Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

2024-03-17 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Well said. :) Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Sunday, March 17th, 2024 at 8:57 PM, Ben Collver via Freedos-user wrote: > > Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:26:05 +0100 > > From: tom ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de > > To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

2024-03-16 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
It does work indeed. :) Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. On Saturday, March 16th, 2024 at 11:28 PM, Jeremy Leonard via Freedos-user wrote: > Back in my DOS days I used QuickBasic. > > https://winworldpc.com/product/quickbasic/45 > > I liked the function style, no line

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

2024-02-08 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Regarding programmatic control of the keyboard LEDs, that was definitely possible. I have some od BASIC code I wrote in my early days which twiddle some bits in the byte at 0:0417 to accomplish it. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Thursday, February 8th, 2024 at 11:00 PM,

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-02-02 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
een, > > do you have some more info on your build? > I am interested in something like that, which would integrate a small > trackpad into the kbd. > > Thomas > >> On 01.02.2024, at 22:04, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user >> wrote: >> >> Not strictly

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-02-01 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Not strictly on-FreeDOS-topic, but speaking of devices which translate USB to PS/2, a recent project of mine has been designing a keyboard which, among many other features, can itself connect to a PS/2 port and also accept a USB device for input (e.g. a mouse, for example) whose data then gets

Re: [Freedos-user] NVMe not found

2023-11-12 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
There's most likely a setting in your BIOS which will enable the computer to present this newfangled drive to your OS as a traditional IDE drive. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Sunday, November 12th, 2023 at 10:44 PM, Jody Spurrell via Freedos-user wrote: > I have a HP EliteDesk

Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEMX zip file dates

2023-10-01 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I typically do modify the times to reflect the version number. Of course that's not necessary by any means, but it's a habit I started doing as a quick and easy contingency to help me in the event of files becoming crossed, e.g. if I were to accidentally drop files into the wrong version folder

Re: [Freedos-user] CD driver

2023-09-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
--- Original Message --- On Tuesday, September 19th, 2023 at 3:37 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > ... > > You can also find updates for JEMM and HIMEMX on Japheth's GitHub "Baron von > Riedesel", even his HIMEMSX to use more than 4 GB RAM :-) >

Re: [Freedos-user] Can you recommend a good single-board-computer for legacy OSs?

2023-03-10 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I wonder if it the products listed here would be a good resource to have somewhere on the FreeDOS wiki as a reference for others. Thoughts, Jim, everyone? Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. --- Original Message --- On Friday, March 10th, 2023 at 2:28 PM, Lukas

Re: [Freedos-user] People often do not want responsibility and answer: It is unsupported

2022-09-11 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I love your outside the boxthinking on this. Best of luck! Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. --- Original Message --- On Sunday, September 11th, 2022 at 6:11 AM, Lukas Satin wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I started to maintain several opensource projects. And this

Re: [Freedos-user] Retire from sending monthly reminder message

2022-08-22 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I vote no. Having a one-time email sent by default when folks join seems a good idea, but a monthly reminder? Overkill in my opinion. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Monday, August 22nd, 2022 at 4:40 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > I'm actually wondering if

Re: [Freedos-user] clipboard support utilities

2022-07-03 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Thanks for this contribution! And, for those of us not running any kind of Gopher client, I presume the link https://gemini.spam.works/x/tilde.pink/~bencollver/files/dos/util/clip/ will also work, yes? Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Sunday, July

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS ASM Resources

2022-07-02 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
That's a great suggestion! Way back in the day, before I had internet, my local library was an excellent resource to begin learning. :) Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. --- Original Message --- On Saturday, July 2nd, 2022 at 7:01 PM, Daniel wrote: > If ya have

Re: [Freedos-user] Limit text output to specific area

2022-06-14 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Ah. Perhaps I'm remembering it incorrectly. It's been a long time since I used the BIOS-based windowing functions. :) Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 at 8:44 PM, Zbigniew wrote: > > The content will indeed wrap, just on a

