Re: [Freedos-user] Games

2016-06-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo, some CWSDPMI nitpicking and some memory limits coming ;-) > So DR-DOS 7.03 forcibly needed its own (weird, hybrid, bundled VxD or > whatever) EMM386, which had its own built-in XMS (so no separate HIMEM > needed) plus built-in DPMI (so no CWSDPMI needed). CWSDPMI is both a DPMI host

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

2016-06-19 Thread userbeitrag
Hello! What about Enhanced DR-DOS by Udo Kuhnt? http://www.drdosprojects.de/ And why not use a mixture of Kernel and Userland? I could imagine using either the DR-DOS kernel (which is only free for private use) or the FreeDOS kernel, and a userland made of both or even proprietary parts from

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

2016-06-19 Thread TJ Edmister
On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 07:20:32 -0400, Eric Auer wrote: > > * Is it easy enough to make a bootable USB stick with FreeDOS with > plenty of software included which does NOT need to install to > harddisk but can be used as "live" operating system boot disk? Isn't there a bootable disk image like t

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

2016-06-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mister or Miss Beitrag ;-) > What about Enhanced DR-DOS by Udo Kuhnt? > http://www.drdosprojects.de/ It adds some filesystem features to the kernel, yes. Most extra software which came with DR DOS is not enhanced in that distro, often not even included, as far as I know... In general, it is

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

2016-06-19 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:39 AM, TJ Edmister wrote: > Since I boot Win2K/XP from FAT32, I also have the ability to put FD right > on the C: partition and add it to my BOOT.INI as an option. This needs a > little juggling of boot sectors to accomplish though. I have to ask: why FAT32? I stayed at

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

2016-06-19 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > There are rough directions on using the installer with DOSBox > in the FDI Readme. > > https://github.com/shidel/FDI/blob/master/README.md As it happens, I'm doing something similar. I have an Android port of DOSBox, and an assortmen

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

2016-06-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Dennis, :-) I know this may shock you, but this is a DOS mailing list. You know, people here actively want to use "DOS" binaries on DOS-compatible OSes. I'm just saying, keep that in mind below. On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:11 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:39 AM, TJ Edmist

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

2016-06-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Rugxulo, some CWSDPMI nitpicking and some memory limits coming ;-) > >> So DR-DOS 7.03 forcibly needed its own (weird, hybrid, bundled VxD or >> whatever) EMM386, which had its own built-in XMS (so no separate HIMEM >> needed) plus buil

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

2016-06-19 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, Dennis, :-) > > I know this may shock you, but this is a DOS mailing list. You know, > people here actively want to use "DOS" binaries on DOS-compatible > OSes. It may shock you to realize I'm aware of that. But TJ was talking about installi

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

2016-06-19 Thread Jim Hall
> > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Brandon Taylor > wrote: >> >> As much as I hate to concede, I must. I have found a critical passage on >> the FreeDOS website >> which, in my eyes, discourages further experimentation: >> >> “FreeDOS is a complete operating system. If you choose to install this

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

2016-06-19 Thread TJ Edmister
On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 13:11:12 -0400, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:39 AM, TJ Edmister > wrote: >> Since I boot Win2K/XP from FAT32, I also have the ability to put FD >> right >> on the C: partition and add it to my BOOT.INI as an option. This needs a >> little juggling of boo

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

2016-06-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > In case it hasn't already been made obvious, this is a warning for > inexperienced users who (surprise!) would rather NOT wipe out their existing > OS and data if all they want to do is play around and experiment with DOS. > Perhaps it needs to me