Re: [Freedos-user] migrating from dos to freedos, serial port support?

At 05:37 PM 11/21/2010, Geraldo Netto wrote: >Folks, a friend of mine wants to migrate from dos to freedos >actually there are no issues by now, once he is just planning... > >but to make sure things will be okay, i'd like to ask >what is the status of serial port support? DOS doesn't not support

Re: [Freedos-user] 387 emulator

At 11:44 AM 11/24/2010, Rugxulo wrote: >Hi, > >On 11/24/10, charles wrote: > > > > I have recently installed freedos 1.0 on my 486sx laptop. I am now > > looking for a math coprocessor emulator that won't kill emm386. Any > > suggestions? > >What apps are you trying to run? It might be easier to

Re: [Freedos-user] 387 emulator

At 12:31 PM 11/24/2010, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > What he is looking for is a TSR which provides x87 emulation ... >right > > > Best chance would probably is if any author of the EMM386 versions > > around here could comment and eventually work with him together to > > fix any incompatibilities... >as

Re: [Freedos-user] XT REGs

At 07:28 PM 3/28/2011, Alvin P. Schmitt wrote: >Hi -- I am a newbie to freedos. Does FREEDOS only use the XT >register set when compiling programs? Thanks. Alvin... Well, beside that FreeDOS itself doesn't compile any programs, what do you refer to as "XT register"? What x86 level of registers

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: ASM Book

At 11:05 AM 5/28/2011, Santiago Almenara wrote: >Hi, > >Excuse me for the OT but I think there are some that can help me here. > >I am trying to learn assembly language. Most of the books, I've >gotten, have its own set of libraries (eg. HLA, Irvine, etc), I want >one that I can learn all INT 21H

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

At 06:05 AM 6/6/2011, Marco Achury wrote: >Really is a great marketing oportunity. There a lot of great linux >distros that never >have received the oportunity to be marketed by HP and Dell They don't "market" anything. They just use a copy of FreeDOS on a media within the box when they ship a

Re: [Freedos-user] Packet Driver

At 09:00 AM 7/18/2011, Karen Lewellen wrote: >the wireless aspect might make a difference though? both of mine are for >wired setups. >Karen Yes, as someone already mentioned, this makes in fact all the difference! It does not only take a(ny) packet driver for him to get working, it would take

Re: [Freedos-user] Connectivity (ethernet card drivers)

At 12:43 PM 8/14/2011, julio cortese wrote: >Hi Eric, > >You understood well, but i already have some drivers for the ethernet card, >and the question is: as they are for win32 will they work on freedos? Certainly NOT! You would of course need DOS drivers. Windows drivers, not only for network c

Re: [Freedos-user] Will Freedos support more modern hardware?

At 04:38 PM 8/20/2011, Michael C. Robinson wrote: >A thought experiment, ... Do you realize that you are no longer talking about "DOS"? >There apparently used to be a version of DOS called concurrent dos that >actually attempted or was capable of multitasking. Multitasking in the >multiple core

Re: [Freedos-user] Mac os x lion and vm

At 08:54 AM 9/2/2011, James Collins wrote: >Hello, > >I recently updated my macbook pro to mac os x 10.7 lion. > >I downloaded virtualbox and installed it. My question is i had >freedos as a vm on my older version of mac os x. I had put the vm on >an external hard drive before updating. > >I just

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos.org unreachable

At 05:44 AM 9/4/2011, dos386 wrote: >Same for bttr-software.de :-D Working both fine from here... Ralf -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even bet

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port

At 11:07 AM 9/7/2011, James Collins wrote: >I am wondering how to set up my device in virtualbox to work with >freedos? I have looked in the settings for my guest os, freedos. I >see under ports a section on serial ports, and also a section on >USB. But I don't know which would relate to my exte

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port

At 03:01 PM 9/7/2011, Eric Auer wrote: >Hi Ralf, James, > > >> I am wondering how to set up my device in virtualbox to work with > >> freedos? I have looked in the settings for my guest os, freedos. I > >> see under ports a section on serial ports, and also a section on > >> USB. But I don't know

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial ports versus USB versus virtual computers with DOS guests

At 03:23 PM 9/7/2011, Eric Auer wrote: >Hi Ralf, > >my idea was that the serial hardware device to USB hardware >port conversion was done in hardware, so "either covered by >working hardware or hopeless"... Next step is getting from >real USB port to anything accessible inside a VM and I had >the

Re: [Freedos-user] {Spam?} [OT] Problems in the ReactOS community...

