Re: [Freedos-user] Rasberry Pi may save DOS

2015-08-24 Thread Carl spitzer
On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 09:19 -0700, Steve Andy De George wrote: That is cool, however DOSBox doesn't run everything. If it's not a game, they don't care if it fails to run. The DOSBox project was created strictly for games, though other people do happen to use it for other things now and again.

[Freedos-user] Rasberry Pi may save DOS

2015-07-08 Thread Carl spitzer
According to our OCLUG.org expert, Tom Miller there is some Raspi - X86 Emulation: Have you seen these? sudo apt-get install dosbox http://www.codingepiphany.com/2013/03/30/raspberry-pi-retro-gaming-mania-part-2-dosbox/ http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Special_Keys

Re: [Freedos-user] Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?

2015-06-14 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 10:39 -0400, John Hupp wrote: On 5/30/2015 4:29 PM, John Hupp wrote: I have 3 old ISA sound cards that I was trying to get working in an a useful search term is ABANDONWARE. Sometimes exploring that can reveal hidden treasure. CWSIV

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-27 Thread Carl spitzer
On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 13:11 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: Okay, I understand. Have you wrote about this to Jack? He might be still interested in GCDROM feedback, and it could be an interesting case for him perhaps. However, the problem is larger I think anyway - today you are unable to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-15 Thread Carl Spitzer
comes up 404 for me in California. Whats up?? CWSIV On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 15:06 -0500, Don Flowers wrote: Hi All~ I am having difficulty accessing the FreeDOS ibiblio.org repo. Every computer in the house (non networked) gives the following error Forbidden You don't have permission to

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

2014-11-24 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 04:26 -0500, TJ Edmister wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:16:19 -0500, Dennis Holierhoek dennis...@hotmail.com wrote: But can it also run 8-bit programs? And 4-bit? In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30 CPU which is 8086

Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss

2014-10-23 Thread Carl Spitzer
Gparted the bootable cd does this easily. CWSIV -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Help: USB drivers for USB mass storage devices

2014-06-07 Thread Carl Spitzer
http://vampiric.us/index.php/articles/os/freedos/dosdrivers another source for mhairudos driver -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and

[Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Carl Spitzer
I have a newer HP printer and need drivers for DOS and Win311 also Wordstar. The printer is an all in one with USB which I can convert to parallel. Where can I find such? CWSIV -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL,

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 08:45 -0600, Michael B. Brutman wrote: The time to consider DOS compatibility is *before* you purchase the printer. If your printer can do some form of PCL then you are probably safe. A higher end HP laser printer should definitely understand PCL. Old Epson printer

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 11:10 -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: I cannot say firmly if they can be crossed of course. Still printer drivers for wordperfect are kept current, as well as how to use the program in a number of operating systems. visit. www.wpuniverse.com or simply google word perfect

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

2012-12-30 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 13:50 -0430, Marco Achury wrote: On linux you can use Abiword or LibreOffice in order to open WP documents. So a second conversion from WordStar. I also found a free version of StarOffice 7.0 in many versions which is said to do conversions as well then as you point

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-25 Thread Carl Spitzer
-Original Message- From: bruce.bowman tds.net bruce.bow...@tds.net winxpfix.zip and videoprt.zip have both been tried and neither of them work. They might provide VESA 1.2 or 2.0 capability but not 3.0. Between my wife and I, we own six computers. None of them have a floppy drive.

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

2012-10-05 Thread Carl Spitzer
I think the latest version in my toolkit is 7.0 but I also use gparted which is a bootable Linux distro which in look and feel does the same thing only much faster. A whole 160 gig drive was done in 30 minutes including time to decide how to break it up. CWSIV On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 23:49 -0400,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-26 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 19:14 -0800, Michael Robinson wrote: First off, I don't appreciate anyone calling anyone an idiot on this email list. Second, I haven't experimented with Freedos 1.1 myself, but I hope any difficulty others have working with it is dealt with both patiently and

Re: [Freedos-user] Word processing

2011-05-24 Thread Carl Spitzer
If you look hard on Abandon Ware sites you can find WordSTAR for Dos 7.0 and even WordSTAR 2,0 for win311 CWSIV -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual

