Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi!
- I would like to read the whole RAM (mainly only 32 bit - 2 GB, but 4
GB or even more in 64 bit are also interesting) and write it into a raw
image (also called sometimes flat or .img).
The BIOS int 15.87 lets you access the first 4 GB, if you
want to access more
Hi!
Recently I did expand my computer from 1 GB to 2 GB of RAM. Finally I
checked that it's running well with Memtest86+ V2.11. I am also pretty
sure that the harddisk can not be the problem as it's a mobile disk and
working on other configurations ok.
For now I found two strange behavior.
At
Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi!
If I wanted to protect my mona lisa, I would
encrypt it and put the key in the first 640k
where I can be sure the BIOS wipes them :-p
You can only encrypt the harddisk, not the RAM.
Yes you can encrypt and/or compress RAM, but of
course you get lower performance.
Santiago Almenara schrieb:
Thanks for all your answers.
From all your mail, I understood this:
- There is not such thing as VESA audio
Unfortunately...
- SoundBlasters, especially SB16, are the common de facto for DOS
system (I used to have an ISA one, so I won't be able to use
pcdos2k schrieb:
i don't recommend creative SB pci cards for use in DOS. it's great in windows
and linux, but it is a pain to setup in dos.
Only the setup is a pain? Rest ok?
if you already have it, then go for it. here are two websites to help you
setup your SBPCI:
Hi!
sys can write the FreeDOS bootsector into a file. Today I recognized
that my freedos.bin working on one harddisk did not work on another
harddisk after a simple copy.
I know grub4dos as a bootmanager has a generic binary bootable file or
memtest+ also has.
Can you provide such a generic
Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi!
sys can write the FreeDOS bootsector into a file. Today I recognized
that my freedos.bin working on one harddisk did not work on another
harddisk after a simple copy.
I know grub4dos as a bootmanager has a generic binary bootable file or
memtest+ also has.
Can you
For demonstration purposes I created a fdos.bin. I would like to send it
to the list but I don't think sending files to the list will work or is
warm welcomed. It's a generic file you can use to chainboot finally
kernel.sys. If you want it tell me and I send it private.
In boot.ini you just need
Christian Masloch schrieb:
Note that this would mean that you have to find the sources
of ELTORITO.SYS - nu2.nu says it is now free / unmaintained
but sources are not yet public - and add ELTORITO and also
SHSUCDX into the kernel itself. Otherwise you will be able
to boot the kernel, but
Christian Masloch schrieb:
Besides, I'm too egoistic to write or re-write major parts
of something when this new version isn't accepted because it isn't tested
enough. That was the case with the unstable DOS-C version 2037 (which
had many features version 2036 and the upcoming 2038 don't
Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi Michael,
I need a variable %bootdevice% (or w/e) pointing to the current
session's boot device (A:\ or C:\).
Nice :-)
Is there such a variable or can you tell me how to set
this variable automatic in batch?
I do not remember one, but it is extremely easy to do
Christian Masloch schrieb:
On read-only media the 'set /e bootdevice=bootdev' will create an error
due to write protection. How this can be solved?
Did you set the TEMP or TMP environment variable to a directory on a
writable drive?
No, there is no writable device.
Well, I could
Bernd Blaauw schrieb:
Eric Auer schreef:
mode: You could use the technology of Rayer's ROMOS
which allows you to boot a FAT12 image directly from
ROM. This image has only 1 FAT, so MS DOS 6 does not
I wonder how large such expansion ROM images can be (64K? more?). The
Coreboot project
Michael Reichenbach schrieb:
Bernd Blaauw schrieb:
Eric Auer schreef:
mode: You could use the technology of Rayer's ROMOS
which allows you to boot a FAT12 image directly from
ROM. This image has only 1 FAT, so MS DOS 6 does not
I wonder how large such expansion ROM images can be (64K
Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi Blair,
I think using aspi.sys you can use cdrecord with it. Maybe I will
test it if I can get FreeDOS to boot on my laptop (1.0 CD kernel fails
to boot).
Does the Rugxulo.googlepages.com kernel work? You can
use the floppy images there to make boot CD / DVD...
