[Freedos-user] Installation

2017-07-11 Thread David
t this gives a boot error. What am I going wrong? David -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot___

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation

2017-07-12 Thread David
iting ISO images before and windows saying they are not valid ISO images. I can write this image to a SD card but this errors on boot. Any help would be appreciated. Kind regards David On 11/07/17 18:10, Ralf Quint wrote: On 7/11/2017 9:45 AM, David wrote: Hi. I can't seem to get FreeDO

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

2014-11-24 Thread David Kerber
On 11/24/2014 7:57 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 11/24/2014 11:08 AM, Carl Spitzer wrote: >> Isn't the Z80 what the Space Shuttle and space Telescope used until >> the last decade. I seem to remember my old RS-4P was a Z80 chip. CWSIV > Nope, the Space Shuttle's main computer was from IBM, based on a

[Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-18 Thread David Griffith
/1/if-archive/) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine -- David Griffith dgri...@cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-19 Thread David Griffith
On Tue, 19 May 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hello David, > > First of all thanks for still caring about DOS in 2015, and on top of > that, caring about how your app works on real hardware :) > > I tested the version of frotz you submitted to us, and I must disappoint > yo

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-21 Thread David Griffith
n fine in DOSbox and crash on real hardware? -- David Griffith dgri...@cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-21 Thread David Griffith
bvious, what major DOS version / vendor is the > OP (David) developing on? Is it MS-DOS or FreeDOS? Does this mean it > works for him in MS-DOS but not in FreeDOS? I'm using DOSBox version 0.74 which reports DOS version 5.00. I suppose the next step is to use one of the VirtualBox

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-21 Thread David Griffith
On Thu, 21 May 2015, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 5/21/2015 1:04 AM, David Griffith wrote: >> I guess my next step is to bring one of my older machines home, clean >> it up, install FreeDOS, and get to work with Turbo C++'s debugger. Can >> anyone offer any explanation why a

[Freedos-user] Doing #include "foo.h" in Turbo C

2015-05-24 Thread David Griffith
DE. What option am I missing that allows the IDE to know where to get include files specified with quotes? -- David Griffith dgri...@cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the

Re: [Freedos-user] Doing #include "foo.h" in Turbo C

2015-05-24 Thread David Griffith
On Sun, 24 May 2015, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 5/24/2015 5:33 PM, David Griffith wrote: >> It has been a long time since I've used the Turbo C 3.0 IDE and I'm >> stumped on something very basic. I'm trying to figure out how to get an >> existing project into th

[Freedos-user] Playing infocom games

2015-11-01 Thread David Griffith
For those of you who like to play Infocom games on DOS, please use Frotz 2.40. The latest version crashes randomly on DOS. I'm working on the problem. Any assistance is welcome because right now I'm mainly interested in getting audio output on Unix working all the way. -- Davi

[Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

2017-02-08 Thread David McMackins
Call me a noob, but is there a preferred way to upgrade from FreeDOS 1.1 to 1.2 while keeping configurations intact? I haven't personally loaded the new installer yet, but I wanted to check before I tried, since my FreeDOS installation is on real hardware. Happy Hacking, David E. McMacki

[Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

2017-05-06 Thread David McMackins
From: David McMackins Call me a noob, but is there a preferred way to upgrade from FreeDOS 1.1 to 1.2 while keeping configurations intact? I haven't personally loaded the new installer yet, but I wanted to check before I tried, since my FreeDOS installation is on real hardware. Happy Ha

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH - unsupported remote protocol version

2017-12-31 Thread David McMackins
the check be if (!(remote_major == 1 && remote_minor == 0)) ? Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.d

[Freedos-user] Connecting to a BBS via a modem

2018-04-12 Thread David McMackins
ance. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org

Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting to a BBS via a modem

2018-04-13 Thread David McMackins
m not sure if I want to trust a mirror. As far as which BBSes are still alive, there exist directories for finding them, and they are apparently popular among people who are interested in vintage tech. A colleague of mine knows more. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member,

Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting to a BBS via a modem

2018-04-13 Thread David McMackins
Is this related to the xtalk available in the Debian repository? Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org On 04/13

Re: [Freedos-user] XMODEM-compatible terminal software

2018-06-28 Thread David McMackins
I managed to get a copy of MS-DOS Kermit. Think that'll work? Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org On

