You are getting closer, but you have still not really explained what it
actually does.
What does monitor mean?
What protocols does it support?
What network stacks?
What network services?
What kind of monitoring?
What kind of display?
What information is displayed?
Does it update
Hi,
I was given two (old) portable computers in which I installed
FreeDOS.
After a few weeks experimenting with them and getting countless
corrupted files, I concluded that processor overheating must be
the reason.
I suspected overheating after noticing that in the first few
minutes after
Hi!
On Saturday 11 September 2010 09:45 (CEST), Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
wrote:
I'm now experimenting with FDAPM and THROTTLE to reduce
processor speed, with partial success. Corrupted files still
appear, only in smaller quantities.
No, CPU speed reduction is not the way to go. You
This is just the opposite of what I expected. I always thought
that it is easier for a processor to run DOS than Windows.
In case you care about the technical background: DOS is dumb. When waiting
for user input, it (all DOS versions I know) by default just loops forever
until a key was
Hi Mateusz, Christian,
FDAPM APMDOS solved the problem. It is very efficient. Now the
processor running FreeDOS is just as cool as it was running the
Windows that was originally in the computer.
I'm also experimenting in another portable, a ThinkPad 330 MHz,
and apparently it is working there
Oleg O Chukaev oleg-chuk...@yandex.ru writes:
But note that I'm looking for /free software/ games, not merely
/freeware/ ones (i. e., «free as in freedom».) The particular
intent is that those interested in programming could be given
Minesweeper and Sokoban clones:
Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote:
Thanks a lot for a *very* useful hint.
But you already knew this. ;-) Just remember your messages from December
2009 to this list.
And of course thanks to Eric too for having written FDAPM in the
first place :-)
He also added IDLEHALT to FDCONFIG.SYS.
Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote:
Thanks a lot for a *very* useful hint.
But you already knew this. ;-) Just remember your messages from
December 2009 to this list.
OK, let me explain in more detail, otherwise someone may think I
did not pay attention
What happened was, I had stopped using FDAPM with the portables
after finding that it was interfering with Bret Johnson's USB
keyboard driver. Hence the overheating.
Did you report that to Bret already?
Regards,
Christian
If the processor overheats with other OS's like IBM PC DOS(any version) then
could it be the hardware. I'm guessing obviously. I just can't remember an
old DOS portable(transportable) like an old 15 kg Compaq that would overheat
this way.
I've built power-supplies from parts and I've never seen
All versions of DOS I know require the use of a TSR (like FDAPM, or
MS-DOS's POWER) to idle correctly, or of a program that does the idling
itself (I don't know any COMMAND.COM version that does so). However, as
the flawed call usually will simply be called by idle-unaware software, an
At 02:53 PM 9/11/2010, john s wolter wrote:
Christian,
I must be ignorant of this need to idle a program to prevent
overheating. First thinking of the 8088/86, 80286, 80386, 80486
system boards of the 1980's and early 1990's. I can't remember
overheating caused by looping programs. I wrote
I'd suggest to reduce CPU frequency if possible or to
improve the cooling / ventilation. Among other flaws mentioned
above this definitely is a mechanical / thermal flaw because
the CPU should NOT be able to overheat even if it is
very busy or executes flawed code. Imagine compressing
a large file
Hello, every one,
Just to say hello and I have been reading the news letters,
as the come in,..
Actually maybe one question, I may have asked this along time ago, and either
missed
the answer, or never was one...
I have a PacMan game, that is intended for Dos, it runs well with FreeDos,
Are there Dust-Bunnies inside the power-supply?
Is the p-s fan working? Is there a CPU fan and is it working?
FYI, I indeed did have a PC (not laptop) with this problem. Removing
all the dust mess not only removed all mysterious crashes but
also the CPU fan noise went massively down :-)
--
Apparently, in the Windows partition there is an emulator.
This direction does not get you anywhere, because the emulator's output is
simply the Windows driver for your sound card.
MPXPLAY is working great for music on FreeDOS, so the sound
capabilities are there.
This is better. Now learn
Seems you're not old enough to ever have worked with one of the 5V
Pentium CPUs (60/66MHz) for example... LOL
I didn't really care at the time. I can assure you the AMD K-4 (~ 300 MHz)
and Pentium II (~ 250 MHz) boards that I still regularly use do profit
from idling too. But really,
I may have asked this along time ago, and either missed
the answer, or never was one...
this had been asked already 1'000'000'000'000 times ;-)
it runs well with FreeDos, also,..but
it never can detect sound blaster, and that is the only sound device it can
use...
The game is obsolete and
Hi,
I use a DOS USB Drivers from bretjohnson.us, someone here ever suggest
this driver before on this list. However, I'm not familiar with this,
I took steps and installed the driver but system will hang or tell me
wrong IRQ. So could anyone show me an example to setup this driver? Or
if there's
I use a DOS USB Drivers from bretjohnson.us, someone here ever suggest
this driver before on this list. However, I'm not familiar with this,
I took steps and installed the driver but system will hang or tell me
wrong IRQ. So could anyone show me an example to setup this driver?
Please specify
So could anyone show me an example to setup this driver?
NO. It's easy and documented.
I took steps and installed the driver but system will hang or tell me wrong
IRQ.
Provide details.
Get http://www.file-pasta.com/file/0/PCI.ZI7 (original page dead) and
post details about USB stuff and
Dosbox is an emulator that emulates an x86 processor and PC hardware. In
this way, it is similar to qemu or bochs. It goes one step beyond in that
they added to the emulator a DOS-like interface that maps the native file
system into the DOS system calls, as well as the remaining DOS and BIOS
Dosbox [...] goes one step beyond in that
they added to the emulator a DOS-like interface that maps the native file
system into the DOS system calls, as well as the remaining DOS and BIOS
system calls.
I might add that I would not generally recommend using the DOSBox built-in
DOS for
Dosbox is an emulator that emulates an x86 processor and PC hardware
In this way, it is similar to qemu or bochs
good ...
It goes one step beyond in that they added to the emulator a
DOS-like interface that maps the native file system into the DOS system calls,
as well as the remaining DOS
- Remove the word DOS from the name (the thing is unable to boot
into a PC, so it's not a OS and thus not a DOS)
I don't think they use the term for it, sorry for confusing you.
- Remove the DOS-like interface that maps the native file system
(so turn it into a clean 80386 / 80486 / early
That's Bochs.
Pat
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:21 PM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote:
Dosbox is an emulator that emulates an x86 processor and PC hardware
In this way, it is similar to qemu or bochs
good ...
It goes one step beyond in that they added to the emulator a
DOS-like interface that
Christian,
It basically is related to current system board design and therefore the
dangling question is what aspect of design.
What if anything has changed since that time?
Are you referring to libraries, the CPU or something entirely else with
this question?
I'm referring to the CPU
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