Re: [Freedos-user] FYI: I'm speaking at FOSDEM'21 this weekend

2021-02-03 Thread Bart Oldeman
As a former FOSDEM presenter I wish you good luck Jim, also getting up early this Sunday :-) ! I have a little scheduling conflict with the HPC devroom (https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/hpc_big_data_and_data_science/) that I'm helping to organize but I'll have a look at the recording for sur

Re: [Freedos-user] Russian by UTF-8 in FreeDOS?

2006-07-06 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi, On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Henrique Peron wrote: > DISPLAY CON=(,,3) > MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((858,852) C:\FDOS\BIN\EGA.CPX) > MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((,,808) C:\FDOS\BIN\EGA3.CPX) > > Then, you'll type MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=858 for french or 852 for polish > or 808 for russian. UTF-8 is

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot sector not standard? [Solved]

2006-10-29 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 10/27/06, Marton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any chances of a permanent fix or it is actually hard to implement? Something like this: --- initdisk.c.old 2006-10-30 00:30:02.0 + +++ initdisk.c 2006-10-30 00:32:31.0 + @@ -995,7 +995,9 @@ for (num_retries = 0; n

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1...

2007-06-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 6/17/07, Japheth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as Jemm is concerned, only the kernel has to restore "its" vectors. > Vectors changed by drivers/tsrs which are loaded after Jemm can be ignored, > because Jemm saves the current state of the IVT on init and restores it when > an int 19h is

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem to unzip in DOSEMU 1.4

2007-07-23 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 7/23/07, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Florian, > > > It (*) is NOT a problem of the "redirected linux directory..." > [ (*) the problem with unzipping directories in DOSEMU 1.4 and older ] > > Strange! > > > But you will find the message, at DOSEMU list > > There were no messages

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: exFAT32

2007-10-15 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 10/16/07, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32#exFAT. > Would it be much work to add support of it at FreeDOS? Yes, much work, even if somebody finds specifications and it turns out to be very similar to FAT32 (than it might be doable though

Re: [Freedos-user] Incompatibility with EMSDSK

2009-06-21 Thread Bart Oldeman
2009/6/21 jasse...@itelefonica.com.br > I only tested it with 4364KB, which is the same size I use under > DR/MS DOS. This is just a value I found to work comfortably for > all my ordinary applications. I may try other values if you think > this is important. BTW, I have 16 MB total memory in thi

Re: [Freedos-user] [Dosemu-devel] window behavior dosemu/freedos on Ubuntu Linux

2009-07-20 Thread Bart Oldeman
First, there exist workarounds: either put $_speaker="" in ~/.dosemurc or if you *want* beeps in DOSEMU, e.g. for very old DOS games, you should not change ~/.dosemurc but instead configure your Linux window manager, see http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/08/04/replace-the-system-beep-with-a-compiz

Re: [Freedos-user] Only C: can be used in config.sys?

2009-08-10 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi, > Does FreeDOS only accept drivers located on C: so it rejects to load from F: ? this is a known bug in the FreeDOS 1.0 kernel. It's been fixed in newer kernels (from July 21 2007, and newer, e.g. 2038, 2039). Bart

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing symbios SCSI drivers

2004-03-08 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Julien Pierre wrote: > A lot of DOS installation programs modify > C:\CONFIG.SYS and C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT . How do you deal > with that ? I don't like the fact that those files are > ignored. > Maybe you could do some sort of chaining. Process > FDCONFIG.SYS first, CONFIG.SYS next.

[Freedos-user] edit problem (fwd)

2004-03-10 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi Claudia, forwarding this to Freedos-user -- I don't think Eric Auer is on linux-msdos. Bart -- Forwarded message -- To: DOSemu Mailingliste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Bart, hi all. I wonder if you can make it possible to read a file bigger than 64 kB with the FreeDOS edit. In MSD

Re: [Freedos-user] Using the internet with FreeDOS made easy

2004-05-09 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi, this is a fun followup to the problems of 8.3 names and > FreeDOS internet connection. [ that GPL requires 8.3 is bullshit indeed. Though it talks about equivalent access to the source code. If someone who can access the binary can't access the source co

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FAT32 support state (was: FreeDOS beta9 release candidate 5)

2004-05-03 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Eric Auer wrote: > SYS, by the way, hardcodes BIOS drive number to 0x80 for FAT32 boot. Bad. Hi Eric, where does SYS do that? I can't find it: as far as I can see the boot sectors use DL for FAT32 partitions. Bart --- Th

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos in french

2004-05-03 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 3 May 2004, jeff dyn wrote: > I use dosemu-1.1.1-3.i386.rpm under linux e-smith 6, and i find a > freedos who works in french for this system i try with > dosemu-freedos-1.1.1-3.i386.rpm but i cant type "é" or "è" caracteres i DOSEMU 1.1.1-3 is really old now, and the freedos in the rpm

