[Freedos-user] If you use smartdrv, load it before mkeyb

2024-05-22 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Web forum

2024-05-21 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS diagnostic tools?

2024-05-14 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
BA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite claims FreeDOS bundled with SpinRite to trigger some 16-4-8-bit CHS overflow > 128 GB? Well-known free/open alternatives are photorec and testdisk. The batch enhancer is similar to our v8 power tools, I gu

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS diagnostic tools?

2024-05-14 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
used tools for that and to configure disk sleep. SMARTUDM (1997-2003-?) from sysinfolab was one I tried. No idea whether there are variants supporting post-IDE/ATA/SATA drives. SMARTDFT / DFT 3.00 also displayed or logged SMART disk status. Regards, Eric PS: Interesting to notice that Veit's

Re: [Freedos-user] documentation update

2024-05-09 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
ual PERSISTENT disk. disadvantages are a slightly longer boot time and changes are not persistent. Exactly. But the user could have a virtual HD attached to remedy that. The idea was that SHIPPING FreeDOS pre-installed on virtual harddisk would both remedy that AND com

Re: [Freedos-user] documentation update

2024-05-09 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
We could provide a disk image with pre-installed DOS. This would be convenient for users of virtual computers, because they do not need to worry about installing to actual disks when their disks are imaginary anyway :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-

[Freedos-user] odd news

2024-05-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
o not seem to affect the dos version either? i hope it is not necessary to start 3 separate list threads now ;-) https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/ regards, eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourc

Re: [Freedos-user] cannot boot installation media

2024-04-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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 ;-) ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] How can I make FreeDOS correctly display the "ã" character?

2024-04-25 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
EGA.CPI - some less common codepages will probably be in other CPX files. MODE CON CP PREP=((858) C:\FDOS\cpi\EGA.CPX) MODE CON CP SEL=858 You can do those two MODE invocations in autoexec or at the prompt as well. You can use MODE /? for help, too. The internet says that Brazilians prefer cod

Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-up emulation?

2024-04-25 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
s? I have not watched the video yet. Let me know :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] GIT news via BTTR

2024-04-20 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
and things correctly and can now use EMS memory. https://github.com/jhhoward/MicroWeb/releases/tag/v2.0 4. USBDDOS is a DOS driver stack for USB by Crazii: https://github.com/crazii/USBDDOS Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Adapter PCMCIA to CF

2024-03-29 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
not notice the "disk change", causing all sorts of problems. Regards, Eric OK, apparently the PCMCIA -> CF adapter must be added to the BIOS boot list. Otherwise FreeDOS doesn't detect it. So everything is fine, 100% functional. Can someone explain to me why I have to add it to

Re: [Freedos-user] Directory comparison program

2024-03-20 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
date and time differ. You could abuse the dry run mode of rsync for that, maybe, but this would probably be a weird solution for the task. So I suggest: diff -qr onedirectory otherdirectory or, at your choice, diff -qrs onedirectory otherdirectory :-) Eric Yes indeed. It would be recursive too

Re: [Freedos-user] QEMU - Max size of Linux access folder

2024-03-11 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
access on 32-bit Linux. Now you always get emulated CPU, which of course does have advantages in some cases - such as running on ARM or emulating more aspects of real and protected mode. Also, dosemu2 gets FAR more frequent updates than dosemu. Regards, Eric PS: It also frustrates me that 4 GB

Re: [Freedos-user] QEMU - Max size of Linux access folder

2024-03-11 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Ramdisk

2024-03-04 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
resolution VESA modes and high resolution character fonts, for large and sharp character outlines? I think Blocek uses graphical fonts, but I am not sure which font sizes it includes. Editors with vector based fonts could scale dynamically based on screen resolution. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
difference whether you use MS DOS or FreeDOS when it comes to sound in apps. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] News from the forum

2024-02-14 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
.htm ASTRA 7.0 2023-12-12 (free for non-commercial use, with SPD, SMBIOS, chipset info) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

2024-02-09 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
of the windows keys, the scroll lock key or some accent you do not really use as "the accent/special key which makes the next character you type an upper case one" :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

2024-02-09 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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/ Reg

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

2024-02-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
n progress of being pressed for longer, for extra control over the interaction of typematics and autoshift. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

2024-02-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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

Re: [Freedos-user] One use case for FreeDos

2024-02-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
ware and run a DOS window on that" ;-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] One use case for FreeDos

2024-02-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
and not planned, but printers understanding plain text or PDF are easily available. You can connect printers using USB, printer port or network. And you can again use small external devices as proxy, or even adapter cables, to make more combinations work with DOS. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
another PC as a bridge: - any PCI or PCIe framegrabber with VGA input - StarTech USB3HDCAP video grabber for PC with USB3, inputs include DVI (see above), HDMI, component, composite 210 Euro Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] shutdown and USB Stick ?

