> On Apr 9, 2016, at 9:40 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Eric Gorr <mail...@ericgorr.net> wrote:
>>
>> I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS on
>> Mac and,
&g
ou get?On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Eric Gorr <mail...@ericgorr.net> wrote:I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS on Mac and, if it was possible, had instructions for how to do so.
I have a MacPro Mid 2012 and am running El Capitan. I have an internal 250g
I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS on
Mac and, if it was possible, had instructions for how to do so.
I have a MacPro Mid 2012 and am running El Capitan. I have an internal 250gb HD
which I can wholly dedicate to this purpose and can prepare it however I
but you should
make selections for buffer size and buffer waiting time in your printer
configuration (using buttons on the printer) according to your taste.
Cheers, Eric
PS: GRAPHICS also supports simple PostScript and HP PCL screenshots, but
you should avoid old dumb GDI laser and ink jet printers
bout fat32? :-)
Eric
> I have been using 2GB FAT16 partitions because of my recollection that
> some of the FreeDOS programs didn't support FAT32 properly. I'm sorry I
> don't have notes on the particulars, just a recollection of my
> conclusion from a dive into the question
uot;leave my MBR alone please, I will
>> take care of it myself".
>
> YES!
+1
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>> This is a known problem that has been undergoing consideration on
>> how best to resolve the issue. The SYS command used by the
>> installer does not force an overwrite of the old boot code in the
>> MBR. This would damage the boot loader of a multi boot system
oing either USB serial port emulation or modern soundcard support
> for speech synthesis.
I do not know, please check the website or try to find out. If it
works in dosbox, it already is quite nice, but of course it would
be even better if it also worked for old D
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HX DOS Extender 2.17+ with modern sound card support (Announce)
posted by Wengier, 16.02.2016, 22:33
As many of you already know, HX DOS Extender, the best DOS extender out
there is no longer maintained by Japheth. One major
S side :-)
FileMaven 3.5a is closed source freeware with laplink style transfer
and support for ZIP and others: http://www.briggsoft.com/fmdos.htm
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probable set /p system crash)
>
> I have some ideas on how to resolve this issue. So, when
> I get the time. I will take care of this compatibility issue.
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ailure, then the installer will fail
as well, because it probably relies on being able to put temp files
in the stick. As said, it SHOULD not rely on that anyway, IMHO...
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nstaller would still have to have knowledge about all installers
which could have been used for the previously existing version, to
know how and which information could be extracted from old configs.
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he will NOT release an updated version with read-ahead now!
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roller or virtual A20 hardware can help, too! :-)
Regards, Eric
PS: You have not specified where the "FreeDOS 1.1 VDI" VM image
came from and which versions of what and which configs it uses.
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ither lost when
only 1M RAM is available or become horribly slow.
If the topic REALLY interests you, please start a
NEW thread by citing the list of checks and their
8086 viability based on a summary of old threads.
Eric
t risk is
indeed plausible. Luckily MS never shipped anything similar to his
UIDE drivers, so UIDE cannot be based on MS DOS source codes :-)
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ess to HMA
space at all inside config.sys, so you would have to delay those
driver loads to autoexec - other DOS variants are more flexible.
Regards, Eric
PS: When you boot Windows or Linux, the protected mode disk drivers
of the operating system are usually activated BEFORE any V86 tasks
get
her issues which have accumulated in the last
ten (!) years before doing a new release. Please let me know
if you know about fix-worthy smaller bugs with MODE 2005 :-)
The bug is http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/142/ and was
caused by shifting some bits not far enough before a BIOS call.
Cheers
comments as well :-)
Planned read-ahead size is 64 kB (32 sectors) in XDVD2 but
only active if XHDD cache size is 60+ MB with 64 kB blocks
as both drivers work together with a single combined cache.
Regards, Eric
PS: The above is of course a simplification of those topics
We have DOS drivers which are able to simulate a CD/DVD directly
from the ISO :-)
> 3) Copy the all_cd.iso file to the hard drive and run SHUCDHD then install
> from the hard drive iso file. This works very well and has the coolness
Exactly
www.joewing.net/projects/jwm/
I personally find XFCE more versatile but also heavier than LXDE:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems#Adding_a_window_manager
Have not tested OpenBox, IceWM, Fluxbox or FVWM-Crystal yet, you?
The old FVWM2 or FVWM95 might be enough, if you
Hi!
