Re: [Freedos-user] dualboot systems

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Schumann
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:15 PM, P. Hightower wrote: > Setting up a partition for > FreeDOS and installing it first and then installing Linux. Both Fedora > and Ubuntu, and I imagine most modern distros, will detect FreeDOS on > the partition and set up the boot loader accordingly. Sure, but instal

Re: [Freedos-user] Help us redesign www.freedos.org

2009-11-13 Thread Chris Schumann
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Pat Villani wrote: > If you're a web designer or would like to try your hand at web > design, here's your chance. Help us update the FreeDOS web site > design! Was this submitted to the news sites, such as slashdot? Submitting to designer communities would be a goo

Re: [Freedos-user] Executing a Linux Command from Inside DOS?

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Schumann
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Robert J. Thompson wrote: > Is there a way that I can execute a Linux command from inside DOS? For > example, "RUNLINUXCOMMAND" [lpr ~/Dosprog/roses.jpg], where > "RUNLINUXCOMMAND" would be the dos command required. Thanks in advance, > Bob T. Hey Bob, Don't you

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you need from Windows world...

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Schumann
My reply is not meant as an angry rant at all, but I would like to see this topic go somewhere more productive. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Michael Robinson wrote: > I haven't gotten the positive response I had hoped for trying > to drum up some interest in a Windows 9x replacement. That's

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-10 Thread Chris Schumann
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Michael Robinson wrote: > So, how are efforts to replace Windows 9x coming along?  Theoretically, > freedos could support an open source replacement. AFAIK, there is no effort to do this at all. Feel free to educate me on that, though. And in my opinion, the only

Re: [Freedos-user] Zork for Free!

2009-05-21 Thread Chris Schumann
Thanks for the clarification. I'm late to the party. BTW, these work fine for me in FreeDOS. Checking out ifarchive right now. Chris On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan W. wrote: > Ditto: http://infocom-if.org/disclaimer.html -

[Freedos-user] Zork for Free!

2009-05-21 Thread Chris Schumann
http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html Infocom has released Zork I, II and III for free download. Anyone tried them in FreeDOS? I'm firing up my FreeDOS machine. Chris -- Register Now for Creativity and Tech

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS laptop battery run-time test?

2008-11-11 Thread Chris Schumann
ThinkPad laptops have a version of PC Doctor available for download that includes a battery rundown test. Both the floppy and, strangely perhaps, the CD version, record the last result run on that machine. (Perhaps it writes to some non-volatile memory in the machine.) Perhaps their regular produc

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for a word processor...

2008-09-30 Thread Chris Schumann
Found it. But it's version 5.5, actually, and it has been updated for Y2K. http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Chris Schumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC, you can download Microsoft Word 3 fo

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for a word processor...

2008-09-30 Thread Chris Schumann
IIRC, you can download Microsoft Word 3 for DOS for free. On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Skyler Orlando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...like Edit, but with word wrap. And, a substantially higher size limit, if > any. (multiple MB) > > Does anyone know of one? Preferably menu-oriented, not like V

Re: [Freedos-user] CD skips when playing

2008-08-28 Thread Chris Schumann
Let's see... to play audio, a CD drive has to read at 1x. I doubt the drive is too slow. It should be possible to have the hardware in the drive play audio, but if it's extracting data and playing through the sound card, that's going to take IDE, memory and I/O bandwidth, and that could easily

Re: [Freedos-user] Intro

2007-12-17 Thread Chris Schumann
On Dec 17, 2007 11:05 AM, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris wrote: > > I've been following FreeDOS on and off for a while, thinking it would > > be fun to write a version of InterLNK in my non-existent free time. > > Alas, it will have to wait. > > Good idea! Original interlnk did the fo

[Freedos-user] Intro

2007-12-10 Thread Chris Schumann
Hello all, I've been following FreeDOS on and off for a while, thinking it would be fun to write a version of InterLNK in my non-existent free time. Alas, it will have to wait. My current project is to use FreeDOS to get a minimal Ubuntu installation on my ancient ThinkPad 750P: 5GB disk, 36MB RA