[Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

2022-12-09 Thread Walter Vermeir
Hi, I am trying install FreeDOS on my computer (not virtual) now for a while and failing long enough to acknowledge that I need to ask for help. Last time I installed DOS I was using a 486 with a diskette drive. My daily driver is Linux since the last 20 years. I have been using two 32gb

[Freedos-user] UDVD2: Invoking STOP AUDIO twice should first pause, then stop audio, as some games expect

2022-12-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! There is an interesting new ticket about UDVD2 on github. It seems that implementing a very specific detail of what MSCDEX expects CD-ROM drivers to do might improve compatibility with games like Rayman. See the text of the ticket below. Thanks to PluMGMK for their thoughts. Regards,

Re: [Freedos-user] EDL.COM line processing utility by Herbert Kleebauer

2022-12-09 Thread Mart Zirnask
Ugh, okay, really stupid me; skimming, not reading. It's just a matter of echo'ing the provided lines into a .com, isn't it. A post by Mr Kleebauer with more usage instructions in the end: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.msdos.batch.nt/c/Y6Sp129dr8w/m/kiB1TaXutF4J Silly email of the day; sorry!

[Freedos-user] EDL.COM line processing utility by Herbert Kleebauer

2022-12-09 Thread Mart Zirnask
Hi, I found a reference to EDL.COM, a "ascii assembler line processing utility by Herbert Kleebauer": https://stackoverflow.com/a/25986762 I would like to try it out (on SvarDOS). Is it still available somewhere for downloading? Thanks and best, Mart