Re: [Freedos-user] DOS diagnostic tools?

2024-05-14 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Eric, While I will work through this list of course, you would need to reach the part of that Wikipedia article that talks of Norton 8, I honestly did not even start using a computer until 1989, and did not own a copy of Norton Utilities until after 200 at the earliest. I used it as an example

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS diagnostic tools?

2024-05-14 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Karen, the utilities recommended by Rober To sound useful: HDAT2 harddisk repair and diagnostics ATA, ATAPI, SATA, USB, SCSI ASTRA Advanced Sysinfo Tool and Reporting Assistant HWiNFO system information, monitoring and diagnostics Do you recall the items in norton utilities? There is

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS diagnostic tools?

2024-05-14 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Hi Eric, Do you recall the items in norton utilities? If not, I can post a list of the various tools? I am hoping for a collection of options if that resonates. Norton for example lets you create a repair boot disc, which would be a fine start. that disc then had items to check your hard drive

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS diagnostic tools?

2024-05-14 Thread Rober To via Freedos-user
Hi, some ideas: HDAT2/CBL Hard Disk Repair Utility | | | | HDAT2/CBL Hard Disk Repair Utility HDAT2 is program for test or diagnostics of ATA/ATAPI/SATA, SSD, USB and SCSI devices. | | | ASTRA - Advanced Sysinfo Tool and Reporting Assistant | | | | | | | | | | | ASTRA

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS diagnostic tools?

2024-05-14 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Karen, please specify the type of diagnostics you would be interested in. For example PCISLEEP can give you a list of PCI devices in your PC, but you seem to be interested in disk or filesystem analysis etc.? Maybe tools which display the SMART health status of your disks? I remember having

[Freedos-user] DOS diagnostic tools?

2024-05-14 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Hi folks, One stated advantage of freedos shared often is the ability to use more contemporary hardware. My hope is that there is also dos based software supporting the care and diagnostics of that infrastructure? For example, while I have Norton Utilities for DOS, it cannot see my larger dri

Re: [Freedos-user] QEMU, DOOM, and sb16 issue resolved with audiodev specification

2024-05-14 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hi, Please consider reporting this to libvirt on GitHub. I'm literally the only user up there who asked for sb16 not to be axed. Speak up, or the devs will speak for you - and usually against your interests. Best regards, Michał W dniu 14.05.2024 o 12:12, Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user pisze:

Re: [Freedos-user] QEMU, DOOM, and sb16 issue resolved with audiodev specification

2024-05-14 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
Good to know! I just upgraded to Fedora 40, and I use QEMU to run FreeDOS. I'll have to update my script that runs QEMU. On Tue, May 14, 2024, 5:35 AM Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I recently hit a problem regarding Sound Blaste

[Freedos-user] QEMU, DOOM, and sb16 issue resolved with audiodev specification

2024-05-14 Thread Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user
Hello everyone, I recently hit a problem regarding Sound Blaster 16 card and its emulation using QEMU. In short, if 'sb16' device was specified, DOOM always hung at the moment the sound was about to be initialized. If not, everything worked properly, but without sound. I checked all the info

Re: [Freedos-user] the msdos 4.0 sources has some multitasking code

2024-05-14 Thread Michael Brutman via Freedos-user
That attitude toward the MS-DOS source code seems rather limiting and short-sighted. My recent device driver worked well enough on later versions of DOS (and FreeDOS) but I was having a devil of a time trying to figure out why DOS 2.x would not honor the device driver telling it that the media had