Re: [Freedos-user] FreePascal: yes but how do you get default units loaded?

2025-03-21 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I can compile and run simple programs... but not one which uses some units. set PATH=%PATH%;C:\DEVEL\FPC\BIN\GO32V2 fpc shows help cd DEVEL cd FPC cd EXAMPLES cd SYMBOLIC fpc evaltest.pas generate evaltest.exe but fpc rpnthing.pas Can't find unit Crt used by rpnthing fpc -Fu"\devel\fpc\units\" rpnt

[Freedos-user] QEMU: some games update only the top when using -vga cirrus (so remove -vga cirrus)

2025-03-16 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I observed that games like blkdrop, seems to update only the top about 20% of the screen when using -vga cirrus Similar for boom (but the screen seems to update once in a while like when the player is hurt). Removing -vga cirrus (or previously I was using -vga qxl) fix it for me. Here is my fu

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting FreeDOS from an USB key

2024-11-25 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I tried it, and I first I was getting the same result as you... Choosing to boot the USB key, result in message to insert a valid disk... Until I realized that I had written a .iso file on the USB key rather than the freshly dowloaded .img file. (More precisely was wrongly writing FD13LIVE.iso fi

Re: [Freedos-user] How to compile DB Berkeley for DJGPP FreeDOS 1.3 ...

2024-11-24 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I took an other look at compiling DB Berkeley. I realized it did not compile under Linux... giving a lot of C errors. Looking at Makefile, int_db.h and db.h that are generated by autoconf tools I come to the conclusion that they contains @somevariables@ in M4 that should have been substitute

Re: [Freedos-user] How to compile DB Berkeley for DJGPP FreeDOS 1.3 ...

2024-11-24 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
For me I get to: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables This is kind of expected, because my gcc is a cross-compiler from Linux to DJGPP: https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp  (not sure... but I think) So before trying to compile berkeley db I did: /usr/local/cross/bin/i386-

Re: [Freedos-user] FAT corruption not seen under QEMU

2024-11-13 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Searched for VirtualBox bugs related to floppies... Found: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/15503#no1 don't know if it is relevant. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] FAT corruption not seen under QEMU

2024-11-13 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le mer., 13 nov. 2024 07:05:32 -0500 Jim Hall via Freedos-user a écrit > > > 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.

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom error E3033 while compiling C code

2024-11-13 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
And yes, after previous video... did nothing except test a: There was corruption: https://files.catbox.moe/ogapi9.webm ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom error E3033 while compiling C code

2024-11-13 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
If you are able to support seeing typing with all the mistakes, I have: https://files.catbox.moe/9gl73j.webm where I started with a new A: floppy. Frankly, I had forgotten I was recording... Problems seems to start when I: D: A: where D: is CDROM drive._

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom error E3033 while compiling C code

2024-11-12 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
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.c have: Run chkdsk: Bad FAT value: 0x C: chkdsk a: \test1\testcol.obj contains a free cluster \test1\testc

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom error E3033 while compiling C code

2024-11-12 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I have made an not formated floppy 1.44Mb in VirtualBox. C: format A: Similar results... But it is not clear about the obj file... wcl testcol.c I now have testcol.err type testcol.err TESTCOL.C(35file TESTCOL 8: *** FATAL *** Permission denied This time testcol.obj is 534 bytes on A: The size o

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom error E3033 while compiling C code

2024-11-12 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I have zero problem reproducing your problem! This is FDT2411 on VirtualBox. When I created the 1.44Mb floppy, I accepted the default of having FAT12 formatted. I copied the testcol.c file made by Jim... A: copy d:testcol.c wcl testcol.c ... Code size: 97    wlink @__wcl__.link ... line 1 dire

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Touch screen driver

2024-10-05 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le sam., 05 oct. 2024 13:54:20 -0400 Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user a écrit > For me, I am beginning to which standard allows one to transmit picture over > a serial port. > I suspect that may be quite not standard. Well... for the communications of register values ov

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Touch screen driver

2024-10-05 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le sam., 05 oct. 2024 09:18:30 -0400 EdzUp a écrit > It's a Elcon generic touch screen. So it would be one of the following models? https://www.elcon.gr/index.php/en/human-machine-interfaces/touch-screen-hmi Are you using it with a serial communication port? Does it have Ethernet port?

