Hi anonymous Abwesend forum member who is pessimistic about DOS ;-)
> Running FreeDOS on real hardware can be challenging.
FreeDOS no, old DOS games yes.
> FreeDOS on the other hand is a very old operating system concept.
Old concept yes, old operating system no. This means: DOS
has no multi t
Hi guys,
(sorry about the long mail...)
> During the discussion of version 1.2, this was my interpretation of
> how this should be handled and what was implemented when the
> user installed FreeDOS in normal mode. Having a failed install (by
> not booting into FreeDOS) was unacceptable behavi
Hi :-)
Yes, FreeDOS clones DOS and that forces it to support old interfaces...
> DR DOS had a multitasker.
And MS DOS had limited task swapping in DOSSHELL, yes. If you ask me,
it is easier to run multiple virtual DOS windows (DOSEMU, DOSBOX or
even complete virtual PC) on modern PC: Those are
Hi Rugxulo, some CWSDPMI nitpicking and some memory limits coming ;-)
> So DR-DOS 7.03 forcibly needed its own (weird, hybrid, bundled VxD or
> whatever) EMM386, which had its own built-in XMS (so no separate HIMEM
> needed) plus built-in DPMI (so no CWSDPMI needed).
CWSDPMI is both a DPMI host
Hi Mister or Miss Beitrag ;-)
> What about Enhanced DR-DOS by Udo Kuhnt?
> http://www.drdosprojects.de/
It adds some filesystem features to the kernel, yes. Most
extra software which came with DR DOS is not enhanced in
that distro, often not even included, as far as I know...
In general, it is
Hi Herr or Frau Beitrag!
> I wonder if it was possible to include the guest integration drivers for
> Virtual PC, VirtualBox, QEMU (are there any?), Hyper-V in a provided VHD
Eduardo Casino has written VMSMOUNT in 2011 :-) It lets you
mount VMWare shared directories as a FreeDOS drive letter :-
Hi Abe,
> upon bootup and selecting option 1, I get the following message:
>
> JemmEx v5.75 [05/21/11]
> System memory found at c900-dfff, region might be in use
> JemmEx loaded
> Kernel: allocated 46 Diskbuffers = 24472 Bytes in HMA
>
> after which nothing ever happens. It hangs permanently.
Hi Abe,
> Based on Eric's suggestion of using more cautious settings,
> I found the JEMMEX doc page
> (http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/jemmex.htm)
The documentation is also included in your installation on disk.
> 1?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS X=C900-DFFF I=TEST NOVME NOINVLPG
Yo
Hi Uli and Abe,
indeed it seems like it is not trivial to find the right
excluded areas for UMB to have stability. Having no page
frame is okay - EMS 4 aware software can still use EMS,
only EMS 3 software will miss a frame.
Normally it is enough to have 550k conventional free.
To explain the d
Hi, to bring in some thoughts from off-list...
JEMMEX has a built-in HIMEM which apparently is known to have
problems when memory useable for XMS is discontinuous, which
happens quite often on modern (virtual) hardware.
The UMBPCI author tries hard to keep supporting modern chipsets
which can be
In case you were wondering...
>> Perhaps the vectors are being
>> hi-jacked or the keyboard driver being replaced?
>
> I am not an expert, but it seems you are right.
...
> I just tried to research the problem and the first link on
>
> http://www.pemicro.com/software/index.cfm
>
> leads to
Hi! Laaca found a website with DOS antivirus software which even
got updated this year :-) Laaca wrote about it in the BTTR forum.
http://rose.rult.at/software.htm Files: www.cfg2html.com/rose_swe/
07.04.2016 617.857 MD5SUM: 5912982e6805737f00d6f6a6d83ea313
MemScan_921.zip collection of
Hi Dimitris,
> * Getting rid of himemx: this works ...
