[Freedos-user] dosemu2 portability

2025-01-14 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! The dosemu2 people are busy making it run on Android via termux: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ebc47cc9-2734-4f60-9dfd-2fd4304ce353 Certainly not the best place to run EDIT, but definitely cool ;-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA

2025-01-10 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! While there is a hardware difference in how you control more than 2^28 sectors (128 GB) FreeDOS is only limited by the BIOS LBA support and at the moment by MBR partitioning, which is limited to 2 TB disk size. However, people have already been working on GPT partitioning support :-) Eric

[Freedos-user] DOS app repositories

2024-12-20 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
-in character table as well :-D Last but not least, there could be more advertisement for the tree-shaped list of FreeDOS package LSM app info on FreeDOS.org Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Freedos-user] Logical Partitions

2024-12-19 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
this will not prevent you from telling GRUB, LILO and similar others to boot those nevertheless? Regards, Eric ... it seems like it may be an issue with installing to a logical partition. What process can I use to boot off of the logical partition? If it's a different boot manager, th

[Freedos-user] Meanwhile on BTTR

2024-12-15 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
ttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=22150&page=0&order=time&category=0 Cheers, Eric PS: I would still be interested in an open source INTERSVR INTERLNK compatible DOS pair of endpoints: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_en

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing from a DOS app via LPT Port

2024-12-09 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
outer or bridge so you can connect the laptop via LAN if you would normally only use WiFi, to protect DOS from having to understand anything about WiFi. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sou

Re: [Freedos-user] SvarDOS, was: Accessibility question.

2024-11-22 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
nd or search for some barely advertised binaries, many users miss that opportunity. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] extract BIOS bin file from Windows .EXE file in FreeDOS?

2024-11-05 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
ogram cannot be run in DOS mode."? If yes, which file on a FreeDOS installation is the utility that can do so? Maybe https://www.japheth.de/HX.html ? Or maybe the exe is just a self-extracting ZIP, then UNZIP may help? Cheers, Eric PS: https://www.japheth.de/index.html also has JWASM,

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

2024-11-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
to run emulators which let you run DOS. No bare metal, but very cost-effective. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

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

2024-10-29 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
lab.com/FreeDOS/issue-reporting/-/issues/58 Note that you should probably use HIMEM and optionally EMM386 bundled with Windows, as those have better Windows compatibility. However, they may have worse compatibility with modern hardware. Thanks for the support, E

Re: [Freedos-user] Demo video on Youtube

2024-10-23 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! I agree that the monthly releases have many good updates. For FreeDOS 1.4, we should finally add WfW 3.11 compatible kernel and related tools (maybe share exe etc.?) as well. Regards, Eric I think this demonstrates that FreeDOS 1.3 is getting a bit old (2022) and the monthly test

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos on raspberry pi.

2024-10-20 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
omplete board. Similar to Raspberry Pi, no housing is included, as you buy that separately. Are there other vendors offering complete weeCee sets? Best regards, Eric Best regards, Michał Dec ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourcefo

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos on raspberry pi.

2024-10-19 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
, a coffee machine etc. Those are not usable as normal computers. As the name suggests, Pi Pico are tiny, about the size of an 1990s chip, and people like to plug them into breadboards or solder them to their hobby projects. Again, those are not "normal" compu

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos on raspberry pi.

2024-10-18 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
egacy software out there that could benefit from such a system, I'm honestly extremely surprised... Modern computers simply have too much power, so you can just run DOS at full speed on emulators instead, even if those run on hardware which has nothing

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos on raspberry pi.

