[Freedos-user] test

2009-05-17 Thread dos386
as Eric suggested :-D -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing

Re: [Freedos-user] Basic sound access in DOS.

2009-05-17 Thread dos386
In general, sound cards are handled directly under most DOS YES, but it's the bad way of doing :-( You may want to look at the source code for several games to see how it is done. Bad idea, only ISA cards (=15 years old). Look into MPXPLAY source instead. Another solution is to look at

Re: [Freedos-user] Basic sound access in DOS.

2009-05-21 Thread dos386
Key words are: closed source. Bad idea. There is not much choice around ... The problem is that apps working with SB cards usually do this by accessing hardware ports directly (in/out instructions). You can't hook This is a non-issue affecting legacy crap only ;-) and having a .sys driver

Re: [Freedos-user] dmidecode

2009-06-04 Thread dos386
Check BTTR forum ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-06 Thread dos386
had to run the install CD twice to get FreeDOS installed on the hard drive. Known problem, the 1.0 distro is obsolete and buggy ... My experience was that about half of the ones i tried on FreeDOS worked. Make sure to update the kernel, HIMEM to HIMEMX, EMM386 to nothing or JEMM, CTMOUSE, ...

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting sound to work in FreeDOS on Modern systems.

2009-06-12 Thread dos386
Anyone have any idea which PCI sound cards will work with with FreeDOS on modern systems? Intel ICH, ES1371/1373 AKA SB128PCI/SB16PCI, EMUxxx (SB512/LiveAudigy), ... (MPXPLAY) Last I've read somewhere the modern motherboards have changed drastically that it will no longer allow SoundBlaster

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-12 Thread dos386
Notable things: edit buggy (some PC's) perl NOMYSO ??? Georg Potthast is also doing experiments with a player for new hardware. His driver now can play from memory so it became a real driver :-) * BOCHS emulator (host OS = emulated OS = DOS) Or any other emulator, of course QEMU or

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kernel 2038 now available on sourceforge

2009-06-12 Thread dos386
COOL :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Question

2009-06-12 Thread dos386
I'm aware that USBASPI.sys and DI1000DD.sys work to provide USB DI1000DD.SYS is crap ... I personally prefer (Adaptec?) ASPIDISK instead of DI1000DD Where to get it ? but actually an even easier way is to let the BIOS do the lowlevel stuff. Then your stick looks like a normal int13 disk

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-12 Thread dos386
Jack wrote: Regrettably, add on cards are also NOT not a part of the main- board BIOS, and so their I-O addresses are unknown to PCI BIOS or EDD BIOS calls. Thus, UIDE's initialization displays will show no data for your add on disks as it cannot see them via the standard BIOS calls it

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-14 Thread dos386
Hi Thanks Such disks would have to be installed into DOS. The BIOS never did handle CD/DVD units directly, thus SHCDX33D always installs its units into DOS. However, the BIOS does handle hard-disks, and DOS discovers how many hard-disks the BIOS found during system boot. So, UIDE does

Re: [Freedos-user] Long Names inf Freedos

2009-06-14 Thread dos386
is doslnf only for iso? NO. I have unpacked package with tar and wanted to start configure but names are cuted. cuted - truncated ??? Maybe your TAR doesn't support the NTLFN API. Try 7-ZIP archiver. But I can't really recommend the DOSLNF thing except badly needed for some funny reason ...

Re: [Freedos-user] The GPL license.

2009-06-14 Thread dos386
This is a general question, not(?) completely off topic. I have never quite understood the GPL type license in the following sense: I write my own c++ software; I compile it using an open source deal like djgpp; if I then distribute the compiled exe, am I legally obliged to also

Re: [Freedos-user] New kernel install floppy won't boot

2009-06-14 Thread dos386
Incorrect DOS version Does FreeDOS have such a message at all ? BTW, defaulting to FREECOM.COM would prevent such (FREQUENT !!!) trouble :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-14 Thread dos386
Warcraft II BNE version 2.01A runs in Windows 9x and Windows XP. It was designed for 9x Try HX :-) ReactOS is not useful at this point and even if 12 years done, 12 years ahead ;-) it were it is not a DOS compatible replacement for Windows. There is a lot of DOS based Windows software

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-14 Thread dos386
Hi! buggy (some PC's) Who what where? RTFB ... mouse cursor invisible on some PC's But there is a tool which has the name DISPLAY and There are simply too many DISPLAY's ... I mean the one from 1998 by ??? done with DGJPP closed source freeware Mplayer can also play pure audio files. On