> Eric, I have bought 3 PCIe sound cards advertised as DOS/SB compatible
> and none have worked. Perhaps we need a list of working PCIe cards?
Modern mainboards fail to provide some aspects of ISA-awareness to
make hardware emulation on PCI / PCIe cards work. However, you can
try so
chipsets directly, so if you have no
need for game sound, I suggest a cheap PCI or PCIe soundcard
with a chipset directly supported by mplayer or mpxplay :-)
You can also try Covox (printer port) sound for games and try
running DOS stuff in Dosemu or Dosbox in Linux or Windows...
Che
here was no printer port without that card
or the PCI card printer port is active but on some non-
standard I/O base...
My preferred theory is still that there WOULD be some
possibility to connect a slot bracket on the mainboard
but have a look at your manual and BIOS setup to check.
Regards,
ot; that you should
use the already existing port on your mainboard. You
may use PCI PnP config tools to change the "thinking".
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> I am looking for a dos editor that can handle large files. Wordstar
> will work in the non-document mode but it truncate files if there is an
> ascii 26 (end of file) character.
Hi George,
> If I already have a .ISO file is there a way to write it to CD in a DOS
> only computer ?
While DOS based CD burning software exists, it is probably
easier to use the SHSUCD driver family to "mount" the ISO,
so you can use it in DOS without having to bur
SEMU) to gather data that
DOS sends to LPT1 and forward it to the Linux printer driver, a
file or directly to the physical printer port. Read the docs :-)
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to mess with more or less weird PCI configuration tools.
Cheers, Eric
PS: CMOS used to be the place where BIOS stores config data
so I sort of use BIOS setup and CMOS setup as synonyms now
tings should be used for the expansion, go
to the BIOS setup and configure it there :-)
Regards, Eric
PS: You can indeed try using newer FreeDOS kernel, MODE or other
tools, but printer port access is rather low level so it should
not depend much on help from DOS. It is more about configuration.
>
install) compared to a simple boot CD.
In short, what you want is a boot floppy, floppy distro or live
CD, but you can also use a boot floppy or floppy distro to make
a boot CD and you can use the install CD as minimalist boot CD.
Cheers, Eric
www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files
Hi Rugxulo, FreeDOS users,
forwarding something interesting from the forum from you ;-)
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14456
Cheers, Eric
MetaDOS 0.2 (network-aware floppy .img, 100% open source) (Announce)
posted by Rugxulo(R) Homepage E-mail, Usono, 15.09.2015, 02:14
Hi :-)
>> Thanks guys! Sorry for the late response, and Eric I will consider the
>> xharbour, thank you!
>
> I never used it, but that old XHarbour is (AFAIK) abandoned (for DOS)
> and somewhat hard to use (and IIRC needs a C compiler for backend).
> Don't pin too
uot; while you installed DOS, if I
understand your mail correctly, probably is drive "C:" when
you boot DOS. As you also seem to have Windows 7 on the same
computer, I guess that your Windows partitions are all NTFS.
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with 286 or 386 or XMS 2 in mind, lacking imagination
that usable RAM could exist beyond the first 16 or 64 MB... ;-)
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not
want to rely on automatic detection of that, you may
want to explicitly request low level formatting with
FORMAT A: /U
See also FORMAT /z:longhelp for various other hints.
Cheers, Eric
the physical
resolution of your old LCD screen may or may not look smooth, but
at least the zoom factor is the same horizontally and vertically.
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It could be an incorrect or buggy driver, dunno. The only way to know
would be to try something else. But I'm not sure of a good
alternative. I don't even know where to (reliably) find such old DOS
drivers.
That seems to have been the case. In my post
everything
by a factor of 8/3 (2.66) or zoom independently
in X and Y direction, giving a slight distortion.
As 8/3 and 2.7 are not integer values, you will get a
regular pattern of zoom artifacts. Some monitors are
better than others in making those artifacts bearable.
Regards, Eric
zoom settings.
Cheers, Eric
PS: DOS will often use the DEFAULT BIOS text mode of 720x400, but as
720 is a weird fraction of 1920, this might look less smooth... There
even are funky mode setting tools for DOS, too, so in theory, a text
mode of 106x67 characters, 9x16 font, padded to 1920x1080 may
, convert it to OGG
or MP3, or play it directly. I think this is now the
more common way of accessing audio on CD via a PC :-)
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netcat for DOS. In some cases, you can also use a browser to config
printers which provide a web interface, sometimes also allowing to
upload and print files. I guess IPP is a popular print protocol now.
