Re: [Freedos-user] You think BETA testing means you're brave?

[Tom Ehlert]

> It's not FOSS but source is available here [0][1][2] for IMD.

> [0] http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/dos/index.htm
> [1] http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/dos/imd.zip
> [2] http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/dos/imdsrc.zip

besides other restrictions, this does not allow distribution.
so this is not useful for FreeDOS, as FreeDOS is all about
distribution.

you should have read this BEFORE posting.

Tom



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Re: [Freedos-user] You think BETA testing means you're brave?

[Louis Santillan]

It's not FOSS but source is available here [0][1][2] for IMD.

[0] http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/dos/index.htm
[1] http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/dos/imd.zip
[2] http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/dos/imdsrc.zip


On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Jerome Shidel  wrote:

>
>
> > On Jan 3, 2018, at 3:44 PM, Robert Riebisch  wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jerome,
> >
> >> So, I put imaging the diskettes on hold while I created a brand new
> >> imaging utility.
> >>
> >> */EDICT - Enhanced Disk Image Creation Tool/*
> >
> > Did you try David Dunfield's ImageDisk
> > ()? Comes with source
> > code.
>
> Nope. Thanks for the info.
>
> Just at a glance, it looks fairly feature rich. But, it is not open
> source. Just source provided. He apparently put a great deal of work into
> it.
> Also, I don’t know how persistent it would be. Nor much else about it.
>
> So, I’m not saying his isn’t any good. Or, EDICT is better.
>
> EDICT is much simpler. Also, it is pure assembly code in NASM under BSD
> 2-clause license. It outputs a standard img format image that is directly
> compatible with rawrite and most modern operating systems. With problem
> diskettes, it is meant to try many times to read iffy sectors. It also has
> support for multiple languages.
>
> If EDICT cannot image some of my diskettes, maybe I’ll try ImageDisk on
> those to see if it can do anything with them.
>
>
> > Robert Riebisch
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Re: [Freedos-user] You think BETA testing means you're brave?

[Rugxulo]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 1:53 PM, Jerome Shidel  wrote:
>
> EDICT - Enhanced Disk Image Creation Tool
>
> The utility is designed to really, really, really try hard to image a
> diskette. If a problem occurs, it will come back again later. It could be
> set to try thousands of times.
>
> Unfortunately, I won’t be near my single machine with a floppy controller
> for a couple weeks. So, for me, additional real hardware testing will have
> to wait a little while longer.
>
> If you really brave, or just a little crazy, do some EDICT ALPHA testing.

I think you should also announce on news://comp.os.msdos.programmer to
get (more) testers. I know it's also slim pickings there, but it can't
hurt, can it? I just feel like somebody there would be interested. But
maybe I'm overly optimistic.

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Re: [Freedos-user] You think BETA testing means you're brave?

[Jerome Shidel]

> On Jan 3, 2018, at 5:33 PM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo  > wrote:
> 
> Looks wonderful Jerome, going immediately to try this ALPHA 

Thanks. :-)

> Thanks for sharing ;)

Your welcome.

Also, Oops…

I just remembered I forgot to do something simple in v0.5 when dealing with 
custom language support files. 
It could cause a lockup on when looking up translation strings. Anyhow, fixed 
that in the now released v0.6 ALPHA. 

So, if anyone is interested in creating internationalized language files for 
it, they should use v0.6 (or later).

Otherwise no difference, between v0.5 and v0.6.

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Re: [Freedos-user] You think BETA testing means you're brave?

[Paolo Vincenzo Olivo]

Looks wonderful Jerome, going immediately to try this ALPHA

Thanks for sharing ;)

On 3 Jan 2018 22:10, "Jerome Shidel"  wrote:

>
>
> > On Jan 3, 2018, at 3:44 PM, Robert Riebisch  wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jerome,
> >
> >> So, I put imaging the diskettes on hold while I created a brand new
> >> imaging utility.
> >>
> >> */EDICT - Enhanced Disk Image Creation Tool/*
> >
> > Did you try David Dunfield's ImageDisk
> > ()? Comes with source
> > code.
>
> Nope. Thanks for the info.
>
> Just at a glance, it looks fairly feature rich. But, it is not open
> source. Just source provided. He apparently put a great deal of work into
> it.
> Also, I don’t know how persistent it would be. Nor much else about it.
>
> So, I’m not saying his isn’t any good. Or, EDICT is better.
>
> EDICT is much simpler. Also, it is pure assembly code in NASM under BSD
> 2-clause license. It outputs a standard img format image that is directly
> compatible with rawrite and most modern operating systems. With problem
> diskettes, it is meant to try many times to read iffy sectors. It also has
> support for multiple languages.
>
> If EDICT cannot image some of my diskettes, maybe I’ll try ImageDisk on
> those to see if it can do anything with them.
>
>
> > Robert Riebisch
> > --
> >  +++ BTTR Software +++
> > Home page:  http://www.bttr-software.de/
> > DOS ain't dead:  http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/
> >
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Re: [Freedos-user] You think BETA testing means you're brave?

[Jerome Shidel]

> On Jan 3, 2018, at 3:44 PM, Robert Riebisch  wrote:
> 
> Hi Jerome,
> 
>> So, I put imaging the diskettes on hold while I created a brand new
>> imaging utility. 
>> 
>> */EDICT - Enhanced Disk Image Creation Tool/*
> 
> Did you try David Dunfield's ImageDisk
> ()? Comes with source
> code.

Nope. Thanks for the info.

Just at a glance, it looks fairly feature rich. But, it is not open source. 
Just source provided. He apparently put a great deal of work into it.
Also, I don’t know how persistent it would be. Nor much else about it. 

So, I’m not saying his isn’t any good. Or, EDICT is better. 

EDICT is much simpler. Also, it is pure assembly code in NASM under BSD 
2-clause license. It outputs a standard img format image that is directly 
compatible with rawrite and most modern operating systems. With problem 
diskettes, it is meant to try many times to read iffy sectors. It also has 
support for multiple languages. 

If EDICT cannot image some of my diskettes, maybe I’ll try ImageDisk on those 
to see if it can do anything with them.


> Robert Riebisch
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Re: [Freedos-user] You think BETA testing means you're brave?

[Robert Riebisch]

Hi Jerome,

> So, I put imaging the diskettes on hold while I created a brand new
> imaging utility. 
> 
> */EDICT - Enhanced Disk Image Creation Tool/*

Did you try David Dunfield's ImageDisk
()? Comes with source
code.

Robert Riebisch
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