2024-01-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
with flushing? In that case, no additional delay would be necessary. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] shutdown and USB Stick ?

2024-01-29 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
t) or when you press ctrl-alt-delete or when there were no disk accesses for some amount of time. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-25 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
e RPi Pico. At $4 a Pico is also cheaper than most Arduinos. :-o Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-25 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
ld not use a complete Raspberry to convert PS/2 to USB or back either if your DOS PC already has USB anyway. Also, Arduinos have enough power if you do want a PS/2 to USB gadget. Regards, Eric PS: Here is a short thread on 4k screens in DOS ;-) https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.ph

Re: [Freedos-user] SNMP agent for DOS?

2024-01-11 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
and bus systems suitable for different control projects. Have a good evening, too! Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation for modern hardware - SBEMU and forks

2023-12-02 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
variants together feature quite a few supported sound chips and sound cards and I am sure they are getting the deserved attention on Vogons, but I also am sure that they will enjoy feedback from testers who have one of the lesser tested chips! Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS or DOS based mail clients

2023-11-27 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
s deleted where they are. Servers for Gmail: smtp.gmail.com TLS port 587 or SSL port 465. imap.gmail.com SSL port 993. pop.gmail.com SSL port 995 (but IMAP is better). Use the email address as user name to log in. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-use

Re: [Freedos-user] roundcube, is freedos, or dos based mail clients?

2023-11-26 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
, one first had to enable imap etc. access using a menu item on their webmail portals. GMX & web.de are two mail providers having that issue as far as I remember. Regards, Eric PS: The older POP3 only allowed access to the inbox, while IMAP also allows access to your other mail folders,

Re: [Freedos-user] roundcube, is freedos, or dos based mail clients?

2023-11-23 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
er plugins interfere with whether the send button works. Not helpful for your problem, but suggests that this button indeed contains more complexity than necessary in some way. I am probably not very good in navigating advanced search in forum or bug list. Maybe asking on IRC works be

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos, or dos based mail clients?

2023-11-22 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
? For example mutt, pine, alpine, cone, or the old mailx. Graphical mail clients for DOS are not the answer here. Regards, Eric PS: I also wonder whether it is an option to run a Linux email client in a shell directly on the router at home? ___ Freedos

[Freedos-user] New versions: R. Swan's A72 assembler 1.05 and 1.05c

2023-11-20 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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

[Freedos-user] SBEMU soundblaster emulator news?

2023-11-06 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
-19 beta can be downloaded here: https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=160136 Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] DosView, a modern image format viewer and converter

2023-11-06 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
. You can convert images to other formats with DosView as well :-) A thread about it on BTTR: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=20798=0=time=0 Interestingly, the newest DosView EXE UPXes from 1.5 to 0.6 MB :-) Cheers, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question

2023-11-04 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
it out of the water. Do you have enough cache (Jack's drivers or lbacache for example) and enough RAM, and/or made sure that CWSDPMI will not use swap? See the documentation for CWSDPMI, or try using another DPMI, such as DOS32A or DPMIONE, to run the DOS version of DOSFSCK. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip for dOS?

2023-11-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
and keep everything else around at a place of your choice for some extra documentation. You do not need to use a package manager then. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists

Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question / Sound in DOS and FAT huge file support

2023-11-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
or put a few extra bits somewhere in the directory entries? I do not know which DOS and Windows brands support such extensions for FAT filesystems, but I think EDR-DOS is one of the brands working on this and proposing an interface for it? Regards, Eric

[Freedos-user] Testing quite a few DOS games with modern graphics hardware

2023-10-31 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
less flexible bytes-per-line with this hardware, but I assume EGA still would not work if you were to use N * 256 bytes per line for it. I expect VESA games to be smart enough to respect the bytes per line of the BIOS instead of just multiplying width by bytes per pixel to guess a valu

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip for dOS?

2023-10-31 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Some USB-Stick problems

2023-10-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Using USB printers with a parallel port adapters or software tricks

2023-10-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
like wattcp or (I forgot the other names) directly in the DOS app. Regards, Eric 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

Re: [Freedos-user] IDLE HALT=1 is working on my laptop?

