[Freedos-user] Re: MS-DOS 7.10 ISO & Windows 3.1 drivers

2005-11-03 Thread David O'Shea
G'day, 98-SE? I was seeing the screenshots and the setup application is identical to the MS-DOS 6.22! You know hex editors? ;-) No need, the source for MS-DOS 6.(something) was leaked/stolen quite some time ago, so one could probably compile a modified setup application from the source :)

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.10 ISO CD image bootable

2005-11-03 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 21:54 +, Gerry Hickman wrote: > Hi, > > > Yeah, you're right. But how can they extract the MS-DOS from Windows > > 98-SE? > > I'm pretty sure you can extract DOS from Win95, 98, 98SE. First you get > the manifest files that tell you which file is in which CAB (or just

Re: [Freedos-user] ReactOS -- take care

2005-11-03 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
Eric Twose wrote: Hi, Someone mentioned ReactOS here a short while ago. I downloaded it, installed it on a spare machine ... and ran into trouble, though in the end no harm was done. I had Win98 on the c:\ drive and installed ReactOS on d:\, allowing Freeloader to alter the boot sector, rath

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: [freedos] Installing a DOS App and Having it Run Fullscreen?]

2005-11-03 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi Tom Under Win2k, XP, the whole idea is that it's up to the user how they want to run their DOS app. They can choose the dimensions of the box, the number of characters, the fonts, and the number of lines. As I see it, this is exactly as it should be. It could be arg

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.10 ISO CD image bootable

2005-11-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, Yeah, you're right. But how can they extract the MS-DOS from Windows 98-SE? I'm pretty sure you can extract DOS from Win95, 98, 98SE. First you get the manifest files that tell you which file is in which CAB (or just look), then you extract and expand the files you want from the CAB file

[Freedos-user] ReactOS -- take care

2005-11-03 Thread Eric Twose
Hi, Someone mentioned ReactOS here a short while ago. I downloaded it, installed it on a spare machine ... and ran into trouble, though in the end no harm was done. I had Win98 on the c:\ drive and installed ReactOS on d:\, allowing Freeloader to alter the boot sector, rather than boot Freeloade

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.10 ISO CD image bootable

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Riebisch
Chema wrote: > 98-SE? I was seeing the screenshots and the setup application is > identical to the MS-DOS 6.22! You know hex editors? ;-) Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame yo

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.10 ISO CD image bootable

2005-11-03 Thread Chema
Yeah, you're right. But how can they extract the MS-DOS from Windows 98-SE? I was seeing the screenshots and the setup application is identical to the MS-DOS 6.22! 2005/11/3, Mark Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This appears to be a pirated copy of MS-DOS 7.1, probably > taken from Windows98SE. The

Re: [Freedos-user] display size+resolution

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Riebisch
seorge wrote: > Not windowed mode. OK > When I say not full-screen I mean only a small box is visible in the center of > the monitor and everything else in the corners is black and even this small > box is not a box actually, but it has some wierd forms and corners. That's either a problem with

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.10 ISO CD image bootable

2005-11-03 Thread Mark Bailey
This appears to be a pirated copy of MS-DOS 7.1, probably taken from Windows98SE. The original web site, yginfo.net, disappeared some time ago. Chema wrote: FYI: MS-DOS 7.10 Installation CD === This is MS-DOS 7.10 Installation CD, which includes MS-DOS 7.10 Full Versio

Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode

2005-11-03 Thread Chema
Sorry, I have only the English version (precisamente por esto Diego, porque los parches más modernos son publicados sólo en inglés). In MSND only is placed the WFG 3.11, Windows 3.11 and Windows 3.1 in some languages (included Spanish), but there isn't any patches or upgrades. Yesterday I was tak

[Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.10 ISO CD image bootable

2005-11-03 Thread Chema
FYI: MS-DOS 7.10 Installation CD === This is MS-DOS 7.10 Installation CD, which includes MS-DOS 7.10 Full Version and some Add-Ons. Please burn the CD ISO image (DOS71CD.ISO) to a CD-R/RW disc, or use it as an emulated CD disc in a virtual machine (such as VMWare and Virt

Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode

2005-11-03 Thread Diego Rodriguez
> Yeah, Windows 16 bits SDK and DDK are availables, also Windows 3.1, > Windows 3.11, WFG 3.11, Windows 3.2, Access 2.0, MS-DOS 6.2 and > MS-DOS > 6.22. > Do you have access to the Windows 3.1 -> 3.11 (not wfw) refresh files in Spanish. This 3.11 upgrade is free and used to be available for downlo

[Freedos-user] [anounce] Move 3.3 packages uploaded

2005-11-03 Thread Diego Rodriguez
MOVE 3.3 packages were uploaded to ibiblio: www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/move/MOVE33X.zip (binaries) and www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/move/MOVE33S.zip (sources) New in this version: - Cats (kitten) support - OpenWatcom suport (Thanks to Blair Campbe

Re: [Freedos-user] display size+resolution

2005-11-03 Thread seorge
> Um, does FreeDOS have a windowed mode? Never heard of that. Not windowed mode. When I say not full-screen I mean only a small box is visible in the center of the monitor and everything else in the corners is black and even this small box is not a box actually, but it has some wierd forms and c

Re: [Freedos-user] display size+resolution

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Riebisch
seorge wrote: > dauhhter, but some of those games won't run in full-screen mode. Instead of Um, does FreeDOS have a windowed mode? Never heard of that. > full-screen I got some incorrect resolition and wierd screen-size. Can it be Do you use a CRT or TFT display? > BTW: where can I download (g

[Freedos-user] display size+resolution

2005-11-03 Thread seorge
I've downloaded a bunch of old dos-games (some of them from '80s) for my dauhhter, but some of those games won't run in full-screen mode. Instead of full-screen I got some incorrect resolition and wierd screen-size. Can it be fixed globally, os should I try to setup display parameters for each

Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode

2005-11-03 Thread Chema
Evidently I'm not going to buy new hardware when I have a new ATI 200M, also my computer is a notebook. So I hope someday somebody develops a modern VESA driver for this GUI (what wonderful is to dream...) 2005/11/3, Robert Riebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Chema wrote: > > > modern VESA driver for

Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Riebisch
Chema wrote: > modern VESA driver for Windows 3.xx, it would be fantastic! (I want to > run my Windows 3.11 at 1024x768 with 32K). Just buy a Matrox Millennium G400 card with native drivers. ;-) Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/

[Freedos-user] Re: ZDOS

2005-11-03 Thread Chema
How is RDOS? Is it a good DOS? Is easy to install? I don't know much about ZDOS, I only know what is written in the page, and I contacted with Zebor and he told me at the end of this year roughly it would be sold for final users, but I don't know how much it will be. I hope it isn't very expensiv

Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode

2005-11-03 Thread Chema
> do you know what minimal level subscription is required? Operating > System, Professional, Enterprise or Universal levels? Next year I may > opt for a msdn subscription for vc, but if I go other ways (maybe > Intel's compiler instead) I may still get the OS one for Sorry, I don't know the mini

Re: [Freedos-user] How can Disk write speed up?

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Riebisch
Roberto Mariottini wrote: > Try with UDMA2 and UDMA. They are available from the FreeDOS web site. Take http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/xdma.html instead! Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --- SF.Net email is spon

Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 inenhaced mode

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Riebisch
Carl Spitzer wrote: > Try graphics cards from www.kasercorp.com Why? Kaser doesn't offer any Windows 3.x drivers. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenge

Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode

2005-11-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Replies to this message in public please (or at least CC: me) ;-) Aitor -- Original Message - Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:36:51 -0500 From: "Kenneth J. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] How can Disk write speed up?

2005-11-03 Thread Roberto Mariottini
정일영 wrote: > Hello. > > I’m using Freedos Beta0.9. > > But CD to disk and disk to disk Writing is very slow. Is there anything > to disk writing speed improvement such as Smartdrv.exe of MS-DOS? > > I used lbacache.exe in Autoexec.bat > > A:\lbacache 8192 TUNW > > But It is useless doi