But very slow and lots of floppy access: I assume you booted from
floppy because the BIOS does not support CD boot and the CD also
needs to be some ancient model connected to the sound card? Then
I wonder if a newer model would work if conne
Hi Dimitris and others,
as I received some (aggressive) corrections from Jack and Johnson:
Yes of course I can read manuals myself. The XMGR option /T0 means
'No "E820h" nor "E801h" requests.' so please try if the two HIMEMX
options /X (no int 15.e820 requests) and /NOABOVE16 (no int 15.e801
req
Hi Louis,
> I just downloaded the bootable FD 1.2pre22 CD and booted a VM in
> VirtualBox. I see `FDAPM APMDOS` in autoexec.bat. No IDLEHALT in
> FDCONFIG.SYS. CPU also spikes to 100% when I run `edit autoexec.bat`.
I remember that this is a problem with certain EDIT versions. Of
course IDLEH
By the way, Rugxulo... :-)
https://www.auersoft.eu/soft/specials/
After only a few years, my domain should be up more often again :-)
So in case you have hidden it in LSM links, it can be shown again.
Cheers, Eric
> Heck, since you say you have Debian (but is that separate machine?),
> you cou
Hi Dimitris,
long analysis follows, some suggestions at the bottom of this mail :-)
> Thank you for your reply. I tried few kernel and here are the results:
I gather you mean "you tried the SYS of a few kernels together with
the corresponding KERNEL versions"? My focus is on the SYS activity,
a
Hi Dimitris,
> So I did, with sys 3.6e - FreeDOS 1.2 pre floppy:
>
> sys c: /FORCE:CHS - system hangs on reboot
> sys c: /FORCE:LBA , followed by sys CONFIG c:\kernel.sys FORCELBA=1
> GLOBALENABLELBA=1
>
> - system tries to BOOT, hangs at Loading FreeDOS , the hard drive
> works like mad until
Hi Dimitris,
> I retried sys c: from the 2031 bootdisk and it failed to boot, hanging at
> Loading FreeDOS, hard drive working like mad, I rebooted with the same
> floppy, did the same thing, and it booted. Tried again with sys 3.6e,
> hang again, tried again with sys 2.6, was able to boot again.
Hi JAS,
indeed I am trying to motivate people to use TLS/SSL ;-)
There must be SOME browsers for DOS which can handle it!
Note that I was talking about Google Drive, not the basic
search engine. The Drive needs a lot of heavy JavaScript.
Eric
> https://www.auersoft.eu/soft/specials/
-
Hi, here is an interesting suggestion from Jack: In spite of the
limitation of FreeDOS to support only one UMB provider, it seems
to be possible to do the following to mix different UMB sources:
> [...] It is NOT necessary to modify your kernel to get more UMBs
> in the monochrome-video area. A "
Hi again, here is an improved version of Jack's trick:
By using UHDD /B instead of UIDE, to squeeze out a bit
more free low DOS RAM in the first 640k without getting
risks of "protected mode DMA service troubles" with too
cheap new BIOS versions: UIDE can be loaded safely into
UMB after loading U
Hi Kai,
> I've been trying for the last two hours or so to find out how to use a
> German keyboard with FreeDOS. There is enough information, but some...
The easiest driver is probably MKEYB:
http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=mkeyb
It does not need extra files and has several popular layo
> I keep getting the error dma crosses 64k boundary when using tools like
> rawrite3 or hard drive manufacturers tools floppy creation software. I need
> to boot from Windows 98 bootdisk to get rid of it.
Maybe your BIOS or MBR-based dynamic drive overlay / EZ-drive is
less flexible with DMA boun
Hi Dimitris,
> Based on Eric's comments and with Jack's help, I was able to get rawrite3
> to work under freedos by a) loading lowdma.sys in fdconfig.sys early
> during boot b) LH rawrite3.
You probably mean the LOWDMA sys and com which come with UMBPCI. In that
case, you can patch 80FCA05B into
Hi, forwarding from the BTTR forum post by Laaca today :-)
Blocek 1.5b released [...] minor version with new features.
Download from here: http://www.laaca.sweb.cz
Czech users can use this site: http://www.laaca.borec.cz
Blocek 1.5b:
+ now can display the Exif info in JPEG files and export
Hi Salih,
have you checked whether there could be a problem with the
settings of your host operating system and/or virtualbox?
