On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 10:40 -0500, James Crawford wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
>
>
> I have a Pentium 3 running Freedos alone. I tried to load Win 3.1 and
> got the error : Win 3.1 will not run in protected mode. I understand
> that the command.com runs in protected mode. Do I have to change this
>
I have a Pentium III 750, 768 megs of ram, and a soundblaster 16 PCI
card. Turns out, that sound card was causing a crash, a 0D exception.
I got around that by adding the SB option to the jemm386.exe line.
Well, trying to add msclient as it seems to be the only way to go for
a national semiconduc
On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 19:57 -0700, turtleman wrote:
> Hello, I am new to freeDOS, but I find the project very interesting. However,
> upon doing research of DOS applications I found that there are almost no
> desktop GUIs being developed. It appears that freeDOS supports openGEM, but
> even that ha
> Most embedded processors (that are still actively produced) are
> 32-bit. Anyways, I don't think FreeDOS qualifies, at least not for
> 8-bit (AVR??) ones.
PIC16F505, PIC16F1938... these are microchip baseline 8 bit
microprocessors intended for embedded use. Yes microchip offers
32 bit processo
On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 18:46 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
> Op 8-1-2013 15:38, KOS schreef:
> > Hello there, do you know when V2.0 of freedos will be available?
> >
>
> I'm not sure there's going to be a V2.0 sometime soon, be there FreeDOS
> roadmaps or not. I'm still quitely working on version 1.2
Dos makes sense for 8/16 bit computers that can't handle multitasking
very well. There are plenty of 8/16 bit computers around still, think
e-readers probably and other embedded devices that don't need the
higher functionality a 32/64 bit machine/multi core machine offers.
Dos was a quick and d
I got my K6-2 500 with 504 megs of ram running XP SP3 well enough by
turning off the swap file. Don't let XP swap, Warcraft II works fine.
The scsi hard drive, despite being a Seagate Cheetah, really slows the
system down. I don't let my Linux firewall allow this old machine to
access the Net, so
Windows 98 sort of running on top of a DOS system doesn't work with
ipxwrapper-0.4.0. There is an error that iplphapi.dll can't be found
or something similar. Turns out, this DLL probably doesn't show up
till Windows 2000. So the thought of using Windows 98 boxes and
Windows 7 boxes together go
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 03:32 +, dos386 wrote:
> > I'm not even sure there's a reason to have FreeDOS in the mix.
>
> Sure there is, especially if your 98 copy isn't legal.
My copy is sort of legal, but I don't have as many licenses for it
as I have computers running it. The computer I'm runni
First I installed Freedos 1.1 and used the 4x4 NEC cdrom, only the
first slot seemed to work, to copy over the Windows 98SE cabinet files.
I then proceeded to boot from the 98se cdrom and run setup from the
directory with the cab files. Long story short, this screwed up the
freedos installation.
I guess my Compaq 4.3 gig scsi hard drive is the part that doesn't work.
I swapped in a Seagate Cheetah drive, works just fine without any kind
of driver.
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It is impressive, quite fast actually. Unfortunately, I tried to
use it in VirtualBox only to have it choke when I attempted to enable
networking. The Crynwr packet drivers are not very complete either.
This gui seems well on track to replace the aging and proprietary
Windows 3.1, especially if
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Based on Debian I believe, there is a download link you'll need to click
to get the iso image. Deepburner is a free CD/DVD burning tool that
works in Windows XP/2000. There is a way to create a virtual floppy
disk under Linux and burn that to CD. I thin
On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 20:47 -0800, Ralf A. Quint wrote:
> At 07:28 PM 11/24/2012, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote:
> >This may be a FAQ.
> >
> >I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it
> >uses VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported by
> >later versions of W
I blew it, my Linux From Scratch system that I've been trying to tailor
to run over NFS so I can use it for backup and restoration purposes no
longer has /usr/bin or /usr/sbin.
Are there any free dos based backup solutions that work over network?
The obvious problem is network card and file syst
There has been a fair amount of just run it under emulation being said.
One of the advantages of DOS is that it isn't a modern operating system.