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > I have no idea what Eudora is doing, the e-mails look okay to me going > out with plain style. By the way, your original quote-back was not > wrapped and indented, and Bernd's was, so what does that mean? There is something strange here. Eudora seem

Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

2004-08-26 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > The next logical step will be releasing the source code :) This is not as improbable as it may seem (unlike what Bernd says). It happened with 4OS2, well Matthias Paul already tried as you can see from the forum at JPSoft. > I attach the license un

Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

2004-08-26 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jim Hall wrote: > Yes, this is quite possible. I've emailed JP Software in the past to > (politely) ask that they release the source code to 4DOS, and I intend > to do so again. I would encourage others to do so, as well. However, > please remember to follow the rules of go

Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

2004-08-26 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jim Hall wrote: > Bart Oldeman wrote: > > > > Probably best to be quiet (also polite) now. It's extremely likely to > > happen according to Mike Bessy and he was affiliated with JP Software > > up to a couple weeks ago. Any more requests or q

Re: [Freedos-user] new

2004-10-21 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to fix the problem by changing the $_hogthreshold parameter in > dosemu.conf : neither value that I tried changed anything (0, 1 and 10). $_hogthreshold = (0) causes no idling at all, so dosemu will use 100% cpu time. with $_hogthreshold = (

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Re: GRUB for DOS How-To

2005-01-06 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > At 01:22 AM 12/31/2004 -0800, 16BIT wrote: > > >Grub for DOS prints the following error message if I try and run it with > >FreeDOS: > > > >- > > > >Sorry! Currently supported DOS versions are: MS-DOS 3.30 and later; > >FreeDOS kernel build

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCOM ^Z in copy con indeed broken

2005-10-21 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Eric Auer wrote: Hi, odd, while I remembered ^Z to be working, it actually is broken when testing in Dosemu and Bochs, with FreeCOM versions 0.82pl1, 0.82pl3 and 0.84-pre. This really should not happen :-(. Copy con test.txt type something ^Z --> does not end the copy con

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-11-29 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Blair Campbell wrote: PS: If the C is ever to be compiled with Watcom C, as Bernd suggested, the global functions in the asm would need to have a _ in front instead of behind, as this is (for some weird reason) the way OpenWatcom does things. I think you have this the wro

Re: [Freedos-user] Maximum path and filename length for FreeDOS?

2006-01-03 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Andre Tertling wrote: Blair Campbell wrote: obvious question. What is the maximum path and/or filename length under FreeDOS? I think that it's 2 + 80 + 8 + 3, but I could be wrong. This may be true, but command lines are IIRC limited to 80 chars. It may be possible to

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-09 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Robert Riebisch wrote: Yes. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/XMS.EXE Just google a bit: deja vu: http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freedos/news/press/2000-himem.txt and the consensus was " ... Therefore you cannot derive any rights from it to change or modify it or

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-09 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Johnson Lam wrote: Originally he found 4 bugs, this is one of them. Ok, in that case, what is the bugzilla bug number? I think people are wondering here what this stuff is all about, without any real (reproduceable) technical details given. All we can see is that someon

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-18 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Johnson Lam wrote: Quote a few lines from his email: = I did not "model" QHIMEM after Microsoft HIMEM V2.03, like you know. QHIMEM's source or binary files are very different from V2.03 HIMEM. Disassemblies may only confuse folks. But they are welcome to try. =

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Sorry Jack, but you need to "examine"

2006-05-19 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Fri, 19 May 2006, Johnson Lam wrote: Eric, as Jack did not want to reveal WHY qhimem is, in his opinion, better than freedos himem, Bart HAD to disassemble qhimem to TRY to find out about the things which Jack did not want to reveal. Of course it is Sincerly I beg you not to upset Jack an

Re: [Freedos-user] C compilers.

2006-05-24 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: Didn't someone recently abstract all the DOS executables and put them up somewhere? Sorry for the garbage. In the OpenWatcom site, I only find the installer for windows. No DOS version. I don't think this is hard - you m

Re: [Freedos-user] FOSDEM Retrocomputing DevRoom CfP

2017-12-01 Thread Bart Oldeman via Freedos-user
Hi guys, (still lurking but not a lot of time... over the past years) I'll be at FOSDEM for work related purposes (HPC devroom). Since I'll be there anyway I submitted a proposal for Retrocomputing to talk about DOSEMU and FreeDOS. One exciting development that somehow was missed is that there is

Re: [Freedos-user] FOSDEM Retrocomputing DevRoom CfP

2018-01-07 Thread Bart Oldeman via Freedos-user
My talk was accepted so I'll be presenting in 4 weeks: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/dosemu_and_freedos_past_present_future/ Bart On 1 December 2017 at 08:56, Bart Oldeman wrote: > Hi guys, > > (still lurking but not a lot of time... over the past years) > > I'