Re: [Freedos-user] Print server

2010-03-17 Thread Carl Spitzer
Supports Windows for Workgroup, Windows 95/98/NT/Me/2000, NetWare, HP-UX, Sun Os, UnixWare, From the page itself it looks like it supports Win311 and later. Worst case you might have to use it through VirtualBox which runs most any operating system even the latest junk from M$ in less memory

[Freedos-user] other address problem

2009-05-05 Thread Carl Spitzer
I have not received any feedback from myrealbox.com about the email from this list comming with the senders address changed to Return-Path: freedos-user-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net I have no idea why this is being done it interfears with the list utility. I checked the archive but its not in

[Freedos-user] False return address

2009-04-27 Thread Carl Spitzer
I do not know why the return path is munged in place of the real senders message. I would like to know if there is a corrective and if I can get an mbox version of the last few months messages to import to correct my archive. CWSIV X-Auth-No: Return-Path:

[Freedos-user] list archive?

2008-09-23 Thread Carl Spitzer
I have had mail problems recently. Is there an archive of the list in mbox format that I can import to evolution? CWSIV - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux

Re: [Freedos-user] Defrag broken...

2007-03-09 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:37 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if anyone is fixing the defrag that comes with freedos 1.0? I'm curious as I want to to try and fix it myself if noone else is. If anyone can help me understand what is wrong with it or connect with me with efforts

[Freedos-user] Dashbord desktop manager?

2007-01-12 Thread Carl Spitzer
A friend of mine was looking for this. Google seems to find a lot of auto supply shops. Does someone have a copy? Tested in FreeDOS? CWSIV - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's

Re: [Freedos-user] use smb with freedos or nfs

2006-12-14 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 23:33 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Carl, First for such an old laptop if you want Suse be sure to have at least 20 gig free for a min install. If you cant get more than 256 mb on it, I have a full set of 9.2 with an update disk. Support will die with the advent of

Re: [Freedos-user] Notebook with FreeDOS

2006-12-01 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 19:53 +0100, freedos deutsch wrote: Nice to see this I have found this offer, a notebook Hewlett-Packard Compaq nx6310 (FreeDos) http://www.alternate.de/html/product/details.html?artno=pn9h07showTechData=true Looks interesting can you translate it. Looks like

[Freedos-user] Mice and drivers

2006-12-01 Thread Carl Spitzer
I need recommendations for mice preferabily trackball or wheel which I can use in DOS/FreeDOS Win311/Gem and Ill take care of the linux stuff. I do not want Wireless seems to be a problem there even with Micro Innovations mice though the two wheeled mouse did work. My current one is a CPQ750TP

Re: [Freedos-user] use smb with freedos or nfs

2006-12-01 Thread Carl Spitzer
Well here goes since no messages made it to me since Monday. First for such an old laptop if you want Suse be sure to have at least 20 gig free for a min install. If you cant get more than 256 mb on it, I have a full set of 9.2 with an update disk. Support will die with the advent of 10.2. I

[Freedos-user] Mice and drivers (second try)

2006-12-01 Thread Carl Spitzer
I need recommendations for mice preferabily trackball or wheel which I can use in DOS/FreeDOS Win311/Gem and Ill take care of the linux stuff. I do not want Wireless seems to be a problem there even with Micro Innovations mice though the two wheeled mouse did work. My current one is a CPQ750TP

Re: [Freedos-user] Russian by UTF-8 in FreeDOS?

2006-07-14 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 18:11 +0200, Fox wrote: Hi people! Is there any software wich gives UTF-8 support to DOS? I often copy Linux text files (which are UTF8 encoded) to my DOS computer and have *big* problems to read them. Not only because of the LF/CR difference between DOS and Unix

Re: [Freedos-user] FRISK Software stops development of F-ProtAntivirus for DOS

2006-07-14 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 21:36 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:24:06 +0200, you wrote: Hi Robert, You forget to mention F-Prot's resident shield or reliability. ClamAV is far from perfect and so it is NOT a replacement for F-Prot. Oh! I forgot, thanks for reminding me,

[Freedos-user] LCD

2006-06-09 Thread Carl Spitzer
I am finally considering LCD monitors. Most probably work fine in Win32 and Linux but I wonder if any of them also work well in *DOS and Win311. Is there a specific review page for such or a work around? Recommendations? CWSIV ___ Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Multiple CD\DVD drives

