Re: [Freedos-user] Any Gui?

2021-01-02 Thread Eric Auer
3/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengem/files/OldFiles/ https://cyberside.net.ee/files/gui/opengem/screenshots/ Or something like that ;-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists

[Freedos-user] Problems with FDISK?

2021-01-02 Thread Eric Auer
that here. Also, if you know what causes this or whether it depends on command line options or config file settings, please share your insights :-) Thanks! Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS software

2020-12-30 Thread Eric Auer
still works, in case it got shipped on magnetic media such as diskettes, but you could start by writing a list of book titles you want to get rid of here :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourcefor

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about FDAPM

2020-12-26 Thread Eric Auer
? Are there rules about it? Or experiences here on the list? You could use the SPINDOWN command to tell disks/SD to shut down - that should give them a hint to flush their built-in caches :-) Actually, FDAPM POWEROFF implies flush and spindown anyway. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Casio Algebra 2.0 can Freedos be installed?

2020-12-22 Thread Eric Auer
. The whole project sounds very challenging. Regards, Eric > This is supposed to have a V30 processor and Rom-Dos.  Haven't had time > to check it out thoroughly yet. > > I should have asked if it can be installed by a clutz. > > Specs on Wikipedia https://en.

Re: [Freedos-user] IDE <-> CF adapters

2020-12-22 Thread Eric Auer
Typical SATA / IDE converter brands could be DeLock or Digitus, but be careful to get a converter in the right direction ;-) Or one which works in both directions, of course. All cheap. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.s

Re: [Freedos-user] IDE <-> CF adapters

2020-12-21 Thread Eric Auer
mainboard. In both cases, you probably also need power, via floppy or harddisk style power connectors for example. You could probably just glue the adapter to some cardboard and stick that to a drive bay so things are not falling around? Regards, Eric ___

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

2020-12-18 Thread Eric Auer
more packages pre-installed without having to have enough RAM is a good thing :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

2020-12-13 Thread Eric Auer
is disappointing regarding 4DOS. Not sure about PAINT2. And start - no idea. Regarding the checksum tools, we could use a few fresh algorithms for those, beyond MD5, SHA1 etc. I guess DAA2ISO is useful for some virtual machines? DZEMM still is only useful for Windows as far as I know :-p SQLITE could be moved to Compilers, although it is a database: It just fits better in that place for some intuitive reason. > additional questions: I recall that FDTUI replaced FDShell, or was > it the other way around? That suggests we should drop one of these. No idea, what are the pros and cons of both? Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] install freedos on eeepc 1201NL

2020-12-12 Thread Eric Auer
an any VM or emulation on top of any widespread 32-bit or 64-bit operating system ;-) Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Serial port WiFi modems - was: MS-DOS 7.1

2020-12-07 Thread Eric Auer
wonder which of them are pre-assembled and which have to be assembled by those who buy them? Also, what are the prices? Have DOS users already tested the products? Which ones would you recommend? The general idea is very cool, although LAN is of course much faster than RS232. Regards, Eric PS: I

Re: [Freedos-user]  Re: AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

2020-12-07 Thread Eric Auer
ences and mail THOSE if you want to say something. Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] modern ssl

2020-12-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jamie, Just guessing, have you tried links, lynx, w3c, dillo, curl, htget? https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/group-net.html > found out that wget uses tls1 :/ Which version of wget? Regards, E

Re: [Freedos-user] emacs 26

2020-12-06 Thread Eric Auer
> The delorie site seems to be down and I was looking for a copy of real > emacs for dos. Does anyone have a copy of *em2602ab.zip* they can point me > to? A quick search for "mirror em2602ab.zip" reveals http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ ;-)

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.1

2020-12-06 Thread Eric Auer
quot;convenient" than buying Windows 98 to get MS DOS 7. Maybe you could tell us what your GameTools debugger breakpoint problem was in FreeDOS (and solve it) instead of advertising CDU. Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@l

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you do with your FreeDos PC?