At 08:47 PM 9/7/2011, Michael C. Robinson wrote: >Do a little research on these people before telling me to get a grip. WTF? This delusionary rant of yours clearly shows that you SERIOUSLY need to get a grip "Mänsche jiddet..." :-\ Ralf (proud to be German) --

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial ports versus USB versus virtual computers with DOS guests

At 11:01 AM 9/8/2011, James Collins wrote: >One thing I noticed. When my serial2usb adaptor is connected. And I >look in /dev on my computer this is listed: > >cu.usbserial-FTKVMAFF > >But when I try to open my vm, I get an error: > >loctl failed for serial host device '/dev/cu.usbserial-FTKVMAF

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos.org unreachable

At 08:56 AM 9/9/2011, dos386 wrote: >Eigenlijk komt zelfs erger. "freedos.org" is soms onbereikbaar, zelfs >met de www", zie geschoten: >http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/fdorgxms.png :-D Beside that the number of regulars here in the forum who are able to read/understand Dutch is fairly limited, t

Re: [Freedos-user] batch programming language

At 12:48 PM 9/21/2011, Eric Auer wrote: >Hi :-) > > >> Look this nice code that we cant run on Freedos > > > >> http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.com/2005/03/ms-dos-calculator.html > >To do calculations in FreeDOS, use the FreeCOM feature >to SET an environment variable from the output of any >pr

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Drive Formatting

At 06:30 PM 9/26/2011, Arthur N. Dunning III wrote: >A: I am referring to the options presented to me when I used the FreeDOS >CD I made with the fbasecd.iso file I downloaded from the FreeDOS web >site. I tried to install FreeDOS on my USB drive, but I did so without >using the 'UNetbootin' softwa

Re: [Freedos-user] PPP over Ethernet.

At 09:41 PM 9/27/2011, Michael C. Robinson wrote: >Any idea why PPPoE is being pushed by phone companies? Because they think it allows then to oversubscribe their infrastructure, as they count on only a part of their users actually being "always on" by setting an automatic reconnect... "the pox

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound Blaster 16 issues...

At 11:53 AM 10/4/2011, Eric Auer wrote: > > This is a bit of a problem, as without these I can't use the companion > > CD-ROM drive (and I don't have an IDE controller capable of driving a > > newer CD-ROM on hand.) SBCD gives me "Invalid Opcode" error messages, > > like some of the other utilitie

Re: [Freedos-user] Grr ... (Was: Re: mTCP-2011-10-01 is available

At 10:51 PM 10/5/2011, bloger wrote: >÷ ÏÔ×ÅÔ ÎÁ ÓÏÏÂÝÅÎÉÅ ÔÏ×ÁÒÉÝÁ Michael B. >Brutman, ÄÁÔÉÒÏ×ÁÎÎÏÅ 5-Oct-2011 19:39: > On >10/5/2011 7:27 PM, Alain Mouette wrote: > > I >had problems with networking in dos for a few >users, a short time > > ago. After a lot of >headache, I discovered that

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

At 12:53 PM 10/9/2011, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >Op 9-10-2011 20:53, Eduardo Casino schreef: > > Hi Bernd, > > > If you are running under VMware, it is a 586+. Have you tested what > > happens when yoy try to execute it in a real 286 or earlier? My old > > 80186 died quite a few years ago. VMSMOUNT is u

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

At 01:38 PM 10/9/2011, Eduardo Casino wrote: >Would you be so kind of testing it in one of your 286? It should fail >with "ERROR: Not running on top of VMWARE." > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsmount/files/Test/ Will do. Unfortunately, the best machine to test it on, an IBM PS/2 Model 50Z is

[Freedos-user] Another IT person passed away...

Was made aware that this last weekend, Dennis Ritchie, the co-inventor of the C programming language and the Unix operating system has passed away... :-( http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html Ralf --

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

At 03:02 PM 10/13/2011, Eduardo Casino wrote: >2011/10/10 Ralf A. Quint : > > At 01:38 PM 10/9/2011, Eduardo Casino wrote: > > > >>Would you be so kind of testing it in one of your 286? It should fail > >>with "ERROR: Not running on top of VMWARE." > &

Re: [Freedos-user] *** HEAR YE, HEAR YE *** (FREEDOS 1.1 NEEDS A HELP-FILE CORRECTION.)

