Re: [Freedos-user] cannot boot installation media (test Bodhi Linux over Ventoy)

I realized after post that the link to TinyCore I had given is mark as not secure under Firefox. (not distributed over https) (I don't believe it to be much dangerous) but wanted to give an alternative. So I tested (on Ventoy USB key):

Re: [Freedos-user] cannot boot installation media

I suggest: https://ventoy.net/en/index.html (one of the advantage of Ventoy, is that in lower left, it shows if it booted in Clasic mode, or in UEFI mode) Use it to make your USB key "Ventoy" Try it by copying http://www.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/x86/release/TinyCore-current.iso (only 23 Mb)

Re: [Freedos-user] networking over 86box

Le Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:05:10 -0400 Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user a écrit > My apologies for the confusion. I know FreeDOS has internet capability, but > not on 86Box, since FreeDOS for some reason treats 86Box as if it were a > real computer. > > GetOutlook for Android >

[Freedos-user] Ré : Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

Le mer., 10 avr. 2024 06:33:38 -0400 Ramon Riera Marès via Freedos-user a écrit > First of all, thanks to all the Freedos developers and collaborators.  I want > to know if there is any way or utility in Freedos to have > two applications running, for example an outliner and a text

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS install

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/FDT2404-LiveCD.zip worked for me (in QEMU). I have chosen 'Install to hard disk' from the main menu. Do you install in english? Have you verified the file with

Re: [Freedos-user] How to try FDT2404 (Latest test version) on QEMU the hard way + kvm fixed

It turn out that using kvm was giving me the illusion of using kvm... but I missed the warning saying that kvm was not loaded, and that it was falling back on tcg don't know really what it is. The reason was that "Intel virtualization technology" option in "BIOS" was disabled. After

Re: [Freedos-user] How to try FDT2404 (Latest test version) on QEMU

Le ven., 05 avr. 2024 11:38:28 -0400 Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user wrote > Hi Paul, > Just a side note about installing using the FullUSB. > > One of my DOS test machines is an Acer One netbook with a 1Ghz Atom > processor and an ancient 30Gb SSD. This machine has no CD/DVD

Re: [Freedos-user] How to try FDT2404 (Latest test version) on QEMU

Le ven., 05 avr. 2024 09:52:10 -0400 Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote: > Then I create a virtual disk where I can install FreeDOS T2404. I'll > set this up as 500MB, which is plenty big for what I do: > > $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 2404.qcow2 500M I was prefering raw, because I was

[Freedos-user] Ré : How to try FDT2404 (Latest test version) on QEMU

--- Le jeu., 04 avr. 2024 23:45:33 -0400 Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user a écrit > Information given at boot seems to say E: is the INSTALLDISK... but it is > really D: ... I don't know why. Oh, I know... I use to use a .iso file, but this time I use a .img file... so DESTDIS

[Freedos-user] How to try FDT2404 (Latest test version) on QEMU

Hi! Especially to Lunduke fans having their "second part" of DOS week... about one year and a half after first part. So from April 3 to April 10 2024. I am not a paid subscriber to lunduke.locals.com and just observing it from far. I decided to retry FreeDOS after not using it for too many

Re: [Freedos-user] gminer.exe game needs an emulation friendly wait_vsync()

Seems sound work in QEMU if display=sdl but not if display=gtk: https://gitlab.com/freedos1/gold-mine-run/-/issues/2#note_1590502684 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] gminer.exe game needs an emulation friendly wait_vsync()

Finally, after trying many things that did not work, I just added a "delay(14);" to wait_vsync function. You should be able to get the exe from: https://gitlab.com/freedos1/gold-mine-run ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] gminer.exe game needs an emulation friendly wait_vsync()

Problem is that wait_vblank is used to add delays for the game: https://gitlab.com/freedos1/gold-mine-run/-/issues/1 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user]  gminer.exe game needs an emulation friendly wait_vsync()

I discovered that if I comment out the two while (in vga.c): void wait_vsync() {     //while (inportb(0x3da) & 8);     //while (!(inportb(0x3da) & 8)); } Then the game under dosbox run just like under VirtualBox. I have tried all the available options for emulated graphics "card" under

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

t I was receiving when adding iret at the end. Le lun., 02 oct. 2023 13:06:35 -0400 Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user a écrit > I have been able to rebuild the game using prebult cross-compiler from > build-djgpp project. > > When I add __asm__("iret"); > progr