2020-12-06 Thread Eric Auer
ter in DX:AX. Function 33fc can set the setver DOS version. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] new user with questions

2020-12-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! If your GCC segfaults, try without EMM386 (JEMM386, JEMMEX etc.) or try more cautious options for it. Maybe it has some conflicts about some memory areas with your BIOS or hardware. What exactly does PERL say? And does MEM help you to get further insights? Cheers, Eric PS: Which type

Re: [Freedos-user] Make sure your opinion is heard

2020-12-04 Thread Eric Auer
d use the offline package managers to get all those packages installed. Without wasting bandwidth and with the convenience of seeing which download offers what and the convenicence of only having to transfer ONE file to DOS :-) Note that Vetusware abandonware is not necessarily legal at all. Cheers

Re: [Freedos-user] Make sure your opinion is heard

2020-12-04 Thread Eric Auer
ea indeed. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Make sure your opinion is heard

2020-12-04 Thread Eric Auer
k for example about https://harbour.github.io/ the classic Clipper clone. Who is actually programming in that language using FreeDOS? Not including it on ISO will save 5 to 11 MB, we can still provide it ONLINE as packages for separate download.

Re: [Freedos-user] CDROM Driver

2020-11-20 Thread Eric Auer
(drivers zip might be newer than the individual zips?) Remember that it was normal that CDROM drives shipped with DOS drivers in the past. It is a challenge for UDVD2 to be universal, but it will still find most CD/DVD drives :-) Regards, Eric > ... I got to wondering about using a differ

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing from FreeDos

2020-11-19 Thread Eric Auer
? In general, if your printer supports PostScript or PDF, you can use DOS tools to produce those. For example our GRAPHICS can do PostScript ;-) I would not exclude the possibility that even a wifi laser printer still supports plain text, why not? Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] A Linux question or puzzle to me...

2020-11-17 Thread Eric Auer
the harddisks inside the box directly and internally to a Linux computer and see how far you get accessing the raw partitions. Some will contain the OS of the box, some will hold config or temp data and some will have those files which would normally be network accessed. Regards, Eric > I tr

Re: [Freedos-user] A Linux question or puzzle to me...

2020-11-17 Thread Eric Auer
07_device/reset Takes 10 minutes - do not disturb the box in that time. If the blue led is off, there might be a power supply issue, also if it flickers for a long time. if there is loud and frequent clicking, the harddisks inside may have a hardware problem. Rega

Re: [Freedos-user] A Linux question or puzzle to me...

2020-11-17 Thread Eric Auer
ector size. Your disk will probably use 4096 byte sectors and/or UEFI GBP partition style, which only newer operating system versions support. But as said - if this is a network disk, partitioning is probably not the main problem when it comes to bo

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Floppy

2020-11-15 Thread Eric Auer
r BIOS and FreeDOS simply enjoys using the BIOS disk :-) In particular after booting from it, or when having it already connected during boot. Note that sizes other than 1.44 MB or low level formatting might not be working in your BIOS USB floppy support, but you can try. Regards

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS/16M (was: FreeDOS 1.2 installed on iMac (2011) - success but there are issues)

2020-11-14 Thread Eric Auer
s like MPXPLAY to support AC97 or HDA at all. If you want soundblaster compatibility, you would have to use emulators. There seems to be a DOSBOX-X version which can run inside DOS which might help with that, but the normal way would be to use Windows or Linux with DOSEMU2 ;-) Regards, Eric PS: N

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS/16M (was: FreeDOS 1.2 installed on iMac (2011) - success but there are issues)

2020-11-13 Thread Eric Auer
and their DOS support. While it is not exactly DOS/16M, you could try DOS4GW alternative DOS32A https://dos32a.narechk.net/index_en.html for improved compatibility or pre-load DPMIONE or at least CWSDPMI to force other DOS extenders to rely on the pre-loaded services instead. Regards, Eric >> *[

Re: [Freedos-user] Which DOS is "better/best" as the underlying DOS oper. sys. for Win FW 3.1.1. in a mult-boot PC ?

2020-11-01 Thread Eric Auer
nd I am curious what your Wfw 3.11 apps and context are at the moment. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] installation/partitions

2020-10-29 Thread Eric Auer
hat it is rather minimalistic, so you will have to do all "figuring out" by hand to configure it. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Is there such a thing as an add-on SATA host controller that works with DOS?