Re: [Freedos-user] Limit text output to specific area

2022-06-14 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
The content will indeed wrap, just on a per-character basis instead of per-word. It functions exactly how wrapping does when printing to the entire screen. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 at 7:53 PM, Zbigniew wrote: > > If

Re: [Freedos-user] Limit text output to specific area

2022-06-14 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
If you're speaking purely about limiting the cursor to the bounds of the current window (which is what I believe you're referring to), yes I believe it does do that much, if I remember correctly. However, if you're referring to some kind of "smart" word wrap ability, the answer is no. The BIOS

Re: [Freedos-user] x86Box

2022-04-26 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I realize this is a work in progress, but perhaps "The most popular emulators are listed here:" should instead say something like "FreeDOS images for some of the most popular emulators are listed here:" :) Sent with ProtonMail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, April

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-02-25 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Would it be feasible to throw together an "@ECHO.COM" application which would manually execute a normal "ECHO OFF" line if the DOS version is below 3.3 and simply terminate otherwise? The only caveat to this is that I''m not 100% certain that a command executed from within a .COM file from

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

2022-02-03 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Hi there, Not sure if they'll have quite the information for which you're looking, but for all my low level programming needs I always turn to [OSDev](https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page). Hope this helps! Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original

Re: [Freedos-user] Interesting comment by Walter Bright

2022-01-29 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Interesting he doesn't mention that Digital Mars is his own company. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, January 29th, 2022 at 11:37 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > He claims "The DMC++ compiler is far and away the best C++

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-21 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Most mice operate in a "staged" manner; that is, upon power-up even the most sophisticated mouse emulates a basic two button affair, until software jumps through a series of hoops to elevate its capabilities by sending a series of magic sequences of commands. The problem is that most

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about FreeDOS 3.0

2021-12-01 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
On Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 at 11:34 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: > ... > > And this is not a machine you want to try to set up FreeDOS to run from the > bare metal on. Too much of the hardware is simply not supported by any form > of DOS. DOS stopped being sold and

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared Folders not allowed in VirtualBox FreeDOS?

2021-07-14 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Since I run a similar setup (Linux Mint with VirtualBox), I'll take this one. :) The short answer is no. The long(er) answer is that VirtualBox makes available a specific programming interface for the Shared Folders feature which provides both a 64-bit and 32-bit entry point for the guest OS -

[Freedos-user] A new UHDD release! :D

2021-06-30 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Hey all! I've packaged up the most recent version of UHDD, which you can find at MercuryCoding.com/downloads.html#DOS. The new version supports Read-Ahead and DMA/Caching Overlap for all cache sizes from 5 to 4093 MiB, which should help make all the work done by Jerome's FreeDOS installer

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Easter Egg

2021-05-25 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Nice! I notice that, following the line which reads: "FreeDOS Alpha 1 was released on September 16, 1994." the next sentence reads: "That is over 25 years or history." which I believe should read: "That is over 25 years of history." Not being nitpick-y, just FYI. :) Sent with

Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review

2021-05-15 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
OH! I guess I should've read the entire email, eh? lol Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, May 15, 2021 3:22 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > Hi Mercury, > > > > ... > > > MSD? > > > ... > > > > Microsoft System Diagnostics > > A pretty handy little

Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review

2021-05-15 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, May 15, 2021 2:04 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > ... > MSD? > ... Microsoft System Diagnostics A pretty handy little system evaluation tool Microsoft made back in the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Diagnostics

Re: [Freedos-user] Why do you use DOS

2021-04-15 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I was fortunate enough for my early years to be in the DOS era (albeit near its end) and I still remember the tiny pang of sadness upon reading that Microsoft was phasing out the venerable platform. My first computer was an IBM PC/XT with DOS 3.something, which was a hand-me-down from my uncle

Re: [Freedos-user] Why do you use DOS

2021-04-14 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:09 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 18:00, Johnpaul Humphrey jpth1...@gmail.com wrote: > >> So my question is, why do YOU use FreeDOS? > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Recovery of a file on a non booting Windows computer