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

I have been able to rebuild the game using prebult cross-compiler from build-djgpp project. When I add __asm__("iret"); program crash as soon as I launch it. Sorry not having the error now. I am trying to: __attribute__((interrupt)) void timer_handler(void *frame) { ticks++; ... but

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

about: https://git.usebox.net/gold-mine-run/tree/src/timer.c Should the interrupt_handler for 0x1c interrupt, end with an iret?___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

Under VirtualBox, sound works (always... sound never worked for  me under QEMU). But always too fast, even if I slow CPU to 1%. I created a gminer.iso file with: mkisofs -o gminer.iso gminer where gminer is the directory where gminer.zip was extracted. Timer code is at:

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

Gold Miner game... Note: I was trying under FDT2308... where you was trying under FDT2310 (need to check this new release!). I just tried under MS-DOS 5 (under QEMU with sb16)... like you described... works sometimes... but always extremely too

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

Seems for me, it never run if with sound under QEMU ( -device sb16 ). Esc stop it with an error code. But it run (extremely too fast!) with gminer -ns -ns means no sound Works well under dosbox however... I think I had tested it only under DosBOX... sorry for that! Don't know for other

[Freedos-user] Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

Le sam., 09 sept. 2023 03:46:59 -0400 Juan a écrit > Hi, > > I used DJGPP back in the 90s, and was a life changing experience for me: > my first contact with GCC and free software. > > I never managed to finish any games back then, but I have released one > recently, and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and the Gemini protocol

Le sam., 26 août 2023 03:52:41 -0400 Bryan Kilgallin via Freedos-user a écrit > I have installed amfora in a Ubuntu PC. And I briefly looked in the > CAPCOM aggregator. > > But I feel lost! Please advise a newbie on browsing Gemini content. > --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and the Gemini protocol

Le Sat, 19 Aug 2023 04:52:05 -0400 Michał Dec a écrit > Hello Paul, > > You could've said "Gopher with TLS". Well, I did not known much Gopher (that seems to have come down in popularity at the end of the nineties). I think Gemini is about middle ground between Gopher and HTML.

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS and the Gemini protocol

I recently learn of the Gemini protocol. What is the Gemini protocol? "1.1.1 The dense, jargony answer for geeks in a hurry Gemini is an application-level client-server internet protocol for the distribution of arbitrary files, with some special consideration for serving a lightweight

[Freedos-user] Fedora Media Writer (allows to restore USB key to previous state)

I love Ventoy too. But on some older Core 2 duo, computer won't start with it. I hesitated to mention yet an other program: Fedora Media Writer: «Destructive installer - "overwrites the drive's partition layout though so it also provides a way to restore a single-partition layout with a

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Networking FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU

Phil Reynolds said: >It seems I have broken packages - got networking now but having a lot >of problems otherwise. Any easy way to square it all up again? You really did not give much info about problems you have. I will try a guess: First you can try: -cpu=host (rather than -cpu 486)

[Freedos-user] Ré : FDNPKG, FDIMPLES, online repositories and usage questions

In answer to tauro message on sept.12: I will ignore part of the messages I just don't know the answer. >With FDNPKG, the default repository is "latest", but I see that there's also "1.3" and "unstable". >If I'm using FreeDOS 1.3, should I use "latest" or "1.3"? What's the

[Freedos-user] The one week in DOS challenge is coming in town!

Lunduke.com does videos and articles about ... retro technologies... and news (often invented) about technologies. See Lunduke.com. And he is now inviting people to do the following challenge: "Within The Lunduke Journal Community, we have talked about doing some sort of community-wide

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : djgpp bash and autoconf for dos, new gcc

The file format used by packages is described at: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Package The packages are mostly developed at: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS But when you download them as zip from Gitlab, they are not in a format described in the Package link given. That's where the

[Freedos-user] Ré : Networking FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU

Recopying part of a message I posted on the Devel mailing list here: You may try to adapt the following line that I use: qemu-system-i386 -cpu 486 -name FreeDOS -machine pc-i440fx-4.2,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off -enable-kvm -m 64 -overcommit mem-lock=off -no-user-config -nodefaults

[Freedos-user] Ré : djgpp bash and autoconf for dos, new gcc

Hi... was aware of the files on Delorie website. Was more asking for Jerome to create the directory on Gitlab, so that I can make a package with your suggested file. I am unsure if autoconf, and automake are used enough to justify having packages for them too. For people wanting to