2024-10-18 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
a related topic: DOSEMU2 does work on ARM64 hardware, but their Ubuntu packages do not run on a Raspberry Pi PC out of the box. If somebody is bored, it would be nice to have pre-compiled Rasbperry Pi OS Linux DEB or FLATPAK packages for DOSEMU2 :-) https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2/issues/2277

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

2024-10-18 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
features, more RAM, faster CPU, some have 2 HDMI outputs, gigabit LAN, multiple USB 2 and 3 ports etc. and are more like 100 USD. Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

2024-10-17 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
are similar to what you would have in self-driving cars, for high performance image processing and AI tasks. Those are more like tiny stand-alone graphics cards, less aimed at classic desktop computers tasks, and high-priced. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

2024-10-17 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
itself, pre-connected to an instance of some software speech synthesizer. Then you would not even need a separate computer to run DOS. Regards, Eric PS: Regarding the Youtube, the installation of Mateusz' DOS distro SvarDOS starts by speaking some description of the speech feature after a s

Re: [Freedos-user] Enable VGA . FreeDos does not recognize external screen.

2024-10-09 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
list, so the better method is to just announce that you have the file and can send it off-list to people who want to read it :-) Eric PS: Useful tools are acpidump, acpixtract and iasl. In particular in Linux, those are often available. Hi. I was playing with "debug" , just writin

Re: [Freedos-user] Enable VGA . FreeDos does not recognize external screen.

2024-10-09 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
would be a really bloated tool then. No idea whether anybody wants to investigate this further, but maybe "how about reading your ACPI data?" inspires some of the curious people on the list here :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Ré : Odd post-install problem

2024-10-07 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
to be sane: There is always some risk that some hardware or BIOS are greater fools than a possibly foolproof default may have expected :-p Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Seeking advice on installing FreeDOS with Screen Readers

2024-09-26 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
srk which gives more details. There, the keys below 9 and C are listed as # and D respectively, which is plausible. Regards, Eric Hello. Here I found information about the special keypad. https://deskthority.net/wiki/IBM_Screen_Reader_Keypad It still insist that it worked on DOS, but as I told

Re: [Freedos-user] Seeking advice on installing FreeDOS with Screen Readers

2024-09-24 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
reedos install directory. In dosemu2, your C: drive can simply be a directory in your host Linux, which probably even is default, making it trivial to add files to itusing Linux. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourcefor

Re: [Freedos-user] Seeking advice on installing FreeDOS with Screen Readers

2024-09-23 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
. Dosemu2 also likes some special settings in config and autoexec. You can use either adapted or classic FreeDOS kernels and shells. Note that your Raspberry Pi Forum link was for DOSEMU, long ago. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Seeking advice on installing FreeDOS with Screen Readers

2024-09-23 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
big: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/report.html Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] semi-off-topic: a win9x driver for emulators and vm

2024-09-21 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
) VMWare Workstation 17 (2D, hardware OpenGL 2.1) QEMU 7.x, 8.0 (2D, software 3D) There is support for OpenGL ICD, DirectDraw, Glide, DirectX etc. Who knows, maybe this will also be useful for DOS in a way, such as contributing to DOSEMU2 Win9x support at some point. Regards, Eric

[Freedos-user] Hardware compatibility adventures

2024-09-16 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
how classic graphics cards no longer are supported in Linux. Sad for those classics, but at least most of those cards probably still work quite OK in DOS :-) https://flaterco.com/kb/video/X-regressions.html Those were the times... I hope the pages are useful for some of you! Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] USB keyboards [was Re: DOS Actively Used Scenarios]

2024-09-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
drivers :-) Regards, Eric PS: Note that DOS wants MBR partitioned drives, not GPT partitioned ones. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] USB to RS-232 Adapters

2024-09-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Orca. I do not know whether it is considered a comfortable option: https://orca.gnome.org/ There also is Voxin, but I have never heard of that before: https://voxin.oralux.net/ it seems to be related to Emacspeak, Fenrir, Orca, etc. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] USB to RS-232 Adapters

2024-09-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
compatibility, which is good in case the native USB mode of Dectalk USB differs too much from what DOS Dectalk drivers expect. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists

Re: [Freedos-user] USB to RS-232 Adapters

2024-09-07 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
an address, make sure that the USB driver or emulator you use has UART level realism. Some might only support BIOS level, not realistic enough. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge

Re: [Freedos-user] USB to RS-232 Adapters

2024-09-07 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
on hardware. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Running software in freeDOS

2024-08-23 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
the monthly rolling distro test releases, see: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/ https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/report.html Those have seen more than 1000 package updates since FreeDOS 1.3 :-) Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Minor performance anomaly / question re DIR command

2024-08-23 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
You can also use UDVD2 or CDRCACHE to cache CD/DVD, or UIDE which caches both fixed disks and CD/DVD. Looking forward to hear about your experiments, thanks! Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourc

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on a Dell Inspiron 1150: safe-mode only?