[Freedos-user] Ré : Touch screen driver

2024-10-05 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le sam., 05 oct. 2024 04:11:52 -0400 EdzUp via Freedos-user have written > Hi,   Does anyone know of a touch driver so where I tap on a screen the mouse > registers a left click? >I have been looking to see if it's possible but have come up empty so was >wondering if it's possible. It

[Freedos-user] Ré : Ré : Odd post-install problem

2024-10-05 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Probably better to run from the Live CD and issue "chkdsk C: /f". ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Ré : Odd post-install problem

2024-10-05 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le ven., 04 oct. 2024 20:24:30 -0400 Michael Rakijas via Freedos-user a écrit > I have an old HP Omnibook 4100 which is a Pentium II 233 notebook with 160 MB > RAM and PATA hard drives with which I'm playing/experimenting.  > I say hard drives, plural, because I have a few, each in an

[Freedos-user] Ré : When QEMU mouse cursor cannot cover the full window under Wayland

2024-09-02 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I believe this is reported as this QEMU bug: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2052 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] When QEMU mouse cursor cannot cover the full window under Wayland

2024-09-02 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Well... was playing with HelenOS under QEMU... and got a problem I/We have/had in FreeDOS under QEMU too. Often... Under Gnome/Wayland... when moving the cursor down or right... it get teleported outside of the window (on host screen). Well... at least for HelenOS... I just figured out, tha

Re: [Freedos-user] cannot boot installation media (test Bodhi Linux over Ventoy)

2024-04-28 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I realized after post that the link to TinyCore I had given is mark as not secure under Firefox. (not distributed over https) (I don't believe it to be much dangerous) but wanted to give an alternative. So I tested (on Ventoy USB key): https://psychz.dl.sourceforge.net/project/bodhilinux/5.1.0/bo

Re: [Freedos-user] cannot boot installation media

2024-04-28 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I suggest: https://ventoy.net/en/index.html (one of the advantage of Ventoy, is that in lower left, it shows if it booted in Clasic mode, or in UEFI mode) Use it to make your USB key "Ventoy" Try it by copying http://www.tinycorelinux.net/15.x/x86/release/TinyCore-current.iso (only 23 Mb) on

Re: [Freedos-user] networking over 86box

2024-04-26 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:05:10 -0400 Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user a écrit > My apologies for the confusion. I know FreeDOS has internet capability, but > not on 86Box, since FreeDOS for some reason treats 86Box as if it were a > real computer. > > GetOutlook for Android > From

[Freedos-user] Ré : Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

2024-04-10 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le mer., 10 avr. 2024 06:33:38 -0400 Ramon Riera Marès via Freedos-user a écrit > First of all, thanks to all the Freedos developers and collaborators.  I want > to know if there is any way or utility in Freedos to have > two applications running, for example an outliner and a text e

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS install

2024-04-07 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/FDT2404-LiveCD.zip worked for me (in QEMU). I have chosen 'Install to hard disk' from the main menu. Do you install in english? Have you verified the file with https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dis

Re: [Freedos-user] How to try FDT2404 (Latest test version) on QEMU the hard way + kvm fixed

2024-04-05 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
It turn out that using kvm was giving me the illusion of using kvm... but I missed the warning saying that kvm was not loaded, and that it was falling back on tcg don't know really what it is. The reason was that "Intel virtualization technology" option in "BIOS" was disabled. After enablin

Re: [Freedos-user] How to try FDT2404 (Latest test version) on QEMU

2024-04-05 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le ven., 05 avr. 2024 11:38:28 -0400 Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user wrote > Hi Paul, > Just a side note about installing using the FullUSB. > > One of my DOS test machines is an Acer One netbook with a 1Ghz Atom > processor and an ancient 30Gb SSD. This machine has no CD/DVD dri

Re: [Freedos-user] How to try FDT2404 (Latest test version) on QEMU

2024-04-05 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le ven., 05 avr. 2024 09:52:10 -0400 Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote: > Then I create a virtual disk where I can install FreeDOS T2404. I'll > set this up as 500MB, which is plenty big for what I do: > > $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 2404.qcow2 500M I was prefering raw, because I was

