > am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2021 um 02:39 schrieben Sie: > > > >>>> On Jun 1, 2021, at 11:10 AM, Eric Auer wrote: >>> >>>  >>> Hi Luka

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS make better compatibility with DOS games [current status]

> On Jun 1, 2021, at 11:10 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >  > Hi Lukas, > […] > >> said it is memory issue and solved also by installing FreeDOS on hard drive >> in Pentium machine. That's how I did it as well and it works. Even >> installing a lot of packages on 486, the fdimples will crash with ou

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtualbox Networking Issue

Since you had ping working, you probably had networking working. So, it may just be an issue with the config file for FDNPKG that got installed. You should verify the settings in C:\FDOS\BIN\FDNPKG.CFG or you can just fetch the latest version of the package from the online repository at http:/

Re: [Freedos-user] FAT12

Hi Dan, > On May 25, 2021, at 5:53 PM, Daniel Sears wrote: > > I've installed FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 with FD13LITE.img on a 4GB USB drive. This > works and I can boot it just fine, but the primary partition uses FAT12 and > is 97% full. I would like to expand this partition with gparted, but that no

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Easter Egg

> On May 25, 2021, at 3:41 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Nice! Thanks > > I notice that, following the line which reads: > "FreeDOS Alpha 1 was released on September 16, 1994." > > the next sentence reads: > "That is over 25 years or history." > > which I believe shou

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Easter Egg

FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 LiveCD Easter Egg… https://youtu.be/SB17eypovvY ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] ibiblio.org

> On May 15, 2021, at 9:43 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > You don't have an old computer then. What is old anymore? I remember a time that a 2 year old PC was ancient and slow. Using that as the unit of measure, this computer is down right pre-historic. :-) They may have updated their proto

Re: [Freedos-user] ibiblio.org

> I just went to https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-html/ Seems fine to me. No problem here > On May 13, 2021, at 4:20 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > >  > What happened to ibilbio.org web site. > It won't let me in (unable to complete secure > t

Re: [Freedos-user] ibiblio.org

Hi, > On May 13, 2021, at 4:20 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > >  > What happened to ibilbio.org web site. > It won't let me in (unable to complete secure > tranaction - message.) > > > cheers > DS > > I just went to https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and screen readers for blind users

Hi Joseph, > On May 11, 2021, at 1:37 PM, Joseph Norton wrote: > Jerome, if you’re seeing this, can I still follow the same instructions to > update my build to the latest RC? Mostly... Since RC3, the Release Build Environment (RBE) has been redone. You will need to pull the latest RBE sourc

[Freedos-user] RC4 is Here!

It’s been a long time. The wait is over. 1.3-RC4 is now available. The FreeDOS website will be updated soon. But you can sink your teeth into it now be getting it straight from the Official download server. :-) ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-

Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review

> On May 1, 2021, at 7:48 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > [..] > it should STILL first ask the user > before installing DOS (pre-existing C: found) or creating > a new partition The installer ALWAYS asks if you want to partition when no DOS compatible partition can not be found. The installer ALWAYS

Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review

> On Apr 30, 2021, at 12:36 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, Laaca, others, > > Given that I have verbose thoughts about Laaca's review and your > […] > versions. Lite ONLY exists for USB and I think it is TOO small. Wether or not any of those ideas are good or bad, they all take some a

Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review

Hi Eric, I don’t know why I’m even responding to this forwarded “review”. But, I’ll assume the author will eventually see it. So, I’ll share some of my personal thoughts on some of it. Most of it comes down to user preference. As is always the case, any decision will nearly always have some wh

Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review

> On Apr 29, 2021, at 2:09 PM, Harald Arnesen wrote: > > Deposite Pirate [29.04.2021 19:20]: > >> April 29, 2021 6:32 PM, "geneb" wrote: >>> On the surface of it, he's apparently asking for a "windows experience" in >>> a text mode operating >>> system. DOS isn't a "point and drool your way

Re: [Freedos-user] problems with FreeDOS 1.3RC....