2024-08-21 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
r games and old media players. Some newer media players for DOS can work directly with AC97 or HDA compatible sound hardware such as the hardware I expect your laptop to have. As usual, you will have to read the docs carefully to select the right ingredients and configuration to get sound to work. Re

Re: [Freedos-user] Minor performance anomaly / question re DIR command

2024-08-21 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
system sync / flush calls or apps exiting via int 21.4c / int 20 etc. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Minor performance anomaly / question re DIR command

2024-08-19 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
ootup, but at the first time "free disk space" is requested. Which is typically when you first use DIR after boot, I guess. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/l

[Freedos-user] Checking some old bug tickets

2024-08-18 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
width > 80, is this still the case? for all edit and ctmouse versions? what causes it? https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/77/ find freezes, but this seems to be an error in which syntax the user tried to use. would it have worked with MS DO

Re: [Freedos-user] Copying Files Between Linux And FreeDOS

2024-08-18 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
ng to play with, too. For games, the usual default SB16 with Adlib etc. is good enough. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Copying Files Between Linux And FreeDOS

2024-08-17 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
e versa. Such mapped drives are not FAT, but that rarely matters. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Copying Files Between Linux And FreeDOS

2024-08-16 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
letters. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Regina Rexx 3.9.6 released

2024-08-13 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! Rugxulo writes on BTTR: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=22023 Regina Rexx 3.9.6 was released on 5 May 2024. Download: regina396dos4gw.zip (1.0 MB) Sources: regina396.zip (3.0 MB) > Changes in this release (from 3.9.5) > > * Bugs

Re: [Freedos-user] How to compile FreeDos. There is some tool with all already done?. Help

2024-08-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
interesting low level apps and drivers and compile THOSE, possibly with your own custom changes. That would be more interesting from the operating system exploration point of view, compared to pumping around 100s of megabytes of data to create an ISO. Enjoy FreeDOS! Regards, Eric Yes. I was taking a

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing for 8086 CPU on SD Card.

2024-08-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
shell, which helps making a minimal FreeDOS installation which fits into your BIOS, together with the MM MicroManager file manager (midnight commander or norton commander style, you know the concept) :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] How to compile FreeDos. There is some tool with all already done?. Help

2024-08-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
still can only be compiled with tools which are hard to find, please let us know about the oversight :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to USB Printers

2024-07-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
making it a special case of it with as small as possible differences, to not have to modify too much in the USB drivers. A driver "only for the chip" would not help you, as the chip always exists in some large, complex USB ecosystem. Reg

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to USB Printers

2024-07-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
ridge box which lets you connect your PC using a LAN cable to the box and then the box connects you further to a WIFI. Regards, Eric So I understand that I am using a usb->Centronics parallel adapter. Which works fin in Windows 10. Those are for Centronics printers and USB PC. You can use th

[Freedos-user] DOS packet drivers and NDIS wrappers

2024-07-26 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
NDIS exists :-) See also: https://www.shikadi.net/network/ shim convertor dis_pkt11(9).zip https://www.realtek.com/Download/ realtek NDIS for rtl8168 chip RayeR confirms that the method is what RayeR uses as well :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

2024-07-25 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
re-infect you after a SYS or similar. It is a good idea to have a known-healthy write-protected boot disk somewhere to be prepared for such cases. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-07-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
perly while other compilers accepted somewhat less elegant ways? Or to put it in a different way: Could it be useful to use your patch for all other compilers, without #if defined __GNUC__ condition? Regards, Eric [1]: https://pushbx.org/ecm/download/fdkernel.zip [2]: https://pushbx.org/ecm/dow

