Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

Op 25-11-2012 4:28, bruce.bowman tds.net schreef: > The bootable CD images that I've been seeing for FreeDOS and DOS 7.1 are > all /installation/ disks that first fake a floppy drive and then load a > bootable floppy disk image that cannot be edited. I don't want to > actually install DOS and over

[Freedos-user] Bruce

Bruce, et al, I have reinstalled XP hundreds of times, and I always preformat the XP's partition(usually c) with fat32; this forces the XP install to give the option to install XP on fat32, which I always choose. it may be that some windows apps *must* run in ntfs, but I've never used one. As

Re: [Freedos-user] Bruce

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:47 AM, kurt godel wrote: > Bruce, et al, > I have reinstalled XP hundreds of times, and I always preformat the XP's > partition(usually c) > with fat32; this forces the XP install to give the option to install XP on > fat32, which I always choose. > it may be that som

[Freedos-user] Bruce2

I just found that ImgBurn 2.4.2.0 can create/ burn img's, after you've edited the files by the aforementioned method; and MagicDisk 2.7.106 is said to do the same. They are both windows setups. I will try them. -- Monitor y

Re: [Freedos-user] Bruce2

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 g

[Freedos-user] Bruce3

Whoa!!, The magicdisk appears to be a hack; from some of it's online description, probably from Asia, judging by grammatical errors. It does'nt work right: when you click on the shortcut, it only puts a virtual cd in the task panel, and keeps trying to access the internet. Fortunately, I always

Re: [Freedos-user] Bruce3

Hi, If you just want to make a bootable .ISO from floppy image, you can use MKBISO. http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm You can edit and modify the floppy image file from QEMU (etc). Reading and writing to floppy can be done with dd and/or Raread and Rawrite (etc). O

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

Hi, Just for clarity, since I am not exactly sure what you meant, On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 9:28 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote: > > 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.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

Hi, On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > 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 flop

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

-Original Message- From: bruce.bowman tds.net 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. www.tigerdirect.com loo

[Freedos-user] Re (2): FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

From: Carl Spitzer Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:14:38 -0800 > ... likely there will still be uses for some things with floppies for a while. To illustrate, the basic PC Native Oberon system is installed from one diskette. Another 3 diskettes provide the complete system including GUI, network

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

also at www.floppydisk.com they have usb floppy drives that are plug-and-play compatible with windows. i have 2 and they're great under windows 7 64-bit.   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com .

Re: [Freedos-user] Try gparted on a live CD.

You also might consider the well known and handy open source System Rescue CD . It has 32 & 64-bit boot selections as well as boot options for the command line used for starting LINUX. A USB version is available as well. Yes it does have gparted

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

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, and reads/writes to disk using DOS (not BIOS) calls. It runs in 256 palletized colors on a 640x480 console. While running, it frequently reads image files o

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