> I would imagine that Freedos in 16 bit mode can't use multiple cores
It can't actively take benefit from them, but it still runs, FYI :shock:
> One of the problems with DOS that I recall is a total
> lack of hardware protection
Right.
> Unfortunately, accessing hardware directly
> instead of
> Given the size of hard rives, using trusty pkip to create a set of
> backup discs is well not possible.
No need to backup disk image ;-)
> how you do large backup work yourself now? say 3 gig or so?
Copy "gig" files or archive and compress then.
> Personally, I'd probably just burn the files
Jim wrote:
> I like this one:
> > "2011-08-02 18:09:06"
just make it the default ;-)
cm wrote:
> Except if a 12-hour time format is desired
no point ;-)
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COOL :
> %ifdef OLDSTYLE
> fdreplace db "FDKERN"
> fdreplacecnt db "ELSYS"
> %else
> fdreplace db "KERNEL"
> fdreplacecnt db " SYS"
> %endif
NOT COOL :
> ; must match order of search strings:
> searchlist dw fdtype, mstype, ibmtype, wintype, othertype
N
> Lots of software (especially driver installers) still depends on
> CONFIG.SYS existing
Bad hehaviour. Probably for same reason NTVDM always brews
empty "MSDOS.SYS" and "IO.SYS" files whenever launched.
Apparently there is at least one app checking for existence of those
2 files to make sure it i
> > Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot
> > are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979
> That's a nice idea, though at first glance a bit odd looking. Any
> systems using this upper [`] or ['] ?
FASM :-) Using it in all my sources :-) The ASCII code is 39.
> > "2011-Aug-02 Tue 18:09:06"
> That one doesn't sort very well either (puts April next to August)
Indeed :-(
so
"2011-08-02 18:09:06"
or
"2011-08(Aug)-02 (Tue) 18:09:06"
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> Could someone tell me if it's possible to have multiple instances
> of (Free)DOS installed to the same partition?
YES.
Unfortunately, the kernel looks for FDCONFIG.SYS and CONFIG.SYS
only (I'd kick the latter, BTW), so all FreeDOS kernels will share this
one file, except you patch the kernel.
> * number: nnn.nnn.nnn,xyz (european)
Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot
are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979
> * separater: ehm no idea.
Of who or what ?
> * keyboard: QWERTY with EURO (858 thus), still not managed to get a
> euro-sign in DOS b
> ... or all the other date formattings
No point of existence ;-)
> German dd.mm. hh:mm 1.000,00 for COUNTRY
> than BIOS default US QWERTY) are totally different
I prefer to keep things simple (QWERTY, "@" and "\" discoverable)
and convenient (-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) - no need for messing
up ev
> I try to install Freedos
good, but what exactly ???
> on a P3-800, Asus Cubx board, Intel i440BX
> chip, 384MB of RAM. And I am frustrated by now
Excellent BUG report :-(
> I got about 30 crashes.
1.0 distro is obsolete, overloaded and buggy ...
> Is it wise to uses freedos 1.0 for producti
I'd like to see -MM-DD (with dashes) and without COUNTRY.
> makes sorting files by date so much easier.
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> intentionally, as far as I remember for mimicking MS style
EDR-DOS doesn't have this bug ;-)
> If MS COMMAND.COM for DOS didn't have a setting for 4-digit year
Another one: all dates should be -MM-DD and times without the
silly "a" and "p"
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> [Freedos-user] graphics in dos.
> djgpp info warns that both bios and vga approach go outside of protected mode
COOL.
VGA works from PM, bancrupt VESA works from PM, LFB VESA works from PM,
BIOS works from PM (but is a pain and needs temporary switch to RM).
VESA LFB can be written from PM onl
> seems to require Japheth's HX-extender if I remember correctly
NO. Only a DPMI host (I tested with HDPMI32 only).
Has "RGB-vs-BGR-BUG" and "GOGO-page-or-hell-BUG". Otherwise highly recommended.