[Freedos-user] DISKCOPY to disk larger than image

2018-06-29 Thread David McMackins
DISKCOPY throws an error if I try to copy a 720k image to a 1.44M diskette. I couldn't find a flag that could do it. I tried setting the size to 720, but that threw a different error. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Asso

Re: [Freedos-user] DISKCOPY to disk larger than image

2018-06-29 Thread David McMackins
But if I use dd on my Linux box, DOS sees it as a 720k filesystem. It doesn't appear to be a hardware limitation. This seems like a software limitation or bug. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Sof

Re: [Freedos-user] DISKCOPY to disk larger than image

2018-06-29 Thread David McMackins
You're right that dd just moves data. But the fact that by merely moving data it creates what appears to DOS to be a 720k file system that it can read and navigate correctly demonstrates that it's not a hardware problem. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member,

Re: [Freedos-user] Please remove me from your mail list. No longer active. Thanks

2018-07-01 Thread David McMackins
Hi, Tony. I'm not on the mailing list staff, but you can unsubscribe here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/lists/freedos-user/unsubscribe Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#

[Freedos-user] Networking without ethernet?

2018-07-09 Thread David McMackins
x27;t even have an ethernet card. Supposing I could find a working phone line and dial-up service to connect the modem to, is there hope of using TCP/IP applications like wget over it using the software available to me? Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking without ethernet?

2018-07-10 Thread David McMackins
Even if I did, that doesn't answer my question. Even if I get connected to dial-up, will TCP/IP applications still work, or will they complain about drivers since they are trying to access a NIC? Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#22

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking without ethernet?

2018-07-10 Thread David McMackins
I understand this. I guess my question was really: where can I get a packet driver that will communicate over my phone line instead of a typical NIC? Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation

[Freedos-user] Global preferences for EDIT

2018-07-15 Thread David McMackins
I would like to save my settings for EDIT in such a way that they take effect everywhere. Seems to me, when I choose to save, it puts a file in the current directory, and the settings only work when launching from that directory. Is there a way to do this? Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II

Re: [Freedos-user] Global preferences for EDIT

2018-07-16 Thread David McMackins
What EDIT preferences would you want to set globally and have them always active? In my particular case, I always want full tabs (real tab characters) when I strike the tab key. I don't like how when I read a file with tabs, I am prompted to expand them into spaces. Happy Hacking, Da

[Freedos-user] Tandy 1000 compatibility

2018-07-21 Thread David McMackins
Has anyone here ever tested FreeDOS on a Tandy 1000? I've been considering getting one for some software testing, but it occurred to me that its slight differences might not be compatible with FreeDOS. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Found

Re: [Freedos-user] Tandy 1000 compatibility

2018-07-22 Thread David McMackins
st for casuals who want software to "just work". I'm after the authentic experience, not "close enough". Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.or

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking without ethernet?

2018-07-22 Thread David McMackins
o use it already). If the users on this list can work together and get me the pieces I need to make a working setup for this, I'd be more than happy to compile it all into a comprehensive how-to document for future users. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic

[Freedos-user] SLIP packet driver

2018-07-31 Thread David McMackins
knows. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fs

Re: [Freedos-user] SLIP packet driver

2018-07-31 Thread David McMackins
Ah, it appears I should've looked past my nose. FreeDOS's own Crynwr package has a SLIP driver. Is using it as simple as just running SLIP8250.COM? Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software

Re: [Freedos-user] SLIP packet driver

2018-08-01 Thread David McMackins
about what I need and an insult to my intelligence. If I knew how to use a SLIP driver, I wouldn't have asked, but since I don't know, I asked, and you take that as an indication that it's of no use to me. How does that help anyone? Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporti

Re: [Freedos-user] SLIP packet driver

2018-08-01 Thread David McMackins
Fair enough. I'll get on that. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org On 08/01/2018 05:54 AM, Z.B. wrote:

[Freedos-user] Choosing an interrupt number

2018-08-04 Thread David McMackins
I'm wanting to set up a packet driver, but it asks for which packet int number to use. From the packet driver specification, I see this is supposed to be between 0x60 and 0x80, but how can I tell if any of these are already taken? Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting M

Re: [Freedos-user] Choosing an interrupt number

2018-08-04 Thread David McMackins
Can't hurt to have. I'll probably translate it to C. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org On 08/04/

Re: [Freedos-user] rcal v1.0

2018-08-07 Thread David McMackins
Why does your "copying policy" say MIT but the license in RCAL.TXT is GPL? Confusing. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org w

Re: [Freedos-user] rcal v1.0

2018-08-07 Thread David McMackins
Based on the terms of the GPL, I think the package info file should say GPL since the package must still be distributed under the terms of the GPL (that's how copyleft works). Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate M

Re: [Freedos-user] why isn't anyone answering my question?