> On Apr 29, 2021, at 3:39 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > [..] > Does version 1.3rc3 already offer the ELTORITO driver as option? > Then it should work with that as long as it has booted FROM the ISO. RC3 does not have ELTORITO driver. RC4 includes the ELTORITO driver. > > Or does it always use the U

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use DOS a.k.a. FreeDOS for Dummies?

> On Apr 22, 2021, at 4:18 AM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > > Thanks, Jerome: > > Thanks for your efforts. Your welcome Thanks :-) Jerome ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/

[Freedos-user] Clear your calendar!

Clear your calendar and get ready! FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 is only days away. RC4 is in it’s final stage of testing and tweaking. There are loads of changes. Possibly more changes from RC3-RC4 than there was going from 1.2 to 1.3-RC1. :-) Jerome ___ Freed

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use DOS a.k.a. FreeDOS for Dummies?

> On Apr 18, 2021, at 3:01 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > [..] > I am looking forward to Jerome's next update with a tuned > driver strategy. FDISK would not help with that. RC4 is coming very very soon. The new RBE is done. Currently, testing and fixing minor issues with release media builds that we

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use DOS a.k.a. FreeDOS for Dummies?

Hello, > On Apr 18, 2021, at 12:27 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS was dead...

I primarily use openSUSE and CentOS. But for a Live CD linux, I recommend checking out one that isn’t even in the top 100 on the distrowatch list. A while back, I was looking for a distro that still actively supported 32-bit hardware. Most mainstream distros have moved to 64-bit only. Howev

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNet package license problems

> On Apr 10, 2021, at 7:03 PM, Michael Brutman wrote: > >  > Jerome, > > In the grand scheme of things it is not a big deal and it has been wrong for > years. > > Thanks for taking care of it. If it does remain then Rugxulo should consider > updating the parts of mTCP (and anything else)

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNet package license problems

Hello Michael, > On Apr 10, 2021, at 3:20 PM, Michael Brutman wrote: > > Gents (Jerome and Rugxulo in particular) ... > > As per > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/fdnet.html > >

Re: [Freedos-user] GEOS

Hi, With much effort… At last try, I was able to get the pre-release versions to compile. However the team of people who have been working on it, did not feel it was ready for release yet. There are several ways to communicate with them. https://bluewaysw.slack.com

[Freedos-user] Expired

Hi All, During yesterday's online get-together, I mentioned saying that one of the drivers License expires in 20 years from who you first us it. So, now that I powered my server back up… Here are some excerpts of what I find. 3COM 3C509B: (not 3C905B) TERM AND TERMINATION: This license will

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

Hi, > On Mar 17, 2021, at 2:49 PM, andrea...@tiscali.it wrote: > > Hi > I'm still doubtful about using fdnet in DOS machine - I'm not talking about > virtual box, which I don't use. > I have three laptops with freedos with pci ethernet cards (realtek, Via and > Broadcom) and with Nicscan I foun

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

Hi, Both of my real DOS machines also require special packet drivers. One uses 3c5x9pd.com , and the other 3c90xpd.com . So, I too need to tweak the “real hardware” stuff. How does this sound… Probably update to FDNET: If one of those

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

Hi, > On Mar 15, 2021, at 7:12 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > 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 > l

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

Hi, Unfortunately, there are only a few actual drivers that can be included in the FDNET package. This greatly limits the usefulness of FDNET. However, the supplied drivers work well in VirtualBox and VWware. Although not tested, it should support some versions of QEMU. There was a recent upd

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Audio

Hi Everybody, Thanks for all the advice and information. Just some rough machine history. I originally bought that Pentium Pro new back in late 95 at a computer show. About a decade ago, I migrated that machine from it’s original case to a 2U rack mount case to conserve space. The original ca

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Audio

Hi, > On Mar 6, 2021, at 6:03 PM, Joao Silva wrote: > >  > Hello. > > Search the net and found a site regarding audigy card link and hope that > works for you. > > I also have one in case and have the CD never used with freedos. Thanks. However, I was there earlier today. They are talking

[Freedos-user] DOS Audio

Hi everyone, My Pentuim Pro machine is working great with FreeDOS. I even got networking up and running. Just one small issue… Sound. It currently has a Sound Blaster Audigy 4 PCI card. Unfortunately after a couple hours scouring the web, It seems that card only has Windows drivers. Has anyon

