On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Bob Schwier wrote:
> The complete format does have one virtue. It wipes the disk if you need
> to make sure the previous information is gone.
If that's a real concern, you need to do more than FORMAT. You need
to use one of the programs that write garbage to *eve
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I like to buy old used chips that can have lots of hidden junk on them.
> Its best to really clean them. Not a problem with cf chips but sd stuff
> is really slow. 32 gigs and higher just doesn't make it.
What hardware are you running? I'l
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Bob Schwier wrote:
> Some of us are hobbyists trying to make 20th century computers function.
If you have the hardware to run a QEMU environment, disk space is
unlikely to be a huge concern.
If it *is* a concern, you may not be able to run QEMU.
> bs
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Denn
Some of us are hobbyists trying to make 20th century computers function.
bs
On Sun, 12/7/14, dmccunney wrote:
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro - XFDOS - DOS4WIN64 Qemu
environment
To: "Discussion and general questions about Free
The complete format does have one virtue. It wipes the disk if you need
to make sure the previous information is gone.
bs
On Sun, 12/7/14, TJ Edmister wrote:
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60
To: "Discussion and general questions about
On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 05:16:25 -0500, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> This limitation should not be present in FreeDOS: Default there is
> for harddisks to do a quick format, either with or without saving
> "unformat" data depending on whether there already was a filesystem.
>
>> This behavior makes sense in
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Georg Potthast wrote:
> I will use later versions of Qemu in the next release. However, I would like
> to use binaries that use SDL instead of GTK because I think these require
> less disk space.
Given the size and cost of current drives, how much does anyone
actua
I will use later versions of Qemu in the next release. However, I would like
to use binaries that use SDL instead of GTK because I think these require
less disk space.
Qemu is faster than Bochs if you run it on the processor it is currently
"emulating". It will then use the real processor to so
I like to buy old used chips that can have lots of hidden junk on them.
Its best to really clean them. Not a problem with cf chips but sd stuff
is really slow. 32 gigs and higher just doesn't make it.
cheers
DS
On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 03:16:35 -0500 "TJ Edmister"
writes:
> On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:29
Georg Potthast schreef op 7-12-2014 om 12:51:
> Without my included XFDOS ISO image this package is just about 5 MB in size.
> So if you have a DOS application that you want to make available for Windows
> 7 or 8 in 64 bit mode you could add this to the MetaDOS image in this
> package and allow yo
Rugxulo mentioned that Reactos is available in a Qemu environment for
Windows. This got me to setup such a Qemu environment for MetaDOS and my
XFDOS as well. You can download it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/files/Applications/DOS4WIN64_beta1.zip
Without my included XFDOS ISO im
Hi again,
> When formatting a harddisk partition (or flash or whatever the actual
> medium is), MS FORMAT relies on a correct boot sector already having been
> created by FDISK. I discovered this not long ago when I tried to resize a
> partition by tweaking the MBR with a sector editor.
Yo
It's not that I don't want people to view the source code. I just want
trustworthy people to view it. But I may release the source code if the
project gets cancelled.
-- Michael, the boy who makes Shaw's Nightmare
--
Downl
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:29:56 -0500, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>> The DOS format utility is kind of an anachronism at this point. Usually
>> it
>> takes a long time to format a partition because it's iterating through
>> every sector of the disk. It's completely unnecessary these days. All it
>
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