Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread Eric Auer
Michael, > My DVD RAM drive is SATA I... > Will Freedos support SATA I in the future? FreeDOS already supports SATA. Use the UDVD2 driver, which should be part of the distro already. If you can not find it, I can give you some link / hint ;-)

[Freedos-user] interesting dos things from bttr

2020-05-31 Thread Eric Auer
://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=16680 announces a new PLOP moot manager test release: https://www.plop.at/en/pbm6/home.html Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists

Re: [Freedos-user] 8086 boot sector compatibility

2020-05-30 Thread Eric Auer
he kernel but also for SYS. This should probably be documented better. The big question hidden behind the original thread subject, which was "Re: FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News!" is: Which of the boot sectors and filesystem types and kernel versions and FreeCOM versions EXACTLY were the ones which fail

Re: [Freedos-user] Encrypted USB Flash Drive

2020-05-29 Thread Eric Auer
to date drivers, for example. Built-in drivers of your BIOS (which make USB storage look like normal disks, often with troubles when you plug or unplug them while DOS is running) also tend to be rather slow, because they are only designed to help a bit with bootable installers on USB media, no

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News / 8086 compatibility

2020-05-25 Thread Eric Auer
end FORMAT /F:360 /4 /D logs. You could also try /1 one-sided and /8 8-sector formats for fun. Use /4 for 360k in 1.2M drives, no /4 for 360k drives. See the FORMAT /z:longhelp descriptions :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-u

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News!

2020-05-23 Thread Eric Auer
mat a 360k. Please explain. FORMAT should support 360k, both on 1.2 MB drives and on drives which can only do up to 360k. There are command line options for that, too. > While it isn’t impossible to get the FE running off 360k What is FE? Regards, Eric __

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News!

2020-05-23 Thread Eric Auer
very slow. How far away are 360k disks from containing the installer, by the way? Regards, Eric PS: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=16677 says HWiNFO 6.1.1 for DOS is available. Thanks RayeR, Vogons and author! ___ Freedos-user m

Re: [Freedos-user] Backslash key on UK keyboard not recognised

2020-05-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! MKEYB has a few built-in maps, so you need no separate map file. Check the command line help. If you do use full keyb, remember to remove the REM which comments it out ;-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] HP11 Streamer?

2020-05-03 Thread Eric Auer
directory as if it was a DOS disk. Regarding disk sizes: FreeDOS supports only MBR style partitions yet, no GPT, so you are limited to using the first 2 TB of your disks. If your BIOS does not support LBA48, it could even be the first 128 GB. Regards, Eric PS: There are some DOS media players which support

Re: [Freedos-user] R: Freedos for IBM PCDOS 3.30 software

2020-04-28 Thread Eric Auer
a second disk to copy data. I would not take that risk. Replacing the floppy sounds better. And as always, be careful, have backups and keep docs :-) Regards, Eric PS: You may also transfer some data over the serial port, using a null modem cable and default software, like COPY to COM1, possibly

Re: [Freedos-user] R: Freedos for IBM PCDOS 3.30 software

2020-04-27 Thread Eric Auer
the hardware level PS/2 and VGA access, although that might internally be based on a simulation run by the BIOS, for example for USB keyboard or mouse. This can affect reaction speeds. I would avoid additional PCI I/O cards if possible. Regards, Eric >> ... the analyzer is attached to the 24pin pa

Re: [Freedos-user] IDE vs. SATA

2020-04-24 Thread Eric Auer
on on almost infinite harddisk or SSD sizes ;-) It would be harder to support 4 kB sectors, or partition sizes larger than 4294967296 sectors. Note that FAT32 only supports files larger than 4 GB using non-standard extensions on some OS, see FAT+ on wikipedia, for max 256 GB per file. Regards, Eric PS

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

2020-04-23 Thread Eric Auer
that process, which can take very long. Regards, Eric > If GPT is the issue, should a Linux based tool be used to get around > that? I'm thinking something like boot nuke or something similar. ... >> You can tell FDISK to install a fresh MBR boot >> code, see the command

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

2020-04-23 Thread Eric Auer
on the first disk to boot from the second, affecting both boots. You can tell FDISK to install a fresh MBR boot code, see the command line help of FDISK :-) Of course you also want to mark the partition as bootable and for big disks, you probably want to use FAT32 LBA partitions for FreeDOS. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] HWiNFO (for DOS) version 6.0.4 available

