Re: [Freedos-user] XMS on a 8086

emulation of a 8088 PC XT with a virtual Bocaram XT EMS card). http://mateusz.fr/exms86 Mateusz On 19/07/2025 22:05, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user wrote: Some 8086 PCs are equipped with an EMS card offering LIM memory. If you're fortunate enough to own such a card, today you can unloc

Re: [Freedos-user] A few questions about installing

On 20/07/2025 19:15, Lutalli via Freedos-user wrote: (Also thanks for information about the editors) If you're after a compact, no-frills text editor, I recommend checking out SVED (it's not on Liam's website). SVED is a super-light editor. Although I developed it for SvarDOS, it runs seaml

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS on a 8086

On 20/07/2025 07:23, Michael Brutman wrote: How can an 8086 PC have a few megabytes of XMS memory?  By definition an 8086 PC only has 20 address lines, which gets you to 1MB.  There is no addressing of memory above 1MB available given that number of address lines. XMS (v2) is just a copying AP

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS on a 8086

Eric Auer wrote: >That makes perfect sense to me. FreeCOM is welcome to make >use of 286 optimizations given that PC which have sensible >amounts of XMS available must be PC which have 286+ CPU. FreeCOM does not need "sensible" amounts of XMS to swap. 150k is enough. Besides, an 8086 PC might v

[Freedos-user] XMS on a 8086

Some 8086 PCs are equipped with an EMS card offering LIM memory. If you're fortunate enough to own such a card, today you can unlock XMS support by installing EXMS86. EXMS86 is a TSR that provides XMS 2.0 extended memory services by leveraging an EMS 4.0 expanded memory source. It’s tailored f

Re: [Freedos-user] Gaming Controller

On 26/06/2025 03:46, david--- via Freedos-user wrote: Does FreeDOS14 have a driver for USB connected gaming controllers? Apologies if this is a stupid question - but some DOS games can use a joystick.  I no longer have a working game port connected joystick, so a USB connected gaming controlle

[Freedos-user] Rasp 'n Speak, a BNS emulator on a Raspberry Pi

Today I prepared a Raspberry Pi image that contains the Raspberry operating system, emubns, espeak and Piper, along with some glue and duct tape to hold it all together. I have named this contraption the "Rasp 'n Speak". It is an emulation of a Braille 'n Speak synthesizer. When the Rasp 'n

Re: [Freedos-user] SvarDOS, was: Accessibility question.

On 22/11/2024 14:46, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote: The main system (or installer?) fits on a single floppy, other packages can be added via network. So people still have ISA network cards already with RJ45 LAN connectors, I assume :-) It is expected that people nowadays have their DOS PC co

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 22/11/2024 14:01, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote: I am just beginning to explore SvarDOS but as far as I can tell it does not have a screenreader of any kind, no. On the main page of the SvarDOS website there are 3 builds of the OS available. One of them is the "BNS Build". This one com

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 20/11/2024 05:00, Karen Lewellen wrote: No matter how well intention, for the sake of the scientists and engineers  living in that 18% arena, please do not project that test of yours on to another human being. The 18% are very welcome to set up a DOS VM on a Linux host with emubns and Pipe

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hello Karen, see my answers below. This might not be the best place for this topic, though. I wouldn't want to annoy the list, especially since it is not strictly FreeDOS related. If you'd like to take this offlist, or would know a more appropriate list or forum, I'd be happy to oblige. >Firs

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

ed, 16 Oct 2024, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user wrote: On 15/10/2024 17:12, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:  Other factor speaking personally with espeak is the largely poor speech  quality. I experimented a bit with emubns today. Ended up using "piper" instead of espeak. The spee

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos on raspberry pi.

On 18/10/2024 21:43, tsie...@softcon.com wrote: Won't work.  Dos itself uses a *lot* of interrupt calls to do things. The raspberry pies run processors that don't support interrupts. Therefore, porting a stand-alone version of dos to the pie just won't work. That's not really what I meant, and

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos on raspberry pi.