An easy way to install Freedos safely to a desktop computer involves the
following:
0) Back up all existing systems.
1) Disconnect all existing hard dri
I have a dos driver for the Sound Blaster 16 PCI card, but not a Windows
3.1 driver. The patch for the SVGA256 driver to make it VESA compliant
worked beautifully, thanks for the tip.
I've been trying to play LodeRunner where it crashes on the bomb scene.
Why does Jemmex give an error when I exi
Windows 3.11 and Windows 9x seem to be the closest thing to a 32 bit DOS
environment that I know of. I agree that creating a "32 bit dos" would
be awkward. Heck, 20 bit memory addressing is awkward, isn't it?
If you need to run dos games or want to run a Wordprocessor like
Wordperfect on an old
There is a syntax error message that flashes before the where to install
freedos to and from menu comes up. Another problem, install freezes at
installing command.com. Uge!
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On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 23:27 +, Zbigniew wrote:
> You know: graphics is one thing - this is just actual "fun project" -
> but being able to detect instantly the weak place in program, which is
> causing unnecessarily high CPU load (say: looping for a key without
> any "pause 10 ms"), is the othe
Since DOS environments typically don't multitask, there's no need to
time applications as they consume CPU resources and preempt them to let
other applications run. Modern multi core processors can do real
multitasking and don't have to simulate process concurrency. In DOS
environments, t
It has to be installed using Windows 98SE, but once that's done one can
grab the dos files for freedos. At least that used to be the way it was
until I upgraded to Freedos 1.1. Something about not able to allocate
below the 4 megabyte barrier when sbinit.com runs. I'm using Jemm386.
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First off, I don't appreciate anyone calling anyone an idiot on this
email list. Second, I haven't experimented with Freedos 1.1 myself, but
I hope any difficulty others have working with it is dealt with both
patiently and professionally. Myself, I'm waiting for the 1.2 release.
> >Problems:
>
A kiosk is a multiple user system, but not necessarily a
simultaneously multiple user system. So DOS will work most likely.
Chances are though, the DOS system files and tools themselves need to be
on read only memory if there is any possibility of a person being at a
command line and making a
The problems encountered strapping a GUI onto a DOS system are similar
to the problems that were encountered when object orientation and
classes were added to C to create C++. C++ is really a hybrid language,
neither a strictly procedural nor a strictly object oriented language.
Any GUI strapped
How soon will the official release be? :-)
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There has been quite a bit of talk about AST hardware needing special
drivers even under DOS. Well, if the company won't put the drivers in
the public domain and there aren't very many AST computers in the world,
the logical thing to do is recycle the ones that are left and replace
them. Am I mis
It is interesting that Arachne isn't the only option anymore, but Dillo
is still pretty austere. On the other hand, DOS isn't security friendly
so supporting an advanced web browser probably doesn't make sense
anyways. With no sand boxing because there is no user concept, DOS and
networking is a
I think it depends on what network card you have
and I think you are limited to Microsoft Client.
Network support in dos in general could be improved.
Microsoft Client as far as I know is closed source
and it hasn't been maintained by Microsoft for years.
One approach if you have Windows 98SE and
I used to go by the name nute on the ReactOS forums.
My site concerning Reactos is:
http://web.robinson-west.com/reactos.php
or:
http://xerxes.robinson-west.com/reactos.php
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:33 -0800, dos386 wrote:
> > Who needs WIndaube?
>
> I don't :-D
>
> I have been interested in Re
I have been interested in ReactOS, but as of today I gt my forum posting
priviledges revoked for merely recommending that open source compilers
and build tools be used instead of MSVC and the Windows SDK. The
ReactOS community seems to be extremely abusive, so I no longer link
to the ReactOS home
What are the goals at this point for Freedos 1.1?
When might it actually be released?
Freedos 1.0 definitely has some bugs still that could be fixed.
Updating Freedos 1.0 is haphazard at best, especially with limited
networking support and movement towards a newer updating standard.
What are th
I have a VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset motherboard with a PIII 450 on
it.
