Re: [Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-10-30 Thread Roger via Freedos-user
Yup. This is exactly what I was thinking, except you're a good one or two steps ahead having a better understanding of EFI/UEFI structure than I. I was thinking, booting into a stripped down or minimal Linux kernel, and if required runit environment, then into qemu. With the NesUEFI method likely

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-10-30 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
There is no need to clone an 8086. You can run the entire system or just a CPU in an FPGA. There are versions for several of the older CPUs out there. Even 486 equvilants. Just google ‘FPGA 8086 CPU” or similar. For example, https://hackaday.com/2017/11/03/386-too-much-try-a-186-in-an-fpga/ <

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-10-30 Thread Sabina Zelená . via Freedos-user
‎Greetings,thanks for the replay. I even know,some guy in New Zealand is making XT-clones including new MoBos,but as U pointed,i am afraid,that project is also dependent on using original CPUs,which survived. So do U think,even cloning a 086/088 CPU is impossible? ‎BTW x86 CPUs was already revers

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-10-30 Thread Sabina Zelená . via Freedos-user
‎Greetings.I would most appreciate,if someone would be willing to assemble a team for restoring Legacy HW,mainly Legacy MoBo & CPUs production.If someone would be willing to create a plant for Legacy HW production

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-10-30 Thread Roderick Klein via Freedos-user
On 10/30/24 06:00 pm, Sabina Zelená. via Freedos-user wrote: ‎Greetings. I would most appreciate,if someone would be willing to assemble a team for restoring Legacy HW,mainly Legacy MoBo & CPUs production. If someone would be willing to create a plant for Legacy HW production,I would offer my h

Re: [Freedos-user] R: Moving towards FreeDOS 1.4

2024-10-30 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
Hi Eric, >>> Is it possible to know if the next FreeDOS release will be compatible >>> with Windows 3.1, please? I read an article a few months ago and if >>> I am not wrong, I remember that it talked about this feature. >> From the email that started this thread: no, this 1.4 release will not >

[Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-10-30 Thread Roderick Klein HTML email via Freedos-user
I modified the subject of the thread. First of all I am not a software developer. I started out using MS-DOS and later moved to OS/2. I still use ArcaOS an my main OS these days (OS/2 version). It runs on bare metal with UEFI support. A small company called Arca Noae LLC has developed a UEFI load

Re: [Freedos-user] Moving towards FreeDOS 1.4

2024-10-30 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
As a reminder, Interim Test Builds pull from the nnstable branch of projects when it exists. Release builds only pull from the master branch of the projects. Although the ERROR.LOG issues warning messages regarding which projects are using their unstable branch, I want to provide a note for th