On 18/10/2024 03:29, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote: Hey, that sounds promising. So was that dos install software speech or did you have a newer braille an speak connected? The only braille an speak I know about is the one I use to have in the late eighties. I do not own any Braille 'n S

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 17/10/2024 18:03, Karen Lewellen wrote: Others can speak to how available these Raspberry pie things are world wide, how  easy to configure independently, I take it no software is needed to run them? A Raspberry Pi is a cheap computer the size of a large box of matches. Instead of a hard d

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 17/10/2024 00:22, Karen Lewellen wrote: I have never run  provox, but have a copy.  Let me see if there is a users guide to share. Thanks for sharing. It appears provox have a few different modes for processing punctuation. These can be switched with slash-F5. I would personally apprecia

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 15/10/2024 17:12, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote: Other factor speaking personally with espeak is the largely poor speech quality. I experimented a bit with emubns today. Ended up using "piper" instead of espeak. The speech quality is outstanding now, almost lifelike. I was able to

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 14/10/2024 17:37, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote: Hi, That distro sounds interesting, but I need to run free dos on different computers. If it had speech accessibility free dos would be very useful to blind people world wide considering all the free dos programs you can get and the amo

Re: [Freedos-user] Seeking advice on installing FreeDOS with Screen Readers

Hi Lawrence, A couple of years ago I toyed with something called "BNS" and I created a software emulator for DOS. Maybe it could be useful in your scenario. Here is the link: https://emubns.sourceforge.net/ The idea would for you to run DOS on your Linux PC inside a QEMU virtual machine. Th

Re: [Freedos-user] Copying Files Between Linux And FreeDOS

On 20/08/2024 20:43, Ben Collver via Freedos-user wrote: I tried EtherDFS and it seems clean and stable. Thanks for the recommendation! If you do not need to access the same drive from multiple machines at the same time, then you might want to try ethflop .

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing for 8086 CPU on SD Card.

You might want to give SvarDOS a try, it's designed specifically with 8086 compatibility in mind. The current stable release is still FreeDOS based, so once installed you can easily tailor it to mimic a "normal" FreeDOS system. http://svardos.org Mateusz On 07/08/2024 06:00, Trevor Campbel

Re: [Freedos-user] "Web 1.0" style hosting and mail [WAS: freedos, or dos based mail clients?]

On 04/08/2024 12:18, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote: Not sure how they're doing 1.0 hosting, with limited ip addresses, 1.1 is needed for hosting multiple domain names on a single IP address, guess they're not sharing IP addresses, wonder how they're sourcing all the hosts, might be interest

[Freedos-user] SvarCOM ver 2024.3

Hello, For those of you who might care: I released a new version of SvarCOM today. SvarCOM is a minimalist shell for DOS, ie. a COMMAND.COM (or FreeCOM) replacement. SvarCOM is the default shell of the SvarDOS operating system. The last time I announced SvarCOM on this list was in 2021. Sinc

Re: [Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

On 25/07/2024 10:44, userbeitrag--- via Freedos-user wrote: Since DOS was vulnerable to boot viruses, it was AFAIK only necessary to access a (floppy) disk. DOS would always execute the virus if it was in the boot sector (be it a VBR or MBR). A simple "A:" at the prompt might have been enough, de

Re: [Freedos-user] Codepage and keyboard setting for Czech language

On 19/12/2023 18:18, Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user wrote: display con=(ega,852,1) mode con codepage prepare ((852) C:\freedos\cpi\ega.cpx) mode con codepage select=852 All czech-specific letters are printed correctly now. Is this the recommended way? Yes, it is the "official" way, as Microsoft

[Freedos-user] EduQiz rel 2023

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 private until now. Since I am quite satisfied about how it turned out, I deci

Re: [Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32

On 25/09/2023 11:20, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user wrote: Thanks for the pointer! Unfortunately, that one wants some DPMI memory: "Load error: no DPMI - Get csdpmi*b.zip" That's my current config.sys part on that USB-Sticks, which run that FoxPro program: device=c:\freedos\jemmEx.exe PGE

Re: [Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32

On 15/09/2023 19:42, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user wrote: Is there a ChkDsk or ScanDsk etc available for FAT32? The usual chkdsk92.exe doesn't support this. You might want to try DOSFSCK. Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@list

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and the Gemini protocol

On 19/08/2023 09:11, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user wrote: I am writing this here, because I believe the low-resource needed to run a Gemini Browser is appropriate for FreeDOS. Gemini is an invention that shoehorns a gopher-like protocol into TLS. TLS is everything but "low ressource". For a

Re: [Freedos-user] Sved, yet another text editor

On 07/08/2023 02:47, Bret Johnson wrote: Does it have copy/cut/paste functionality? Yes, albeit I failed implementing text-selection without making the resulting binary bigger than my 7K goal, so I had to opt for an unconventional handling of copy/paste. From SVED's documentation: CTRL+C

