Re: [Freedos-user] Compressed folders?

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Horvath
Robert Riebisch wrote: Michael Horvath wrote: I know there used to be a DOS utility called DOUBLESPACE. Not sure if it works for FreeDOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleSpace Note also that I have FreeDOS installed on a SD card in my PDA. Not sure these hard disk utilities

[Freedos-user] Compressed folders?

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Horvath
Is there a way to compress folders so they take up less space? Ideally, I would like to be able to compress into a zip file, and still have the OS treat it as a regular folder. As long as other OSs can view/access the folder and its files, then any type of compression is OK. Thanks. -Mike

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-23 Thread Michael Horvath
Christian Masloch wrote: Of course DPMI doesn't work on PocketDOS, because it (by default) emulates a real mode 80286 processor only. (XMS and EMS services are provided by PocketDOS-specific drivers.) I downloaded the demo version (for x86 Windows) and it's really nice. It integrates the

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-22 Thread Michael Horvath
Bernd Blaauw wrote: for config.sys only the root of the system is supported, and only the filenamed CONFIG.SYS and FDCONFIG.SYS (so for floppy most likely A:\FDCONFIG.SYS or A:\CONFIG.SYS) for autoexec.bat, it's either AUTOEXEC.BAT or any other batchfile indicated by a SHELL= line in the

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-22 Thread Michael Horvath
Michael Reichenbach wrote: I am using ndn, it's good, there is a DPMI32 DOS release. Dunno if it scales also well on low resources. http://ndn.muxe.com/ -mr I am trying ndn. I am able to install it in FreeDOS on Virtual PC on my XP machine, but in PocketDOS I get the error, Load error:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-21 Thread Michael Horvath
Eric Auer wrote: Very strange. Maybe you saved it in Unicode / UTF-8? Or in Word or something ;-) You could try other free or shareware editors like TextPad to make sure that your file is really text. Of course it could also be the case that something on your filesystem confuses DOS and the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-21 Thread Michael Horvath
k...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mike: I use VFD to do this under Windows. (It's easy under Linux). See http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html. You can mount the image as a floppy drive and copy files to/from it, format it, etc.. The other programs I know about cost money...

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Horvath
I am able to boot after selecting option #3 (Load FreeDOS with HIMEM XMS-memory driver), but installing the game still fails. Option #4 (Load FreeDOS without drivers) is unselectable. -Mike Michael Reichenbach wrote: Booting without emm386 will work, to make emm386 to work you need the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Horvath
Robert Riebisch wrote: Line #1 in batchfile 'A:\INSTALL.BAT' too long Please post the first line of A:\INSTALL.BAT. Robert Riebisch Good catch! When I read the batch file in FreeDOS the file is full of gibberish. In Notepad on my WinXP machine, however, it is a properly formatted text

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Horvath
Hi! I am having trouble with FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007. I am able to install it OK, and two of the three (four?) boot options work. Option #2 (the default, and the one that doesn't work) results in the following error: Illegal instruction occured. CS= IP=EEC3 SS=D0B4 SP=0004 ES=0070