[Freedos-user] Is networking unsupported on QEMU? Pilot error suspected.

Greetings! I'm a bit perplexed trying to get networking working for FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU. My physical host is an M1 Mac (Apple Silicon). FreeDOS installs and boots fine, but I get this message: QEMU network detected. Physical hardware networking is not supported at this time. Here is

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s ?

I don't think any 1980s DOS computing experience is complete without thinking about Bulletin Board Services and the "big" online services. If this was 1988, we'd be talking on a FIDOnet echo, or there would be a "FreeDOS BBS" whose number we'd get from a text file list of BBSes we'd download over

Re: [Freedos-user] Is networking unsupported on QEMU? Pilot error suspected.

On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 8:14 AM Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > -device pcnet,netdev=id1 -netdev user,id=id1 > > It just works for me with no other tweaks necessary. The difference is > actually only in syntax. Using -net is deprecated for some time,

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

Whatever programs are most representative, they might have been distributed as shareware. There's still "trial software" today but not like going to a BBS and seeing hundreds of shareware packages, or getting a CD stuffed with them. I was just chatting with a gentlemen (now in his 70s) who

Re: [Freedos-user] Is networking unsupported on QEMU? Pilot error suspected.

On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 1:54 PM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > When the default “start” option is provided, FDNET will only attempt to > start networking support under VirtualBox and VMware. On real hardware and > other virtual platforms, it will

Re: [Freedos-user] One use case for FreeDos

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 12:57 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > It's a different sort of thing, but a colleague shared his editor's > advice to write in a way that makes it difficult to go back and edit > what you've done, while you're writing it. The

Re: [Freedos-user] what cd rom drivers does freedos use?

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 4:29 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Forcibly demand? > What an interesting choice of term..why not did the job for which i > contracted them? > He was making a joke as a way of asking why you would want to run MS-DOS 7.1.

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Forums

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 5:47 AM Linvel Risner via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I don't imagine we have a forum, just an email list, right? > There are some forums listed here: https://www.freedos.org/forums/ -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org

Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 11:28 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Doing a quick count of _everything_ in the source tree, including > tools and tests, from version 2.43 in Jeremy's GitHub > (https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/releases/tag/ke2043) I found this

Re: [Freedos-user] Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 4:18 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > There are multitasking DOSes out there, but they are aimed at multiple > people sharing one PC, such as MultiUser DOS. Some are even FOSS: > >