At 11:03 AM 10/28/2011, Mark Brown wrote: >it's just that upper case letters are so much more intelligible, >so much more understandable. time was they were used like that somewhere, >like on the defense internet that was handed off to the people for >freedom of speech in ~1974... > >get it, freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos iso file?

At 08:45 PM 11/27/2011, jhall wrote: >Do you know which mirror site you were using at the time? It tells >you on the downloads page which mirror site it selected for you, and >the two links automatically use that mirror site. Perhaps that >mirror site was having a problem. Alternate sites (mirro

Re: [Freedos-user] data type length problem

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 chopped off when >running under DOS? It seems that at least the Borland compiler

Re: [Freedos-user] data type length problem

At 09:36 PM 12/11/2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > >How can I get this code to do the Right Thing? Actually just realized that it's pretty easy, you just need to typecast properly all parts of the makeid macro: #include #include typedef unsigned long zlong; // all parts of the macro

Re: [Freedos-user] data type length problem

At 09:55 PM 12/11/2011, David Griffith wrote: >On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > > > At 09:36 PM 12/11/2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > >>> How can I get this code to do the Right Thing? > > Actually just realized that it's pretty easy, you just need to >

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

At 03:48 PM 12/22/2011, James Hall wrote: >Mirroring "abandonware" drivers is a bit uncertain - unless the >license says we can redistribute them. I agree the original copyright >holder probably doesn't care; they've gone out of business. It's highly unlikely that there is any license of any "down

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

At 05:03 PM 12/22/2011, dmccunney wrote: >I repeat, be careful of *what*? If you get as C&D letter from them, >you take it down and apologize. You needn't hire a lawyer or engage >in a resource-requiring defense. Such letters are warning shots. >*They* would as soon not *take* you to court. Tha

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

At 11:08 AM 12/27/2011, Koh Choon Lin wrote: >Hi > >1. Would like to ask how much memory does FreeDOS support, e.g. 4 GiB? > >2. Does it faces 640 KiB limitation as MS-DOS, e.g. Do I have to "load >high" drivers to save on conventional memory? > >3. Does it support usage of a swap file/partition?

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

At 11:49 AM 12/27/2011, Koh Choon Lin wrote: >Hi > > >> 2. Does it faces 640 KiB limitation as MS-DOS, e.g. Do I have to "load > >> high" drivers to save on conventional memory? > > > >Thanks for all the fast replies. I think my question is misunderstood. >"Load high" is a MS-DOS technique to load

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 05:09 PM 1/2/2012, Marco Achury wrote: >I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has >colapsed the servers :-) Works just fine and snappy from California Ralf -- Write once. Port to many. Get

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 09:34 AM 1/4/2012, Marco Achury wrote: >I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-) That's btw the link I tested the other

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 01:58 PM 1/4/2012, James Hall wrote: > >>I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... > > > > That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link > > presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-) > > > > That's btw the link I

Re: [Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

At 03:16 PM 1/10/2012, Jim Hall wrote: >On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Koh Choon Lin <2choon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > > If someone is willing to start a free as in freedom graphical > > interface for FreeDOS, I am ready to contribute resources and money to > > the project. > > > > > >I'

Re: [Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

At 05:49 PM 1/10/2012, Marco Achury wrote: >Looks like a better option, specially because is a current project >and is free. ... (see my reply to Jim) >I see the download lists and I dont undersand what is that we must >to download. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

At 08:39 PM 1/10/2012, jhall wrote: > >> I encourage you to look around for what's there, and see if you can > >> move any of them forward. OpenGEM shows a lot of promise, but the > >> graphics are dated and could use a refresh. Since it's GNU GPL, I > >> imagine you could borrow from another GPL'd

Re: [Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

At 12:30 AM 1/11/2012, Florian Xaver wrote: >El 11.01.2012, a las 03:38, Ralf A. Quint escribió: > > >> I'd love to have you contribute to a GUI project. There have been > >> several. The one with the longest history is OpenGEM, but the web site > >> is now i

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and graphical user interfaces...

