Re: [Freedos-user] Hello again (just introducing)

2016-07-17 Thread Marti van Lin
her so far; 3. I'm *not* a developper. All I am is a enthusiast FreeDOS guinea pig in VirtualBox. My goal is to test and make help FreeDOS 1.2 as good as the the complete FreeDOS 1.0 CD-distribution. FreeDOS 1.1. sucked big time IMO, due to the lack of additional package sets. With kind rega

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 9 / OpenGEM 5 Review

2006-06-24 Thread Marti van Lin
Hi Jim and Co, I contributed a FreeDOS 9 / OpenGEM 5 review to the OSNews.com Alternative Operating Systems contest. My goal is to introduce users to FreeDOS/OpenGEM since i have quit some positive experience with this combination on older boxes. If you are interested in th

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 9B2 review tempoary updated version

2006-06-25 Thread Marti van Lin
Unfortunately i published the first version of my FreeDOS / OpenGEM review, which is loaded with errors. So i updated a few things and this is still not the final version, since it still includes some nonsense according to Eric Auer, who wrote me some comments. Thanks Eric, it is highly appreci

Re: [Freedos-user] Uninstaller?

2006-07-29 Thread Marti van Lin
Joe Cosentino schreef: > Only FORTRAN and COBOL. > > Anything else would be uncivilized. > > > - Joe > Well, ALGOL 60 would also do fine, don't you think so? > - Original Message - > From: "Bruce M. Axtens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 6:12 AM > Subject:

[Freedos-user] Great work!

2006-09-04 Thread Marti van Lin
"Blair" distribution, that will be included to the next Free MultiOS release, currently in development, codenamed "Phoenix". Thank you Eric, for making me aware of the great "Blair" distribution, I still enjoy it very much ;) Keep up the good work! With kind rega

Re: [Freedos-user] my FreeDOS review at OSnews.com

2006-09-07 Thread Marti van Lin
x (tried it again with the 1.0 basic CD). When I installed FreeDOS/OpenGEM for this review, I connected the hard disk drive to a Pentium 200 MMX, that was able to boot the CD-ROM. Sorry for that glitch. With kind regards, Marti -- |_|0|_| Marti van Lin Home Portal: http://members.home.nl/ml2mst

Re: [Freedos-user] FD installer

2006-09-25 Thread Marti van Lin
;) - Marti [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > What computers does it work on with out locking up? > > 486dx2 80mhz scsi2 and ide 16mb ram 500mb ide partition (80gb eide) > > It lock up when attempted to boot the install cd from external scsi cdrom. > > hris > http://www.aotksc.com/ &g

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS works for me!

2007-08-09 Thread Marti van Lin
I'm sorry guys and girls, but I've been working with FreeDOS for quite some time and I don't understand why on earth some of you have such problems, getting FreeDOS to work :-/ I've got FreeDOS working on a dedicated machine, without a glitch! In my point of view there's absolutely *nothing* wr

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS works for me!

2007-08-10 Thread Marti van Lin
the install script, because it works just fine! FreeDOS simply isn't for n00bs. Period ;-) > > - Original Message Follows - > From: Marti van Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS works for me! >

Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY

2007-08-17 Thread Marti van Lin
Blair Campbell wrote: > Ive already compiled xcopy with lfn support, but I dont have internet > access to release it. But you've obviously got Internet access to post this message? Anyway, if you want me to host the file for you, on my homepage, just let me know ;-) -- |_|0|_| Marti T. van Lin

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS.COM

2007-08-19 Thread Marti van Lin
Ray Davison wrote: > I have 1.0 CD and boot floppy. I cannot find a SYS.COM. I found the > DOCs for it on the CD. Where is the file? Ray, It's available as a zipfile in: \FREEDOS\PACKAGES\BASE\SYSX.ZIP Cheers. -- |_|0|_| Marti T. van Lin |_|_|0| http://ml2mst.googlepages.com |0|0|0| http:

Re: [Freedos-user] Necromancer DOS Navigator (NDN) and Freedos

2007-08-20 Thread Marti van Lin
Bonnie Dalzell schreef: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Florian Xaver wrote: > FX > > FX >Much better than Midnight Commander is Necromancer DOS Navigator (NDN). > It > FX >has many many features ;-) > FX >You should have installed it. > > when I went to the home pages for this application > > http://

Re: [Freedos-user] Necromancer DOS Navigator (NDN) and Freedos

2007-08-20 Thread Marti van Lin
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Marti! Feel free to reply via the list :-) > >> - The 16 bit real mode version, runs right out of the box - >> http://trmb.ca/files/local/utils/dn640r.rar > > Is this linked from the ndn page / could it be linked from the ndn page? Yes it is ;-) >> - the 32 bit DPMI versi

