Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on Raspberry Pi

At 07:05 PM 3/27/2013, Jim Hall wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:11 AM, john s wolter <johnswol...@wolterworks.com> wrote: Okay, had anyone done a name search prior to production? MINiX3.org might not be amused. Go was the last test of overlapping names.

Re: [Freedos-user] Running a DOS task (full screen) in a W7 PC

At 03:36 AM 3/24/2013, giorgio.gilard...@libero.it wrote: >The best would be to have a "DOS window" running the DOS task >in full screen mode and be able to switch (and tranfer data) to other >applications commonly running in other W7 windows. >Please let me know if the above is possible with Free

Re: [Freedos-user] hexed12a.zip

At 05:44 AM 2/22/2013, Alain Mouette wrote: >I have seen otherwise... >Specialy some old compilers or embedded. +1 Standard nor not, it has been good programming practice since before the days of DOS. There is no excuse to being lazy as a programmer... Ralf --

Re: [Freedos-user] Change dos "gray-on-black" default c olour settings

At 11:18 AM 2/13/2013, sakura kinomoto wrote: >how to use nansi.sys to change colour scheme? I find some info in >web, but it is hard for newbie > >I guess I put string in config.sys: "device=c:\odin\nansi.sys"; what >next step I need? LMFGTFY: http://kb.iu.edu/data/aamm.html (section "Changing

Re: [Freedos-user] Change dos "gray-on-black" default c olour settings

At 10:33 AM 2/13/2013, sakura kinomoto wrote: >I can not find neither PRISM nor PC MAG in google :( You might need to work on your Google-Fu, try "prism pc magazine dos tools" ;-) Ralf -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardwar

Re: [Freedos-user] New program - hexed.zip

At 06:21 PM 2/10/2013, Chris Evans wrote: >I just made a hex viewer and editor for DOS, >I still have to debug it, so if you find any bugs in it >let me know. I made this as I needed a small >hexeditor/viewer, and this fits the bill. Well, just had a quick look at it and beside the 32KB filesize

Re: [Freedos-user] Bios limitation at 8 gb, and new hdd

At 05:33 PM 2/9/2013, john s wolter wrote: BS, Don't forget the FAT-16 limit of 514 or was that 504 MBytes. Â Somehow this issue keeps being asked. Â Maybe we are not doing enough to explain it clearly. There is no FAT-16 limit of 504MBytes. There was such a limitation in the original/ealy

Re: [Freedos-user] Handhold for nervous newbie

At 04:37 PM 2/6/2013, Robert Reeves wrote: >"Install to the hard drive" sounds fine, except that I don't want to >overwrite the Windows install that I need to return to. Well, correct... >"Create Drive C" sounds like I'm going to wipe out the current drive >C: which is formatted to NTFS That i

Re: [Freedos-user] New standard FreeDOS text editor - what it should be (voting)?

At 10:56 AM 1/30/2013, dmccunney wrote: >I'm actually more interested in what editors people *do* use under >FreeDOS, and why they use them than I am in some hypothetical new >product. Well, I am using the same editor(s) that I have always/long time used in MS-DOS/PC-DOS for +25 years... For smal

Re: [Freedos-user] New standard FreeDOS text editor - what it should be (voting)?

At 08:51 AM 1/29/2013, Michael B. Brutman wrote: >- Editors do not need interpreted languages in them. (EMACs users, >please forgive me.) EMACS? Like the operating system, that's just lacking a decent editor? >:-} (Doesn't EMACS stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping"? :-P >- An edit

Re: [Freedos-user] New standard FreeDOS text editor - what it should be (voting)?

At 07:02 AM 1/29/2013, =?KOI8-R?B?5dfHxc7JyiDuxdbEwc7P1w==?= wrote: >Hi all, dear FreeDOS community members! I please answer all to my questions: >1. You want to have in the FreeDOS distribute more powerful text >editor as standard text editor? Well, not the greatest fan of the FreeDOS EDIT, but

Re: [Freedos-user] Backspace

At 01:28 PM 1/14/2013, john s wolter wrote: >"Re:" has become a way to get past Spam filters. >Â It also attracts the attention of the reader. >Â This could get the reader to open an EMail >assuming it was a reply to a message sent. Â It >is a form of social engineering. Any spam filter that wo

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos V2.0 - when will it be available?