Regards, Eric
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then,
so replacement caps of better quality (low ESR, 105C
temp range) should fit the same mechanical size. Yet
mainboards often have multi layer PCB and lots of tiny
features, so you still have to be experienced to get
them soldered properly :-)
Sorry about the off-topic ;-)
Regards, Eric
security hole in the floppy
of several open source virtual PC solutions, please update if you
are using those on servers. Or at least disable the virtual floppy.
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* sometimes you can switch to classic SATA mode in your CMOS
BIOS setup, but AHCI is faster, as it allows NCQ and other
things for multi thread friendly I/O, so it is often default
is not enough.
The above is from recommendations for deskwork, a
Windows style GUI for DOS with some deskwork-specific
software and a distinctive star trek TNG style look.
That also suggests in win.ini, in the [windows] part:
DefaultQueueSize=16 (for improved speed).
Cheers, Eric
PS: Even
. This will also allow FreeDOS branding :-)
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on Ibiblio, but some users may still want to install it
and share their experiences on this DOS mailing list :-)
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know that there are none. They do not, they think there can
be a professional DOS which basically is like Win or Linux,
just better in some unknown, magical DOS way.
For people who really need DOS, freedos is a very nice DOS.
Regards, Eric
in various version or other DPMI drivers? And, if
I may be curious, what program are you writing which will
enjoy having more than 2 GB of RAM in DOS?
Regards, Eric :-)
Why mem.exe returns Total memory 3 612 188K but EAX=500h/int 31h
(and EAX=0xff90/int 21h by DOS32A) returns 2 096 601K only
.e820) to get a list of which area is for what :-)
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but due to some Sourceforge / Opera incompatibility, Jack
can not announce it here himself? What is new in which zip?
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and an ASCII table. Just a nice small
multi-file text editor as default FreeDOS editor :-)
With TDE, SETEDIT or the Unicode editors, you get a
lot more power. They work on any 386 or newer PC, in
the Unicode case any 386 with VGA or better graphics.
Cheers, Eric
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dir on
your target disk (e.g. DOS partition on harddisk)
as unzipping is the main install step anyway. You
will still miss the other installer details done
with the ZIPs, but you will have the contents :-)
Eric
PS: Try setting the controller to which your CD/DVD
or BluRay drive is connected to non
-power-wise there is not that much making-use-of for
XT mainboards. However, you could always put RomOS in some EPROM
on some ISA network card for your mainboards - or do a net boot!
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want to compare the first 8 bytes.
In short, you still have to use strncmp() here.
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at the end. You could use
strncmp(string1, string2, 8) to compare only the first
eight bytes, which will probably work fine for you :-)
Eric
(I'm using tiny memory model and link .COM instead of .EXE, for
minimalize program size)
PS: I do not know if int 0xe6 is really deprecated. Anybody
were you installing from? One of the CD
ISO images, I assume? By making the ISO visible as a virtualbox
virtual CD? Or by burning it to real CD or DVD first? The latter
should not be necessary, I am just trying to gather more details.
Regards, Eric
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? Instructions?
I remember that when I use too many script, ad and gimmick
blockers on Linux, using a download helper plugin to find
the video URL and watching that in VLC is sometimes faster
than having to unblock bells whistles in my browser ;-)
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classical MBR partitioning scheme! Otherwise, DOS will not yet
be able to use your FAT partition as C: drive...
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(forwarding from Guillem)
In response to Eric, I have tried DOSemu and I did manage to get the
serial ports to work. I had a few problems with it, though. Neither the
PC speaker or the Sound Blaster worked. To be honest I’m not sure if the
netbook I was running it on has a PC speaker anyways
Hi Guillem,
In response to Eric, I have tried DOSemu and I did manage to get the
serial ports to work. I had a few problems with it, though. Neither the
PC speaker or the Sound Blaster worked. To be honest I’m not sure if the
netbook I was running it on has a PC speaker anyways.
Normally
happens to be the
page size of common processors and flash storage, so there is
not much reason to have atomic storage units larger than 4k.
Of course it is often faster to transfer multiple sectors in a
single I/O step, but I would not make those sectors bigger...
Regards, Eric
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have to modify the contents of that virtual floppy. I
think tools for opening and editing floppy images are
available for free for most operating systems :-) DOS
boots, then loads CD drivers, then uses the other DOS
things that you can readily see on the bootable CD :-)
Regards, Eric
before, probably also
in context of AC97 (or HDA) soundcards and the lack of
drivers for them for old games.