2020-10-24 Thread Eric Auer
will only get IDE speed with those. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] New: Extreme memory drivers and ramdisk

2020-10-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! According to Japheth on BTTR, you can now have super-extended XMS in DOS, which allows allocation of up to 1 TB RAM in multiples of 1 kB! He provides a modified version of Jack's RDISK RAMDISK to test: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=17007 > HimemSX, another HimemX

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread Eric Auer
h 0x80 blocks NMI and that immediately after port 0x70 access you should access port 0x71, but messing with year and century will probably be quite harmless and not time critical. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread Eric Auer
and reprogramming the BIOS would be a lot more effort, although it should be easy to find your int 1a handler and tune it to return other centuries. It is uploading the changed BIOS (with ok checksum!) that takes effort. Cheers, Eric > Does there exist any DIY to fix "millennium bug" in old BI

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

2020-10-08 Thread Eric Auer
who likes the manuals for private use. I see that so far, bitsavers.org has only the MS DOS 2.0 programmers reference manual as English PDF, by the way, so they seem to be careful with Microsoft, too. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

2020-10-08 Thread Eric Auer
me :-D Cheers, Eric PS: Also let me know if you know of nearby (e.g. Germany or surrounding countries) nice computer museums, I am in touch with some really fancy hardware items for exhibitions :-) > Hello! > > Why destroy the manuals? > > You can give them to some Institution f

[Freedos-user] new mpxplay media player version for dos

2020-10-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Found this news from Laaca in the BTTR forum. Thanks Laaca :-) "Probably almost are users of this forum are already aware about it however - Attila Padar released a new version of his MXPlayer. Mpxplay v1.65 (all console versions) is released on http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net diffs

[Freedos-user] Modern add-ons for ancient PC

2020-10-01 Thread Eric Auer
to get the components elsewhere and solder yourself in most cases. They also have a few ready to use products. https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/product-category/retro-ibm-pc/ Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - ems support - updated drivers!

2020-10-01 Thread Eric Auer
/master/Readme.txt There also is a HTML version. Due to the way github works, you first have to download the HTML to open it locally: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/Jemm/master/Html/Readme.html Enjoy :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos

[Freedos-user] problem with freedos help on fdos.org website

2020-10-01 Thread Eric Auer
stndrd/emm386.htm in the current htmlhelp version on the website and no longer a document about jemmex. Could somebody shed some light on that? Thanks :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - ems support

2020-09-30 Thread Eric Auer
> does freedos support ems and if so, how would i go about enabling it? you simply load himemx and jemm386 (or jemmex, which combines both). they both come with comprehensive user manuals. in particular with jemm386, you will probably have to try some options to optimize it. regards, e

Re: [Freedos-user] Subscribe

2020-09-30 Thread Eric Auer
rceforge.net and we the people on the list will get your mail. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-29 Thread Eric Auer
ect ratio, then use the built-in zoom feature of the EEE PC. For common DOS game resolutions, you will probably have quite some black bars or distortion depending on your rescale approaches. Regards, Eric PS: You will probably have a bit less than 640 kB of DOS memory size (some reserved by SATA o

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread Eric Auer
played back in 1988 and forward. Cute idea :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] New to DOS - 486

2020-09-25 Thread Eric Auer
ven Pentium style, the ISA VGA would be the bottleneck. Of course there might be a few games which do use acceleration features of the card, but for my first PCI card, it was only the game which came bundled with it :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] New to DOS - 486

2020-09-25 Thread Eric Auer
Also, VESA VBE BIOS is nice :-) Regards, Eric PS: Very interesting that your floppy controller from the other thread DOES support two drives in Linux, but not in DOS, as a possible BIOS issue. >> [..] >> PS: Since I no longer use a mainboard which remembers ISA, >> maybe *somebo

Re: [Freedos-user] Run Linux & Linux binaries on DOS

2020-09-23 Thread Eric Auer
here on the list. Thanks :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Help instal freedos

2020-09-21 Thread Eric Auer
ase check the user manual of your computer to find out how to boot from CD: You usually have to press a special key while booting while the CD is in the drive or have to change the boot configuration in the BIOS CMOS setup to give CD / DVD priority over harddisk. Rega