Unfortunately Turkish is not among the layouts built into
the smaller MKEYB driver, otherwise you could try if that
works better than KEYB. Please explain exactly in whi
Hi Salih,
> Keyboard layout is working well in virtualbox pc.
> But is not working in real machine as specs are given.
Oh okay misunderstanding on my side...
> We are using linux.cfg boot up from PXE to catch up mac adress with
> tftpserver.
If you boot from PXE, then you probably use a boota
Hi Salih,
not sure if you have fully answered all my questions, so let me
ask for details: Are you using PXE on virtualbox, too? Are you
using memdisk to boot via PXE? In short, are all aspects of the
software and configuration completely identical between the real
terminal pc hardware and the vi
Hi Salih,
thanks for sharing the 1.44 MB boot floppy image. It is correct that
you cannot send files to the list, but the config & autoexec easily
fits into a mail for the list by cut and paste:
> !DEVICE=A:\DRIVER\HIMEM.EXE
Supports options to manually select things but default should be okay.
Hi Salih!
Do you boot virtualbox with PXE and MEMDISK? Or do you configure
virtualbox to use the img file as "normal floppy drive A: content"?
As mentioned earlier using, PXE and MEMDISK can have side effects,
for example less RAM free for HIMEM and EMM386. Also, try if things
work better withou
Hi Bret,
> You may need to use the Microsoft KEYB program (from MS-DOS) rather than the
> FREEDOS KEYB program. While the FreeDOS KEYB program works pretty well most
> of the time, it is NOT a true equivalent to the MS KEYB program. It sounds
> like a BIOS compatibility problem, which the MS KE
Hi, forwarding from the BTTR forum:
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14929
"If you are looking for a fine free DOS schematic drawing progam, Protel
Autotrax for DOS is free. You can find more info on an unofficial fan
page (tips & tricks, scanned manual and a lot of info, lin
Hi Ercan,
if I understand you correctly, then the problem is not
with the harddisk but with CD / DVD / BluRay? Then you
may want to use the more specific UDVD2 driver instead.
Note that for live CD, you can also often use the tiny
ELTORITO driver because after booting from CD, you get
temporary
Hi Ercan,
> Hi. We have problem to using Turkish F keyboard on FreeDOS.
> MODE gives uncompressing and loading CPX file error.
> KEYB gives tr440 layout doesn't contain on KEYB2.SYS.
The MODE error is because you try to LH MODE: Do not use LH
for this, MODE needs enough memory to uncompress the
Sorry about the double mail but I found another problem:
>> LH DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1)
>> MODE CON CP PREP=((857) EGA.CPX)
You may have MODE in your PATH, but you forgot to specify
the full name of EGA.CPX, for example c:\freedos\cpi\ega.cpx
or c:\fdos\bin\ega.cpx or similar - depending on your DO
Hi Ercan, looking at
http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/kpdos.htm and
http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/keyb.htm
you probably just used the wrong syntax. You want to use:
KEYB TR,,KEYBRD2.SYS /ID:440
So the country is only "TR" while the ID of the layout
variant 440 has to be given as s
Hi Dallas in Canada ;-)
> FreeDOS. I have a 40 GB Maxtor 6N040T0, a Pentium 4 2.8 GHZ
> processor, 1 GB of DDR RAM 400mhz, a generic integrated Intel AC'97
> Audio Controller, and an Intel 82865G Graphics Controller.
>
> So here is my question. Is it possible to run Windows 3.1 with sound
> an
Hi Mateusz,
> For those of you who followed my Svarog386 project: you might find it
> interesting that the current version of Svarog386 comes with a multi-
> lingual installer...
Thanks :-) In other 386-related news: XMGR, UIDE and UHDD recently
received updates for the closed-source versions t
Hi!