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos on Intel Atom and a TV

> On Mar 6, 2021, at 9:41 AM, Pingüino Exe wrote: > > Hi > Well, for starters, I don't even know if this is the right place to ask but > here goes nothing. > > I got this tower that works with Intel Atom. To get the image and sound I > connected it to my tv, a samsung smart TV, vía VGA to HDM

Re: [Freedos-user] 1.3RC3 Installation woes (was Re: FDISK 1.3.3)

> On Mar 4, 2021, at 3:47 PM, Ralf Quint > wrote: > > [..] > I don't see how this would prevent the transfer of boot record, kernel, > command.com and a basic config.sys&autoexec,bat (and a > basic FREEDOS\BIN folder). If someone at this point

Re: [Freedos-user] 1.3RC3 Installation woes (was Re: FDISK 1.3.3)

> On Mar 4, 2021, at 2:56 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > > [..] > Yes, I can fix this problem myself, that is not the issue. It is that this > all seems to trip potential new users right at the start. From what I recall (and I could be wrong), the vast majority of “new” users are not running on bare

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK 1.3.3

Hi Eric, > On Mar 4, 2021, at 8:50 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > >> I just wish we had some OSS CD/DVD driver alternatives. > > But our drivers already are OSS? > > Eric I should have been more clear. I know that the drivers we have are OSS. But, I’d like to see some additional driver choices fo

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK 1.3.3

> On Mar 4, 2021, at 8:24 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >  > 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 binar

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK 1.3.3

Hi Ralf, I’m sorry to hear you are having problems installing 1.3-RC3. Comparing 1.2-FINAL to 1.3-RC3, very little has changed with the CD boot process or installer. Most of the changes between those versions are the packages that get installed and the addition of a Live environment on the Li

Re: [Freedos-user] Updates to the FreeDOS website?

Hi, > On Feb 23, 2021, at 8:37 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > "Downoad" is where I would expect to just get one ISO, > not where I seek information about emulators. This also > is why I would like a separate topic or tile which can > advertise the LSM list directly on the front page :-) On a side not

Re: [Freedos-user] New AMB based FreeDOS Help

ML to AMB converter. It is semi-functional. But, some things came up and pulled me away from it. I haven’t worked on it in months. Eventually, I hope to get back to it and finish it. :-) Jerome > >> On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 22:44, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> >> >> &g

Re: [Freedos-user] New AMB based FreeDOS Help

> On Feb 22, 2021, at 4:40 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > The amp based … The AMB based … (I just love spell correction) :-) ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] New AMB based FreeDOS Help

Hello everyone, I just quickly threw together the packages for the AMB based help reader that may be replacing the existing HTMLHELP based version. To try it out … download these two packages from the ibiblio repository http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest

Re: [Freedos-user] What is the FreeDOS fish?

> On Feb 22, 2021, at 12:06 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Darn, I thought I’d updated this to be mobile friendly. Must have missed > something when I rewrote the css. I’ll have to look at that again. > > What phone do you use? iPhone 6s, latest version of iOS.

Re: [Freedos-user] What is the FreeDOS fish?

Hi Jim, Unfortunately, the test site is not very mobile friendly. On my phone, the left tiles are chopped in half and cannot zoom or scroll that direction to make them whole. The right hand tiles by default are only half visible. However unlike the left side, the page can be shifted to see the

[Freedos-user] Bloček Update

Hi All, The current version of Bloček on the FreeDOS repo and install media is 1.4. Recently, it received another update. It is now up to version 1.62. Looking at its history, it has had numerous fixes and features added since out last version. I downloaded the latest version and attempted to

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK 1.3.3

Hi Tom, > On Feb 10, 2021, at 10:47 AM, tom ehlert wrote: > > Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel, > > am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2021 um 16:08 schrieben Sie: > >> Hi Eric, > > >> On Feb 10, 2021, at 8:40 AM, Eric Auer wrote: >> [..] > > >>

<    1   2   3   4   5   >