For almost 30 years I have written various computer-based tests for
studies in psychology and related fields. These required timing
accuracy comparable to the traditional electromechanical testing
devices, so that DOS (initially AppleDOS and then PC-DOS) was the
operating system of choice. Esse
On 06/07/2013 01:41 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> ...
> "You *wish* you were
> important enough that anyone could be *bothered* to pay that sort of
> attention to you. You aren't and they don't."
>
Warhol deconstructed. I like it.
Jim
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On 02/09/2013 04:43 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
>...
Hi Rugxulo,
Thanks for the tips. The initial problem was the GPT partition table
which I have now found is a common one. Because FREEDOS tries to write
an MSDOS partition table, this apparently corrupts the GPT table and
things don't work correctly. I
Hi,
I have been trying to set up an HP nx6320 laptop with FREEDOS and Fedora
Linux. While I have done this numerous times previously, by simply
installing FREEDOS and then Linux, this particular box is giving me no
end of trouble. I can install FREEDOS and it boots okay, but when I
install Linu
On 01/04/2013 10:27 AM, john s wolter wrote:
> It's the clock, just the clock. It's a square wave usually, the old up
> and down. Pin 19, CLK, on the Intel 8086 DIP
>
> When emulating the speed of a 8088, 8086, 80286,... CPUs you need to
> emulate the Clock cycles
>
> -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
On 01/04/2013 04:13 AM, dmccunney wrote:
> ...
> "Real time" simply means "guaranteed to respond to an external event
> within a specified period". What time period is required?
>
I have been able to guarantee millisecond resolution of events to
measure the subtle effects on human performance of
On 01/03/2013 12:57 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Jim Lemon wrote:
>
>> If there was a Linux kernel in which the user could turn off everything that
>> isn't in DOS, that would be a way out.
>
> If you could turn off everything that *isn&#x
On 01/03/2013 07:52 AM, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
> ...
> Now I wonder myself if any of these two variants will dominate in the
> future, or if there will be a third different approach to the future of DOS.
For those of us who use DOS for its simpleminded "I do what I'm told and
that's all I do" fu
On 04/12/2012 06:54 AM, dmccunney wrote:
> ...
> the question becomes "Why do you *need* to do this?"
>
> The answer is that generally, you *don't*. Current hardware is
> increasingly faster and more powerful. In the old days you talked
> directly to the hardware to squeeze the maximum performanc
On 04/11/2012 12:37 AM, Alex wrote:
> Hi
>
> This topic is not about DOS vs other operating systems, or the fact
> that users tend to gradually abandon DOS. It's about the survivability
> of DOS vis-a-vis hardware.
> The starting point for my reasoning is: what will happen with the
> future develop
On 01/26/2012 10:53 AM, Bob Cochran wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am pretty ignorant of how FreeDOS is used by the community as I am
> sure my previous posts show. I would like to build a better
> understanding of FreeDOS. What is it used for most commonly? I know it
> is an operating system, of course
On 01/26/2012 11:54 AM, Marco Achury wrote:
>
> Dear Sirs
>
> Is there any "official" or recommended C compiler for Freedos?
>
> Would be great if such compiler come included on the distro so
> the user can create their own programs.
>
> I know djgpp and Watcom, are both compilers under active
> de
On 07/02/2011 04:21 AM, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
> ...
>> I actually have several programs that simulate keystrokes (MOUSKEYS,
>> JOYKEYS, SCANCODE, and USBKEYB). However, in order to simulate keystrokes
>> properly, the BIOS must be "compatible" with the keyboard simulation as
>> provided by th
On 06/06/2011 10:19 PM, Pat Villani wrote:
> Oh, I know that. Last year I spent several months talking to them and
> HP was bold enough to say "WHo needs you. It's free." Complete
> ignorance on their part, which makes me very happy I left the several
> years ago.
>
> Point is that they do distr
On 05/06/2011 06:43 AM, Marco Achury wrote:
>
> Is available any new wordprocessor for DOS?
>
> On this old talk recommend msword for DOS (free as free beer)
> http://www.computing.net/answers/dos/free-word-processor/16280.html
>
Hi Marco,
There are several sites for downloading WordPerfect 4.2, th
Hi all,
Quite some time ago, I posted a problem that when I upgraded to FreeDOS
1.0, my Borland 2.0 compiler started throwing errors that it couldn't
find some object and library files to link. In desperation, I managed to
get the compiler to work on an ancient laptop that was running FreeDOS
0
Hi all,
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried copying the old (0.9) KERNEL.SYS and
COMMAND.COM onto the drive, but no luck, the same error on trying to
compile. I had downloaded FreeDOS1.0 from freedos.org, but it only had
the 2036 kernel. I'm reluctant to do a full install, as it will knock
out
On 11/20/2010 12:14 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> ...
> What year and model and cpu? Just curious. And what exactly doesn't
> work, it won't turn on??
>
DELL Latitude XP 475D
Plugged it in, hit the switch and nothing. No lights, no sound, nothing.
It has been going for years and I only kept it for the last
Hi all,
Well, it's finally happened. The ancient DELL laptop that has been my
only development machine has carked it and I am going to have to try to
downgrade this PC to a pre-1.0 version to keep compiling. My Borland C
compiler has not worked on this machine since I upgraded to 1.0 and
despit
On 05/28/2010 11:49 PM, Alain Mouette wrote:
>
> I use Borland C 3.1 regularly on FreeDOS... have you tryed to configure
> the the lib directories in the IDE?
