Yes, it's a FreeDOS extension in Command.com
On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM Jose Senna via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Is ALIAS a FreeDOS specific command or
> did it appear in late versions of DOS ?
> The user guide for IBM PC-DOS 6.3 does
> not mention this command.
>
here?
>
> Anywaay everyone has their own quirks and ways to do things. Nothing is
> "wrong" really if it works (my opinion).
>
> I really appreciate the comments and replie
>
> Keep up the great work Mr. Hall and all others involved. I use
> FreeDOS alot.
>
>
Here's three ways I use aliases:
1. If I want to access a command under a different name. For example, the
distribution does this with the *shutdown* and *reboot* command by default,
because Linux users are more likely to type those.
2. If I want to run a command with a default command line param
I keep forgetting that TRIUS made a Windows-only self-extracting zip
file for the DOS version of As-Easy-As. Oh the irony. So yes, you'll
get that message if you try to run asa57.exe on DOS.
Use the 'unzip' program on it, like it was a zip file. You can rename
it from asa57.exe to asa57.zip if you
Or since you're using Linux, you can unzip it from Linux when you have
the virtual disk mounted, and extract the files directly into the
virtual disk.
You have your disk mounted like this:
$ guestmount -a data.qcow2 -m /dev/sda1 ./mnt
I like to put the installer in a temporary directory, and r
Some folks use QEMU here (as I do) so I thought I'd share my updated
QEMU config to boot FreeDOS.
I prefer to keep my personal files on a separate virtual disk (D:) so
I don't have to keep backing up & restoring all the time. That way,
when I install each new FreeDOS monthly release, it's really e
I just shared this as a news item on the website, but this comes up from
time to time on the list and elsewhere, so I wanted to share here too:
If you run FreeDOS (or any DOS) on real hardware, you will have problems
getting sound to work with DOS games. That's because DOS doesn't have a
'hardware
I suspect what's happened is that Lutalli has partitioned the disk,
rebooted, then got this message.
That's because the virtual machine has now recognized that there's a
partition on the first disk drive that is marked Active, and it's trying to
boot from it. But there's nothing installed there ye
Eric Auer wrote:
>> > And question to QEMU users, can QEMU be configured to not have LBA?
>> >
Jim Hall wrote:
>> I don't see anything in the 'man' page or on the wiki at qemu.org to
>> turn off LBA.
>>
Louis Santillan wrote:
>
> Wouldn’t this be a BIOS image choice?
>
I suppose that's more cor
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM SZIGETVÁRI János via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
[..]
>
> PS to Jim: Thanks for your work on FreeDOS and making this whole thing
> possible!
You're welcome. Of course, the credit goes to everyone else; I just
had the idea and wrote the early stuff. Other people added t
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM SZIGETVÁRI János via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
>> Look what I found in the doslfn.asm source code ;-)
>>
>> Because the Assembler used to "compile" (assemble) *DOSLFN*
>> seems to not know SALC, the author has taken the effort to use
>> SALC by manually add
> > The Pocket 386 has an Ali M6117 SoC, which contains a 386 SX
> > core clocked at 40 MHz.
>
> Never heard of that. Is it also used for industrial PC?
>
When I bought my Pocket386, I recall reading that the CPU for the
Pocket386 (and the Book8088, and the Hand386) is from a disassembled
industr
>> However, doing SALC followed by OR AL,AL and RET indeed is a
>> legitimate way of using SALC. So what you see is not a crash
>> caused by having bogus data in your UMB area, but instead the
>> crash is caused by the processor of your Pocket 386 not having
>> support for the SALC opcode!
>
>
> Th
(moved this reply to a new thread since it doesn't really belong in
the Pocket386 discussion)
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
[..]
>
> And question to QEMU users, can QEMU be configured to not have LBA?