2021-04-14 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
+1 on the Linux Mint recommendation. Out of all the Linuxi I've personally tried, I've found Mint to be quite user friendly and I would say it's a great place to start for those more familiar with a Windows-like interface. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On

Re: [Freedos-user] FSF

2021-04-01 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Exactly! :D Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 7:13 PM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > Thanks, Rugxulo: > > > Just > > because someone doesn't agree with him, even if he speaks > > egregious words, doesn't mean he should be destroyed. >

Re: [Freedos-user] FSF

2021-04-01 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
+1 Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 7:08 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:04 AM dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Meanwhile, I'm beyond caring about Stallman or the state of the FSF. > > Both

Re: [Freedos-user] FSF

2021-03-29 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
+1 Despite not being a Stallmanite myself, I seriously couldn't agree more. Besides, it's not like he just got hired to the board of an organization fighting human trafficking... it's software. Completely unrelated. One's opinion on any given topic has little to nothing to do with how well

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter

2021-03-10 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
On Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:49 AM, Nils Stavlid wrote: > Dear all,,, personally I like it whenever topics spiral out on a side track > like in this case. > ... As do I! It's refreshing to see all the diversity of thought in everyday FreeDOS users. Cool stuff!

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter

2021-03-10 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Agreed. I guess we can thank Tom for that! lol Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 5:23 PM, Random Liegh via Freedos-user wrote: > Is this a conversation that really needed to happen on a public, > technical list? > > No, it is

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter

2021-03-10 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I'll step in for a brief moment to answer this in my own way prior to Felix doing so. Sorry, Felix. :) As to why you must be "annoyed" by anyone else's choice of email signature, I would point out the Christo-American concept of free speech. Felix has complete freedom to say whatever he wants

Re: [Freedos-user] Updates to the FreeDOS website?

2021-02-22 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
It looks great! My only suggestion would be to add top padding to the "Download FreeDOS" and "What’s New" sections so that the title of one does not appear immediately beneath the previous for better visual separation. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐

Re: [Freedos-user] Updates to the FreeDOS website?

2021-02-07 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, February 7, 2021 6:49 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > ... > Do you need a tool tip for the social media icons? Each icon is the logo of a > different social media platform: Twitter, Facebook,

Re: [Freedos-user] FYI: I'm speaking at FOSDEM'21 this weekend

2021-02-06 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Yep, totally clueless over here lmao Anyway, if anyone here is interested in the actual state of the project as opposed to accepting the claims of those quick to discountenance and slow to personally contribute, you're welcome to jump on over to [our

Re: [Freedos-user] Updates to the FreeDOS website?

2021-02-05 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Looks good! IMO, however, the text would look better below the video/image thumbnails. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, February 5, 2021 3:55 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > Do the social media icons on this test page look better?

Re: [Freedos-user] install freedos on eeepc 1201NL

2020-12-11 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I would assume it has more to do with the mode of the disk controller. Check your BIOS (if it even gives you the option) to make sure it's set to the most PATA-compatible mode available instead of AHCI or something like that. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

2020-12-07 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I have a feeling someone left the group up on a mobile device while in a pocket... lol Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, December 7, 2020 12:52 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > This person has been banned for spamming the group. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Make sure your opinion is heard

2020-12-05 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I was thinking something along these lines. There could be a "Classic" install option which installs only the same components offered by MS-DOS, and a "Modern" option which has the same content, but with significant components swapped out for their more modern alternatives - e.g. a newer text

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
There's Y2KPatch which did the job on the dozen-or-so computers I had access to at the time. Be warned, however, that I make absolutely no guarantees as to how it will work on your system... I was a very young coder circa 1999, and I haven't revised it since. You can find it here in the QBASIC

Re: [Freedos-user] Run Linux & Linux binaries on DOS

2020-09-29 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I've never used DSL, but I have used BusyBox back in my Android dev days. So: Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:33 PM, Jason Pittman wrote: > I know nothing about BusyBox, so I'm going to ask a dumb

Re: [Freedos-user] Run Linux & Linux binaries on DOS

2020-09-29 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
"Does DSL allow you to, say, install apt (or another package manager), gcc, make, etc.," No. "or does it only allow you to run the common linux commands shown on the BusyBox website?" Yes. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On

