Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Abe Mishler <a...@mishlerlabs.com> wrote: > > On 6/28/2016 7:55 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> I would recommend you (also) test under QEMU if you're that worried or >> want (potentially) better stability. >> > QEMU, while

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > I think that even 597 kB of low DOS memory is plenty for old DOS programs. "597 kb should be enough for anyone." -- Eric Auer, 2016:-) In Abe's recent screenshot, he shows that he's now getting (thanks to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > I'm interested in learning how games like DOOM (requires 3MB available) > were able to work. I know I know, read the source code. AFAIK, Doom was originally compiled with Watcom using a DOS extender (DOS4G

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

Hi, On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > 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-i

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

Hi, On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > >>> The KEYB layouts can be found here: >>> >>> http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=kpdos > >> That's the point where the circle starts (and ends). There are no plain >> keyboard layout files (.kl) in there, only

Re: [Freedos-user] questions on FreeDOS

Hi, On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:14 PM, wrote: > > 2. is there a way to set FreeDOS as a VNC, telnet, or even SSH server? > I would have a full screen session when playing some of the DOS games. First of all, I misread your question. But, just for clarity, (IIRC)

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Hi, On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > I do agree that it makes little sense to automatically load SHARE with boot > config option 2. > After all, no other boot option starts SHARE. Also, only a couple situations > require its use. > > Either of these

[Freedos-user] DOS is a low-end Linux? (was: freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR)

Hi, (changing the subject a bit) On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/19/2017 1:16 PM, Eric Auer wrote: >> Rugxulo, Tom, >> >> DOS files should always use DOS linebreaks, >> even if some DOS apps can deal with Unix

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR

Hi, On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 5:51 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > At one point, I had to insert a step in a *nix script that generated > and emailed nightly reports. The recipients would get them as > attachments on Windows machines, and double click them to read them, >

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR

Hi, On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > It is even worse than you suggested for Turbo Pascal compiled programs for LF > only files. > The entire built-in text I/O system can't go anywhere near such files. If it > does, you end up > with an infinite

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Originally to: ALL Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. > > what I did: > > download FD12LGC.ISO > > create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk > use FD12LGC.ISO to boot

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 install

Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. > > what I did: > > download FD12LGC.ISO > > create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk > use FD12LGC.ISO to boot the machine. > boot

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 install

Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Jim Hall wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >>> >>> to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. >>> >>> what I did: >>> >>> download FD12LGC.ISO >>> >>> create a

Re: [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure.

Hi, On Jan 16, 2017 11:24 AM, "Eric Auer" wrote: > > > 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: >

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > But I have the same problem with it. Adding "keyb gr" to autoexec.bat does > not run it. It seems autoexec.bat isn't executed at all. Shouldn't it run > automatically once DOS is loaded? Normally (but not

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 archivers

Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Thank you for the advice. I tried FDIMPLES, seem to show everything > installed, but for some reason p7zip is missing from its list. I don't really recommend p7zip for heavy use. For one thing, there is no

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > VER does not report a DOS version, only a > FreeCOM-0.84 version. I think I'm running 1.1, but only the core. There is no > bin > directory. Try "ver /r" or check the file date of "kernel.sys" (but neither is

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

Woot, no rules (until this is fixed)! I'll start ;-) On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Interesting. I thought this was pulling from the www.freedos.org website, > not the old SourceForge website. > > I'll email John. The correct location should be >

Re: [Freedos-user] Urgent FreeDos Keyboard Layout Hardware Help

Hi, On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > have you checked whether there could be a problem with the > settings of your host operating system His details say kernel 2042, so maybe it's a regression?? Maybe he could try (older) 2041 instead?