At 05:12 PM 1/9/2013, Louis Santillan wrote: >An interesting historical note, early versions of the FreeDOS kernel >(DOS-C kernel) were portable to the 68k architecture. See >(http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Villani). Well, you noticed that in that

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos V2.0 - when will it be available?

At 04:15 PM 1/9/2013, Michael Robinson wrote: > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] CD-DVD ROM drıve

At 02:14 PM 1/3/2013, TuLithu wrote: >Last night I installed FreeDOS on my HP Pavilion g series laptop. Everything >seems to work fine, except I can't access my DVD ROM drive. I have spent >several hours reading the help files and examining the config.sys and >autoexec.bat files, but I can't fig

Re: [Freedos-user] Stack overflow

At 12:58 PM 12/20/2012, Louis Santillan wrote: >The Memory Model (Tiny vs. Small vs. Compact vs. Medium vs. Large, >.COM vs. .EXE) of the compiler could be causing the issue. Some >compilers used to default to Small. What compiler flags are you using? Even in the TINY model, there is no reason

Re: [Freedos-user] desinscription

At 06:38 AM 11/26/2012, Jim Hall wrote: >Hi. I think you are looking for more information about the FreeDOS >email lists. I think our French friend tried to unsubscribe and doesn't understand that he can do this in the very same place where he subscribed in the first place... :-\ Ralf -

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

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 Windoze.* To make matters worse, the program >writes to disk during

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

At 06:38 PM 11/13/2012, Michael B. Brutman wrote: >I wanted to be able to dual boot my machine (a PCjr, 1983) to both >operating systems. DOS 3.3 uses an earlier variant of FAT16, which is >only good up to 32MB. Well, that's because this was a "true" FAT16, with up to 65535 sectors of 512 bytes

Re: [Freedos-user] News reader

At 10:56 AM 10/17/2012, Santiago Almenara wrote: >Hello! > >I am looking for a good news reader for DOS > >I need to subscribe in a "news://news.foo.org"; server. PC-Pine should work for that just fine... http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/pcpine.html Ralf

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

At 02:09 PM 10/5/2012, Karen Lewellen wrote: >Yes I do realize partition magic is still legal, but not so sure about its >availability free for dos, because its new owners state as of July 2011 >they are no longer offering partition magic at all. That doesn't matter at all. It's still copyrighted

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

At 08:49 PM 10/4/2012, Karen Lewellen wrote: >greetings all, >I realize I tend to wonder through the room and then find my corner again >smiles. >Anyway, I am wondering if any of you may be hiding a copy of partition >magic for dos? You do realize that this is still copyrighted, commercial software

Re: [Freedos-user] Userlist

At 11:20 AM 9/20/2012, Johannes Schwartz wrote: >Hello can someone please delete my emailadress from that emaillist? >Thanks. Why don't you do it yourself, just follow the link at the very bottom of these messages to un-subscribe yourself >__ >Free

Re: [Freedos-user] false info on the freedos home page?

At 03:26 PM 9/18/2012, C. Masloch wrote: > >> >>Again, this was purely marketing, not technical, as MS wanted to > >> >>exclusively bundle their DOS with Windows. With (very creaky) shims, > >> >>DR-DOS was said to be able to boot Win95 (and proved such in court), > >> > > >> > Where and when was t

Re: [Freedos-user] false info on the freedos home page?

At 02:25 PM 9/18/2012, Rugxulo wrote: > >>Again, this was purely marketing, not technical, as MS wanted to > >>exclusively bundle their DOS with Windows. With (very creaky) shims, > >>DR-DOS was said to be able to boot Win95 (and proved such in court), > > > > Where and when was that? This lawsuit

Re: [Freedos-user] false info on the freedos home page?

