I loved Ronald Blankendaal's Access for a free-dos only laptop (Toshiba
Satellite 430cds, 16mb RAM, sdcard via IDE adapter) - but I was using v 5.02.
Was brilliant for my young kids who could arrange their own menus for favourite
dos games. Can be text-only, but I preferred to use icons. Didn't
"Plug-In" brought me.
Available on vetusware I understand - but I have kept my original copies and
registration codes etc... how sad is that?
:)
Andrew Robins
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022, at 12:02 AM, Martin Iturbide wrote:
> Hello
>
> I was wondering if you know some links,
Dear Karen,
there have been many instances in the past where able-bodied and
differently-enabled experts have worked together in the FreeDOS threads for a
common good. I am distressed to have witnessed the escalating discord between
two of such proponents. I too have experienced "acquired disabi
Hey Felix and co,
can I suggest an avenue such as a boot manager like Plop
https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html to get around booting into FreeDOS
from USB?
I haven't tried it this way myself, but I have used Plop in the past to boot
into Puppy Linux using native USB 1.0 in an old laptop
Sorry - lurking, but my 2c briefly:
there's a lot to be said for the self-satisfying, validating feeling of
actually physically handcrafting your thoughts for contribution to the broader
society as a whole. Whether those efforts actually makes an impact on that
society... well, does that really
I recall seeing with delight the rural mobile blood donation units here in
Queensland, Australia, using DOS exclusively on old laptops to integrate their
data entry with their servers. The phlebotomists (nurses) I spoke with up until
about 2015 swore by the reliability, security and usability of
*EDIT: USB2.0 ports via PCMCIA adapter, I mean.
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Andrew Robins wrote:
> You might like to consider using Elmar Hanlhofer's "Plop" boot manager
> https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html to assist with booting from your
> native US
You might like to consider using Elmar Hanlhofer's "Plop" boot manager
https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html to assist with booting from your
native USB1.x port. It helps with working around early BIOS versions that did
not permit /enable booting from USB as an option. (Have you checked you b
Ah - I still have my MagnaRAM diskette around somewhere - (also had RAMgate) -
loved that on my AU$400, second-hand 486DX running Win3.1, circa 1995. With
PlannetCrafters enhanced GUI software (last seen on Vetusware, IIRC), I felt
that my setup was so smooth I had no need to upgrade to Win98 et
I haven't resurrected my FreeDOS projects for a while, but some time ago
(years?!) I posted about my intent to work on a "FreeDOS 4 Kids" project,
recycling old, Pentium-era laptops.
I think I discussed the functionality of Ronald Blankendaal's (re DBGL) most
excellent dos GUI "Access" for prov
Robert I am talking out of school here, on so many levels...
Have you ever heard of EVE (Embedded Vector Editor) from Barry Kauler?
https://bkhome.org/archive/goosee/
Barry hasn't supported his gem since at least 2006, when he left the Windows
environment to work almost exclusively on his next pr
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 8:21 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> > Mind - although I still have both 430CDS' in storage for uncompleted
> > project updates, I had to wave the white flag on productively using Puppy
> > for kids use, on those particular specs. What worked best in it was
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 3:30 AM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:52 PM wrote:
> >
> >... Puppy Linux is designed for older, less powerful hardware. (A poster
> on the Puppy forums described creating a dedicated media server based
> on Puppy that ran on an ancient Toshiba laptop w
Thanks FreeDOS community for such a heartening, community-minded response to
Felix's situation. It's amazing, well done team and I hope that one or multiple
satisfactory solutions can be worked out for sight-impaired users. Imagine if
the Aladdin's Cave of archived IF (interactive fiction) softw
right back into surfing.
Cheers
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013, at 04:47 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Andrew Robins
> wrote:
> > Egads - you are very right to remind me there Dennis and Rugxulo -
> > defragging is a bit of a reflex habit from my time as a disg
Egads - you are very right to remind me there Dennis and Rugxulo -
defragging is a bit of a reflex habit from my time as a disgruntled MS
user, I never consider it in my (user-level) Puppy Linux. I'll give
DOSFSCK a run, as I still query the format process on the SD-card.
