Re: [Freedos-user] How create a booting freddos cd live

2013-01-02 Thread iw2evk
Hi Bruce, i've download your package, but i've a problem. I running Pupy linux lucid, so the package don't start (also if i use WINE). I've download and extract files on root, then ,with my cd editor i've burned the contents of folder Images with subfolder, but when i boot from cd nothing

Re: [Freedos-user] How create a booting freddos cd live

2013-01-02 Thread bruce.bowman tds.net
What I sent you is not a CD image. You have to build the image first using mkBootableCD.bat, then burn the resulting file myCD.iso. It seems unlikely that this will work on a Linux machine. If you can't find a Windows machine then someone else will have to help you. Sorry, Bruce On Wed, Jan 2,

Re: [Freedos-user] ...and about FreeCon this time

2013-01-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
The problem is that there's a limit to what one can ask to a FreeDOS tool: if it breaks MS-DOS compatibility. If DATE/T is taken as an option by MS-DOS COMMAND.COM, so should FreeCOM. You don't know how many batch programs could stop working with that change. Aitor 2012/4/11 Zbigniew

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

2013-01-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
As far as I know, it is just for assembler, not C... (but nice all the same!). I did some experiments in the past with Nomyso till JWASM appeared (motivated by the fact that older JEMM only compiled under MASM). Aitor 2012/4/11 Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl Op 11-4-2012 20:25, Rugxulo schreef:

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
A yearly classic! :) Well, I'm late, but by that time I'm sure that the question would eventually arise again. I give my 2 c I have been giving a thought about this for a while, and I think that part of the problem is that is to be understood by DOS. I have two approaches for the question: * If

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-02 Thread john s wolter
yawn Againfor 2013 /yôn/ Verb Involuntarily open one's mouth wide and inhale deeply due to tiredness or boredom. Noun A reflex act of opening one's mouth wide and inhaling deeply due to tiredness or boredom. . FreeDOS has a great future. It does not have to depend on

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-02 Thread Jim Lemon
On 01/03/2013 07:52 AM, Aitor Santamaría wrote: ... Now I wonder myself if any of these two variants will dominate in the future, or if there will be a third different approach to the future of DOS. For those of us who use DOS for its simpleminded I do what I'm told and that's all I do

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2013-01-02 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote: If there was a Linux kernel in which the user could turn off everything that isn't in DOS, that would be a way out. If you could turn off everything that *isn't* in DOS, you might have fun running the Linux kernel. You run

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2013-01-02 Thread Andrew Robins
Hey Rugxulo! Coincidentally I've been reading older posts of yours on other threads/forums re memory management (DOS/32a) and your involvement with the Stone Soup dungeon crawler, amongst other things - many thanks for your encouragement, but this is not an experiment I will give up so easily,