There are some memory timing parameters in the bios as well as some
other parameters that include usb support, usb keyboard, usb mouse,
assign irq for usb, assign irq for vga. Should I be assigning
an IRQ for usb or vga? I'm
My Intel D845PEBT2 P4 System networks no problem and ssh works on it.
On my Tyan S1854 Pentium III board, ssh doesn't work no matter how I
load freedos even when I load it without drivers. I suspected
that maybe the sbinit.com program was installing a TSR to emulate a
standard soundblaster that w
Bear with me, I suppose in a dos environment that it is hard to support
hardware device XYZ because in dos most hardware is controlled by
application programs. Sound cards for example are activated often times
by games. I have the PCI version of the soundblaster 16 and it works
under freedos, bu
The newest kernel 2039 seems to fix a lot of problems. Is there ongoing
kernel development?
What has to be updated still before Freedos 1.1 comes out?
I occasionally see stuff get added to http://www.freedos.org, but the
1.1 release seems to be delayed.
I see no reason why there couldn't be a 1
I know about prodos.exe, it requires Windows to
extract the drivers from it and the drivers you
extract are probably Windows drivers.
An update on the reset problem, updating to kernel
2039 and dropping emm386 updating himem as well
seems to fix the problem. Another advantage of
kernel 2039 is th
I've been net booting freedos to play battle tech I no problem.
Even with a ramdisk though, I can't get battle tech II to work.
I picked up a packet driver for the D845PEBT2 built in nic, but
whether it's wget or lynx, trying to execute the application simply
causes the computer to reset. Uge!
DOS predates more than 4 gigabytes of memory on a single computer, yet
there has been a LOT of discussion on having Freedos be able to handle
that much memory.
There has also been a lot of discussion on making sound cards which
lack dos drivers work in Freedos.
My concern is, these features won't
There was an effort to create a 32 bit version of freedos with memory
protection and possibly some other features. What is happening with
this project? I'm just curious is all.
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Anyone know where Freedos 1.1 stands at this point? I'd like to see
it get released. I would also like to see a focus on supporting
people who want to set up their own local update servers. Putting
dos on the Internet has some major downsides. The fdupdate program
seems to have an option to poi
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 15:07 -0400, Santiago Almenara wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've been using FreeDOS for a couple of months and it's working great.
> Right now, I am trying to install Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Is it
> possible to use it with higher resolutions? For instance 1024x768 16
> millions
It's starting to dawn on me that although Freedos is an
excellent choice for being able to run most old dos programs,
it's a nightmare from a network security point of view. I
suppose there's the option of running it on top of Linux
and using Linux to control where dos can go on your network,
I never intended to start a WAR over Arachne and coming
up with a Windows replacement.
I would like to see Arachne, because it's graphical
and there are no filter plugins for it, moved from the
Freedos ditribution to say an extras respository. I
can't install procon:latte to Arachne, which is
It isn't Firefox and so there isn't a filtering plugin for it that will
block certain web sites. It is very low resolution by today's standards
and php web pages aren't likely to work correctly with it. I've had
problems downloading from ftp sites with Arachne with the download
being corrupted.
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 10:29 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
> Michael Robinson schreef:
> > I haven't gotten the positive response I had hoped for trying
> > to drum up some interest in a Windows 9x replacement. Some
> > have talked about possibly enhacing HX extender an
I haven't gotten the positive response I had hoped for trying
to drum up some interest in a Windows 9x replacement. Some
have talked about possibly enhacing HX extender and cloning
Windows 3.x first, which makes a lot of sense.
Maybe it doesn't make sense to replace dos based Windows.
Maybe
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 05:21 -0800, dos386 wrote:
> > No it is not and it is rude
> Try ReactOS forum. How long you will survive
> there before getting banned, if you are not yet.
Have you been banned from the ReactOS forums?
Too many people treat it like it's a mere hobby
and tempers do flare on
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 06:23 -0800, dos386 wrote:
> This is off-topic and irrelevant anyway ...
No it is not and it is rude of you to say that it
is. It is not because one of the goals of Freedos
development has been to at least support the
versions of Windows that ran on top of dos.