2019-07-17 Thread David McMackins
or is willing to put forth the effort for a complete and correct answer, they are not obligated to find one for you. Instead of pestering the list for not answering a question they very likely didn't even receive, why not just ask your question again? Happy Hacking, David E. Mc

Re: [Freedos-user] why isn't anyone answering my question?

2019-07-17 Thread David McMackins
Yes, that is the correct list, but it didn't come through. When you send something to the mailing list, you should get it in your own inbox when it is forwarded from the list. If you did get that, then maybe something happened on the mail server at just the wrong time. Happy Hacking,

Re: [Freedos-user] HP laptop touchpad

2019-08-06 Thread David McMackins
connected, then I get your symptom of erratically moving cursor as well as display glitching. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com On 8/6/19 2:19 PM, Tom Messmer wrote: > Hello, > I have an old HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop that I’ve installed Freedos on. I’m &g

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2019-08-19 Thread David McMackins
vmdk is a virtual machine image for VMWare. You want to use the img file. Use a disk imaging software to image your drive using the img file as the image. Regards, David E. McMackins II www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com On 8/19/19 5:39 AM, kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends > >

[Freedos-user] DOS Frotz 2.50 beta1 is out

2019-10-08 Thread David Griffith
frotz/ using Turbo C. A finished executable is also available at https://661.org/proj/if/frotz/frotz250b1.zip -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most anno

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Frotz 2.50 beta1 is out

2019-10-09 Thread David Griffith
like "Running $GAME on an IBM 5150 brought the machine to a crawl" would suffice. I'm trying to make sure Frotz works tolerably on a 5150 for at least Infocom's games. Newer V8 games written in Inform7 I'm sure would cause trouble. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: B

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Frotz 2.50 beta1 is out

2019-10-09 Thread David Griffith
My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too. On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Mateusz Viste wrote: On 10/8/19 11:43 PM, David Griffith wrote: Yesterday I tagged and released the first beta test of DOS Frotz 2.50. Most of the work that went into the DOS interface focus on improving stablity

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Frotz 2.50 beta1 is out

2019-10-10 Thread David Griffith
ured that its discussion here would be welcome. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Frotz 2.50 beta1 is out

2019-10-10 Thread David Griffith
My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too. On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Mateusz Viste wrote: On 10/10/19 7:49 AM, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Mateusz Viste wrote: Would you mind sharing what was the bug? It has something to do with memory allocation for the undo

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS and Samba

2019-10-13 Thread David Griffith
yes writable = yes valid users = dave -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ Freed

Re: [Freedos-user] anyone here code software?

2019-11-28 Thread David Griffith
. I try to keep DOS Frotz up to date. Ask away! -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

2019-12-09 Thread David Griffith
ists version 2.43, which has a several memory allocation problems that were fixed in 2.50. It's available as an executable in http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/frotz250.zip -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read tex

[Freedos-user] Upgrade Frotz to 2.50

2019-12-14 Thread David Griffith
The version of Frotz included in 1.3rc2 is still 2.43. Could we get that upgraded to 2.50? This release fixes a bunch of rather severe memory allocation bugs. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS version control

2020-02-20 Thread David Griffith
ut: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6588/source-code-control-on-an-ms-dos-system -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-02 Thread David Griffith
have written them fifteen years ago but i didn't back > then due to various reasons. I am really not afraid that someone else > could get rich with my software, my experience is rather that nobody > really cares. So what? I've seen a lot of drive-through video screens using

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

2011-06-02 Thread David Griffith
reciate very much what you folks are doing and hope that I can help > in some way. > I program in FORTH using a FORTH Interpreter/Compiler that I wrote > myself in assembler. This is a way-out-there what-if, but anyhow... How much trouble would it be to make FreeDOS explicitly rea

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-03 Thread David Griffith
; > Like you, for me it is a hobby ... hobbyists are my first priority. I've taken several gigs servicing video kiosks in physicians' offices. These things consist of an LCD video display hung on the wall with a PC screwed to the back. They use a POTS modem to call in and update thems

Re: [Freedos-user] IMPORTANT "Off Topic" -- U.S. Medical Costs!!

