Thanks! I've mirrored this to the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio,
and posted a news item. (Thanks also for the suggested news item ..
that made this a lot easier for me.)
I refreshed the news feed on the website, so the announcement is there now. :-)
Jim
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 6:37 AM E. C.
FYI: If anyone is interested in doing a talk or demo about FreeDOS at
FOSDEM (Retrocomputing Devroom) the deadline to submit your proposal
is a few days away (Dec 1).
FOSDEM is Feb 1-2 in Brussels, and the Retrocomputing Devroom is Feb 2
in the afternoon.
Here's a copy/paste of the announcement:
On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 11:45 AM Jon Brase via Freedos-user
wrote:
[..]
>
> If Earth's accumulated rotation angle is ever non-monotonic, we'll
> have bigger and more thermally significant problems than timekeeping.
You might be surprised to learn the Earth's rotational speed actually
*does* chang
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 10:50 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> [..]
> I have tried to reproduce this in QEMU for about 20 mins... but was not
> able.
I also can't reproduce it in QEMU.
I spent an hour writing a DOS game for myself (in C, using OpenW
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 9:54 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Basically... there seems to be some corruption of the A: filesystem.
>
> Sometime I open test2 directory... and the dir shows meaningless
> characters and big size.
>
> Sometime wcl testcol.
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 4:50 PM Jim Hall wrote:
[..]
> This is a very weird problem, I cannot replicate it on my end. For
> what it's worth, I boot FreeDOS in QEMU on Linux -- but the virtual
> machine shouldn't matter here, because you say you can compile fine
> using IA-1
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 11:47 AM Davide Erbetta wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> let me first say that I'm using FreeDOS in VirtualBox. I've made a fresh
> new install of FreeDOS and OW from the FreeDOS distribution CD as suggested.
>
> I had the C file ("prova.c) on A: drive, an IMG file attached as A:
>
Doing a little googling on that error number, and found this:
> [..] E3033 is a real problem in wfl386 in OW 1.9, though.
>
> The .lnk file generated by wfl386 now is missing a space on the library
> directive line between the directive and the file name. This causes the
> link step to fail.
>
> I
;wcl prova,c" return E3033
>
> 3) "wcc prova.c" then "wcl prova.obj" it works fine! I've tried several
> times, mixing the test order with 1) and 2) and it always worked! So,
> I've tested this combination also with other C files and it works as
> well
Hi Davide!
I copied/pasted exactly what you provided as your sample in your
email. I saved it as davide.c in my D:\TEMP directory, and then
compiled it using OpenWatcom. Using 'wcl -c' means "compile only" and
you can do the same thing with just 'wcc' so that's what I did. It
works fine on my end:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 3:47 PM Alessandro Ciabattoni via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
[..]
> 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
Jim Hall wrote:
[..]
> > One workaround (used on some HP laptops) is to book a minimal Linux
> > environment, then launch a virtual machine like QEMU to boot FreeDOS
[..]
Michał Dec wrote:
>
> You mean like on literally everything. Not just HP laptops.
>
Yes, but HP lit
Rover wrote:
> > Wish Intel would create a BIOS emulation layer for booting DOS/FreeDOS
> > via EFI/UEFI. Ridiculous EFI/UEFI has no emulation layer for booting
> > older operating systems!
[..]
> > However, all likely outside the whelm [realm?] of FreeDOS.
Ralf Quint wrote:
> Indeed. It would te
ot;FreeDOS 1.4." (In other words,
that suggests "February 2025" to release FreeDOS 1.4.)
** Package freeze
In the meantime, I'd like to limit adding new programs into the
FreeDOS monthly test releases. That means no new kernel version, no
PC/GEOS, etc. (but I'm open to discussin
On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 5:21 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Version 2024-10-20 is available. It has a few bug fixes. It also
> allows mTCP programs to operate at the same time NetDrive is active.
> (If you know how packet drivers work, that is no small track.)
>
> Download links
*Another Edlin user! I like to write text in Edlin too, sometimes. *
If you're using Edlin, note that Edlin will interpret special codes for
you, using backslash.
To protect the backslash, type it twice when entering text:
C:\\DOSSOUND\\DOSSound.com
Then it will get entered into the file as:
C
Eric Auer wrote:
> >
> > 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.
Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> Don’t know about WFW.