[Freedos-user] Ré : Windows 3.11 issues about FreeDOS

For first problem, you could look at: http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-internet/en/hhstndrd/base/callver.htm Invalid opcode, means your CPU have encountered an unknown instruction. So it depends on your CPU versus what the program request. In QEMU, -cpu pentium-2 ... or other can

Re: [Freedos-user] Keyboard issue - wondering about typematic rate for keyboard repeats in different VMs and emulators

Eric proposed: "For this, you start DEBUG, then type: a cs:100 mov ax,0305 mov bx, int 16 int 20 g q " As Ah=3 int 16h is marked as PCJr only: INT 16 - KEYBOARD - SET DELAYS (PCjr ONLY) REG AH = 3 AL = 0: RESET TYPEMATIC AL = 1: INCREASE INITIAL DELAY AL = 2: INCREASE CONTINUING DELAY

[Freedos-user] Ré : "The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option"

I guess it make sense if you imagine the development of the project as a series of team working on the project, where the current team must accept the project exactly as received by previous team. Like the first team done a FreeDOS image file, and push it to second team. Second team

[Freedos-user] Ré : Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Activé mar., 29 mars 2022 14:38:06 -0400 John Vella écrit Hi, So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos and wordperfect. I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a virtualbox machine, then

[Freedos-user] Re : DBCS question about dosbox-x

Le ven., 02 juil. 2021 08:49:44 -0400 Eric Auer écrit >Hi! I read on > https://dosbox-x.com/release-0.83.15.html >that DOSBOX-X now supports DBCS for CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) languages. Do you happen to know how they do that? Well, more info about mentioned

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Upgrading the BIOS with FreeDOS

Le lun., 28 juin 2021 14:46:02 -0400 Ralf Quint écrit >> That's a bad example I guess... it does indeed run under DOSEMU2 >> ... but make DOSEMU2 crash: >> ERROR: general protection at 0x7f1952c6d798: 2e while collecting >> information. >That is to be expected. As

[Freedos-user] Re : Re : Upgrading the BIOS with FreeDOS

Ok, now that I revisted: https://support.hp.com/ca-en/drivers/selfservice/closure/hp-pavilion-g6-notebook-pc-series/5082228/model/5141422?ssfFlag=true= I am think it was HP site that was mentioning FreeDOS compatible exe, but when ran on FreeDOS would say: "This program cannot be run is DOS

[Freedos-user] Re : Upgrading the BIOS with FreeDOS

>https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-ca/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=tjgkp=w764=optiplex-3020m-desktop > >the page says: "This file format consists of a BIOS executable file. The >Universal (Windows/MS DOS) format can be used to install from any Windows or MS DOS >environment." but it is

[Freedos-user] Upgrading the BIOS with FreeDOS

I have an example (from Dell): https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-ca/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=tjgkp=w764=optiplex-3020m-desktop the page says: "This file format consists of a BIOS executable file. The Universal (Windows/MS DOS) format can be used to install from any Windows or MS

[Freedos-user] Upgrading the BIOS with FreeDOS

(while reading question 1 of the survey...) More than once, I saw a motherboard manufucturer (I think it is ASUS) claiming to have FreeDOS exe to upgrade the BIOS but found the programs were Windows exe and would not run on FreeDOS. It is becoming less a problem because UEFI firmware

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

Le mar., 15 juin 2021 07:36:06 -0400 Eric Auer écrit >Hi Jerome, ... >How about Bochs? DOSEMU2? DOSBOX? Why would >you assume that people with VM have different >needs than people with plain hardware? Have you tried to run the installer under DOSEMU2? When

[Freedos-user] using suspect partition ... with 1014-15-63 instead of 1015-15-63 booting 1.3-rc4/FD13-LiveCD

While booting https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/previews/1.3-rc4/FD13-LiveCD.zip on VirtualBox I get: - InitDiskWarning: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS: 06: with calculated values 1014-15-63 instead of 1015-15-63 Is it expected?

[Freedos-user] Re : game compatibility CD/DVD drivers: comparing UDVD2 to OAKCDROM and DOSBOX

I don't know if this is really a protection mechanism. BTW: about Bar code for music CD: https://barcodeinfo.org/barcodes-for-music-cds/ I was just not aware myself about this. First time I tried 1.3 RC4 live on VirtualBox today, after installation (had chosen, base with sources), config=2,

[Freedos-user] How to list "active" drives?