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-07-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
hich ask the user whether to do large impact things. Which already is there, which is good to know :-) Regards, Eric PS: Thanks for the new monthly test distro update! :-) ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
d mode compatible kernel which NEEDS testing, it would be really useful if one of the kernel people were to PACKAGE it, so Jerome can INCLUDE it in our monthly rolling release distro, so it GETS tested :-) Regards, Eric PS: Good to know that SL

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
FI related question, how are projects to provide a BIOS as loadable EFI module doing these days? Any hot ones to name? Of course I still recommend dosemu2 as alternative for VM image mounting ;-) Good that we have vmware vmsmount, too. Thanks for the verbose video! Regards, Eric PS: There is only a T

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-06-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
alternative to MP3. Cheers, Eric It could be downloaded with a browser using an Invidious link (either the audio, the video, or both) and later reproduced using a media player.  Has mplayer been ported to DOS, perhaps? While I like the idea, invidious may still need non-DOS browsers

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Actively Used Scenarios

2024-06-03 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
nning on FreeDOS. The boot message was only visible for a moment, so I do not know what type of virtual hardware that FreeDOS instance was running on. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforg

Re: [Freedos-user] Unexpected results from DIR command

2024-06-03 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
DOSEMU2-redirects, with FreeCOM version 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap Aug 26 2006. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] If you use smartdrv, load it before mkeyb

2024-05-22 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! Japheth found an interesting problem and explains on BTTR: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=21818 It turned out that Mkeyb and MS SmartDrv don't like each other. The root of the problem is that MKEYB's Int 15h handler expects the carry flag to be set, else it does not

Re: [Freedos-user] Web forum

2024-05-21 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! Would there be any interest in a web forum for FreeDos? You mean something like https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board.php ? ;-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS diagnostic tools?

2024-05-14 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite claims FreeDOS bundled with SpinRite to trigger some 16-4-8-bit CHS overflow > 128 GB? Well-known free/open alternatives are photorec and testdisk. The batch enhancer is similar to our v8 power tools, I gu

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS diagnostic tools?

2024-05-14 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
used tools for that and to configure disk sleep. SMARTUDM (1997-2003-?) from sysinfolab was one I tried. No idea whether there are variants supporting post-IDE/ATA/SATA drives. SMARTDFT / DFT 3.00 also displayed or logged SMART disk status. Regards, Eric PS: Interesting to notice that Veit&#

Re: [Freedos-user] documentation update

2024-05-09 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
ISTENT disk. disadvantages are a slightly longer boot time and changes are not persistent. Exactly. But the user could have a virtual HD attached to remedy that. The idea was that SHIPPING FreeDOS pre-installed on virtual harddisk would both remedy that AND com

Re: [Freedos-user] documentation update

2024-05-09 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
gs done. We could provide a disk image with pre-installed DOS. This would be convenient for users of virtual computers, because they do not need to worry about installing to actual disks when their disks are imaginary anyway :-) Regards, Eric _

[Freedos-user] odd news

2024-05-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
o not seem to affect the dos version either? i hope it is not necessary to start 3 separate list threads now ;-) https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/ regards, eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourc

Re: [Freedos-user] cannot boot installation media

2024-04-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! Not all USB sticks are enabled for booting. And maybe it is disabled in your BIOS setup. The MBR of the stick may matter as well, and whether you boot UEFI style (not possible with FreeDOS) or classic style ;-) ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] How can I make FreeDOS correctly display the "ã" character?

2024-04-25 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
n of EGA.CPI - some less common codepages will probably be in other CPX files. MODE CON CP PREP=((858) C:\FDOS\cpi\EGA.CPX) MODE CON CP SEL=858 You can do those two MODE invocations in autoexec or at the prompt as well. You can use MODE /? for help, too. The internet says that Brazilians prefe

Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-up emulation?