Re: [Freedos-user] FDD issue

2020-09-19 Thread Eric Auer
get a different number. https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/Njk0WDg5Mw==/z/AQoAAOSwYlRZLwkr/$_1.JPG?set_id=88500F https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41HYsKSB4ML.jpg Here is a schema what the flipping does: http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/images3/floppy_crossover_cable_wiring.jpg Regar

Re: [Freedos-user] FDD issue

2020-09-19 Thread Eric Auer
m when is yours? The computer mentioned on stackexchange is circa 2009. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] FDD issue

2020-09-19 Thread Eric Auer
? Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] htmlhelp problem with antivirus

2020-09-16 Thread Eric Auer
! Regards, Eric PS: Clamav detects the iframe as possible trojan HTML, so you have to use --detect-pua=yes (PUA: possibly unwanted applications) to let it detect the "bad" nlsfunc file. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourc

Re: [Freedos-user] New to DOS - 486

2020-09-15 Thread Eric Auer
, AGP or PCI etc. bus :-) I think RayeR put some tools online to speed up graphics RAM access settings on PCI and PCIe in DOS. Try to avoid ISA VGA cards, those are just too slow even for DOS gaming. Cheers, Eric PS: Since I no longer use a mainboard which remembers ISA, maybe *somebody else* would

Re: [Freedos-user] Change of email

2020-09-08 Thread Eric Auer
o for you, but something you can and should do yourself. Regards, Eric PS: Alternatively, you can use the website ttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user which is mentioned in the footer of every email here. ___ Freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] Dosemu on its own - does it exist?

2020-09-02 Thread Eric Auer
cquired. Seems common in our 64-bit age. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] A few suggestions to improve debug

2020-08-31 Thread Eric Auer
/GNU_Readline > Just basic stuff. Actually I believe that EVERY utility that offers command > line entry should act like I described in points 2 and 3. Why not use these > keys we have present on every PC keyboard - for easier and faster editing? Mercury also suggests Ctrl-A

Re: [Freedos-user] Open source thoughts about my DOS stuff

2020-08-27 Thread Eric Auer
or some or all directories?) to the mailing list instead? Also possible. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Open source thoughts about my DOS stuff

2020-08-26 Thread Eric Auer
K and some > other obscure things. Even some old ctmouse test area. There is also some nice dual screen research related DOS software hidden in another corner of my ancient site ;-) Enjoy! Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourcefor

[Freedos-user] Open source thoughts about my DOS stuff

2020-08-26 Thread Eric Auer
ings. Even some old ctmouse test area. As you see, everything there is at least 10 years old. Yet I think there are quite a few useful packages :-) Let me know that you think... Thank you! Regards, Eric PS: Maybe I should have used freedos-devel, but I think there are more people on -user

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA DVD-R/W

2020-08-25 Thread Eric Auer
CI mode) in your BIOS config in case the driver has problems with your AHCI mode. Also, make sure to use ISO9660 format: If your CD or DVD are UDF formatted, you will need different versions of SHSUCDX. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing l

Re: [Freedos-user] zip programs and pure DOS?

2020-08-23 Thread Eric Auer
y have problems with. In spite of PK zip being a high end product long ago when it was new. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] zip programs and pure DOS?

2020-08-22 Thread Eric Auer
nfozip or better 7zip to unzip files which have troubled your PK zip. You can download both from our ibiblio mirror. Regards, Eric PS: Browsers such as lynx, links and w3m seem to receive regular updates, maybe somebody could tell about javascript-versions for them? They have

Re: [Freedos-user] zip programs and pure DOS?

2020-08-21 Thread Eric Auer
infozip) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/p7zip.html Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] brix. the game freezes.

