[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Hi! I am having trouble with FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007. I am able to install it OK, and two of the three (four?) boot options work. Option #2 (the default, and the one that doesn't work) results in the following error: "Illegal instruction occured. CS= IP=EEC3 SS=D0B4 SP=0004 ES=0070 ..

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

I am able to boot after selecting option #3 ("Load FreeDOS with HIMEM XMS-memory driver"), but installing the game still fails. Option #4 ("Load FreeDOS without drivers") is unselectable. -Mike Michael Reichenbach wrote: > Booting without emm386 will work, to make emm386 to work you need the >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Robert Riebisch wrote: >> "Line #1 in batchfile 'A:\INSTALL.BAT' too long" > > Please post the first line of "A:\INSTALL.BAT". > > Robert Riebisch Good catch! When I read the batch file in FreeDOS the file is full of gibberish. In Notepad on my WinXP machine, however, it is a properly formatte

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Eric Auer wrote: > Very strange. Maybe you saved it in Unicode / UTF-8? > Or in Word or something ;-) You could try other free > or shareware editors like TextPad to make sure that > your file is really text. Of course it could also be > the case that something on your filesystem confuses > DOS and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

k...@comcast.net wrote: > Hi Mike: > > I use "VFD" to do this under Windows. (It's easy under Linux). See > http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html. You can mount the > image as a floppy drive and copy files to/from it, format it, etc.. > > The other programs I know about cost money.

[Freedos-user] PocketDOS

I have PocketDOS installed on my PDA. It loads a bootable version of FreeDOS from a floppy disk image. I'm having trouble figuring out where AUTOEXEC.BAT and FDCONFIG.SYS are located on this disk. Where can I find it? Second question: can anyone recommend a good text-based file manager that use

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Robert Riebisch wrote: > FreeDOS' BLASTER settings are misleading, because many cards also need > some kind of driver, setup tool, or enabler. > > So you need . Are the BLASTER settings described anywhere in detail? VPC says it emulates the Creative La

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

Bernd Blaauw wrote: > for config.sys only the root of the system is supported, and only the > filenamed CONFIG.SYS and FDCONFIG.SYS (so for floppy most likely > A:\FDCONFIG.SYS or A:\CONFIG.SYS) > for autoexec.bat, it's either AUTOEXEC.BAT or any other batchfile > indicated by a SHELL= line in t

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

Michael Reichenbach wrote: > I am using ndn, it's good, there is a DPMI32 DOS release. Dunno if it > scales also well on low resources. > http://ndn.muxe.com/ > > -mr I am trying ndn. I am able to install it in FreeDOS on Virtual PC on my XP machine, but in PocketDOS I get the error, "Load error

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

Robert Riebisch wrote: > Michael Horvath wrote: > >> Second question: can anyone recommend a good text-based file manager >> that uses few system resources? > > Volkov Commander: http://egner-online.de/vc/en/ > > Robert Riebisch I'l

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Mateusz Viste wrote: > Setting the BLASTER environment variable > > This section may be useful if you are having problems with sound or music in > a DOS-based Apogee game. If you're trying to run a Windows-based game, this > section does not apply to you. > > Apogee's DOS games that use Soundbla

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

Christian Masloch wrote: > Of course DPMI doesn't work on PocketDOS, because it (by default) emulates > a real mode 80286 processor only. (XMS and EMS services are provided by > PocketDOS-specific drivers.) I downloaded the demo version (for x86 > Windows) and it's really nice. It integrates

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Japheth wrote: > You can use the GETSB.EXE tool which is contained in HXGUI > (http://www.japheth.de/hx.html). It reads the SB16 mixer status directly, > thus > it's able to tell the true values for IRQ and DMA. > > A PnP card usually has to be enabled - for SB16, there was a tool > DIAGNOSE.E

[Freedos-user] Compressed folders?

Is there a way to compress folders so they take up less space? Ideally, I would like to be able to compress into a zip file, and still have the OS treat it as a regular folder. As long as other OSs can view/access the folder and its files, then any type of compression is OK. Thanks. -Mike ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Compressed folders?

Robert Riebisch wrote: > Michael Horvath wrote: > >> Is there a way to compress folders so they take up less space? Ideally, >> I would like to be able to compress into a zip file, and still have the >> OS treat it as a regular folder. As long as other OSs can view/acces

Re: [Freedos-user] Compressed folders?

Robert Riebisch wrote: > Michael Horvath wrote: > >> I know there used to be a DOS utility called DOUBLESPACE. Not sure if it >> works for FreeDOS. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleSpace > >> Note also that I have FreeDOS installed on a SD card in my P