2020-04-16 Thread Eric Auer
en listed in the version history? An online changelog for the DOS version would be useful. Regards, Eric > Hi! > > After almost a decade, HWiNFO author Martin Malik decided to give the > DOS version of HWiNFO a new refresh. > > See thread "HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !" a

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

2020-04-15 Thread Eric Auer
nly have a few dozen comments anyway, as far as I remember. How good is the translation coverage for C & ASM? Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

2020-04-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ralf, Yves has fixed the issue and writes: "I then hosted the files on gitlab, where they should stay visible for quite some time: https://gitlab.com/yrizoud/gfx2_dos/-/tree/translation " Regards, Eric >> Here is an upload of the modified files: >> >&

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

2020-04-14 Thread Eric Auer
here is what Yves writes, in two forwarded emails. Great that he caught our discussion and has a large part of the ingredients for a solution available :-) If you check wikipedia, you see GRAFX2 is doing fine. Regards, Eric PS: I wonder how portable the current SDL / GCC version would be back t

Re: [Freedos-user] DVD-R Drive Implementation Help

2020-04-12 Thread Eric Auer
are supported by normal SHSUCDX and MSCDEX versions. If your DVD are formatted in UDF, you want to load something specialized for UDF instead but ISO 9660 is still widespread for CD and DVD data :-) Regards, Eric > Sent from: http://freedos.10956.

Re: [Freedos-user] SHSUCDX Updated to 3.07

2020-04-10 Thread Eric Auer
> SHSUCDX was updated to 3.07 recent it looks like. See > http://adoxa.altervista.org/shsucdx/index.html "SHSUCDX v3.07 (56k). Fixes some programs not finding the CD (e.g. Quake will now play audio)." ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - was 4DOS...

2020-04-04 Thread Eric Auer
ain Borland / Turbo run time libraries? > 7) AntiPaint for DOS > <https://code.google.com/archive/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads> > is unusable (to me). According to Robert, it feels more like a graphics library example than a real painting program? Cheers, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

2020-04-02 Thread Eric Auer
by exception. There are people speaking various languages on this list so you may be understood better than in English :-) Thank you! Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

2020-04-01 Thread Eric Auer
ost a few hours to figure out and then just a few minutes to do? Regards, Eric PS: It surprises me that you have no Mac version of the VGA BIOS update installer tool available. Maybe you just need the right Mac terminology to find whatever Apple calls the DOS tool

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

2020-04-01 Thread Eric Auer
be possible to load a CSM firmware extension to have PC BIOS compatibility and boot DOS on the Mac. But I have no idea whether that can actually be done? Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https

[Freedos-user] Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate

2020-03-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Laaca writes on BTTR: > Hello! > > After quite a long time is a new FPC version available. > For us is important mainly the improving DOS realmode target. > > The Dos-32 (GO32V2) packages are here: > > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/3.2.0-rc1/i386-go32v2/ Enjoy :-)

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

2020-03-28 Thread Eric Auer
to pick one of the two styles now represented by two exes? I suggest that you give Jerome a signal when you think the packages on your website have been updated to fix all items mentioned by him and fully fdinst / fdnpkg compatible :-) Thank you for your help! Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips

2020-03-27 Thread Eric
But thank you for this Information! ☺ Eric Von: Eric Auer Gesendet: Freitag, 27. März 2020 23:41 An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips Hi Eric ;-) > Freedos runs pretty well on modern devices. But are there any > d

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips

2020-03-27 Thread Eric
I allready have 2 virtual machines running MS DOS and FreeDOS Eric Von: Eric Auer Gesendet: Freitag, 27. März 2020 23:41 An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips Hi Eric ;-) > Freedos runs pretty well on modern devi

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips

2020-03-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Eric ;-) > Freedos runs pretty well on modern devices. But are there any > drivers for the generic realtek soundchips? I that is not the > case, is there a kind of soundcards wich can be used as well > under FreeDOS as under Windows 10? You probably refer to AC97 or HDA comp

[Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips

2020-03-27 Thread Eric
Hi, Freedos runs pritty well on modern devices. But are there any Drivers for the generic realtec soundchips? I that is not the case, is there a Kind of soundcards wich can be used as well under FreeDOS as under Windows 10? Eric ___ Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