>
> Personally, I think 1.4 should have a
I think this demonstrates that FreeDOS 1.3 is getting a bit old (2022)
and the monthly test releases have far outpaced it. For example, we
already dropped Seal and oZone in the monthly test releases; the test
releases have only had OpenGEM for some time.[1] We haven't added
PCGEOS yet, but I'd like
On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 4:55 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> For what operating system?
> While I may be incorrect, there are some drivers where the number of taps
> can mimic the desired clicks.
> Karen
>
I think we can assume Ed is asking about drivers for DOS. :-)
On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 10:52 AM Gabriel González via Freedos-user
wrote:
[..]
> Before this short introduction, I would like to use FreeDOS , not MS
> DOS 6.22 , because FreeDOS looks like it is more powerful and we are
> a good community. So , the important question for me is :
>
> I will install
Someone emailed me to ask how I install FreeDOS using QEMU. They also asked
about the warning that QEMU emits when you use "img" file format, so my
reply mentions that. I wanted to share a copy of my reply in case anyone
else here uses QEMU:
>>
This is a very timely question, because I'm about to
The same person who asked me about how to install FreeDOS in QEMU also
asked about how I copy files to/from my FreeDOS disk image, using Linux.
Here's a copy of my reply, for anyone else who wants to do that:
>>
I forgot to show how I access the disk image using *guestmount*. I'm
running some thi
FYI that I'm "speaking" at Nerdearla (pre-recorded, but live Q&A) about FreeDOS.
My talk is '30 years of open source with the FreeDOS Project' and will
be broadcast on today at 4:35 pm, Argentina time UTC-3, on the event
platform and will be posted on Nerdearla's YouTube channel sometime
after tha
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 3:23 AM Rugxulo via Freedos-user
wrote:
>[..]
> Instead of relying on (or rebuilding) an entire shell, the simple code
> for this could be isolated and run (or modified) independently.
>
Wouldn't the easy solution be to put this in your AUTOEXEC.BAT?
DIR C: > NUL:
Then
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 4:05 PM Bonnie Dalzell via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
>
> How do I unsubscribe from the freedoslist.
> no longer have us for freedos
>
> iot was very useful for me in the past
Sorry to see you go, but glad that FreeDOS was useful to you at some point. :-)
At the bottom of eve
On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 5:57 PM andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Is the hash different than the officially published ones?
>
> https://www.freedos.org/download/verify.txt
>
Good question. I just checked the sha512sums on the FreeDOS Files
Archive at Iibiblio, comparing them to a copy of
You didn't mention the specific warning text that you see, but since
this comes up once in a while (although not too frequently) I think I
know what you are seeing. Yes, it is a false positive.
Virus scanning software isn't always able to find an *exact* match for
viruses. To try to find "zero day
Thanks for the new test release! I've shared a news item about it on
the website so folks can download it and help test it.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 11:45 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> mTCP NetDrive lets you mount floppy disk and hard drive images over the
> network to your DOS m
I wanted to share this interview with Gregory Pietsch about the Edlin editor:
https://technicallywewrite.com/2024/08/05/edlin
Edlin is the original line editor for DOS, and Gregory wrote the open
source version of Edlin for FreeDOS. I use Edlin without irony quite a
lot - it's great if I need to
Hi Jim,
>> Congratulations!
>> Not a big fine of posting at the bottom.
>> Still, I imagine you have perhaps come across the articles where
>> George
>> r. r. Martin shares that he writes his novels in DOS using Wordstar?
>> would rock if you got an inter
Liam Proven wrote:
> >> From Canadian SF novelist Robert J Sawyer. (I've met him and read
> >> quite a few of his books. I like them.)
> >>
> >> He writes solely in WordStar so he's put together a freebie distro of
> >> the final version.
>
On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 9:51 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> From Canadian SF novelist Robert J Sawyer. (I've met him and read
> quite a few of his books. I like them.)
>
> He writes solely in WordStar so he's put together a freebie distro of
> the final version.
>
> https://sfwriter.com
Hi Brian
You can unsubscribe from the email list by clicking on the
'freedos-user' link at the bottom of any message that is sent out from
the email list system (see below). There's a link there to unsubscribe
yourself. Here's the direct link:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/lists/freedo
I'm seeing "Welcome to a new Bitpalace server!"
