Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

2023-12-29 Thread Santiago Almenara via Freedos-user
1991: Learning to program in QuickBasic 4.5 at 11 (summer school), we didn't have a PC at home at that time.,When we got the first computer in 1993 I got Qbasic 4.5 (almost the same without linker and compiler). I had to wait for the Internet era to understand the differences between QuickBasic and

Re: [Freedos-user] Is networking unsupported on QEMU? Pilot error suspected.

2023-12-29 Thread andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 1:54 PM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > When the default “start” option is provided, FDNET will only attempt to > start networking support under VirtualBox and VMware. On real hardware and > other virtual platforms, it will just

Re: [Freedos-user] Is networking unsupported on QEMU? Pilot error suspected.

2023-12-29 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-user
Hi, On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 1:05 PM andrew fabbro via Freedos-user wrote: > > I'm a bit perplexed trying to get networking working for FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU. > My physical host is an M1 Mac (Apple Silicon). Which version of QEMU? 8.2? > FreeDOS installs and boots fine, but I get this message: >

Re: [Freedos-user] Is networking unsupported on QEMU? Pilot error suspected.

2023-12-29 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
Hi, > On Dec 27, 2023, at 1:04 PM, andrew fabbro via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Greetings! > > I'm a bit perplexed trying to get networking working for FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU. > My physical host is an M1 Mac (Apple Silicon). > > FreeDOS installs and boots fine, but I get this message: > >

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

2023-12-29 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
During the DOS years, I used XTree a lot for moving things and general file management. During the early DOS years, I used Professional Write. Eventually, I moved on to the Lotus Suite. But as with the platforms that came before, I spent most of my time in DOS writing code. Mainly that consi