Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Jim,
thanks for this guide. Is there any major differences between FreeDOS
and MSDOS under the hood. I did notice differences in DosBOX as this has
the SVGA drivers built in so you can use high definition modes upto
1024x768 in 256 colours iirc.

-Ed
EdzUp

On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, 16:10 Linvel Risner via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Jim, I deeply appreciate you directing me to those guides, I've bookmarked
> them for after work.
>
> Yes, I very much would order something off of Lulu. Let me know when you
> have it back up, and I'll buy it.
>
> I've always found literature more helpful than videos, but I think both is
> a happy place to be.
>
> Thank you for your help, and have a wonderful day.
>
> Linvel
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 10:24 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-user <
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> Starting a new thread for this topic:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 7:46 AM Linvel Risner via Freedos-user
>>  wrote:
>> [..]
>> > I'm trying to research written programming guides, although maybe I
>> > should just watch the Jim Hall video sets.
>> >
>>
>>
>> I also wrote a series of articles to support the videos, which might
>> interest you:
>>
>> https://www.freedos.org/books/cprogramming/
>>
>> I've been planning to migrate the FreeDOS Wiki to new hosting for a
>> long time, and Goal #2 after that is to move the "FreeDOS Books"
>> content (including 'Writing FreeDOS Programs in C') into the wiki. So
>> eventually, the programming series will be in the wiki.
>>
>> I also worked with folks to edit the C programming articles into a
>> "version 2.0" for a printed book, which was available on Lulu.com for
>> a while. Let me know if you are interested in that and I'll see if I
>> can reactivate the item on Lulu.
>>
>>
>> Jim
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Re: [Freedos-user] Date check

2024-01-30 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Hi,
  I think a more suitable way would be to check for the default date (1st
Jan 1980 iirc) and if it is that date request a new date :)

-Ed
EdzUp

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024, 12:00 Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user, <
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently facing some users which seem to have a bad BIOS battery and
> therefor aren't using the current date.
> Those users aren't even noticing that wrong date on their printed invoices
> of that day...
>
> Is there a simple way to check from Autoexec/FDAUTO for the year of the
> date, and if lower than 2024 prompt for a correct setting?
>
> Thanks!
>
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Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

2024-01-01 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
I remember GW-Basic being in one of the first IBM XT machines on rom.

Doom originally was released on MSDOS :)

-Ed

On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, 07:30 Rugxulo via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 10:34 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user
>  wrote:
> >
> > I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS.
> > I sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could you really
> do *work* with DOS?"
> > And the answer is of course you can, that happened every day.
> >
> > So I'm collecting a list of things you'd do in the 80s and 90s with DOS
> to do work.
> > Sure, I'll put a game it two in there, but I'm focusing on getting work
> done.
> >
> > What programs or types of programs would you like to see?
>
> If you insist on a game, I suggest something ASCII-based like a
> roguelike, maybe UMoria?
>
> *
> http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/gamesrc/mor55src.zip
>
> (Although Doom did just turn 30, and its source code release in late
> 1997 got a very quick DOS port with DJGPP.)
>
> While I'm the last person to suggest "UNIX is the answer to life, the
> universe, and everything!", they did have some useful tools that had
> DOS ports. Sed and AWK come to mind.
>
> * http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/pc/garbo/pc/unix/sed15x.zip (HHsed, compiled
> by Turbo C, circa 1991)
> *
> http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/stmsdos9709/disk2/DISC2/GNU/GNUISH/MAWK122X.ZIP
> (dual DOS + OS/2, circa 1996)
>
> Text editors were also good, e.g. DJGPP's GNU Emacs or RHIDE or (real
> mode) TDE:
>
> *
> http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simtel9703/disk1/DISC2/DJGPP/V2GNU/00_INDEX.TXT
> * http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simtel9703/disk1/DISC2/DJGPP/V2APPS/
> * http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/pc/garbo/pc/goldies/tde40.zip (circa 1994)
>
> Another cool hex editor / viewer / assembler that everyone loved was HIEW:
> * http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/utils/hiew44.zip
> (but I only remember 6.x or such)
>
> Simtel also had NASM 0.97, which I used to write a really simple
> utility (public domain) and uploaded back in 1999.
>
> * http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simtel0101/simtel/asmutl/nasm097.zip
>
> (A86/D86 was also very good for shareware, last updated in 2000.)
>
> In summary: Simtel, Garbo, x2ftp, DJGPP
>
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Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

2023-12-25 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Hi,
  I remember using Turbo Pascal and Turbo C back in the day (still use it
now), also Lotus 123 and Dbase 3 :)

Ah the memories :)

Still use Turbo C++ 3 as it's output is faster than open watcom C's
compiled code.

