[Freedos-user] FD13 Live CD boot issue from SATA DVD Drive

2021-02-04 Thread Robert Spiteri
Dear All, I have downloaded the FD13 Live CD (preview) and tried to boot it on my laptop having a SATA DVD. I set the boot mode to Legacy from the BIOS and FreeDOS boots. However, it does not find and mount the CD as D: It fails with an error message displaying "no drives found". When I boot the

Re: [Freedos-user] Updates to the FreeDOS website?

2021-02-04 Thread Robert Spiteri
Hi, First of all thanks for all your work on FreeDOS. Allow me to give you my opinion regarding aesthetics since I develop websites myself: - Text spans from edge to edge of the screen - It is quite tiring to read especially on a wide screen. Consider limiting the content to a maximum

Re: [Freedos-user] A different approach

2021-02-04 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 04:35:07PM -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > > > But I'm always on the lookout for an inexpensive Intel-based hobby system > > that would run FreeDOS. I spoke with an embedded systems company a month > or > > two ago, and they are in development of an Intel embedded board with a > BI

Re: [Freedos-user] A different approach

2021-02-04 Thread ZB
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 04:35:07PM -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > But I'm always on the lookout for an inexpensive Intel-based hobby system > that would run FreeDOS. I spoke with an embedded systems company a month or > two ago, and they are in development of an Intel embedded board with a BIOS > and VG

Re: [Freedos-user] Updates to the FreeDOS website?

2021-02-04 Thread Jim Hall
I've started a test version of the website at test.freedos.org and I'd love your feedback on it! *A few notes:* This is a *mock-up* of the new website, and it is a work in progress. You might see the design change from day to day as I decide to update things. It's also *incomplete*. For example

Re: [Freedos-user] A different approach

2021-02-04 Thread Jim Hall
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 7:38 AM ZB wrote: > Build mini MSDOS gaming PC - NO EMULATION! PC104 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBsv-jRiIT8 > > (Using PC/104 components to build a mini 486 MSDOS gaming PC) > > I'd love to have a system like this to experiment with, but the PC/104 modules are jus

Re: [Freedos-user] FYI: I'm speaking at FOSDEM'21 this weekend

2021-02-04 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 3:44 PM Jim Hall wrote: > [..] > And there are other "like to have" things that would be great to have in a > FreeDOS "2.0" like an alternative DOS command.com shell. I described that > here long ago, and on the blog - would love to have an expanded > command.com that uses

Re: [Freedos-user] FYI: I'm speaking at FOSDEM'21 this weekend

2021-02-04 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 3:44 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 3:21 PM tom ehlert wrote: > >> > (and a future "2.0" someday). >> >> I am a bit surprised by this. any news that we all are not aware of? >> >> > > Same as I've said before in the email lists, and elsewhere: > > I want t

Re: [Freedos-user] FYI: I'm speaking at FOSDEM'21 this weekend

2021-02-04 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 3:21 PM tom ehlert wrote: > > (and a future "2.0" someday). > > I am a bit surprised by this. any news that we all are not aware of? > > Same as I've said before in the email lists, and elsewhere: I want to get "1.3" finally wrapped up, and I'd like to have a "2.0" someda

Re: [Freedos-user] FYI: I'm speaking at FOSDEM'21 this weekend

2021-02-04 Thread tom ehlert
> (and a future "2.0" someday). I am a bit surprised by this. any news that we all are not aware of? Tom ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] A different approach

2021-02-04 Thread Frantisek Rysanek
On 3 Feb 2021 at 14:36, ZB wrote: > Build mini MSDOS gaming PC - NO EMULATION! PC104 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBsv-jRiIT8 > > (Using PC/104 components to build a mini 486 MSDOS gaming PC) He's built a PC-104 soundblaster card for christ sake, and he's using a 486SX CPU = no math cop