2011-08-02 Thread David Griffith
;re for or against it, euthanesia should be treated very carefully to avoid even the slightest suggestion of just killing someone because it's cheaper. I'm in the US and Obama's meddling resulted in my insurance costs going way up. Now about "too big to fail"... How a

[Freedos-user] changing caps-lock

2011-12-06 Thread David Griffith
Does anyone here know how I can change caps lock into another control key? Would it work for DOSBOX as well? -- David Griffith dgri...@cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most

[Freedos-user] re-porting Frotz to DOS

2011-12-06 Thread David Griffith
here instead of seperate files. I want to make sure the result is usable on the IBM PC 5150. I have a copy of Turbo C 2.01, which should be good enough. Does anyone here have any other suggestions? -- David Griffith dgri...@cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally re

Re: [Freedos-user] re-porting Frotz to DOS

2011-12-07 Thread David Griffith
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:30 AM, David Griffith wrote: Recently I've dusted off Frotz and am actively working on it now.  One of the things I'd like to do is incorporate the changes I've made to the core back to DOS Frotz.  In particular

Re: [Freedos-user] re-porting Frotz to DOS

2011-12-07 Thread David Griffith
and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. The "Z" of Z-machine stands for Zork, Infocom's first adventure game. Frotz was originally written in C by Stefan Jokisch in 1995 for DOS. By 2002, development stalled and the program was picked up by David G

[Freedos-user] data type length problem

2011-12-11 Thread David Griffith
long)); printf("sizeof(long long) == %i\n", sizeof(long long)); printf("ID_FORM == %lu\n", ID_FORM); printf("ID_IFZS == %lu\n", ID_IFZS); printf("ID_IFhd == %lu\n", ID_IFhd); pri

Re: [Freedos-user] data type length problem

2011-12-11 Thread David Griffith
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > At 08:41 PM 12/11/2011, David Griffith wrote: >> Would someone take a look at this test code and give me some advice? >> An unsigned long is four bytes under both Linux and 16-bit DOS. Why >> then do my unsigned longs get cho

Re: [Freedos-user] data type length problem

2011-12-11 Thread David Griffith
d I miss something like that? This revelation may come in handy when dealing with some uint32 types. -- David Griffith dgri...@cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the m

[Freedos-user] ogg-vorbis for DOS

2012-01-07 Thread David Griffith
Does anyone here have or know of any 16-bit-clean sample code to stream Ogg Vorbis files from the hard disk? I'm trying to figure out how much of the Blorb standard I can implement in 16-bit DOS Frotz. -- David Griffith dgri...@cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which p

[Freedos-user] network printing

2012-06-27 Thread David Lawson
I am not a programmer so I have no clue how to go about this, but I would like to share my thought. Maybe someone would like to run with it. Is it possible to modify the mode command to redirect lpt output to netcat? Perhaps the parameters could be set with a separate configuration file. At my lo

[Freedos-user] Seeking help in porting some stuff to DOS

2012-08-14 Thread David Griffith
e out how to make the Blorb code work in 16-bit mode. Would someone please take a look at it and help me out? The repository is https://github.com/DavidGriffith/frotz. -- David Griffith dgri...@cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread David Kerber
> -Original Message- > From: Single Stage to Orbit [mailto:alex.bu...@munted.eu] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 1:12 PM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question? > > On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 16:36 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > > I rememb

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-29 Thread David Kerber
On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wrote: >> XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. > I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it, but I'm > assuming a flexible definition of "run". > > How long did it take to boot? What could you do

Re: [Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-29 Thread David Kerber
On 12/29/2012 1:31 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Kerber > wrote: >> On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wrote: >>>> XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. >>> I'll as

[Freedos-user] Playing AIFF in DOS

2013-10-29 Thread David Griffith
Does anyone here know of any good C code for playing AIFF files under DOS? I'm trying to get DOS Frotz modernized, so to speak. -- David Griffith dgri...@cs.csubak.edu -- Android is increasing in popularity, bu

Re: [Freedos-user] Playing AIFF in DOS

2013-10-29 Thread David Griffith
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Karen Lewellen wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, David Griffith wrote: > >> >> Does anyone here know of any good C code for playing AIFF files under DOS? >> I'm trying to get DOS Frotz modernized, so to speak. > I cannot speak for your computer, wh