-Ed
EdzUp


On Mon, 25 Dec 2023, 04:34 Jim Hall via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS. I
> sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could you really do
> *work* with DOS?" And the answer is *of course you can, that happened
> every day.*
>
> So I'm collecting a list of things you'd do in the 80s and 90s with DOS to
> do work. Sure, I'll put a game it two in there, but I'm focusing on getting
> work done.
>
> What programs or types of programs would you like to see?
>
> __
>
> **For myself:*
> *I've done some videos about DOS apps, but nothing like "here's how I did
> everyday work." When I think back to my 1980s and 1990s (especially the
> early 90s) I think of my time at university as a physics undergrad. So
> that's a spreadsheet and a word processor for sure. Probably make a simple
> chart then include that chart in a "lab report" document (or at least leave
> room in the document to print it when I print on a dot matrix printer).
> Probably a dialup terminal to talk to the uni committee lab? File manager.
> And a compiler to write my own tools.*
>
> *The only difference is for the video I'll try to highlight FreeDOS distro
> tools as much as possible, like Doszip for the file manager. *
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Re: [Freedos-user] Epson dot matrix printer emulator?

2023-11-20 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
I'm sure you could wrap those system calls in a executable or batch file to
make the process more friendly :)

-Ed
EdzUp

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023, 04:23 Jim Hall via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> That looks super interesting, and I think that fits my need - thanks. I'll
> have to give this a try.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 11:33 AM Ben Collver via Freedos-user <
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> I wrote a post about how to do this on FreeDOS.  It converts Epson
>> printer data to image or PDF.  DOSBox-X has similar Epson printer emulation
>> built in, and you can install FreeDOS on that.
>>
>> Basically, the process goes like this:
>>
>> * Run prn2file to capture the printer data to a file.
>> * Print from a DOS application as desired.
>> * Run prn2file again to close the captured file.
>> * Run escparse to convert the captured file to PDF.
>>
>> Details:
>>
>>
>> https://gopher.tildeverse.org/tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/log/2022-06-15-print-quest/
>>
>> -Ben
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Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Mode - My Two Cente

2023-08-17 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
DOS can have. GUI like Linux with things like Windows 3.x, or even the
Windows 95/98 were on top of a DOS system.

On Fri, 18 Aug 2023, 03:26 tsiegel--- via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Only one correction.
>
> Windows and MacOSX are certainly graphical by default, though both have
> text terminals very similar to the dos prompt.
>
> On the other hand, Linux, bsd, and other unix versions are also text
> interfaces by default.  If you don't install a windows manager (such as
> gnome), then there is no graphical interface on linux.
>
> In that regard, it's very similar to dos.
>
> Text by default, but graphical by choice (just like running windows)
>
> Mac OSX is different, because it's configured by default to run a GUI,
> which a basic linux system out of the box doesn't do unless it's configured
> differently by it's distributor (ubuntu, debian, and so on.)
>
>
> On 8/18/2023 1:51 AM, Norby Droid via Freedos-user wrote:
>
> I think there may be a bit of confusion we need to let new DOS users aware
> of, and that is DOS is a "Text-Mode" system and not graphical like Windows,
> Linux, MacOS, etc.
>
> DOS by nature is only text (although graphics is possible)
>
> Maybe make a distinction between "Text Resolution" and "Graphic/Screen
> Resolution"
>
> DOS when booted is 80 characters with 25 lines using an 8x16 pixel font.
> This could be called a text resolution of 640x400 (not 640x480 which is
> actually 30 lines of 80 characters).
>
> You can change the number of lines and the number of characters per line
> as well as the width and height of the font (like 8x32 or 9x16) which will
> give ya more room or less depending on your choices as well as change the
> look of the text, but this is still ALL text not graphics.
>
> Also of note is that although ya can be making changes, DOS has the
> tendency to revert back to its default state of 25x80 8x16 native font when
> he screen gets cleared or when exiting different software.
>
> This is my two cents about DOS Mode.  Just remember DOS is Text (by
> default) not Graphics.
>
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Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

2023-08-07 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Weirdly enough the cludge I posted doesn't work on newest virtual box and
freedoms for some reason. It does work on dosbox 0.74 (newest one). Maybe
the rendering has changed somewhere :/

-Ed
EdzUp

On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, 12:21 Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

>
>
> > On Aug 6, 2023, at 5:48 PM, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user <
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/6/23 23:34, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user wrote:
> >> DOS is using *text *mode, you just can't select a*graphics *mode and
> expect to get text output in that mode.
> >
> > BIOS text output functions still work in most graphic modes, hence
> having a DOS shell running in graphic mode is nothing unusual. Of course
> problems may arise for text applications that make assumptions about the
> terminal size or that write directly to VRAM without re-setting a proper
> text mode.
>
> Generally even with text support by the BIOS in graphics mode, they do not
> work well for the command line prompt.
>
> Often, there is a lack of text cursor, no scroll support or just very slow
> rendering.
>
> >
> >> And btw,  80x25 character text mode in fact is technically a 640x480
> "VGA mode"
> >
> > It's 720x400.
>
> Yep.
>
> 9x16 VGA font, 720x400. However, that 9th bit is just a little bit odd
> (puns intended).
>
> 8x16 VGA font 640x400.
>
> It’s been a while. But if I recall correctly, I think there were some VGA
> tricks that could be done to get 480 raster lines in text mode. Kind of
> like mode X. But, I don’t recall if anything that actually did that for
> text mode. For some reason, I keep thinking about having an 80x30 text mode
> available. But, that could just be 80x28 (8x14 EGA font loaded on VGA
> hardware).
>
> There were a lot of such “tricks” that could be done with real VGA
> hardware. Stuff like smooth scrolling in text mode. All part of the VGA
> specs. Few of which are supported by Virtual Machines like VirtualBox.
>
> :-)
>
> Jerome
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Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

2023-08-06 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
I was testing in virtualbox.

On Sun, 6 Aug 2023, 22:17 zerofive--- via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Were you testing it on a Virtual Machine or on a real hardware?
>
>
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 06, 2023 at 9:13 AM
> *From:* "EdzUp via Freedos-user" 
> *To:* "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." <
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Cc:* "EdzUp" 
> *Subject:* Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?
> That is weird, here I get a dos prompt and can use DOS in the new
> resolution :/
>
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 9:38 PM zerofive--- via Freedos-user <
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello! Just tested it.
>> It changes the resolution, but now I just don't see anything. I tried
>> doing Ctrl+C exiting it but to no avail :(
>> Any reason why could this happen?
>>
>>
>> *Sent:* Monday, August 07, 2023 at 9:26 AM
>> *From:* "EdzUp via Freedos-user" 
>> *To:* "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." <
>> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Cc:* "EdzUp" 
>> *Subject:* Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?
>> Try this as an example http://www.edzup.co.uk/images/EVGAMODE.zip
>>
>> Usage: EVGAMODE [mode]
>>
>> where mode is either 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768. If you use CLS it will
>> return to the previous resolution as the mode is just a temporary change :).
>>
>> -Ed
>> EdzUp
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 6:22 PM EdzUp  wrote:
>>
>>> Technically it would put the screen into a VGA/SVGA resolutions so text
>>> output would be in that resolution till you used CLS when it would return
>>> back to the original resolution.
>>>
>>> There is also high Res text mode.
>>>
>>> -Ed
>>> EdzUp
>>>
>>> On Sun, 6 Aug 2023, 15:38 Ralf Quint via Freedos-user, <
>>> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 8/6/2023 5:39 AM, EdzUp via Freedos-user wrote:
>>>> > Hi all, I could cobble together a Command line app to chuck the system
>>>> > into VGA/SVGA resolutions :)
>>>> >
>>>> > -Ed
>>>> > EdzUp
>>>>
>>>> And what would this going to be accomplishing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ralf
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

2023-08-06 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
That is weird, here I get a dos prompt and can use DOS in the new
resolution :/

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 9:38 PM zerofive--- via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Hello! Just tested it.
> It changes the resolution, but now I just don't see anything. I tried
> doing Ctrl+C exiting it but to no avail :(
> Any reason why could this happen?
>
>
> *Sent:* Monday, August 07, 2023 at 9:26 AM
> *From:* "EdzUp via Freedos-user" 
> *To:* "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." <
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Cc:* "EdzUp" 
> *Subject:* Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?
> Try this as an example http://www.edzup.co.uk/images/EVGAMODE.zip
>
> Usage: EVGAMODE [mode]
>
> where mode is either 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768. If you use CLS it will
> return to the previous resolution as the mode is just a temporary change :).
>
> -Ed
> EdzUp
>
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 6:22 PM EdzUp  wrote:
>
>> Technically it would put the screen into a VGA/SVGA resolutions so text
>> output would be in that resolution till you used CLS when it would return
>> back to the original resolution.
>>
>> There is also high Res text mode.
>>
>> -Ed
>> EdzUp
>>
>> On Sun, 6 Aug 2023, 15:38 Ralf Quint via Freedos-user, <
>> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/6/2023 5:39 AM, EdzUp via Freedos-user wrote:
>>> > Hi all, I could cobble together a Command line app to chuck the system
>>> > into VGA/SVGA resolutions :)
>>> >
>>> > -Ed
>>> > EdzUp
>>>
>>> And what would this going to be accomplishing?
>>>
>>>
>>> Ralf
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