Re: [Freedos-user] Lightning talk at State of the Source summit

2020-09-09 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I signed in then ended up having to run out on a surprise errand, so sadly I already missed your segment. Maybe next time... :) Thanks for the heads-up though! Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, September 9, 2020 3:32 PM,

Re: [Freedos-user] A few suggestions to improve debug

2020-08-31 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
4. Ctrl + Arrow should skip a word at a time, as in most modern text editors. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 31, 2020 1:44 PM, ZB wrote: > 1. I believe it would be handy if it could immediately after its start > perform 'r' (show

Re: [Freedos-user] Open source thoughts about my DOS stuff

2020-08-27 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
On Thursday, August 27, 2020 4:56 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: > ... > Mercury, I thought bitbucket was a relatively unstructured place to "just > upload files"? > ... According to [this](https://bitbucket.org/product/guides/getting-started/overview), it seems pretty GitHub-by.

Re: [Freedos-user] Open source thoughts about my DOS stuff

2020-08-26 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
BitBucket is another option. I haven't used it personally but I believe Maarten has, so he is better suited to answer any questions which may arise about how it differs from GitHub. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday,

Re: [Freedos-user] Happy Camper

2020-08-12 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Nice work. Go, man, go! Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4:56 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > Hi All, > > Today was a pretty fun day… > > After a few hours in CAD, some time 3D-printing, soldering, making a label > and what not...

Re: [Freedos-user] Save the date : FreeDOS virtual get-together

2020-08-07 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Sounds good. Looking forward to it! :D Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, August 7, 2020 3:46 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I really enjoyed the last FreeDOS virtual get-together on June 29. I finally > got to meet

Re: [Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

2020-07-12 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
That's something I could do... as long as nobody minds the delay incurred by my packed schedule lol Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, July 12, 2020 4:12 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: > Hi DOS users :-) > As

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Software Catalog? Open sourcing DOS Apps?

2020-06-20 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I think Chelson Aitcheson was working on something like this called DOSLife... but perhaps I misremember what the project was all about. Chelson, if you see this, feel free to jump in and enlighten me! :) Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

2020-04-05 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
To make sure I'm on the same page with you, you have two video cards in your Mac - the stock Radeon HD 5770 that this model ships with, and the the RX580 you added in, yes? And upon boot, the Mac only shows the boot select screen on the built-in card and not the RX580, and you concluded it was

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

2020-04-03 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Basically that's because Mac OS contains a hardware abstraction layer which separates the updater you're trying to run (and VMWare itself, for that matter) from the actual hardware you're running. It would be best to add the files you're tying to use to a bootable FreeDOS CD, then boot from

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

2020-03-28 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
On Saturday, March 28, 2020 6:34 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: > Hi Mercury, some short answers :-) > I think dates as version numbers are fine when there is no explicit version > numbering. I would use the date of the most recent file, leave the decision > to you whether that means

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

2020-03-27 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Hi Jerome, Eric! On Friday, March 27, 2020 1:16 PM, Jerome Shidel jer...@shidel.net wrote: > Hi Eric, > I took a quick look. > There is some minor confusion and package issues and they cannot be replace > the current packages “AS-IS”. > At a glance… > Are they all newer than the ones already in

Re: [Freedos-user] WinWorldPC disk images...

2020-03-26 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Do you know if they are literally one single disk image simply split into pieces? If so, there are file joining programs to perform this function. Come to think of it, most un-archivers can reassemble the split files into one, but it depends on how the file was split in the first place. Sent

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared Folders on FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 VirtualBox in the Lubuntu ... problems

2020-03-25 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Hi Everaldo! Since Oracle did not include a DOS driver in the Guest Additions image, the Shared Folders feature of VirtualBox does not work on FreeDOS - or even on MS-DOS, for that matter. I looked into creating such a driver once, but browsing the documentation and source code of VirtualBox