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there are some DOS examples there. Look into 80386 or 8086 Intel
manuals (25 or 33 years old !!!), the latest are not really useful for
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> Excuse me for the OT but I think there are some that can help me here.
> I am trying to learn assembly language.
Join http://board.flatassembler.net/
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> I am kind of new to freedos operating system and I want to
> know if it is ok to deliver it installed on assambled computers
> we deliver to a customer.
Please note that the 1.0 distros from 2006 are EXTREMELY OBSOLETE (see
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> You mean this Vision Edit or something else? Yup, same authors:
> Not sure what it does so uniquely, esp. since you already use FTE,
> NDN, and SET (though I sympathize with your curiosity).
Anyone dares to test the new INFOPAD editor ?
http://ladsoft.tripod.com/cc386.htm
(wait for 3.90, 3.89
> The HDPMI manual describes about 15 options, half of them
> cryptical to the uninitiated.
Just try them (one after other). Note than EMM386 can be an
additional source of trouble, try to disable it.
TFM of HDPMI wrote:
> 8. Known Problems / Hints
> Well, I'm doing just that: using FreeDOS. I
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> 1. IMP archiver (Technelysium Pty Ltd., 2000)
> So far I have only been able to run IMP with DOS4GW.EXE
HDPMI32 is a DPMI host only, not a drop-in
replacement of DOG4SW. Plus all those WATCOM
extenders don't like external DOS based DPMI
hosts too much. Neither HDPMI32 nor HX can
replace DOG4SW.
> I've visited the FreeDOS Wikipedia page that appears somewhat out of date
1.0 is still the latest release. Many utils had important updates since,
but no distro. Plus kernel 2039 has regressions compared to 2038.
I stopped waiting for 1.1 (feel free to shock me ...).
Anyone dares to remove the
Check the BUGzilla (BUG-tracker) at SF ... this is "familiar" to me
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> * I connected a USB keyboard to a DELL OptiPlex GX620
> (there is no PS/2 port in this model)
BIOS-level emulation
> * When the computer was booted with the CD, I was asked to press
> Enter to boot to CD. Please notice that I pressed Enter to boot to CD,
> so it seems the Enter key (thus the k
> that when I upgraded to FreeDOS 1.0, my Borland 2.0 compiler started throwing
> errors
I suggest kernel 2038, and latest or no of the other stuff (HIMEMX, ...).
Simplest DOS installation, and no garbage, especially not in main
directory on FAT12 or FAT16 ;-)
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> EDIT: Never tried, but would TAME work?? http://www.tame-dog.com/
> DOSBox is only for games. As mentioned http://www.dog-box.com/
:-(
> 1. FreeDOS inside Windows XP because that's what they run
BOCHS ?
> 2. Divert LPT1 to Windows printers
Never tested ...
> 3. Virtual A & B diskettes usi
> I see many bin files (hdpmi, dpmild32 ecc...) are the same in both the BIN of
> fdos and HX
Strange :-(
> Is it possible a conflict between these?
Better just 1 place, and GET HX 2.17 pre (timing bug, no up-to-date
source) or 2.14 (other flaws).
Do not install multiple versions of HX at same
COOL :-)
Nevertheless, I'll stay with just ZIP and 7-ZIP (both possibly
containing a TAR).
I don't need 1'000'000'000'000 archive formats.
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CC386 compilers (I ever tested the latter one only). The are also
pre-brewn int86() int386() and maybe more functions to fire the INT
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> Is there any SATA driver available on DOS can access SATA hard drivers?
What's the problem? BIOS usually supports SATA. Use IDECHECK
to test the performance before complaining.
> The long answer is that drivers such as UIDE which Bernd mentioned and which
> can be found on http://johnson.tmfc
> Dosbox is an emulator that emulates an x86 processor and PC hardware
> In this way, it is similar to qemu or bochs
good ...
> It goes one step beyond in that they added to the emulator a
> DOS-like interface that maps the native file system into the DOS system calls,
> as well as the remaining
> So could anyone show me an example to setup this driver?
NO. It's easy and documented.
