Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News / 8086 compatibility

2020-05-25 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > On May 25, 2020, at 12:25 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > On 25/05/2020 17:29, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> I wouldn’t get anything lower than a 286 to Run the current kernl86.sys. > > Svarog86 is a FreeDOS distribution that uses the kernl86.sys. Works on my > 8086 with no troubles, although it

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News / 8086 compatibility

2020-05-25 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 25/05/2020 17:29, Jerome Shidel wrote: I wouldn’t get anything lower than a 286 to Run the current kernl86.sys. Svarog86 is a FreeDOS distribution that uses the kernl86.sys. Works on my 8086 with no troubles, although it has a few things turned off (for memory saving, not 8086

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News / 8086 compatibility

2020-05-25 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, > On May 25, 2020, at 10:12 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> I thought you knew [that V8 means V8 Power Tools] Anyhow... > > Me maybe, but some who are interested in floppy distros not yet ;-) > >> They are a set of command line utilities written in assembly that >> can

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News / 8086 compatibility

2020-05-25 Thread Deposite Pirate
May 25, 2020 5:30 PM, "Jerome Shidel" wrote: > I agree and have said several times, Emulation is not Hardware. > > I wouldn’t get anything lower than a 286 to Run the current kernl86.sys. > > But, as I said, the one tester in the IIRC had been running it on the NEC v30 > w/a 80186. Did a CPU >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News / 8086 compatibility

2020-05-25 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > On May 25, 2020, at 11:02 AM, Deposite Pirate wrote: > > I wouldn't be too confident that PCem does not have bugs. I've played a lot > with it recently because my 1512's monitor needs to be repaired and I have > yet to find somewhere I can get that done. There are several things that >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News / 8086 compatibility

2020-05-25 Thread Deposite Pirate
I wouldn't be too confident that PCem does not have bugs. I've played a lot with it recently because my 1512's monitor needs to be repaired and I have yet to find somewhere I can get that done. There are several things that don't work with PCem's 1512 emulation that should. I couldn't get a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News / 8086 compatibility

2020-05-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, > I thought you knew [that V8 means V8 Power Tools] Anyhow... Me maybe, but some who are interested in floppy distros not yet ;-) > They are a set of command line utilities written in assembly that > can provide a Text based User Interface (TUI) and other... I guess you could save

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News!

2020-05-25 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric > On May 24, 2020, at 1:39 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > > what is V8PT and which beyond-text features does it need? I thought you knew this… Anyhow... V8PT (occasionally just V8) is short for V8Power Tools for DOS. They are a set of command line utilities written in