whups sorry Dennis - my bad sentence structure. I never feel the need to
defrag with Puppy, I use ext4 and ext3 formatted partitions with ext3 fs
myself... I meant that when in Windoze - defrag, defrag, defrag... a
habit I mistakenly transferred to my FreeDos install - and perhaps
running DOSFSCK
Hi!
If you are interested in Go, you may want to try AuGoS,
of which also a native DOS version exists. The webpage:
http://www.augos.com/go/augos.html
Thanks too for the Chess links - my son and daughter are both just
getting interested (though they prefer Go), and I'm afraid 'Battle
Egads - you are very right to remind me there Dennis and Rugxulo -
defragging is a bit of a reflex habit from my time as a disgruntled MS
user, I never consider it in my (user-level) Puppy Linux. I'll give
DOSFSCK a run, as I still query the format process on the SD-card.
Thanks too for the Chess
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Egads - you are very right to remind me there Dennis and Rugxulo -
defragging is a bit of a reflex habit from my time as a disgruntled MS
user, I never consider it in my (user-level) Puppy Linux. I'll give
DOSFSCK a
Firstly - many thanks to all those offering help in this thread. It has
digressed somewhat from the OP but I hope the suggested tips will help
other 'newbs', I will certainly revisit here to refresh my memory (no
pun intended), follow links when I have more time etc. Thanks Robert
Riebisch for
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Already I have found
that GrandMaster Chess, found to be a tall order on the newer machine
(2GB RAM, etc), works straight off the bat in ye olde Toshie. So, as I
think you were getting at - it isn't the availability
Hi Rugxulo,
many thanks for your detailed reply. As it turns out, I have been
plugging along sporadically with the SD-card FreeDOS OS integrating with
USB flash drive (games repository). I've slowly been weeding out various
games that I've downloaded holus-bolus from various abandonware sites,
Rugxulo wrote:
I guess you could just quickly press the Pause key when/if needed (to
pause the BIOS), but that may not be quite good enough.
EDIT: You could try the following (untested by me) quick hack if desperate:
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote:
grappling with conventional memory allocation issues along the way.
How much do you need? Most games don't need 600,000 bytes. In fact, I
know this is pure hyperbole, but I don't think almost anything needs
quite that
Hi,
I'm late to replying, but I've read the entire thread, thus you
seem to have mostly ironed everything out. Anyways, here's a few
extra comments, just for completeness.
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote:
So this little excursion has taken me quite a
I'm stumped I'm afraid - how do include the requisite instructions in
fdconfig.sys (and? autoexec.bat) to have USBUHCI and USBDRIVE resident
and functional in a fresh Freedos 1.1 install?
I'm in the process of constructing small DOS games environment on a 2Gb
sd-card drive (IDE adapter). The
PS. Begging pardon - the zip file I mentioned earlier was USB19.zip
from Jack Ellis and, I see from Bret Johnson's USB support forum, a
colourful debate there on UIDE/USB extensionality I am too dense to
fathom. Also - usbhosts showing 2 OHCI and 1 EHCI (2.0) usb ports,
matching the BIOS. I'm
@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sun, Feb 3, 2013 2:20 am
Subject: [Freedos-user] Newbie Q - How do I get a USB flash drive operating
please?
I'm stumped I'm afraid - how do include the requisite instructions in
fdconfig.sys (and? autoexec.bat) to have USBUHCI and USBDRIVE resident
and functional in a fresh
the program rufus (from rufus.akeo.ie)
is an excellent way to get a usb stick bootable...
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
Thanks cordata2 and Mark - no I've tried repeated reboots while ironing
out the kinks in my re-install, chiefly to get my autoexec.bat working
nicely, and while the BIOS detects the USB flash drive on bootup, no
letter is automatically assigned to it (although I must test the ports
at the rear).
cordata2 - I stand corrected, and absolutely flabbergasted. Pleasantly
surprised indeed - troubles with a dying floppy drive had me flip a
spare usb-floppy over to the test rig, and on reboot I tried B: and
bang - there was my usb-floppy! (Not asking me to swap the floppy in
the infernal A drive,
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Another noob question - I thought I had this working in my last install on
the card, but doesn't gel here: How do I correctly 'set path' in autoexec to
enable additional commands (like edit, format etc) in FDOS\BIN
Aha - thanks Dennis for the rescue (on yet another OS thread) - I must
have included an extra space after my semi-colon in previous
experiments. Cheers and kuDOS
The second PATH statement above will override the first, so Access
will work, but stuff in FDOS\BIN won't. To have more than one
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote:
The second PATH statement above will override the first, so Access
will work, but stuff in FDOS\BIN won't. To have more than one
directory in the PATH, use ; as the separator between directory names:
PATH
Be sure to check drive letters by actually accessing the files that
you know are on them. If your system has an NTFS partition -- or ext2
or any other file system that FreeDOS can't read -- the drive letters
will be off.
For example, my drive C: is NTFS and D: is FAT32 (both on a hard
drive).
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