2023-08-06 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Try this as an example http://www.edzup.co.uk/images/EVGAMODE.zip

Usage: EVGAMODE [mode]

where mode is either 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768. If you use CLS it will
return to the previous resolution as the mode is just a temporary change :).

-Ed
EdzUp

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 6:22 PM EdzUp  wrote:

> Technically it would put the screen into a VGA/SVGA resolutions so text
> output would be in that resolution till you used CLS when it would return
> back to the original resolution.
>
> There is also high Res text mode.
>
> -Ed
> EdzUp
>
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2023, 15:38 Ralf Quint via Freedos-user, <
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> On 8/6/2023 5:39 AM, EdzUp via Freedos-user wrote:
>> > Hi all, I could cobble together a Command line app to chuck the system
>> > into VGA/SVGA resolutions :)
>> >
>> > -Ed
>> > EdzUp
>>
>> And what would this going to be accomplishing?
>>
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

2023-08-06 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Technically it would put the screen into a VGA/SVGA resolutions so text
output would be in that resolution till you used CLS when it would return
back to the original resolution.

There is also high Res text mode.

-Ed
EdzUp

On Sun, 6 Aug 2023, 15:38 Ralf Quint via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On 8/6/2023 5:39 AM, EdzUp via Freedos-user wrote:
> > Hi all, I could cobble together a Command line app to chuck the system
> > into VGA/SVGA resolutions :)
> >
> > -Ed
> > EdzUp
>
> And what would this going to be accomplishing?
>
>
> Ralf
>
>
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Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

2023-08-06 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Hi all, I could cobble together a Command line app to chuck the system into
VGA/SVGA resolutions :)

-Ed
EdzUp

On Sun, 6 Aug 2023, 12:09 Aitor Santamaría via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would use MODE CON. After all, you want to reconfigure the console, and
> that is what MODE CON is for.
>
> Aitor
>
>
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 02:10, zerofive--- via Freedos-user <
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>> This question may been asked a million times but I just can't figure it
>> out, and googling it gives no results (except telling me that I need to use
>> `mode` and some parameters but this just wouldn't give me what I am trying
>> to achieve)
>> But I found out that `NANSI.SYS` contains a paramter which (I think)
>> allows me to set at least 640x480 resolution. I also included it
>> (nansi.sys) in FDCONFIG.SYS with parameters `/t18` but it doesnt seem to
>> work. Any idea on what could be the issue or I need to do it the other way?
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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS code page Unicode compatibility

2023-06-13 Thread EdzUp
Hi,
   To be fair this seems like a very good idea mainly because any barriers
to FreeDOS use and acceptance should be removed and this seems like a
reasonably easy thing to do as it already is there.

-Ed

On Mon, 12 Jun 2023, 22:58 Vacek Nules,  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm Vacek Nules, a software developer from Hungary. I’ve also posted this
> message to the *devel* mailing list, but after accidentally sending it to
> the list owner they’ve referred me to the *user* list, hence I repost it
> here.
> I’m the author of Unicode proposal L2/23-060, which concerns the addition
> of a "Ft" character representing the Hungarian forint to Unicode, in a
> similar vein to CP437's peseta sign.
> Although the initial opinion was supporting, acceptance of this proposal
> has been stalled by some dissenting members of the Unicode Technical
> Committee despite this character having been supported on many different
> (mostly historic and Hungarian) computer systems, including FreeDOS, which
> has a Ft sign at 0x9F in code page 57781 (Hungarian), which is currently
> unmappable to Unicode because of this character missing.
> I'd like to ask the community's opinion and possible endorsements to get
> the UTC to accept the symbol, which is also needed for porting other DOS
> software from Hungary (some still in productive non-hobby use, e.g.
> point-of-sale systems).
>
> Thanks,
> Vacek
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