[Freedos-user] Ré : How to try FDT2404 (Latest test version) on QEMU

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
--- Le jeu., 04 avr. 2024 23:45:33 -0400 Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user a écrit > Information given at boot seems to say E: is the INSTALLDISK... but it is > really D: ... I don't know why. Oh, I know... I use to use a .iso file, but this time I use a .img file... so DE

[Freedos-user] How to try FDT2404 (Latest test version) on QEMU

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Hi! Especially to Lunduke fans having their "second part" of DOS week... about one year and a half after first part. So from April 3 to April 10 2024. I am not a paid subscriber to lunduke.locals.com and just observing it from far. I decided to retry FreeDOS after not using it for too many months

Re: [Freedos-user] gminer.exe game needs an emulation friendly wait_vsync()

2023-10-04 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Seems sound work in QEMU if display=sdl but not if display=gtk: https://gitlab.com/freedos1/gold-mine-run/-/issues/2#note_1590502684 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-u

Re: [Freedos-user] gminer.exe game needs an emulation friendly wait_vsync()

2023-10-04 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Finally, after trying many things that did not work, I just added a "delay(14);" to wait_vsync function. You should be able to get the exe from: https://gitlab.com/freedos1/gold-mine-run ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] gminer.exe game needs an emulation friendly wait_vsync()

2023-10-03 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Problem is that wait_vblank is used to add delays for the game: https://gitlab.com/freedos1/gold-mine-run/-/issues/1 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user]  gminer.exe game needs an emulation friendly wait_vsync()

2023-10-02 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I discovered that if I comment out the two while (in vga.c): void wait_vsync() {     //while (inportb(0x3da) & 8);     //while (!(inportb(0x3da) & 8)); } Then the game under dosbox run just like under VirtualBox. I have tried all the available options for emulated graphics "card" under

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

2023-10-02 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
at I was receiving when adding iret at the end. Le lun., 02 oct. 2023 13:06:35 -0400 Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user a écrit > I have been able to rebuild the game using prebult cross-compiler from > build-djgpp project. > > When I add __asm__("iret"); >

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

2023-10-02 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I have been able to rebuild the game using prebult cross-compiler from build-djgpp project. When I add __asm__("iret"); program crash as soon as I launch it. Sorry not having the error now. I am trying to: __attribute__((interrupt)) void timer_handler(void *frame) { ticks++; ... but getting

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

2023-10-02 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
about: https://git.usebox.net/gold-mine-run/tree/src/timer.c Should the interrupt_handler for 0x1c interrupt, end with an iret?___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

2023-10-01 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Under VirtualBox, sound works (always... sound never worked for  me under QEMU). But always too fast, even if I slow CPU to 1%. I created a gminer.iso file with: mkisofs -o gminer.iso gminer where gminer is the directory where gminer.zip was extracted. Timer code is at: https://git.usebox

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

2023-10-01 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Gold Miner game... Note: I was trying under FDT2308... where you was trying under FDT2310 (need to check this new release!). I just tried under MS-DOS 5 (under QEMU with sb16)... like you described... works sometimes... but always extremely too fast._

Re: [Freedos-user]     Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

2023-10-01 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Seems for me, it never run if with sound under QEMU ( -device sb16 ). Esc stop it with an error code. But it run (extremely too fast!) with gminer -ns -ns means no sound Works well under dosbox however... I think I had tested it only under DosBOX... sorry for that! Don't know for other DO

[Freedos-user] Ré : New game for DOS using DJGPP - Open Source

2023-09-11 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le sam., 09 sept. 2023 03:46:59 -0400 Juan a écrit > Hi, > > I used DJGPP back in the 90s, and was a life changing experience for me: > my first contact with GCC and free software. > > I never managed to finish any games back then, but I have released one > recently, and t

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

2023-09-04 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le sam., 26 août 2023 03:52:41 -0400 Bryan Kilgallin via Freedos-user a écrit > I have installed amfora in a Ubuntu PC. And I briefly looked in the > CAPCOM aggregator. > > But I feel lost! Please advise a newbie on browsing Gemini content. > -- gemini://geminispace.info/sear

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

2023-08-20 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le Sat, 19 Aug 2023 04:52:05 -0400 Michał Dec a écrit > Hello Paul, > > You could've said "Gopher with TLS". Well, I did not known much Gopher (that seems to have come down in popularity at the end of the nineties). I think Gemini is about middle ground between Gopher and HTML.