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Hi folks :-)
Jim Michaels recommends the following long file name tool project:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lfntools/?source=directory
Maybe other FreeDOS users already have experiences
with that project and can share them here? Thanks :-)
Cheers, Eric
laptop to your fixed network.
DOS drivers for networking via network cable are much easier to find.
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an actual floppy :-)
I think the two use cases above would be popular: Maybe
somebody can give step by step recipes for them or tell
us that everything is actually easier than I assumed :-)
Regards, Eric
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screen resolutions by default, so you
Up:Enabled
Note of those should cause any problems, but to save a
bit of energy, I would suggest to disable remote wakeup
(wake-on-lan) in the BIOS if you do not really need it.
In particular, I recommend to keep Cool n Quiet enabled.
Regards, Eric
earlier in this thread) involves
yet more redirection. I believe static links to the file include:
http://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/sudoku86/v1.0.2/sudoku86.zip
I assume that you can vary the hostname to get another mirror :-)
Eric
game (c), quick
selection of digits (1-9), next digit (space), help (F1), save (F5) and
load (F7),
Thanks :-)
The game is hosted on sourceforge:
http://sudoku86.sourceforge.net/
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want to force kernel and/or boot sector to use
LBA or a certain CHS geometry of course depends on how far
in the boot process you already get with default settings.
Regards, Eric
I don't see in any docs found that the forcelba option available in the SYS
command can be used in conjunction
From Zbigniew, in reply to my off-list question:
Hi!
Short question, is this mail about FDAPM or is it about UIDE?
Actually, I wrote it about UIDE, but...
And does it help to use the ADV:REG option for FDAPM instead
of the APMDOS option?
...but indeed: replacing APMDOS parameter with
if you disable the
BIOS legacy USB driver. I hope that answers your question.
Regards, Eric
* Maybe your BIOS is configured to support legacy USB methods
* to let DOS access USB keyboard or mouse without USB drivers?
* In that case, the BIOS can spend quite a lot of time to deal
* with the USB
to show
speed limitation first there.
See above - since 486DX, FPU is always included in the CPU.
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the to be
printed file to USB stick and print it later using
another system. Or you could use Ethernet if your
printer is networked. Maybe smbclient or netcat? I
would not try Wifi - too hard to find any drivers.
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PS: If you have a non USB printer port, Covox style
ADC sound output in bare DOS should work everywhere.
Assuming your screenreader driver is robust enough.
I used a mini-itx to put
by omitting 8x14 fonts,
so http://www.bttr-software.de/products/fix8x14/ would be
an example of a tool to provide such a font in a driver.
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Note that newer VGA BIOS may miss 8x14 built-in fonts,
but you can load a custom DOS font instead. There also
are tools doing ONLY that, using less RAM than DISPLAY.
Regards, Eric
PS: Still happy easter to everybody :-)
display con=(vga,437,2)
then I got error
MS DOS 7.x would
probably not run on PC-XT hardware.
Eric
I am running ms dos 7.1 ish, an augmented package which includes
chkdsk and some other extra utilities.
I am not running freedos at all, which is why i hinted it must
be a problem specific to freedos, not to Dos itself
CPU etc.
And indeed your problem was on IBM XT, so you could not
run DOSFSCK on it. Still impressive that you can plug a
drive big enough to make FAT32 worthwhile into that XT.
Maybe an early 8 or 16 bit ISA IDE controller with BIOS
extension to support 500 MB, 8 GB or even 128 GB disks?
Eric
PS
may want to partition the USB stick and/or put a bootable
MBR or boot menu as well. For example syslinux, grub, grub4dos.
http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/specials/
Regards, Eric
PS: Thanks for the cosmodata mirror
performance a bit.
Regards, Eric
PS: A possibly interesting patch from NetBSD vs Opteron vs A20:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-amd64/2011/11/02/msg001520.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-amd64/2011/11/04/msg001528.html
(switching only works port 92 style on that machine, unexpectedly
the number of reboots required for testing those...
I can try to load FreeDOS from USB stick instead of PXE.
That might also be interesting, yes.
Regards, Eric
PS: Maybe somebody can tell us which A20 methods actually
are trapped by JEMMEX for the simulated/emulated A20 side
and for which
EMM386 drivers took the effort to implement those GEMMIS functions,
only Windows 386enh mode uses them after all.
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