>
Hi Alain,
Yes, I set the directories and for some reason when I try to compile,
the IDE reports that it "can't open XXX.lib" when I know
On 05/28/2010 01:19 PM, Ralf A. Quint wrote:
> ...
> I personally prefer Borlands C/C++ 3.1 myself, it's still after all
> those years the most usable DOS C/C++ compiler that still runs on 16
> bit DOS, though unfortunately, only the older version of Turbo C++
> 1.01 is available from Borland's/Im
On 01/22/2010 08:08 AM, Ray Davison wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> On 2010/01/18 15:00 (GMT-0800) Ray Davison composed:
>>
>>> I recently swapped my wife's CRT for a used 20", IBM ThinkVision. The
>>> image is shifted up about an inch which puts a pull-down bar off-screen.
>>>Win and eCS (OS/2
On 01/13/2010 02:08 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Hi,
> I use English, Canadian, and wish to turn up the internal speaker volume.
> I have seen enough to suggest that there here was some command for this.
> With some DOS screen readers, that speaker is used for indications.
> With some laptops, it
On 11/22/2009 10:16 PM, dos386 wrote:
>> Many PCs with a sound card seem to automatically route the
>> internal speaker to the sound card, but this one doesn't.
>>
> Hardware issue, not driver issue.
>
>
Indeed, but that doesn't solve the problem.
>> first attempt at solving the problem i
Hi folks,
I'm trying to get a Fujitsu E8410 to send a tone to the headphone output
instead of the internal speaker. Many PCs with a sound card seem to
automatically route the internal speaker to the sound card, but this one
doesn't. My first attempt at solving the problem is to try the
soundbla
Pat Villani wrote:
> Let me address all your fears. Version 1.1 is being worked on as we
> speak.
>
> Now, if the folks that are eager to see a version 1.1 are willing to
> contribute, let me know and we'll figure out how you can help.
One thing that might help is that I have found that while ve
Since there seems to be a sort of democratic process emerging on the
direction of FreeDOS, I suppose I should at least state my opinion. I
use FreeDOS for what it doesn't have, like:
no multi-tasking to grab the CPU for housekeeping while I want it
concentrating on business.
or that I can turn
kurt godel wrote:
> Ok, I give up; I knew that linux has 'make' and 'make install' all
> over the place, but, until this afternoon,
> I never knew that dos has it. While attempting to install some parts
> of HX and GEM to djgpp, I was struck
> by this: "use 'make' to configure the includes(header
Hi gang,
I had to do some programming on the DOS human performance tests that I
wrote after a considerable break. I had downloaded FreeDOS 1.0 a while
ago and fortunately hadn't gotten around to installing it until a few
days ago. When I tried to recompile some code, the compiler started
throwi
Hi all,
I read Michael Robinson's email with great interest. About my only
interest in DOS is that it allows me to take over the machinery without
the operating system butting in. It is a fantastic environment for test
programming and other uses that require real time I/O. I've been away
from t
Jose Antonio Senna wrote:
> JIm Lemon wrote:
>
>
>>This is almost invariably an older version of unrar trying to uncompress
>>a file compressed with a newer version of rar. As Oleg noted, go to
>>rarlabs and get the latest version.
>
>
> Last time I did
prasad mehendale wrote:
> Hello !
> I am unable to unrar some rar packages like ndn using unrar utility
> (rar206 e.g.) with the error message
> some thing like
> "method of compression not supported"
> Could someone suggest me which unrar utility should I use to unrar the
> latest nnd ?
Hi Pras
Hi folks,
After using FreeDOS for some years to run a battery of human performance
tests, I am running out of tricks keeping up with PC design. In order to
run the tests on PCs without a VFAT partition, I now boot off a CD-ROM
and write data to a diskette. Unfortunately, hardly any PCs these da
Carl Spitzer wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:13 -0500, Jim Lemon wrote:
I programmed something like this and it might do what you want. The
following constants and function allow a program to place up to 16
two-byte characters in the keyboard buffer. When the program exits
(without reading
Andrew Greenberg wrote:
Hi everyone,
4DOS has a nifty command called "keystack" which allows you to insert
key strokes into the keyboard buffer. This is handy for controlling DOS
programs which you can't script from the command line.
Does FreeDOS have anything like this? Or does anyone have
Johnson Lam wrote:
Hello,
1) USB Driver Disk v1.5
- Thanks to Bernd's help rewriting AUTOEXEC.BAT to avoid loading
USBASPI twice!
Hi Johnson,
I'm quite interested in USB support, as diskette drives are getting
scarce on new PCs. I couldn't find this on the FreeDOS site, could you
let me kn
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
I want to make my own bootable dos CD. My current attempts using K3b
under Suse make bootable cd's but I can not then access the additional
files.
1) What am I doing wrong?
You may not be adding the boot image and the boot catalog to the ISO9660
image. Say you
Hi,
I have been using FreeDOS as a platform for a battery of human
performance tests for a few years. It has allowed me to keep a very
useful test battery going with the demise of MS-DOS, as the tests take
over system interrupts and do not work properly in a DOS window.
However, it is becoming
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