You can't start Windows 9x directly from FreeDOS because Windows requires
the MS-DOS that it comes with.
What you can do instead is start GRUB4DOS from FreeDOS (directly from
FDCONFIG.SYS in place of a shell, without loading any drivers at all) and
use that to load IO.SYS, which will then l
What is most needed is to compile DOS Arachne as 32bit
Potential starting point:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150215203536/http://www.drdosprojects.de/index.cgi/other.htm
and to give it HTTPS capability via WATT32 & OpenSSL
Or LibreSSL:
https://github.com/markjolesen/openbsd
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On Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:15:17 +0100, dmccunney
wrote:
I think your fundamental problem is that FreeDOS cannot successfully
boot from a 7.8GB partition formatted as FAT32. It may be able to
access other larger partitions formatted FAT32 and seen by DOS as D:,
E: or the like, once FreeDOS *is*
On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:39:55 +0100, C. Masloch wrote:
I'd be interested in this. I'm using Mercurial for my own projects.
I have put the instructions here:
http://matejhorvat.si/en/dos/hg/
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steps needed if you want.
There is also Prism, which was written with the explicit goal of running
on DOS (in real mode, even), but is not comple
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:06:14 +0100, stecdose wrote:
How would I write a ISR in watcom c? Do you know of any programs making
use of this, where I can look at?
I think this file in DOSMid by Mateusz Viste is an example of what you
want:
https://sourceforge.net/p/dosmid/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/
From: "Matej Horvat"
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:51:00 +0100, Mike Powell wrote:
> Well, duuuh on my part. For some reason, I was thinking of some hardware
> contraption that allowed a USB stick to be identified as a floppy drive,
> making it accessable to DOS. :)
That does
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:51:00 +0100, Mike Powell wrote:
> Well, duuuh on my part. For some reason, I was thinking of some hardware
> contraption that allowed a USB stick to be identified as a floppy drive,
> making it accessable to DOS. :)
That does exist, in a way. I have a computer whose BIOS
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:38:47 +0200, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney
> wrote:
>> This is OS development 101. Do you think a new OS intended as
>> a followup to an existing product throws out the baby with the
>> bathwater and does everything differently, so existing
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:39:29 +0100, Guillem wrote:
> My problem is,
> though, that being a quite modern HP computer made and bought in 2014,
> it does not have a serial port. Under windows 8.1, I have used a
> Prolific PL-2303 adapter. It works flawlessly and I can use all of the
> serial feature
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 06:44:52 +0100, Thomas Mueller
wrote:
> from Rugxulo:
>
>> One of the big problems (not counting HTML5 or Javascript or Flash) is
>> HTTPS. Not just for DOS but for any OS that isn't top tier (big three:
>> Mac, Win, Linux).
On DOS, Dillo and Links support HTTPS.
> Even th
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:51:53 +0100, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> The VESA audio is nice (on paper), I didn't know about it. But I
> understand it is an INT API, so it would require to have some kind of a
> TSR that sits in memory all the time, and responds to such INT calls.
I think this is the most e
This might be a good solution for wireless networking in DOS:
http://brutman.com/Wireless_for_Classics/Wireless_for_Classics.html
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How did you write the ISO image to the flash device? Maybe you can try
Rufus:
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
Don't choose the FreeDOS option (that will only make a bootdisk with
nothing else), instead choose the ISO option and select the FreeDOS
installation CD image.
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On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:23:41 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> That's a question to those of you who happen to still keep an oldish
> hardware machine dedicated to DOS tasks...
I usually don't (I triple-boot between FreeDOS, Haiku, and Windows on my
main PC), but when I do transfer files between a
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:37:28 +0200, Dave Stevens wrote:
> I don't have a spare hard drive to use. I tried rufus and it ALMOST
> does what I want but seems to be set up to install freedos on a drive.
No, it's not. Did you give it an ISO image? You can just choose "Create a
bootable disk using F
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 22:26:52 +0200, Dave Stevens wrote:
> Quoting dmccunney :
>
>> Will your computer boot from USB? (This is normally a BIOS option,
>> where you would select the USB device as the first thing to try to
>> boot from.)
