Hi again,
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/
http://czyborra.com/unifont/
So I uploaded this (terminus.f16, terminus.asm, ofl.txt open font
license 1.1) to iBiblio for us.
http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Ezequiel Montoya
ezequielmont...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all, I'm really new in FreeDOS but I am also old enough to have
started working on MS-DOS 2.1
:-))
The thing is I want to run my old Turbo Pascal programs. So I configured a
VirtualBox FreeDOS
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:21 PM, James Collins james.collin...@yahoo.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)
Just for the record, here's yet another poor Yahoo! sap who's been
compromised by spammers. Sad, but oh well, what can you do? (Change
your password or use a
a sponsered ad. I would recommend switching to other providers, I
wouldn't recommend gmail as google scans your messages too.
Http://digitalatoll.com offers email that is private and secure but is not
free.
-Chris
Http://tawhakisoft.com
On Thursday, June 6, 2013, Rugxulo wrote:
Hi
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:41 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
My usual response to worries about privacy is You *wish* you were
important enough that anyone could be *bothered* to pay that sort of
attention to you. You aren't and they don't.
Hi, sorry I'm late in replying,
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
Just wanted to say that the FreeDOS localisation project moved to a new
location: http://freedoslocal.sourceforge.net/
Good to know.
I moved it for two reasons:
- to make it
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
I'm happy to announce the release of a new version of my FreeDOS package
manager - FDNPKG v0.94.
Jim just announced this in News for you.
Big changes: this new version brings support for offline (on disk)
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:32 AM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:45:45 -0400, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are trying to install Linux from Windows you should look into a
thing called wubi:
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:45 PM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a machine from '04, and to my dismay, the boot order is greyed out
and cannot be altered. This means I cannot boot from my external dvd drive
or flash drive. Neither can I swap the external drive(sata) for the cd
Hi again,
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:39 PM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:
I am not trying to install linux in windows/dos; puppy linux does that
exquisiitley.
EDIT: I've not used this particular piece of it, but the DOS SHSUCD
package has SHSUDVHD which emulates a DVD-ROM using multiple
Hi again,
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net
wrote:
Just wanted to say that the FreeDOS localisation project moved to a new
location.
Anyway, bottom line is:
1. The project
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Bertho Grandpied y31415926...@yahoo.fr wrote:
I must say, though, the reception which I got from Herr Ehlert on this list
is making me wonder whether spontaneous contributions made in
good faith are welcome and / or opportune.
Patience, young padawan.
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Bertho Grandpied y31415926...@yahoo.fr wrote:
What is the legal status of 4DOS in relation to FreeDOS ? There's a fully
baked
product, could it become /the/ main FD shell ?
Unlikely to become the main shell (though that's not my decision
anyways). I'm
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Bertho Grandpied y31415926...@yahoo.fr wrote:
Should OTOH you (and the FreeDOS project at large) wish to offer the
free XBDA mover as a supplement/alternative to FreeDOS's internal, I'll
contact you for arranging the mirroring. It's a simple, robust and
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
1. I haven't managed to compile it from source.
I did produced an executable, but the linker was complaining a lot
about undefined symbols, so I probably missed how to link the egavga
lib. A section in the
Hi again,
Just a few more minor comments.
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Rowery na Księżycu
rowerynaksiez...@gmail.com wrote:
I made a CPI editor. Maybe it could be useful.
It allows to edit the shape of the characters, remove or create fonts,
remove or create codepages,.. It has a gui
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote:
Mateusz Viste schreef op 20-7-2013 23:08:
Could you tell me please which software you see old?
Mainly the bootdisk programs:
* kernel: 2036 instead of 2041
Well, 2036 wasn't exactly horribly buggy nor super old (FD
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
On 07/21/2013 07:59 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
Ouch, thought this was solved, both with and without some custom fixing
driver. Most recent VirtualBox (4.2.16?) used? Most recent UDVD2.SYS
used?
The UDVD2.SYS I
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
I released a minute ago a new version of FDNPKG.
The exact changelog of the v0.96 follows:
FDNPKG v0.96 [21 Jul 2013]
Just FYI, I updated the online .LSM and mirrored this to iBiblio:
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote:
Rugxulo schreef op 28-7-2013 0:55:
1.9 has been latest stable for three years now. I haven't been
following their latest progress, so I don't really know much about it.
1.5 was listed in above textfile, guess that's
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
maybe a nice solution would be to create multiple packages, where every
package would contain a part of OW
- then the end user could download only what he wants/needs/uses.