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

On 8/6/23 23:34, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user wrote: DOS is using *text *mode, you just can't select a*graphics *mode and expect to get text output in that mode. BIOS text output functions still work in most graphic modes, hence having a DOS shell running in graphic mode is nothing unusual. Of

[Freedos-user] Sved, yet another text editor

Because I felt that the world needed another DOS text editor, I have spent past month's evenings on a new project named SVED. SVED (short for "the SvarDOS editor") is designed for basic editing of configuration files and such. It is NOT meant to be a full-featured text editor. On the pro side,

Re: [Freedos-user] (C library) SvarLANG ver 20230730

On 02/08/2023 00:55, Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote: I posted a news item about it for the FreeDOS website, but I wanted to ask before I mirrored a copy to ibiblio. Would you like me to make a copy at the FreeDOS files archive at ibiblio? Hi Jim, thank you for the news item. I have absolutely

[Freedos-user] (C library) SvarLANG ver 20230730

Hi, I have recently released a new version of SvarLANG. SvarLANG is a C library and toolset for enabling DOS applications to easily support multiple languages. SvarLANG is like cats/kitten, but instead of parsing text files at runtime it stores them in a blob resource. It's lighter, faster a

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode and codepages in apps already bundled with FreeDOS?

On 24/06/2023 02:18, Michael Brutman via Freedos-user wrote: A centralized mapping would be nice, but then you will run into the question of how strict you want the code to be. In an ideal world, one could imagine a new nlsfunc service that answers with a best effort match from the local codep

[Freedos-user] EtherDFS ver 0.8.3

Hello, I've published a new version of EtherDFS today: version 0.8.3. This version fixes a bug kindly reported by Jerome Shidel. https://etherdfs.sourceforge.net SvarDOS users can update it as follows: pkgnet pull etherdfs pkg update etherdfs.svp Others will have to fetch the new zip file f

Re: [Freedos-user] Lure of the Temptress (again)

On 02/04/2023 18:18, Brandon Taylor wrote: Hello! It's me again. Over 6 years ago, I asked whether it was possible to get "Lure of the Temptress" running in FreeDOS (and yes, once again, I've played it in DOSBox). I eventually agreed to concede that it wasn't. FreeDOS is very much capable of

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

On 29/01/2023 22:00, Mart Zirnask wrote: Another article worth considering is an overview of SvarDOS, or is it not ready for this yet? A comparison of SvarDOS versus FreeDOS -- or am I currently in the wrong church with this? :) Sounds great. I'd definitely welcome such write-up. An article a

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions about link files

On 28/12/2022 16:50, M. Osman Talayman wrote: I guess the source code for these .com link files is in the source tree. It is part of FDNPKG. The COM-launcher code specifically is here: https://sourceforge.net/p/fdnpkg/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/comlink.asm Please note that FDNPKG is abandoned and I

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions about link files

On 28/12/2022 17:21, Bret Johnson wrote: All true, but you forgot about the most important: COM links are not limited to 9 command line params (%1-%9). This is actually the reason that made me design the COM links files that are used nowadays in FreeDOS. That's not true. The SHIFT command in b

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions about link files

On 28/12/2022 15:21, Bret Johnson wrote: In short, there are advantages and disadvantages to both methods. All true, but you forgot about the most important: COM links are not limited to 9 command line params (%1-%9). This is actually the reason that made me design the COM links files that ar

[Freedos-user] New release: Gopherus 1.2.2

Hello all, I have published a new Gopherus release today. Gopherus is a multiplatform Gopher client available for Linux, BSD, Windows and DOS. Changelog follows. Gopherus v1.2.2 [12 Nov 2022]: - [new] F4 key loads the main menu of the current server - [new] key bindings can be reconfigured

Re: [Freedos-user] i made fdpget.bat for downloading and installing freedos packages

On 05/08/2022 13:43, sparky4 insano wrote: i made a badly written batch file that downloads and install freedos packages for 16 bit machines using mTCP htget and fdinst link is here https://4ch.mooo.com/fdos/fdpget.bat http works too If you're focused on

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a minimal freeDOS bootable image that runs a single application

On 10/07/2022 23:46, Nico via Freedos-user wrote: I would like to create a minimal bootable image for a USB drive (or other formats, maybe even floppies, but USB is the focus) that boots into a single application (in my case, a custom minimal word processor, although freeDOS EDIT is a decent st

