Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

Thanks! On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 5:02 PM Daniel Essin via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > https://archive.org/details/msdos_manual_622 > > https://archive.org/details/microsoft-programmers-reference-manual-msdos-2.0 > https://archive.org/details/msdos_5_User_Guide_complete

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

https://archive.org/details/msdos_manual_622 https://archive.org/details/microsoft-programmers-reference-manual-msdos-2.0 https://archive.org/details/msdos_5_User_Guide_completehttps://archive.org/details/msdos_5_User_Guide_complete On Wed

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

This is awesome, thank you. On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:18 PM Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 11:57 AM usul wrote: > > > > So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and > my Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my start with > a 48

Re: [Freedos-user] Can you recommend a good single-board-computer for legacy OSs?

What legacy OS Either DOS or directly on bare metal. It needs to start in 16bit real mode though for either of these to work. UEFI I think starts in 32bit protected mode (likely in ring3, so you never really can get hardware level access to the computer). This is why it needs legacy BIOS support, s

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

Hi, On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:31 PM Rugxulo wrote: > > > So as soon as I get the items loaded this higher memory and 32 dos extender > > stuff remembered and djgpp or w/e up and running the better. > > I had an ancient GCC 2.95.3 archive (DJGPP 2.03p2), if you're curious. > It was a .7z file that

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

Hi again, On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 1:03 PM usul wrote: > > Apparently I purged XP disks long ago. :( Laptop has Windows 10 is on it. > And it is awful LOL. Even though most of the minimalist linux live I have > tested also dogged a bit. UMSDOS wasn't maintained after the 2.4 kernel series. I

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

Hi, On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 11:57 AM usul wrote: > > So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and my > Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my start with a > 486 DX 8 mgs of Ram. > I mostly did Visual Basic 3.0 programming to start after I finish

Re: [Freedos-user] Can you recommend a good single-board-computer for legacy OSs?

I don't know if this is any help but I am currently installing FreeDOS using PCem, on an Atom based Stick PC. What are you planning on using the legacy os for? On Wed, 1 Mar 2023, 19:20 Ben Hutchinson, wrote: > I found what seemed to be a good Intel x86 based SBC over at > https://up-shop.org/u

[Freedos-user] Can you recommend a good single-board-computer for legacy OSs?

I found what seemed to be a good Intel x86 based SBC over at https://up-shop.org/up-squared-series.html but there was one problem. It mentioned only a UEFI firmware. Nothing about supporting legacy BIOS. I know my laptop can switch between UEFI and BIOS by changing the firmware settings (go into th

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

Apparently I purged XP disks long ago. :( Laptop has Windows 10 is on it. And it is awful LOL. Even though most of the minimalist linux live I have tested also dogged a bit. I might install suse with xcfe on it. That seemed to run the best. Though I have never done any linux development. and

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

I would be tempted to install windows xp, which I believe this laptop shipped with, then install virtual pc, (the version before Microsoft bought it) and run the various dos/Windows 3.1 machines in a virtual environment. Or install linux and find a virtual pc solution for that. Dos and win 3.1 do

[Freedos-user] Greetings

So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and my Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my start with a 486 DX 8 mgs of Ram. I mostly did Visual Basic 3.0 programming to start after I finished college. VBA/ MS Access then to Dot Net. I can read C / C+