FreeDOS with only those components which mimick parts
of MS DOS will easily fit on 1, 2 or 3 diskettes of
1.44 MB each, depending on whether you want to have
full documentation and translations included. FreeDOS
on CD also includes lots of other free software :-)
> - I have just managed to f
Hi Rugxulo,
> Regarding PCMCIA hard disks, I think Deskwork.de (defunct?) had once
> made public some partial DOS support (TP "unit") that was
> semi-archived by one FreeDOS enthusiast:
>
> http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/by-others/
Note that the Cosmodata mirror should only
Hi Userbeitrag,
> The only solution for /modern DOS/ would be to write an emulation for a
> well supported sound card for older programs and games. That would be,
> say, a SB16 emulation driver for AC97 and HD-Audio on-board sound cards.
> So every DOS program/game would see the well supported
Hi Troi,
> C:\ELVIS\DOC>find /i "env" e*.htm
> file list ...
> Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure
You mean it FIRST checks all files in the current
directory on C: but THEN tries to jump to the A:
drive? That sounds like a bug in the kernel, either
in the drive status ini
Hi Rugxulo and Troi,
>> It could be a rare kernel bug, but my guess is some buffer overflow in the
>> IO95 lib. I think this problem is hidden by enabling DOSLFN.
>
> Yes indeed that did either mask or "fix" the problem. Thanks.
In that case please tell in which situations the bug does
happen a
Originally to: ALL
Hi Rugxulo and Troi,
>> It could be a rare kernel bug, but my guess is some buffer overflow in the
>> IO95 lib. I think this problem is hidden by enabling DOSLFN.
>
> Yes indeed that did either mask or "fix" the problem. Thanks.
In that case please tell in which situations
Originally to: ALL
Hi Troi,
> C:\ELVIS\DOC>find /i "env" e*.htm
> file list ...
> Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure
You mean it FIRST checks all files in the current
directory on C: but THEN tries to jump to the A:
drive? That sounds like a bug in the kernel, either
in
Rugxulo, Tom,
DOS files should always use DOS linebreaks,
even if some DOS apps can deal with Unix ones.
Even in Windows, if it is wrong with Notepad,
it does not help that Wordpad can deal with it.
In short, I recommend a recode to DOS linebreaks
and DOS codepage for the LSM files, easy enough
Hi Ira,
if FDAPM APMDOS slows down your FreeDOS (on which hardware?
or in which environment, if not on bare physical hardware?)
then you can try FDAPM ADV:REG instead, as APMDOS defaults
to ADV:MAX which might be "overdoing" the energy savings in
certain situations.
Note that the SPEED settings
> The version of FDAPM is dated 11 Sep 2009 and does not have an ADV option.
Yes it does. Even the 2005 version has it, but it is not
shown in the /? help screen. Only the longer explanations
included as separate text document mention ADV options ;-)
Eric
Hi Ralf and Ira,
> The problem is just to load everything and the kitchen sink by default,
> regardless if needed or not. FDAPM is not necessary to run FreeDOS
The kernel has a built-in IDLEHALT option which you can activate
in config sys and which already implements the core idea: To stop
the
Hi everybody,
I agree with Ralf - it is not intuitive that a non-network
operating system installs a network, even if it is only for
FTP file exchange. I think those who do want to use network
tools to communicate between host OS and a virtual PC with
FreeDOS inside will be able to deliberately s
Hi Eduardo,
> 2017-02-03 Ralf Quint:
>> Well, that works only with VMware, but unfortunately not with
>> VirtualBox, AFAIK.
> Right.
As with drivers for other things, it would still be good to
include vmsmount for those who use vmware to run FreeDOS :-)
>> Otherwise, that would be my preferre
Hi Geneb, about your Borland Pascal 7 Problem in FreeDOS 1.2:
> When I run "bp" which is the protected mode compiler, I get this:
>
> Unhandled exception 000E at 0020 A19E ErrCode 0002.
Looking at older FreeDOS-user discussions, people suggested
using HDPMI16 or DOS32A, for example in resident
Hi, forwarding a question from SF user banana29j. I myself
do not have Windows for Workgroups, so my 2006 comment was
about something said on the list back then. Maybe somebody
who does have that version of Windows can comment about the
status with 2017ish FreeDOS kernels? Of course other driver
i
Hi Felix and Dennis,
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
> 2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the downloaded
> image
> would not fit here ei
Hi Dennis,
> I downloaded and installed WinImage 9.0 on my win98 computer. It has a
> floppy drive. I successfully wrote the img file to a floppy.