The natural
> being worked on, all it does is make people angry.
>
> Because you are unable to describe your problem in a way
> understandable to other people ;-)
It's not that simple. Asking questions about
when XYZ will work or what is being worked on
raises people's ire because they can't give
good an
Most people find that they don't need Windows 3.x, but a lot of software
needs Windows 9x that won't work properly or at all in Windows NT and
it's variants XP/2000/Vista/7 etcetera.
One example is Warcraft II Battle Net edition. A better example is Red
Alert Command and Conquer I. Wolfenstein 3
I got a SB PCI 16 bit sound card I picked up working
by installing first to windows 98. Unfortunately,
there is no way to install in a dos only environment
directly. Worse, I have to create a Windows
directory tree with mywindows98/system/nameofpcidriver.???
For dos initialization of the so
Has anyone else run chkdsk on their Freedos C drive and gotten this
error? I have a 500 meg partition which is probably FAT16. I have
used Windows 98 to defrag another partition that I allow freedos to
access. Is the implementation of FAT in 98 and Freedos compatible?
Using chkdsk, I tried a fl
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 22:29 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > It seems that the sound blaster ISA and sound blaster 16 PCI
> > cards are the only ones that will work with freedos. Well,
>
> This is not freedos specific. It depends on your games or
> other software that you use for sound out
It seems that the sound blaster ISA and sound blaster 16 PCI
cards are the only ones that will work with freedos. Well,
I have a soundmaker cadenza on my D845PEBT2 Intel mobo with
a P4. It would be nice if there was a dos driver for this
sound card, but as far as I know there is only a Window
> > MS-DOS and Windows 3.x are clearly abandonware. If I want to
> > use this abandonware, am I suddenly breaking the law?
>
> Not suddenly. It is and was breaking the law. Of course you can
> hope that MS is too busy hunting people who steal Vista, but
> you cannot just say that stealing MS DOS
On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 16:35 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Has anyone gotten fdupdate to work with a 486? I lost the link to
> > fdupdate v0.55 and the instructions on how to use it in fdupdate
> > v0.54. If using a 486 is the problem because of a bug in the math
> > coprocessor or somethi
I have never used Vista. I think the minimum hardware requirements are
too high for me. Worse than that, I don't even like XP because it's
a pain to deal with activation and an even greater pain to back it up.
I've never figured out how to back up Windows XP. That said, I don't
use XP very often
Has anyone gotten fdupdate to work with a 486? I lost the link to
fdupdate v0.55 and the instructions on how to use it in fdupdate
v0.54. If using a 486 is the problem because of a bug in the math
coprocessor or something similar, that would be nice to know.
I've noticed that I get a C prompt ba
There is a need to elect leaders who will change the law concerning
abandonware.
Abandonware is any software program that is proprietary where the owner
of the intellectual property decides either a not to license any more
copies of it or b not to support it anymore. Typically, abandonware
is tie
> Use without author's permission is not legal, selling without author's
> permission is not legal (unless your local law allows otherwise), and
> making a profit of something gets you in court quite fast indeed.
>
> Bernd
>
The GPL is an exception, it gives you permission to use the software
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 22:59 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote:
> > Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal
> > use is not illegal. Downloading old commercial software that isn't
> > sold anymore which the author doesn't care about is not illegal.
> > To be illegal, the owner
Speaking of abandonware, all the Nintendo games for the original
8 bit system fit that description now. Should anyone distribute
an emulator to run the old games on PC's? Should anyone distribute
instructions on how to get a rom image of an old game so a person
can play it on his/her PC? Would
> But just to say the last word about this thread: please avoid warez,
> sources and links to any other illegal activities.
>
> Thanks.
> Aitor
Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal
use is not illegal. Downloading old commercial software that isn't
sold anymore wh
That's why I haven't been testing it on my 486 to see if it crashes or
not.
Since it's meant for freedos 1.1, how do I test it again?
BTW: The archives for this list are really hard to search.
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On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 20:13 -0500, Jim Hall wrote:
> > If you own a computer that had MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1
> > on it at one point, but your install media are fried, try
> > this abandonware site.