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

On 26/02/2022 15:09, Travis Siegel wrote: Barring those solutions, you could always redirect the @echo off line to null, which would prevent it from displaying on the screen. It would not, since the error message is output to stderr. Mateusz ___ Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSHEXED - memory bug

On 12/01/2022 18:22, tom ehlert wrote: You might want to try uHex. Requires some 20 KiB of RAM and handles files up to 2 GiB. use int 21, 6C EXTENDED OPEN/CREATE and you can handle 4GiB. This does not appear to be present in the FreeDOS kernel. Or at least the source code comment says "not i

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSHEXED - memory bug

On 12/01/2022 18:22, tom ehlert wrote: You might want to try uHex. Requires some 20 KiB of RAM and handles files up to 2 GiB. use int 21, 6C EXTENDED OPEN/CREATE and you can handle 4GiB. Sure, but that's not very portable code. And it is not enough anyway. To handle 4 GB one would also need

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSHEXED - memory bug

On 12/01/2022 14:58, Michał Dec wrote: Is there any other hex editor for FreeDOS You might want to try uHex. Requires some 20 KiB of RAM and handles files up to 2 GiB. IIRC it is shipped with FreeDOS, but if not then you will find it here: http://uhex.sourceforge.net/ Mateusz __

Re: [Freedos-user] Speaking of (tiny) DOS gaming PCs

On 28 November 2021 21:31:34 CET, dmccunney wrote: >This also looks like it will be useful to Old Skool folks who want to >boot DOS and run it directly on the bare metal, instead of in an >emulator or VM. In this context, I am very much impressed by the micro 8088, a minimalist homebrew PC XT

Re: [Freedos-user] Enhanced Hangman EN_COMPS.VOC

Howdy Bryan, Very cool, thanks. I'm surprised people still play this game! I have uploaded your files as "extras" on the game's website: http://hangman-dos.sourceforge.net/ It seems your set does not contain the original words, is it on purpose? Do not hesitate to send me any other resources d

Re: [Freedos-user] Announcements seen on BTTR: Lynx web browser, NDN file manager, DOSBOX emulator

On 25/11/2021 19:31, Rugxulo wrote: In case you haven't noticed, FTP is much simpler to implement than Curl or Wget. Those are incredibly complex, especially for DOS. FTP is actually more complex than HTTP. Curl and Wget are obviously huge programs, but that's because they do a lot of things b

Re: [Freedos-user] SvarCOM - a nimble COMMAND.COM shell

On 25/11/2021 14:22, Jerome Shidel wrote: Kinda busy right now, don’t know when I’ll get around to testing it. No worries. If you're happy with FreeCOM, no need to look after something else. But, I did turn it into a package already. :-) Cool, thanks! Mateusz __

[Freedos-user] SvarCOM - a nimble COMMAND.COM shell

Hello all, I tend to use FreeDOS mostly on old computers that often have no more than 1 MiB of RAM. On such setups FreeDOS doesn't leave much memory to applications, mostly due to FreeCOM. This is the main reason that led me to develop a new command interpreter named SvarCOM. This interprete

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS game compatibility mass testing results/questions

On 20/11/2021 18:25, Jim Hall wrote: That's not to say that FreeDOS is perfect. For the life of me, I cannot get the Wolfenstein 3D installer (1wolf14.zip) to run on FreeDOS. Even with nothing loaded, INSTALL.EXE aborts with "Runtime error 200 at 0774:0091" Does not sound like a FreeDOS probl

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

On 13/10/2021 21:41, E. Auer wrote: I would not call KSSF experimental, I would just call it rarely used, because most users do have XMS drivers loaded :-) The kswap documentation starts with exactly these words: "This technique is an experimental implementation (...)" Then, the documentation

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

On 13/10/2021 11:49, tom ehlert wrote: I'm 100% certain that MSDOS didn't generate € characters in any codepage. this should end the story of €'s. As explained by others numerous times, the display-talks-to-keyb mechanism is much wider than the one euro symbol. 1'st: 'problems' is the plura

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

On 12/10/2021 22:49, E. Auer wrote: So at the risk of repeating the obvious: While it is possible to construct some problems to justify your desired powerful solution, this feels extremely over-designed from my view as Non-US DOS user. As far as I understand, this is not about designing some ne

