Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread usul
Thanks! On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 5:02 PM Daniel Essin via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > https://archive.org/details/msdos_manual_622 > > https://archive.org/details/microsoft-programmers-reference-manual-msdos-2.0 >

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
https://archive.org/details/msdos_manual_622 https://archive.org/details/microsoft-programmers-reference-manual-msdos-2.0 https://archive.org/details/msdos_5_User_Guide_completehttps://archive.org/details/msdos_5_User_Guide_complete On

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread usul
This is awesome, thank you. On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:18 PM Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 11:57 AM usul wrote: > > > > So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and > my Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my start with > a

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:31 PM Rugxulo wrote: > > > So as soon as I get the items loaded this higher memory and 32 dos extender > > stuff remembered and djgpp or w/e up and running the better. > > I had an ancient GCC 2.95.3 archive (DJGPP 2.03p2), if you're curious. > It was a .7z file

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 1:03 PM usul wrote: > > Apparently I purged XP disks long ago. :( Laptop has Windows 10 is on it. > And it is awful LOL. Even though most of the minimalist linux live I have > tested also dogged a bit. UMSDOS wasn't maintained after the 2.4 kernel series.

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 11:57 AM usul wrote: > > So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and my > Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my start with a > 486 DX 8 mgs of Ram. > I mostly did Visual Basic 3.0 programming to start after I

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread usul
Apparently I purged XP disks long ago. :( Laptop has Windows 10 is on it. And it is awful LOL. Even though most of the minimalist linux live I have tested also dogged a bit. I might install suse with xcfe on it. That seemed to run the best. Though I have never done any linux development. and

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread John Vella
I would be tempted to install windows xp, which I believe this laptop shipped with, then install virtual pc, (the version before Microsoft bought it) and run the various dos/Windows 3.1 machines in a virtual environment. Or install linux and find a virtual pc solution for that. Dos and win 3.1

[Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread usul
So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and my Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my start with a 486 DX 8 mgs of Ram. I mostly did Visual Basic 3.0 programming to start after I finished college. VBA/ MS Access then to Dot Net. I can read C /

[Freedos-user] greetings

2008-09-11 Thread Braden Mailloux
Hello, Everyone; My name is Braden and I'm a new user to FreeDOS. I've successfully installed FreeDOS to my old Dell laptop (the cd-rom drive held out!). I'm pretty new to computers, even though they've been in my life for some time now. I'm an avid windows xp user, but have never really felt

Re: [Freedos-user] greetings

2008-09-11 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Welcome. :) Regards, -mr Braden Mailloux schrieb: Hello, Everyone; My name is Braden and I'm a new user to FreeDOS. I've successfully installed FreeDOS to my old Dell laptop (the cd-rom drive held out!). I'm pretty new to computers, even though they've been in my life for some time now.