> I took steps and installed the driver but system will hang or tell me wrong
> IRQ.
Provide details.
Get http://www.file-pasta.com/file/0/PCI.ZI7 (original page dead) and
post details about USB stuff and
> I may have asked this along time ago, and either missed
> the answer, or never was one...
this had been asked already 1'000'000'000'000 times ;-)
> it runs well with FreeDos, also,..but
> it never can detect "sound blaster", and that is the only sound device it can
> use...
The game is obsole
> Are there Dust-Bunnies inside the power-supply?
> Is the p-s fan working? Is there a CPU fan and is it working?
FYI, I indeed did have a PC (not laptop) with this problem. Removing
all the dust mess not only removed all mysterious crashes but
also the CPU fan noise went massively down :-)
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I'd suggest to reduce CPU frequency if possible or to
improve the cooling / ventilation. Among other flaws mentioned
above this definitely is a "mechanical / thermal flaw" because
the CPU should NOT be able to overheat even if it is
very busy or executes "flawed code". Imagine compressing
a large f
> Unfortunately, nowhere I see any explicit conditions under which
> it's to be available.
There are, RTFL:
> The game *STAR TETRIS II* is copyright (C) by Narech Koumar, Supernar
> Systems, Ltd. This game is a freeware and may be copied, given away,
> uploaded to internet and/or local
> Are there any tiny free software games for FreeDOS?
Star Tetris by Narech Koumar http://st2.narechk.net/index_en.html
(it advertizes DOG-BOX rather than FreeDOS ...)
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> Sorry folks, no exciting pictures of my little sister here ;-)
to me it's still unclear what it is supposed to do and whether it
works in (Free-)DOS at all, considering the shots you posted ;-(
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> 1. Why does FreeDOS FDISK give an error message
> indicating that partitioning failed?
I don't know, but because of crappy volume management in legacy
DOS kernels you MUST REBOOT after exiting FDISK, otherwise
random errors are a "MUST" :-(
> \INSTRUC\SOFTWARE is a directory without '..'
How d
COOL, but FreeBASIC's "SCREEN 20" won't be that easy anymore ;-)
http://board.flatassembler.net/download.php?id=3915 <- this is C code
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> I have the watcom compiler already installed on my debia
Make sure to test you "DOS app" in DOS :-)
> I am also very familiar with C and C++ plus numerous other languages.
Learn how to fire real mode INT's and access physical (ISA and PCI)
memory and hardware ports.
> I would like to know wha
> Please can someone tell me how I might go about building a
> freedos executable to do some simple graphics
DOS GUI development is much appreciated :-)
1. VGA mode 320x200x8bpp (safest and easiest)
2. VGA mode 640x480x4bpp (safest but more painful)
3. Other VGA/ModeX (less safe)
4. Banked VES
> [Freedos-user] Desperately need help with insalling VMware 7
> help would be GREAT
> I have looked everywhere on, Google, YouTube
I'm not aware of technologies to access Loo-Tube from FreeDOS.
Please share your achievements. :-)
> Help would be greatly appreciated and I would like to help in m
> HirensBoot Cd, has a real nice CD, that can be used to help, but it is not
> useing FreeDos, but you can build a CD, includeing FreeDos,...
Better keep away from Hiren, IIRC I've seen much piracy there at some time :-(
> Freedos option fails, WinME option works
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the hard way, see above
> Dose metakern.sys go in the config.sys file or where?
NO.
> or is only to be done from conmmand line?
You have to append the B.S. images (512 Byte's per piece) some way.
It can boot FreeDOS, EDR-DOS (does
DOG-EMU :-(
> Emulate floppy drive for laptop without floppy
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=7901
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> Perhaps you tried a partition too large, for the FAT16
> exact maximum (from Microsoft documentation) is 65524
> clusters, which means a little under 2 GB with 32 KB
> size clusters. I suggest you try four partitions.
