Re: [Freedos-user] QuickView 2.60 with MP4 support released

2014-11-25 Thread Matej Horvat
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:51:53 +0100, Mateusz Viste wrote: > The VESA audio is nice (on paper), I didn't know about it. But I > understand it is an INT API, so it would require to have some kind of a > TSR that sits in memory all the time, and responds to such INT calls. I think this is the most e

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-02 Thread Matej Horvat
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 06:44:52 +0100, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Rugxulo: > >> One of the big problems (not counting HTML5 or Javascript or Flash) is >> HTTPS. Not just for DOS but for any OS that isn't top tier (big three: >> Mac, Win, Linux). On DOS, Dillo and Links support HTTPS. > Even th

Re: [Freedos-user] USB to serial adapters and soundcard emulation on FreeDOS

2015-01-11 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:39:29 +0100, Guillem wrote: > My problem is, > though, that being a quite modern HP computer made and bought in 2014, > it does not have a serial port. Under windows 8.1, I have used a > Prolific PL-2303 adapter. It works flawlessly and I can use all of the > serial feature

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

2015-03-31 Thread Matej Horvat
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:38:47 +0200, Rugxulo wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney > wrote: >> This is OS development 101. Do you think a new OS intended as >> a followup to an existing product throws out the baby with the >> bathwater and does everything differently, so existing

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Freedos-

2016-11-08 Thread Matej Horvat
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:51:00 +0100, Mike Powell wrote: > Well, duuuh on my part. For some reason, I was thinking of some hardware > contraption that allowed a USB stick to be identified as a floppy drive, > making it accessable to DOS. :) That does exist, in a way. I have a computer whose BIOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

2017-05-06 Thread MATEJ HORVAT
From: "Matej Horvat" On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:51:00 +0100, Mike Powell wrote: > Well, duuuh on my part. For some reason, I was thinking of some hardware > contraption that allowed a USB stick to be identified as a floppy drive, > making it accessable to DOS. :) That does

Re: [Freedos-user] Using a timer with an ISR in watcom

2018-12-31 Thread Matej Horvat
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:06:14 +0100, stecdose wrote: How would I write a ISR in watcom c? Do you know of any programs making use of this, where I can look at? I think this file in DOSMid by Mateusz Viste is an example of what you want: https://sourceforge.net/p/dosmid/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS version control

2020-02-18 Thread Matej Horvat
I have managed to get Mercurial 3.4.2 running on DOS semi-reliably (at least for local use) with some modifications. I can try to reconstruct the steps needed if you want. There is also Prism, which was written with the explicit goal of running on DOS (in real mode, even), but is not comple

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS version control

2020-03-01 Thread Matej Horvat
On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:39:55 +0100, C. Masloch wrote: I'd be interested in this. I'm using Mercurial for my own projects. I have put the instructions here: http://matejhorvat.si/en/dos/hg/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourcefo

Re: [Freedos-user] Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

2020-03-05 Thread Matej Horvat
On Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:15:17 +0100, dmccunney wrote: I think your fundamental problem is that FreeDOS cannot successfully boot from a 7.8GB partition formatted as FAT32. It may be able to access other larger partitions formatted FAT32 and seen by DOS as D:, E: or the like, once FreeDOS *is*

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment

2013-07-05 Thread Matej Horvat
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:44:45 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > As mentioned earlier in this thread, there could > be some regressions between 0.82, 0.83 and 0.84, so you might > find an older version to be more of your taste. Not regarding > the master environment, but in general. > > PS: I totally agree

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

2013-07-08 Thread Matej Horvat
gment 23B4, almost immediately after COMMAND.COM (it depends on the order in which you load TSRs). Please contact me off-list if you want to try it out. Matej Horvat http://matejhorvat.si/ -- This SF.net email is sp

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Freedos-user Digest, Vol 808, Issue 1

2013-07-08 Thread Matej Horvat
> My bet would be on JEMM as the one which messes with memory control > blocks. You're right. It is JEMM. > Yup. TSRs which are never unloaded would not be a problem, otherwise > they could leave holes, but that's life... One could even re-run your > program and try to relocate the ENV again in

Re: [Freedos-user] 'demo' fdnpkg repository with classic shareware games (test case for FDNPKG v0.95)

2013-07-11 Thread Matej Horvat
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:28:20 +0200, Marco Achury wrote: > Testing your link, I noted that mozilla has not support for gopher > protocol > About one or to years ago I surfed the gopherspace with firefox, today > I can't open your link... You can use Lynx or Mateusz's own Gopherus, or a HTTP p

Re: [Freedos-user] looking for a utility

2013-08-02 Thread Matej Horvat
ECHO? Your text here or just DEVICE?=Your USB driver here since you're going to press Enter anyway. -- Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases hav

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

2013-11-03 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:57:50 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > An alternative solution would be to write an individual > batchfile for each program you'd like to run, and place these batchfiles > somewhere in C:\DOS or so. > > @echo off > C: > CD \ > CD PROGRAMS > CD APPS > CD MYPROG > MYPROG.EXE > CD

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-08 Thread Matej Horvat
se (and Korean and Chinese, because the mechanism is the same) would probably not be that difficult, but it would take a long time to modify everything to support it. Matej Horvat http://matejhorvat.si/ PS: I just wrote all that and found this: http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfil

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 04:02:58 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > If that just returns a charset-specific static table, maybe it > would be some sort of charset rendering and keyboard / input > method driver that actually implements this, not the kernel? Sure, it could also be a TSR. I forgot how flexible D

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:36:49 +0100, Rugxulo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat > wrote: >> PS: I just wrote all that and found this: >> >> http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfile/freedos/index.html >> >> Is that third party software

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDNPKG 16 bit port and other package system improvements

2013-12-06 Thread Matej Horvat
ode a mess. So, to update FreeDOS installations on your pre-80386 machines, you can use my own FreeDOS offline updater - http://matejhorvat.si/en/freedos/fdoffupd/ - it's a bit of a kludge, but it's better than having to download

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

2013-12-08 Thread Matej Horvat
, so it's secure), which you might find useful. Anyway, Opera has had a content filter at least since the 9.x versions and probably before. You can configure it to block content from URLs matching certain specifications (using wildcards). I have created a list which effectiv

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot from USB

2014-03-09 Thread Matej Horvat
Yes. If you are on Windows, Rufus is helpful: http://rufus.akeo.ie/ It will only install a very minimal installation (kernel, FreeCOM, and keyboard layout), so you will have to install almost everything yourself. -- Su

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing from FREEDOS

2014-04-06 Thread Matej Horvat
You might have luck with Bret Johnson's USBPRINT driver: http://bretjohnson.us/ -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Load file sys driver in dconfig.sys?

2014-05-03 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 04 May 2014 01:29:32 +0200, Ray Davison wrote: > What is available for reading NTFS used in WXP, W7? There are three NTFS drivers I know of. I have tested all of them. NTFSDOS: Commercial, no longer sold. The trial version is read-only. Requires files from a Windows installation. No l

Re: [Freedos-user] Load file sys driver in dconfig.sys?

2014-05-04 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 04 May 2014 17:40:54 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Dale E Sterner schreef op 4-5-2014 17:33: >> What does an HPFS driver do? > > Access to the Apple Macintosh / MacOS / OSX operating system's > filesystem, just as NTFS is associated with Microsoft Windows No, the Mac OS file systems are H

Re: [Freedos-user] they could change to freedos :P

2014-05-27 Thread Matej Horvat
If you read the actual article, it was not a problem in DOS or the software running on it, but later on: "After the elections are over the results are loaded on a 3.5-inch floppy disk and shipped to the canton headquarters where the disks are fed into another computer that adds up the votes

Re: [Freedos-user] Sudoku on a 8086 (or anything newer)

2014-06-29 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:53:47 +0200, Rugxulo wrote: > P.S. Did you test the new OpenWatcom support? Your changelog made it > sound like the makefile was updated (no) or an additional one was > included (no). A quick build didn't seem to work for me at all, but I > didn't look too closely. Not a bi

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-12 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 22:26:52 +0200, Dave Stevens wrote: > Quoting dmccunney : > >> Will your computer boot from USB? (This is normally a BIOS option, >> where you would select the USB device as the first thing to try to >> boot from.) >> >> If so, you might be able to create a bootable USB with

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-16 Thread Matej Horvat
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:37:28 +0200, Dave Stevens wrote: > I don't have a spare hard drive to use. I tried rufus and it ALMOST > does what I want but seems to be set up to install freedos on a drive. No, it's not. Did you give it an ISO image? You can just choose "Create a bootable disk using F

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-01 Thread Matej Horvat
On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:23:41 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: > That's a question to those of you who happen to still keep an oldish > hardware machine dedicated to DOS tasks... I usually don't (I triple-boot between FreeDOS, Haiku, and Windows on my main PC), but when I do transfer files between a

Re: [Freedos-user] Is anyone installed FreeDOS from USB CD drive or other USB device?

2014-09-01 Thread Matej Horvat
How did you write the ISO image to the flash device? Maybe you can try Rufus: http://rufus.akeo.ie/ Don't choose the FreeDOS option (that will only make a bootdisk with nothing else), instead choose the ISO option and select the FreeDOS installation CD image. --

Re: [Freedos-user] resending my question is using freedos to network with a laptop.

2014-10-06 Thread Matej Horvat
This might be a good solution for wireless networking in DOS: http://brutman.com/Wireless_for_Classics/Wireless_for_Classics.html -- Slashdot TV. Videos for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gam

Re: [Freedos-user] Request for developers... (fwd)

2021-12-28 Thread Matej Horvat
What is most needed is to compile DOS Arachne as 32bit Potential starting point: https://web.archive.org/web/20150215203536/http://www.drdosprojects.de/index.cgi/other.htm and to give it HTTPS capability via WATT32 & OpenSSL Or LibreSSL: https://github.com/markjolesen/openbsd _

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting Windows 98 from FreeDOS

2023-09-27 Thread Matej Horvat via Freedos-user
You can't start Windows 9x directly from FreeDOS because Windows requires the MS-DOS that it comes with. What you can do instead is start GRUB4DOS from FreeDOS (directly from FDCONFIG.SYS in place of a shell, without loading any drivers at all) and use that to load IO.SYS, which will then l