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

On 08/10/2021 12:17, tom ehlert wrote: it's not uncommon for germans to use US-ASCII keyboards (QWERTY). other use german keyboards (QWERTZ). in both cases the codepage is 437 (BIOS default) or 858 (with €), but Y and Z are swapped. the same is probably true for french keyboards. French peop

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

On 07/10/2021 18:47, tom ehlert wrote: were these 2 layouts dynamically switchable (and actually switched) They were actually not switchable, mainly due to their implementation: CP852 was provided by "mode con cp" through MS-DOS, while the Mazovia codepage was usually loaded through a custom

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

On 07/10/2021 15:43, tom ehlert wrote: DISPLAY.SYS calls INT 2F.AD81h when the Code Page is changed to inform KEYB so it can change its mapping. please provide an example where this is necessary AND plausible. In Poland, there were a few codepages used during the DOS era. The two main ones we

Re: [Freedos-user] Standy in FreeDos?

On 29/09/2021 14:06, Thomas Desi wrote: Hi, is it possible (application? program) to put the computer to „sleep“ (i.e. „standby) in FreeDos? "fdapm standby" http://amb.osdn.io/phpamb.php?fname=lib/fdhelpen.amb&f=fdapm.ama Mateusz ___ Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS make better compatibility with DOS games [current status]

On 01/06/2021 23:55, Lukas Satin wrote: The driver VIDECDD is not working at all. It will not find my CD-ROM drive. Perhaps because 486 bios cannot find the CDROM. But driver such as MSCDEX or SHSUCDX will find the drive. Hi Lukas, MSCDEX/SHSUCDX are not really drivers, they are only a subsys

Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review

On 30/04/2021 02:19, Jon Brase wrote: I'm not particularly attached to any particular GUI, or to having a GUI in FreeDOS per-se, but I'm a bit concerned, in terms of preserving historical software, that the Win16 API is not well served by existing options (Wine, NTVDM, MS-DOS/Win3 under virtual

Re: [Freedos-user] hardware recommendations

On 27/04/2021 18:00, Michał Dec wrote: Hey I was wondering if it would make sense to step up FreeDOS to actually you know, be bootable under UEFI ;) The CPUs still got support for real mode so we should be fine. Being able to boot is only the tip of the iceberg here. Without a working BIOS (i

Re: [Freedos-user] hardware recommendations

On 27/04/2021 15:43, Liam Proven wrote: UEFI vs BIOS is either-or. A single machine can't have both, and I do not know of any where it is a choice. It is a design decision. On my Thinkpads the BIOS allows to choose the boot method - either UEFI or "legacy". The latter allows to boot DOS, the f

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing over the network

On 21/04/2021 06:06, Michael Brutman wrote: If you have a printer that is network enabled and it speaks Postscript, PCL, Epson ESC P2, or plain text then you can "print to a file" under DOS and then use Netcat to send the file to your printer. +1. I used such method in the past, although I use

Re: [Freedos-user] Why do you use DOS

On 16/04/2021 13:15, Thomas Desi wrote: this one= 66297 2009-09-11 18:42:08 fdapm-2009sep11.zip  on https://www.auersoft.eu/soft/ Yes. I read the fdapm.txt and notes but can’t figure out: does it go into CONFIG

Re: [Freedos-user] Why do you use DOS

On 16/04/2021 12:53, Thomas Desi wrote: Is there somebody who happens to know about the functionality (usability/) regarding DOSidle + FreeDos? Should I Autoexec.bat FreeDOS comes with FDAPM, which provides a similar functionality (among other interesting features). There is also an IDLEHALT

Re: [Freedos-user] Using a USB stick and an optical drive

On 10/04/2021 14:26, Stephanos wrote: I booted the stick, was a bit confused as to why freedos did not do anything and fdos was the option, and found the BIOS file in drive C:\.  I ran it.  It looked promising, but alas, alack, no. -Start to flash ……. [ Y / N]: Y - Error: Problem getting flash i

Re: [Freedos-user] Using a USB stick and an optical drive

On 09/04/2021 23:50, Stephanos wrote: So I decided that it was slightly easier to put back Windows 7. I used gparted to wipe the HDD (...) I booted into the BIOS and the version was the same A02. I rebooted back into Windows 7 You should have done like Liam tells you from the beginning. He prov

Re: [Freedos-user] New AMB based FreeDOS Help

I am sorry that this has been probably mentioned in the past, but, how does one get from HTML files to AMB? I did the conversion using a tool that I created for this specific task. It is non-generic, messy and very ugly - its only goal was to make it possible to convert the FreeDOS help HTML f

[Freedos-user] SvarDOS (FreeDOS distribution)

Hello, this quick message to announce that I decided to halt the Svarog386 distribution. Its successor is SvarDOS: http://svardos.osdn.io SvarDOS is based on the same concepts as Svarog386, but is meant to be more universal, ie. including 8086 systems. Existing Svarog386 installations can be e

Re: [Freedos-user] Which C compiler for targeting DOS?

