Hi Aniruddha,
I try to install FreeDOS on an old Compaq but unfortunately the
installation hangs at Configuring DHCP. Is this a known bug?
How can this be fixed?
The only way I could leave was shutting down the pc (ctrl+C didn't work)
This is a known problem. If you do a FULL (not only
Hi Alain,
I have been incolved with cutemouse, and I remember this: version 1.9x
uses BIOS to access PS/2 mouse, version 2.x uses direct hardware access.
Both version are suposed to be identical in all other matters.
No, version 2.1 uses BIOS again (thanks to Konstantin from Deskwork.de)
and
Hi everybody,
I have started to play around with Cool n Quiet on
Athlon64 a bit. In Linux, the corresponding kernel
module would be called powernow-k8. In either case,
the general idea is simple: If your CPU supports
FID and VID (frequency and voltage ID) control,
and if you know how to write to
Hi Rob,
I tried to report this to Bugzilla but I'm not getting the
email(s) when I try to set up an account.
Read the yellow box on www.freedos.org/freedos/bugs/ - it
says that you have to get the account from us humans :-)
Anyway, my problem... when the installation routine asks me my
IP
Hi,
This is a known problem. If you do a FULL (not only base) install,
several packages will be downloaded from internet, but it is not
at all easy for FreeDOS to automatically configure the internet.
It often hangs. I think it should not be done like that by default.
Thank you for
Hi Marton,
CCing the kernel list about this issue... Merry Xmas everybody :-).
the FreeDOS PC it is painfully SLOW! (100kb/sec)
How fast is it with other DOS?
1) If I connect FROM the FreeDOS PC to the other PC to copy the files,
it flies! (~3MB/sec)
Wow, that is a lot better :-).
3) If
Hi Blair,
1) downloaded fdbasecd.iso
2) used MagicISO to add two files to its structure (it is the bios flash
utility and new bios)
3) saved the fdbasecd.iso and burned it without any problems.
I don't think that fdbasecd.iso has the LiveCD part. Download
fdbasews.iso or any of the
Hi Robert,
You tell JEMM to use the e000-efff memory space, and you may run into
troubles if there is some hardware mapped at those addresses. Just try
and see.
MS-DOS related, but it might help:
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/10/21/246136.aspx
Hi Japheth,
[On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Japheth wrote]
is there, it's the Year's End Edition:
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=2808
Thanks and happy new year :-)
Eric
[Japheth wrote on the BTTR forum]
my favorite project, DEBUG, has got an update (mostly bugfixes):
-
Hi Kenneth,
Would love to get this up and running on subject computer.
Seems to hang on ?net? setup ? after installing all paces.
My standard suggestion is:
I would recommend to install without network, see:
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall
You can find a list
Hi, I just double-checked my own EMM problem:
With my PCIe GeForce 7600 VGA, both with the
classic FD EMM386 and with JEMM386, I get a
page fault when attempting to use VESA VBE
2.0/3.0 LFB framebuffer access to graphics.
The page fault address is c000, which
matches the Linux idea of the
Hi,
I looked at FreeDos because I am trying to boot SUSE Linux 10.3 from a
non bootable USB hard drive which I am presently accessing with INSTLUX.
I don't want to do anything to my computer's hard drive.
I put the LiveCD in, and booted the computer. On trying to boot I got
the message
Hi Japheth,
Hi, I just double-checked my own EMM problem:
With my PCIe GeForce 7600 VGA, both with the
classic FD EMM386 and with JEMM386, I get a
page fault when attempting to use VESA VBE
2.0/3.0 LFB framebuffer access to graphics.
Please explain in more detail how you come to
Hi Japheth :-)
No, the crashing program just uses a DOS extender for
direct framebuffer access.
The DOS extender uses its own memory context (CR3, page tables),
GDT and IDT. The EMM (Jemm) is responsible vor v86-mode only.
Sounds plausible, but I can only tell you what I observe:
- the
Hi Japheth,
- the program uses dos4gw but using dos32a instead does not help
- the program crashes with fd emm386 and with jemm386...
