[Freedos-user] Installation problems

2025-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Adams via Freedos-user
Greetings. I have (had) Freedos 1.3 installed on one of my computers. Dell 745, 3.4GHz Pentium D, 4G ram, 500G SSD. I downloaded Freedos 1.4 (FD14-FullUSB) and wrote a USB stick with RUFUS 4.7. I booted fd1.3, switched to the D:USB drive, and ran setup.bat.I told it to overwrite the MBR,

Re: [Freedos-user] Change dos "gray-on-black" default colour settings

2013-02-13 Thread Jeffrey
On 02/13/2013 10:45 AM, sakura kinomoto wrote: > Dos, (and Freedos), by default, have gray text on black background > > It is not perfect in some cases (bright light from window, tired eyes, etc...) > > (The software "hexed.exe", practically, change color settings from > "gray-on-black" to "green-

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos V2.0 - when will it be available?

2013-01-08 Thread Jeffrey
KOS, If you have installed grub, but it is not working, you can remove it with the command fdisk /mbr. This will write the default mbr to the hard disk. Then use sys c: Jeffrey -- Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS compatibility with DOS applications

2012-07-03 Thread Jeffrey
ould you *do* with qbasic > on 32bit Windows? Yes, I'm just surprised they actually took the trouble to get rid of it Jeffrey -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today&#x

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS compatibility with DOS applications

2012-07-03 Thread Jeffrey
s I know, these are still shipped with 32-bit windows, minus qbasic for some reason. Jeffrey -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has

[Freedos-user] Joykeys

2012-04-19 Thread Jeffrey
. I have tried all three of Joykey's methods , and none of them work. The program I am trying to use is the DOS version of ELITE, which may be downloaded here: http://www.dosgames.com/files/elite.zip Jeffrey -

Re: [Freedos-user] Porting DOS to new processors

2012-04-12 Thread Jeffrey
was written in assembly. Regardless, all of the routines would have to be rewritten because ARM doesn't interrupts like intel chip-sets. Unfortunately, I don't think it's as easy as simply recompiling for a diffe

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

2012-03-28 Thread Jeffrey
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Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2012-03-10 Thread Jeffrey
Hello, I have all the AST drivers. The zip file is about 80MB. I downloaded them from ari-service.com before that website went down. What in particular do you need? On 03/05/2012 02:23 PM, Stefan Kühn wrote: Hello I see your also looking for AST Research drivers. Any success? Stefan --

Re: [Freedos-user] Escape character (was Using a menu for many options)

2012-01-29 Thread Jeffrey
Hi, Apparently, choice can accept any printable ASCII character for an option, with three exceptions. Those would be <, |, and > of course. Are there any plans for adding a shell escape character(like \ in UNIX) in FreeCOM? If so, what character would be a suitable candidate? J

Re: [Freedos-user] Using a menu for many options

2012-01-25 Thread Jeffrey
vel%"=="2" goto option2 else if "%errorlevel%"=="3" goto option3 else if "%errorlevel%"=="4" goto option4 option1: goto end option2: .... goto end end: for 16 menu options Obviously not as convenient as FDCONFIG.SYS menu Hope

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 boot process ends with "interrupt devide by zero" and system halt

2012-01-14 Thread Jeffrey
Hi Ralph, This may seem obvious, but have you tried loading each driver individually? Also try changing the order you load them. If they are chaining interrupts, there may be a conflict. Hope this helps Jeffrey

Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2011-12-19 Thread Jeffrey
Hi Rugxulo, > Does Garbo still accept contributions?? Even Simtel only accepts > things from the original copyright holder, sadly. Berlios is (IIRC) > similarly OSI-only. I just checked, and it seems Garbo is temporarily down. :( --

Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2011-12-19 Thread Jeffrey
original copyright holders have no interest in hosting > it themselves. But it's very common (esp. for "legacy"). > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jeffrey wrote: >> About a year and a half ago, the last website offering support for AST >> resea

[Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2011-12-16 Thread Jeffrey
Hi All, About a year and a half ago, the last website offering support for AST research computers went down. Because have an AST 80386, I downloaded all the drivers and files before that happened. Would it be legal for you to host them? AST is now defunct, and they had a large market shar

Re: [Freedos-user] Undeserved Comment Re: EMM/JEMM, "A20", Etc.