Re: [Freedos-user] Playing AIFF in DOS

2013-10-30 Thread David Griffith
I got the files, but not the source code, which is what I'm primarily after. On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi David, > I will send both files to you as an attachment. the text file should be > no issue. However some services do not allow .exe files to come t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

2020-03-19 Thread David McMackins
I don't know how much of an effect running in 32-bit mode has on the performance of the newer CPU, but I thought it was worth mentioning as a possible reason why an unofficial distribution might run better on a Pi 4. Regards, David E. McMackins II www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com _

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

2020-10-08 Thread David Griffith
istory Museum in Sunnyvale CA. See http://www.bitsavers.org/ and http://www.bitsavers.org/. -- David Griffith d...@661.org ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Crynwr package contains PCNTPK.COM

2021-06-03 Thread David Calman
Does this mean it will be pulled from the distribution? Or does it mean we'll actually try and address this issue head-on, because now it affects two packages? I think FDNET is pretty mission-critical, given it's in the default FDAUTO.BAT. The problem with that, if what I read on the wiki is corre

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS-based verification of a tool-assisted speedrun

2021-10-25 Thread David Fifield
Here is information about using FreeDOS installed on a laptop to play back a speedrun of an old DOS game: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22864 Tool-assisted speedruns are not made by playing a game in real time; instead they are made in an emulator, with each segment being replayed an

[Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive ok

2007-12-04 Thread David Zabriskie
I have a DOS application that creates DMF formated floppys, but it needs dos as a host OS. I'm using laptop that has a bootable cd drive and winxp home in single a hd partition in NTFS. There is only about 4gb free, but I could repartition to free 1gb and create a fat32 partition in it to hold

Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive o

2007-12-05 Thread David Zabriskie
s-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - > I can boot from a CDROM drive ok > > > Hi David, > > actually a few 100 MB FAT16 should be fine for DOS already :-) > Remember to use LBA partitions if you pu

Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive o

2007-12-05 Thread David Zabriskie
t; I can boot from a CDROM drive o > > > Hi David, > >> I booted the install disc and got it mostly done, but I'm having >> difficulty setting up TCP/IP. The config script detects the laptops >> onboard ethernet port (Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC

Re: [Freedos-user] Information on WinDos/FreeWin ?

2007-12-07 Thread David Zabriskie
the place to download the software is just a seller of domains / hosting? no download ? http://xthost.info/ http://two.xthost.info/freewinx/freewin.zip and http://two.xthost.nfo/freewinx/freewin1.zip both redirect back to http://xthost.info is there some where else to download from? ---

[Freedos-user] disc partitition / filesystems FDos undertands

2007-12-07 Thread David Zabriskie
I saw there was a tool that looked like fsck from unix (dosfsck) is says it understands fat32(LBA) so I tried to reinstall with fat32(lba) the bootable cd crashes just after detecting the hard drive, so I'm guessing the OS doesn't want itself on a fat32 fs? I guess I'll have to live with a *b

Re: [Freedos-user] Information on WinDos/FreeWin ?

2007-12-07 Thread David Zabriskie
found it in a search engine -- sorry I got it installed and get to program manager window. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:53:30 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Information on WinDos/FreeWin ? > > > > > the place to download the

[Freedos-user] virtual OS/bootdisk?

2008-07-21 Thread david lowe
I am wondering if it's possible (and allowed) to burn the FreeDOS OS on a cd, instead of preparing to install it to my hard drive. I want to use it to use it primarily as a bootdisk and to scan and repair for errors. I don't plan on installing just yet, because I need to do a major overhaul

[Freedos-user] USB Question

2009-06-11 Thread Relson, David
PI.sys and DI1000DD.sys work to provide USB support under FreeDOS. Can someone point me toward documentation for these drivers? I'm looking for information on how to call them from C (although asm level docs would be fine). Thanks in advance for your help.

Re: [Freedos-user] more makefiles.

2009-06-17 Thread Relson, David
ing built (using the information in 'makefile'). Sometimes makefiles may have a name other than 'makefile'. If your makefile is named "kurt.mak" then running "make -f kurt.mak" tells the make command to use "kurt.mak" rather than "makefile".

