Re: [Freedos-user] reminder reminder?

2021-11-01 Thread Andy Stamp
I just got one. On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 10:17 AM Angel M Alganza wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 06:45:41AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > >Interesting. I only received the one copy of the reminder email. But Bryan > >said he got multiple copies. > > > >I'm replying to the email list to see what other

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

2020-12-12 Thread Andy Stamp
I had been working on getting the existing HTMLHELP to compile in OpenWatcom as a pre-work step to fixing some of the existing bugs. But assuming this can handle the non-english languages it may be the way to go. On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 8:13 PM Jim Hall wrote: > This is great! > > I tried it an

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Andy Stamp
It looked like this was the x86 output of the meta compiler. I'm going to try to coax the Watcom Assembler into building it this evening. On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 8:38 AM Deposite Pirate wrote: > This cannot be compiled to machine code because it's some kind of meta > assembler to generate assem

Re: [Freedos-user] R: Freedos for IBM PCDOS 3.30 software

2020-04-28 Thread Andy Stamp
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 9:07 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Mattia, > > if I understand you correctly, you cannot transfer data > from an old harddisk on your IBM PS/2 computer to the > new system, because the PS/2 floppy drive is broken? > > In that case, it probably does not help to suggest tools >

[Freedos-user] DOS version control

2020-02-16 Thread Andy Stamp
Hello, I've starting working on a game and some small dual monitor (VGA + MDA) utilities but have run into issues where the code used to work and now it doesn't. We use subversion, cvs, and git at work and I was wondering what options are available for dos-based systems besides dated zip files.

Re: [Freedos-user] PCNTPK driver stopped working in VirtualBox 6.0

2019-01-27 Thread Andy Stamp
On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 7:39 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 8:49 PM Andy Stamp wrote: > >> [..] >> Looks like the latest update for VirtualBox 6.0.2 should resolve the >> issues with the virtual PCnet card not detecting. >> I was just abl

Re: [Freedos-user] PCNTPK driver stopped working in VirtualBox 6.0

2019-01-21 Thread Andy Stamp
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 4:35 PM Louis Santillan wrote: > There may be subtle difference in what the DOS packet driver is expecting > and what VirtualBox supports now ( > https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#nichardware). Maybe try > NICSCAN (http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm) o

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on LGR

2017-10-09 Thread Andy Stamp
Just watched the lastest Lazy Game Reviews video where he installed MS-DOS on an AMD Ryzen PC and was delighted to see FreeDOS used as part of the demo. He seemed to have better luck booting from C: with FreeDOS than with MS-DOS which was cool to see. Full video here: https://youtu.be/bS9hiSwL1KY

Re: [Freedos-user] EtherDFS v0.8.1

2017-05-06 Thread Andy Stamp
From: Andy Stamp --===2563758283038139191== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c18fde04c45b6054df36822 --94eb2c18fde04c45b6054df36822 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Mateusz, I've been following your posts both here and on the VCF forum (

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot

2017-05-06 Thread ANDY STAMP
From: Andy Stamp --===2978333473432860302== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c18a3de3f81f5053ff09cfa --94eb2c18a3de3f81f5053ff09cfa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello Simon You could try Mateusz' Svarog86 distribution ( http://svarog86.sourceforg

Re: [Freedos-user] EtherDFS v0.8.1

2017-04-24 Thread Andy Stamp
Hi Mateusz, I've been following your posts both here and on the VCF forum ( http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?57027-EtherDFS-an-ethernet-drive-for-DOS) and was inspired to pick up a Xircom PE3 adapter to help move files to and from my old XT with a bad FDC. I set up a Linux VM with a FAT3

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot boot FreeDOS on 8086-based IBM PS/2 -- any ideas?

2016-10-28 Thread Andy Stamp
Hello Simon You could try Mateusz' Svarog86 distribution ( http://svarog86.sourceforge.net/). I am working on an 8088 emulator and I am able to boot his 360k diskette image with no issues. Cheers, --Andy On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:22 PM, wrote: > Hi! > > Isnt't FreeDOS dependant on 80286+? No