2011-10-20 Thread Jeffrey
rdware? Jeffrey -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn

Re: [Freedos-user] desktop2 in freedos

2011-09-06 Thread Jeffrey
Hi, >> No, not at all - downloaded the manual exactly from the website: >> http://www.icarosdesktop.com/icarosfiles/IcarosDesktop_manual.pdf >> >> Maybe try another PDF-reader? I downloaded from there and it worked. It would be interesting to try this in QEMU. I can just use QEMU in linux, but h

Re: [Freedos-user] desktop2 in freedos

2011-09-06 Thread Jeffrey
Hi Zbigniew, > Out of curiosity just downloaded Icaros Desktop Light 1.3.0 - in its > manual one can read: > #v+ > AROS doesn't need great horsepower [..] Although AROS can run on > low-power and low-end processors, like old 500-1000 MHz ones, you > probably like to choose a faster one. [..] To en

Re: [Freedos-user] boot cd freedos 1.1 + panasonic usb drivers

2011-08-29 Thread Jeffrey
Hi, > I don't think we're allowed to redistribute Panasonic drivers. Didn't the 1.0 distribution have a package that used wget to install the drivers? I don't remember if it was those drivers but there were two packages using wget to get around distribution issues. PS did this reply to the mail

Re: [Freedos-user] desktop2 in freedos

2011-08-27 Thread Jeffrey
Hi, >> Linux, various flavors, is the premier free operating system. Add >> wine to Linux and gain access to a fair number of Windows applications. >> Linux has been slowly gaining on the Desktop. There are many user >> groups to help you use Linux effectively. The application list is >> growing

Re: [Freedos-user] DEBUG

2011-07-17 Thread Jeffrey
> COM file and reassemble it with NASM, simply use NDISASM to > disassemble, written by the same people as NASM itself :-) I always wondered what those other executables in the NASM directory were. I guess I should have read the docs. :) Thanks! J

[Freedos-user] DEBUG

2011-07-17 Thread Jeffrey
ump outside segment 11: error: short jump is out of range Sorry if this is a bit off topic Jeffrey -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-07 Thread Jeffrey
ding on its origin right to left ) and int 0x10 could not change this. Sorry for any misunderstanding Jeffrey -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive r

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-07 Thread Jeffrey
Hi Eric, > HOWEVER, the array, int 10 and CON are all officially assuming a > "one byte is one character" scenario so your layout is likely to > get messed up when you use UTF-8 and you cannot use UTF-16 anyway. In color text modes, alternating bytes are used for character and attribute. So if you

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-06 Thread Jeffrey
Hi I don't know much (anything) about unicode but, Right-to-left might be hard to do (I guess?), but technically as long as they can see and enter what they want, I'm sure they can get used to left-to-right. >>> Excuse me? How can anyone type the arabic, syriac or hebrew abjads fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

2011-07-05 Thread Jeffrey
Hi Chris, I have also had this problem several times. What I did was create a boot floppy with format, fdpkg and sys. Then sys the hard drive and copy all the packages into a temporary folder and install them with fdpkg. It took about 3 floppies to copy all the base packages > It also has a PCM

Re: [Freedos-user] Output redirection

2011-07-03 Thread Jeffrey
> Maybe obvious, but did you try using kernel 2040 instead? > See the news on www.freedos.org/ for download URL and info. I have now upgraded to 2040. I have done more experimenting and now it gets even stranger. I can still redirect output from other commands to a file, but using the pipe doesn'

[Freedos-user] Output redirection

2011-07-03 Thread Jeffrey
I have been writing a batch file to change the serial number of a floppy disk ( or other disk ) The batch file uses output redirection rather heavily. The batch file does change the serial number, but after a few uses it will give the error Can not redirect output to file 'nul'. ( or whichever devi

Re: [Freedos-user] Wireless Networking via PCMCIA?

2007-01-26 Thread Jeffrey D. Shaffer
Thank you very much for the suggestion and input. I will have to make time to visit the local store and see what they have. Have a wonderful day / evening. Sincerely, Jeffrey D. Shaffer On 1/27/07, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have one "ZEN1200" which has a Realte

Re: [Freedos-user] Wireless Networking via PCMCIA?

2007-01-26 Thread Jeffrey D. Shaffer
ave a wonderful day! Jeffrey On 1/27/07, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PCMCIA ethernet cards I have used many, in both MS-DOSand FreeDOS. > Does you card have any driver PKT or PACKET? > > Alain -

[Freedos-user] Wireless Networking via PCMCIA?

2007-01-24 Thread Jeffrey D. Shaffer
any decent information online to either confirm or deny the possibility / success of such a venture. Hopefully someone here has some experience with wireless networking in DOS. Thank you very much and have a great day! Cheer