Re: [Freedos-user] Urgent FreeDos Keyboard Layout Hardware Help

Hi, On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Unfortunately Turkish is not among the layouts built into the smaller MKEYB > driver > > PS: You may also want to use DISPLAY and MODE to load a > font optimized for codepage 857, as BIOS default is 437. > >> Example

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

ELTORITO.SYS, but check > > www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/boot/syslinux/ > > as that may have useful information...? Original site for > the driver was http://www.nu2.nu/eltorito/ which is gone. > > PS: Rugxulo, Jim, please make eltorito.sys easier to

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

y expectation was that > REM was a true comment and not some pseudo NOP command that ignores > its arguments, allowing the redirection to continue to be processed by > the %SHELL%. I'll fix this up tonight and also test against my MS > DOS VM. Thanks for the fix suggestion as well Rugxu

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

Hi, On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > Am 26.08.2016 um 08:28 schrieb Louis Santillan : > > Made my own dog food: > > > > Hi Louis, > Thanks for your work! It’s a nice idea to use a batch

Re: [Freedos-user] dma crosses 64k boundary error

Hi, On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >> >> 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. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

Hi, On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > What do you think of M2WAT? I use it quite often. It is Open Source, written > by cordata, a FreeDOS user, in a post to this list. I vaguely remember when he posted it, but I never had urgent need to use it. >

Re: [Freedos-user] intel PRO/1000 DOS packet driver

Hi, On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > I found that the intel DOS packet driver for the PRO/1000 network card isn’t > in the CRYNWR package. > > As it is Open Source since 2007 I felt free to package it into an FDNPKG > compatible zip-file. In the

Re: [Freedos-user] Turkish F Keyboard Support

Saluton, On Oct 1, 2016 5:18 PM, "Henrique Peron" wrote: > > KEYB TR,,KEYBRD2.SYS (for the QWERTY turkish keyboard layout) > KEYB TR,,KEYBRD2.SYS /ID:440 (for the FGĞIOD turkish keyboard layout) > > Regards, > Henrique I was wondering if/when you would chime in (as the

Re: [Freedos-user] USB drives under Freedos

Hi, On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Szőgyényi Gábor wrote: > Hi FreeDOS users! > > I would like to use pendrive and USB floppy drive under freedos. Heck, let me just save you the trouble and paraphrase the local cynic: "It won't work. Just use Linux." (He's 90% right, USB

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

Hi, On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Ulrich Hansen <my.gr...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Two minor nitpicks: > > 1). The .COM isn't even UPX'd. Bloat! ;-) > 2). The source is named "W2WAT

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation on a ThinkPad 340?

Hi, On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Mingcong Bai wrote: > > I happen to have a ThinkPad 340 kicking around: > > - Intel 486SLC2 25/50MHz > - 12MB RAM > - 3.5 inch 1.44MB Floppy Drive > > But FreeDOS seemed to have CD installation only... Is it possible to > install

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation on a ThinkPad 340?

Hi, On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Mingcong Bai wrote: > > Oh also... If I have a Panasonic PCMCIA CD-ROM Drive, would I be able to > use it with FreeDOS (then I suppose that I could burn the ISO image and > boot it from the boot floppy...? If the driver works...). I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] USB floppy cannot read medium on modern PC and Linux.

Hi, On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 1/2/2017 12:18 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> >>> In particular, here's "Installing Windows 2000 on an SD Card" >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/user/Druaga1/ >> >> I have Win10 and Ubuntu installed on an SSD on my desktop,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 Network with fix ip

Hi, On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > the howtos from pre 1.2 do not seem to work for 1.2. How and what configs > need to be > changed to get a fixed ip adress in freedos 1.2? You mean in mTCP? Read the docs. (Sorry if that's not helpful

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

Hi, On Dec 30, 2016 10:46 AM, wrote: > > I cannot easily create a 3.5 inch boot floppy to use it in > the 486-PC. Is the drive itself broken or you don't have a working floppy disk or ...? --

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: USB floppy cannot read medium on modern PC and Linux.

Hi, On Jan 1, 2017 3:16 PM, wrote: > > I don't really expect help here. It is just a message to get the > understand for why I cannot load FreeDOS onto a floppy at > this time. This may not be quite what you meant, but ... AFAIK, many modern OSes can't use USB floppies

Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEMX.EXE - Invalid Opcode

Hi, On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 4:43 PM, wrote: > > I tried to boot FreeDOS 1.2 on my 2005 PC, specs: > > It is the FD12CD.ISO image, booted from CD-R. I chose "Install" and used > F8 to diagnose the problem. > > DEVICE=\FDSetup\BIN\HIMEMX.EXE stalls the system. It

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 and kolibri os dualboot

Hi, On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > I am new to freedos and got to this mailing list through this youtube video: > > Where I wrote the follwing question: > > Nice video. I got that far, but I was really looking into whether one could > use