At 07:39 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote: >Please recall that DesqView, DesqViewX, GEM, and Windows through 9.X >were precisely GUIs strapped onto a DOS environment. Just for the record, DesqView is not a GUI, but a text mode multi-tasking/task-switching add-on for DOS and basically an extension t

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and graphical user interfaces...

At 09:20 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote: >I ran DesqView, back in the day. It worked surprisingly well. >I recall one BBS sysop running four instances of a Wildcat BBS on a >25mhz AT under DV. He could have 4 nodes connected to four modems and >operating simultaneously on on machine. It did indee

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 06:56 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote: > > [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 1.1 released > >COOL :-) > >http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/freeds11.png > >Problems: > >- What's the purpose of the menu item "Pasquale" (see top shot) ? Are you such an idiot or are you just trying to play the troll here? It sho

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 07:14 PM 1/14/2012, Michael Robinson wrote: >First off, I don't appreciate anyone calling anyone an idiot on this >email list. Sorry but this was just one arrogant post of him too many! He is one of the reasons, beside my past health issues, that I have not participated in here for years. Ra

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 07:15 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote: > > > What's the purpose of the menu item "Pasquale" (see top shot) ? > > Are you such an idiot or are you just trying to play the troll here? > > It should be obvious to almost everyone that this is not an > active menu item > >Idiot yourself. It is active. Ju

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 07:18 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote: >I can install and update FreeDOS manually (and I've been >having it for years), so the problems don't really hurt me, >but for potential new users, I'd prefer a well working distro. How about you come up with a better working installer yourself then? Ralf

Re: [Freedos-user] int notation.

At 03:13 PM 1/24/2012, C. Masloch wrote: >I've been out of the loop on development for a while. Bret, do you, >incidentally, remember whether we came up with this one independently, or >how did it develop? I honestly would have to search through old mail again >to answer that myself. The INT xx.yy

Re: [Freedos-user] bizzare bug in freedos 1.1

At 10:32 AM 1/28/2012, kurt godel wrote: >This has to be one of the strangest ever: >I made this batfile: >cd \ >cd ta And? -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning libra

Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

At 09:12 AM 2/16/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >You'd think DOS (direct hardware access) would be an ideal environment >for defragging, and certainly DJGPP should be robust enough, in >theory, but I guess some people prefer to do it in the background of >Windows itself while running other stuff. Remember Wi

Re: [Freedos-user] int33h again.

At 08:54 PM 2/17/2012, kurt godel wrote: >but I fear to do it since I've been using the int by way of the >UNION regs gambit, whereas you are showing a direct asm patch. I am >afraid I will screw up the regs structure. What is there much to mess up, it's just a "pseudo" structure to a more C li

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: MUMPS (M)

At 10:45 AM 2/19/2012, Eric Auer wrote: >Hi, forwarding something from Ken Geiger : > >I still use DataTree MUMPS (DTM) for some production. Do you know of >anyone else who is working in MUMPS who has an interest in freedos. >MUMPS is very powerful and efficient database manipulation and was used

Re: [Freedos-user] Strange timer-related issue

At 01:09 PM 3/10/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >If I correctly found the relevant sections of DX-Forth's kernel.asm >(it's included in the package), the word is defined the following way: > >#v+ >[..] >; runtime for deferred words - equiv to @ EXECUTE > >dodef: pop bx > jmp [bx] >[..

Re: [Freedos-user] Strange timer-related issue

At 04:47 AM 3/11/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >Yesterday I've found another related thing: while trying to test my >soundcard with several games, I discovered, that "Civilization" has >quite the same issue with FreeDOS: when ran under configuration >"JEMMEX + 4DOS" it works very slowly (I'm using Sempron

Re: [Freedos-user] Update

At 12:35 PM 3/13/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >After Eric's suggestion I made additional tests: still on original >MS-DOS 6.22; I used JEMMEX this time: > >1. JEMMEX + 4DOS means problem, but... >2. ...JEMMEX + command.com didn't make any problem! Neither to the >game, nor to DX-Forth. > >I'm always using

Re: [Freedos-user] Update

At 04:00 PM 3/14/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >2012/3/13, Ralf A. Quint : > > > So far, this rather looks like a problem with 4DOS, not with JEMM as > > I initially suspected... :? > >Yes, you were right: I'm terribly sorry, but my former reports were >somewhat misleading.