> >
> > http://vetusware.com
> >
> > I worry about the legality of downloading from this site,
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 09:38 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Sunday 12 April 2009 07:54 (CEST), Michael Robinson wrote:
> > I'm not certain
> > that I really want to try WordPerfect Suite 8
> > for Windows 95 on 98se.
>
> If you ask me, I am using WordPerfect
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 01:58 -0500, Travis Siegel wrote:
> There's no technical reason open document formats couldn't be
> supported on 386-486 machines, after all, the format itself has
> nothing to do with the cpu usage.
> As for using word perfect on windows 98se, I've done this on a 486-
>
I notice that I can run Windows 98 SE on my old
486 DX2 66 with 32 megs of ram. Windows 98 SE
supports more recent programs than Windows 3.1
does. Gem is nice, but it can't support windows
apps and it isn't meant to. I'm not certain
that I really want to try WordPerfect Suite 8
for Windows
If you own a computer that had MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1
on it at one point, but your install media are fried, try
this abandonware site.
http://vetusware.com
I worry about the legality of downloading from this site, but
technically the software they are allowing people to download
is unsuppo
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 10:34 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Friday 10 April 2009 10:24 (CEST), Michael Robinson wrote:
> > I'm still getting the 2 near fnodes error with fdupdate.
>
> Do you tried the beta 0.55 version I sent you few days ago (the one using
> HTGET
Using MS-DOS 6.2x himem.sys and MS-DOS 6.2x emm386.exe,
I have Windows 3.1 running on freedos 1. What I wonder
is why 386 enhanced mode errs out with incorrect dos
version??? I'm using the unstable kernel that came
with freedos 1. Is anyone working on it to get it
stable?
I swapped out my ser
I got Windows 3.1 running on Freedos using win /s,
the Msdos 6.2x himem.sys and the MSDOS 6.2x emm386.exe.
I also found out that share from freedos needs to be
loaded low.
Great, it ran. Trouble is, my mouse is on com4 and there
are no windows drivers for a logitech mouse on com4. Argh!
Somethi
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:35 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote:
> >> > If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I
> >> > have an unsupported dos version.
> >>
> >> Load the microsoft version that comes with windows, himem too.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > If I try loading windows 3.1 in sta
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 14:34 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote:
> > If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I
> > have an unsupported dos version.
>
> Load the microsoft version that comes with windows, himem too.
>
> >
> > If I try loading windows 3.1 in standard mode, I get an
Not workgroup.
If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I
have an unsupported dos version.
If I try loading windows 3.1 in standard mode, I get an error that
there isn't enough extended memory.
Uge!
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I think I'm using the stable kernel instead of the
unstable one.
I get an error that says essentially unload the
protected mode software and try again when windows
tries to start.
Are people taking out the smartdrive stuff or
simply adding a menu entry and if someone wants
windows loading it
I was wrong about wget not crashing, it just took it a long time to
crash running it on it's own. Is the kernel going to be reworked
anytime soon to remove this fnode concept?
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> I'm not certain about what is crashing. Changing to curl makes no
> difference at all. This works on my Pentium 4, so I suspect there is
> something specific to my 486 that is causing the problem. I wish the
> crash message was more descriptive. A dump of the processor's registers
> and more
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 17:12 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2009 16:08, Michael Robinson wrote:
> > When I run fdupdate, it crashes with a 2 near fnodes error.
>
> Hi,
>
> Please define the crash. When exactly is it happening? When FDUPDATE is
> startin
I'm still stumped as to why fdupdate works on my Pentium 4,
but it doesn't work on my 486.
When I run memtest 2.1.1 for dos, it doesn't find any errors.
When I run ssh2dos, it works.
When I run fdupdate, it crashes with a 2 near fnodes error.
I wish I knew exactly what is causing the crash.
F
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:04 +0100, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> >>> Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing
> >>> fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find
> ...
> >> First try to boot without loading (J)EMM386, a common cause of
> >> prob
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 11:27 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote:
> > I need pthread.h and stdint.h for djgpp.