At 01:29 PM 9/18/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >(I hate legalese, so I dislike bringing this up, but ...) > >Again, this was purely marketing, not technical, as MS wanted to >exclusively bundle their DOS with Windows. With (very creaky) shims, >DR-DOS was said to be able to boot Win95 (and proved such in co

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem running a DOS game requiring EMS inside of VirtualBox

At 10:10 AM 9/18/2012, Louis Santillan wrote: >There's only 13K upper mem free according to mem/c. I believe it is >in one block. And, iirc, all that most apps need is to be able to >swap a 4k page at a time. My guess is that jemmex doesn't implement >ems in a way that fps fbpro expects which is

Re: [Freedos-user] false info on the freedos home page?

At 08:45 PM 9/17/2012, Karen Lewellen wrote: >You are too funny! >consult the rest of the thread. For exactly what? Ralf -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security

Re: [Freedos-user] false info on the freedos home page?

At 04:48 PM 9/17/2012, Karen Lewellen wrote: >Granted, I am a media professional, so facts especially n the Internet >are important. >the fact is ms dos 7.1 under wind 98 had fat 32, even Dr dos in 99 has it. The fact is that there never was a "MS-DOS 7.1", it just happened that the underlying DO

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

At 01:46 PM 9/16/2012, Ricardus Vincente wrote: >On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 22:39 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > > Thanks! > > Wow. I imagined that it would be a little easier than this. > > While I understand that FreeDOS is a modern DOS not meant just for >older hardware, I thought that one of the purpo

Re: [Freedos-user] Printers

At 03:55 PM 9/4/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >Hey, > > What type of printer interface/language does FreeDOS support? Short answer: Any printer on a parallel or serial interface. > Does it support PCL ver3? For example, would I be able to use an > HP Deskjet 950c ( >

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I check a box in FreeDOS during installation?

At 10:18 AM 8/6/2012, Geoffrey van Wyk wrote: I have been puzzled by ticking a checkbox in a GUI with the keyboard as well, but never bothered to find out, because I could always use the mouse. What's a Biebermouse? This is DOS! (btw, the space bar works for check boxes in Windows for example

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I check a box in FreeDOS during installation?

At 12:01 AM 8/6/2012, Geoffrey van Wyk wrote: >Dear All, > >At a certain point during the installation of FreeDOS, one has to >choose which optional packages to install. The packages selected by >default are marked with Xs in their repective boxes. One then has to >place Xs in the boxes of the u

Re: [Freedos-user] ? - ?Not sure? - ?

At 11:16 PM 7/14/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >On Jul 15, 2012 12:56 AM, "Ralf A. Quint" ><<mailto:free...@gmx.net>free...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > > See above. It would be really helpful for you if you hit the books > > about BASIC (almost any one will do)

Re: [Freedos-user] ? - ?Not sure? - ?

At 08:22 PM 7/14/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >Hey, > > I'm not sure if I can post this here, but I seem to have hit a > small roadblock (but I don't know where it is). My main goal is to > have an easily accessible meter and feet converter. When I use > FBide to compile and run, it comes up with

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

At 07:14 PM 6/15/2012, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: >If all goes well, technicians from the municipality will run the >network cables in the building for us. But we don't want them to >start drilling walls and roofs before we are sure the system is >robust. I haven't touched DataPerfec

Re: [Freedos-user] usage report

At 09:27 PM 6/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >BP 7.01 (see file times) should? already be patched for the runtime >200 error. No, there was never an 'official' patch from Borland, for any version of Borland Pascal 7... >No idea why you would have a runtime error. You mean running >BP7-compiled apps? Com

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDos user (installed to both amd64 desktop && old toshiba satalite)

At 11:30 PM 5/24/2012, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: >I don't suppose there is a way to tell FreeDOS to execute something more >slowly??? (Free)DOS runs as fast as the processor you're using allows it too. And why shouldn't it? ;-) For slowing down games and such, there are/were a bunch of slow-