2006-05-25 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 09:54 -0700, Ray Davison wrote: What drivers are available that will handle multiple CD\DVD drives and what switches are appropriate? I am currently using Oak and Shcdx because Oak is the only one I have been able to get to see more than one drive. I found a pair

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS beta9 sr#2 install troubles

2006-05-25 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 23:32 -0700, section7 wrote: This is silly. I have recently installed more than several versions of DOS on this system and had no problems what so ever. ...including DRDOS and enhanced DRDOS, Real32, MSDOS 5,622 710, OpenDOS, PCDOS2K, PTSDOS32 and PTSDOS2K. FreeDOS is

Re: [Freedos-user] Instructions for making USB key bootable. . .

2006-03-15 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 01:14 +1000, TechFan wrote: Thanks for the info. . .so I just need to sys the usb stick? That works with Msdos as well? I thought I had tried that before. . .the main issue I have is that I need to be able to boot to it and run ghostcast off a network drive. I already

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

2006-02-15 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 19:18 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 5-Фев-2006 19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Spitzer) wrote to FreeDOS freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: following constants and function allow a program to place up to 16 two-byte characters in the keyboard buffer. When

[Freedos-user] Unsupported sof marker type 0xc2

2006-02-10 Thread Carl Spitzer
How do I convert these jpg to normal? freeware preferred. CWSIV --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-06 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 19:06 +, Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi David, 1. LM authentication 2. SMB signing Does Samba support those things? If so then at least there is hope that one could port parts of the Samba code to DOS. I suppose the encryption code may take up significantly more

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

2006-02-06 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 20:26 +1030, David O'Shea wrote: Hi Carl, From: Carl Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:13 -0500, Jim Lemon wrote: I programmed something like this and it might do what you want. The following constants and function allow a program to place

Re: [Freedos-user] IRC Client for DOS

2006-02-06 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 22:26 -0800, Blair Campbell wrote: I compiled today an untested DJGPP binary for BSFIRC, hosted at bsflite.sf.net (the AIM client has a DOS binary but not BSFIRC), and it is availalbe at http://www.cow-net.com/kjbca/ for testing. It is a minimalistic and command-line

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft wins FAT patent

2006-01-19 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 19:51 -0500, ultramancool wrote: Tom Lee Mullins wrote: Microsoft has won its battle with the US Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO) over its attempt to patent the File Allocation Table or FAT, which formed the basis of the management of disk storage in the days

Re: [Freedos-user] FAT Patents of Microsoft

2006-01-19 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:22 -0500, ultramancool wrote: And of course the most important part: to scare the open source community into thinking they can't use FAT anymore. ;-) Doesnt FAt come from cpm and therefore prior art? Remember American judges are often dumber than a box of rocks.

Re: [Freedos-user] FAT and other file systems

2006-01-19 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 14:14 +, James Tabor wrote: There is no way around this, unless someone will write a disclaimer, Before you install FreeDos, do you want to enable Fat32 Patented Features? We are facing the same issue with Ros. When I use FreeDos, I use the basic 8.3 file system, so

[Freedos-user] FREE DOS games online

2006-01-08 Thread Carl Spitzer
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Re: [Freedos-user] Beta9 Service Release 2 is out!

2005-12-05 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 23:57 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote: A new FreeDOS distribution has been released, to replace Beta9 Service Release 1, which is now 1 year old. Currently it's available as a bootable CD-ROM from the fdos.org website: http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9sr2/fdbootcd.iso The

[Freedos-user] Ogg Vorbis

2005-11-27 Thread Carl Spitzer
Is there an Ogg Vorbis player for DOS / FreeDos? Plenty in *nix and a few for Win32. CWSIV --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes

Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 inenhaced mode

2005-11-12 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:12 +0100, Robert Riebisch wrote: Carl Spitzer wrote: The graphics card I bought two years ago did have them. I was looking for a PCI graphics card because of the excellerated port not working in Win311. Never heard of that problem. My Matrox G400 is an AGP

Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 inenhaced mode

2005-11-06 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:13 +0100, Robert Riebisch wrote: Carl Spitzer wrote: Try graphics cards from www.kasercorp.com Why? Kaser doesn't offer any Windows 3.x drivers. The graphics card I bought two years ago did have them. I was looking for a PCI graphics card because

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.10 ISO CD image bootable

2005-11-03 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 21:54 +, Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi, Yeah, you're right. But how can they extract the MS-DOS from Windows 98-SE? I'm pretty sure you can extract DOS from Win95, 98, 98SE. First you get the manifest files that tell you which file is in which CAB (or just look),

Re: [Freedos-user] Install freedos without floppy or cd?