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS and the Gemini protocol

2023-08-19 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I recently learn of the Gemini protocol. What is the Gemini protocol? "1.1.1 The dense, jargony answer for geeks in a hurry Gemini is an application-level client-server internet protocol for the distribution of arbitrary files, with some special consideration for serving a lightweight hy

[Freedos-user] Fedora Media Writer (allows to restore USB key to previous state)

2023-03-20 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I love Ventoy too. But on some older Core 2 duo, computer won't start with it. I hesitated to mention yet an other program: Fedora Media Writer: «Destructive installer - "overwrites the drive's partition layout though so it also provides a way to restore a single-partition layout with a FAT3

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Networking FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU

2022-09-13 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Phil Reynolds said: >It seems I have broken packages - got networking now but having a lot >of problems otherwise. Any easy way to square it all up again? You really did not give much info about problems you have. I will try a guess: First you can try: -cpu=host (rather than -cpu 486) thi

[Freedos-user] Ré : FDNPKG, FDIMPLES, online repositories and usage questions

2022-09-13 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
In answer to tauro message on sept.12: I will ignore part of the messages I just don't know the answer. >With FDNPKG, the default repository is "latest", but I see that there's also "1.3" and "unstable". >If I'm using FreeDOS 1.3, should I use "latest" or "1.3"? What's the differenc

[Freedos-user] The one week in DOS challenge is coming in town!

2022-09-11 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Lunduke.com does videos and articles about ... retro technologies... and news (often invented) about technologies. See Lunduke.com. And he is now inviting people to do the following challenge: "Within The Lunduke Journal Community, we have talked about doing some sort of community-wide computin

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : djgpp bash and autoconf for dos, new gcc

2022-09-09 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
The file format used by packages is described at: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Package The packages are mostly developed at: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS But when you download them as zip from Gitlab, they are not in a format described in the Package link given. That's where the p

[Freedos-user] Ré : Networking FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU

2022-09-09 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Recopying part of a message I posted on the Devel mailing list here: You may try to adapt the following line that I use: qemu-system-i386 -cpu 486 -name FreeDOS -machine pc-i440fx-4.2,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off -enable-kvm -m 64 -overcommit mem-lock=off -no-user-config -nodefaults -r

[Freedos-user] Ré : djgpp bash and autoconf for dos, new gcc

2022-09-09 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Hi... was aware of the files on Delorie website. Was more asking for Jerome to create the directory on Gitlab, so that I can make a package with your suggested file. I am unsure if autoconf, and automake are used enough to justify having packages for them too. For people wanting to underst

[Freedos-user] Ré : Windows 3.11 issues about FreeDOS

2022-08-30 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
For first problem, you could look at: http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-internet/en/hhstndrd/base/callver.htm Invalid opcode, means your CPU have encountered an unknown instruction. So it depends on your CPU versus what the program request. In QEMU, -cpu pentium-2 ... or other can

Re: [Freedos-user] Keyboard issue - wondering about typematic rate for keyboard repeats in different VMs and emulators

2022-06-18 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Eric proposed: "For this, you start DEBUG, then type: a cs:100 mov ax,0305 mov bx, int 16 int 20 g q " As Ah=3 int 16h is marked as PCJr only: INT 16 - KEYBOARD - SET DELAYS (PCjr ONLY) REG AH = 3 AL = 0: RESET TYPEMATIC AL = 1: INCREASE INITIAL DELAY AL = 2: INCREASE CONTINUING DELAY AL

[Freedos-user] Ré : "The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option"

2022-05-16 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I guess it make sense if you imagine the development of the project as a series of team working on the project, where the current team must accept the project exactly as received by previous team. Like the first team done a FreeDOS image file, and push it to second team. Second team develo

[Freedos-user] Ré : Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Activé mar., 29 mars 2022 14:38:06 -0400 John Vella écrit Hi, So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos and wordperfect. I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a virtualbox machine, then formatti