- the program works okay if only himem but no emm is loaded :-)
Well I did more testing... You recommended to use MS EMM386 4.49 or
4.95 of DOS 6 or Win9x,
Hi Japheth,
strange that PCXTEST crashes for you if only HIMEM is loaded.
I did not test it with DPMIONE, but I developed it in DOSEMU
and used it with CWSDPMI because the latter is the official
DJGPP DOS extender. I did not test without HIMEM today, but
I guess I did test when I developed it
Hi Japheth,
PS: The CTS Toasted 1996 ctstoast demo runs okay in LFB
mode if CWSDPMI is resident or if you use DOSEMU, but I
promise you that I did not write CTS Toasted and did not
ask the authors to give it the same bug as PCXTEXT ;-).
I don't understand what you are talking about.
Hi Japheth,
I'm happy that this thing - which is old and hard to maintain...
But I was talking about hdpmi32...!?
It's cool ... and it runs with Himem only.
I tried Jemm, MS Emm386, DR Emm386, Win98 DOS Box,
CWSDPMI, HDPMI (with/without Jemm's NOVCPI option)
... nothing worked. Anyway,
Hi Flox,
1) 4DOS in FreeDOS 1.1: Will it - the package - have the structure
of directory as the other programs? Or not? (freecom is in the
root-directory...)
You are right - FreeCOM should be moved to the BIN directory.
At the moment, a FreeCOM in your own selected language is made
(by
Hi! (please use plain text mail without html)
Is there anybody that runs Foxbase+ V.2.0 for DOS on FreeDOS?
What I am trying to achieve is run a foxbase application on Linux
with DOSEMU and freedos. Right.
Maybe you get better results if you load SHARE... Please also
compare diskimage (can
Hi,
Flox did some testing and found out that the stick boots as
A: drive with 30*255*63 geometry (235 MB), type 0x10 (ATAPI)
without disk change check. Because of the latter, LBACACHE
does not cache that floppy, but I can change the cache to
accept diskettes without change check if they are of
Hi Ron,
But I am not oin the league of you folks that get into the guts of
this DOS. The question I have is this Can one of you if not a team get
together and fix this DOS so that I or anyone could boot from a DVD or
Well to fix it, you would first have to tell us what is broken...
CD
Hi Jim,
There are several free ($0) virtual machine environments you can use.
VirtualPC, VirtualBox, VMWare are all very good. On my Linux system,
I use VirtualBox and DOSEmu, both for different things. I used to run
VMWare. That's still nice, but I'm trying out VirtualBox right now.
Other
Hi Ron,
1. Will it boot from a CD or DVD it was mentioned it would.
Yes it should boot if your PC is set to boot from CD or DVD.
Yes you did mention that it would boot from the CD but
what do you mean Live CD?
Main purpose of our CD is to install DOS to harddisk. This is
also the case for
Hi Ron,
I am going to boot from the floppy drive so what do I need to do to
boot from my floppy drive? Do I still need the CD in the CD drive?
Well there is a special boot diskette for systems which cannot
boot from CD. This diskette then continues booting with the CD.
But the normal case
Hi Simon,
I've just installed Freedos on my old pc, now I want to add add an
ethernet card. Its also an old one think its by realtek.
Then it is probably the classic RTL8029 (10mbit) or RTL8139 (100mbit)
chipset. It should be possible to use generic NE2000 / NE2k drivers
with those, but it is
Hi Ron,
nice to know that Spinrite for DOS now supports NTFS, but what
does Spinrite do? Defragging, disk checking...?
About the drive letters: You cannot boot a full DOS from raw
cdrom, so we use a virtual A: drive. The contents of that
drive are on a diskimage on the cdrom. The normal
Hi Ron,
The only dangerous tool from a LiveCD...
is Fdisk as it can change/ruin
the master boot record (MBR), which contains information
about your harddisk layout...
...
Format ought to do a number on you also
Well Bernd meant you can only format drives which have a
drive letter in DOS.