What is the status of Freedos 1.1? It has been a while since the you
can help link has been updated.
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Hi!
I have a question about the fdfullcd.iso. It's a bit unclear for me...
The menu:
1. Install to harddisk using FreeDOS SETUP (default)
2. FreeDOS Safe Mode (don't load any drivers)
3. FreeDOS Live CD with HIMEM + EMM386
4. FreeDOS Live CD with HIMEM only
5. FreeDOS Live CD only
In
I have created a wikipage which describes how you can install FreeDOS on
NTFS with permanent and full read and write access. It's not directly
installed on NTFS, but inside an raw image. There is no need to change
the partition table or the bootsector.
Blair Campbell schrieb:
Why isn't this CD-ROM auto detection used for menu entry 1, 3,4 and 5?
I don't really understand the question... CD-ROM drivers are loaded
for 1, 3, 4, and 5; XCDROM.SYS would be the CD-ROM driver.
But the other CD-ROM drivers, such as eltorito.sys are only load if
Blair Campbell schrieb:
Why isn't this CD-ROM auto detection used for menu entry 1, 3,4 and 5?
I don't really understand the question... CD-ROM drivers are loaded
for 1, 3, 4, and 5; XCDROM.SYS would be the CD-ROM driver.
But the other CD-ROM drivers, such as eltorito.sys are only load if menu
Hi!
Originally eltorito.sys was only designed to work for a boot sequence like:
BIOS - CD-ROM with no-emulation bootloader (for example syslinux) -
memdisk - DOS - eltorito.sys
eltorito.sys continues to use the BIOS to access the device.
I discovered that eltorito.sys can be also used for CD-ROM
Johnson Lam schrieb:
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:05:15 -0300, you wrote:
Hi,
But, It works only at some machines.
I've tested many PC with my bootable USB stick.
USB boot heavily depends on BIOS itself, if the BIOS of that PC sucks, you
have no chance whatever how hard you try.
Rgds,
I have a DTK 486 with a very simple AMI bios and on
it a Dlink DE220PT nic on IRQ 12 IO 0x240. Arachne
works fine, but fdupdate crashes. It crashes
regardless of whether or not I choose to update a
package. I'm using the crynwr packet collection
ne2000 driver. I get an error about 2 near
Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing
fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find
out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something
that detects resource conflicts, flaky memory, etcetera.
Hi!
I am having trouble with FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007. I am able to
install it OK, and two of the three (four?) boot options work.
Option #2 (the default, and the one that doesn't work) results in the
following error:
Illegal instruction occured.
CS= IP=EEC3 SS=D0B4 SP=0004 ES=0070
I have the C source code for the 1.7 release that is meant for Linux.
I want to port this code to freedos and build a gem compatible
interface for it.
Drivewire, for those who don't know, is a piece of software that
allows a color computer 1/2/3 to access via serial port a modern
computer and
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:25 +0100, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi!
Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing
fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find
out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something
that detects resource
I am able to boot after selecting option #3 (Load FreeDOS with HIMEM
XMS-memory driver), but installing the game still fails. Option #4
(Load FreeDOS without drivers) is unselectable.
-Mike
Michael Reichenbach wrote:
Booting without emm386 will work, to make emm386 to work you need
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 02:12 -0400, Michael Horvath wrote:
I am able to boot after selecting option #3 (Load FreeDOS with HIMEM
XMS-memory driver), but installing the game still fails. Option #4
(Load FreeDOS without drivers) is unselectable.
-Mike
That's a bug, the 4th option not working
O.K. It looks like it depends at least on pthreads, curses, termios,
and linux-specific tty devices.
Often (as is the case with curses), linux C libraries are available
under FreeDOS with DJGPP; they are the same libraries, just
re-compiled (DJGPP has a fairly POSIX-compatible c-library, it
John Ames schrieb:
Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD,
and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I
want to install it on (a 3Com 3C595-TX) does not appear to be recognized by
either the default packet driver or the
Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi,
Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD,
and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I
On modern PC, your BIOS already does USB disk support for you and DOS.
You mean USB legacy support (for storage)?