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Question

2009-06-15 Thread dos386
It must be supported by your BIOS. From cca 6 PC's I could test within last 2 years 1 tries but fails and the remaining 5 don't even try. So ... -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial

Re: [Freedos-user] PNG viewer

2009-06-15 Thread dos386
uses much memory and is very slow (45s just to load on my computer). DPMI host ??? Some faulty EMM386 ??? For me it isn't slow at all :-) ... I didn't test the memory requirements :-| -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Crystal

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-15 Thread dos386
would be useful as fallback to have at least SOME access to your non-BIOS disks Why not the fastest SATA AHCI DMA ? Apparently the problem is not inside UIDE ;-) Adding block-device support would take a LOT more code and isn't really necessary. There are two other schemes that can be used

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-15 Thread dos386
This is off-topic and irrelevant anyway ... -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-15 Thread dos386
If your motorbike fails, the fallback is not a plane. It is a bicycle. Or just your feet ... In other words, if for example a CF card only supports PIO, neither UDMA nor AHCI DMA will help you OK ... do the SATA PCI addon cards suport PIO also ? I see no arguments against supporting PIO

Re: [Freedos-user] which open source libraries work?

2009-06-16 Thread dos386
Just wondering what Open Source libraries in the graphics/multimedia/audio GFX: DUGL ( :-) DGJPP), ALLEGRO (buggy, dead, DGJPP), FB-GFX (limited, some bugs left) AUDIO: nothing, Allegro (dead, ISA sound cards only), DUGL (sound support not yet (?) implemented) MM: APEG (Allegro addon, YES, the

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Question

2009-06-16 Thread dos386
... you did something wrong. NO. I didn't buy any of them at given short time (2003 to 2008 ?) caring about BIOS USB storage support From hundreds of PCs only a few failed here. WOW !!! You have / had and tested that many ? BIOS USB storage support is nice for those having it accidentally

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-16 Thread dos386
No it is not and it is rude Try ReactOS forum. How long you will survive there before getting banned, if you are not yet. development has been to at least support the versions of Windows that ran on top of dos. This violates the GPL. The natural next step is to replace those versions of

Re: [Freedos-user] HX EXTENDER and djgpp.

2009-06-17 Thread dos386
Before I even try messing with hx extender ??? does anyone know if it will work out-of-the-box with djgpp HX has a DGJPP hack, untested by me (ask FloX) which I am used to, and I don't trust having two compilers of the same language present simultaneously. HX is NOT a compiler. Also,

Re: [Freedos-user] make,make install in dos?

2009-06-17 Thread dos386
Ok, I give up; I knew that linux has 'make' and 'make install' all over the place, but, until this afternoon, I never knew that dos has it. NO. While attempting to install some parts of HX and GEM to djgpp, I was struck by this: use 'make' to configure the includes(headers) and libraries,

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Question

2009-06-18 Thread dos386
I haven't tested, but actually *used* these. Several 100's PC's in 20 years ? Hope at least one was from 1990 and also worked :-) How do you know? From your probably buggy 6 PCs? So I should throw them all away and buy 1 or 6 new ones ? With EFI instead of BIOS, so very helpful for DOS USB

Re: [Freedos-user] Thank you to kernel developers for new kernel 2038

2009-06-18 Thread dos386
I like this. Why not release it now? Release what ??? Kernel has been released at SF , about 1.1 distro ... IMHO good idea to release :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Question

2009-06-18 Thread dos386
From what time are your 6 PCs? distributed over last 15 years Any 2004+ mainstream PC I've seen contains a BIOS version which I know supports booting from USB 2 attempted but didn't work ... no 2004+ mainstream PC I've seen (except x86 Macs) contains EFI. yet ... Some of the BIOSes

Re: [Freedos-user] Please remove Arachne from Freedos 1.1...

2009-06-20 Thread dos386
Please remove Arachne from Freedos 1.1 Please leave this list. It isn't Firefox Right. and so there isn't a filtering plugin for it that will block certain web sites. No need. It is very low resolution by today's standards NO. and php web pages aren't likely to work correctly with

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Question

2009-06-20 Thread dos386
No. I'm working as an IT technician. So this only from the last couple of years. OK, testing PC's daily, also USB support in INT $13 2) No, but get *different* ones. The 6 are different. BTW, I didn't write I would OWN them all. Stupid example: You've never seen a single car accident live,

Re: [Freedos-user] Please remove Arachne from Freedos 1.1...