2020-03-27 Thread Eric Auer
my PS) Regards, Eric PS: Mercury also made a HIMEMX 3.35 package with Japheth's updates. Please check how well it works on both very new and very old computers. It should be an improvement over Rob Pemberton's "3.34 RP": https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared Folders on FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 VirtualBox in the Lubuntu ... problems

2020-03-25 Thread Eric Auer
ybe simply disable the guest additions? > Is there some explanation you know? I'll await your answers. Please mention which error messages you get, if any, and what exactly you have done to reach the point where you are now. Which questions have the links answered? Which are still open? Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems network in the installation FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 on virtualbox lubuntu 16.04

2020-03-24 Thread Eric Auer
k related topics) > http://cholla.mmto.org/computers/freedos/networking.html (shorter list of network relevant settings, just in case) Enjoy :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
> I noticed that, but the driver itself reports it is 3.34. Basically > we have two 3.34 versions: one from 2015 and one from 2020. The new > 2020 version should have been bumped to 3.35, but it was kept at 3.34 > for some reason. Yay, clarity! lol > > It seems the 3.35 version mentioned in

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
PCI, but that would be less real-time to say the least. I expect the GUI part and the machine part to communicate over a network, so I hope the GUI is much less hardware specific. Yet you say ReactOS is no option even there? You seem to be closely watching the ReactOS progress. Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
s, whereas the "drivers.zip" is something only insiders would suspect to contain all this ;-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
he Linux server could handle > security (anti virus squid proxy anyone). I do not even remember what IPX was for, WfW 3.11 maybe? Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
cr0,eax; jz $ + 2", maybe for CPU compatibility reasons. Japheth drops int 15.8a calls: Very few old computers worked better with those calls, but the Pemberton fork failed to do sufficient checks whether the call actually is supported, so that forked version was worse for variou

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
iki/index.php/(Free)DOS_development_wishlist Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 RC2...

2020-03-22 Thread Eric Auer
ry limited support for some more safe higher resolution text modes. More exotic tricks are deliberately left to other tools. When things fail, you always have that reset button to reach out for ;-) Or if none exists, the three-second-power-button-press. Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 RC2...

2020-03-22 Thread Eric Auer
you want? Quarterdeck Manifest (MFT) is freeware now, I believe? How about HWiNFO for DOS? https://www.hwinfo.com/download/ https://www.uwe-sieber.de/util.html recommends "informer" and "nssi" Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-u

Re: [Freedos-user] EVOC 1714VNA does not support a real floppy controller...

2020-03-21 Thread Eric Auer
ext) Robert's BTTR has a nice collection of floppy tools here: https://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/disk2.htm#floppyutil Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/free

Re: [Freedos-user] EVOC 1714VNA does not support a real floppy controller...

2020-03-21 Thread Eric Auer
d to make sure to do that automatically since May 2003. Which version do you use and which errorlevel and exact error message does it get with the /D option for debugging? Do other /f:size values work? Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@l

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

2020-03-20 Thread Eric Auer
free license. Maybe somebody could publish a howto for using them with FreeDOS, either on raw hardware or in a VM or dosemu? Thanks :-) Exiting to have such featurs for DOS! Regards, Eric PS: auersoft.eu is down at the moment due to an IP address change, let

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

2020-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
l be. But even a SSD with USB2 is a lot faster than SD because of the much better IOPS :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

2020-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
of a luxury but probably works fine :-) Regards, Eric PS: Interesting thought that Raspian uses the right endian for x86 simulations. Would be nice to see some benchmarks, maybe also comparing different virtual PCs beyond Qemu :-) > My RPi3B has a SanDis

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

2020-03-17 Thread Eric Auer
GB size per partition. The DOS which comes with Windows 95 / 98 is a bit more flexible, so it can be used more or less on the same harddisks etc. as FreeDOS. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sou

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip 750 Atapi and freedos...

