I find it convenient to use a text-based browser for my local (inhouse)
websites, which display data from my homebrew weather station, home heating
system, and various sensors. It's very easy and fast to automatically
generate small text oriented html files in my microcontrollers and write
them to
tibility.
> Elmar lists PCMCIA compatibility as 'limited', but I have not had any
> success using PLOP to boot from USB.
> HTH
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, at 2:47 AM, Marv wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, I'm using a 1998 Intel 440BX machine. It ha
For what it's worth, I'm using a 1998 Intel 440BX machine. It has a Pentium
II. The network adapter on the motherboard works fine, also serial and
parallel ports. The only issue I have is the USB port is non-bootable. The
CD drive is bootable but it is not compatible with FreeDos. I had to
install
Hi Ray, do you have any books on x86 assembly?
Thanks, Marvin
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:30 PM Ray Davison wrote:
> I will keep DOS running primarily for accounting and word-processing,
> because none of the "modern" apps have given me reason to change.
>
> However, I have about fifteen linear
This particular
laptop has a very minimal bios, at least the part I can access.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 10:43 AM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Marv!
>
> FDAPM FLUSH (no slash needed) does not rely on the BIOS,
> it is just meant to give caches hints to write back all
> pending wri
One of my FreeDos machines is a laptop without APM. The only way to shut it
down is to hold the off button for several seconds. That is not my
preferred way of doing things.
Some FDAPM commands seem to work (meaning I don't get any error msg)
without the computer having APM, for example, FDAPM /FL
The other day I decided to do some experimenting with the parallel port on
my FreeDos machine, so I built an adapter with 8 LEDs connected to the
output bits. It didn’t take too long to figure out how to turn the LEDs
on/off using QBASIC.
But I wanted to get a little closer to machine level contro
for marital bliss when my wife has to yell at me
to be heard.
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 4:06 PM dmccunney wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 3:19 PM Marv wrote:
> >
> > I know I'm late to the FreeDos party, but it would help me and maybe
> other newcomers to know what you guys
I know I'm late to the FreeDos party, but it would help me and maybe other
newcomers to know what you guys do with your FreeDos PCs. I was thinking of
utility type things that are easier or more quickly done in DOS, but I'm
wide open to any ideas.
So far I've got programs like Supercalc, Wordstar,
Followup to my post this morning about swapping out the Sony CD drive for
an AOpen DVD drive. The new/old (circa 1998) AOpen 1648 came in its
original box with paperwork. No mention of installing a driver anywhere in
the manual, which explains why I couldn't find a driver for it online. It
obviousl
Hi Eric, it's connected to the IDE controller (2nd) on the motherboard
(Intel Pentium II 440BX). The UDVD2 I was using is dated 3-5-2015. Looks
like it's version 2.0c. It was packaged with the FreeDos 1.3 Live CD I used
for my installation.
More excitement later today... I'm going to try replacing
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I installed FreeDos from my hard drive,
because my old PC couldn't boot from usb and FreeDos didn't like my CD
drive. And of course, FreeDos couldn't use the CD even after it was up and
running.
Yesterday I got to wondering about using a different driver instead
R, etc would confuse the printer. It does
eject a short page automatically, no extra form feed needed.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 9:26 AM Eric Auer wrote:
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> Hi Marv!
>
> So you have a serial port on your DOS PC and on your Windows PC,
> a network-only printer and maybe, or ma
Since I don’t have a printer with a parallel port, I’ve been redirecting
LPT1 to COM1, which is connected to my Windows 10 PC at 115200 baud. Using
a terminal program, I capture what I want to a file that I can either print
or save on my Windows 10 PC. Clunky, but it works. It even works ok for
som
I was under the impression an external USB floppy wouldn't work under
FreeDOS 1.3, but I just noticed my installation of FreeDOS 1.3 on a circa
2011 Gateway laptop with an external USB Chuanganzhuo floppy does work.
I'm not sure what driver FreeDOS is using on the Gateway, but if I plug the
floppy
se FreeDOS doesn't have a NTLDR file, which of course
Windows 2000 does have.
http://allenthings.com/bootmgr1.jpg
Marvin Allen
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 1:20 PM Robert Riebisch wrote:
> Hi Marv,
>
> > I spent the last 3 days fooling around with several ways to set my
> > Windo
Hey Tom - do you think Windows 2000 boot.ini is the best way to go for my
particular setup? If you do, I'll give it another try and report my
errors/messages.