On 24/01/2021 08:54, Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a good C compiler for DOS? Turbo C 2.01 (gratis, very good software) and OpenWatcom (open-source, tend to produce heavier binaries than OW, but comes with a more complete libc). * I would like to be a

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

Note that running a laptop with no battery is not necessarily a good idea - some laptops rely on the battery to act as a voltage regulator. Running a laptop without its aku pack is how I fried a RAM bank in my Toshiba T1100 a couple of years ago. I realized too late that the power supply was de

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB update

On 23/12/2020 16:38, Mateusz Viste wrote: The AMB reader is available for download on the AMB project's webpage: http://amb.osdn.net And of course I mistyped the URL... Should have been: http://amb.osdn.io Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing

[Freedos-user] AMB update

Today I published a new version of the AMB book reader. There has been a lot of improvements since my last announcement here. Changelog follows. - jump to a specific chapter when specified as command line argument - mouse support - optimized display routines (refresh only lines that may have

Re: [Freedos-user] IDE <-> CF adapters

On 22/12/2020 14:37, DosWorld via Freedos-user wrote: 2. Use last generation of motherboard for Pentium-1 (as minimum) with VIA Apollo chipset (designed for Pentium and Amd K6/K6-2) - only this chipset understand ATA100 native and allow connect CF via simple IDE-CF reductor I have a 486 Toshi

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

On December 18, 2020 9:01:09 PM GMT+01:00, Ray Davison wrote: > In my scheme the system would only have two ISOs: the basic, >and >a TBD "extras". Myself I do not have a very fast internet connectivity. When I download DOS, I prefer to download the strict minimum (MSDOS equivalent, ca 5MiB

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On 16/12/2020 12:39, C. Masloch wrote: Very nice! I'd guess it may be the path of least resistance to add an AMB output format to the existing Halibut compiler. That would be awesome, yes -- but I looked at the source code and it wasn't looking like a 5-minutes job, so I decided to go for the

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On December 15, 2020 6:45:46 PM GMT+01:00, ZB wrote: >There's no need to wait for "8086 code" - if you're interested I can >show >you example of TCL/Tk solution. Of course similar way it'll work in DOS Doing things on modern platforms with lots of RAM and 32bit ints is easy. Doing the same wi

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On 14/12/2020 19:08, ZB wrote: Guys, I have no issues with AMB neither any other new invention - but... maybe simpler solution would be to copy solution offered by Tk's "text widget"? The "side advantage" would be ability to browse the texts prepared such way under every OS where Tk toolkit is av

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

itself can be downloaded here: http://mateusz.viste.fr/tmp/amb/insref.amb And the script I created for the occasion is here: https://sourceforge.net/p/ambook/code/HEAD/tree/nasmref2amb/convert.sh Mateusz On 14/12/2020 07:36, Mateusz Viste wrote: Hi Christian, Your docs seem very interesting!

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

On 14/12/2020 01:22, ZB wrote: I think before taking such decision it would be worthy to browse the list again, but after doing "sort by size desc" first. Because the bigger the file the more closely it's worthy to look at it This leads to a situations where software is becoming less likely to

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

>Gopherus, >> but it's "retro" and not too big (2MB) so I have no problems keeping >it. > >That is larger than expected - make Gopherus EXTRA / ONLINE? The (old, 1.1) 32 bit version was about 400 KiB, zipped. The newer (1.2+) 16 bit version is under 100 KiB zipped. Mateusz On December 14,

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

ate a halibut2amb converter. Mateusz On December 13, 2020 9:27:06 PM GMT+01:00, "C. Masloch" wrote: >On at 2020-12-13 09:15 +0100, Mateusz Viste wrote: >>> I'd love to have the FreeDOS books in there, too. >>> https://www.freedos.org/books/ >>> I don