2020-03-16 Thread Eric Auer
tml/usbdos.html The classic USB driver by Bret Johnson :-) http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/ This driver is not free but a limited demo, so it is basically shareware: 65 Euro for full features for one user, site licenses are available, as are a forum and already some USB 3 support. Cheers, E

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

2020-03-16 Thread Eric Auer
on is from 2013 so I wonder whether this still works with up to date VMware? Cheers, Eric PS: One level up, you find free network packet drivers: > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/g

[Freedos-user] OT: book reading via text to speech on e-book readers

2020-03-15 Thread Eric Auer
for which the user only has a non-audio version around. Eric PS: I believe Pocketbook uses Linux or Android based firmware. They are known for NOT locking users to a shop and do well with PDF, too. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.source

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

2020-03-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mateusz, > Hello Karen, indeed the screen-reading protocols seem to be not as easy > as I imagined they would be. Eric hinted off-list that they may work on > a phonem-by-phonem base rather than being able to process "normal" > written phrases. Also it seems each scre

Re: [Freedos-user] USB floppy saga...

2020-03-15 Thread Eric Auer
data. DOS versions of infozip at least support some encryption and you can use other tools such as 7zip for DOS as well. Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

2020-03-15 Thread Eric Auer
d, you can use it in a plain text mode which even works over telnet or ssh connections so it should be easy to let a speech Synth read those. As you mention Orca in Ubuntu: That would be a Linux which has dosemu in the list of default available apps. Regards, Eric PS: Do I understand you

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

2020-03-15 Thread Eric Auer
, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

2020-03-13 Thread Eric Auer
on the CD-ROM while using your existing CD-ROM drivers. Eric > My computer is a Dell Optiplex 433/L with 16 MB of RAM and a 486 > processor.  It has a 270 MB hard drive, a floppy drive, and a CD drive.  > The CD drive is connected through my sound card, a Sound Blaster Pro 2.  > The installe

[Freedos-user] fresh compile for himemx anybody?

2020-03-12 Thread Eric Auer
Japheth does not call int 15.8a in risky ways, so I would love to see a binary from Japheth's HIMEMX 3.34 sources. Maybe somebody with the right compiler could provide one :-) Thank you! Regards, Eric PS: Actually Japheth's HIMEMX does not call int 15.8a at all, so very few users with really old BIO

Re: [Freedos-user] floppy drive won't format disk...

2020-03-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, > Research suggests that ACPI breaks ISA floppy in Windows XP Unlikely, if you ask me? > Under Advanced -> SuperIO Configuration > > OnBoard Floppy Controller Disabled > Floppy Drive Swap Disabled You should probably enable your floppy controll

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy only

2020-03-10 Thread Eric Auer
he operating systems :-) Regards, Eric >> Is there a way to do that ? >> >> It seems that i need CR-ROM or USB to install Freedos ... >> >> Jacques-Olivier ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net ht

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

2020-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
whether anybody should still use UIDE alone: Probably no. It is a bit smaller. Maybe floppy users. Yes the 2019 releases of the drivers are free and open. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Freedos-user] DMA error trying to format floppy...

2020-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! If you get floppy DMA errors with FreeDOS FORMAT (which version? error message?) then consider avoiding UMBs (EMM386, UMBPCI) or using helpers such as LOWDMA of DOSLFN or DMACHECK of UMBPCI to ensure usability. There should also be separate helpers to protect floppy access from crossing 64k

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

2020-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
3 as UDVD2 already is there :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

2020-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
That is just your personal opinion. > These decisions (for FD 1.3) rely mostly on Jerome and Jim. Then I recommend UHDD and UDVD2 to Jerome and Jim, specifically. Regards, Eric PS: The drivers are deliberately freeware with sources without giving a specific license as the author is against fine p

[Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2

2020-03-08 Thread Eric Auer
and more good news :-) Thanks for considering! Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] fwd: jemm final version 5.79

2020-02-02 Thread Eric Auer
Japheth - https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=16223 At last a bug was fixed in JemmEx that caused shrinking EMBs not to work correctly. It happens with Volkov Commander, for example - I always thought this a bug in VC, but finally realized it was a bug in JemmEx.

Re: [Freedos-user] Impulse Tracker on freedos

2020-01-31 Thread Eric Auer
p://www.dosforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=1188 Mirrored as dos-virtual-... here: https://auersoft.eu/soft/by-others/ (two ZIPs, one source and one binary) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourc

Re: [Freedos-user] Impulse Tracker on freedos

2020-01-30 Thread Eric Auer
ave the output to a file, so you can easily copy paste relevant parts of that to the mailing list :-) Regards, Eric > http://www.users.on.net/~jtlim/ImpulseTracker/download.html) > On c:\mem command I have: > Conventional.638k > Upper.100k > Reserved .286k > Exte

Re: [Freedos-user] qt and DOs?