>
I don't see anything in the 'man' page or on the wiki at
On Sun, May 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM John Thomas via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> I am trying to follow the instructions in "Using FreeDos" by Jim Hall,
> Chapter 1, “Installing FreeDOS”, "How to install FreeDOS on a Virtual
> Machine".
>
[..]
I'm replying late to your question, but over the weekend I sh
On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM mg-forum via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
>
> would not the command
> assign b=a
> allow you to access drive a by accessing drive letter b?
>
Good point. The PC XT released in March 1983 with PC-DOS 2.0 .. and
that's the first DOS version that included the ASSIGN command.
On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> Here's a DOS story from 1983. I had just gotten my new IBM XT It had
> it had 1 floppy and an hdd. I had a DOS program that was hard-coded
> to access the B: drive but, of course the XT didn't have a B:
> drive. I has the or
Daniel Essin wrote:
>
> I have no idea what kind of hardware you have access to so I asked gemini.
>
[..]
Liam Proven wrote:
>
> Please do not post bot slop to the list.
> If you didn't write it yourself, don't post it.
Liam is right; AI-generated answers are not welcome on this email
list. Ge
On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM Gabriel González wrote:
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> Hi Daniel . Wait a second.
>
> Did you write to Peter Norton ?
>
[..]
>
> You've given me a surprise. I'd like to write him a short email as a
> thank you for his work in the programming world. I'd print his response
> and put it in my room
On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
wrote:
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[..]
> While it is not impossible there is a bizarre bug in VASK, it works
> fine in the other virtual machines and real hardware that has been
> tested. I highly suspect there is an issue with the PocketDOS BIOS
> implementat
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM sunbeamcar--- wrote:
> >
> > Why did you make FREEDOS.org a secure site.
> > That greatly limits what you can use on the site.
> > All OLD computers are locked out.
> >
On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM Jim Hall wrote:
> Hmm.. something must have changed on the host
On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM sunbeamcar--- via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> Why did you make FREEDOS.org a secure site.
> That greatly limits what you can use on the site.
> All OLD computers are locked out.
>
Hmm.. something must have changed on the hosting side; I'll look into
it. It should have
Just to save others the search: I didn't remember what PocketDOS was, and
assumed by the name it was some other version of DOS.
>>"PocketDOS is a powerful virtual PC software environment for your pocket
computer that allows you to run a DOS operating system and have instant
access to many DOS appl
There are a few solutions for this. I run Linux as my day-to-day system,
and I boot FreeDOS in a virtual machine from there. I have to copy files
from/to my FreeDOS virtual machine all the time.
I find the *guestmount* command line program is the easiest way to "mount"
a FreeDOS virtual disk so I
Isn't this the same question you asked in the other email discussion
thread? Why start a new thread? [**or see below]
My reply on the other discussion thread was:
: This sounds like a hardware problem. FreeDOS 1.4 uses the same kernel
: as FreeDOS 1.3, so this can't be a kernel regression. You sa
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM Norby Droid via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> I have noticed an issue with the mouse in FreeDOS 1.4 that wasn't
> there in 1.3.
>
> Whenever I start FreeDOS with a mouse installed and I use programs,
> the program acts as if there is a mouse button held down, and it
> pre
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM madis-siim kull via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> Is there any way to install Estonian key map on FreeDos 1 4 and make system
> understand Estonian spesal characters (õ ä ö ü)
>
This is a new topic, so you should start a new discussion in the email
list so that others
> > On Apr 26, 2025, at 7:22 PM, dkolb2056--- wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu both installed to dual boot. I would
> > also like to dedicate 1-2 GB for a FreeDOS booting partition, so I
> > can choose to boot it as well.
> >
> > However, as far as I have seen so far, the
On Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 2:50 AM Carsten Strotmann wrote:
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> >> Is there a recommended Forth for FreeDOS?
> >>
>
> There's are several Forth implementations at:
> > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/forth/
> >
>
as a (co)-maintainer of VolksForth, how can I update or t
On Fri, Apr 4, 2025, 11:16 PM Bill Allen via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Is there a recommended Forth for FreeDOS?