Well, I figured a full DOS only
Jack Ellis has released a minor update to his drivers:
UHDD/UIDE save 600 bytes of runtime (HMA) space by omitting their
binary-search buffer and related code (they did not improve speed
very much).Their /F switch is now deleted, and UHDD/UIDE will
always set 64K blocks with a cache of
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
I had a few minutes of free time lately and felt the inexplicable need
to write a Nibbles clone
I think the last time I wrote a Snake clone
in 2.5 dimensions in Borland, in Pascal, I updated the
code to use 40:6c aka
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Everaldo arcanjo...@gmail.com wrote:
Friends, I'll wanted to know how configuring the Internet in FreeDOS 1.0
for the DHCP or manually. Wait contact, ok!
Check this first:
FreeDOS Networking with VirtualBox 4.x
http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Balthasar Szczepański
rowerynaksiez...@gmail.com wrote:
Next version of my CPI editor.
It allows to edit the shape of the characters, remove or create fonts,
remove or create codepages,.. It has a gui and can be controlled with the
keyboard or mouse (if
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
On 08/04/2013 12:37 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
I've mirrored this below:
http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/fonts/cpied13b.zip
And I've put the latest v1.3c into the FDNPKG repository
silly
(old!) RUFFIDEA mini-floppy distro, specifically disk #3:
https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/d3-files.zip?attredirects=0
However, I'm not sure how useful overall the package is. I only very very
lightly used it, and I'm fairly certain it's not for anything but very
simple programs. So it's
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Beeblebrox zap...@berentweb.com wrote:
I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. The USB drive has grub2
installed, I use it as a rescue drive I can add menu items however I like.
When I boot into FreeDOS, only the contents of the mem-loaded image
Sorry, forgot the URL:
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Beeblebrox zap...@berentweb.com wrote:
I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash.
You can instead use an entire bootable USB disk of FreeDOS
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Karen Lewellen
klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:
Is this different from the pzip utility I found referenced when I googled
7zip in dos?
I don't believe so. DJ Delorie's DJGPP
), then compress.
[Bojan]
Very idea of 7zip is a specific compression algorithm, not a way
the compressing utilites work. :)
Actually you are BOTH right. As Rugxulo already mentioned, there is
a difference between archives where each file inside is compressed
separately and compact archives
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Karen Lewellen
klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:
Let me table this discussion where my question is concerned.
there is another copy of this program zipped using regular pk zip for dos
and as a strict dos port.
p7z458c.zip is what I see at the link you
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Mateusz Viste
mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
On 08/30/2013 06:42 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
IIRC, the default mode of 7za is -mx5 and .7z format using LZMA [or
LZMA2 in newer alphas] method, which means (among other things) 16 MB
dictionary, aka 2^24, aka LZMA
Hi, (two months later!)
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote:
Rugxulo on 15 Jul 2013:
I don't know what tools others used previously
I used FONTHACK quite a lot to build a nice-looking sans serif
screen font with all the accents we
is copyrighted freeware by
Pierre Jelenc, 1994.
From Rugxulo on 2013-09-16:
I was unable to find this (except one shady website that didn't look
trustworthy). I did visit http://www.pierrejelenc.com/ but found
nothing relevant. I sent him a quick message, though, but I'm not
getting my hopes up
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:48 AM, timmoore46 timmoor...@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure if I've posted on the right list, but here goes !
You're fine here.
Attempting to use a 320GB HD on a modern 6 core PC.
All for FreeDOS? :-)Or are you multi-booting? Or is this just temporary?
I
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Louis Santillan lpsan...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe. I use ssh/scp/sftp for everything I do these days. Is gem able to
multitask these sessions?
AFAIK, no. There was some unfinished work (long time ago) on a
quasi-multitasking GEM, but it was never reliable,
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Richards, Toby
toby.richa...@slo.courts.ca.gov wrote:
Follow up question: does Gem run on any os other than FreeDOS?
Which GEM? I'm not sure it's developed or even maintained anymore. I
haven't heard jack from anybody (nor Shane Coughlin) about it in
recent
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Richards, Toby
toby.richa...@slo.courts.ca.gov wrote:
I meant on Linux or some other nondos os.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager#Continued_development
Continued development
Caldera Thin Clients (later known as Lineo) released the
Hi,
First, thank you for all of your efforts! Honestly, it's almost
overwhelming having so many files to deal with!
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
I did a bit of repackaging work this evening, and added sources to some
of the BASE packages
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Miguel Garza garz...@gmail.com wrote:
I recently discovered Rufus, the DOS boot disk installer, and
installed FreeDOS on my thumbdrive. I think it's pretty neat.
Yeah, it's cool.