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On 13/12/2020 02:11, Jim Hall wrote: This makes me wonder if we could adapt this to become a new version of the FreeDOS Help system. No adaptation required I think. This is specifically one of the use cases I had in mind when developing AMB - as a simpler, lighter and more generic replacement

[Freedos-user] AMB: new samples

Recently I announced my latest AMB tool here, along with a conversion of the FreeDOS help. This message to let you know that I also converted the french version of the FreeDOS help, as a show case for "high ASCII" (international) content. I have also produced an AMB book with 8086 instructions

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On 08/12/2020 22:44, Robert Riebisch wrote: We could probably only catch those by starting to wrap all URLs in <> at the document source level manually. Yes, that would be a very good compromise. But there may be side effects, when <> is used for other stuff too. The linkification engine wo

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On 07/12/2020 19:42, Robert Riebisch wrote: Can we have: 1) Clickable web links, please? E.g., http://www.trumpet.com.au/ at . 2) A back to home function by clicking on "FreeDOS help system (hhstndrd 1.0.8 en)". 3) A

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

http://ambook.sourceforge.net/samples/phpamb.php?fname=fdhelp.amb A link to the above URL is also present on the main page of the AMB project now (at http://ambook.sourceforge.net/ ). Mateusz On 05/12/2020 18:08, Mateusz Viste wrote: Hello, These past few days I was working on a new hobby pr

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.1

On 06/12/2020 22:31, Karen Lewellen wrote: Its terrific, have been using it exclusively for years. That's cool and all, but in what way exactly is it better than FreeDOS? That's a honest question. BTW, MS-DOS 2.0 appears to be libre (MIT) nowadays - that could also be a good fit to some, gi

[Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

Hello, These past few days I was working on a new hobby project. It is called AMB, and it is a simple hyperlink format that makes it possible to create "books" that are easy to read even on very limited hardware. The "books" can be viewed with a tool named AMB. It is only a few kilobytes big

Re: [Freedos-user] problem with freedos help on fdos.org website

On 01/10/2020 14:14, Jerome Shidel wrote: However, he was not working on the code portion of HELP. He has only been working on the documentation. I think he has been looking for someone to assist him to make updates to the program and resolve some bugs. It has been a little while since I’ve he

Re: [Freedos-user] Some networking present

On 07/09/2020 18:15, Michael Brutman wrote: Others have provided small utilities to let WATTCP apps use the mTCP DHCP program.  I think that is a reasonable solution given the history. Interesting. Any links? mTCP seems to be quite popular nowadays - at least as much as Wattcp-based applicatio

Re: [Freedos-user] Some networking present

On 07/09/2020 05:31, Michael Brutman wrote: "Exotic" is a strange word ... Let me help. Quick web search suggests such definition: "Intriguingly unusual or different" WATTCP uses its own configuration file, mTCP uses its own configuration file. My point exactly. There are users now that co

Re: [Freedos-user] Some networking present

only a list of commercial prices for its DOS stack. He may just as well have changed his mind. Mateusz On September 6, 2020 8:07:43 PM GMT+02:00, dmccunney wrote: >On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 2:02 PM ZB wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 07:52:05PM +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: >> >> &

Re: [Freedos-user] Some networking present

On 06/09/2020 19:18, ZB wrote: Perhaps it could be feasible to improve the programs to make them follow such simple algorithm: 1. Let's find out, maybe Trumpet TSR offers its services? 2. If it's present, connect using Trumpet... This is twice the programming work required for networking. Not

Re: [Freedos-user] Some networking present

On 06/09/2020 17:03, ZB wrote: Gopherus works (although still it wants to configure network, that already has been configured using mTCP's DHCP; so it seems Gopherus doesn't do any detection "do I already have network acccessibler?" at all), mTCP is kind of an exotic piece of software - its net

Re: [Freedos-user] Some networking present

On 06/09/2020 02:33, ZB wrote: Anyway I was able to ping and to log into FTP server - so I can assume network is present Sounds good indeed. Is FDNPKG or Gopherus working as well? They rely on Watt-32 and Wattcp, respectively. The latter does not have DHCP support IIRC. Mateusz __

Re: [Freedos-user] Dosemu on its own - does it exist?

ctly" era. Mateusz On 02/09/2020 16:08, ZB wrote: On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 03:56:26PM +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview Indeed I recall that name - but somehow never used it before. Does it do exactly what I've described? Like - for example - I could "

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