2020-08-19 Thread Eric Auer
a PC with real soundblaster to test THAT now :-) Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Temu Soundblaster Emulator

2020-08-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hoi Volkert, cool that you are working on an AC97 VBE/AI sound system! The question is: Do you know any DOS games which support VBE/AI for sound? I think only very few "sound and graphics" cards had that in their BIOS and therefore very few games supported it? Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Chkdsk

2020-08-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > You must put a ":" when specifying a drive. So has that solved your problem? I guess without ":" our chkdsk might have tried to open a disk image file with file name "c" and used a misleading error message? I admit I have not read the chkdsk data, just in

Re: [Freedos-user] dosfsck hangs on large drives? (re: best third party dos diagnostic tools)

2020-08-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! As you use an emulator, can you try with 32 or 64 MB RAM? You can also tell dosfsck to be more verbose, which might help to know at which phase things are taking too long. Regards, Eric > It was dosfsck 2.11 DOS3, 8 Aug 2007; the version from FreeDOS RC3. I > was using it on a 12g

Re: [Freedos-user] Join us for the FreeDOS virtual get-together NOW!!!!

2020-08-16 Thread Eric Auer
>> https://bluejeans.com/489022794/7166 > What join from browser link? Just more towards the bottom right of the text advertising the apps. Still better than zoom where you have to "fail" using the app twice before it will admit that you can use it in the browser without app. > [quote] > Your

Re: [Freedos-user] Join us for the FreeDOS virtual get-together NOW!!!!

2020-08-16 Thread Eric Auer
> Use these dial in numbers: > https://www.bluejeans.com/numbers Assuming that you are in USA: United States Atlanta +1.404.458.0105 Chicago +1.312.216.0325 San Jose (NEW) +1.408.915.6290 San Jose (NEW) +1.408.419.1715 San Mateo (NEW) +1.650.963.5767 Washington D.C. (NEW) +1.202.795.3352

[Freedos-user] dosfsck hangs on large drives? (re: best third party dos diagnostic tools)

2020-08-16 Thread Eric Auer
, depending on which dpmi / dos ext you use. Regards, Eric > dosfsck appears to work on FAT32, though > I've had it hang on very large (~10gb) drives. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Btrieve on FreeDOS

2020-08-16 Thread Eric Auer
t more likely means your program execution accidentally jumped into some sort of void? It could also be LOCK for opcodes which do not support LOCK, I think sometimes the BIOS has handlers to auto-ignore those. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailin

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 VirtualBox compatibility?

2020-07-24 Thread Eric Auer
compatibility of FreeDOS in the wiki - not sure if still correct for FreeDOS 1.3 though: > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox Another suggestion is to use "KERNEL /boot/syslinux/memdisk raw" in the boot menu, in other words adding the "raw" opt

Re: [Freedos-user] Moving beyond FAT

2020-07-13 Thread Eric Auer
can tell more :-) > Well, yes, I can make it work perfectly in DOSBox, but I have > a DOS machine specifically to do DOS things natively :D So why does it crash there and not in dosbox? Bad drivers active? Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Moving beyond FAT

2020-07-13 Thread Eric Auer
unt) or similar, which would allow you to make some "disks" write-protected. Between dosemu2 and virtual PC, you can also try dosbox. It is popular on Windows and available for Linux as well. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

2020-07-13 Thread Eric Auer
defined enough" to put it on some website and compare with experiences of other users, but it would give me some clarity about WHETHER FreeDOS is as slow as people like Jack assume, and in which areas it is. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

2020-07-13 Thread Eric Auer
e disk changes, otherwise data between next and previous disk will get confused... Are the differences still there when using caches? Regards, Eric PS: tickle is part of the lbacache package. If you have much RAM, uide or uhdd are better for harddisks, but lbacache has a special option to cache fl

Re: [Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

2020-07-12 Thread Eric Auer
MEM, but also having EMM386 style drivers loaded changes much of the context, so the benchmark results will change in interesting ways. All this in context of the upcoming mid of July update of UHDD... :-) Let me know what you think! Cheers, Eric ___ Free

[Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

2020-07-12 Thread Eric Auer
in touch with you :-) Thank you! Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Realtek ethernet not working

2020-07-08 Thread Eric Auer
d somebody says "You have to tell us which model of printer it is, then I can tell you which ink cartridges are best". Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
at the other end of the pipeline. So yes, it simulates a sound card but no, it cannot make audible sounds for anybody without the help of a host operating system. But it is important that it keeps dos games abstracted from the fact that the actual soundcard is not a dos compatible device. Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
> hey dude on my windows xp desktop now, virtualbox or older > older version dont suppport xp, virtualpc 2007 is the only option Why not use dosbox, bochs or qemu, ...? Please answer to freedos-user. Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list F