Not sure what happened, maybe it's a hosting problem?
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 6:37 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
>
> https://www.bttr-software.de/ hosts the best DOS forum around and I check it
> regularly. Today it is returning a
Hi Brian
At the bottom of every email sent to the email list, there's a link back to
a web page where you can unsubscribe.
The direct link is this:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/lists/freedos-user/unsubscribe
Sorry to see you go. And you're welcome back at any time. I'm the meantime
Jim Hall wrote:
> > Join us today for the VCF Live Stream, hosted by Jeff Brace from the
> > Vintage Computer Federation.
Jerome Shidel wrote:
> I was tied up (figuratively). So, I missed the first couple minutes.
>
> I was thinking it was going to be another interview.
Eric Auer wrote:
[..]
> Interesting that MS Word for DOS looks a bit like EDIT, but
> with char style highlighting and a graphical preview :-D
Yes, it's probably not surprising that the company that made MS-DOS
Edit and Word for DOS would make them look a bit similar. I used
Microsoft QuickC in th
Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi Jim and VCF, thank you for sharing the stream on
>
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peIYEAM9pk
>
> Of course, I have some thoughts about it:
>
> Earlier in the video, when you present some spreadsheets
> and word processors, there is a point where you show the
> Windows 3
Eric Auer wrote:
[..]
> Unfortunately, the rolling monthly release apparently
> uses very OLD FreeDOS core components:
>
> A 2021 kernel with a copyright message saying 1995-2012
> and a 2021 shell version 0.85a :-(
[...]
> Remember that Jeremy first posted in 2021-07-26 about his proof
> of concep
Join us today for the VCF Live Stream, hosted by Jeff Brace from the
Vintage Computer Federation.
I'm planning for this to be accessible to non-tech folks, so I'll
start with a reminder about what DOS was like in the 1980s and 1990s,
and what "Windows" was like. Then I'll talk about how we got sta
I just realized that someone started spamming our wiki yesterday. So I've
taken that down until I can clean it out and apply a patch.
Great. Just when a bunch of people would be likely to visit the wiki to
learn more about us.
___
Freedos-user mailing li
>>"DOG is a DOS SHELL, or command interpreter. DOG works on most, if not
all flavors of DOS."
I should add that to the news item I posted to the website last night. I
remembered DOG was a shell, but others will not know.
On Sat, Jun 22, 2024, 3:18 AM Wolf Bergenheim via Freedos-user <
freedos-u
I wanted to share two articles that ran today, about FreeDOS turning
30 years old on June 29:
SourceForge interviewed me about FreeDOS. This is a long read (about
5,000 words) but has a lot of history:
https://sourceforge.net/articles/freedos-30th-anniversary-interview-with-jim-hall-from-the
Hi everyone
I wanted to share a few FreeDOS articles I've written recently. I
write a lot for Both.org and All Things Open, so that's where these
are so far. I'm also writing an article for another open source site,
but they have a weird editorial process so I'm not entirely sure if
they will run
If you bought a Pocket386 and want to know the exact steps that I used
to install FreeDOS (using T2406 test release) on this micro laptop, I
wrote an article about it for Both.org:
"Running FreeDOS on legacy hardware"
https://www.both.org/?p=5690
Basically, the steps are:
1. Connect the CF card
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 9:53 PM Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Well, a pox on me for thinking I could fix something when I clearly
> have no idea what I'm doing. I guess there was a reason why the FreeDOS
> developers disabled "physical hardware networking" even though I was
> trying to
Roger wrote:
> I finished reading the "Why We Love FreeDOS" book a few nights
> ago. A really good read, and led myself to a similar conclusion,
> DOS/FreeDOS is a really good platform for learning and implementing
> initial experimental engineering for experimental or working hardware
> due to si
On June 29, 2024, FreeDOS will turn THIRTY YEARS OLD!
I'm writing some articles about FreeDOS for places like
https://allthingsopen.org/ and https://www.both.org/ - and I'm
currently writing more articles to submit elsewhere.