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
(or whatever) ago. Oops. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, March 23, 2020 5:06 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: > On 23/03/2020 21:47, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user wrote: > >> I noticed that, but the d

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
hasn't been released yet. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, March 23, 2020 4:40 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: > On 23/03/2020 21:30, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user wrote: > >> Also, the packaged versi

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Thank you! This explains why my searching got me nowhere lol Also, the packaged version of HIMEMX is done and can be found [here](http://mercurycoding.com/downloads/DOS/HIMEMX.zip). Hopefully I didn't miss anything! Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Where would one find the most recent UHDD sources? Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, March 23, 2020 2:33 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: > Hi Mercury, > >> "Creating packages for FreeDOS software that are not

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Cool, thanks for the info! Not that I'm promising anything given my schedule, but maybe I'll be able to throw something together in my limited spare time. Shouldn't be too hard to get the others together since I already built HIMEMX from Japheth's new sources. Sent with

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Point #2 on the wishlist states: "Creating packages for FreeDOS software that are not packaged yet." Do we have a list of this software, partial or otherwise? Or any "top requests" as it were? Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

2020-03-17 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I may as well jump on the bandwagon here... :D I find VirtualBox quite easy to set up; most things just work out-of-the box, whatever the OS you install upon it, and its simple GUI allows even things which do need a bit of configuration to be handled in a fairly straightforward manner. Also -

Re: [Freedos-user] fresh compile for himemx anybody?

2020-03-12 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Here you go... http://mercurycoding.com/downloads/HiMemX Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, March 12, 2020 1:09 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: > Hi all, > >>

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 and Windows 9x...

2020-01-05 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
The easiest way to support Windows 9x software would involve evolving FreeDOS into the 32-bit era, most likely via a kernel upgrade. Hmm, I seem to remember there being some little project aiming to do that... lol But yes, I agree it would be nice to have the option to run some older GUI

Re: [Freedos-user] Updated FreeDOS website

2020-01-05 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Nice work! Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, January 5, 2020 7:21 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: > Hi everyone! > I've been working on an updated FreeDOS website for a while now. And > today, I've uploaded the new

Re: [Freedos-user] anyone here code software?

2019-11-28 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
As we have been known to say on the Night kernel forum... "Why? Because FreeDOS. That's why!" :) Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, November 28, 2019 8:27 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: > One of the

Re: [Freedos-user] Quick FreeDOS 1.3 Live CD Poll

2019-11-14 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
No. No, no, no. Just... no. By the way, I vote 'no' :) Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, November 14, 2019 10:27 AM, Jerome Shidel jer...@shidel.net wrote: > Hi, > I’m just looking to do quick poll on you thoughts and

Re: [Freedos-user] Source code to Windows 9x and ME...

2019-09-26 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
On Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:07 PM, Jon Brase wrote: > ... > But as someone said upthread, finding someone properly placed to advocate for > such a thing internally would likely be very helpful in such an effort. Perhaps Theodore Ts'o or Ky Srinivasan? According to

Re: [Freedos-user] can FreeDOS do anything to make up for Virtualbox and VMWare's lack of decent support for DOS sound?

2019-09-19 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
For those times when VirtualBox doesn't cut it, I use AQEMU, a GUI-based frontend for QEMU. QEMU itself supports SO many options that using it from a command line can be a little daunting; AQEMU's GUI approach makes creating/configuring VMs much more straightforward IMO. Sent with

Re: [Freedos-user] using SoundBlaster 16 DOS sound drivers under Virtualbox

2019-08-18 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Even with a driver installed, VirtualBox only emulates DMA-based sound and not the I/O port based sound used in some games/programs. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, August 18, 2019 6:09 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > Virtualbox

Re: [Freedos-user] How to set up fdconfig.sys and autoexec files for a driver?

2019-07-18 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Perhaps [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e14dFZWi2eI) would be of assistance. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, July 18, 2019 7:58 PM, HTV04 . wrote: > I searched on Vogons, but I couldn’t find anything on what my

Re: [Freedos-user] How to set up fdconfig.sys and autoexec files for a driver?