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
ctual sounds have to somehow reach your REAL hardware :-) Which is why the host operating system needs drivers for your real hardware and your dosbox has to be able to use the host operating system for that... Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
is hard for users to change disk sizes themselves, as this requires them to have at least 2 drives of suitable sizes, or diskimage related tools for other operating systems. But users who can handle such tools probably do not need floppy distros. Eric ;-)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
) CTMOUSE around. Both are a lot smaller than COUNTRY SYS which I doubt that you would need. You probably do not need FDAPM on 8086 at all. If you think you need it to reboot, I think FDISK also has that feature for you. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
question what you think about using dosemu2, dosbox and similar software together with Linux or Windows, to run DOS programs with simulated SB16 on any modern sound hardware. Regards, Eric > wait a second , if dosbox is opensource and is able to simulate a > sound blaster 16 and redict the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 floppy ideas

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
installing. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
. Does DOOM require SB16? What do you think about the emulator based possibilities? Regards, Eric > is there any hope for an sound blaster 16 - opl - wave blaster - Midi > emulation , i tried all of this options in doom hoping for them to work > but they did not , i tried an modern mus

Re: [Freedos-user] Video meeting

2020-06-29 Thread Eric Auer
un a desktop client, but > you can just cancel out of that and join via a browser. You can join > with or without a camera.} > > http://www.freedos.org/ > > Now is that time. But I don't see such a link there! As you see, the link is there now, as are the first 9

Re: [Freedos-user] Emulation

2020-06-26 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Al, while I do not know vdos, given that you use Linux, you may want to give dosemu2 a try: > https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2 > https://code.launchpad.net/~dosemu2/+archive/ubuntu/ppa Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list F

Re: [Freedos-user] Temu Soundblaster Emulator

2020-06-26 Thread Eric Auer
using the BIOS serial API :-) Regards, Eric > Just FYI, it is at least theoretically possible to do SB virtualization > in DOS using USB devices.  It's on my list of things to get around to > someday in my scant free time. >   > But, SB virtualization would require I/O virtu

Re: [Freedos-user] Temu Soundblaster Emulator

2020-06-26 Thread Eric Auer
e Tandy commands? Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.3rc3 installer hangs when booting from usb and loading jemmex

2020-06-11 Thread Eric Auer
ase check if it is possible to not load JEMMEX during the install, but load it only after installation. Might be safer and I guess you do not really need UMB during install :-) Regards, Eric PS: I guess the following is obsolete now? It does boot, as long as you disable JEMMEX, if I understand

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wireless network and modern audio

2020-06-11 Thread Eric Auer
e the ZIP here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/games/bolitare.zip Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS wireless network and modern audio

2020-06-11 Thread Eric Auer
e AC97 and HDA are NEW media players such as MPXPLAY, try that :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] (No Subject) - FreeDOS install problem Haytam

2020-06-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! My idea was that Haytam can write a more verbose description when he can use the language he likes most. Unfortunately, this text (saying he is using Rufus etc.) is not really long either? More verbose please! Longer problem description & details please! Regards, Eric > سلام عليك

Re: [Freedos-user] Something about freedos

2020-06-11 Thread Eric Auer
starts with he, some like that, He? Please be specific about the error message. > and it says that a reboot would fix the issue but it didn't A reboot would fix which issue? What happened after the reboot? Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing

[Freedos-user] New cpuid by RayeR and WindowsNT port access

2020-06-06 Thread Eric Auer
and place machine recently discussed on the list access to I/O and MMIO on WinNT? The site also is filled with other exciting software and topics :-) One focus are tools close to the hardware, graphics, CPU, SPI etc. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread Eric Auer
you use them. This also affects UMBPCI: Exclude d there, too. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread Eric Auer
versions newer than 3.xx rarely use DOS drivers. They need real Windows drivers. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! FreeDOS is neither Win98 nor WinXP. Just use UDVD2 with your available settings and tell us which work and which do not, in the latter case please mention the exact messages. Thanks! Eric > I have an 865GV ICH5 chipset. There is SATA enhanced mode yes/no and > that's it in the bio

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