2009-06-20 Thread dos386
BTW, DOSLynx (closed source) also sould be included, it supports HTTPS unlike Arachne. -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you need from Windows world...

2009-06-20 Thread dos386
I haven't gotten the positive response I had hoped for trying yeah :-( to drum up some interest in a Windows 9x replacement. NO thanks. :-( Some have talked about possibly enhacing HX extender Very good idea. and cloning Windows 3.x first, which makes a lot of sense. NO. Maybe it

Re: [Freedos-user] A new FreeDOS community

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
I wish you more luck than the previous guy had with the same idea (Italian FreeDOS community) some time ago :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: Howto debug DOS programs

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
bcp...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to write an Intel HDA driver for SCI games (Sierra quests). Great idea :-) Do they use some separate (ISA SB 16) driver file ??? Real mode or DPMI ? I consider myself a good programmer, but I've never made any low-level programming or debug DOS programs. You

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: Howto debug DOS programs

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
Of course it might be a good idea or necessary to disassemble the or some existing Sierra ISA driver (also PC speaker ? Covox ?) to see how it communicates with the main game file, when you one day have something able to talk to your HDA chip. -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
Aitor wrote: If you refer to the cursor blinking bug that was supposed to appear on 0.9a, so far I only know of a single PC of a single user 2 PC's from 6 ... one user (talking for me for now) bug appears (apparently the user had some problem with his BIOS) But nobody had so far an idea

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Update on dos extenders viz djgpp.

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
Update on dos extenders viz djgpp Have just tried WDOSX, which is now royalty free Nice, standalone EXE's, not bloated, no swapping, but it runs your code in Ring0 with paging OFF so it will catch less of your BUG's than HDPMI or CWSDPMI would do ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Atom Processor

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
No known complaints so far ... but DOS won't be able to use more than 1 core and 32 bits ;-) Check also the graph card (should have intact VESA), sound (old ICH better than HDA), USB (should have UHCI), Floppy (should be present at all), Speaker (should be present at all), PS/2 (should be present

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Full Screen Sized Screen-Dumps]

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
How do I get a full sized screen dump from inside an application program? FYI, you can get a full sized screen dump from inside an application program using DOS also :-) I am using Ubuntu 8.04, and dosemu 1.4.0.0 I don't, sorry ... -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] Malware5.

2009-10-21 Thread dos386
both the rar and the tarball contain executables? Regrettably even BMP's count as executables for Gmail :-D Gmail blocks executables, some archives with contained executables and some archives generally. For me a ZIP missnamed as ARC used to work in the past. If not, just brew a ZIP or 7-ZIP

Re: [Freedos-user] PasswordBox for DOS - keep your passwords secure!

2009-10-29 Thread dos386
Just wanted to make a little announcement here PasswordBox is a neat console (TUI) tool which can hold all passwords/logins and COOL :-) Done in FreeBASIC. CAUTION: This program features 128 bits AES encryption, which might be illegal in your country. OK, let's get hanged for it :-D

Re: [Freedos-user] PasswordBox for DOS - keep your passwords secure!

2009-11-05 Thread dos386
Igor picked Rijndael256 5 years ago, but no big problem. -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment -

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and weird hardware...

2009-11-06 Thread dos386
Bear with me Wolf with me :-) Sound cards for example are activated often times by games. I have the PCI version of the soundblaster 16 and it works under freedos, but not without a strange TSR. MPXPLAY now works without this strange TSR (ES1371 and ES1373 chips only, test if you are

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSLFN and File Wizard

2009-11-15 Thread dos386
file corruption problems with DOSLFN which I had experienced I had got same problem (crosslinked files), also A.P. (author of MPXPLAY) discourages writing with DOSLFN. Advice is: try to use doslfnms instead of doslfn. What is it ???

Re: [Freedos-user] Calling soundblaster driver from C

2009-11-22 Thread dos386
Many PCs with a sound card seem to automatically route the internal speaker to the sound card, but this one doesn't. Hardware issue, not driver issue. first attempt at solving the problem is to try the soundblaster driver that comes with FreeDOS 1.0 ??? file details ??? However, I have

Re: [Freedos-user] dualboot systems

2009-12-06 Thread dos386
But I'm fairly sure FreeDOS doesn't support this option. Very wrong :-D You can add FreeDOS into BOOT.INI of Windaube XP (no idea about Vi$ta / 7 / 8) ans you can use METAKERN to boot some other DOS or even Windaube ME (no test with XP). -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] xcopy,c++,system().