Anyways, what I am wondering is, I had come across PictView and tried
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:45 AM, NA plu...@robinson-west.com wrote:
The free crynwr packet driver collection doesn't cover the Netgear
FA311 10/100 baseTX network card.
Blame Netgear. (It's their decision, not ours.)
Uge! I've been google searching and have found BartPE, but that is a
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:47 AM, NA plu...@robinson-west.com wrote:
Thank you for the heads up on fdupdate. I have a Linux from scratch
system that is Pentium III compatible, but that particular system
doesn't have X.
Wget? Curl? Ftp? Lynx? Links? Elinks? W3m?
I suppose I can get the
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Michael Robinson
plu...@robinson-west.com wrote:
I have a Pentium III 750, 768 megs of ram, and a soundblaster 16 PCI
card.
Well, trying to add msclient as it seems to be the only way to go for
a national semiconductor DP83815 network card. Goal has
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Miguel Garza garz...@gmail.com wrote:
I've got my programs in subdirectories of C:\APPS, and whenever I add a new
program, I have to add its path to autoexec.bat like so:
set PATH=.;c:\;\LOCALE;\APPS;[all the other paths to the other programs in
the APPS
Hi again,
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
AFAIK, the %PATH% can (normally) only be 128 bytes or less. This is
also part of the overall environment limit (but what is default for
FreeCOM, /E:256 ??). There are possible partial workarounds that
extend it to 255
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote:
Miguel Garza schreef op 3-11-2013 16:21:
I'm playing with vim in FDOS. It's nice, but a bit slow in some
respects, particulary when using its internal file-browser. I am running
FDOS from a thumbdrive on a modern (well,
Hi again,
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Miguel Garza garz...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm playing with vim in FDOS. It's nice, but a bit slow in some respects,
particulary when using its internal file-browser.
What internal file-browser? LIST? PG? MORE? EDIT? I have no idea, you
have to be more
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:13 AM, John R. Sowden
jsow...@americansentry.net wrote:
got a 'distribution disk' of freedos
Where? Which version? What files?
, ran the sys command.
To / from what? Floppy? Hard drive?
copied it from the net to a floppy using ubuntu 13.10
Assuming the floppy
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Miguel Garza garz...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried putting INSTALL=c:\apps\lbacac~1\bin\LBACACHE.COM in my config.sys
file and I get an error:
STAK nest!? otherss = [a bunch of numbers and letters] [Repeats several
times]Bad or missing Command Interpreter:
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:04 AM, John R. Sowden
jsow...@americansentry.net wrote:
On 11/03/2013 11:38 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:13 AM, John R. Sowden
jsow...@americansentry.net wrote:
got a 'distribution disk' of freedos
Where? Which version? What files?
I think I got
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:46 AM, sparky4 insano
sparky44...@gmail.com wrote:
Will there ever be any official support for the Japanese language in
FreeDOS?
At risk of stating the obvious, FreeDOS is free to modify, but support
can only improve if someone decides to volunteer to do
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:
I have aquired and set up two removable drives with which I intend backing
up the two hard drives in my pure dos machine.
I was planning to use xcopy for this, but before I start am wondering if
there is
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote:
Would this accomplished by loading a Unicode Japanese code page font file
using mode?
No because Unicode, esp. for CJK languages, would never fit into 256
or 512 bytes, which (AFAIK) is a EGA/VGA hardware (text
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:
I did just join the xxcopy yahoo group, so I can learn if that has any
advantages to using xcopy.
Okay, but I'm not sure they support the DOS version anymore. Their
current .ZIP only has 32-bit and 64-bit PE /
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat
matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote:
... irrelevant comments by me deleted ...
PS: I just wrote all that and found this:
http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfile/freedos/index.html
Is that third party software for Japanese support or
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:33 PM, John R. Sowden
jsow...@americansentry.net wrote:
I have a disk with Linux and win98 dos on it. I opt with function key
to select which OD.
Please don't OD.:-)I assume you meant OS.
Default is DOS. While in DOS, I executed sys c: from a floppy
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
- InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated
values
81-194-63 instead of 75-254-63
BIOS and partitioning disagree about CHS geometry and
your partition type 0b is FAT32 CHS. You could
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Matej Horvat
matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote:
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:36:49 +0100, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat
matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote:
PS: I just wrote all that and found this:
http
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
Win98 FAT32 typically does, but the message suggests that
you installed DOS on the partition. You can of course use
a Win98 DOS 7.x boot disk and just
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:43 PM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote:
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:36:49 -0500, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat
matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote:
PS: I just wrote all that and found this:
http://nokonoko365
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:25 PM, John R. Sowden
jsow...@americansentry.net wrote:
Wow!