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

At 12:31 PM 5/23/2012, Jack wrote: >As I just got through noting, in another post, why would the BIOS >data include diskette change-line flags if they were NOT intended >to be USED?? >Until someone can positively REFUTE the data offered by the BIOS >Central data-table list, my opinion is that neith

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

At 11:33 AM 5/23/2012, Jack wrote: >And certainly, it is not impossible to cache floppies.Before the >debut of VirtualBox, UIDE/UIDE2 had done so successfully, for years, >without any complaints at all! Jack, PLEASE, don't pull yourself up on the "VirtualBox" issue, it is rather a more genera

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

At 09:22 AM 5/23/2012, Jack wrote: >You are WRONG, Tom!! Sorry, Jack, but he is not Honestly Jack, please don't explode each time someone is making a critical statement. There simply is no reason to get all personal about this... >UIDE has NEVER ignored if a diskette has change-line suppor

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem

At 05:10 PM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > > From: "Ralf A. Quint" > > > At 02:45 PM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > >>Case in point : unless explicitly excluded, MS-not-so-Smart-Drive > >>will happily cache certain RAMdisks (not MS ramdrive)

Re: [Freedos-user] Prevent boot from Floppy?

At 03:10 PM 5/20/2012, Wolfgang Schechinger wrote: >Der experts, > >may I ask another question: > >Is there a way to make FreeDos ignore that there is a floppy present >upon boot, i.e. force a boot from the harddrive? Again only a >problem when running it in a VM, I think, as on a hard PC, you ma

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem

At 02:45 PM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote: >Case in point : unless explicitly excluded, MS-not-so-Smart-Drive >will happily cache certain RAMdisks (not MS ramdrive) which is >counter-productive to say the least. This is very arguably a defect >of smartdrive, which I don't expect UIDE can pos

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem

At 04:51 AM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote: >Jack, if I may chime in... I think you're now contemplating the >right step. I can understand your frustration with VB in this >instance, BUT imho your previous approach has been to ignore a few >facts, that have nothing to do with that or another

Re: [Freedos-user] D525MW

At 02:45 AM 5/18/2012, Radoslav Tchipanov wrote: >Hi Ralf > >This board D525MW has printer port - the board is in front of me. My bad, I must have looked at a different Atom board... :-[ >We use our proprietary software which controls external I/O board >trough printer port at address 378. Unfor

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Setup, again

At 06:40 PM 5/17/2012, Kenny wrote: >So I've been hearing that DOS needs no drivers for a printer. Again, all that DOS knows about a printer is that it is a (ASCII) character based device on either parallel or serial port. No driver needed for that functionality... > Well, it's not working for

Re: [Freedos-user] D525MW

At 07:02 AM 5/17/2012, Radoslav Tchipanov wrote: >Hi > >Has anybody run Freedos on Intel motherboard D525MW? I have problems >with the printer port and Video graphics display of it. Well, this Atom board doesn't have a "printer" port (only USB) and DOS by itself doesn't use any graphics, so you

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Setup

At 04:54 AM 5/17/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >Hey all DOS users and such, > >I know I already posted a thread before about setting up a > shared printer (which by the way, how would you acquire the ip > address of the printer in DOS? And how again would you say you had > to use the printer

Re: [Freedos-user] Laptop With Built in Wireless

At 09:04 AM 5/8/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >I recently put FreeDOS on my laptop that has built in wireless. I >tried to see if the BIOS on the computer would let me know what the >packet driver name was or where, but it didn't. So I was wondering >how to find it or how to scan for what type of dri

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up a POP email for gmail

At 06:35 AM 5/6/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >Hey all, > >I tried (using arachne) to put gmail as my pop3 email thing, but > for some reason it won't work. I even turned on the POP3 settings > in gmail, but arachne still won't pull from it. Any Ideas? Well, there are two possible issues: - for

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

At 01:13 PM 4/10/2012, Jack wrote: >Cannot answer on all subjects, but re: disk/CD/DVD drivers, I am NOT >overly optimistic! Intel/Microsoft want us all to "buy into" AHCI, >and they may have started "ordering" mainboard vendors to omit SATA/ >IDE logic from their BIOS routines. Do you have a so

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne Troubles

At 01:05 PM 4/9/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: >Okay, Thanks everyone! I filled in the my_ip section with my ip >(according to dhcp.exe), but Arachne still points me to the >Roadrunner search, saying "Why Am I Here? - You entered a web >address that was used to present site suggestions...". I tried a

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP: Telnet, TCP, etc.