Re: [Freedos-user] VERY Funny "Off Topic" --

At 08:16 PM 3/26/2012, Jack wrote: >VERY funny "off topic", overheard today, which I just HAVE to share -- > >What does a U.S. Age-20s "Slept Thru High-School" type, too old to say >"The dog ate my homework!!", try to tell our apartment manager re: why >he cannot help with his girlfriend's 3-week

Re: [Freedos-user] New topic: makeing a ISO

At 04:55 PM 4/2/2012, Garry Ricketson wrote: >Ok, 1 more question, I also installed Freedos to a laptop, (Acer >aspire series 150), runs fine, but I can not get the >"touch pad ,(mouse)", or a USB mouse, to work. I tried CTMOUSE, but >it says it is not installed ? Do I need to download CTMOUSE

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

At 08:45 PM 4/2/2012, dmccunney wrote: > > And don't forget Lua. It's very simple and quite powerful at the same > > time. An excellent language indeed. > >But it's specifically intended for embedding within other programs as >a script language. (There are an assortment of text editors (like >Sci

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS

At 12:06 PM 4/6/2012, Eric Auer wrote: >Harbour / xHarbour are free DBase Clipper (database scripting >language compiler?) clones, a bit bulky afair but portable :-) >See also their harbour-project.org web site :-) First of all Harbour and xHarbour are pretty much two completely different proje

Re: [Freedos-user] Best GUIs for DOS

At 12:48 PM 4/6/2012, Alex wrote: >Any idea why OpenGEM is the only GUI environment listed on the >FreeDOS website under the category GUIs? To be fair, I must say that >if you look hard withing the website you do find the reference to >other GUIs, such as the Icon GUI. So why OpenGEM is the only

Re: [Freedos-user] Best GUIs for DOS

At 01:27 PM 4/6/2012, Alex wrote: >On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > > > And what exactly do you mean by "GUI as development tool". That's a > > term that doesn't make any sense to me at least... > >What I meant was simply a tool

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

At 02:59 PM 4/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >Also see Gautier's "Transparent Language Popularity Index" (updated >each month): > >http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/ Sorry, but as far as programming for (Free)DOS is concerned, that list is completely irrelevant... Ralf --

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

At 03:57 PM 4/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >Hi, > >On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > > At 02:59 PM 4/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote: > > > >>Also see Gautier's "Transparent Language Popularity Index" (updated > >>each month): > >&g

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

At 04:45 PM 4/6/2012, Alex wrote: >On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > > 16-bit is dead, no machines are made purely 16-bit anymore. AMD64 long > > mode doesn't (properly) support 16-bit at all, and popular compilers > > like GCC never cared to support it. Also, people hate it, so

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

At 05:05 PM 4/6/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >2012/4/6, Alex : > > > Just to be clear, which is the best Pascal version available to date > > for FreeDOS? > >Perhaps TP 3.0 - maximal effect taken out of minimum of code? > >#v+ >Turbo Pascal 3 for MS-DOS was released in September 1986. Being >version 3, th

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

At 08:32 PM 4/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote: > > For more than half of those languages, there doesn't exist a (at > > least serious) DOS implementation. > > You rather have to use what is available, and that is fairly limited... > >There is easily an implementation for more than half of those, but >often

Re: [Freedos-user] Strange timer-related issue

At 02:06 AM 4/7/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >2012/3/11, Bernd Blaauw : > > > Please let us know if/when you're able to pinpoint a culprit. > > You might want to start with a MSDOS/Win9x bootdisk (www.bootdisk.com) > > to eliminate FreeDOS components as the culprit, and to have a proven > > reference plat

Re: [Freedos-user] 32 bit FreeDOS?

At 03:15 AM 4/7/2012, Alex wrote: >In the recent threads there have been many mentions to the fact that >FreeDOS is "only" 16bit (of course, that is what it is meant to be) >and that it is out of touch with the modern computing world. You do realize that it is kind of 'out of touch with the modern

Re: [Freedos-user] 32 bit FreeDOS?

At 04:19 AM 4/7/2012, Zbigniew wrote: > >> I was wondering what would it take to upgrade FreeDOS to 32bit, > >> whether it would be worth and whether we would have the human > >> resources. > > > > 32bit user programs tend to be available already in the form of > > protected mode software, using on

Re: [Freedos-user] 32 bit FreeDOS?