2023-10-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
sufficiently. It is just an additional thing you COULD try. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] R-Alt does not act like L-Alt

2023-10-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
IT, but in a minimalist way, for example a checkbox whether R-ALT counts as ALT (for hotkeys) or is not to be interfered with. Regards, Eric Hello, Sounds like it could be a bug in Edit, I'll see about it when I have a little time. Now for the original question: is it possible to make R-Alt work

[Freedos-user] Using USB printers with a parallel port adapters or software tricks

2023-10-27 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Some USB-Stick problems

2023-10-26 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
, you get well-defined losses when a crash happens, and lower the risk of ending up with "half-working" files on disk. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Some USB-Stick problems

2023-10-26 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
If you need more free RAM, you may want to give MKEYB a try instead of KEYB. I guess you do want to load those CP437 fonts, though? Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] IDLE HALT=1 is working on my laptop?

2023-10-26 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
effect, but you probably want to load FDAPM instead, using for example, in your autoexec: FDAPM APMDOS That will use less than 1 kilobyte of DOS memory and allows more energy saving than the built-in IDLEHALT. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing

Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEMX zip file dates

2023-10-02 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
file inside the ZIP. In addition, I would still love the "release-cli" of our GITLAB repository to create actual release notes. At the moment, I only see WHICH packages got updated when, but need manual "research" to find out WHY. Regards, Eric PS: I think DJGPP should stay a

Re: [Freedos-user] languages

2023-09-29 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
autoexec.bat or fdauto.bat, depending on which of the two you are using. Our other keyboard drivers also support your layout, you just have to read the documentation to find out how to activate it, as they are a bit more complicated to set up :-) Best regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] CD driver

2023-09-19 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
variant of it, too: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/AHCICDU You can also find updates for JEMM and HIMEMX on Japheth's GitHub "Baron von Riedesel", even his HIMEMSX to use more than 4 GB RAM :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user ma

[Freedos-user] Candyman?

2023-09-14 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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 ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

2023-08-07 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
to experiment: Often, you can help mode to get into the desired mode by first selecting a similar, easier mode, so it can find out how more easily to go further. For modes with more than 132 columns, you need VESA tools which make fewer assumpions about things than MODE does. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] A Couple of USB Device Issues

2023-07-31 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
tion about DOS ports there? Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] USB serial & DOSBox

2023-07-25 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] the freedos 1.3 floppy install edition.

2023-07-23 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
the users with actual 286 or older CPU or emulators from getting an un-usable install due to overly optimistic automated overrides. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FreeDOS Be Installed On A Logical Slice? The Answer Remains Unknown

2023-07-23 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
manual trickery. Long story short, you could try the virtual boot floppy method and I recommend that your DOS drive is FAT, but I think a LOGICAL FAT partition could be good enough AFTER you boot from virtual floppy. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user

[Freedos-user] gitlab change notifications lack commit messages

2023-07-18 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
. In this context I remember that this is a bug in some sort of an automated package update script: It lacks the feature to pass ANY information about the update reason, so there is none. But this would be valuable information, so please improve that process :-) Thank you! Regards, Eric PS: Below

Re: [Freedos-user] Confusing details about SET and redirection in FreeCOM

2023-06-29 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
_top25_list.html Regards and happy anniversary, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Unicode and codepages in apps already bundled with FreeDOS?

2023-06-22 Thread Eric Auer
s with far more than 256 different chars already :-) Thanks for your insights! Regards, Eric PS: For all things NOT mentioned above, I expect no support for Unicode or conversions at all. I expect those to just assume an 8-bit encoding in text (and file names) matching you

[Freedos-user] Confusing details about SET and redirection in FreeCOM

2023-06-21 Thread Eric Auer
art of the value. Are there other ways to deal with < | > in SET commands and then use the values in ECHO and other commands? Regards, Eric PS: Tests done in DOSEMU2, but with classic FreeCOM installed: C:\>ver /r FreeCom version 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap [

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation with Grub already installed

2023-05-22 Thread Eric Auer
steps of installing DOS, if you have some DOS installation steps left to do after SYS. Regards, Eric Hi there I would like to install FreeDos 1.3 on my hard drive. I have Windows XP and Lubuntu 18.04 installed, both bootable from the Grub boot manager. The first partition is FAT and 2G in size

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Gabriele, Hi Eric I have partition magic for dos this can create partition for freedos? I guess it can, given that it is a partition editor :-) I do not know whether the DOS version can create LBA partitions or FAT32 partitions, so if this is an old DOS software, it may be better to use