Do BIOS update 100 % step by step as the manual says. No experiments wit
h DOS versions, TSR's, boot medium (if you shall use legacy floppy then
do so). Otherwise you risk the BIOS update to fail as the developers did
not thought about your modified use.
Ok, well you can experiment if you have
Robert Riebisch wrote:
Line #1 in batchfile 'A:\INSTALL.BAT' too long
Please post the first line of A:\INSTALL.BAT.
Robert Riebisch
Good catch! When I read the batch file in FreeDOS the file is full of
gibberish. In Notepad on my WinXP machine, however, it is a properly
formatted text
Eric Auer wrote:
Very strange. Maybe you saved it in Unicode / UTF-8?
Or in Word or something ;-) You could try other free
or shareware editors like TextPad to make sure that
your file is really text. Of course it could also be
the case that something on your filesystem confuses
DOS and the
k...@comcast.net wrote:
Hi Mike:
I use VFD to do this under Windows. (It's easy under Linux). See
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html. You can mount the
image as a floppy drive and copy files to/from it, format it, etc..
The other programs I know about cost money...
Michael Horvath schrieb:
I have PocketDOS installed on my PDA. It loads a bootable version of
FreeDOS from a floppy disk image. I'm having trouble figuring out where
AUTOEXEC.BAT and FDCONFIG.SYS are located on this disk. Where can I find it?
Until now I wasn't aware of the PocketDOS project
Bernd Blaauw wrote:
for config.sys only the root of the system is supported, and only the
filenamed CONFIG.SYS and FDCONFIG.SYS (so for floppy most likely
A:\FDCONFIG.SYS or A:\CONFIG.SYS)
for autoexec.bat, it's either AUTOEXEC.BAT or any other batchfile
indicated by a SHELL= line in the
Michael Reichenbach wrote:
I am using ndn, it's good, there is a DPMI32 DOS release. Dunno if it
scales also well on low resources.
http://ndn.muxe.com/
-mr
I am trying ndn. I am able to install it in FreeDOS on Virtual PC on my
XP machine, but in PocketDOS I get the error, Load error
Christian Masloch wrote:
Of course DPMI doesn't work on PocketDOS, because it (by default) emulates
a real mode 80286 processor only. (XMS and EMS services are provided by
PocketDOS-specific drivers.) I downloaded the demo version (for x86
Windows) and it's really nice. It integrates the
website: http://au.geocities.com/short_stop_pacific/freesoft/system.htm
look for ESCAPE / BREAK (documentation, binary and source)
it's an TSR which provides to quit any application, those without quit
button and also hanging applications.
In MS-DOS 7.1 with no config.sys/autoexec.bat it works.
Christian Masloch schrieb:
Could you please test whether aborting some other
application (no COMMAND.COM type program) works in FreeDOS?
Yes, first he application will be terminated and then also the command
interpreter which results in the same bug.
Well this shouldn't happen (and won't be
Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi!
Another thing will be a list of things to test...
Well, things like xmstest, memtest, idecheck
Those are not kernel related as far as I remember.
Not related to kernel, but to hardware and base software. You can see if
the change has broken something in a special
Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi Michael,
I have created a wikipage which describes how you can install FreeDOS on
NTFS with permanent and full read and write access. It's not directly
installed on NTFS, but inside an raw image. There is no need to change
the partition table or the bootsector.
http
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:04 +0100, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi Michael,
Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing
fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find
...
First try to boot without loading (J)EMM386, a common cause of
problems is a bad
alfio castorina schrieb:
Hi, I want to install freedos on my Macbook Pro using VMWare Fusion. Problem
is that after booting from the cd image and creating the C: partition after
reboot I get the message invalid operating system. I suspect that is due
that Freedos has not been installed yet and
Which kind of compatibility does FreeDOS aim for? I mean compatible with
which MS-DOS version? 6.22, 7.10, 8.00?
-mr
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Christian Masloch schrieb:
Which kind of compatibility does FreeDOS aim for? I mean compatible with
which MS-DOS version? 6.22, 7.10, 8.00?