I am reading back the list... and I am at the critique of 1.3rc3. I think I saw some post about problems of identifying which drives are "active" (have a driver that drive them). Somehow it was mentions about file manager (GUI one) that helps with that, but seems that it feels not being DOS

[Freedos-user] GUI libs: Turbovision and FLTK (nanox), Dillo browser

I decided to make a small research, and found these libraries suggested to someone: Turbovision: "TVision was developed by Borland (now Imprise) in 1992 (v1.03) as a tool for your TurboC and TurboPascal compilers." "Turbo Vision (TVision for short) is a TUI (Text User Interface) that

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

On 20-04-23 08 h 03, Ludovico Giorio wrote: I checked, and the installer can only see my usb, not the hdd inside the laptop. Message is: "SETUP wasn't able to locate any disks to install FreeDOS 1.1 from." What am I doing wrong? I enabled legacy support in Bios. I formatted my hdd in Fat.

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

There is a bug in  your question! The question given is: should it be permitted access to any internal hard drive(s)? But the suggested answer is: Yes. Prevent access to internal hard drive. Please fix your question before I answer: Allow access to internal hard

[Freedos-user] Re : Re : FreeDos on USB mounted compact flash card

I think I would more recommend Unetbootin than what was in my previous message to burn an ISO image on an USB key (or similar):https://unetbootin.github.io/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

[Freedos-user] Re : FreeDos on USB mounted compact flash card

I don't know. Do you have a key to press that let you select on which device to start? Does it shows your device (appears on the list when the flash card is inserted, and not appearing when the flash card is not inserted)? You wrote Refus (I guess this is rufus). Rufus is doing much

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

Hi! Read a bit about your problem. First, the readme file for the driver says: Place ESSCFG.INI into root directory of C: drive. The other files go into a sub-directory SOLO1. Add this to CONFIG.SYS: DEVICEHIGH=C:\SOLO1\ESSOLO.SYS Add to AUTOEXEC.BAT: LH C:\SOLO1\ESSOLO.COM SET

[Freedos-user] No packages to install: check SATA configuration in BIOS: best IDE (Not RAID or AHCI)

I finally was able to install FreeDOS-1.3rc2 (heu... yes it is not released yet ... had to generate it for many hours). I used FD13LGCY.iso (LEGACY)... as CD1 and CD2 seems gone in RC2. Well, it does not seems this was using CWSDPMI, or trying to generate a big ram disk. So no page fault

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD1 cannot be used, because missing swap file cannot be used on a CD

And now I just saw that after boot, on the R:\ drive I have 1 dir(s) 2,147,123,200 bytes free And I am asking myself if the ram drive is not taking almost all the memory, and that's why it would try to swap things out, to allocate memory. That said, I have 4 Gb in that computer:

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD1 cannot be used, because missing swap file cannot be used on a CD

I have just observed that after I ran on A: fdramdrv.bat then 7zdec cease to page fault. But I don't seems to have enough space on A: or R: to extrace a:fdlive.7z___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD1 cannot be used, because missing swap file cannot be used on a CD

I tried on an other computer today with same DVD (with FD13-LiveCD1.iso burned on it). Same results as before. In fact, just launching 7zdec.exe without arguments results in the swap file not present on C: and the previous page fault. I had tried to: A: cwsdpmi -u   (unload) cwsdpmi -s-  (run

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD2 works live, but only core files, and find no package files when trying to install to hard disk

I have tried the previous FD13-LiveCD2 in an other computer today. With a 1 TB hard disk (SATA). I used Fdisk31 (or 13?) because setup seems to say it has formated the disk but just rebooting and doing the same preparation after reboot. With Fdisk31 I was able to change disk rather than have

[Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD2 works live, but only core files, and find no package files when trying to install to hard disk

Hi, I have tried to burn FD13-LiveCD2 on a DVD. The live mode works fine. When doing FDIMPLES (I understand FD is FreeDos but the rest?), it only shows installed files (I hesit to call that packages, it seems to be only CORE files, like TREE, Debug, mouse, etc.) Was somehow expecting to

[Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD1 cannot be used, because missing swap file cannot be used on a CD

Hi, I have tried to burn FD13-LiveCD1 two times, first time I thought the problem maybe was my DVD not good. Both cannot be used... results in (real Quad-Core CPU computer): Extracting FDLIVE.7Z Warning: cannot open swap file c:\cwsdpmi.swp Page fault cr2==0040 at iep=3c5; flags=3202