If anyone out there wants to write an article about FreeDOS, this is
th
Roger wrote:
> >> Would be really interesting to hear, how people continue actively using
> >> DOS today, including their hardware/software environment. Of course, not
> >> including testing environments, as these can get really exquisite! And,
> >> I already realize one of the environments DOS is
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 4:02 AM Sabina Zelená. wrote:
>
> Greetings,I got a delivery-failure notification,when I tried to ask
> the user-email-forum,so sorry for bothering U again,but probably I
> have Read-Only access to the mailing list,even,when I posted my guide
> to selective installation of
On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:28 AM Norby Droid via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Would there be any interest in a web forum for FreeDos?
This question comes up from time to time, and the consensus has always
been a clear "No." Email lists work very well for discussion,
especially for developers, and em
On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 8:31 PM Travis Siegel via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> I found my copy of PTS DOS Source, and was digging through them to see
> some of the differences between that and opendos, for which I also have
> the sources, and I ran across the dos navigator menuing system (at least
> I'm
Good to know! I just upgraded to Fedora 40, and I use QEMU to run FreeDOS.
I'll have to update my script that runs QEMU.
On Tue, May 14, 2024, 5:35 AM Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I recently hit a problem regarding Sound Blaste
On Sat, May 11, 2024, 10:49 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi Travis,
> Does that mean the MS Dos code for 7 or so is has been releaced now as
> well?
>
No, Microsoft has only released MS-DOS versions 1.25, 2.0 and 4.00 so far.
Nothing beyond t
On Thu, May 9, 2024, 7:03 PM Roger via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> https://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
> [..]
The wiki migration (from sourceforge to the new hosting) was incomplete
because the SF server update broke the wiki. I didn't get to copy over the
[..]
> 1. I keep an eye on the "DOS Ain't Dead" forums via their RSS feed,
> and I thought the httpDOS announcement on "DOS Ain't Dead" was
> interesting. And we sometimes (not all the time, but sometimes) get
> people who ask what cool network stuff they can do with FreeDOS. And
> this was somethi
On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:30 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
>
> hi! as jim prefers all dos related things to be discussed on-list:
>
> why would a https server which is "not in real working condition"
> and a dos port of gnupg where important features cannot be used
> because dos has no /de
We talked about this (briefly) during today's virtual get-together:
I teach a few university courses, and right now is final grades time
(that's why I could stay on the video call for only an hour - lots of
grading)
I use LibreOffice Calc to do final grades (either =LOOKUP or =VLOOKUP)
but you ca
To confirm, you're trying to boot the USB installer:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/official/FD13-FullUSB.zip
I assume you unzipped this and wrote the image to the USB flash drive
using the right tool, and didn't just use Copy to get the file to the
d
Laaca posted about a new system info tool they'd written, described here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2024/03/fetch4fd-system-info-program/
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 00:43 Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user <
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> simple question.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 9:51 AM Davi Ramos via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> I installed a bunch of stuff (all editors) but when I try to run
> them it doesn't seem like they're on the path. Is that the correct
> behavior? Should I manually add the bins to path? If so, how?
Some larger DOS application
Davi Ramos wrote:
>> > The "ã" is a very common character in Portuguese. It shows up in words
>> > such as "não", "alçapão", and "órgão".
>> >
>> > The system's keyboard and layout are already configured to "br" (for
>> > Brazilian Portuguese) and working perfectly. Other accentuated
>> > character
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 9:38 PM Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Since FreeDOS doesn't support physical network hardware (even if it's
> emulated in a program like PCem or 86Box), I figure there's no way FreeDOS
> is gonna be able to connect to the Inter
> Ramon Riera Marès wrote:
> >>
> >> > First of all, thanks to all the Freedos developers and collaborators. I
> >> > want to know if there is any way or utility in Freedos to have
> >> > two applications running, for example an outliner and a text editor,
> >> > and be able to switch from one
Ramon Riera Marès wrote:
>>
>> > First of all, thanks to all the Freedos developers and collaborators. I
>> > want to know if there is any way or utility in Freedos to have
>> > two applications running, for example an outliner and a text editor, and
>> > be able to switch from one to the other
Jim Hall wrote:
[..]
> > Then I create a virtual disk where I can install FreeDOS T2404. I'll
> > set this up as 500MB, which is plenty big for what I do:
> >
> > $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 2404.qcow2 500M
Paul Dufresne wrote:
> I was prefering raw, because I w
I run FreeDOS in QEMU on Linux, so I can show you what I do.