2009-12-06 Thread dos386
noticed this in the XP ntvdm dogbox, though have not yet tried it in a real dos(freedos) Great :-D Seems to be a problem of XP (not of FreeDOS) ... ... nevertheless, you should implement tasks natively inside you app rather than calling BAT'teries, because they indeed tend to cause trouble

Re: [Freedos-user] Information on FreeDOS

2009-12-18 Thread dos386
http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=2901916 http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-kernel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg02431.html -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer

Re: [Freedos-user] Odd behaviour involving mouse

2009-12-22 Thread dos386
Since I started using FreeDOS in 2007 I noticed that it was taking longer for DESI-III to refresh the screen -- an important point for CAD software, because we must zoom in and out all the time. Nice that someone uses DESI-III with FreeDOS :-) Then last night I decided to run Desi-III under

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2009-12-27 Thread dos386
and AUTOEXEC.BAT now contains: lh C:\FDOS\BIN\KEYB.EXE br,850 IIRC I already had suggested to empty it (except CTMOUSE) ;-) everything from FreeDOS also works under the MS kernel, and Desi-III is equally fast. IIRC I had already suggested EDR-DOS or (DR-DOS) kernel. Also the FAT=16 FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Odd behaviour involving mouse

2009-12-27 Thread dos386
My mouse is not USB. It is a real old one, with a flat plug with two rows of holes. Serial mouse ;-) Again, try to save more low memory under FreeDOS. -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-27 Thread dos386
made an install of freedos 1.0 from bootable cd following screen instruction without any problem. Nevertheless, you should update a few things: HIMEM, EMM386, CTMOUSE, ... Also, throw away XDMA.SYS, it shouldn't be needed and might actually cause problems. NO. XDMA 3.1 is good (3.3 is

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-29 Thread dos386
Does it run in IDE compatibility mode or in AHCI? I don't know. But this IS IMPORTANT to know. None of existing DOS drivers supports AHCI. But How to get this information ? ! ! ! ! RTFM ??? Some hardware detection tool ??? After booting from FREEDOS BOOTABLE CDROM I can access the

Re: [Freedos-user] ot: turning up the pc speaker?

2010-01-12 Thread dos386
[Freedos-user] ot: turning up the pc speaker? Does anyone remember the dos command to accomplish this ? NO. There is none. I use English, Canadian money ??? and wish to turn up the internal speaker volume. For both more or less or ZERO volume, there are only hardware solutions.

Re: [Freedos-user] bzip2 for FreeDOS.

2010-01-26 Thread dos386
slowo.tar.bz2 file on RAM disk. How ? slowo.tar.bz2 is not a valid filename under FreeDOS. ;-) Do you use DOS ? A filename issue would produce No such file or directory (ENOENT). Usually, but not necessarily ... The same problem with `slowo.bz2' file name. Then the archive is corrupt :-(

Re: [Freedos-user] book

2010-01-26 Thread dos386
First steps towards system programming under MS-DOS7. http://www.multiboot.ru/FrstStps.pdf Do you have a well working solution to view PDF's under FreeDOS ? OOps, I don't have MS-DOG7 at all ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ --

Re: [Freedos-user] bzip2 for FreeDOS.

2010-01-27 Thread dos386
have use FreeDOS with doslfn Try without DOSLFN 1) Replace 'fake' cwsdpmi.exe with the one from There is nothing evil about the fake cwsdpmi.exe ;-) Also, you should post / have posted your BZIP2 and FreeDOS version just at start, and from what piracy page you downloaded them. IIRC it used

Re: [Freedos-user] how to create a large freedos image

2010-02-08 Thread dos386
Can we run fdisk on a file? I don't know ... possibly not directly ... Don't we need a block device? Maybe rather a physical disk ? The fdisk should be from freedos, right? YES. But it's pointless: FDISK will run inside BOCHS and think to access a physical disk, and BOCHS will redirect it

Re: [Freedos-user] Draw or paint? for freedos...

2010-02-08 Thread dos386
freedos webb site, once and found(in the downloads)or software a drawing,paint program, for dos BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=5824 -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 delayed???