Re: [Freedos-user] Necromancer DOS Navigator (NDN) and Freedos

2007-08-20 Thread Marti van Lin
Mateusz Viste schreef: > On Monday 20 August 2007 19:25, Marti van Lin wrote: >> I've only had some problems extracting the RAR file, UNRAR gave a >> message "unknown method", so I extracted the files om my Kubuntu box and >> made a ZIP file (to make it f

Re: [Freedos-user] 1.0 CD install hang

2007-08-23 Thread Marti van Lin
Ray Davison schreef: > Eric Auer wrote: >> This happens because you selected a package which tries to >> use the internet to download further files. Sorry guys, that I denied this topic, but this sounds somewhat strange to me, since I was able to successfully install FreeDOS 1.0, (the full Blair

Re: [Freedos-user] Gui for FreeDOS

2007-11-29 Thread Marti van Lin
Shane Martin Coughlan schreef: > Jim Hall wrote: >> Hold on a sec. I was never able to get your GUI to run, so I did not >> know about the Microsoft logo. Why was that ever put on your program's >> boot screen to begin with? >> Now I'm starting to wonder about what's going on. What did I mirror to

Re: [Freedos-user] Gui for FreeDOS

2007-11-30 Thread Marti van Lin
OSCAR GONZALEZ schreef: > > > Hi. > > Ok, but my english is very bad. I see english basic in primary school. אני רק מדבר עברית Just an example, is this what you want? שלום מרטי - SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Freedos-user] Gui for FreeDOS

2007-11-30 Thread Marti van Lin
Jim Hall wrote: > On 11/30/07, OSCAR GONZALEZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi. >> Cual font ?. solo copie unas cuantas fonts de SEAL. pense que eran todas >> GPL. >> De todas maneras uso solamente la llamada "pc8x8t.fnt" las demas las puse >> por si alguien desarrolla una apps y

Re: [Freedos-user] Gui for FreeDOS

2007-11-30 Thread Marti van Lin
Jim Hall wrote: > On 11/29/07, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 11/29/07, OSCAR GONZALEZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> hi. >>> >>> I remove the Microsoft logo from the boot screen and rename the project >>> from "WinDOS" to "FreeWin". >>> >> Hold on a sec. I was never abl

Re: [Freedos-user] Gui for FreeDOS

2007-11-30 Thread Marti van Lin
Shane Martin Coughlan schreef: > Hi Marti > > Marti van Lin wrote: >> Do we really need another GUI? I think not. OpenGEM is just fine, but >> that's only my humble worthless opinion :-p > Well, I think choice won't hurt :) I agree and I feel I must apologize

Re: [Freedos-user] Gui for FreeDOS

2007-11-30 Thread Marti van Lin
Eric Auer wrote: > of course English is preferred but Oscar does not speak > English well, so he is kind of forced to use Spanish > from time to time ;-). Hi Eric, nice hearing from you again ;-) But once more, this was NOT a personal attack, but a request. Just imagine if we start writing each

Re: [Freedos-user] Gui for FreeDOS

2007-11-30 Thread Marti van Lin
OSCAR GONZALEZ wrote: > > Hi Marti. > > Yo no use nada de codigo de microsoft. todo lo que hice esta en GCC 3.0.4 > y es Free Open Source. > > Por favor probalo. > > Todo el problema fue que puse en la pantalla de Inicio un logo similar al > de windows. Sorry. Sor

Re: [Freedos-user] Gui for FreeDOS

2007-11-30 Thread Marti van Lin
OSCAR GONZALEZ wrote: > Hi Marti... > > Please test it. I push Windos in > fpt.ibiblio.org/incoming/freedos/windos01.7z Of course I will ;-) Testing software is my life. There for I have a dedicated box that runs FreeDOS (singleboot) However if you are using Microsoft code, fo

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSUSB,FDconfig,etc.

2008-10-27 Thread Marti van Lin
Kurt Godel wrote: > Most informative, and spurred me to search up 'config.sys'; I found that > MSDOS and W3.11 have the config .sys as a regular text file,i.e., can use > 'edit config.sys'; > but W95 and up, must use 'sysedit', and must start it from Windows, that is: > start,run,sysedit.. Never

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: cd burning?]

2010-04-07 Thread Marti van Lin
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Karen, > > >> it can take say two or three screen readers to equal the >> functionality of one Dos based one. > > Interesting, what makes the DOS ones so user friendly? > >> screen readers for windows >> are in the dictionary for richly problematical. > > In what way? I