... is out:
www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=3132page=0order=timedescasc=DESCcategory=all
Instead of saying search the web to find out, I prefer
telling the news directly and by mail ;-). So here is a
cut and paste from the readme file provided by Japheth:
01/30/2008: v5.70
-
Hi!
Hi, someone know a FREE FAT32 undelete for using in freedos
(fd undelete work only in FAT 16 mode!)
I would be happy to help any volunteer who can program
in C by explaining which parts of UNDELETE have to be
extended to support FAT32. It is not much work, but I
never got around doing it
Hi,
I have a hard disk partioned c:,d:,..
Want to run a multiboot system with freedos on c:, XP
on d:, and then LINUX desktop, as well as the external drives.
My system is P4 XP PRO 2GB ram,148 GB disk,160GB usb disk.
I have the ISO files of the freedos site on hard disk.
Would like
Hi everybody,
Roberto wrote:
Dr dos undelete don't work (no memory massage and hangup!)
I suppose the best solution is the upgrade of freedos undelete
with fat32 support. Someone want to try?
Fabien wrote:
Do you think updating fatio.c is the main update to do or is
it more complex ?
I
Hi,
OR make a porting of DOS of this open source:
mundelete is a program to undelete files from MsDos/Windows disks. It
supports FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 and vfat extensions. It works under Unix systems.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mundelete
Hi Mateusz,
I didn't release FDUPDATE in a long time, as I thought people
were not interested in it...
There is one very interesting use for FDUPDATE: Turning
a FreeDOS 1.0 system into 1.1 :-). Do you have a list of
updates since 1.0 (eg the LSM list on freedos.org or a
list from Rugxulo or
Hi everybody, I got a mail that GRAPHICS does not work right
on some Epson ( ESC/P , ESC/P2 ) printers... Would anybody
be willing to test and verify this? I myself only have a PCL
printer, no ESC/P printer, so I cannot check this myself...
GRAPHICS is a tool which prints the (M)CGA / EGA / VGA
Hi Michael,
Do you tried using the tested wget binary?
(http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/fdupdate/wgetx.zip)
Why wouldn't the copy of wget packaged with freedos 1.0 work?
It is just a piece of the puzzle: If using another
version of wget solves the problem, we know more.
machine. I'm not
Hi Oleg, John,
thanks for contacting me. I did use online and offline
handbooks for writing the ESC/P mode of GRAPHICS, but
it seems nobody tested it back then (and I myself only
had a HP PCL printer). Only this year, somebody told
me GRAPHICS would print an empty page for ESC/P, but
he refused
Hi again,
after all the discussion about people being interested
in having a fat32 undelete but nobody who would actually
write one, I finally added the changes which outlined in
an earlier mail myself. The result is available online:
www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/undelete32beta.zip
Hi :-)
v1.13 of FD Debug is available: http://www.japheth.de/debxxf.html.
v5.71 of Jemm is available: http://www.japheth.de/jemm.html.
Both are just bugfix releases, and the bugs fixed are minor.
Nice, but could you update the two readme files on your
homepage anyway, so we can read some
Hi, in general: Install from the base CD first.
The full CD contains packages which need internet
access during install, and that can often be tricky.
You can also skip exactly those packages in the
full CD, but to get started, just use base :-).
The Wiki has a list of network related packages
Hi, could somebody check and update the FAQ item at:
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=incoming/2912
thanks :-). Please do also mail martinaciccarello * libero.it then.
Eric
Forwarded question:
dear all.
I tried to install Freedos on my new pc but when I arrive at the
Hi Geekdude!
i have freedos 1 and every so often it will decide not to let me
execute any programs. cd, dir and most internal commands work, but if
i tell it to run a program it returns a prompt without any errors and
does nothing. the i restart and it runs fine again.
I know this problem,
Hi Andrew,
Am using latest FreeDOS 1.0 version, from BASECD.iso.
When I try 1 2 options, Turbo C++ 3.0 commandline compiler
reboots my Bochs. When I load option 3, then Turbo C++ 3.0
commandline compiler works 100%, compiles all my graphics
example code and the built exe runs perfectly.