2005-11-02 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 22:58 -0500, Hoace Johnson wrote: Hello, I have a laptop that has no working removable media drives, which has linux installed on one patition. I also have a fat16 partition (hda1) that I want to install FreeDOS on, booting from GRUB, but I cannot figure out exactly

Re: [Freedos-user] GPG

2005-10-11 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 19:53 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: Try the link again in www.archive.org about half the time when something disappeared from the web it is there. Not there :-( Sorry bout that. It always been a place of last resort when even google cant find a thing. Try looking

Re: [Freedos-user] Grub for PcDOS / Suse

2005-10-11 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 17:01 -0400, John Lockman wrote: it would help if you ask a question. On 10/6/05, Carl Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linux:/home/juno # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Aug 23 21:59:26 2005 color white/blue black/light-gray

Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup

2005-10-11 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 12:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you provide me with which model Aptiva you have, it might help me to ensure you have the proper drivers. The exact model No. is: 2176352. Information about this model available at the IBM site. There was a win95 originally

Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup

2005-10-11 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 10:45 -0700, Brolin Empey wrote: You should have used MS-DOS v7 (which ships with Windows 9x), which supports FAT32! http://www.mbhs.edu/~jaosborn/boot98se.exe Try that. It is a self-extracting zip archive, so extract it with e.g InfoZIP. On Linux you can then

Re: [Freedos-user] Correction: NO Himem but xmsdsk crashes :)

2005-10-11 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 11:36 +0200, Andre Tertling wrote: Hi there, I am sorry for the confusion. I just single-stepped through config.sys and found out that xmsdsk.exe causes the crash. (XMS Ramdisk 1.9I from Franck Uberto) This pretty much astonishes me as I am a strong user of the

[Freedos-user] Grub for PcDOS / Suse

2005-10-06 Thread Carl Spitzer
linux:/home/juno # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Aug 23 21:59:26 2005 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,9)/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE LINUX 9.2 kernel

Re: [Freedos-user] Multiple DOS

2005-09-24 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 16:52 -0400, CC cc wrote: I've been able to boot freedos and gentoo so it's possible... You'd need grub tho On 9/8/05, Carl Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been able to multiboot PCDOS and FREEDOS? CWSIV Actually I was hoping to boot PCDOS

[Freedos-user] Mounting Freedos 16 or 32 bit

2005-09-24 Thread Carl Spitzer
A question for linux people. What fstab entry for these types of partitions. I have one for 16 bit PCdos which must be manually added. But none for FreeDOS. CWSIV --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help: your time please :(

2005-09-24 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:19 +0200, Andre Tertling wrote: Gildor Inglorion wrote: i am using linux and i downloaded the .img bootdisk image from the download page. I don't know what to do with such file. I mounted it on a dir, then i mcpied its contents to a disk, but the disk couldn't

[Freedos-user] GPG

2005-09-13 Thread Carl Spitzer
Are there any ports of up to date versions for GEMini or any other GUI? CWSIV --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv

[Freedos-user] Re: pcdos freedos multiboot

2005-09-11 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 00:56 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: hi, you should try metaboot for that. should not be that hard... 1. install pcdos 2. store the pcdos boot sector to a file (newer freedos SYS can do that, but OSCHECK can do it as well - somewhere on my homepage...) 3. install freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos build environment

2005-09-10 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 21:50 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 2-Июн-2005 10:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl William Spitzer IV) wrote to FreeDOS freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: CWI You might try ebay for old copies of Borland's compilers. You may download TC 2.0 from Borland

[Freedos-user] Multiple DOS

2005-09-09 Thread Carl Spitzer
Has anyone been able to multiboot PCDOS and FREEDOS? CWSIV --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development *

Re: [Freedos-user] LAME for DOS

2005-09-03 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 07:30 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: I now have LAME compiled and ready for DOS if anyone wants to give it a try. If anyone wants it, just e-mail me. As In Lame from Linux for encoding mp3? Please send off list. CWSIV