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
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 worse, the program
writes to disk during
Thanks for your reply, Ralf.
I have a FAT32 partition (D drive). At home, it might be simpler to just
install FreeDOS as the OS on that partition and set up a dual-boot system
(XP on C:, FreeDOS on D:). In fact I'm considering doing just that, and
frankly wouldn't mind recommendations on how to
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 graphics, which are not [fully] supported by
later versions of Windoze.*
Michael -- Thanks much for your reply. Perhaps my reply to Ralf answers
many of your questions.
The program itself is not particularly large and would probably run in
300-400k of RAM. But when running it sequentially loads a lot of PCX images
off disk. The program could be run from a ramdrive to
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 by later
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Based on Debian I believe, there is a download link you'll need to click
to get the iso image. Deepburner is a free CD/DVD burning tool that
works in Windows XP/2000. There is a way to create a virtual floppy
disk under Linux and burn that to CD. I
winxpfix.zip and videoprt.zip have both been tried and neither of them
work. They might provide VESA 1.2 or 2.0 capability but not 3.0.
Between my wife and I, we own six computers. None of them have a floppy
drive.
Thanks,
Bruce
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:47 AM, TJ Edmister
Amazon.com has USB powered floppy drives for 13$
Maybe put together a freedos boot floppy with said program on it
And run it from there
On Saturday, November 24, 2012, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote:
winxpfix.zip and videoprt.zip have both been tried and neither of them
work. They might provide
On 2012-11-25 01:24 (GMT-0500) bruce.bowman tds.net composed:
Between my wife and I, we own six computers. None of them have a floppy
drive.
No drive doesn't necessarily mean neither floppy controller nor place to put
a floppy drive. A new floppy drive is easily found on the internet for
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