Re: [Freedos-user] bootfix 1.4

2004-03-22 Thread Jim Hall
Hi Arkady. I've mirrored this on ibiblio, and removed the old versions as you requested. I've also updated the news item on FreeDOS.org. Since there were already 2 updates there already, I kak'd the previous updates before adding this one. -jh Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! With help

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Gamers

2004-03-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:25:58 -0600, you wrote: Hi, >To answer the original question: In the US, it's illegal to download any >copyrighted material (including abandonware games). In Canada, I >believe it is okay to download, but not to share. Not sure about other >countries. Thanks Jim, you

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS for Gamers

2004-03-22 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, Works under FreeDOS: 1) Lemmings 2) Xenon2 3) ApplePC 2.52 (Apple ][ Emulator) 4) EMU][ (Apple ][ Emulator) I'll try more in coming weekend (or holiday). Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Li

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Gamers

2004-03-22 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Jim Hall escribió: Practically speaking, of course, I doubt the owners of these old DOS games will complain much. These days, no one sells DOS games. Maybe, maybe not. I have just seen the revival of some of these old games (such as Prince of Persia), for mobile phones. I don't know how much t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Gamers

2004-03-22 Thread Jim Hall
Mmmm well the FreeDOS machines that we put out have a pile of games installed on them - though none require more than 540k to run... Will publish a list. All are freeware or shareware games. Must be about 200 machines now gone out to people. Thanks. If you have a list of games that you know w

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Gamers

2004-03-22 Thread Jim Hall
Leendert wrote: I also have some games running on FreeDOS, but except for the CWSDPMI thing (for higher resulutions for ZSNES, that supernintendo emulator) and the "set blaster" rule (for anything that uses non-beep sound) I didn't have to add anything to it. Thanks again for giving the explana

[Freedos-user] bootfix 1.4

2004-03-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! With help of Michael Devore, on his site placed version 1.4 of BOOTFIX. This version is now compilable both by Borland C and OpenWatcom. It shows slightly more information (to ease using logs even without dumps), before reading BPB added reseting disk (look like this is sometime required

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS for Gamers

2004-03-22 Thread Jim Hall
Eric: Thanks for the long list of games that are known to work with FreeDOS. I'll see if I can make that fit with the "FreeDOS for Gamers" page. Could you send me your config.sys and autoexec.bat files? These are really what I'm after - good examples of config.sys and autoexec.bat that work

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Gamers

2004-03-22 Thread Jim Hall
Johnson Lam wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:05:54 +0200, you wrote: Hi George, So is it legal to download and play all theses games? Since they're abandoned, I think ... for personal only should be no problem. Make sure don't re-distribute and involved with money. But I can't guarantee anything.

[Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS for Gamers

2004-03-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, trying to recall which games run in FreeDOS and which do not... all shareware or freeware: Descent: yes, but only with DOS32A, not with standard DOS4GW. Did not try with EMM386 yet (none of the games!), using UMBPCI instead. Terminal Velocity (comes with S3 Virge graphics cards): Had some t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Gamers

2004-03-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:05:54 +0200, you wrote: Hi George, >So is it legal to download and play all theses games? Since they're abandoned, I think ... for personal only should be no problem. Make sure don't re-distribute and involved with money. But I can't guarantee anything. Rgds, Johnson.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Gamers

2004-03-22 Thread George Xenakis
Johnson Lam wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:06:01 -0600, you wrote: Hi Jim, Does anyone have some examples to send me? I'll try some old games. http://abandonware.universal.av7.net/default_dhtml.htm Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.Net emai

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Gamers

2004-03-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:06:01 -0600, you wrote: Hi Jim, >Does anyone have some examples to send me? I'll try some old games. http://abandonware.universal.av7.net/default_dhtml.htm Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM L