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On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, at 2:22 PM, usul wrote: > This is awesome, thank you. > > > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:18 PM Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 11:57 AM usul <usul.the.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and >> > my Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my start >> > with a 486 DX 8 mgs of Ram. >> > I mostly did Visual Basic 3.0 programming to start after I finished >> > college. VBA/ MS Access then to Dot Net. I can read C / C++ but never >> > really did anything with it. >> >> FreeBASIC might be for you, then. It does have a DJGPP build. >> >> * https://freebasic.net/ >> * https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/DocToc >> >> > So I thought it would be cool to mess around with it again >> > >> > So I plan to multiboot on the laptop >> > Linux >> > Dos 6.22 / Windows 3.11 >> > and FreeDos >> > Is there an 'Order that this would need to be done in? Any Recommendations? >> >> You already mentioned ZipSlack (Slackware 11.0), and that was 2006-ish >> using UMSDOS running atop FAT. >> >> * https://mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/ >> * https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/slackware/slackware-11.0/zipslack/ >> >> > I found on those old cds copies of >> > desQview/X 2.1 and XAppeal (and if they could port it I might be able to) >> > and DragonLinux which runs on UMSDOS so install on the same partition. >> > Borland C++ 3.0, so much other fun stuff. >> >> The Desqview/X SDK was DJGPP v1 (though I never used it), it's still on >> mirrors. >> >> * https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/getting.html >> * http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/deleted/v1tk/00_index.txt >> >> > Anyway I am having some problems, and I really don't remember my >> > autoexec.bat/config.sys stuff anymore but I remember getting all the dos >> > and stuff loaded to high memory or something like that. >> >> I personally wouldn't bother with EMM386 (JEMM) just yet. Try sticking >> to XMS only (HIMEMX), for now. >> >> > The only options that seem to work are 4 & 5. . Where can I get all the >> > info to relearn all of that? Is there a website / documentation or an old >> > dos book I can buy that would still be relevant to FreeDos. It sees all >> > of the memory on the laptop 4gigs just >> >> * https://help.fdos.org/en/index.htm >> >> > I have not tried anything that needs 32 bit protected mode. but >> > eventually once I get it figured out I will need it to do stuff in djgpp. >> >> * https://delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2/readme.1st >> * https://delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2misc/csdpmi7b.zip >> >> There's also OpenWatcom: >> >> * >> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/c/openwatcom/1.9/ >> >> A lot of us also like HX / HDPMI32: >> >> * https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/HX/releases/tag/v2.20 >> >> > I'm not really good with mailing lists, too much overload. LOL Do we have >> > a Discord server or something along those lines? Web based forum etc. If >> > not, I'll re-adapt. >> >> * http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board.php >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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