As usual when I present problems on these mailing lists, the solutions
are complex. Nothings easy!
Welcome to computers, where easy means hours of work.
I also have a tendency to not explain
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 9:28 AM, José Antonio jmartinez_m...@yahoo.es wrote:
2º. Boot with a Linux Live CD (like knoppix), some distros include TestDisk
and PhotoRec. It is very important that the restored files will be placed in
an alternative storage, not in the original, media. If
Hi,
I might be repeating some things here (and I'm no expert), but I don't
know if you fixed this yet, so
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:57 PM, John Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net wrote:
First of all, I did not make myslf clear. I was not running win98. I was
only running
the dos
Hi Jack,
Just a few boring comments,
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote:
The UIDE drivers have all been updated to 14-Nov-2013, and they are
now available from Johnson Lam's dropbox at --
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15785527/drivers.zip
In this
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:47 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:39 AM, John R. Sowden
jsow...@americansentry.net wrote:
Is there a zip program for dos that encrypts using the aes algorithm?
According to APPNOTE.TXT, version needed to extract
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:25 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote:
I probably found what I was looking for: the COMBOOTF.IMA file from
Lucho utilities.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15785527/dos/lucho.html
But I could not find any documentation.
I'm pretty sure this is the Paragon driver
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:08 AM, patrick patterson
prpat...@peoplepc.com wrote:
hello all. longtime reader, first time poster
this is something I have been thinking about for a long time.
I think it needs to be a part of long file name support, which
seems to be pretty messy for
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:20 PM, za...@gmx.com wrote:
On 2013-11-22 00:46, Rugxulo wrote:
I suggest you just try to use a user-space program like TestDisk. I
haven't used it much, but in minimal testing it did seem to access my
ext3 partition correctly.
Does the TestDisk solution
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:28 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Butterfly Close
closebutter...@gmail.com wrote:
Third tip. Screen indication can be disabled, (it speeds up system):
/dev/null. Under DOS exist /dev/null? Funny
No,
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Butterfly Close
closebutter...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/11/26 Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com
What about Descent??
http://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Descent.html
Descent works well; both music (MIDI) and sound; (By the way, Descend have
utility setup.exe
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Butterfly Close
closebutter...@gmail.com wrote:
Some hints, for FreeDOS lovers, or HowTo Create a Nice Multimedia System
from Old Hardware
MPlayer is two versions: official FreeDOS, with sources:
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:39 PM, James Crawford jrc...@embarqmail.com wrote:
I was installing freedos to a harddrive in hopes with hopes of having a
multi-boot with four other DOS operating systems.
Have you tried MetaKern? It's meant for sharing DOS boot sectors.
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:43 AM, sparky4 insano
sparky44...@gmail.com wrote:
I really wish there was a 16 bit port of fdnpkg!
but it is quite difficult to port it over
These are just .ZIPs with a special layout, so it's not like you can't
manually install them. Besides, most
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote:
Note on the FreeDOS main page that there are comments about FreeDOS
offering LBA large-disk capability (48-bit disk addressing, not 24-
bit CHS), which MS-DOS did not have, and which the main page says
was unavailable
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote:
Wengier Wu's MS-DOS 7 variant has a licensing issue ...
So what??, as I noted in my prior post. At least 18 years have
gone by since Gates Co. declared DOS is dead!, and no lawyers
I know of have EVER gone-after
Hi, (yet another inane response from me)
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote:
It's really too bad, though, that MS won't make it official and release
the MS-DOS source as public domain, or at least one of the various
open-source licenses.
How would that be
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:03 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote:
You may not consider it reliable, and Dennis may have some odd
problem accessing it, but that website http://ms-dos7.hit.bg
did give me, on
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote:
I certainly agree with your stance here. I have been using one
ms-dos 7.1 package since at least 2007 or so, easily and effort-
lessly. I have helped others find it as well.
It might be easier to just tell them to
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote:
On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 23:29:14 -0500, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
BTW, NT 4.0 (1996?) didn't support either of those
NT4 does support LFNs.
Not in DOS apps, I meant, no Win9x-era int 21h, 71xxh, AFAIK
Hi,
It seems like they've fixed this by now.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote:
If you have tried to visit the FreeDOS archives at ibiblio in the last
day, you may have seen a message from your browser that ibiblio is
serving malware.