2020-01-26 Thread Eric Auer
o create a tiny Linux with GUI. So it is possible to do impressive ports of GUI apps to DOS. Regards, Eric PS: There also is the HX DOS extender which supports a set of basic Windows interfaces, including GUI, directly in DOS. This made it possible to run "easy" Windows apps from

[Freedos-user] New Bochs version 2.6.11 available

2020-01-16 Thread Eric Auer
g: > http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_6_11_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES > Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/ For DOS users, mostly the VGA and BIOS updates sound relevant. In addition, a hack to make Bochs run on XP is here: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_

[Freedos-user] JEMM update available - better handling of fragmented memory maps

2020-01-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! As posted by Japheth on the BTTR-Software.de Forum today: > Hello, > > finally, after many years of inactivity, an update to programs Jemmex/Jemm386 > is available. > > The main reason for the update was: on "newer" machines the available > physical memory is somewhat scattered, with

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help installing on virt-manager

2020-01-10 Thread Eric Auer
0, code at CS:IP is cf 80 ff 00 74 06 80 ff, so there is an IRET at CS:IP. "Press ESC to abort program". Recommended next step: Try without JEMMEX. I wonder whether this is a problem with UMB mapping, with VGA BIOS protected mode usage, or something different with protected mode, memory a

Re: [Freedos-user] Debian 9 64b / QEMU 2.8.1 / FreeDOS 1.3rc2 as a guest: DHCP requests end up zero-padded

2019-12-31 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! As the links got line-wrapped, here are the contents: > http://support.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/FreeDos/zero_padded_pkt_dump.txt contains the following text: > # tcpdump -n -i tap0 > 16:47:39.592071 00:00:00:00:00:00 > 00:00:00:00:00:00 Null Information, send > seq 0, rcv seq 0, Flags

[Freedos-user] Fwd: FreeDOS MODE updates (and DOSEMU2) - known bugs, anybody?

2019-12-30 Thread Eric Auer
/pkg-html/terminal.html As there seems to be a problem with the "primary site" link, try: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/util/ Regards, Eric PS: A good time between the years to everybody :-) Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:30:48 +0100 Hi Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] MODE not changing RTS or DTR of serial ports

2019-12-30 Thread Eric Auer
time, using a wrong bit mask or shift, regarding the modem control lines. Check which version of MODE you are using :-) I would not suggest to pull modem lines to specific TTL voltages though, because they use non-TTL levels. Regards, Eric ___ F

Re: [Freedos-user] High-res text modes without VBE or card-specific drivers

2019-12-16 Thread Eric Auer
Sorry, edit error cutting off the end of my sentence: > Also, please add the exotic modes to an updated svgatextmode port > and not to mode! Mode is meant to stay within BIOS support limits > and compatibility as far as possible, as far as I am concerned, > while svgatextmode is known to be

Re: [Freedos-user] High-res text modes without VBE or card-specific drivers

2019-12-16 Thread Eric Auer
. Also, please add the exotic modes to an updated svgatextmode port and not to mode! Mode is meant to stay within BIOS support limits and compatibility as far as possible, as far as I am concerned, while svgatextmode is known to be useable for all

Re: [Freedos-user] Again about power-saving options

2019-12-16 Thread Eric Auer
ers or similar running "around" DOS? Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Again about power-saving options

2019-12-16 Thread Eric Auer
e voltage and clock themselves anyway, it would only affect DOS :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Again about power-saving options

2019-12-16 Thread Eric Auer
owse of your ACPI and other data :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Software to Share ???5 1???4-inch disk driver over a null modem cable

2019-12-12 Thread Eric Auer
cal media such as CD, DVD or BluRay. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Software to Share ​5 1⁄4-inch disk driver over a null modem cable

2019-12-11 Thread Eric Auer
tm https://www.briggsoft.com/fmdos.htm I think Mateusz or another expert also made some drive sharing tool? Another idea would be to make disk images - they are also more durable than the actual floppy disks - and copy all together on 1 usb drive :-) Rega

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

2019-12-10 Thread Eric Auer
> some systems boot the USB media in a read-only mode. While unexpected, it at least is sort of a safety thing... Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