As far as I can tell, 8.00 is the same as 7.10 plus some restrictions (I
used to have a PC with Windows Me).
Yes, well 8.00 can load Win ME.
Blair Campbell schrieb:
Also according to
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Compatibility
it also seams doslfn is not the answer and needs bugchecking by a third
developer.
Even kernel support would have some of those issues, it seems only
not very fast
FreeDOS -
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/02/02/365232.aspx
ctmouse, shsucdx -
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/10/21/246136.aspx
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Christian Masloch schrieb:
LFN for FAT and for NTFS are working stable in Linux. Could a FreeDOS
developer grab this free knowledge from Linux and improve DOSLFN this
way?
FAT and FAT32 are already supported by DOSLFN, even some CD-ROM
filesystems are. NTFS is not supported by any free
cleanzero schrieb:
I was trying to using the flat assembler FASM on freedos, but it complains
about missing DPMI services ? Is it possible in some way to use it ?
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.DPMI
example: hdpmi32 -r
This is an interesting topic...
If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as TSR in background.
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers
msclient is nice to mount a remote server into a DOS device letter,
unfortunately it's indeed a memory hog and
usul schrieb:
Uli,
I bought ORiNOCO Classic Gold PC Card.
http://www.orinocowireless.com/products/wifi/client/goldpccard/index.html
I know wireless is a risk but I checked in the documentation it had
dos and linux drivers :)
and I downloaded the ISO with all of that on it.
Well, wlan is
usul schrieb:
But I can do that from another pc that i usually have next to me. but
it would be nice to have a complete evironment.
And I have forgotten to say...
You are most likely much faster with browsing the web and mailing if you
use a modern computer, modern multi tasking operating
usul schrieb:
But yeah I was thinking that I would cheat for some of the stuff
for developing on FreeDos at first but later I would try and do everything
I could inside.
Cheat? Which kind of?
Because you are not doing everything on pure DOS this makes your
development more worse? That's s
Christian Groessler schrieb:
Hi,
If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as
TSR in background.
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers
?? This is a completely different topic.
No, since you asked for connecting to file server share in
Ok, now I got your point and must agree. :)
-mr
usul schrieb:
mr,
Because you are not doing everything on pure DOS this makes your
development more worse? That's s strange mind.
:) I'm strange I admit that but thats not whyI think it would be
cheating, you are coming from the wrong
, Michael Reichenbach
michael_reichenb...@freenet.de wrote:
Christian Groessler schrieb:
Hi,
If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as
TSR in background.
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers
?? This is a completely different topic
Christian Groessler schrieb:
Hmm, talking to a SMB server probably is quite involved (I've tried
to debug some samba problems in the past and the probably in the
last sentence is wrong).
But how about a new, simple, protocol to transfer directory information
and files between hosts? Nothing
Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi Michael,
indeed, MS LFN started with version 7 (Win9x)...
What about FreeDOS kernel and LFN? Wouldn't it make sense
also to add LFN to the FreeDOS kernel?
Yes but: The DOSLFN license does not allow it so you would
have to re-implement LFN from scratch
Ralf A. Quint schrieb:
From that view it's not possible for non-cooperates (individual hobbyist
projects) to develop and publish software. You would always need a legal
department which is telling it's ok to violate patents, if them are are
accusing us we will accuse them with out collection
Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi Michael,
indeed, MS LFN started with version 7 (Win9x)...
What about FreeDOS kernel and LFN? Wouldn't it make sense
also to add LFN to the FreeDOS kernel?
Yes but: The DOSLFN license does not allow it so you would
have to re-implement LFN from scratch
usul schrieb:
I would expect this type of thinking to defeat the patent.
So educate me why am I wrong. :)
Well, the final verdict gives always the court. Unfortunately not always
the logic wins.
(I haven't said anything about bribemoney!)
It also depends on the technical understanding of
Ralf A. Quint schrieb:
However, I just care about laws in my own country (and the national ones).
As I live in Germany I see no reason to ensure to follow all US laws (no
racism or whatever here, just the same way I do not ensure it for any
other country where I do not life).
