Be sure to check drive letters by actually accessing the files that
you know are on them. If your system has an NTFS partition -- or ext2
or any other file system that FreeDOS can't read -- the drive letters
will be off.
For example, my drive C: is NTFS and D: is FAT32 (both on a hard
drive).
Any improvements to the current editors would be nice, but the
following things don't strike me as particularly important:
-- external fonts
-- what language it was written in
-- built-in BASIC interpreter
-- calendar
My biggest complaint about currently available editors are their
restrictions
The usual limitation is a 64K file size. How often must you *edit*
(as opposed to view) a larger file?
Often enough that I want it.
Bruce
--
Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS,
MVC,
These builds are very nice, but if it doesn't compile in Turbo C++
then it does have much use for me. Looking for a DOS binary.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
2013/1/15 bloger blo...@ngs.ru:
В ответ на сообщение товарища bruce.bowman tds.net
I take back what I just said. There is a binary and it seems to work
fairly well. I haven't tried the block functions but if they work then
this appears to be just what I need. Thank you!
Bruce
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:11 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote:
These builds
Can anyone advise on one? Looking for something that can do insertions
of several-byte strings, not just byte replacement. Must run in
FreeDOS. I already use XVI for Windoze.
Bruce
-- Sent from my meager, humble desktop computer.
DEBUG scripts? Wow. I miss those. The poor man's assembler.
I dropped my PC Magazine subscription when it went all Windows, back
in the late 90s.
This *is* the FreeDOS list, right? Haven't seen a post about that in awhile.
Bruce
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Louis Santillan
What I sent you is not a CD image. You have to build the image first using
mkBootableCD.bat, then burn the resulting file myCD.iso.
It seems unlikely that this will work on a Linux machine. If you can't find
a Windows machine then someone else will have to help you.
Sorry,
Bruce
On Wed, Jan 2,
At its most basic, FreeDOS requires only kernel.sys and command.com. I have
some utilities, but I don't have all of them, and won't attempt to guess at
what you want (you can get them yourself at
http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=util).
However, I have put something online for you at
I can readily make you one. I'm not going to do it tonight, though. It is
new year's eve, after all.
Give me 24 hours and I'll provide a link to an ISO that you can download.
If you can give me some idea of what you plan to do with it I can better
accommodate you.
Be advised that FreeDOS will
Just booting a CD and getting to a FreeDOS prompt is something I can
provide without difficulty. If you want to build a custom CD of some sort
using FreeDOS as the OS you can use the instructions at
http://www.k1ea.com/hints/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_CD_V%201.5.pdf
Depending on what drivers etc you
Static/global variables are allocated from the heap. Dynamic variables
(like the b array in your code) are pushed on the stack.
Either use compiler directives to increase stack space or make both arrays
static.
This is not a FreeDOS problem and should not have been posted to this list.
Bruce
I have it working very well on one machine now, using 4 separate batch
files and the FREETEST utility to ensure there's adequate space to do an
installation. Next step is to test the CD on some of the other machines
around here to probe for hardware and/or firmware dependencies before I
start
Is there a comprehensive manual or wiki available for FreeDOS commands
other than what's available at http://help.fdos.org/en/index.htm ?
In particular I'm interested in the return codes.
Thanks,
Bruce
--
Keep yourself
wrote:
Op 27-11-2012 6:45, bruce.bowman tds.net schreef:
In fact I am essentially done with my project but still want something I
can throw in a batch file to probe for writeable drive letters so I can
give the user an opportunity to save a game and resume later (like they
used to).
DOS
, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote:
(part one)
My program is a fairly simple role-playing game. It was originally
written
in Turbo C for DOS, and reads/writes to disk using DOS (not BIOS) calls.
(BTW, which Turbo C version? Some here still use it.)
So it's not NTFS that is bothering
It's true that a lot of developers just quit supporting their products.
I once figured out how much I was making for all the time I was spending on
Dirt Cheap Software. It came to about 15 cents per hour. But I wasn't doing
it for the money -- it was more of a hobby than a business.