> Another issue occurred to me. My cd-rom drive is a SCSI external type.
That might be a problem, depending on your SCSI controller
and whether it ha
Hi Dennis,
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currently has MS-DOS 6.22 as
> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my
> installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice
> FreeDOS has its own equivalent of MSCDEX.EXE.
Well in that case, you can si
A backup on the same disk but different partitions
does not really help you if things go really wrong,
but as you say, data loss would be no real problem
for you... You should probably backup at least the
DOS SCSI drivers though ;-) Jerome also mentioned
the drivers as being the most backup worthy
Hi Rugxulo,
> If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS
> (which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most
> ubiquitous DOS), then you don't urgently "need" any other DOS
> clone at all all, period.
Being the most widely used does not equal being the best.
Hi Mateusz,
> BSUM (by Mateusz Viste) : 6.0s (100%)
> CRC32 (by Joe Forster) : 8.5s (70%)
...
> MD5 (by Colin Plumb): 52.9s (11%)
> SHA1 (by Colin Plumb) : 85.7s (7%)
Entertaining :-) Still you need to find a good balance
between speed and collision risk. If you want to find
dupli
Hi Dale,
is this actually a version of DOS? Or just an
unreleased intermediate version of wordperfect?
And of course, what is included? Which license?
Cheers, Eric
ps: you forgot to update the subject in your
freedos-user mail, it still says "wifi on dos"
Hi Ercan,
> After this, I won't use USBASPI on FreeDOS.
>
> How can I use a USB mass storage that is formatted
> FAT16 or FAT32 on FreeDOS with USBDOS?
...as Thomas wrote: If you boot from USB drive or if the
USB drive is already plugged in at boot time, the BIOS
will often support it directly
From: Eric Auer
Hi Dimitris,
> Based on Eric's comments and with Jack's help, I was able to get rawrite3
> to work under freedos by a) loading lowdma.sys in fdconfig.sys early
> during boot b) LH rawrite3.
You probably mean the LOWDMA sys and com which come with UMBPCI. In
From: Eric Auer
Hi Salih!
Do you boot virtualbox with PXE and MEMDISK? Or do you configure
virtualbox to use the img file as "normal floppy drive A: content"?
As mentioned earlier using, PXE and MEMDISK can have side effects,
for example less RAM free for HIMEM and EMM386. Also, try
From: Eric Auer
Hi, forwarding from the BTTR forum:
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14929
"If you are looking for a fine free DOS schematic drawing progam, Protel
Autotrax for DOS is free. You can find more info on an unofficial fan
page (tips & tricks, scanned m
From: Eric Auer
Hi Bret,
> You may need to use the Microsoft KEYB program (from MS-DOS) rather than the
> FREEDOS KEYB program. While the FreeDOS KEYB program works pretty well most
> of the time, it is NOT a true equivalent to the MS KEYB program. It sounds
> like a BIOS c
From: Eric Auer
Hi Ercan,
if I understand you correctly, then the problem is not
with the harddisk but with CD / DVD / BluRay? Then you
may want to use the more specific UDVD2 driver instead.
Note that for live CD, you can also often use the tiny
ELTORITO driver because after booting from CD
From: Eric Auer
Hi Salih,
have you checked whether there could be a problem with the
settings of your host operating system and/or virtualbox?
Unfortunately Turkish is not among the layouts built into
the smaller MKEYB driver, otherwise you could try if that
works better than KEYB. Please
From: Eric Auer
Hi Ercan,
> Hi. We have problem to using Turkish F keyboard on FreeDOS.
> MODE gives uncompressing and loading CPX file error.
> KEYB gives tr440 layout doesn't contain on KEYB2.SYS.
The MODE error is because you try to LH MODE: Do not use LH
for this, MODE needs
From: Eric Auer
Hi, forwarding from the BTTR forum post by Laaca today :-)
Blocek 1.5b released [...] minor version with new features.