2010-02-15 Thread dos386
What are the goals at this point for Freedos 1.1? Fix BUG's ... I would like to see an effort to move from a free dos system to a free Windows 9x/Windows Millenium replacement. Please don't disturb the death silence. R.I.P. Windaube ;-) Another area that Freedos is weak in is word

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS based browser

2010-02-17 Thread dos386
Why not lynx itself ? There is a port to DOS of version 2.8.5 at http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/ and there used to be a port of version 2.8.4d14, which I find nicer (use it daily), at http://www.rene4u.com Dead :-( I can send you the executable (NOT the sources, for I do not have them) of

Re: [Freedos-user] GUIs for dos.

2010-02-22 Thread dos386
If anyone is interested, I have written a toy GUI for dos(freedos, msdos,'boxdos'); I call it hobo, half a GUI; Download ? Shot ? imagine a line right to left. On the left end is dos. On the right end is windows/kde/gnome. The right end has bloat, the left end does not Good :-) core of

Re: [Freedos-user] Who needs WIndows?

2010-02-24 Thread dos386
Who needs WIndaube? I don't :-D I have been interested in ReactOS, but as of today I gt my forum posting priviledges revoked http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2t=8005start=45 nute ??? We've had to deal with plenty of bugs in GCC over the years that we wouldn't have had to deal

Re: [Freedos-user] Who needs WIndows?

2010-02-24 Thread dos386
Well, I don't see anyone in the Freedos community insisting that closed source compilers be used I prefer Open Source FASM. Did you mean MSVC? I don't trust Microsoft and YES. Agree. -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Download

Re: [Freedos-user] GUI's for dos II

2010-02-24 Thread dos386
put it on my little freebie site: www.dosoid.bravehost.com. Unfortunately, the free version does not allow upload of any folders, let alone zips; for this reason, the one and only folder required, hdr, must be created by the user. WtF ??? free version of your crippleware or the webhost ???

Re: [Freedos-user] Print server

2010-03-18 Thread dos386
Is it possible to get DOS to use a print server such as this? If you have a packet driver, YES, theoretically, since one can connect to HTTP servers ;-) Windows for Workgroup, Windows 95/98/NT/Me/2000, NetWare ww.viralbox.og So we could be having fun with DOS for decades to come NOT amused

Re: [Freedos-user] USB support, USB portable HD?,music

2010-05-07 Thread dos386
installing FreeDos, into a new portable HD, usb I just bought, it is sangsun,320GB cca 250 MiB ??? I also just wanted to comment, on the music, and long file names Not supported in FreeDOS (at least not by the kernel). directory in Fdos, none of the names could be read,it was real

Re: [Freedos-user] 'The Incredible Machine' on a Thinkpad 600E under FreeDOS

2010-05-07 Thread dos386
What could be a reason? - Limited VGA/Modex/VESA compatibility of the laptop's graph chip+BIOS (try change mode???) - Memory issues XMS/EMS/DPMI (used???) No FreeDOS BUG at all. Has anybody seen such a thing? No, but other graphical BUG's ... -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems with installation via boot floppy

2010-05-08 Thread dos386
1. Distro 1.0 is obsolete, many things got fixed since. 2. Just install manually: copy KERNEL.SYS FREECOM.COM SYS.COM and apply SYS 3. Install what you need but make sure to get possible later and better versions than from 1.0 distro. -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] Defragmenting

2010-05-09 Thread dos386
If you have enough free space, XCOPY (or file manager) all files from one partition to the other one, re-create empty filesystem, and copy back. About DEFRAG, it was buggy for me too but I did't retest too recently. -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] Formatting 6 MB hard disk in FAT16

2010-05-13 Thread dos386
/U is unconditional, it will test all and take a lng time I haven't tried /U on HD yet (works for floppy). /S is to copy the system (freedos) Or copy files manually after brewing the FS and finally fire SYS.COM to activate the kernel. -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout comments

2010-05-22 Thread dos386
Compaq MS-DOS 3.31, large FAT32 partitions with up to 32 sectors per cluster for partitions up to 2GB You meant probably: Compaq MS-DOG 3.31, large FAT16 partitions with up to 64 sectors per cluster (32 KiB) for partitions up to almost 2 GiB -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] X-comments to: Formatting 6 GB hard disk in FAT16

