[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2020-06-01 Thread John Price
-- We have only a few rules for posting to the FreeDOS mailing lists: 1. NO HATE SPEECH OR BULLYING Make sure everyone feels safe. Bullying of any kind isn't allowed, and degrading comments about things like race,

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! FreeDOS is neither Win98 nor WinXP. Just use UDVD2 with your available settings and tell us which work and which do not, in the latter case please mention the exact messages. Thanks! Eric > I have an 865GV ICH5 chipset. There is SATA enhanced mode yes/no and > that's it in the bios. You

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, >> Does QSoft need Windows? > > Exactly. Hmm. >> But you claim neither Win9x nor MS DOS runs on the Evoc? > > Officially, they don't. Unofficially, if you stay away from the SATA > and not having a real floppy controller is not an issue you can run > these operating systems. Some

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread tom ehlert
> Or if that fails, disable AHCI in the SATA controller. DOS is fine with > drives talking in IDE mode. for disk drives, your disk should be supported by the BIOS. it usually is, otherwise it could not boot from it. it doesn't matter at all if it's SATA, PATA/IDE, RAID, SCSI, SAS, MFM, RLL or

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread michael
Windows XP is the only supported system on the Evoc 1714VNA SBC I'm experimenting with, but I cannot run XP because of HAL and special hardware connected with QSoft... QSoft directly tries to reach the special hardware, a shared ram card, which HAL will not allow. Only Windows on top of a DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread michael
June 1, 2020 10:59 AM, "Eric Auer" wrote: > Michael, > >> Booted the Freedos 1.3 RC3 live cd and the SATA I works!!! > > Glad to hear that but... > >> Windows XP is the only supported system > > Officially yes, but as long as it works, it works. > Even when you illegally run Linux or FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread michael
I have an 865GV ICH5 chipset. There is SATA ehanced mode yes/no and that's it in the bios. You can map SATA to primary or secondary IDE, but that's all you can do. I tried saying YES to SATA Enhanced mode and primary for IDE mapping SATA to Secondary, didn't work in 98se. I could see about

[Freedos-user] DOS Software Catalog? Open sourcing DOS Apps?

2020-06-01 Thread Martin Iturbide
Hi I'm new here. I'm part of the ArcaOS, eComStation and OS/2 Warp community called OS2World.com. Even that we are different communities and different operating systems, we have a group of people that have interest in different DOS software apps since OS/2 has its DOS VDM (and Win-OS2). I had

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA works!!!

2020-06-01 Thread michael
Booted the Freedos 1.3 RC3 live cd and the SATA I works!!! ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread Eric Auer
Michael, > Booted the Freedos 1.3 RC3 live cd and the SATA I works!!! Glad to hear that but... > Windows XP is the only supported system Officially yes, but as long as it works, it works. Even when you illegally run Linux or FreeDOS :-)) > I cannot run XP because of HAL and special hardware

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread Eric Auer
Michael, > My DVD RAM drive is SATA I... > Will Freedos support SATA I in the future? FreeDOS already supports SATA. Use the UDVD2 driver, which should be part of the distro already. If you can not find it, I can give you some link / hint ;-) Eric

[Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread michael
I have an EVOC 1714vna single board computer, Pentium 4 with hyper threading turned off. It has two PATA 100 channels and two SATA I connectors. My DVD RAM drive is SATA I. I run Windows 98SE on this hardware and only when I switch to XP am I able to use the DVD RAM drive. Will Freedos support

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3

2020-06-01 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > On Jun 1, 2020, at 8:23 AM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: > >  > What is the goal for Freedos 1.3 Final? I’m not sure I understand your question. So, I will answer it literally. The main goals for 1.3 are to provide overall improvements compared to 1.2. Some of these include a

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

2020-06-01 Thread Michał Dec
Or if that fails, disable AHCI in the SATA controller. DOS is fine with drives talking in IDE mode. W dniu 01.06.2020 o 14:58, Eric Auer pisze: Michael, My DVD RAM drive is SATA I... Will Freedos support SATA I in the future? FreeDOS already supports SATA. Use the UDVD2 driver, which should

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3

2020-06-01 Thread michael
What is the goal for Freedos 1.3 Final? When possibly will the final release come out? May 31, 2020 5:45 PM, "Jerome Shidel" mailto:jer...@shidel.net?to=%22Jerome%20Shidel%22%20)> wrote: FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 is now available for download and testing.

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

2020-06-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 11:26 PM dmccunney wrote: > > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:35 PM Rugxulo wrote: > > > So no, I haven't tried rebuilding this (yet?), and I'm no *nix fiend, > > but I do think AWK is a cool tool, maybe cooler than GW-BASIC (don't > > kill me!). > > AWK is a cool tool.

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

2020-06-01 Thread tom ehlert
PLONK am Montag, 1. Juni 2020 um 23:28 schrieben Sie: > Hi, > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 11:26 PM dmccunney > wrote: >> >> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:35 PM Rugxulo wrote: >> >> > So no, I haven't tried rebuilding this (yet?), and I'm no *nix fiend, >> > but I do think AWK is a cool tool, maybe