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I spent the last 3 days fooling around with several ways to set my Windows
2000/FreeDOS machine set up with a multi-boot menu. I tried GAG, Grub4Dos,
and the boot.ini file that Windows 2000 uses.
Windows 2000 is installed on the 1st hard drive, 1st partition and is my
primary/default system.
Fr
to builtin
security. The others all run some type of Linux, which is easy to network.
Marv
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 8:24 PM Jerome Shidel wrote:
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>
> On Nov 12, 2020, at 7:02 PM, Marv wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>
>
> I copied everything on the FreeDos 1.3 Live CD over to the 1GB p
l files
with my other computers.
And the best news is my LAN came up first try!
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 12:59 PM Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 11/11/2020 9:10 AM, Marv wrote:
>
> Ralf - I gave up on that motherboard with the onboard PCIe Realtek network
> adapter and picked up a circa 19
ption, too. I'm hoping to install FreeDos on it later today.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:50 AM Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 11/9/2020 7:35 AM, Marv wrote:
>
>
> I assume rtl8139 is a generic virtual driver and is the only choice for a
> virtual Realtek adapter. My actual networ
My ongoing saga of trying to get networking up on FreeDos - I decided to
install Linux Mint and QEMU on the machine. Then I did a virtual
installation of FreeDos under QEMU. All went ok, and I can run FreeDos
virtual just fine. Next, I tried to set up networking on my virtual FreeDos
using the same
Looking at my BIOS settings, it looks like this board does support PXE
boot. I'm not familiar with PXE, so I'll have to read up on it. I had also
thought about installing Linux and FreeDos in separate partitions with a
dual boot and seeing if that might solve my network issue under FreeDos.
On Su
Just an update to my network adapter issue. I gave up on it and moved on to
serial communications. I simply needed to be able to transfer files back
and forth between my Windows 10 laptop and my FreeDos machine. I am
successfully doing that using Kermit 3.14 on FreeDos and Kermit 95 on
Windows 10.
Thanks - yes, I did try ODI, but had the same results. Drivers install and
load ok, but no communication. It's time for me to move on, I think.
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 10:47 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
> Have you tried any of the drivers from
> http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm ?
> _
You have a good point. I'm ready to give up on this motherboard and find an
older (and cheap) desktop with appropriate card slots. Too bad - this board
has some things I wanted like serial, parallel, PS2, VGA, plus HDMI,
USB2/USB3, and SATA3.
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 11:05 AM ZB wrote:
> On Sat
Thanks, Tom - unfortunately, the motherboard I have available only has a
PCI Express slot (no PCI slots). I know Startech has a PCIe to PCI adapter
for $40, but then I would still need to buy a suitable PCI network card. I
don't really want to invest that much in this project. I've looked at a lot
Thanks Tom - I see the Realtek 8139 is fairly popular with DOS users and I
can find PCI cards with that chip. But so far no luck finding a PCIe card
that uses the 8139. Will keep looking.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 11:19 AM tom ehlert wrote:
>
> > Can anyone suggest a PCIe network adapter for FreeD
Can anyone suggest a PCIe network adapter for FreeDos? One that I can get a
packet driver or NDIS driver for. My FreeDos computer doesn't have a
regular PCI slot and I've given up trying to get the onboard network
adapter to work.
If not, has anyone tried a PCIe to PCI adapter (Startech for exampl
ntvec=0x60?
Also not sure why NTCPDRV reports MAC/DIS converter "packet driver"
when I've installed a ndis adapter driver?
For what it's worth, I've tried 3 different ethernet cables.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 12:46 AM Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 11/2/2020 6:54 PM, Marv wrote:
&g
Freedos noob here. I've been running old Dos programs like Wordstar,
Supercalc, etc. ok on Freedos for a couple of weeks. Now I'm trying to get
it on my LAN so I can move files around easier.
I'm using an ASRock N3150B-ITX (circa 2015) with an onboard ethernet
adapter. Specs say: PCIE x1 Gigabit L
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