2024-04-25 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
modems? I have not watched the video yet. Let me know :-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] GIT news via BTTR

2024-04-20 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
and things correctly and can now use EMS memory. https://github.com/jhhoward/MicroWeb/releases/tag/v2.0 4. USBDDOS is a DOS driver stack for USB by Crazii: https://github.com/crazii/USBDDOS Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Adapter PCMCIA to CF

2024-03-29 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
notice the "disk change", causing all sorts of problems. Regards, Eric OK, apparently the PCMCIA -> CF adapter must be added to the BIOS boot list. Otherwise FreeDOS doesn't detect it. So everything is fine, 100% functional. Can someone explain to me why I have to add it to th

Re: [Freedos-user] Directory comparison program

2024-03-20 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
date and time differ. You could abuse the dry run mode of rsync for that, maybe, but this would probably be a weird solution for the task. So I suggest: diff -qr onedirectory otherdirectory or, at your choice, diff -qrs onedirectory otherdirectory :-) Eric Yes indeed. It would be recursive too. R

Re: [Freedos-user] QEMU - Max size of Linux access folder

2024-03-11 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
access on 32-bit Linux. Now you always get emulated CPU, which of course does have advantages in some cases - such as running on ARM or emulating more aspects of real and protected mode. Also, dosemu2 gets FAR more frequent updates than dosemu. Regards, Eric PS: It also frustrates me that 4 GB

Re: [Freedos-user] QEMU - Max size of Linux access folder

2024-03-11 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
How about using Dosemu2? When you add their PPA, you get frequent updates. Unfortunately focused on 64-bit distros, but performance is quite okay and it can map any Linux directory to a DOS drive letter, so size is "unlimited". Eric Hi Jim Thanks again. My problem is that I have

Re: [Freedos-user] Ramdisk

2024-03-04 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! You probably want to use XMS based ramdisks, not EMS. Also, the max size for FAT16 ramdisk is a bit below 2 GB and you can only have far less than 4 GB combined size because some of your first 4 GB address space are used for graphics etc. You can use "super extended" XMS 3.5 for a combined

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
resolution VESA modes and high resolution character fonts, for large and sharp character outlines? I think Blocek uses graphical fonts, but I am not sure which font sizes it includes. Editors with vector based fonts could scale dynamically based on screen resolution. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
difference whether you use MS DOS or FreeDOS when it comes to sound in apps. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] News from the forum

2024-02-14 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
nload.htm ASTRA 7.0 2023-12-12 (free for non-commercial use, with SPD, SMBIOS, chipset info) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

2024-02-09 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
of the windows keys, the scroll lock key or some accent you do not really use as "the accent/special key which makes the next character you type an upper case one" :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

2024-02-09 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! Indeed I was hinting at "manipulating 40:17 does not automatically sync the physical LED, but we might not care for auto shift anyway". Regarding your idea to show shift LED status on screen, check out the old LOCKTONE with audible feedback: https://auersoft.eu/soft/ Reg

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

2024-02-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
rogress of being pressed for longer, for extra control over the interaction of typematics and autoshift. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

2024-02-08 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! I am not aware of such drivers, but it would not be hard to write one. I think there already are drivers to make shift keys sticky, or to give audible feedback, as in my ancient locktone experiment inspired by Mielke.cc :-) Eric is it possible in DOS (using BIOS?) to implement a tsr or

Re: [Freedos-user] One use case for FreeDos

2024-02-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
e and run a DOS window on that" ;-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] One use case for FreeDos

2024-02-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
planned, but printers understanding plain text or PDF are easily available. You can connect printers using USB, printer port or network. And you can again use small external devices as proxy, or even adapter cables, to make more combinations work with DOS. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
er PC as a bridge: - any PCI or PCIe framegrabber with VGA input - StarTech USB3HDCAP video grabber for PC with USB3, inputs include DVI (see above), HDMI, component, composite 210 Euro Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] shutdown and USB Stick ?

2024-01-30 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
flushing? In that case, no additional delay would be necessary. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] shutdown and USB Stick ?