[Freedos-user] Re : DBCS question about dosbox-x

2021-07-03 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le ven., 02 juil. 2021 08:49:44 -0400 Eric Auer écrit >Hi! I read on > https://dosbox-x.com/release-0.83.15.html >that DOSBOX-X now supports DBCS for CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) languages. Do you happen to know how they do that? Well, more info about mentioned DOS/

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Upgrading the BIOS with FreeDOS

2021-06-28 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le lun., 28 juin 2021 14:46:02 -0400 Ralf Quint écrit >> That's a bad example I guess... it does indeed run under DOSEMU2 >> ... but make DOSEMU2 crash: >> ERROR: general protection at 0x7f1952c6d798: 2e while collecting >> information. >That is to be expected. As t

[Freedos-user] Re : Re : Upgrading the BIOS with FreeDOS

2021-06-28 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Ok, now that I revisted: https://support.hp.com/ca-en/drivers/selfservice/closure/hp-pavilion-g6-notebook-pc-series/5082228/model/5141422?ssfFlag=true&sku= I am think it was HP site that was mentioning FreeDOS compatible exe, but when ran on FreeDOS would say: "This program cannot be run is DOS

[Freedos-user] Re : Upgrading the BIOS with FreeDOS

2021-06-28 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
>https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-ca/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=tjgkp&oscode=w764&productcode=optiplex-3020m-desktop > >the page says: "This file format consists of a BIOS executable file. The >Universal (Windows/MS DOS) format can be used to install from any Windows or MS DOS >enviro

[Freedos-user] Upgrading the BIOS with FreeDOS

2021-06-28 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I have an example (from Dell): https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-ca/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=tjgkp&oscode=w764&productcode=optiplex-3020m-desktop the page says: "This file format consists of a BIOS executable file. The Universal (Windows/MS DOS) format can be used to install from

[Freedos-user] Upgrading the BIOS with FreeDOS

2021-06-28 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
(while reading question 1 of the survey...) More than once, I saw a motherboard manufucturer (I think it is ASUS) claiming to have FreeDOS exe to upgrade the BIOS but found the programs were Windows exe and would not run on FreeDOS. It is becoming less a problem because UEFI firmware (EzFla

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-15 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le mar., 15 juin 2021 07:36:06 -0400 Eric Auer écrit >Hi Jerome, ... >How about Bochs? DOSEMU2? DOSBOX? Why would >you assume that people with VM have different >needs than people with plain hardware? Have you tried to run the installer under DOSEMU2? When i

[Freedos-user] using suspect partition ... with 1014-15-63 instead of 1015-15-63 booting 1.3-rc4/FD13-LiveCD

2021-06-10 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
While booting https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/previews/1.3-rc4/FD13-LiveCD.zip on VirtualBox I get: - InitDiskWarning: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS: 06: with calculated values 1014-15-63 instead of 1015-15-63 Is it expected? Why?

[Freedos-user] Re : game compatibility CD/DVD drivers: comparing UDVD2 to OAKCDROM and DOSBOX

2021-06-10 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I don't know if this is really a protection mechanism. BTW: about Bar code for music CD: https://barcodeinfo.org/barcodes-for-music-cds/ I was just not aware myself about this. First time I tried 1.3 RC4 live on VirtualBox today, after installation (had chosen, base with sources), config=2,

[Freedos-user] How to list "active" drives?

2021-06-09 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I am reading back the list... and I am at the critique of 1.3rc3. I think I saw some post about problems of identifying which drives are "active" (have a driver that drive them). Somehow it was mentions about file manager (GUI one) that helps with that, but seems that it feels not being DOS a

[Freedos-user] GUI libs: Turbovision and FLTK (nanox), Dillo browser

2021-06-03 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I decided to make a small research, and found these libraries suggested to someone: Turbovision: "TVision was developed by Borland (now Imprise) in 1992 (v1.03) as a tool for your TurboC and TurboPascal compilers." "Turbo Vision (TVision for short) is a TUI (Text User Interface) that implem

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

2020-04-24 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
On 20-04-23 08 h 03, Ludovico Giorio wrote: I checked, and the installer can only see my usb, not the hdd inside the laptop. Message is: "SETUP wasn't able to locate any disks to install FreeDOS 1.1 from." What am I doing wrong? I enabled legacy support in Bios. I formatted my hdd in Fat.