It seams to me
Ralf A. Quint schrieb:
Not the programmer of DOSLFN would be sued, also probable not the
hypothetical programmer for LFN in DOS-C.
I think it's the distributor who would get sued and this is in this case
the responsible person for the website. (Fortunally also other people
are redistribution
usul schrieb:
By the way I must repeat the question who would be theoretically sued?.
I would think the end users.
For Example:
Companies that distribute new PCs with FreeDos installed.
someone that sold FreeDos on a bootable USB
Someone that sold and built CD for open source.
And why
Jim Hall schrieb:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Michael Reichenbach
michael_reichenb...@freenet.de wrote:
Eric Auer schrieb:
Hi Michael,
indeed, MS LFN started with version 7 (Win9x)...
What about FreeDOS kernel and LFN? Wouldn't it make sense
also to add LFN to the FreeDOS kernel
Well, it would be theoretically possible to implement something like
ext3 as most DOS applications use the filesystem API and not the disk
directly, them wouldn't recognize.
But this wouldn't be a good solution as there are still much more other
patents we might have not considered yet.
-mr
David C. Kerber schrieb:
-Original Message-
From: Jim Hall [mailto:jh...@freedos.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:30 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS
kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?
...
If LFN
The new and up to date and linked on freedos.org wiki seams to be
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Main_Page.
While when I google for freedos wiki I still find
http://wiki.fdos.org/. Can the old wiki be linked on freedos.org? It
still contains some informations.
Christian Masloch schrieb:
It's a client and not a network drive.
So a network drive that shows you a directory of a network server would be
no network client?
You can perhaps always call it client.
But network drive is only the right word if it works in background and
you get an
There is
- SSHDOS v0.95 November 25, 2003 and
- SSH2DOS v0.2.1 from April 23, 2006
Why the more recent version has a lower version number?
What are the differences?
There is also patch ROM-DOS Sockets patch from August 25, 2008, what
does it do?
-mr
Alain M. schrieb:
Michael Reichenbach
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 17:12 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
On Friday 03 April 2009 16:08, Michael Robinson wrote:
When I run fdupdate, it crashes with a 2 near fnodes error.
Hi,
Please define the crash. When exactly is it happening? When FDUPDATE is
starting itself, or when it run wget
I'm not certain about what is crashing. Changing to curl makes no
difference at all. This works on my Pentium 4, so I suspect there is
something specific to my 486 that is causing the problem. I wish the
crash message was more descriptive. A dump of the processor's registers
and more than
It looks like you want it more reliable... Sounds very reasonable.
Actually more pros (more easy for you, faster) then cons (file size).
As you have the most work with it,
do it.
-mr
Mateusz Viste schrieb:
Hi people!
So far, we have always used packaging sources and binaries differently
I was wrong about wget not crashing, it just took it a long time to
crash running it on it's own. Is the kernel going to be reworked
anytime soon to remove this fnode concept?
--
Well, I also thought about that.
I am working on an DOS application I wanted to package into FreeDOS's
format by default.
My exe is using a file called cwsdpmi.exe but cwsdpmi.exe is actually a
renamed hdpmi32.exe. Normally I would assume to cd to the folder where
my app is inside and to start
Is there a way to compress folders so they take up less space? Ideally,
I would like to be able to compress into a zip file, and still have the
OS treat it as a regular folder. As long as other OSs can view/access
the folder and its files, then any type of compression is OK.
Thanks.
-Mike
I think I'm using the stable kernel instead of the
unstable one.
I get an error that says essentially unload the
protected mode software and try again when windows
tries to start.
Are people taking out the smartdrive stuff or
simply adding a menu entry and if someone wants
windows loading
Not workgroup.
If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I
have an unsupported dos version.
If I try loading windows 3.1 in standard mode, I get an error that
there isn't enough extended memory.
Uge!
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 14:34 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote:
If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I
have an unsupported dos version.
Load the microsoft version that comes with windows, himem too.
If I try loading windows 3.1 in standard mode, I get an error
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:35 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote:
If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I
have an unsupported dos version.
Load the microsoft version that comes with windows, himem too.