2019-07-17 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
IIRC, ESS provided some kind of utility which probed the system to detect the configuration of the card and report its findings. Was any such thing included in the driver package you downloaded? Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help reformatting disk for clean install of FreeDOS

2019-07-13 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
IIRC, you just use FORMAT without the /Q switch. Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Jul 13, 2019, 7:29 PM, HTV04 . wrote: > Too late for that, haha. > > How do I force a full format like the installer would do, though? > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 7:27 PM Dale E

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help reformatting disk for clean install of FreeDOS

2019-07-13 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
On Saturday, July 13, 2019 7:16 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: > ... > I think Mercury assumed that you had problems booting > DOS after installing and that you wanted to completely > get rid of all other operating systems and data on the > disk, so he gave you the steps for that. > ...

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help reformatting disk for clean install of FreeDOS

2019-07-13 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I would: 1. Run FDISK and delete all partitions 2. Create a single Primary DOS partition and mark it active 3. Exit FDISK and reboot 4. Run FDISK /mbr to fix the boot record 5. Use SYS c: to transfer system files to the hard drive Then you should be good to go! Sent from ProtonMail mobile

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with QEMU

2019-06-15 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
On Saturday, June 15, 2019 12:57 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > ... > Then you boot FreeDOS in QEMU. Note that QEMU takes a ton of command line > arguments to define each part of the virtual machine. Here's my command line: > > qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -k en-us -rtc base=localtime -soundhw

Re: [Freedos-user] Packet Driver Help

2019-05-09 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
My first thing would be to try booting without JEMM. There's another (better, IMO) Extended Memory driver which doesn't tend to lead to exceptions like JEMM does. Best o' luck to ye! Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, May

Re: [Freedos-user] Choosing an interrupt number

2018-08-04 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I wrote a program years ago which probes the 16-bit interrupt dispatch table under DOS and saves the addresses of all 256 handlers to a file you specify. If you like, I can dig up the old VB source. Let me know. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On August 4,

Re: [Freedos-user] virtualbox int 15 memdisk failure - was: Unable to install FreeDOS 1.2 on VirtualBox

2018-07-31 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Both "int" and "raw" launch properly, but "bigint" gives the same ol' "Invalid Opcode" loop. VirtualBox doesn't have an explicit setting for AHCI versus IDE, but you can get the same effect through what type of storage controller you add to your virtual machine; if you want it handled as AHCI,

Re: [Freedos-user] virtualbox int 15 memdisk failure - was: Unable to install FreeDOS 1.2 on VirtualBox

2018-07-30 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
So, being a VirtualBox "owner", I did some testing. :) First, I tested three methods of installing FreeDOS 1.2: FD12CD.iso, FD12LGCY.iso, and FLOPPY.IMG from FD12FLOPPY.ZIP. The infinite Invalid Opcode loop only occurs for me when booting FD12CD.iso. Oddly enough, booting FD12LGCY.iso on

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install FreeDOS 1.2 on VirtualBox

2018-07-29 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
No problem! Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Jul 29, 2018, 3:34 PM, FabulousKana wrote: > It worked. Thank you very much. > > On 7/29/2018 9:05 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user wrote: > >> I get this every time I install 1.2 on VirtualBo

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install FreeDOS 1.2 on VirtualBox

2018-07-29 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
VirtualBox does support Fast A20, if that helps. I know because I use that technique in the Night kernel :) Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Jul 29, 2018, 3:03 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > > 256 MB should be plenty, but I do not know > what the default

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install FreeDOS 1.2 on VirtualBox

2018-07-29 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I get this every time I install 1.2 on VirtualBox. Try hitting Tab then add " raw" after the command shown. Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Jul 29, 2018, 2:07 PM, FabulousKana wrote: > Hello, > > I need some help. I am using VirtualBox 5.2.16 on Windows 10. I

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking without ethernet?

2018-07-10 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Afaik, TCP/IP interfaces to a packet driver, which then works directly with the NIC. It shouldn't matter over which medium you're ultimately communicating, as long as it presents the packet interface which TCP/IP expects. Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Jul