Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

2022-03-08 Thread Joao Silva
Hello. I agree with you, a VM isn't a viable solution for testing. I'm in favor of using real hardware. My floppies games i tested on VM run well on my IBM 286 (real machine). The downloaded games had options that my don't have. I do have a PII and PIII that i'll try freedos, but no anytime so

Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

2022-03-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Please stay relaxed about this topic, it would be great to know WHY certain games do not work well in FreeDOS, so we can improve it :-) Of course you can also run those games in various emulators or using other versions of DOS. This may even provide insights regarding how to configure Free

Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

2022-03-08 Thread Joao Silva
I agree completely you there is no point in continuing this discussion... i just use freedos to debug games memory and jump back to emulation! On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 9:56 PM Carlos Teixeira wrote: > Why FreeDOS if i can use other MS (and others) versions of DOS? 6.22 > should be the best option

Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

2022-03-08 Thread Carlos Teixeira
Why FreeDOS if i can use other MS (and others) versions of DOS? 6.22 should be the best option but, for a special purpose all rounder DOS computer i'm using (because i lack the space to use several builds) FAT16B is too limiting. With this in mind i have 2 options: strip DOS outta Windows 98SE (or

Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

2022-03-08 Thread Joao Silva
First of all i'm not Dude if more Sir or Mr. I don't know you and certainly i'm not your friend... Moving on... downloaded the games mentioned above and using my freedos 1.3-RC4 i was able to run Test Drive 2 and Grand Prix and Cycles ran the intro fast and exited with a error code. Test Drive 2 p

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos & Arachne

2022-03-08 Thread andrea936
Thanks, to you and Louis, but also I have been using Links -g for a long time and am quite satisfied. However, as freedos still has Arachne in its package -in fdimples- and there is also a new release of Arachne 1.99, I thought it was still usable in freedos ( I still remember the polemic te

[Freedos-user] Announcement: lDebug release 4

2022-03-08 Thread C. Masloch
Hello list, today I finished release 4 of my libre 86 DOS debugger called lDebug [1]. This release fixes several bugs, including several in the interactive enter mode (E command), one of which was reported in January to the original Debug/X project [2]. (lDebug is a fork originally based on F

Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

2022-03-08 Thread Joao Silva
Hello. The man issues are related to msi dos games like gprix on FreeDOS not working. De emulator would solve the issue, but he have all the hardware and other msdos. Noted i'll never mention dosbox and/or dosbox-x and shall be referred as emulator. Thank you. On Tue, Mar 8, 2022, 00:16 Jim Hall

Re: [Freedos-user] Fdnet

2022-03-08 Thread Björn Morell
Den 2022-03-08 kl. 12:55, skrev Jerome Shidel: On Mar 8, 2022, at 4:44 AM, Björn Morell wrote: I run MTCP and have for a while and it works great, ftp server etc. I have fresh installatio of 1.3 on an old fujitsi-siemens 1000 mhz, with an intel 815 chipset so the e1000pkt works fine with

Re: [Freedos-user] Fdnet

2022-03-08 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Mar 8, 2022, at 4:44 AM, Björn Morell wrote: > > I run MTCP and have for a while and it works great, ftp server etc. I have > fresh installatio of 1.3 on an > > old fujitsi-siemens 1000 mhz, with an intel 815 chipset so the e1000pkt works > fine with DHCP and it > > updates the .cfg.

[Freedos-user] Fdnet

2022-03-08 Thread Björn Morell
I run MTCP and have for a while and it works great, ftp server etc. I have fresh installatio of 1.3 on an old fujitsi-siemens 1000 mhz, with an intel 815 chipset so the e1000pkt works fine with DHCP and it updates the .cfg. I ran the wattcp.bat and have a wattcp.cfg in freedos\bin. Paths to

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos & Arachne

2022-03-08 Thread Björn Morell
I second that, Links 2.25 is nice especially on slower machines ( i run real ones , one 100 mhz and one 1000 mhz). Den 2022-03-08 kl. 07:05, skrev Louis Santillan: You might try Links2 Browser in graphics mode. 2.25 is the latest version. http://links.twibright.com/download/binaries/dos/links