I still have
to know three things:
-- Does a drive exist
-- Is it writeable
-- How much free space is present.
If I can't meet these objectives then I'm pretty much at an impasse. If
anyone can offer an alternative please advise.
Thanks,
Bruce
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:30 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow
formats correctly and
reports NTFS drives as missing. I haven't tried 7.1 yet.
Bruce
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:43 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.netwrote:
My batch file seems to have two problems, one of which is that FreeDOS
does not allow compound IFs and/or FOR nesting of any kind
And clarification: I get the dreaded (A)bort (I)gnore (R)etry (F)ail
options along with the error message.
Bruce
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:50 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.netwrote:
One correction: on my XP machine using the CMD command interpreter,
whichfat reports every
for %%d in (c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x) do (
for %%d in (c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x) do call blah1.bat
if exist %%d:\mygame\ (
if exist %%d:\mygame\ call blah2.bat
Yeah, that's pretty much where I was headed.
Perhaps you could run a subshell
for your thoughtful replies and responsiveness.
Bruce
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:50 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote:
One correction: on my XP machine using the CMD command interpreter,
whichfat
, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:25 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote:
I've not written or edited a lot of files using the command line in XP
but
it seems to be able to read and write to any supported file system
without
problems. Hard to say
I'll give it a try later, thanks.
It's important to understand that once I boot into FreeDOS there is no
physical disk partition corresponding to drive D:. My FAT32 partition
(which is drive D: under XP) gets mapped to drive C: in FreeDOS. However, I
do have a drive E:, which is the USB
Yeah, I still have the source. I get an itch to work on it every few years.
DosBox ain't gonna happen. If I decide to go the emulator route it will be
VM.
Bruce
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:01 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
, bruce.bowman tds.net bruce.bow...@tds.net
wrote:
I'll give it a try later, thanks.
It's important to understand that once I boot into FreeDOS there is no
physical disk partition corresponding to drive D:. My FAT32 partition
(which is drive D: under XP) gets mapped to drive C: in FreeDOS. However, I
do
to do that and end
up with a machine that won't boot XP.
Thanks,
Bruce
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:35 AM, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.netwrote:
I'll try to answer some of the questions here.
My program is a fairly simple role-playing game. It was originally written
in Turbo C for DOS
machines?
What's the best way to install FreeDOS on my D: drive (XP is on C:)? For
further game development that might come in handy.
Bruce
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:47 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.netwrote:
Well, I've been working on this awhile and have learned a lot. And most
Freeware program VFD (virtual floppy drive) seems to be doing quite well
for me at the moment for editing floppy images. The program will not fit on
a floppy but this appears to be a prerequisite.
In fact I am essentially done with my project but still want something I
can throw in a batch file
Has anyone tried NTFS4DOS? I had it on a boot CD once that I occasionally
used for data recovery, but in that context it was all menu-driven and
seemed to function a lot like 4DOS (anyone remember that? a poor man's
Windows Explorer). I don't know what its capabilities would be on the
command line
I have MagicISO Maker. It seems to function pretty well.
I do appreciate everyone's comments. Keep them coming, but please don't
expect a response to each one. I need to try to digest them and try a few
things before I get back with you.
Very pleased with the responsiveness of the folks in this
This may be a FAQ.
I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it uses
VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported by later versions
of Windoze.* To make matters worse, the program writes to disk during
operation, and no modern computer has FAT16 partitions
PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
At 07:28 PM 11/24/2012, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote:
This may be a FAQ.
I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it
uses VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported by
later versions of Windoze.* To make matters
25, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com
wrote:
On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 20:47 -0800, Ralf A. Quint wrote:
At 07:28 PM 11/24/2012, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote:
This may be a FAQ.
I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it
uses VESA 3.0 SVGA
...@hyakushiki.netwrote:
Hi, have a couple ideas for you below...
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:28:39 -0500, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote:
This may be a FAQ.
I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it uses
VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported
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