[Freedos-user] Concerned about a site...

2012-04-09 Thread someone
There is a site that is putting out a bootable CD that allows you to reset NT passwords. Problem I see is, the OS used is freedos and the disc costs $34.95 to activate. I don't think they are charging for freedos, but there is a free Linux based password reset available if you google

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-06 Thread Someone
I'd say that Freedos is okay for networking if you have a card that is supported by open source drivers, but that seems to be a very short list of cards at this time. I guess the question to ask of anyone seeking to network Freedos is, is a dos environment enough for what you are after? Command

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-06 Thread Someone
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 23:10 -0300, Alain Mouette wrote: I completly disagree. Just today I installed FreeDOS on a brand new Asus board with SATA2 a gigabit ethernet chip. Simple: go to www.netbootdisk.com and create a floppy. After it boots and detects the NIC, copy it's driver

Re: [Freedos-user] Beat free doom refueling base...

2009-01-18 Thread Someone
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 09:12 -0600, Jim Hall wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:54 AM, plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I am stuck in the room where there is a ladder that leads to the light. The wall in one spot looks strange and on the map it shows up in yellow. There is a door, but no

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-29 Thread someone
continue updating the sound drivers for DOS while focusing on Windows for the video support? Eric Depending on the licensing scheme for mpxplay, someone else can continue developing the dos version. The sad thing about developing a Windows version is that ReactOS, the only free Windows clone I know

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-29 Thread someone
ReactOS might support Windows 98 programs... Well, ReactOS is an NT clone. Freewin95 was the original project that later became ReactOS when progress was too slow. The developers, according to the bulletin boards, have given up on dos based Windows. That is too pessimistic, years for

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-29 Thread someone
Quoting Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Michael, Well, ReactOS is an NT clone. Freewin95 was the original project that later became ReactOS when... Hmmm. Why? The facts are not encouraging as far as the time it took for ReactOS 0.3.5 to be released and 0.3.5 is an alpha. Things

[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 stalled...

2008-05-20 Thread someone
I would like to see programs written to work with GEM directly. Updating FDPKG to work through GEM would be really neat. GEM is beautifully simple. I don't know about turbovision etcetera, but how hard would it be to build the installer on top of opengem? Talk of needing a dos extender gui to

[Freedos-user] Test to ignore...

2008-05-20 Thread someone
I am seeing if my mail server is fixed... This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft

[Freedos-user] fdupdate 0.51 hangs computer

2007-12-28 Thread someone
I am running freedos on a DTK 486 DX2-66 board with AMI bios. It crashes when I type y to apply any update. gs: sel=00bf base= limit=0010 ss: sel=0033 invalid App stack: [000f06c8..000706cc] Exceptn stack: [000705f8..0006e6b8] Call frame traceback EIPS: 0xad0f 0x0001ce94

[Freedos-user] Freedos on vmware...

2007-12-21 Thread someone
Has anyone had luck getting freedos to work correctly in vmware? I've admittedly had trouble. A link to installation instructions would be greatly appreaciated. Michael Robinson This message was sent using IMP, the Internet

[Freedos-user] fdupdate.exe fails at DHCP...

2007-12-21 Thread someone
Arachne does dhcp configuration just fine, but fdupdate.exe doesn't. Am I missing a package for dhcp??? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [Freedos-user] Port Dillo?

2007-07-29 Thread someone
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 23:32 -0500, John Lockman wrote: heh, for a fairly nice freedos web browser, did ya try Arachne? Yes, I have. It is Internet centric and made for a time when the Net was nowhere near as complex as it is now. Dillo has more capabilities and is not Net centric. I don't

Re: [Freedos-user] Port Dillo?

2007-07-25 Thread someone
the port to FLTK yet, but it's mostly done for the Highest and High priority items, but unfinished for lower priority stuff. I think it would be a good idea for someone to try to compile the current CVS source using djgpp, and see what compile errors come out. -jh I have the source

Re: [Freedos-user] Port Dillo?

2007-07-09 Thread someone
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 23:47 -0300, Geraldo Netto wrote: Hi guys, Actually while it is a nice idea, (afaik)there are some constraints ie: dillo does use gtk, so we would need x for dos(afaik it does exist) but also gtk which afaik is not ported to dos and if so, only on protected mode

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't even get started!

2007-07-09 Thread someone
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 17:22 -0700, chris evans wrote: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdfullcd.iso Did you try to right click and choose save-as? that way web browser wont try to display it on screen. A free software project can only do so much

[Freedos-user] Port Dillo?

2007-07-07 Thread someone
How about bringing the Dillo web browser to freedos? Michael Robinson - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits.

[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 or 2.0...

2007-06-27 Thread someone
Do both ;-) Save Freedos 1.1 for all the bug fixes that have come out after Freedos 1.0's release. For Freedos 2.0, accept new programs such as free scandisk and/or a 16 bit freedos compatible win32 emulator. A 2.0 release to me means that compatibility is being improved and that more of the

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-08 Thread someone
Windows ME is a strange beast. Seems it failed miserably. Nice thing about Windows ME was that it doesn't require validation like XP does. It must only be about 7 years old, but there's no support for it. Just as well perhaps, seems like Windows ME had an identity crisis. It wasn't exactly

Re: [Freedos-user] Next freedos version...

2007-05-25 Thread someone
+ Intel dual PIII server board, An Asus P5S-VM AMD K62-500 system, and my 486 system. I got my copy of Freedos 1 from linuxmall.com because every attempt I made to download it failed. What follows is an opinion piece: How can you judge someone by what they write alone without knowing

[Freedos-user] Off Topic Re: Next freedos version...

2007-05-25 Thread someone
into hijacking and crashing multiple 7x7's into occupied office buildings. Nor did Britain consort with radicals so that the London bombings would happen. Spain didn't cut a deal with someone to bomb the train systems in Madrid. No civil entity makes war without a just cause. Terrorists who

[Freedos-user] Next freedos version...

2007-05-24 Thread someone
Michael I want the focus to be on fixing defrag along with other utilities and implementing a package management system similar to Slacwkware's. What some of the programs do could be documented better. I get the impression that people are expected to have old manuals lying around, but dos died

Re: [Freedos-user] Next freedos version...

2007-05-24 Thread someone
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 23:05 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Someone / Michael, please explain the package mgmt suggestion. At the moment, we have a system where each package is in a ZIP and you could simply use unzip and zip -mf to install and un- install a package. But we even have a package

Re: [Freedos-user] Invalid Opcode at 214C 0583 0246 001E while booting FreeDOS

2007-03-14 Thread someone
something wrong or if it's a genuine problem that needs or needed to be reported. Danke schön! Merci beaucoup! Thank you very much. (I'm also interested in localization and languages and notice someone asked about that!) Brent martin DONT USE MICROSOFT'S VIRTUAL PC. Go to http

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos on Mac with Virtual PC - find floppy drive.

2007-03-14 Thread someone
On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 22:37 -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote: I have successfully installed Freedos on a Power PC MAC using Virtual PC as the host for it. Sickening, why are you using Microsoft's broken product instead of vmware? Go to http://www.vmware.com now please. It seems to be up and

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: XGREP version 1.03

2007-03-14 Thread someone
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 17:14 +0100, Robert Riebisch wrote: Hello! Robert Nordier kindly agreed to add his fast UNIX-like `grep' clone including source code to the FreeDOS project. Excerpt from his mail: *** I've replaced the license with one previously used for some of my BSD work (it is