>>
>> If so, you might be able to create a bootable USB with
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:53:47 +0200, Rugxulo wrote:
> P.S. Did you test the new OpenWatcom support? Your changelog made it
> sound like the makefile was updated (no) or an additional one was
> included (no). A quick build didn't seem to work for me at all, but I
> didn't look too closely. Not a bi
If you read the actual article, it was not a problem in DOS or the
software running on it, but later on:
"After the elections are over the results are loaded on a 3.5-inch floppy
disk and shipped to the canton headquarters where the disks are fed into
another computer that adds up the votes
On Sun, 04 May 2014 17:40:54 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
> Dale E Sterner schreef op 4-5-2014 17:33:
>> What does an HPFS driver do?
>
> Access to the Apple Macintosh / MacOS / OSX operating system's
> filesystem, just as NTFS is associated with Microsoft Windows
No, the Mac OS file systems are H
On Sun, 04 May 2014 01:29:32 +0200, Ray Davison wrote:
> What is available for reading NTFS used in WXP, W7?
There are three NTFS drivers I know of. I have tested all of them.
NTFSDOS: Commercial, no longer sold. The trial version is read-only.
Requires files from a Windows installation. No l
You might have luck with Bret Johnson's USBPRINT driver:
http://bretjohnson.us/
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Yes. If you are on Windows, Rufus is helpful:
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
It will only install a very minimal installation (kernel, FreeCOM, and
keyboard layout), so you will have to install almost everything yourself.
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, so it's secure), which you might find useful.
Anyway, Opera has had a content filter at least since the 9.x versions and
probably before. You can configure it to block content from URLs matching
certain specifications (using wildcards). I have created a list which
effectiv
ode a mess.
So, to update FreeDOS installations on your pre-80386 machines, you can
use my own FreeDOS offline updater -
http://matejhorvat.si/en/freedos/fdoffupd/ - it's a bit of a kludge, but
it's better than having to download
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:36:49 +0100, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat
> wrote:
>> PS: I just wrote all that and found this:
>>
>> http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfile/freedos/index.html
>>
>> Is that third party software
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 04:02:58 +0100, Eric Auer wrote:
> If that just returns a charset-specific static table, maybe it
> would be some sort of charset rendering and keyboard / input
> method driver that actually implements this, not the kernel?
Sure, it could also be a TSR. I forgot how flexible D
se (and Korean and Chinese, because the mechanism
is the same) would probably not be that difficult, but it would take a
long time to modify everything to support it.
Matej Horvat
http://matejhorvat.si/
PS: I just wrote all that and found this:
http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfil
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:57:50 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
> An alternative solution would be to write an individual
> batchfile for each program you'd like to run, and place these batchfiles
> somewhere in C:\DOS or so.
>
> @echo off
> C:
> CD \
> CD PROGRAMS
> CD APPS
> CD MYPROG
> MYPROG.EXE
> CD
ECHO? Your text here
or just
DEVICE?=Your USB driver here
since you're going to press Enter anyway.
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:28:20 +0200, Marco Achury
wrote:
> Testing your link, I noted that mozilla has not support for gopher
> protocol
> About one or to years ago I surfed the gopherspace with firefox, today
> I can't open your link...
You can use Lynx or Mateusz's own Gopherus, or a HTTP p
> My bet would be on JEMM as the one which messes with memory control
> blocks.
You're right. It is JEMM.
> Yup. TSRs which are never unloaded would not be a problem, otherwise
> they could leave holes, but that's life... One could even re-run your
> program and try to relocate the ENV again in
gment 23B4, almost immediately
after COMMAND.COM (it depends on the order in which you load TSRs).
Please contact me off-list if you want to try it out.
Matej Horvat
http://matejhorvat.si/
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On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:44:45 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
> As mentioned earlier in this thread, there could
> be some regressions between 0.82, 0.83 and 0.84, so you might
> find an older version to be more of your taste. Not regarding
> the master environment, but in general.
>
> PS: I totally agree
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