Thanks too for the Chess l
Firstly - many thanks to all those offering help in this thread. It has
digressed somewhat from the OP but I hope the suggested tips will help
other 'newbs', I will certainly revisit here to refresh my memory (no
pun intended), follow links when I have more time etc. Thanks Robert
Riebisch for your
Hi Rugxulo,
many thanks for your detailed reply. As it turns out, I have been
plugging along sporadically with the SD-card FreeDOS OS integrating with
USB flash drive (games repository). I've slowly been weeding out various
games that I've downloaded holus-bolus from various "abandonware" sites,
gr
Aha - thanks Dennis for the rescue (on yet another OS thread) - I must
have included an extra space after my semi-colon in previous
experiments. Cheers and kuDOS
> The second PATH statement above will override the first, so Access
> will work, but stuff in FDOS\BIN won't. To have more than one
>
cordata2 - I stand corrected, and absolutely flabbergasted. Pleasantly
surprised indeed - troubles with a dying floppy drive had me flip a
spare usb-floppy over to the test rig, and on reboot I tried "B:" and
bang - there was my usb-floppy! (Not asking me to swap the floppy in
the infernal A drive,
Thanks cordata2 and Mark - no I've tried repeated reboots while ironing
out the kinks in my re-install, chiefly to get my autoexec.bat working
nicely, and while the BIOS detects the USB flash drive on bootup, no
letter is automatically assigned to it (although I must test the ports
at the rear). US
PS. Begging pardon - the zip file I mentioned earlier was "USB19.zip"
from Jack Ellis and, I see from Bret Johnson's USB support forum, a
colourful debate there on UIDE/USB extensionality I am too dense to
fathom. Also - usbhosts showing 2 OHCI and 1 EHCI (2.0) usb ports,
matching the BIOS. I'm tes
I'm stumped I'm afraid - how do include the requisite instructions in
fdconfig.sys (and? autoexec.bat) to have USBUHCI and USBDRIVE resident
and functional in a fresh Freedos 1.1 install?
I'm in the process of constructing small DOS games environment on a 2Gb
sd-card drive (IDE adapter). The eventu
...why do I only spot my typos after I post, and not in the 3 re-reads I
make befpre pressing 'send'??
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- I have a lot of
experimenting to do - and I haven't started on tinkering with memory
environs for Allegro - I occasionally see allocation errors with it, but
mostly on newer hardware running the Access shell,
BFN
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tem it uses - but I have other
nethack derivatives (erm, EagleEye from memory?) to take its place in
that respect... shamefully my kids don't 'dig' ascii games much, I think
due to modern game bling-related
P.S. Starting from here of course
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS#Memory_management
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workaround is provision of a new batch file to call up specific memory
requirements, per game. Doing my research - but any sources that
illustrate DOS memory management in a graphical form would be
appreciated, if any are to hand,
Cheers :)
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ns on how to do the "copy CD onto HD" route for
installation. There's info buried in the ISO, but I only found it once,
2) some installation workarounds for the "if you have a PCMCIA
cd-rom...", and
3) improved format /system HD / bootloader process.
That's about all the fe
I think that MSFN has some great support for Win98 - I followed it for
some time a few years back and there are quite a few dedicated
volunteers there who had included USB 2.0 drivers, perfected the various
security updates etc. Plenty of debate there as to the legality of the
unofficial upgrades,
probably outlive the laptops I have in mind
for them - but any surviving components will just be added to the next
candidate to rescue from landfill,
Many Thanks
Andrew Robins
On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 6:39 PM, "Jack"
wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> > I anticipate replacing
My primary interest in FreeDOS was both in sustainable computing
and "edutainment" for primary-shool age children. That is, using
classic, award-winning DOS games freely available from the Web on
ancient laptops (e.g., 48mb max RAM, pre-USB vintage) to provide
a living example of Reduce, Reuse, Rec
sted,
Cheers!
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:26 +0200, "Bernd Blaauw" wrote:
> Op 16-7-2011 5:00, Andrew Robins schreef:
> > Congratulations, firstly, on getting on SourceForge's Top Projects list
> > this month. I think the accolade is long-overdue. I've final
To partly answer my own questions earlier:
1) How do I install kernell.?
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27324018
- yup, I tried a straight over-write when the update was released, but
over the last week the filesystem gradually corrupted to a point that
CHKDSK (0.9) would
Dear Jim Hall and all contributors, FreeDOS users-
Congratulations, firstly, on getting on SourceForge's Top Projects list
this month. I think the accolade is long-overdue. I've finally signed up
here partly to thank you for your base that I have used on a Toshiba
430CDS Satellite Pro (48MB, P1, 1
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