Hi Geraldo, please do never send files to a mailing list.
Hi Guys, It seems command.com is missing
could you try any iso from this site?
www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/
The image shows (why on earth cannot people just cut and
paste the TEXT when you
Hi John,
I noticed the remark in the Xen posting, please do never send files to a
mailing list. I think that this implies the need for a hosted discussion
group arrangement. That will preserve the history of discussions which I
think has benefits for this group.
Well there already is an
Hi Oscar, Flox, Robert,
Hi Thanks. voy a hacer algunas modificaciones que creo
mejoraran el gui y voy a subirlas a ibiblio. Un saludo.
Please post in English only!
I think Spanish is a widespread language, but it would be nice
if for every Spanish posting, somebody could at least
Hi Roberto,
it's possible patch in kernel or freecom this problem caused a
problem when arachne work under freedos?
copy $eapm.htp+$esystem\\apm.db\\*.htm $2NUL
...
This is a known bug in FreeCOM command.com (not in the kernel).
See the bugzilla items about the problem:
Hi Spiro,
Robert is right, this is a known problem since version
family 0.84 of our FreeCOM command.com shell...
Now After a few commands in command.com,
a batch file would act like thins
C:\Arachne
BATCHFILE C:\arachne\arachne.bat NOT Found
or something similar
if i ran an app
C:\edit
Hi Spiro,
Since i have i bit more free time on my hands, I'm Going to try to make
a TSR and Library Supporting all Audio Cards using MPXPlay. Being a noob
at DOS Programming, i'd appreciate the help
My plans are to have:
- All Audio Cards Supported
- TSR Functionality for Non Supporting
Hi Robert, Hans,
in fdfullcd\FDOS\DRIVERS\NET\CRYNWR\TRACE.com'
wurde ein Virus oder unerwünschtes Programm 'DOS/Barrotes.1194'
[DOS/Barrotes.1194] gefunden.
It's just a stupid false positive. See
http://www.virustotal.com/de/analisis/d4fd6f91a4efb89969c45ccddb5b9a0a
for reports from
Hi! :-)
I am using the following code using interrupt 25h
(and a similar write function using interrupt 26h) to basically
determine if there is a disk inserted in the floppy drive:
Hmm looks okay... al=0 cx=1 dx=1 bx=offset data int 25 sp+=2 jc...
The code works perfectly with Dos 6.22,
Hi Michael,
How is it [FreeDOS 1.1] coming along?
A crucial part of the work for 1.1 is putting all
packages which got updated since 1.0 into zips in
installable shape. In other words, download them
from their author's web pages and make 2 zips with
our standard directory structure, one
Hi everybody, I need some advice from kernel experts:
when checking the error reported by Travis in the
freedos-user thread Travis I found that initdisk
does setup the DDT BPB and default BPB correctly
for A: and B:, but fails to setup the DPB. As the
latter is used to check if int25/26 access
Hi Jan,
I have tried a number of image files from different sources
with the same result.
I get a FreeDos message with a flashing cursor, and keyboard
is ignored.
If I had to guess, I would say your CF has another (virtual) CHS
geometry set by the BIOS of your embedded system than the one
Hi Jan,
After spending some 8 hours or more on trying to make
A bootable CFC I have given up. I cannot see an
advantage to using FreeDos.
Depends - can MS DOS boot from your CF easily? There are
basically two questions: Does DOS in general have an
advantage for your problem? And if so, does
Hi Tony,
I didn't see the Use Base option on the menus in the Full CD
Well I meant use the fdbasecd.iso CD. But you can also unselect
all packages outside the base category, for example.
After making a partition in Vmware 6- and writing the partition
table I rebooted my VM.
Then you did
Hi Tony,
I use MSDOS and WinImage to make bootabel USB images.
What form of MSDOS? A diskette image? CD image? Real diskette?
Real CD? If you get FreeDOS in the same form, you should be
able to use WinImage in the same way to make bootable USB...
