[Freedos-user] UHDD update! FDAPM update! Feedback please :-)

2021-11-07 Thread E. Auer
Hi everybody, while we got a lot of feedback about the malfunction of the monthly reminder mail, there has been almost none about the FDAPM and UHDD updates recently. So please check out those new driver versions and share your experiences :-) "Jack Ellis has released an updated UHDD driver.

Re: [Freedos-user] fdbox version v0.0.1

2021-11-07 Thread Jim Hall
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 1:09 AM Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > Hi all, > > I releasing the first version of fdbox, a new shell for MSDOS/freeDOS, > aka command.com. This is a very initial release, most of the features > are semi broken, or work in progress. But the very basic code is there > (you can

[Freedos-user] New MPXPLAY media player version

2021-11-07 Thread E. Auer
Hi! Forwarding from the BTTR forum - note that some source code still contains the following header, which could be problematic: "Please contact with the author (with me) if you want to use or modify this source." Also note that in the announcement quoted below, I have removed changes which

[Freedos-user] FYI: Social media URLs updated

2021-11-07 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone Just to let you know that I've updated our social media URLs so they are consistent with each other. We previously used "@Freedos_Project" (Twitter) and "freedos" (Facebook) and "freedos-project" (Blogger) which was getting confusing because they were all slightly different. I wanted

Re: [Freedos-user] fdbox version v0.0.1

2021-11-07 Thread E. Auer
Hi Diego, I think Jim is just trying to encourage FDBOX to add features :-) Tom is right that FDBOX as it is now is not yet really useful. Why does it matter whether FreeCOM or FDBOX run on Windows, Linux or Apple? You can run DOS on all of them, using either a DOS emulator or a virtual PC

Re: [Freedos-user] UHDD update! FDAPM update! Feedback please :-)

2021-11-07 Thread E. Auer
Hi! To add a bit of clarification: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/uhdd/2021-10-30/uhdd_2021-10-30.zip The updated UHDD is only 5 kB, the current UDVD2 is less than 4 kB. So the size difference compared to using only UIDE is very small now, with UIDE being

Re: [Freedos-user] fdbox version v0.0.1

2021-11-07 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Hi Tom, On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 9:31 PM tom ehlert wrote: > Could you please explain why you think this is relevant? > Any fancy feature that FreeCOM is missing? > Anything that FDBOX is doing better? > freecom does not compile/run on windows. freecom does not compile/run on linux freecom does

Re: [Freedos-user] New MPXPLAY media player version

2021-11-07 Thread Jim Hall
On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 12:32 PM E. Auer wrote: > > > Hi! Forwarding from the BTTR forum - note that some source code > still contains the following header, which could be problematic: > > "Please contact with the author (with me) if you want to use > or modify this source." > > Also note that in

Re: [Freedos-user] fdbox version v0.0.1

2021-11-07 Thread tom ehlert
Hi Diego, > I releasing the first version of fdbox, a new shell for MSDOS/freeDOS, > aka command.com. This is a very initial release, most of the features > are semi broken, or work in progress. But the very basic code is there > (you can dir, cd and execute applications). Could you please