First, I unzip the LiveCD ISO image so I can use it:
$ unzip FDT2404-LiveCD.zip '*.iso'
Archive: FDT2404-LiveCD.zip
inflating: T2404LIVE.iso
Then I create a virtual disk where I can install FreeDOS T2404. I'll
set this up as 500MB,
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 12:52 PM Thomas Cornelius Desi wrote:
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Question to you: Do you know how many LINES the FREEDOS Kernel has?
>
> Thanks, Thomas
>
Doing a quick count of _everything_ in the source tree, including
tools and tests, from version 2.43 in Jeremy's GitHub
(https:/
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 12:28 PM Alvah Whealton via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> This question has arisen several times. I choose DOS because going back to
> the Commodore 64 is so impractical for me.
>
I used DOS when I was growing up. My first computer was an Apple II at
school, and then my family
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 6:26 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-user
wrote:
[..]
> There are good reasons that DOS went away some 35 years ago. It has
> its uses but not being able to flip to another window or another
> screen to consult documentation, or try something out, or look it up
> online, is a *m
On Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 3:27 AM hms--- via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Correction. My apologies. My memory doesn't work all that well these days.
> Re. Linux error on boot up. I incorrectly said deleting the files in the
> /dev/crash directory fixed the problem.
> The
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 4:08 PM Norby Droid via Freedos-user
wrote:
>>
>> DOes anyone have any experience with AUdioPCI cards onFreeDOS?
>[..]
Please start a new thread for this question. It is unlikely to be seen
in a discussion thread about how to get started with programming on
FreeDOS.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 5:23 PM tsiegel--- via Freedos-user
wrote:
>[..]
> If you want something a bit more powerful, but not as complex as C, you
> can always use turbo pascal, there are multiple versions of turbo pascal
> in the museum site Borland setup before being sold to who know who, and
>
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:45 AM Thomas Cornelius Desi via
Freedos-user wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> could someone from the list give me an advice, what programming language to
> learn,
> if I would want to do some programming in FREEDOS?
>
> I am an absolute »Noobie« with programming, but stumbling abo
Jim Hall wrote:
[..]
> > If there's a config issue on your Lubuntu, you might
> > consider updating to 23.10 or 24.04 LTS
Liam Proven wrote:
> Whoah. Not correct. Not possible.
>
> LTS releases can be upgraded directly to the next LTS release (and
> nothing else.)
>
On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 3:34 AM h...@iafrica.com wrote:
>
> Hi Jim
> Thank you. I have few questions. What is the maximum size allowed for
> the FreeDos image file? Can I resize my image file, currently 200Mb? Can
> I create an additional virtual drive "D:" and mount it in the same way?
I wouldn'
I wrote the article, but I haven't used this QEMU feature for a long
time. I found that the "live" access to the folder could be
problematic (sometimes no problem .. typically slow .. crashed QEMU a
few times) but that was several years ago and the QEMU folks may have
fixed that issue by now.
Now,
I will need to add a link or button to show more news. Right now, it
just shows the latest six news items.
The FreeDOS news items are actually stored in the SourceForge News
system, and the website pulls from the RSS feed to generate the news
items for the front page. Here's the link to our news i
Starting a new thread for this topic:
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 7:46 AM Linvel Risner via Freedos-user
wrote:
[..]
> I'm trying to research written programming guides, although maybe I
> should just watch the Jim Hall video sets.
>
I also wrote a series of articles to support the
Excellent news, thanks for sharing! I'll post a news item about it for the
website this tomorrow, when I'm in front of my computer again
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 1:23 PM E. C. Masloch via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> Today I prepared release 7 of lDebug
Thomas Cornelius Desi wrote:
>
> Apropos authoring on DOS Software: As I was looking for
> someting nifty that would enhance my writing workflow on
> the computer, I decided for VDE by Eric Meyer writer.
> ( have a look here: https://archive.org/details/vde-197 )
> It actually does sort-of-UTF8 enc
Mart Zirnask wrote:
>> As for writers with DOS, I recalled and managed to dig up a video with
>> Philip Roth using a standing desk and a Blue DOS Screen - is this also
>> Wordstar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBlVEcMSOGw&t=201
>>
>> The video is dated 2004, though - back then, I imagine it was
> Dan Schmidt wrote:
> > Now, I might have gone with WordPerfect 6 instead of
> > WordStar 4, but the idea itself is solid: A computer that
> > you just use for writing, sans distractions. No YouTube,
> > no Email, no Facebook -- you sit -- you write. I mean,
> > it's hard to argue it didn't work
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Now, that's an interesting use for a Dos/FreeDOS retro computer:
>
> https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716232/george-r-r-martin-uses-dos-wordstar-to-write
>
> How many computers destined for the landfill still have perfectly
Jim Hall wrote:
> > Same for word processors. We used a few word processors at home,
> > probably copies of whatever my parents were using at work.