2010-05-24 Thread dos386
Perhaps you tried a partition too large, for the FAT16 exact maximum (from Microsoft documentation) is 65524 clusters, which means a little under 2 GB with 32 KB size clusters. I suggest you try four partitions. Some OS'es (EDR-DOS, Windaube NT) reportedly support FAT16 with cluster size of

Re: [Freedos-user] Emulate floppy drive for laptop without floppy

2010-06-27 Thread dos386
DOG-EMU :-( Emulate floppy drive for laptop without floppy http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=7901 -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the

Re: [Freedos-user] Permission? and metakern

2010-06-28 Thread dos386
P.S, also am wondering more about metakern,and how to use it the hard way, see above Dose metakern.sys go in the config.sys file or where? NO. or is only to be done from conmmand line? You have to append the B.S. images (512 Byte's per piece) some way. It can boot FreeDOS, EDR-DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos-User,FreeDos.bootablebootstick,grub

2010-06-30 Thread dos386
HirensBoot Cd, has a real nice CD, that can be used to help, but it is not useing FreeDos, but you can build a CD, includeing FreeDos,... Better keep away from Hiren, IIRC I've seen much piracy there at some time :-( Freedos option fails, WinME option works Excellent :-( -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] Desperately need help with insalling VMware 7 help would be GREAT

2010-07-13 Thread dos386
[Freedos-user] Desperately need help with insalling VMware 7 help would be GREAT I have looked everywhere on, Google, YouTube I'm not aware of technologies to access Loo-Tube from FreeDOS. Please share your achievements. :-) Help would be greatly appreciated and I would like to help in

Re: [Freedos-user] doing graphics

2010-08-24 Thread dos386
Please can someone tell me how I might go about building a freedos executable to do some simple graphics DOS GUI development is much appreciated :-) 1. VGA mode 320x200x8bpp (safest and easiest) 2. VGA mode 640x480x4bpp (safest but more painful) 3. Other VGA/ModeX (less safe) 4. Banked VESA

Re: [Freedos-user] doing graphics

2010-08-24 Thread dos386
I have the watcom compiler already installed on my debia Make sure to test you DOS app in DOS :-) I am also very familiar with C and C++ plus numerous other languages. Learn how to fire real mode INT's and access physical (ISA and PCI) memory and hardware ports. I would like to know what is

Re: [Freedos-user] Incompatible file system checking results

2010-08-27 Thread dos386
1. Why does FreeDOS FDISK give an error message indicating that partitioning failed? I don't know, but because of crappy volume management in legacy DOS kernels you MUST REBOOT after exiting FDISK, otherwise random errors are a MUST :-( \INSTRUC\SOFTWARE is a directory without '..' How did

Re: [Freedos-user] Little Sister

2010-09-06 Thread dos386
Sorry folks, no exciting pictures of my little sister here ;-) to me it's still unclear what it is supposed to do and whether it works in (Free-)DOS at all, considering the shots you posted ;-( -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- This

Re: [Freedos-user] [lazy] FreeDOS @ http://www.sf-day.org/: logos? distributions?

2010-09-08 Thread dos386
Are there any tiny free software games for FreeDOS? Star Tetris by Narech Koumar http://st2.narechk.net/index_en.html (it advertizes DOG-BOX rather than FreeDOS ...) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is

Re: [Freedos-user] [lazy] FreeDOS @ http://www.sf-day.org/: logos? distributions?

2010-09-10 Thread dos386
Unfortunately, nowhere I see any explicit conditions under which it's to be available. There are, RTFL: The game *STAR TETRIS II* is copyright (C) by Narech Koumar, Supernar Systems, Ltd. This game is a freeware and may be copied, given away, uploaded to internet and/or local

Re: [Freedos-user] Processor overheating under DOS

2010-09-11 Thread dos386
I'd suggest to reduce CPU frequency if possible or to improve the cooling / ventilation. Among other flaws mentioned above this definitely is a mechanical / thermal flaw because the CPU should NOT be able to overheat even if it is very busy or executes flawed code. Imagine compressing a large file

Re: [Freedos-user] Processor overheating under DOS

2010-09-11 Thread dos386
Are there Dust-Bunnies inside the power-supply? Is the p-s fan working? Is there a CPU fan and is it working? FYI, I indeed did have a PC (not laptop) with this problem. Removing all the dust mess not only removed all mysterious crashes but also the CPU fan noise went massively down :-) --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos-user, SoundBlaster ?