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
er case, I think you can boot at least Linux from non-primary partitions. Not sure about XP. You may have to tell Linux to install GRUB in the MBR, not in the boot sector of your Linux boot partition, for this to work. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
the harvested boot sectors of both MS DOS and FreeDOS to your Linux boot manager directory and manually add boot menu items for the two DOS versions directly to your Linux boot menu without using metakern. Regards, Eric I and trying to get a multiboot setup 1. MSDOS 6.22 + Win 3.11 2. FreeDos

[Freedos-user] Interesting BTTR threads: hwinfo and astra, ranish with lba, fdisk bug fixes, soundcards

2022-12-10 Thread Eric Auer
ead for clarity. But I hope it was okay for you that I bundled them all in this single "announcement", or overview email. Regards, Eric PS: Thanks for sharing the news about UPX 4.0.1, Jim! https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2022/12/upx-401-released/ Checking the milestone list

[Freedos-user] UDVD2: Invoking STOP AUDIO twice should first pause, then stop audio, as some games expect

2022-12-09 Thread Eric Auer
, Eric PluMGMK created an issue: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/drivers/udvd2/-/issues/5 First of all, let me say that it's great to see a "modern" DOS driver that still implements audio functionality for CD-ROM drives! But there is an issue with the way the STOP AUDIO request

Re: [Freedos-user] System hangs on boot.

2022-11-28 Thread Eric Auer
CHS boot drive. You could still use the rest of the CF card as D: (etc.) drive(s) with any suitable partition type (FAT16 or FAT32, CHS or LBA). Note that FAT16 supports at most 2 GB per drive letter. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Free

Re: [Freedos-user] System hangs on boot.

2022-11-27 Thread Eric Auer
n the BIOS for LBA at boot. Also, using CF instead of HDD or SSD might affect compatibility? Regards, Eric PS: MS DOS 6 only supports CHS, but "Win9x DOS" 7 could do LBA. This is why there were Ontrack and similar tools to transform CHS/LBA geometries to at least access up

Re: [Freedos-user] VIA C7-M processor

2022-11-27 Thread Eric Auer
nch ultra portable HP laptop looks cool :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2133_Mini-Note_PC Groetjes, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] System hangs on boot.

2022-11-27 Thread Eric Auer
patch" a few bytes in the kernel file to force the kernel to use either CHS or LBA etc. Regards, Eric PS: I would not exclude the risk that some of our software intended for 386 use accidentally needs 486dx, but that should only affect individual apps and drivers, hopefully not the kernel. Y

Re: [Freedos-user] How to unload a driver?

2022-11-04 Thread Eric Auer
necessary. Best regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] can't see DVD reader - try AHCICD by R Loew

2022-09-20 Thread Eric Auer
, SATA, SHELL32 to add SHGetFolder functions, TBPLUS, TRIM and WDMEX. TBPLUS is a tool to get Win98 and MSDOS7 to support > 512 Byte per Sector and possibly also GPT partitioned drives. So most of his tools are Windows related, but some are for DOS. Rega

[Freedos-user] djgpp bash and autoconf for dos, new gcc

2022-09-09 Thread Eric Auer
news, as Rugxulo mentioned two weeks ago on BTTR, there now is GCC 12.2 for DJGPP: You can find it in the same directory :-) Regards, Eric PS: Japheth mentioned on BTTR that QEMU 6.2.0 has better sound and keyboard for him, with -global i8042.kbd-throttle=on as mentioned on https

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.11 issues about FreeDOS

2022-08-30 Thread Eric Auer
ybe a good (!) virtual PC configured to have "retro" hardware, little RAM, small FAT16 disk etc. is a start? Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

2022-08-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Aitor, the topic reminds me that we have https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/triple-dos/ in our archives - it is 20 years old and rather limited, but it might still provide some inspiration somehow :-) Regards, Eric Under DOS-Shell

Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-02 Thread Eric Auer
Free_Space(); Set_Active_Partition(Create_Primary_Partition(6,2048)); By using FAT32, the whole extended/logical partition creation hassles could be dropped, making a FAT32 variant of /AUTO much simpler than the original. Both could co-exist with different command line options in a patched FD

Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-02 Thread Eric Auer
ready give the alternative: The installer has to let the user chose himself how to partition things interactively with FDISK :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change

2022-08-02 Thread Eric Auer
be enough for everybody except those who voluntarily opt to create more. I suggest that there should be an option to let the user decide what to do between these two options or something else. Definitely. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing li