At 11:39 AM 4/7/2012, Marco Achury wrote: >Check Kolibri OS, is very nice 32 bits, simple, >ligth, GUI, boot from floppy... > >The sole thing is missing there is a DOS >emulator so we can run our beloved DOS >apps. So what CAN you run on that, beside playing Minesweeper? Ralf -

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne Troubles

At 06:46 PM 4/8/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: Hey, I was finnaly able to find a packet driver for my DOS computer (ethernet connection), but for some reason Arachne shows the main page, but when I try to go to a different page, it brings up a "roadrunner" search thing. That means that you do

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP: Telnet, TCP, etc.

At 01:12 PM 4/9/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >Hi, > >On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Kenny Emond wrote: > > Hey, > > > >I'm going to just not beat around the bush. I'll and ask it > straight out. > > What the heck are Telnet, TCP and all those other programs that comes with > > mTCP for? > >You can u

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne Troubles

At 01:05 PM 4/9/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >Okay, Thanks everyone! I filled in the my_ip section with my ip >(according to dhcp.exe), but Arachne still points me to the >Roadrunner search, saying "Why Am I Here? - You entered a web >address that was used to present site suggestions...". I tried a

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

At 01:13 PM 4/10/2012, Jack wrote: >Cannot answer on all subjects, but re: disk/CD/DVD drivers, I am NOT >overly optimistic! Intel/Microsoft want us all to "buy into" AHCI, >and they may have started "ordering" mainboard vendors to omit SATA/ >IDE logic from their BIOS routines. Do you have a so

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up a POP email for gmail

At 06:35 AM 5/6/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >Hey all, > >I tried (using arachne) to put gmail as my pop3 email thing, but > for some reason it won't work. I even turned on the POP3 settings > in gmail, but arachne still won't pull from it. Any Ideas? Well, there are two possible issues: - for

Re: [Freedos-user] Laptop With Built in Wireless

At 09:04 AM 5/8/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >I recently put FreeDOS on my laptop that has built in wireless. I >tried to see if the BIOS on the computer would let me know what the >packet driver name was or where, but it didn't. So I was wondering >how to find it or how to scan for what type of dri

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Setup

At 04:54 AM 5/17/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >Hey all DOS users and such, > >I know I already posted a thread before about setting up a > shared printer (which by the way, how would you acquire the ip > address of the printer in DOS? And how again would you say you had > to use the printer

Re: [Freedos-user] D525MW

At 07:02 AM 5/17/2012, Radoslav Tchipanov wrote: >Hi > >Has anybody run Freedos on Intel motherboard D525MW? I have problems >with the printer port and Video graphics display of it. Well, this Atom board doesn't have a "printer" port (only USB) and DOS by itself doesn't use any graphics, so you

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Setup, again

At 06:40 PM 5/17/2012, Kenny wrote: >So I've been hearing that DOS needs no drivers for a printer. Again, all that DOS knows about a printer is that it is a (ASCII) character based device on either parallel or serial port. No driver needed for that functionality... > Well, it's not working for

Re: [Freedos-user] D525MW

At 02:45 AM 5/18/2012, Radoslav Tchipanov wrote: >Hi Ralf > >This board D525MW has printer port - the board is in front of me. My bad, I must have looked at a different Atom board... :-[ >We use our proprietary software which controls external I/O board >trough printer port at address 378. Unfor

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem

At 04:51 AM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote: >Jack, if I may chime in... I think you're now contemplating the >right step. I can understand your frustration with VB in this >instance, BUT imho your previous approach has been to ignore a few >facts, that have nothing to do with that or another

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem

At 02:45 PM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote: >Case in point : unless explicitly excluded, MS-not-so-Smart-Drive >will happily cache certain RAMdisks (not MS ramdrive) which is >counter-productive to say the least. This is very arguably a defect >of smartdrive, which I don't expect UIDE can pos

Re: [Freedos-user] Prevent boot from Floppy?