Some OS'es (EDR-DOS, Windaube NT) reportedly support FAT16
with cluster size o
> Compaq MS-DOS 3.31, large FAT32 partitions with up to 32 sectors
> per cluster for partitions up to 2GB
You meant probably:
Compaq MS-DOG 3.31, large FAT16 partitions with up to 64 sectors
per cluster (32 KiB) for partitions up to almost 2 GiB
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> /U is unconditional, it will test all and take a lng time
I haven't tried "/U" on HD yet (works for floppy).
> /S is to copy the system (freedos)
Or copy files manually after brewing the FS and finally fire SYS.COM
to activate the kernel.
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:-)
> After running Fdisk to create three 2 GB partitions and make one
> bootable, I ran Format, but it gave the error message:
Works for me. In FreeDOS ? Did you reboot after FDISK ???
> Running CPB0.COM (Clear Pre Bo
If you have enough free space, XCOPY (or file manager) all files from
one partition to the other one, re-create empty filesystem, and copy
back.
About DEFRAG, it was buggy for me too but I did't retest too recently.
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> What could be a reason?
- Limited VGA/Modex/VESA compatibility of the laptop's graph chip+BIOS
(try change mode???)
- Memory issues XMS/EMS/DPMI (used???)
No FreeDOS BUG at all.
> Has anybody seen such a thing?
No, but other graphical BUG's ...
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> installing FreeDos, into a new portable HD, usb I just
> bought, it is sangsun,320GB
cca 250 MiB ???
> I also just wanted to comment, on the music, and long file names
Not supported in FreeDOS (at least not by the kernel).
> directory in Fdos, none of the names could be read,it was real c
> Is it possible to get DOS to use a print server such as this?
If you have a packet driver, YES, theoretically, since one
can connect to HTTP servers ;-)
> Windows for Workgroup, Windows 95/98/NT/Me/2000, NetWare
> ww.viralbox.og So we could be having fun with DOS for decades to come
NOT amused
> put it on my little freebie site: www.dosoid.bravehost.com. Unfortunately,
> the free version does not allow upload of any folders, let alone zips; for
> this
> reason, the one and only folder required, "hdr", must be created by the user.
WtF ??? "free" version of your crippleware or the webhos
> Well, I don't see anyone in the Freedos community insisting that
> closed source compilers be used
I prefer Open Source FASM.
Did you mean MSVC? I don't trust Microsoft and
YES. Agree.
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> Who needs WIndaube?
I don't :-D
I have been interested in ReactOS, but as of today I gt my forum
posting priviledges revoked
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"nute" ???
> We've had to deal with plenty of bugs in GCC over the years that we
> wouldn't have had to
> If anyone is interested, I have written a "toy" GUI for dos(freedos,
> msdos,'boxdos');
> I call it hobo, half a GUI;
Download ? Shot ?
> imagine a line right to left. On the left end is dos. On the right
> end is windows/kde/gnome. The right end has bloat, the left end does not
Good :-)
> c
> Why not lynx itself ? There is a port to DOS of version 2.8.5 at
> http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/ and there used to be a port
> of version 2.8.4d14, which I find nicer (use it daily), at
> http://www.rene4u.com
Dead :-(
> I can send you the executable (NOT the sources, for I do not
> have the
> What are the goals at this point for Freedos 1.1?
Fix BUG's ...
> I would like to see an effort to move from a free dos system to
> a free Windows 9x/Windows Millenium replacement.
Please don't disturb the death silence. R.I.P. Windaube ;-)
> Another area that Freedos is weak in is word proce
> > freedos webb site, once and found(in the downloads)or
> > software a drawing,paint program, for dos
> BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=5824
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> Can we run fdisk on a file?
I don't know ... possibly not directly ...
> Don't we need a block device?
Maybe rather a physical disk ?
> The fdisk should be from freedos, right?
YES.
But it's pointless: FDISK will run inside BOCHS and "think" to access a
physical disk, and BOCHS will "redire
Create empty file of cca 16 MiB (exact multiple of 512*63 Byte's !!!),
go into BOCHS (host OS = DOS) with FreeDOS floppy + this file as HD,
create MBR area + primary partition ("FDISK"), brew fs ("FORMAT"),
copy and install FreeDOS ("SYS"), copy other files, done !!!
