Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s ?

2023-12-30 Thread andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
I don't think any 1980s DOS computing experience is complete without thinking about Bulletin Board Services and the "big" online services. If this was 1988, we'd be talking on a FIDOnet echo, or there would be a "FreeDOS BBS" whose number we'd get from a text file list of BBSes we'd download over

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s ?

2023-12-30 Thread Bret Johnson via Freedos-user
> I did not catch how to do LPT interrupt, real and protected mode. It > would be a great help if there is an example. > I work with watcom and realized it, but only once, then the ISR is > never called again. > May be LPT is not very often used. It would help to know exactly what you're trying

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s ?

2023-12-30 Thread Bret Johnson via Freedos-user
> I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on > DOS. I sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could > you really do *work* with DOS?" And the answer is of course you can, > that happened every day. > > So I'm collecting a list of things you'd do in the 80s