Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-29 Thread esc...@front.ru
bruce.bowman tds.net bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote: Palletized 640x480x256 colors requires VBE 3.0. No. The VBE 3.0 standard doesn't define any new modes at all. The 640x480x256 mode (0x101h) was defined from the very beginning, in VBE 1.0. Of course actual support depends on hardware. If you

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-27 Thread bruce.bowman tds.net
Just a few replies... I think it was written in Turbo C++ 3.0. It's been awhile. I've uninstalled it because I thought I had a backup around here. If not, I'm sure I can find images of the install disks on the web somewhere. I probably have it on floppies (ha ha). Back in the early 90s I had a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-27 Thread Chris Evans
The possible reason you didn't make any money off our shareware biz is that people back then were Not sure if they would receive the full version for the money sent, scams On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote: Just a few replies... I think it was written in Turbo C++

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-27 Thread bruce.bowman tds.net
It's true that a lot of developers just quit supporting their products. I once figured out how much I was making for all the time I was spending on Dirt Cheap Software. It came to about 15 cents per hour. But I wasn't doing it for the money -- it was more of a hobby than a business. I still have

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-27 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:01 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote: I think it was written in Turbo C++ 3.0. It's been awhile. I've uninstalled it because I thought I had a backup around here. If not, I'm sure I can find images of the install disks on the web somewhere. I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-27 Thread Chris Evans
I got turboc on my server at FTP://digitalatoll.com/PUB/ELITE/WAREZ/ On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:01 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net bruce.bow...@tds.net javascript:; wrote: I think it was written in Turbo C++ 3.0. It's been awhile. I've

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-27 Thread bruce.bowman tds.net
Yeah, I still have the source. I get an itch to work on it every few years. DosBox ain't gonna happen. If I decide to go the emulator route it will be VM. Bruce On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:01 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-26 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Bruce. Your project sounds interesting. If for any reason the image you found does not serve, take a look at the ultimate boot cd. www.ultimatebootcd.com I cannot say if any of the tools will do more than what you have found, but they might. Karen On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, bruce.bowman tds.net

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-26 Thread bruce.bowman tds.net
Well, I've been working on this awhile and have learned a lot. And most of what I've learned is what others have been trying to tell me. All the bootable CDs that I've seen have contained a floppy disk image. This is what actually boots. During the boot process the embedded AUTOEXEC.BAT and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 26-11-2012 20:47, bruce.bowman tds.net schreef: All the bootable CDs that I've seen have contained a floppy disk image. This is what actually boots. During the boot process the embedded AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS reload the drive and assigns it a DOS drive letter. Only after that's done

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-26 Thread bruce.bowman tds.net
Okay, I have the CD working now, just need to fine-tune it. Is anyone aware of an FDOS utility that can probe for available drives, preferably writable ones? On my machine it finds my FAT32 partition (D: in XP) and assigns it to the C: drive. Can I count on that behavior to continue on other

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Just a few answers: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:51 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote: (part one) My program is a fairly simple role-playing game. It was originally written in Turbo C for DOS, and reads/writes to disk using DOS (not BIOS) calls. (BTW, which Turbo C

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 25-11-2012 4:28, bruce.bowman tds.net schreef: The bootable CD images that I've been seeing for FreeDOS and DOS 7.1 are all /installation/ disks that first fake a floppy drive and then load a bootable floppy disk image that cannot be edited. I don't want to actually install DOS and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-25 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012-11-25 01:24 (GMT-0500) bruce.bowman tds.net composed: Between my wife and I, we own six computers. None of them have a floppy drive. No drive doesn't necessarily mean neither floppy controller nor place

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-25 Thread Carl Spitzer
-Original Message- From: bruce.bowman tds.net bruce.bow...@tds.net winxpfix.zip and videoprt.zip have both been tried and neither of them work. They might provide VESA 1.2 or 2.0 capability but not 3.0. Between my wife and I, we own six computers. None of them have a floppy drive.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-25 Thread Mark Brown
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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-24 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 07:28 PM 11/24/2012, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote: This may be a FAQ. I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it uses VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported by later versions of Windoze.* To make matters worse, the program writes to disk during

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-24 Thread bruce.bowman tds.net
Thanks for your reply, Ralf. I have a FAT32 partition (D drive). At home, it might be simpler to just install FreeDOS as the OS on that partition and set up a dual-boot system (XP on C:, FreeDOS on D:). In fact I'm considering doing just that, and frankly wouldn't mind recommendations on how to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-24 Thread Michael Robinson
On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 20:47 -0800, Ralf A. Quint wrote: At 07:28 PM 11/24/2012, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote: This may be a FAQ. I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it uses VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported by later versions of Windoze.*

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-24 Thread bruce.bowman tds.net
Michael -- Thanks much for your reply. Perhaps my reply to Ralf answers many of your questions. The program itself is not particularly large and would probably run in 300-400k of RAM. But when running it sequentially loads a lot of PCX images off disk. The program could be run from a ramdrive to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-24 Thread TJ Edmister
Hi, have a couple ideas for you below... On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:28:39 -0500, bruce.bowman tds.net bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote: This may be a FAQ. I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it uses VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported by later

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-24 Thread bruce.bowman tds.net
winxpfix.zip and videoprt.zip have both been tried and neither of them work. They might provide VESA 1.2 or 2.0 capability but not 3.0. Between my wife and I, we own six computers. None of them have a floppy drive. Thanks, Bruce On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:47 AM, TJ Edmister

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-24 Thread Chris Evans
Amazon.com has USB powered floppy drives for 13$ Maybe put together a freedos boot floppy with said program on it And run it from there On Saturday, November 24, 2012, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote: winxpfix.zip and videoprt.zip have both been tried and neither of them work. They might provide

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

2012-11-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-11-25 01:24 (GMT-0500) bruce.bowman tds.net composed: Between my wife and I, we own six computers. None of them have a floppy drive. No drive doesn't necessarily mean neither floppy controller nor place to put a floppy drive. A new floppy drive is easily found on the internet for