Is The above URL mentioned on the
Hi Carlos,
only one question, where is the equivalent to
dd of=/dev/sda bs=1M in MS-DOS/FreeDOS or Windows
environment?
You probably mean dd if=dosdisk.bin of=/dev/fd0?
You can use FreeDOS DISKCOPY for diskcopy dosdisk.bin a:
which should even work when you use it in common versions
of
Hi HCL BA,
I don't see enough information about the FreeDOS 1.1 upgrade process.
Nobody volunteered to help with FreeDOS 1.1 base CD yet.
What softwares will be included? How are those softwares organized?
I would say mostly the same as in 1.1, but before we can think
about a full CD, we
Hi Marco,
I'm sure Euphoria is the best interpreted
language available for DOS today...
How about Perl (bloated) or Reginarexx for example? ;-)
is under active development, and is really
cross platform DOS/Win/Linux.
The others are also cross platform but I do not
know how active their
Hi Michael,
I have onboard sound. In Windows I am using a driver called
C-Media AC97 Audio device.
Only a few new games and software like MPXPLAY media player for DOS
can use AC97 directly, but as you see, it can be done :-).
In DOS it`s called SiS 7012 Sound Codec. MidiPort 330,
Hi Dale,
I am trying to use FreeDOS on a weird old electronic message board,
which is driven by a headless 80286 motherboard. My only access is via
a floppy drive, and I do not have the ability to use a normal VGA...
The standard FreeDOS kernel in FreeDOS 1.0 / fdbasecd.iso doesn't
work on
Hi Mark,
I have a program called SpinRite used for checking hard drives. On
the Gibson Research page they state that if I can see drives under DOS
then there's a good chance that SpinRite can test the drives.
What sort of checking do you want to do?
1) A prebuilt FreeDOS ISO image that
Hi!
on http://elinks.cz/download.html ...
on http://links.twibright.com/download/ ...
Technically, this is a GNU GPL violation.
It seems that sources are supposed to be somewhere here:
http://mik.dyndns.org/debian-cross/dists/sarge/djgpp/
but I did not manage to look into any details so
Hi!
FYI, 404 Not Found
http://bttr-software.de/
Interesting, the page only works if you add the www:
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum.php :-)
Eric
-
This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM)
Hi!
Is it possible to include from one config.sys a file config2.sys and
execute the content of config2.sys right after config.sys?
No. FreeDOS tries to open fdconfig.sys and if that one is not found
it tries config.sys and if that is not found then defaults are used.
You can have a menu
Hi!
EA You can have a menu system in (fd)config.sys but it has different
EA syntax than MS DOS config.sys ... Arkady made a patch to support both
EA FreeDOS and MS DOS syntax but that patch is not in the kernel (guys,
EA could we add that patch now? Thanks :-)).
Eric, I update
Hi Michael!
What is SNAP audio
Hmm something which almost fits but does not really fit for anything? ;-)
SiS 7012 (onboard) (there are no dos drivers):
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-intel8x0
SiS 7018 (there are dos drivers):
Hi!
In case anyone is interested, we have an article on the FreeDOS site
about USB from a BIOS engineer. It's a good read (and short) and
explains why USB hard drives are hard to support properly everywhere,
while USB floppy and keyboard/mouse is easy:
Hi again :-)
An USB flash drive was made bootable for FreeDOS with the tool 'HP Drive
Key'. Booting from that device works well if the BIOS supports USB booting.
After loading the USB driver under FreeDOS device C:\ could be no longer
read. FreeDOS asked for a command.com location.
So you
Hi Michael,
- C: was accessible thanks
to the BIOS driver anyway :-p.
Yes.
If so, why did it become inaccessible when
you loaded the DOS USB driver??
I don`t think it would happen with a normal harddisk.
Well you loaded a driver which created a new int13 gateway
to the SAME drive,
Hi Michael,
It`s quite problematic to run FreeDOS on modern hardware.