[Freedos-user] upgrading

2009-10-01 Thread david lowe
A while back I asked 'upgrading', & I had a list of Windows-compatible utilities that needed DOS equivalents. I'm not asking about Win-compatible games, they may be a lost cause. I need a driver for a USB flash drive, & probably one for a broadband modem. (I know ClamWIN has a DOS equivalent,

Re: [Freedos-user] uprgrading (Bernd Blaauw)

2009-10-01 Thread david lowe
Thanks for responding. I have my own folder for this newsletter, & I have @ 300 issues in it. Maybe I'll throw together a book someday. But I think it may have been before that. The modem is tied into the motherboard, but it's a direct cable connection. I don't know the brand name, but

[Freedos-user] dualboot systems

2009-12-01 Thread david lowe
I was checking out a Linux page today & I saw an entry about dualboot systems. Of course, I've heard about this on a few other occasions, & I'd like to try it. But I'm fairly sure FreeDOS doesn't support this option. I've tried burning the OS to a cdrw, but _vista_ (intentionally lowercased)

Re: [Freedos-user] Determining partition types (NTFS, etc)

2010-01-12 Thread david lowe
Determining partition types (NTFS, etc) Please excuse my 'newbie' question... I'm considering setting up a dual-boot (or more) system. How do I determine what type partition my system has? Hopefully I'll end up with both FreeDOS & Linux on the same drive. Thanks for your patient support. > From

[Freedos-user] Dualboot with Knoppix?

2010-08-11 Thread david lowe
Has any FreeDOS user ever dualbooted with Knoppix (DSL)? > From: freedos-user-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Freedos-user Digest, Vol 382, Issue 1 > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:01:57 + > > Send Freedos-user mailing list submissions to >

[Freedos-user] Re: Help.. Freedos not.. FREE

2004-10-13 Thread David Williams
below... Maybe the Burn did not go well... NERO does that correctly if you use the Image Copy right? Maybe it's a bad IMAGE... Please help.. David Arkady, Ok.. cool.. I'll Email them.. this note..! Thanks you so much! David - Original Message - From: "Arkady V.Belouso

[Freedos-user] Maintainer of UDMA and UDMA2?

2005-08-02 Thread David Müller
Hello Who is the right contact if i like to send in patches for UDMA and UDMA2? Dave --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative We

[Freedos-user] Re: What are some open-source DOS games?

2005-09-01 Thread David O'Shea
'm also not sure how good the maps are. Sorry but I haven't researched this further! Maybe you can find some other games at http://www.allegro.cc/ Regards, David --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Confe

Re: [Freedos-user] MEM (with PC Tools output format)

2005-09-20 Thread David O'Shea
ble so that (a) users get the familiar 'MI' command to enter on the command line and (b) we can have a matching set of parameters - it would probably be confusing if /A means one thing if you specify /MI and another if you didn't :) Regards, David ---

[Freedos-user] Re: MS-DOS 7.10 ISO & Windows 3.1 drivers

2005-11-03 Thread David O'Shea
s! I just note that in some countries and with some service providers/sites you can get in trouble just for posting links to things. Regards, David --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Gero

Re: [Freedos-user] Improve FORMAT status with "counter"

2005-12-08 Thread David O'Shea
I once wrote a tool in QuickBASIC which provided a "nice" interface for formatting and called "FORMAT" for the acutal format and it would be nice to write a tool in C with Turbo Vision that did things "properly" now I'm a better programmer :) Is there a wish list somewhe

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: FORMAT 0.91v - floppy and UI improvements

2006-01-07 Thread David O'Shea
n call - the _() macro just passes through the first three parameters unchanged when MUSCHI is not defined and modifies the third one when it IS defined. Does this sound okay to you? It's definitely one of those cases where someone new to the code isn't going to immediately work out

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

2006-01-23 Thread David O'Shea
think that's what maintains it anyway). I guess you could work around that limitation with a TSR that continually polled to find out if there was any room in the buffer and added additional characters once room was available (due to the application reading the keystrokes). Regards, Davi

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-03 Thread David O'Shea
7;t > sign SMB packets. Does Samba support those things? If so then at least there is hope that one could port parts of the Samba code to DOS. I suppose the encryption code may take up significantly more memory though? Regards, David --- T

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

2006-02-07 Thread David O'Shea
provide 124 or 64K characters. Maybe 16 isn't the BIOS limit after all? It sounds like the tool that supports 64K characters is a TSR, but the 124 character one probably isn't so maybe THAT is what the BIOS limit is? Or perhaps that is more related to the maximum length of the DOS comm

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