Re: [Freedos-user] Fw: Kolibri OS boot from Freedos 1.2 with syslinux

Hi, Although this may not be what you meant, just to state the obvious (so as not to leave you hanging) On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > All I need to know now is why freedos is no longer booting when I use the > c:\fdos\bin\syslinux -d

[Freedos-user] QEMU Advent Calendar 2016

Hi, Although I haven't had time to test it yet, and it's (presumably) based upon older FreeDOS 1.1, there are two DOS-related images from this year's QEMU Advent Calendar: * http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/#day-3(FreeGEM) * http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/#day-10 (Epic

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation on a ThinkPad 340?

Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Mingcong Bai <jeffbaich...@gmail.com> wrote: > 在 2016年12月17日 21:21, Rugxulo 写道: >> >> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Mingcong Bai <jeffbaich...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> But FreeDOS seemed to have CD insta

Re: [Freedos-user] Fw: Freedos 1.2 Network with fix ip

Hi, On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 6:11 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2017 um 20:08 Uhr > > Von: "Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele" > An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Betreff: Freedos 1.2 Network with fix ip > > the howtos

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

Hi, On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote: > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

Hi, Eric, This reply may be pointless, but I'm sure you understand where I'm coming from. In no way am I pretending that MS-DOS is technically superior or preferred. The weakest claim is only that it is "probably" more compatible (which is unavoidable since it's the original). It is dead and

Re: [Freedos-user] Without DVD-ROM, USB working... install it from the HD?

Hi, On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Aleksei Ivan wrote: > > My USB ports are NOT working too. I have only to work with a installation > partition on this netbook. > > I'm sorry for the confusion. But what other OS (if any) are you running on that machine? What file

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > I disagree about FreeDOS being "not ready yet" or "no advantage to MS DOS". 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

Hi, On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Some Windows users like using utilities like Rufus ( https://rufus.akeo.ie ) > to create their bootable USB media. But, as a non-Windows user, I don’t know > much about it. As a lowly end user, I haven't deployed

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and Turbo C 2.01

Hi, On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > Is anybody else running the Turbo C 2.01 IDE under FreeDOS? I appreciate any > help towards this end. I don't normally use IDEs. The very few times I do, I use TC++101 instead (which has less bugs and is

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

Hi again, On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> >> On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just use the ‘dd’ command. > > I'm sure there is a

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi again, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:56:17 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> It would be interesting to see some benchmark numbers for that (for >> various specific tools, 8086, 386, etc). > &

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS ideas with fast simple algorithms - was: BSUM BSD checksum

Hi, Eric, always good to hear from you, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> 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%) > >

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:06 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > That's nice of you to provide the explanation. I didn't read it > completely (too lazy), nor understand it fully (too stupid), but the > other clueless guy might find it interesting that he was only half

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:24:56 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > >> What disassembler are you using here? I erroneously thought it was NDISASM. > > I don't use ndisasm for a very trivial reason -

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, I haven't tried this (yet), but nice work! On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > I needed to verify the integrity of a few files after transferring them > to/from my 8086 PC the other day. The obvious method for such task is > computing a checksum

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS versions of BACKUP & RESTORE program

Hi, On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Jörg Jenderek wrote: > > i am looking for FreeDOS versions BACKUP & RESTORE program, but i do not > found these programs. Not sure, and honestly I've not used such utils at all (or at least not in many years and don't remember). I

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting HP & Lenovo

Hi, On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote: > > I've been trying to get FreeDOS to boot an HP desktop & a Lenovo laptop. > The HP starts to boot the CD-ROM and the last message on the screen is > Init disk and some periods. How can I figure out what is wrong.

Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

Hi, On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Rinaldo Guelpa wrote: > > I am looking for a simple reminder program in dos, can you please help. You mean like this? " TaskTimer: A programmer's/hacker's/hobbyist's time management "egg timer" TaskTimer is a program that helps

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:26 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:30:35 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> Unless I'm mistaken, conditional jumps on 8086 don't go beyond -128 .. >> 127 (signed) byte range. Hence the billions of

[Freedos-user] Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup [LGR] - YouTube

Before I totally forget ... there was this awesome video on YouTube by LazyGameReviews (about two weeks ago): "Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup [LGR]" https://youtu.be/nLy_jEbuY-U IBM PC AT 5170 (circa 1988), 286 (8 Mhz) w/ 512 kb RAM, EGA, 30 MB HDD, 1.2 MB floppy drive, PC-DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:07:30 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > >> irrelevant "jz short ..." (when "short" conditional jump is always >> mandatory for "cpu 8086"). >

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

Hi, On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > >> I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not to use it. >> I installed software that I bought to see what it

Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

Hi, On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Bret Johnson wrote: > > What you're wanting is pretty simple, so a full-blown calendar program is > definitely overkill. > I think I've seen references to programs like what you want to do before, but > I don't use any > of them myself

Re: [Freedos-user] Annual inform

Hi, On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Rafael Angel Campos Vargas wrote: > > This year package FreeRay2016 includes eighteen new 3D objects LGPL with > HTML documentation (seventeen are compatible FreeDOS in POVRay 3.1.). > > Would you like to incorporate this package in

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

Hi again, Just to add more to this so I don't (completely) forget everything On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just use the ‘dd’ command. > > For example, your usb flash drive is known to the system as

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

Hi, On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > It's more possible than ever [0] to compile the kernel with GCC. > Skeeto/Chris Wells posted [1][2] an example of compiling 16-bit code > with djgpp/GCC, including a linker script for linking 386+ real mode >

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrade my PC from FD 1.1 to FD 1.2 RE: to Rugxulo AUG 12, 2017

Hi, On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> On Aug 12, 2017, at 7:32 PM, Pierre LaMontagne wrote: >> >> Isn't USB 1.1 & 2.0 supposed to be compatible? My 2.0 flash drive wasn't >> recognized on >> my FD 1.1 USB PC. Is there a util

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrade my PC from FD 1.1 to FD 1.2

Hi, On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Just replacing the COMMAND and SYS files won’t really give you 1.2. It would > just be 1.1 an upgraded kernel. Take a look at the software comparison chart > on the official FreeDOS software repository. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 7 RC3 is now ready - and this should be it

Hi, On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Shane Coughlan wrote: > > The final(?) Release Candidate of OpenGEM 7 is ready and available for > testing. > > By the way, this RC saw some big changes. > OpenGEM Release 7 RC 3 - 9th July 2017 > - Changed SHUTDOWN 1.2

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

Hi, On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote: > >> We can't rest on our laurels. We need to be open to obvious >> improvements. > > This is a high-minded, wise way of talking I hadn't heard in a while. One > point to you, deserved There's always more to do.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

Hi, On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote: > Thank you for your answer Ruxgulo but I think I've been misunderstood in some > parts, where I admit I may not have made myself clear > >> Just get a cheap Chromebook, if you need all these modern niceties. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Using USB Mass Storage on FreeDOS

Hi, On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: > > I tried using my USB mass storage on Virtualbox 5.0.36. You mean "pass-through" or whatever, using native hardware under VM? Doubt VBox supports that for DOS guests (since they don't have any guest additions

Re: [Freedos-user] Without DVD-ROM, USB working... install it from the HD?

Hi, Coming back to this, this might not be exactly the solution to this one specific problem, but I still feel like I should mention it somewhere! On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Aleksei Ivan

Re: [Freedos-user] First time Freedos 1.2 user - Stack Oveflow / Divide By Zero during boot

Hi, On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Tony Cappellini wrote: > >> This gives access to most of the 4GB of RAM > >>>Really, so much? How's that possible? > > Depending on which motherboard we use, we get between 2.x-3.x GB, but never > the full 4GB. I see the same, but how

Re: [Freedos-user] First time Freedos 1.2 user - Stack Oveflow / Divide By Zero during boot

Hi, On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: > > Another data point... > > Before trying FreeDOS, I currently boot MS-DOS from a USB stick, Which version of MS-DOS? > with the following config.sys. > > DOS=HIGH,UMB > device=himem.sys > device=umbpci.sys > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Install FD on a USB pendrive

Hi, On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Bonaventura de'Vidovich wrote: > > I'd like to install FD on a USB pendrive. > I have tried to use the «USB "Full" installer» image but only a little bit o > free space is avaible. How much total capacity does your jump drive have?