(lack hardware and driver support)
I disagree... For example somebody recently asked me how
he could remove a preinstalled FreeDOS from his PC, as he
wanted to install Windows. It turned out that his SATA
harddisk was
Hi Flox,
No, I have a SB Live! 5.1 PCI soundcard...I had tried the driver for
SB16 emulation, but it wasn't compatible with some drivers so I never
used it. With old mainboards I mean more or less 2, 3 years.
The SBLive / SBPCI driver emulates SB16 in software, so it
is only compatible with
Hi Steve,
I'm seeking feedback from the Free DOS community to ensure the
redesign meets the needs of (and works right for) Free DOS...
Nice, thanks :-)
(I'm thinking this makes a change; a BIOS developer willing to make
design changes to meet the needs of Free DOS, rather than the other
Hi Richard,
not sure whether a dos extender with 4gb flat memory segments
is useful... I mean there already are dpmione and hdpmi which
have quite some punch and even dos32a and cwsdpmi are not bad.
About your 386/AT disk - good old AT probably is still the same
as (parallel) ATA / IDE today,
Hi Bonnie :-)
I can make a diskimage of a floppy disk in linux with dd
Can freedos mount this disk image and use it rather than the
floppy disk in question?
If so, how do you mount the disk image?
Try using the shsurdrv ramdisk and related tools. To boot
from a diskimage, try grub4dos or
Hi!
It almost works! GRUB4DOS loads freedos.bss well, so FreeDOS starts.
But it sees the FAT32 partition of my primary HDD as drive C:, and
sees the FAT32 partition of my secondary HDD (where FreeDOS is
installed - however it was my primary HDD before) as drive D:. So it
actually asks for
Hi!
2008/05/23 18:15 +0200, Mateusz Viste
You could also use the ALIAS command, you wouldn't need separate files
for all your programs anymore.
Is this as good as VMS s use of environmental symbols, better than the
Unix-shell alias because the OS also uses it? An alias that worked at
Hi!
To avoid such a freeze while installing FreeDOS 1.0, try this:
I would recommend to install without network, see:
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall
You can find a list of internet-using packages here:
Hi John,
For both the diskette and CD versions of the classic game Beneath A Steel
Sky, use of Japheth's HIMEMX causes the game to fail during startup with
the error: Fatal System Error cs:eip = 8:9f6
...
Reverting to HIMEM v3.26 (Aug 25 2006) makes the error go away.
Use of
Hi :-)
Check our LSM list:
www.freedos.org/cgi-bin/lsm.cgi?mode=dirdir=edit
Blocek, Emacs, Fed, OS+ Editor, TDE, SETEdit, VIM, Edlin...
I believe 32bit versions of Blocek, Vim, Emacs, Edlin do
support files above 64 kB. TDE and SETEdit definitely do,
but maybe are a bit big to install. TDE
Hi!
Emacs (freemacs) definitely does NOT support files
larger than 64k. I don't know about the others.
Well Emacs has a Unix version which has a DOS port,
same for VI / VIM :-) You can get the DOS port here:
http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/
(the parent directory has even more
Hi everybody,
almost a year after cutemouse 2.1 beta 3 I can
present ctmouse 2.1 beta 4 :-). This is a version
with debugging output in the PS2 config stuff.
Compared to beta 3, it adds support for touchpads
in Dell Inspiron 1501 (where int 15.c204 PS2 ident
fails) and changes the meaning of /O
Hi!
Unfortunately FreeDOS does not support Win9x.
Well there are 2 ways of support: Win9x includes
MS DOS 7 so you should only RUN it in MS DOS 7...
But you can start the INSTALLERS of various Windows
versions from within other DOS :-). I think what you
are trying to do is boot DOS from
Hi Robert,
I remember some old driver in protected mode and cloaking
related stuff from the old days but only few drivers did
support it afair? So I would suggest that we just take our
new open source drivers and turn those which really need
a lot of RAM into JLM modules for JEMM386. The
Hi Robert!
present ctmouse 2.1 beta 4 :-). This is a version
with debugging output in the PS2 config stuff.
Is this the debugging output or is it garbage?
