Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos Install Problem

2021-06-14 Thread Andrew
Hello, I bought a CF card and adapter, so waiting for those to arrive. I tried the fdisk /bmbr command on both the installed fdisk and the live cd, both of them give the syntax error… operation terminated. The other fdisk mbr options work though. When the CF adapter arrives I should be able to get

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jerome Shidel
Wow there is a lot unpack here on several different posts…. > I think you're referring to time index 2:46 in the video, after > partitioning, when the system reboots and you can briefly see the > "warmboot" message. > > The difference is: (from "FDAPM /?") >> COLDboot / WARMboot - do a reboot wit

Re: [Freedos-user] Catching up on FreeDOS articles at OpenSource.com

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 6:22 PM Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > > >> With MPXPLAY? The only app which supports HDA and AC97 :-) > > > > I use MPLAYER to demonstrate playing an MP3 file. Mplayer is a "no > > frills" way to listen to music files on FreeDOS, to say the least. > > But it works fine. > > > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
Similar to Tom's comment elsewhere, your email is longer than my free time to read it. So I'll pick only a few things to reply to, and let others comment on the rest. :-) On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 7:04 PM Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > > > (Eric replied to me off-list about the "Installing FreeDOS 1.3 R

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 6:55 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Just curious, > By what method in DOS itself could someone reach your YouTube channel > and get any of this content? > I do recall a DOS edition of mplayer, but YouTube itself has changed a > great deal since I found that option. I don'

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76V0EpXY6Eo >> "less" also can be used without pipelines, >> as you know, as in "less fdauto.bat" Compared to "type fdauto.bat | less" you avoid the temp file needed by pipelines in DOS. While you make an important point by explaining how pipes need

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > (Eric replied to me off-list about the "Installing FreeDOS 1.3 RC4" > video, but this is probably interesting to other FreeDOS users, so I'm > replying to the list) Okay for me. Instead of making small remarks off-list, I can do a more verbose review here. I hope nobody gets bored :-) >

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Karen Lewellen
Just curious, By what method in DOS itself could someone reach your YouTube channel and get any of this content? I do recall a DOS edition of mplayer, but YouTube itself has changed a great deal since I found that option. Second, How inclusive are these videos? Automatic closed captioning f

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
(Eric replied off-list about the "FreeDOS 1.3 RC4" video, but this is generally interesting to others, so I am replying to the list instead) > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:40 PM Jim Hall wrote: > >> > >> Did you know FreeDOS has a YouTube channel? I post a variety of videos > >> there, about using F

Re: [Freedos-user] Catching up on FreeDOS articles at OpenSource.com

2021-06-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! >> With MPXPLAY? The only app which supports HDA and AC97 :-) > > I use MPLAYER to demonstrate playing an MP3 file. Mplayer is a "no > frills" way to listen to music files on FreeDOS, to say the least. > But it works fine. > > I also use Open Cubic Player to play a WAV audio file. Which s

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
(Eric replied to me off-list about the "Installing FreeDOS 1.3 RC4" video, but this is probably interesting to other FreeDOS users, so I'm replying to the list) On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:40 PM Jim Hall wrote: >> >> Did you know FreeDOS has a YouTube channel? I post a variety of videos >> there, a

Re: [Freedos-user] Catching up on FreeDOS articles at OpenSource.com

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 5:34 PM Jim Hall wrote: >[..] > And for June 30, another writer interviewed me. But I "borrowed" > (copied?) a lot of my interview responses from the conference > presentations I've done about FreeDOS. So if you saw my recorded > presentations from Kieler or FOSDEM, you alr

Re: [Freedos-user] Catching up on FreeDOS articles at OpenSource.com

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
For anyone who's curious about the full article list, here is the article list I sent to the editors, including the dates they should run. I believe the editors are using this schedule, but some of the titles are (and will be) different from what's listed here: Week 1 June 1 - FreeDOS 1.3 Release

Re: [Freedos-user] Catching up on FreeDOS articles at OpenSource.com

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:48 PM Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! Nice to hear that there is a FreeDOS month somewhere! > > > And there's more to come! Watch for upcoming articles including how to > > listen to music on FreeDOS > > With MPXPLAY? The only app which supports HDA and AC97 :-) I use MPLAYER to

Re: [Freedos-user] Catching up on FreeDOS articles at OpenSource.com

2021-06-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Nice to hear that there is a FreeDOS month somewhere! > And there's more to come! Watch for upcoming articles including how to > listen to music on FreeDOS With MPXPLAY? The only app which supports HDA and AC97 :-) > how to access your FreeDOS virtual drive from Linux With DOSEMU2? It jus

[Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
Did you know FreeDOS has a YouTube channel? I post a variety of videos there, about using FreeDOS, programming on DOS, running DOS applications, and playing DOS games. (https://www.youtube.com/freedosproject) Folks have asked if I can share highlights from some of the YouTube videos, and I try to

[Freedos-user] Catching up on FreeDOS articles at OpenSource.com

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
I mentioned at the beginning of June that OpenSource.com is running a month-long article series about FreeDOS. Every Monday through Friday in June, check out Opensource.com for a new "how-to" topic about FreeDOS. I wanted to share a brief update now that we're at the middle of the month. :-) So f