At 03:10 PM 5/20/2012, Wolfgang Schechinger wrote: >Der experts, > >may I ask another question: > >Is there a way to make FreeDos ignore that there is a floppy present >upon boot, i.e. force a boot from the harddrive? Again only a >problem when running it in a VM, I think, as on a hard PC, you ma

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem

At 05:10 PM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > > From: "Ralf A. Quint" > > > At 02:45 PM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > >>Case in point : unless explicitly excluded, MS-not-so-Smart-Drive > >>will happily cache certain RAMdisks (not MS ramdrive)

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

At 09:22 AM 5/23/2012, Jack wrote: >You are WRONG, Tom!! Sorry, Jack, but he is not Honestly Jack, please don't explode each time someone is making a critical statement. There simply is no reason to get all personal about this... >UIDE has NEVER ignored if a diskette has change-line suppor

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

At 11:33 AM 5/23/2012, Jack wrote: >And certainly, it is not impossible to cache floppies.Before the >debut of VirtualBox, UIDE/UIDE2 had done so successfully, for years, >without any complaints at all! Jack, PLEASE, don't pull yourself up on the "VirtualBox" issue, it is rather a more genera

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

At 12:31 PM 5/23/2012, Jack wrote: >As I just got through noting, in another post, why would the BIOS >data include diskette change-line flags if they were NOT intended >to be USED?? >Until someone can positively REFUTE the data offered by the BIOS >Central data-table list, my opinion is that neith

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDos user (installed to both amd64 desktop && old toshiba satalite)

At 11:30 PM 5/24/2012, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: >I don't suppose there is a way to tell FreeDOS to execute something more >slowly??? (Free)DOS runs as fast as the processor you're using allows it too. And why shouldn't it? ;-) For slowing down games and such, there are/were a bunch of slow-

Re: [Freedos-user] usage report

At 09:27 PM 6/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >BP 7.01 (see file times) should? already be patched for the runtime >200 error. No, there was never an 'official' patch from Borland, for any version of Borland Pascal 7... >No idea why you would have a runtime error. You mean running >BP7-compiled apps? Com

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

At 07:14 PM 6/15/2012, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: >If all goes well, technicians from the municipality will run the >network cables in the building for us. But we don't want them to >start drilling walls and roofs before we are sure the system is >robust. I haven't touched DataPerfec

Re: [Freedos-user] ? - ?Not sure? - ?

At 08:22 PM 7/14/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >Hey, > > I'm not sure if I can post this here, but I seem to have hit a > small roadblock (but I don't know where it is). My main goal is to > have an easily accessible meter and feet converter. When I use > FBide to compile and run, it comes up with

Re: [Freedos-user] ? - ?Not sure? - ?

At 11:16 PM 7/14/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >On Jul 15, 2012 12:56 AM, "Ralf A. Quint" ><<mailto:free...@gmx.net>free...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > > See above. It would be really helpful for you if you hit the books > > about BASIC (almost any one will do)

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I check a box in FreeDOS during installation?

At 12:01 AM 8/6/2012, Geoffrey van Wyk wrote: >Dear All, > >At a certain point during the installation of FreeDOS, one has to >choose which optional packages to install. The packages selected by >default are marked with Xs in their repective boxes. One then has to >place Xs in the boxes of the u

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I check a box in FreeDOS during installation?

At 10:18 AM 8/6/2012, Geoffrey van Wyk wrote: I have been puzzled by ticking a checkbox in a GUI with the keyboard as well, but never bothered to find out, because I could always use the mouse. What's a Biebermouse? This is DOS! (btw, the space bar works for check boxes in Windows for example

Re: [Freedos-user] Printers

At 03:55 PM 9/4/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >Hey, > > What type of printer interface/language does FreeDOS support? Short answer: Any printer on a parallel or serial interface. > Does it support PCL ver3? For example, would I be able to use an > HP Deskjet 950c ( >

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

At 01:46 PM 9/16/2012, Ricardus Vincente wrote: >On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 22:39 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > > Thanks! > > Wow. I imagined that it would be a little easier than this. > > While I understand that FreeDOS is a modern DOS not meant just for >older hardware, I thought that one of the purpo

Re: [Freedos-user] false info on the freedos home page?

At 04:48 PM 9/17/2012, Karen Lewellen wrote: >Granted, I am a media professional, so facts especially n the Internet >are important. >the fact is ms dos 7.1 under wind 98 had fat 32, even Dr dos in 99 has it. The fact is that there never was a "MS-DOS 7.1", it just happened that the underlying DO

Re: [Freedos-user] false info on the freedos home page?

At 08:45 PM 9/17/2012, Karen Lewellen wrote: >You are too funny! >consult the rest of the thread. For exactly what? Ralf -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security

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