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> Both the base and full version of FD cause the same issue.
They are incredibly obsolete, so no "Invalid opcode" again", just
"Still Invalid opcode with distro's from 4 years ago".
Try 2038 and 2039 (be warned of other critical BUG) kernels.
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> have use FreeDOS with doslfn
Try without DOSLFN
> 1) Replace 'fake' cwsdpmi.exe with the one from
There is nothing evil about the "fake" cwsdpmi.exe ;-)
Also, you should post / have posted your BZIP2 and FreeDOS version
just at start, and from what piracy page you downloaded them.
IIRC it u
> > First steps towards system programming under MS-DOS7.
> > http://www.multiboot.ru/FrstStps.pdf
Do you have a well working solution to view PDF's under FreeDOS ?
OOps, I don't have MS-DOG7 at all ;-)
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> slowo.tar.bz2 file on RAM disk.
How ? "slowo.tar.bz2" is not a valid filename under FreeDOS. ;-) Do
you use DOS ?
> A filename issue would produce "No such file or directory (ENOENT)".
Usually, but not necessarily ...
> The same problem with `slowo.bz2' file name.
Then the archive is corrupt
> [Freedos-user] ot: turning up the pc speaker?
> Does anyone remember the dos command to accomplish this ?
NO. There is none.
> I use English, Canadian
money ???
> and wish to turn up the internal speaker volume.
For both more or less or ZERO volume, there are only hardware solutions.
http:/
> > > Does it run in IDE compatibility mode or in AHCI? I don't know.
> > But this IS IMPORTANT to know. None of existing DOS drivers supports AHCI.
> But How to get this information ? ! ! ! !
RTFM ??? Some hardware detection tool ???
> After booting from "FREEDOS BOOTABLE CDROM" I can access
There is (reportedly) a FORTRAN compiler in DGJPP avaialble,
and WATCOM also supports FORTRAN.
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> made an install of freedos 1.0 from bootable cd following
> screen instruction without any problem.
Nevertheless, you should update a few things: HIMEM, EMM386, CTMOUSE, ...
> Also, throw away XDMA.SYS, it shouldn't be needed and might actually cause
> problems.
NO. XDMA 3.1 is good (3.3 is b
> My mouse is not USB. It is a real old one, with a flat
> plug with two rows of holes.
Serial mouse ;-)
Again, try to save more low memory under FreeDOS.
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> and AUTOEXEC.BAT now contains:
> lh C:\FDOS\BIN\KEYB.EXE br,850
IIRC I already had suggested to empty it (except CTMOUSE) ;-)
> everything from FreeDOS also works under the MS
> kernel, and Desi-III is equally fast.
IIRC I had already suggested EDR-DOS or (DR-DOS) kernel.
Also the FAT<=16 Fre
> Since I started using FreeDOS in 2007 I noticed that it was
> taking longer for DESI-III to refresh the screen -- an important
> point for CAD software, because we must zoom in and out all the time.
Nice that someone uses DESI-III with FreeDOS :-)
> Then last night I decided to run Desi-III und
http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=2901916
http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-kernel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg02431.html
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> I would like some information about how FreeDOS runs exe files.
Check for MZ Sigi, if YES, run as EXE, otherwise run as COM.
> If I run an exe, which only reads input from the keyboard and writes output,
> wil l any information be written to disk by the OS?
NO.
> I assume not. I want to be su
> noticed this in the XP ntvdm "dogbox", though have not yet tried it in a real
> dos(freedos)
Great :-D Seems to be a problem of XP (not of FreeDOS) ...
... nevertheless, you should implement tasks natively inside you app
rather than calling BAT'teries, because they indeed tend to cause
trouble
> But I'm fairly sure FreeDOS doesn't support this option.
Very wrong :-D
You can add FreeDOS into BOOT.INI of Windaube XP (no idea about Vi$ta
/ 7 / 8) ans you can use METAKERN to boot some other DOS or even
Windaube ME (no test with XP).