[Freedos-user] Re : Quick FreeDOS 1.3 Live CD Poll

2019-11-17 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
There is a bug in  your question! The question given is: should it be permitted access to any internal hard drive(s)? But the suggested answer is: Yes. Prevent access to internal hard drive. Please fix your question before I answer: Allow access to internal hard drive.

[Freedos-user] Re : Re : FreeDos on USB mounted compact flash card

2019-07-31 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I think I would more recommend Unetbootin than what was in my previous message to burn an ISO image on an USB key (or similar):https://unetbootin.github.io/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lis

[Freedos-user] Re : FreeDos on USB mounted compact flash card

2019-07-31 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I don't know. Do you have a key to press that let you select on which device to start? Does it shows your device (appears on the list when the flash card is inserted, and not appearing when the flash card is not inserted)? You wrote Refus (I guess this is rufus). Rufus is doing much transformat

Re: [Freedos-user] How to set up fdconfig.sys and autoexec files for a driver?

2019-07-22 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Hi! Read a bit about your problem. First, the readme file for the driver says: Place ESSCFG.INI into root directory of C: drive. The other files go into a sub-directory SOLO1. Add this to CONFIG.SYS: DEVICEHIGH=C:\SOLO1\ESSOLO.SYS Add to AUTOEXEC.BAT: LH C:\SOLO1\ESSOLO.COM SET BLA

[Freedos-user] No packages to install: check SATA configuration in BIOS: best IDE (Not RAID or AHCI)

2019-07-06 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I finally was able to install FreeDOS-1.3rc2 (heu... yes it is not released yet ... had to generate it for many hours). I used FD13LGCY.iso (LEGACY)... as CD1 and CD2 seems gone in RC2. Well, it does not seems this was using CWSDPMI, or trying to generate a big ram disk. So no page fault error

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD1 cannot be used, because missing swap file cannot be used on a CD

2019-07-05 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
And now I just saw that after boot, on the R:\ drive I have 1 dir(s) 2,147,123,200 bytes free And I am asking myself if the ram drive is not taking almost all the memory, and that's why it would try to swap things out, to allocate memory. That said, I have 4 Gb in that computer: paul@linux

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD1 cannot be used, because missing swap file cannot be used on a CD

2019-07-01 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I have just observed that after I ran on A: fdramdrv.bat then 7zdec cease to page fault. But I don't seems to have enough space on A: or R: to extrace a:fdlive.7z___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD1 cannot be used, because missing swap file cannot be used on a CD

2019-07-01 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I tried on an other computer today with same DVD (with FD13-LiveCD1.iso burned on it). Same results as before. In fact, just launching 7zdec.exe without arguments results in the swap file not present on C: and the previous page fault. I had tried to: A: cwsdpmi -u   (unload) cwsdpmi -s-  (run w

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD2 works live, but only core files, and find no package files when trying to install to hard disk

2019-07-01 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I have tried the previous FD13-LiveCD2 in an other computer today. With a 1 TB hard disk (SATA). I used Fdisk31 (or 13?) because setup seems to say it has formated the disk but just rebooting and doing the same preparation after reboot. With Fdisk31 I was able to change disk rather than have o

[Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD2 works live, but only core files, and find no package files when trying to install to hard disk

2019-06-29 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Hi, I have tried to burn FD13-LiveCD2 on a DVD. The live mode works fine. When doing FDIMPLES (I understand FD is FreeDos but the rest?), it only shows installed files (I hesit to call that packages, it seems to be only CORE files, like TREE, Debug, mouse, etc.) Was somehow expecting to

[Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD1 cannot be used, because missing swap file cannot be used on a CD

2019-06-29 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Hi, I have tried to burn FD13-LiveCD1 two times, first time I thought the problem maybe was my DVD not good. Both cannot be used... results in (real Quad-Core CPU computer): Extracting FDLIVE.7Z Warning: cannot open swap file c:\cwsdpmi.swp Page fault cr2==0040 at iep=3c5; flags=3202 [regi