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

2011-09-07 Thread mcelhanon
There need to be consequences for unprofessionalism, faschism, etcetera. I honestly wonder if some of the developers are Neo Nazis. This comes across as just a bit over-the-top (and poor spelling as well...). Fascist, Communist, Socialist, etc., these are people who will systematically murder,

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE and ipxwrapper...

2012-12-25 Thread mcelhanon
I just got around to reading this post and I have some specific information that you might find useful. I also still have an old PC Chips K6-2-500 motherboard with the SiS 530 AGP video. It is set up in a box with a hard drive drawer connected as the primary IDE master so I can just stick in any

Re: [Freedos-user] How to install Ontrack Disk Manager without floppy?

2013-02-11 Thread mcelhanon
I haven't messed with Ontrack Disk Manager in many years, but the version I have is basically a DOS program. So, you just need to boot the computer into a DOS environment on a medium that has the Ontrack software (the old version I have has all the Ontrack stuff in a single 600kB directory named

Re: [Freedos-user] Desqview

2013-07-15 Thread mcelhanon
I have a retail box copy of DESQview version 2.42 with all the accompanying manuals. In the error messages appendix says the following about this error: The DESQview command you performed tried to read the indicated DESQview file, but couldn't. If you decide the indicated file is bad, delete it

Re: [Freedos-user] Desqview

2013-07-16 Thread mcelhanon
The copy I have was being thrown away at the place I worked almost 2 decades ago. I fooled around with it back then, experimenting with the various configurations that are possible with DESQview, but never found any real use for it that couldn't be done more flexibly with other choices. This

Re: [Freedos-user] running windows 3.1

2013-12-28 Thread mcelhanon
On 12/27/13, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 10:40 -0500, James Crawford wrote: Hey Guys, I have a Pentium 3 running Freedos alone. I tried to load Win 3.1 and got the error : Win 3.1 will not run in protected mode. I understand that the

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatible sound hardware?

2014-01-05 Thread mcelhanon
Hey sparky4, there is something you should understand. There was not really any hardware standards for the old ISA sound cards either. I still have 3 old computers with ISA slots. 1 has a genuine SoundBlaster 8-bit card, another has a non-PnP SoundBlaster 16 (set up with with jumpers), and a

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in Freedos

2014-01-05 Thread mcelhanon
Dennis' memory is just fine. Windows 3.1 only needs an extended memory manager (such as HIMEM.SYS), it does not use expanded memory for either, standard or enhanced modes. However, it was always common practice to use the expanded memory manager (EMM386.EXE) with the NOEMS switch in order to

Re: [Freedos-user] Screen resolution problem on Thinkpad 760ED

2014-01-25 Thread mcelhanon
You ought to go to the Lenovo support site and download the DOS utilities for your laptop: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?DocID=HT072408 You will have to scroll down and read all the various tools and utilities available for different OSs. You want the stuff

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2014-05-15 Thread mcelhanon
You could try using a SATA to IDE adapter in your other machine. That would probably provide the low-level access to the partition table the software needs. Do you know why the old IDE machine is non-functional? If you have the time to troubleshoot the problem it might be something cheap and easy

Re: [Freedos-user] hpa

2014-05-16 Thread mcelhanon
Have you read this information about HPA (host protected area) on Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_protected_area It might provide some help with removing it. However, I suspect that the problem is as you have assumed that it can't be done with an usb-to-ide adapter because of the

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

2014-05-28 Thread mcelhanon
A far superior arrangement for probably 100x the cost. Perhaps the convention organizers preferred to spend that money on things that were more meaningful to the convention attendees. Or maybe they just wanted to keep the money for themselves? Who knows? On 5/27/14, Christopher Evans

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

2014-05-29 Thread mcelhanon
First, the response was in reference to a MS NT setup, that would require commercial licensing fees that could easily run into hundreds or even thousands of dollars, unless the idea was to try and get away with operating an unlicensed setup and hope not to get sued. Of course, a knowledgeable