CuteMouse v2.1 beta4 [FreeDOS]
5/3 0/33/3 0/34/3 0/07/@ 0/@7/0 0/04/0 0/0Installed at PS/2
port
7/3 0/30/1 0/12/5 0/5
This is
Hi Per,
We're using FreeDOS in a few different systems.
Interesting!
And we're having an issue where partition tables get a bit funky.
Can you explain in more detail?
Bug 1945 (*Bug* 1945* LBA* support may not be detected correcty
I assume that is a bug in FDISK? I recommend using
Hi Clinton,
Well, somebody has gotta write a shuffle mode MP3 playing
program for FreeDOS.
A good media player for DOS is MPXPLAY, but I do not know
whether you like the shuffle it probably has :-).
Because many business have opted to listen to conventional radio
stations to provide music
Hi :-)
I always use dosemu with the large vga12x30.pcf font which my old
eyes can see.
Apparently dosemu is trying to use an 80x25 screen that won't fit.
True, but usually it is better to use a BIOS style font anyway...
How could I use stty to specify an 80x23 screen?
Try this in DOS,
Hi!
the corresponding code snippet from FDISK, where offsets = 0x1BE
are filled with zeros by design (second do/while loop). Does anyone
(Eric?) know the reason?
Sounds okay if you only want the MBR code and not the partition
table, but of course you also zap the 55 aa this is bootable
sign
Hi Robert,
Especially bad result for people who think that backing up
their MBR would also backup the beginning of their partition
table, of course. So I suggest to stop masking :-)
But how to handle /AMBR (write MBR from file) then?
Function Create_Alternate_MBR() also skips partition
Hi again,
well if you can compile devload at all (you need tasm or
the free arrowasm asm, www.dunfield.com/downloads.htm )
then you can help yourself with a patch / workaround:
mov bx,0fffh; never desire 64k of UMBs
Change this line to use 3ffh instead of 0fffh,
Hi everybody,
I have a fun suggestion for a DOS driver for all sorts
of mouse and touchpad and similar devices, but I would
first want to know which devices are actually in use out
there today, so please let me know what you use - unless
it is a boring PS2 mouse with max 3 buttons and 1 wheel.
Hi Richard,
I'm new to Freedos, and tried it with a program written in Borland Pascal
which usually gives a 200 divide by zero error if run on a modern PC.
This is a known bug in Borland / Turbo Pascal / C compiled
programs. The problem is simply that your PC is too fast.
You can slow it down
Hi Michael,
Just as exercise you could first convert
he latest cutemouse into a JLM
You misunderstood me. I want a JLM which talks
to the real BIOS and/or hardware on one end and
pretends to be a PS2 BIOS mouse on the other.
The existing cutemouse driver would be loaded
AFTER the JLM, see
Hi Michael,
you were right, I was not aware that devload fails
to figure out an appropriate UMB size and therefore
fails more often than devicehigh to load devices to
UMB space. Reading the sources made me realize that
this feature is missing. Of course it can be added.
However, devload will
Hi Mikkel, well the rugxulo.googlepages.com distro
does not even have an installer, so it does not
break your Linux either :-). Just copy the files
over your existing DOS to update your old DOS...
Note that DOS basically never really has drivers
for sound: DOS games expect soundblaster hardware
Hi again,
However, devload will still not be perfect: Some
drivers only have full performance if you load them
before you load any command.com for the first time
Could you reach the same state 'not loaded any command.com'
by unloading command.com before and then it could become
Hi Anton,
you may have to set the BIOS option to AC97 on/off or SB16
legacy support on/off or both, and you may have to use the
VIAAUDIO.COM tool (see my other mail) to un-mute the VIA.
I wonder whether mpxplay could do the work of viaaudio by
itself without using the viaaudio file. Maybe you
Hi Japheth,
Both problems with the keyboard and the mouse are known and were
already posted in this list. However, the posts were related to Qemu
... Since VirtualBox is - to a large degree - a clone of Qemu...
There exist workarounds. The Ctmouse problem can be cured by using
a certain
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