2010-09-11 Thread dos386
I may have asked this along time ago, and either missed the answer, or never was one... this had been asked already 1'000'000'000'000 times ;-) it runs well with FreeDos, also,..but it never can detect sound blaster, and that is the only sound device it can use... The game is obsolete and

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS USB Device Problem

2010-09-11 Thread dos386
So could anyone show me an example to setup this driver? NO. It's easy and documented. I took steps and installed the driver but system will hang or tell me wrong IRQ. Provide details. Get http://www.file-pasta.com/file/0/PCI.ZI7 (original page dead) and post details about USB stuff and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos-user, SoundBlaster ?

2010-09-11 Thread dos386
Dosbox is an emulator that emulates an x86 processor and PC hardware In this way, it is similar to qemu or bochs good ... It goes one step beyond in that they added to the emulator a DOS-like interface that maps the native file system into the DOS system calls, as well as the remaining DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Watcom and DOS Interrupts

2010-12-21 Thread dos386
AFAIK the inline ASM is more painful in WATCOM than in Boreland C or CC386 compilers (I ever tested the latter one only). The are also pre-brewn int86() int386() and maybe more functions to fire the INT instruction but don't ask me how they exactly work. -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] ARC and shareware

2011-02-01 Thread dos386
COOL :-) Nevertheless, I'll stay with just ZIP and 7-ZIP (both possibly containing a TAR). I don't need 1'000'000'000'000 archive formats. -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49

Re: [Freedos-user] fdos HX

2011-02-04 Thread dos386
I see many bin files (hdpmi, dpmild32 ecc...) are the same in both the BIN of fdos and HX Strange :-( Is it possible a conflict between these? Better just 1 place, and GET HX 2.17 pre (timing bug, no up-to-date source) or 2.14 (other flaws). Do not install multiple versions of HX at same

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS inside Windows XP, virtual diskettes, and using Windows printers?

2011-02-04 Thread dos386
EDIT: Never tried, but would TAME work?? http://www.tame-dog.com/ DOSBox is only for games. As mentioned http://www.dog-box.com/ :-( 1. FreeDOS inside Windows XP because that's what they run BOCHS ? 2. Divert LPT1 to Windows printers Never tested ... 3. Virtual A B diskettes using

Re: [Freedos-user] Failure to compile with Borland C++ compiler under FreeDOS 1.0 - solved?

2011-02-04 Thread dos386
that when I upgraded to FreeDOS 1.0, my Borland 2.0 compiler started throwing errors I suggest kernel 2038, and latest or no of the other stuff (HIMEMX, ...). Simplest DOS installation, and no garbage, especially not in main directory on FAT12 or FAT16 ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with USB keyboard in some computers

2011-02-04 Thread dos386
* I connected a USB keyboard to a DELL OptiPlex GX620 (there is no PS/2 port in this model) BIOS-level emulation * When the computer was booted with the CD, I was asked to press Enter to boot to CD. Please notice that I pressed Enter to boot to CD, so it seems the Enter key (thus the

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISSK bug?

2011-02-04 Thread dos386
Check the BUGzilla (BUG-tracker) at SF ... this is familiar to me -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for

Re: [Freedos-user] Heads-up about FreeDOS Wikipedia.org page

2011-02-16 Thread dos386
I've visited the FreeDOS Wikipedia page that appears somewhat out of date 1.0 is still the latest release. Many utils had important updates since, but no distro. Plus kernel 2039 has regressions compared to 2038. I stopped waiting for 1.1 (feel free to shock me ...). Anyone dares to remove the

Re: [Freedos-user] HDPMI usage

2011-02-16 Thread dos386
1. IMP archiver (Technelysium Pty Ltd., 2000) So far I have only been able to run IMP with DOS4GW.EXE HDPMI32 is a DPMI host only, not a drop-in replacement of DOG4SW. Plus all those WATCOM extenders don't like external DOS based DPMI hosts too much. Neither HDPMI32 nor HX can replace DOG4SW.

Re: [Freedos-user] SHSUCDX 3.05 released

2011-02-16 Thread dos386
COOL :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos license

2011-05-05 Thread dos386
I am kind of new to freedos operating system and I want to know if it is ok to deliver it installed on assambled computers we deliver to a customer. Please note that the 1.0 distros from 2006 are EXTREMELY OBSOLETE (see other thread). -- ~~~ wow ~~~

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