[..]
> > I looked through the shareware
> > catalog(*) I subscribed to, and ordered a copy of the most highly
> > rated
On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 5:39 PM andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Whatever programs are most representative, they might have been
> distributed as shareware. There's still "trial software" today but
> not like going to a BBS and seeing hundreds of shareware packages,
> or getting a CD stuf
I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS. I
sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could you really do
*work* with DOS?" And the answer is *of course you can, that happened every
day.*
So I'm collecting a list of things you'd do in the 80s and 90s with
Jim Hall wrote:
[..]
>>> The anniversary is coming up in June 2024. I'm trying to finish a
>>> 2024 calendar that you can buy (at low cost, if you want it in print)
>>> or download (if you just want the images). I'm trying to finish
>>> grading a
(I'm re-sharing this item from my virtual get-together "followup"
email so it gets seen by others)
The anniversary is coming up in June 2024. I'm trying to finish a
2024 calendar that you can buy (at low cost, if you want it in print)
or download (if you just want the images). I'm trying to finis
That looks super interesting, and I think that fits my need - thanks. I'll
have to give this a try.
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 11:33 AM Ben Collver via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I wrote a post about how to do this on FreeDOS. It converts Epson printer
> data to i
I'm looking for DOS software that will basically simulate an Epson dot
matrix printer. Like an FX-80.
Basic idea is that I should be able to print from a DOS program to a file,
then feed that file into this emulator so I can view the output.
Specifically looking for graphics mode printing (like ch
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 5:15 AM hms--- via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> This is indeed a treasure trove of material.
> Does anyone know where to find the user manuals and binary files?
>
The binary files are at https://dunfield.themindfactory.com/dnld.htm
>
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This is super exciting! If I remember correctly, we recommended
Micro-C as a great free (gratis) C compiler for DOS. I remember using
it for several programs of my own at the time.
It would be great if Dave could have used a more standard open source
license (for example, any of the licenses from
FYI: The DosView news item has been on the https://www.freedos.org/
website for the last few days. It's currently the top news item on the
FreeDOS website.
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 5:01 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
>
> Hi! SuperIlu is has recently released version 1.1 of DosView:
>
> htt
Juan wrote:
> > I used DJGPP back in the 90s, and was a life changing experience for me:
> > my first contact with GCC and free software.
> >
> > I never managed to finish any games back then, but I have released one
> > recently, and the source code is available in case anyone is interested:
Eric wrote:
> You can also find updates for JEMM and HIMEMX on Japheth's GitHub "Baron von
> Riedesel", even his HIMEMSX to use more than 4 GB RAM :-)
Mercury Thirteen wrote:
[..]
> Looks like I fell behind on keeping up with all of Japheth's updates! The
> downloads section at MercuryCoding.com
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 2:58 PM Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Hello List,
>
> About a year ago I have created a graphical, quiz-like program as a
> pretext for my kids to get some hands-on with my 386 PC and learn a
> thing or two in the process. I named the program EduQiz and kept it
Joao wrote:
> > It's been a while since i use freedos on asus eeepc with portuguese from
> > portugal and if i recall i can't write the * with shift and *+" key and
> > since there is no numeric keypad.
>
Tom wrote:
[..]
> > "i can't write the * with shift and *+" key"
> c) about the worst bug c
I'm making a FreeDOS "2024" calendar, and looking for suggestions of
what screenshots to include in it. Any ideas?
The "2023" calendar came out in January 2023, but that's too late. I'm
planning to share the "2024" calendar in mid to late October so folks
can get a copy for Christmas gifts, or oth
Jim Hall wrote:
> > Can you send me an announcement (in about 100 words) that I can
> > copy/paste into the news system?
C. Masloch wrote:
> Sure, I based it on yours with a few improvements:
>
> lDebug (that's with a small L) is a 86-DOS debugger that replaces the
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