Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

Yeah, I don't think anyone in the FreeDOS project has ever aimed for it to be a replacement to Windows/Mac/Linux. That's like comparing a wheelbarrow to an SUV. FreeDOS is a niche OS for a niche market, but it's a very good one at that. Corbin On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:36 PM,

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

Dennis, we've already had this pointless conversation several times over. I'm not sure why you keep rehashing it. On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:06 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > The number of people who still have actual need to run DOS is a vanishingly

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

There are by its very nature limitations to FreeDOS. Even I (one who imagines a parallel universe where DOS still matters) have been forced to reexamine why I should "care" about this system at all and why I continue to store floppy disks all over our apartment ; ^0 It is (as Eric said "a complet

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 13:11:12 -0400, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:39 AM, TJ Edmister > wrote: >> Since I boot Win2K/XP from FAT32, I also have the ability to put FD >> right >> on the C: partition and add it to my BOOT.INI as an option. This needs a >> little juggling of boo

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, Dennis, :-) > > I know this may shock you, but this is a DOS mailing list. You know, > people here actively want to use "DOS" binaries on DOS-compatible > OSes. It may shock you to realize I'm aware of that. But TJ was talking about installi

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

Hi, Dennis, :-) I know this may shock you, but this is a DOS mailing list. You know, people here actively want to use "DOS" binaries on DOS-compatible OSes. I'm just saying, keep that in mind below. On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:11 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:39 AM, TJ Edmist

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > There are rough directions on using the installer with DOSBox > in the FDI Readme. > > https://github.com/shidel/FDI/blob/master/README.md As it happens, I'm doing something similar. I have an Android port of DOSBox, and an assortmen

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:39 AM, TJ Edmister wrote: > Since I boot Win2K/XP from FAT32, I also have the ability to put FD right > on the C: partition and add it to my BOOT.INI as an option. This needs a > little juggling of boot sectors to accomplish though. I have to ask: why FAT32? I stayed at

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 07:20:32 -0400, Eric Auer wrote: > > * Is it easy enough to make a bootable USB stick with FreeDOS with > plenty of software included which does NOT need to install to > harddisk but can be used as "live" operating system boot disk? Isn't there a bootable disk image like t

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

> On Jun 18, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > (sorry about the long mail...) > >> During the discussion of version 1.2, this was my interpretation of >> how this should be handled and what was implemented when the >> user installed FreeDOS in normal mode. Having a faile

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

Hi guys, (sorry about the long mail...) > During the discussion of version 1.2, this was my interpretation of > how this should be handled and what was implemented when the > user installed FreeDOS in normal mode. Having a failed install (by > not booting into FreeDOS) was unacceptable behavi

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

> On Jun 18, 2016, at 7:20 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > […] > I think this was part of the FreeDOS 1.2 discussion before, but > how about detection whether a harddisk is "totally" empty before > showing the question how to install? I agree that for people who > made a totally empty virtual PC image a m

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

Hi guys, > “FreeDOS is a complete operating system. If you choose to install > this on your computer, you may overwrite the operating system you > have now (for example, Windows.) If this is not what you intend, > please stop now.” That leads to the IMPORTANT questions: * Is it easy enough to m