2024-01-29 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
ns to the prompt) or when you press ctrl-alt-delete or when there were no disk accesses for some amount of time. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-25 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
e RPi Pico. At $4 a Pico is also cheaper than most Arduinos. :-o Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-01-25 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
not use a complete Raspberry to convert PS/2 to USB or back either if your DOS PC already has USB anyway. Also, Arduinos have enough power if you do want a PS/2 to USB gadget. Regards, Eric PS: Here is a short thread on 4k screens in DOS ;-) https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.ph

Re: [Freedos-user] SNMP agent for DOS?

2024-01-11 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
and bus systems suitable for different control projects. Have a good evening, too! Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation for modern hardware - SBEMU and forks

2023-12-02 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
variants together feature quite a few supported sound chips and sound cards and I am sure they are getting the deserved attention on Vogons, but I also am sure that they will enjoy feedback from testers who have one of the lesser tested chips! Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS or DOS based mail clients

2023-11-27 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
s deleted where they are. Servers for Gmail: smtp.gmail.com TLS port 587 or SSL port 465. imap.gmail.com SSL port 993. pop.gmail.com SSL port 995 (but IMAP is better). Use the email address as user name to log in. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-use

Re: [Freedos-user] roundcube, is freedos, or dos based mail clients?

2023-11-26 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
, one first had to enable imap etc. access using a menu item on their webmail portals. GMX & web.de are two mail providers having that issue as far as I remember. Regards, Eric PS: The older POP3 only allowed access to the inbox, while IMAP also allows access to your other mail folders,

Re: [Freedos-user] roundcube, is freedos, or dos based mail clients?

2023-11-23 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
ugins interfere with whether the send button works. Not helpful for your problem, but suggests that this button indeed contains more complexity than necessary in some way. I am probably not very good in navigating advanced search in forum or bug list. Maybe asking on IRC works be

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos, or dos based mail clients?

2023-11-22 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
example mutt, pine, alpine, cone, or the old mailx. Graphical mail clients for DOS are not the answer here. Regards, Eric PS: I also wonder whether it is an option to run a Linux email client in a shell directly on the router at home? ___ Freedos

[Freedos-user] New versions: R. Swan's A72 assembler 1.05 and 1.05c

2023-11-20 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! Forwarding from Rugxulo on BTTR: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=20850 R. Swan's A72 assembler 1.05 (self-assembling, 8k .COM) posted by Rugxulo A72 1.05 was released on Oct. 9 on Github. Changes: * Listings are generated by default along with binary output. To ha

[Freedos-user] SBEMU soundblaster emulator news?

2023-11-06 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
pic.php?f=62&t=89304 The 2023-03-19 beta can be downloaded here: https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=160136 Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] DosView, a modern image format viewer and converter

2023-11-06 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
. You can convert images to other formats with DosView as well :-) A thread about it on BTTR: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=20798&page=0&order=time&category=0 Interestingly, the newest DosView EXE UPXes from 1.5 to 0.6 MB :-)

Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question

2023-11-04 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
nux blows it out of the water. Do you have enough cache (Jack's drivers or lbacache for example) and enough RAM, and/or made sure that CWSDPMI will not use swap? See the documentation for CWSDPMI, or try using another DPMI, such as DOS32A or DPMIONE, to run the DOS version of DOSFSCK.

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip for dOS?

2023-11-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
path and keep everything else around at a place of your choice for some extra documentation. You do not need to use a package manager then. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/

Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question / Sound in DOS and FAT huge file support

2023-11-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
e could check the cluster chain length or put a few extra bits somewhere in the directory entries? I do not know which DOS and Windows brands support such extensions for FAT filesystems, but I think EDR-DOS is one of the brands working on this and proposing an interface for i

[Freedos-user] Testing quite a few DOS games with modern graphics hardware

2023-10-31 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
less flexible bytes-per-line with this hardware, but I assume EGA still would not work if you were to use N * 256 bytes per line for it. I expect VESA games to be smart enough to respect the bytes per line of the BIOS instead of just multiplying width by bytes per pixel to guess a valu

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip for dOS?

2023-10-31 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! According to https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/report.html you can download http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/unstable/archiver/p7zip.zip for 7zip. Regards, Eric

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