Download from here: http://www.laaca.sweb.cz
Czech users can use this site: http://www.laaca.borec.cz
Blocek 1.5b:
+ now can display the Exif info in
From: Eric Auer
Hi Salih,
> Keyboard layout is working well in virtualbox pc.
> But is not working in real machine as specs are given.
Oh okay misunderstanding on my side...
> We are using linux.cfg boot up from PXE to catch up mac adress with
tftpserver.
If you boot from PXE,
From: Eric Auer
Hi Ercan, looking at
http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/kpdos.htm and
http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/keyb.htm
you probably just used the wrong syntax. You want to use:
KEYB TR,,KEYBRD2.SYS /ID:440
So the country is only "TR" while the ID of the layout
v
From: Eric Auer
Hi Salih,
thanks for sharing the 1.44 MB boot floppy image. It is correct that
you cannot send files to the list, but the config & autoexec easily
fits into a mail for the list by cut and paste:
> !DEVICE=A:\DRIVER\HIMEM.EXE
Supports options to manually select thi
From: Eric Auer
Hi Dallas in Canada ;-)
> FreeDOS. I have a 40 GB Maxtor 6N040T0, a Pentium 4 2.8 GHZ
> processor, 1 GB of DDR RAM 400mhz, a generic integrated Intel AC'97
> Audio Controller, and an Intel 82865G Graphics Controller.
>
> So here is my question. Is it pos
From: Eric Auer
Hi Mateusz,
> For those of you who followed my Svarog386 project: you might find it
> interesting that the current version of Svarog386 comes with a multi-
> lingual installer...
Thanks :-) In other 386-related news: XMGR, UIDE and UHDD recently
received updates for t
From: Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo,
> Regarding PCMCIA hard disks, I think Deskwork.de (defunct?) had once
> made public some partial DOS support (TP "unit") that was
> semi-archived by one FreeDOS enthusiast:
>
> http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/by-others/
From: Eric Auer
Hi Userbeitrag,
> The only solution for /modern DOS/ would be to write an emulation for a
> well supported sound card for older programs and games. That would be,
> say, a SB16 emulation driver for AC97 and HD-Audio on-board sound cards.
> So every DOS program/ga
From: Eric Auer
Hi Kai,
> I've been trying for the last two hours or so to find out how to use a
> German keyboard with FreeDOS. There is enough information, but some...
The easiest driver is probably MKEYB:
http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=mkeyb
It does not need extra fi
From: Eric Auer
> I keep getting the error dma crosses 64k boundary when using tools like
> rawrite3 or hard drive manufacturers tools floppy creation software. I need
> to boot from Windows 98 bootdisk to get rid of it.
Maybe your BIOS or MBR-based dynamic drive overlay / EZ-driv
From: Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo and Troi,
>> It could be a rare kernel bug, but my guess is some buffer overflow in the
>> IO95 lib. I think this problem is hidden by enabling DOSLFN.
>
> Yes indeed that did either mask or "fix" the problem. Thanks.
In that case please
From: Eric Auer
Hi Troi,
> C:\ELVIS\DOC>find /i "env" e*.htm
> file list ...
> Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure
You mean it FIRST checks all files in the current
directory on C: but THEN tries to jump to the A:
drive? That sounds like a bug in
From: Eric Auer
Hi Eduardo,
> 2017-02-03 Ralf Quint:
>> Well, that works only with VMware, but unfortunately not with
>> VirtualBox, AFAIK.
> Right.
As with drivers for other things, it would still be good to
include vmsmount for those who use vmware to run FreeDOS :-)
From: Eric Auer
Hi, forwarding a question from SF user banana29j. I myself
do not have Windows for Workgroups, so my 2006 comment was
about something said on the list back then. Maybe somebody
who does have that version of Windows can comment about the
status with 2017ish FreeDOS kernels? Of
From: Eric Auer
Hi Geneb, about your Borland Pascal 7 Problem in FreeDOS 1.2:
> When I run "bp" which is the protected mode compiler, I get this:
>
> Unhandled exception 000E at 0020 A19E ErrCode 0002.