If I try loading windows 3.1 in standard mode, I get an
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 10:34 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
On Friday 10 April 2009 10:24 (CEST), Michael Robinson wrote:
I'm still getting the 2 near fnodes error with fdupdate.
Do you tried the beta 0.55 version I sent you few days ago (the one using
HTGET as a downloader)? Still crashing
If you own a computer that had MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1
on it at one point, but your install media are fried, try
this abandonware site.
http://vetusware.com
I worry about the legality of downloading from this site, but
technically the software they are allowing people to download
is
Robert Riebisch wrote:
Michael Horvath wrote:
I know there used to be a DOS utility called DOUBLESPACE. Not sure if it
works for FreeDOS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleSpace
Note also that I have FreeDOS installed on a SD card in my PDA. Not sure
these hard disk utilities
I notice that I can run Windows 98 SE on my old
486 DX2 66 with 32 megs of ram. Windows 98 SE
supports more recent programs than Windows 3.1
does. Gem is nice, but it can't support windows
apps and it isn't meant to. I'm not certain
that I really want to try WordPerfect Suite 8
for Windows
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 09:38 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
On Sunday 12 April 2009 07:54 (CEST), Michael Robinson wrote:
I'm not certain
that I really want to try WordPerfect Suite 8
for Windows 95 on 98se.
If you ask me, I am using WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS, which does the job just
fine
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 20:13 -0500, Jim Hall wrote:
If you own a computer that had MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1
on it at one point, but your install media are fried, try
this abandonware site.
http://vetusware.com
I worry about the legality of downloading from this site, but
That's why I haven't been testing it on my 486 to see if it crashes or
not.
Since it's meant for freedos 1.1, how do I test it again?
BTW: The archives for this list are really hard to search.
--
This SF.net email is
But just to say the last word about this thread: please avoid warez,
sources and links to any other illegal activities.
Thanks.
Aitor
Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal
use is not illegal. Downloading old commercial software that isn't
sold anymore which
Speaking of abandonware, all the Nintendo games for the original
8 bit system fit that description now. Should anyone distribute
an emulator to run the old games on PC's? Should anyone distribute
instructions on how to get a rom image of an old game so a person
can play it on his/her PC?
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 22:59 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote:
Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal
use is not illegal. Downloading old commercial software that isn't
sold anymore which the author doesn't care about is not illegal.
To be illegal, the owner of the
Use without author's permission is not legal, selling without author's
permission is not legal (unless your local law allows otherwise), and
making a profit of something gets you in court quite fast indeed.
Bernd
The GPL is an exception, it gives you permission to use the software it
There is a need to elect leaders who will change the law concerning
abandonware.
Abandonware is any software program that is proprietary where the owner
of the intellectual property decides either a not to license any more
copies of it or b not to support it anymore. Typically, abandonware
is
Has anyone gotten fdupdate to work with a 486? I lost the link to
fdupdate v0.55 and the instructions on how to use it in fdupdate
v0.54. If using a 486 is the problem because of a bug in the math
coprocessor or something similar, that would be nice to know.
I've noticed that I get a C prompt
I have never used Vista. I think the minimum hardware requirements are
too high for me. Worse than that, I don't even like XP because it's
a pain to deal with activation and an even greater pain to back it up.
I've never figured out how to back up Windows XP. That said, I don't
use XP very
On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 16:35 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone gotten fdupdate to work with a 486? I lost the link to
fdupdate v0.55 and the instructions on how to use it in fdupdate
v0.54. If using a 486 is the problem because of a bug in the math
coprocessor or something
MS-DOS and Windows 3.x are clearly abandonware. If I want to
use this abandonware, am I suddenly breaking the law?
Not suddenly. It is and was breaking the law. Of course you can
hope that MS is too busy hunting people who steal Vista, but
you cannot just say that stealing MS DOS is
It seems that the sound blaster ISA and sound blaster 16 PCI
cards are the only ones that will work with freedos. Well,
I have a soundmaker cadenza on my D845PEBT2 Intel mobo with
a P4. It would be nice if there was a dos driver for this
sound card, but as far as I know there is only a
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