AFAIK, the warning was
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:40 AM, James Crawford jrc...@embarqmail.com wrote:
I have a Pentium 3 running Freedos alone. I tried to load Win 3.1 and got
the error : Win 3.1 will not run in protected mode. I understand that the
command.com runs in protected mode. Do I have to change this
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
Also, the PCI SoundBlaster cards in fact are not hardware compatible
to SoundBlaster but come with some driver to create a virtual SB16, as
mentioned. That driver is picky with EMM386, for example JEMM386 had a
special
Hi,
You'll probably have to run FreeDOS under some kind of emulator or
hypervisor, e.g. VirtualBox, atop your native host OS (Windows?).
https://www.virtualbox.org/
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Giovanni giovanni.ne...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have a notebook Asus X501A. It's a UEFI System, I
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Anton D. Kachalov mo...@yandex-team.ru wrote:
I've faced a problem with running any (XMGR, JEMMEX, HIMEMX) XMM on AMD
Opteron 6274 (have tried Supermicro H8DGU and Asus KGPME-D16).
FreeDOS has been loaded as floppy-image by MEMDISK via PXELINUX.
What
Hi,
Try something like ImageShack (see below):
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/lynx3.png/
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote:
I approved your emails for list moderation for this time, but next
time it would be better to post the screenshots somewhere
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:35 AM, Anton D. Kachalov mo...@yandex-team.ru wrote:
I've tried to create bootable disk from FreeDOS ISO, but it fails in
setup.bat on line:
%cddrv%FreeDOS\3rdParty\extract %cddrv%ISOLinux\Data\FDBoot.img -x
x:%destdsk%
caused by empty 3rdParty directory
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Anton D. Kachalov mo...@yandex-team.ru wrote:
- rugxulo@
I use PXELINUX 4.05 20130513. It works fine with MS-DOS (Win98) with MS
HIMEM, but fails with FreeDOS / any XMM. That is why I don't point to PXE
loader's problem.
I can give it a try with latest
Hi again,
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Anton D. Kachalov mo...@yandex-team.ru wrote:
FreeDOS 1.0 gives more debug information on such problem while newer FD1.1
just cycle with Invalid opcode or reboot.
This is kind of memory corruption during moving dos from it's location to
HIGH. It's
Hi, just for clarity,
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:23 AM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote:
3. http://www.freedos.org/links/ many links are DEAD or have issues :
- RAR for MS-DOS (better link to UNRAR DGJPP port?)
I left the
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Bret Johnson bretj...@juno.com wrote:
It could be that you need to load a driver, but that's unlikely. The most
probable cause is
a funky BIOS in the computers, and in particular the laptops (I've had
laptops where the
internal keyboard doesn't work
Hi, sorry for slow reply,
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Anton D. Kachalov mo...@yandex-team.ru wrote:
Got it :) Just read NOEMS in the wrong way. Anyway, I had problems with
HIMEMX and other XMM. Will try the latest one from SVN and older FD kernels.
I just need XMM to get RDISK works with
Hi again,
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Anton D. Kachalov mo...@yandex-team.ru wrote:
24.01.2014, 03:05, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de:
https://github.com/ya-mouse/dos-utils
You have interesting ports and tools :-) CURL, FlashROM,
getargs, NVRAM, PCIutils, watt32, ZLIB, a tiny
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote:
Dec 31 2011 readme.txt on the 1.1 iso says to get a bootable floppy image
download
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/fdos1440.img
It generates a 404. What is a URL that
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:53 AM, John R. Sowden
jsow...@americansentry.net wrote:
On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote:
When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to
do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out).
It could be a bug in the program
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:37 PM, John R. Sowden
jsow...@americansentry.net wrote:
Thanks for the follow up. I can boot with a floppy using MS-DOS 6.2.
But I don't think that version supports FAT32. (And I have no idea if
defragging FAT is supported under Linux or FreeBSD.)
I think my
Hi,
On Mar 9, 2014 2:59 PM, Xianwen Chen xianwen.c...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to try FreeDOS without installing it to a hard drive.
Is it possible to boot FreeDOS from USB, for example via syslinux?
If you have access to a modern Windows host, try the RUFUS installer:
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
Hey guys,
I found a guy on YouTube who makes some interesting OS videos.
Okay, it's usually him and his Mum just goofing around doing really
simplistic stuff. But it's interesting nonetheless.
https://www.youtube.com/user/OsFirstTimer
However, in this particular video he is alone and
Hey pal,
I dunno if you'll read this, but I think your account is hacked.
You might want to change your password.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:33 PM, bobjoe212x . dosal...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.spam.us
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Start
Hi, Jack,
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote:
Regrettably, I have been diagnosed with a 98% chance of bladder cancer, for
unknown reasons excepting bad luck. I was told it needs to be taken care
of within 3 months, after being detected on 4-Mar-2014.
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