Looking at older FreeDOS-user discussions, people suggested
using HDP
From: Eric Auer
Hi Felix and Dennis,
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the down
From: Eric Auer
Hi Dennis,
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as
> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my
> installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice
> FreeDOS has its own equivalent of MSCDEX.E
From: Eric Auer
A backup on the same disk but different partitions
does not really help you if things go really wrong,
but as you say, data loss would be no real problem
for you... You should probably backup at least the
DOS SCSI drivers though ;-) Jerome also mentioned
the drivers as being the
From: Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo,
> If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS
> (which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most
> ubiquitous DOS), then you don't urgently "need" any other DOS
> clone at all all, period.
Being th
From: Eric Auer
Hi Mateusz,
> BSUM (by Mateusz Viste) : 6.0s (100%)
> CRC32 (by Joe Forster) : 8.5s (70%)
> MD5 (by Colin Plumb): 52.9s (11%)
> SHA1 (by Colin Plumb) : 85.7s (7%)
Entertaining :-) Still you need to find a good balance
between speed and collis
From: Eric Auer
Hi Dale,
is this actually a version of DOS? Or just an
unreleased intermediate version of wordperfect?
And of course, what is included? Which license?
Cheers, Eric
ps: you forgot to update the subject in your
freedos-user mail, it still says "wifi o
From: Eric Auer
Hi Ercan,
> After this, I won't use USBASPI on FreeDOS.
>
> How can I use a USB mass storage that is formatted
> FAT16 or FAT32 on FreeDOS with USBDOS?
as Thomas wrote: If you boot from USB drive or if the
USB drive is already plugged in at boot time, th
Hi guys,
apparently somebody is re-sending old freedos-user emails from
[original name of person] , using content
between mid-2016 and today. Until early 2017, you will also see
ALL CAPS original names, but they have now fixed that. Almost
of those 500 mails came out in a burst that only took hal
Hi people,
> A simple question, if I may: does FreeDOS 1.2 have a codename?
> I really like things having names, so right now I am using MINNESOTA
That would not be 8.3 compatible
I see that the Beta versions were Orlando, Marvin, Ventura,
Lemur, Lara, Midnite, Spears and Nikita, while the las
Hi people,
for those who are not on the dosemu mailing list:
https://github.com/stsp/dosemu2
is quite active on github now, while the mailing
list is very silent. So if you want to stay up to
date, you can make a github account and "watch"
the project there to follow all discussions and
tickets
Hi Jose,
very interesting detail in your SourceForge ticket reply!
> There is also a captcha that is required due to e-mail
> providers such as gmail automatically visiting links
> embeded in e-mail.
A while ago, a similar issue was noticed by German Heise
c't magazine when Skype was found to
Hi Paolo,
(sorry everybody about the long answer... The short
answer is "would be nice to have a Wiki page about
situations where WfW 3.11 can be made to run, but I
still think that this has mostly novelty value only)
> I guess people who commonly use Windows,
> and don't feel comfortable with U
Hi, just saw this on dosemu2, but you probably
have already seen it on slashdot anyway... ;-)
> https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/10/22/1938209/30-year-old-operating-system-pc-mos386-finally-open-sourced
https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501 (GPL v3)
Cheers, Eric
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Hi Jim, Europeans,
> Is anyone here planning to attend FOSDEM in February? Unfortunately,
> I won't be able to make it.
>
> This year, they have added a special track about retro computing.
> What a perfect venue for FreeDOS!
>
> https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2017-October/002623.htm
Hi :-) Quick news from Jack's drivers: He has a closed
source update for XMGR (more fail-safe 386 XMS move)
and UHDD: The new UHDD has the interesting feature of
read-ahead for cache sizes of at least 20 MB. It is
a simplified version without I/O overlap and DOS RAM
search table location and "/G"
Hi Rugxulo,
>> Quick news from /dev/null 's drivers: [etc. rant etc.]
In short, you said "nag nag nag" ;-)
The features might still be interesting to test. Nobody
suggested to include any closed source in any distro.
Eric
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