2019-12-10 Thread Eric Auer
mple? Of course if you can use more LBA and less CHS in the boot process and in DOS, things might be more stable and exotic kernel and boot sector config options might help with that, configurable via special SYS options ;-) Regards, Eric __

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

2019-12-09 Thread Eric Auer
no need to consider that at the moment. Thanks to everybody who helped with 1.3rc2 indeed :-) Eric PS: Interesting that MS has given some exFAT patents to OIN and re-licensed the exFAT specs after 10+ years this year! > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fil

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

2019-11-24 Thread Eric Auer
. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

2019-11-24 Thread Eric Auer
> So why didn't freedos keep dosfsck; it its better? Hm? I expect FreeDOS to ship with both, dosfsck and chkdsk! The former can do fat32, but the latter is more familiar classic DOS style, so both are good :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing l

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

2019-11-24 Thread Eric Auer
which FreeDOS is still using :-) Of course, if anybody feels like backporting the newest DOSFSCK version (from the Linux dosfstools) to DOS, I am happy to provide a bit of advice and support. No time to do the actual update myself any soon, sorry. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

2019-11-13 Thread Eric Auer
Insufficient disk space in destination path". If your question was about MOVE :-) You will have to have a NLS directory with NLSPATH pointing to it and a MOVE.* file for your LANG. For example MOVE.ES exists for Spanish users: 0.0:Move 0.1:Mue

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

2019-11-13 Thread Eric Auer
ree disk space? Apart from MOVE? Eric PS: Maybe TCL damaged some in-memory data of DOS and made it believe to run out of memory soon after back at the time when your COPY/XCOPY unexpectedly failed. > Tried copy again and this time it worked - including wildcards. > I've been running TCL f

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

2019-11-12 Thread Eric Auer
as a whole section about editors included with FreeDOS: I think for example SETEDIT can be used for really large files. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] MS DOS games on the Internet Archive playable in your web browser

2019-10-14 Thread Eric Auer
requirements will be accordingly heavy to attempt to use there, though! > https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games?and[]=emulator_start%3A*iafix*==-publicdate=1 Happy testing and playing! Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Free

Re: [Freedos-user] "No fixed disks present" / lbacache write error on CF

2019-10-10 Thread Eric Auer
, you should also try loading that outside UMB. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-26 Thread Eric Auer
r use? Would it help if FreeDOS had a FASTOPEN to cache directory entries? SD cards indeed often have very low "I/O per second" because they are rather optimized to write a few big files, like pics or video, not many small file modifications in a short period o

Re: [Freedos-user] Hello, newbie here with a question :-)

2019-09-18 Thread Eric Auer
OS such as lspci in Linux to find out which chipset. Note that DOS has no support for USB- or wireless-net. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

2019-09-18 Thread Eric Auer
.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/util/ (there is no 1.3 directory on ibiblio yet) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] can FreeDOS do anything to make up for Virtualbox and VMWare's lack of decent support for DOS sound?

2019-09-18 Thread Eric Auer
is not yet supported by the EMM386 in FreeDOS. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Replace Windows 98SE with Linux....

2019-09-16 Thread Eric Auer
o similar work than your Q-Soft, but I do not know what Q-Soft and QSP do? Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

2019-09-16 Thread Eric Auer
Pentium Pro / Pentium III in the default install. I even feel increasing pressure to install the 64 bit version of stuff, although, in theory, it should not matter with 4 GB RAM or less. Regards, Eric PS: As said, you may also get very slow install when the installer happens to run with a badly

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

2019-09-16 Thread Eric Auer
anager user can give us the syntax for doing exactly that with very little typing :-) You would neither want to FDISK nor FORMAT when doing those steps from an already existing DOS, obviously, to keep that. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list F

Re: [Freedos-user] unp - "Executable file restore utility"

2019-09-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Geraldo, are you sure you want to start a discussion about password cracking here?? Of course there are other reasons why unpacking can be useful - for example to re-package in more modern ways or to re-stub software which uses outdated DOS extenders etc. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

2019-09-15 Thread Eric Auer
files on the 2.88 MB double sized "Rugxulo" 2008 floppy and xcopy those, without having to use any package management at all: https://www.auersoft.eu/soft/mixed/ Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

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