Re: [Freedos-user] PGME [was: DOSshell replacement]

2022-07-31 Thread Eric Auer
support and/or changing BIOS settings? Regards, Eric PS: You could also try my ancient MAUSMENU. It needs a manusmenu.dat text file with 2 fixed-width columns for button texts followed by a name of an executable with optional "* command line options" suf

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions on Eric Auer's Terminal

2022-07-16 Thread Eric Auer
means slower and less reliable comm. Regards, Eric PS: The terminal, I think, interprets some basic ANSI itself to be self-contained and faster, but as you say, it lacks features such as translating cursor keypresses to messages to the server. In general, all this has been a very long time ago

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about error message / redirecting AUX and PRN?

2022-07-11 Thread Eric Stein
messages and see what happens. Also it is a Gateway system, so it may have finicky stuff going on that a generic system doesn't. Regards, Eric On 7/8/2022 16:29, Eric Auer wrote: Hi ERIC, the AUX device usually was the same as COM1, in the same way that the PRN device usually was the same

[Freedos-user] Question about error message

2022-07-08 Thread Eric Stein
stem seems to work fine. Any insights would be appreciated. Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] New mTCP available

2022-07-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Forwarding from BTTR: A new mTCP is available (2022-07-01) posted by mbbrutman, Washington, USA, 07.07.2022, 00:00 Download from: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html Release notes: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_2022-07-01_Release_Notes.html And here is the short version of what

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13 floppy installation attempts

2022-06-29 Thread Eric Auer
! Regards, Eric PS: Alternatively, you could use the tools here: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/tools/ PPS: The readme linked from the download page does not mention diskcopy, so I assume none of our distro downloads contains a copy of diskcopy in we

Re: [Freedos-user] Keyboard issue - wondering about typematic rate for keyboard repeats in different VMs and emulators

2022-06-18 Thread Eric Auer
/4..4/4 sec. Our MODE just calls the BIOS. There is no DOS typematic rate driver, DOS only asks the BIOS to set the rate for it. Regards, Eric Eric proposed: "For this, you start DEBUG, then type: a cs:100 mov ax,0305 mov bx, int 16 int 20 g q " As Ah=3 int 16h is marked as

Re: [Freedos-user] Keyboard issue - wondering about typematic rate for keyboard repeats in different VMs and emulators

2022-06-10 Thread Eric Auer
rts this, while running DOS on a virtual computer in a window could be less likely to offer support for this setting? Thanks for testing! Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Mixed announcements from BTTR: DOSBOX-X, DOSLFN, DEBUG

2022-05-11 Thread Eric Auer
urceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2022/04/svarcom-version-20224/ https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2022/04/links-web-browser-update/ https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2022/04/new-jemm--himemsx-releases/ Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user ma

[Freedos-user] SoundBlaster volume control for the distro

2022-05-11 Thread Eric Auer
! Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Partitioning

2022-05-08 Thread Eric Auer
be something common to do and not a real error. However, if you get inconsistencies and the partitions do not boot or otherwise do not work properly, then that could be a real bug. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

2022-03-29 Thread Eric Auer
:-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] how to get dosemu working under ubuntu installed in wsl

2022-03-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! I hope you are all aware of the fact that dosemu is totally outdated, only dosemu2 is fresh at the moment: http://dosemu2.github.io/dosemu2/ It has daily-built packages available for Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSuSE :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos

[Freedos-user] From BTTR: FAT32 ramdisk, SvarCOM shell, Doszip commander

2022-03-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Today is a day full of announcements on BTTR-SOFTWARE.DE :-) https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=18797 RDRVSX32: FAT32 RAM drive for HimemSX (Announce) posted by jadoxa, Queensland, Australia, 13.03.2022, 13:58 I had a request (via email) to create a RAM drive

Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

2022-03-10 Thread Eric Auer
to modify affected EXE files on disk (remember to backup the original EXE). Regards, Eric Tyrian tyrian.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0006:374c setup.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0002:24ED Fuzzy fuzzy.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0003:361B main.exe - Runtime error 200 at

Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

2022-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
as competitors :-) Regards, Eric games that won't run: - Alone in the Dark 1 and 2 (floppy versions only, CD versions run fine) - Alpha Waves - Empire Soccer - Frontier Elite - Grand Prix Circuit - Test Drive 2 - The Cycles - Tetris Classic - Virtual Chess

Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

2022-03-08 Thread Eric Auer
S age VGA graphics or SB16 etc.? Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

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