>
> First of all I would use DJGPP 2.04 (beta) instead of 2.03. 2.04 has
> stdint.h. And pthreads (pth) is available at
> ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/pth207b.zip (precompiled
> l
I need pthread.h and stdint.h for djgpp.
Apparently, ftp://ftp.cs.fsu.edu/pub/PART/PTHREADS/pthreads.zip/
is supposed to exist, but it doesn't.
Without a pthreads library porting gets a bit difficult.
Well, I need a library called stdint.h under Linux as well,
but I don't know if an equivalent
> O.K. It looks like it depends at least on pthreads, curses, termios,
> and linux-specific tty devices.
> Often (as is the case with curses), linux C libraries are available
> under FreeDOS with DJGPP; they are the same libraries, just
> re-compiled (DJGPP has a fairly POSIX-compatible c-library,
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 02:12 -0400, Michael Horvath wrote:
> I am able to boot after selecting option #3 ("Load FreeDOS with HIMEM
> XMS-memory driver"), but installing the game still fails. Option #4
> ("Load FreeDOS without drivers") is unselectable.
>
> -Mike
That's a bug, the 4th option not
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:25 +0100, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing
> > fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find
> > out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something
> > that detects resource
I have the C source code for the 1.7 release that is meant for Linux.
I want to port this code to freedos and build a gem compatible
interface for it.
Drivewire, for those who don't know, is a piece of software that
allows a color computer 1/2/3 to access via serial port a modern
computer and t
Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing
fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find
out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something
that detects resource conflicts, flaky memory, etcetera.
I have a DTK 486 with a very simple AMI bios and on
it a Dlink DE220PT nic on IRQ 12 IO 0x240. Arachne
works fine, but fdupdate crashes. It crashes
regardless of whether or not I choose to update a
package. I'm using the crynwr packet collection
ne2000 driver. I get an error about 2 near f
What is the status of Freedos 1.1? It has been a while since the you
can help link has been updated.
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If dialog can be used to make a tab driven text interface, why not use
this instead of turbovision to create a new installer for Freedos 1.1?
How is Freedos 1.1 coming along anyways? Is there any chance of a
release this Spring?
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This came with MS DOS 6.20 upgrade. Has anyone gotten it to work in
Freedos 1.0? I get a floating point error when I try to run it. I
may have a corrupted copied.
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I have had considerable trouble getting emm386 to work with D845PEBT2
motherboards and other Intel motherboards. A lot of processor dumps.
Is emm386 being debugged for Freedos 1.1? How about Bolitare, half
the time I can't get it to work. Same thing with Minesweeper.
Freedos defrag seems slow a
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:26 -0600, Steve Owens wrote:
> As Marco said, Word's Find and Replace does this easily - you need to
> click on the 'More' button in the Find and Replace dialog, then click
> on 'Special', then insert as many of the characters as you like in
> sequence - in this case, 'Par
I like dos when I have an old computer and some old games that
work under dos. Running Windows on a 486 is a pain in general.
Even a low end Pentium these days is slow.
As far as web browsing and dos, isn't dos susceptible to almost
every single virus on the planet? Another thing, some people
What is the verdict, is compression slated for Freedos 1.1 or down
the road?
I'm curious, is the FAT implementation for ReactOS compatible with
Freedos? Theoretically, since ReactOS only supports Fat16/32 right
now, it should be possible for Freedos and ReactOS to share the same
files system.
I don't want a graphical web browser at all in freedos. The
current option does not support out of the box filtering or
plugins comparable to what Internet Explorer and Firefox have.
Freedos is not a system that completely insulates the hardware
nor is it a multiuser system, so it's appropriat
What network card driver do I need on the server side and client side
and where do I get it from? I am running vmware workstation 6. All
my attempts to grab the netware driver for an AMD PCnet PCI II card
have netted me Windows executables. Argh! I wish vmware could emulate
a different type of
Aside from arachne not support horde webmail imp sites completely, is
there a filtering plugin for it? I like firefox because I can add
Procon to it. With the amount of smut on the Net, running an
unfiltered browser has a few downsides.
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