>
There's are several Forth implementations at:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/forth/
However, I don't program in Fo
Thanks for sharing this. I already shared an announcement about UPX 5
on 2025-03-06 (all of our "on sourceforge" news items get published on
the front page at www.freedos.org too). Also posted an item about
JWASM 2.19 on 2025-01-27, and JEMM 5.85 on 2025-01-12. I posted the
FORMAT 0.92a months ago,
Definitely that first line is too long (I counted 530 characters) so
that's what's causing the error. And as Jerome said, if you break up
the first line into separate ECHO statements, that will prevent the
"line too long" error.
But Alex said there's a MENU.EXE program being used here too. I'm
mak
Someone on our Facebook group asked this question about a year ago, asking
is there was a DOS program to download YouTube videos so you could watch
them later.
The answer was No, sorry. But that was a year ago, maybe someone here knows
of something since then.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2025, 12:11 AM Kare
Pastebin will work. But I'm assuming the BAT file isn't too long --
could you copy/paste it into the body of the email, instead of
attaching it?
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM Folkert van Heusden via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 07:44:48PM +0100, Alex via Freedos-user wrote:
>
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM Alex via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I've been trying for the past few hours to follow a manual of my
> motherboard and copy the SATA drivers to a floppy disk in DOS mode, but
> after successfully opening a program MENU.EXE which copies a selecte
> driver to t
If you use TurboVision apps under QEMU, you probably see a "double tap"
effect when navigating with the 4 arrow keys. For example: when using the
Turbo C/C++ IDE, I have to use the arrows on the 10-key pad instead.
I found a fix for this in QEMU.
If you use QEMU, you can add *-global i8042.kbd-th
That's a pretty cool project! I like these small systems that can run
FreeDOS. I have a Pocket'386 which does the job for me, but the
Zimaboard looks very interesting too.
Since it's running over a network (VNC) I'm curious what the
performance is like for things like games. I'm assuming you don't
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM hms--- via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> Hello
> Thanks Jim and Eric for your replies.
[..]
> The reason I have moved to DOSEMU2 is the ease of transferring files to
> and from the DOS drive. As I previously alluded, my experience mounting
> the QEMU DOS drive image and
On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM sunbeamcar--- via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> Would you know where I can dowbload Grafx2 for DOS.
>
The FreeDOS port of Grafx2 is at:
https://github.com/deverac/grafx2-dos
But it looks like the project is idle. The last update was a few years
ago, and there aren't an
On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 7:50 AM hms--- via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> Hi there
[..]
>
> I have been using QEMU and FreeDos up to now. There are several
> drawbacks compared with dosemu2. Copying a large number of files to the
> image and retaining file timestamps is a problem. I achieve this by
> firs
Here's the full QEMU command line that I use when I boot FreeDOS after
I install it. This has a bunch of other options, such as to support
sound and to use a second virtual disk as my D: drive.
qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 32 -rtc base=localtime -audiodev
pa,id=snd -machine pcspk-audiodev=snd -
Let's start with 2 quick questions: *what version (what distribution) of
FreeDOS did you install*, and *what do you see first when FreeDOS starts up
on the computer? *
I hope you're running FreeDOS 1.3 .. or maybe the release candidate for
FreeDOS 1.4. Both of these are available from the www.free
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-16 GCC.
>
> Here's what I
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 literally does this with their
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
There have been enough changes during the FreeDOS monthly test
releases that I think we should be moving towards FreeDOS 1.4.
As discussed in the "Demo video on Youtube" thread (and elsewhere)
we're seeing more folks who discover FreeDOS and complain about things
that we've already fixed, like FDI
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.
> >>
> >> https://sfwriter.com/blog/?p=5806
Jim Hall wrote:
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.
>
> I just found it a littl
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-free
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:
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> 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:
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> 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:
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> 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:
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> 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:
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>
> 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
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