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> 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.
> first attempt at solving the problem is to try the soundblaster driver that
> comes with FreeDOS 1.0
??? file details ???
> However, I ha
> file corruption problems with DOSLFN which I had experienced
I had got same problem (crosslinked files), also A.P. (author of
MPXPLAY) discourages writing with DOSLFN.
> Advice is: try to use "doslfnms" instead of "doslfn".
What is it ???
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/viewzip.cgi/hs_fr
> Bear with me
Wolf with me :-)
> Sound cards for example are activated often times by games.
> I have the PCI version of the soundblaster 16 and
> it works under freedos, but not without a strange TSR.
MPXPLAY now works without this strange TSR (ES1371 and ES1373
chips only, test if you are int
Igor picked Rijndael256 >5 years ago, but no big problem.
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> Just wanted to make a little announcement here
> PasswordBox is a neat console (TUI) tool which can hold all passwords/logins
> and
COOL :-)
Done in FreeBASIC.
> CAUTION: This program features 128 bits AES encryption, which might be
> illegal in your country.
OK, let's get hanged for it :-D
> both the rar and the tarball contain executables?
Regrettably even BMP's count as "executables" for Gmail :-D
> Gmail blocks executables, some archives with contained executables and
some archives generally.
For me a ZIP missnamed as ARC used to work in the past.
If not, just brew a ZIP or 7-Z
> How do I get a full sized screen dump from inside an application program?
FYI, you can get a full sized screen dump from inside an application program
using DOS also :-)
> I am using Ubuntu 8.04, and dosemu 1.4.0.0
I don't, sorry ...
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No known complaints so far ... but DOS won't be able to use more than
1 core and 32 bits ;-)
Check also the graph card (should have intact VESA), sound (old ICH
better than HDA), USB (should have UHCI), Floppy (should be present at
all), Speaker (should be present at all), PS/2 (should be present
> Update on dos extenders viz djgpp
> Have just tried WDOSX, which is now royalty free
Nice, standalone EXE's, not bloated, no swapping, but it runs your
code in Ring0 with
paging OFF so it will catch less of your BUG's than HDPMI or CWSDPMI
would do ;-)
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> If you refer to the "cursor blinking bug" that was supposed to appear
> on 0.9a, so far I only know of a single PC of a single user
2 PC's from 6 ... one user (talking for me for now)
> bug appears (apparently the user had some problem with his BIOS)
But nobody had so far an idea
Of course it might be a good idea or necessary to disassemble the or
some existing Sierra ISA driver (also "PC" speaker ? Covox ?) to see
how it communicates with the main game file, when you one day have
something able to "talk" to your HDA chip.
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> I'd like to write an Intel HDA driver for SCI games (Sierra quests).
Great idea :-) Do they use some separate (ISA SB 16) driver file ???
Real mode or DPMI ?
> I consider myself a good programmer, but I've never made any
> low-level programming or debug DOS programs.
Y
I wish you more luck than the previous guy had with the same idea
(Italian FreeDOS community) some time ago :-)
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> I haven't gotten the positive response I had hoped for trying
yeah :-(
> to drum up some interest in a Windows 9x replacement.
NO thanks. :-(
> Some have talked about possibly enhacing HX extender
Very good idea.
> and cloning Windows 3.x first, which makes a lot of sense.
NO.
> Maybe it
BTW, DOSLynx (closed source) also sould be included, it supports HTTPS
unlike Arachne.
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> No. I'm working as an IT technician. So this
> only from the last couple of years.
OK, testing PC's daily, also USB support in INT $13
> 2) No, but get *different* ones.
The 6 are different. BTW, I didn't write I would OWN them all.
> Stupid example: You've never seen a single car accident "l
> Please remove Arachne from Freedos 1.1
Please leave this list.
> It isn't Firefox
Right.
> and so there isn't a filtering plugin for it that will block certain web
> sites.
No need.
> It is very low resolution by today's standards
NO.
> and php web pages aren't likely to work correctly w
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