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

Hi, On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > (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)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS as a everyday/common-use system; Pros of making FreeDOS and Windows3 more compatible

Hi, Just to add (more) $0.02 On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote: > Hello there FreeDOS community, > I've been a FreeDOS user for 3 years so far, and I'd like to thank the > developers > for their effort and their amazing job. They've

Re: [Freedos-user] (sort of) new user with boot issues

Hi, On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Curtis R Anderson via Freedos-user wrote: > > So, I have a need to run a DOS based utility to flash a SCSI card BIOS. > > I can't boot from a USB-based mass storage device with this desktop's BIOS. > No option is provided

Re: [Freedos-user] (sort of) new user with boot issues

Hi again, On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Not sure exactly, not something I'm intimately familiar with. So I can > only provide hints (guesses). Found some more (hopefully useful) links: * https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flashing_

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: Qemu questions

Hi, On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Santiago Almenara wrote: > > I have re-discovered Qemu after using Virtualbox for FreeDOS for a couple of > years. Since qemu is mostly for command-line use (I don't use any laucher > yet) > > I'd like to ask what are the options you

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: Qemu questions

Hi, On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > > On 6/22/2017 12:39 PM, Santiago Almenara wrote: > > Thanki you Ruxgulo, > >> "-m 64" is fairly low. I usually leave it default (unless needing >> more), which is "-m 128". But even that is fairly low. Hey, you're >>

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, I haven't tried this (yet), but nice work! On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > > I needed to verify the integrity of a few files after transferring them > to/from my 8086 PC the other da

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS versions of BACKUP & RESTORE program

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 2:51 PM, J||rg Jenderek <joerg.jen.der...@gmx.net> wrote: > > i am looking for FreeDOS versions BACKUP & RESTORE program, but i do not > found these programs. Not sure, and honestly I've not used such

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of yo

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > >> I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not to u

Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: > > What you're wanting is pretty simple, so a full-blown calendar program is definitely overkill. > I think I've seen references to programs like what you wan

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: What gives?

Hi, On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 1:19 AM, Wesley Parish wrote: > > I just opened my inbox and found a pile of list emails from 2016-09-11 right > up > to 2017-04-8. > > Has it happened to anybody else? > > Thanks > > Wesley Parish Yes, it happened to me, too. (BTW, nice

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton <dwf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 program

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi again, On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> >> On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just us

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and Turbo C 2.01

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Abe Mishler <a...@mishlerlabs.com> wrote: > > Is anybody else running the Turbo C 2.01 IDE under FreeDOS? I appreciate any > help towards this end. I don't normally use IDEs. The very few times I do,

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > I disagree about FreeDOS being "not ready yet" or "no advantage to MS DOS". If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-D

Re: [Freedos-user] Annual inform

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Rafael Angel Campos Vargas <rofoelcom...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > This year package FreeRay2016 includes eighteen new 3D objects LGPL with > HTML documentation (seventeen are compatible FreeDOS in POVRay

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi again, Just to add more to this so I don't (completely) forget everything On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just use the rCyddrCO command. >

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi again, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:56:17 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> It would be interesting to see some benchmark numbers for that (for >> vario

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:07:30 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > >> irrelevant "jz short ..." (when "short" conditional jump is always >&g

[Freedos-user] Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup[LGR] -

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Before I totally forget ... there was this awesome video on YouTube by LazyGameReviews (about two weeks ago): "Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup [LGR]" https://youtu.be/nLy_jEbuY-U IBM PC AT 5170 (circa 1988), 286 (8 Mhz) w/

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Woot, no rules (until this is fixed)! I'll start ;-) On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > Interesting. I thought this was pulling from the www.freedos.org website, > not the old SourceForge website

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > Some Windows users like using utilities like Rufus ( https://rufus.akeo.ie ) > to create their bootable USB media. But, as a non-Windows user, I do

Re: [Freedos-user] Using USB Mass Storage on FreeDOS

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Ercan Ersoy <ercaner...@outlook.com> wrote: > > I tried using my USB mass storage on Virtualbox 5.0.36. You mean "pass-through" or whatever, using native hardware under VM? Doubt VBox support

Re: [Freedos-user] Without DVD-ROM, USB working... install it from the

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, Coming back to this, this might not be exactly the solution to this one specific problem, but I still feel like I should mention it somewhere! On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > On Mar 25

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