Re: [Freedos-user] Rasberry Pi may save DOS

2015-08-24 Thread Carl spitzer
On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 09:19 -0700, Steve Andy De George wrote: That is cool, however DOSBox doesn't run everything. If it's not a game, they don't care if it fails to run. The DOSBox project was created strictly for games, though other people do happen to use it for other things now and again.

Re: [Freedos-user] Rasberry Pi may save DOS

2015-08-24 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Carl spitzer lynuxro...@gmail.com wrote: Afterall most appliances are in technical terms rather simple and though some like model trains get by with TinyOS others might get by with DOS and more complex things can be left to Linux. I rather doubt it. One thing

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS on a 386SX

2015-08-24 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: Yes, I have considered the possibility that it might be a hardware problem. Wouldn't be that surprising given that's a 25 years old machine. I also resoldered lots of stuff fixing PCB traces and replacing a few

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS on a 386SX

2015-08-24 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: I am confident there are many 386 owners here - what do you use for XMS management on your systems? Sadly, I don't share your optimism. I hope I'm wrong, but most people with legacy machines just aren't active

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS on a 386SX

2015-08-24 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi Rugxulo, Yes, I have considered the possibility that it might be a hardware problem. Wouldn't be that surprising given that's a 25 years old machine. I also resoldered lots of stuff fixing PCB traces and replacing a few passive components because the mainboard was in a very poor state when