At 01:12 PM 4/9/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >Hi, > >On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Kenny Emond wrote: > > Hey, > > > >I'm going to just not beat around the bush. I'll and ask it > straight out. > > What the heck are Telnet, TCP and all those other programs that comes with > > mTCP for? > >You can u

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne Troubles

At 06:46 PM 4/8/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: Hey, I was finnaly able to find a packet driver for my DOS computer (ethernet connection), but for some reason Arachne shows the main page, but when I try to go to a different page, it brings up a "roadrunner" search thing. That means that you do

Re: [Freedos-user] 32 bit FreeDOS?

At 11:39 AM 4/7/2012, Marco Achury wrote: >Check Kolibri OS, is very nice 32 bits, simple, >ligth, GUI, boot from floppy... > >The sole thing is missing there is a DOS >emulator so we can run our beloved DOS >apps. So what CAN you run on that, beside playing Minesweeper? Ralf -

Re: [Freedos-user] 32 bit FreeDOS?

At 04:19 AM 4/7/2012, Zbigniew wrote: > >> I was wondering what would it take to upgrade FreeDOS to 32bit, > >> whether it would be worth and whether we would have the human > >> resources. > > > > 32bit user programs tend to be available already in the form of > > protected mode software, using on

Re: [Freedos-user] 32 bit FreeDOS?

At 03:15 AM 4/7/2012, Alex wrote: >In the recent threads there have been many mentions to the fact that >FreeDOS is "only" 16bit (of course, that is what it is meant to be) >and that it is out of touch with the modern computing world. You do realize that it is kind of 'out of touch with the modern

Re: [Freedos-user] Strange timer-related issue

At 02:06 AM 4/7/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >2012/3/11, Bernd Blaauw : > > > Please let us know if/when you're able to pinpoint a culprit. > > You might want to start with a MSDOS/Win9x bootdisk (www.bootdisk.com) > > to eliminate FreeDOS components as the culprit, and to have a proven > > reference plat

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

At 08:32 PM 4/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote: > > For more than half of those languages, there doesn't exist a (at > > least serious) DOS implementation. > > You rather have to use what is available, and that is fairly limited... > >There is easily an implementation for more than half of those, but >often

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

At 05:05 PM 4/6/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >2012/4/6, Alex : > > > Just to be clear, which is the best Pascal version available to date > > for FreeDOS? > >Perhaps TP 3.0 - maximal effect taken out of minimum of code? > >#v+ >Turbo Pascal 3 for MS-DOS was released in September 1986. Being >version 3, th

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

At 04:45 PM 4/6/2012, Alex wrote: >On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > > 16-bit is dead, no machines are made purely 16-bit anymore. AMD64 long > > mode doesn't (properly) support 16-bit at all, and popular compilers > > like GCC never cared to support it. Also, people hate it, so

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

At 03:57 PM 4/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >Hi, > >On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > > At 02:59 PM 4/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote: > > > >>Also see Gautier's "Transparent Language Popularity Index" (updated > >>each month): > >&g

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

At 02:59 PM 4/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >Also see Gautier's "Transparent Language Popularity Index" (updated >each month): > >http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/ Sorry, but as far as programming for (Free)DOS is concerned, that list is completely irrelevant... Ralf --

Re: [Freedos-user] Best GUIs for DOS

At 01:27 PM 4/6/2012, Alex wrote: >On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > > > And what exactly do you mean by "GUI as development tool". That's a > > term that doesn't make any sense to me at least... > >What I meant was simply a tool

Re: [Freedos-user] Best GUIs for DOS

At 12:48 PM 4/6/2012, Alex wrote: >Any idea why OpenGEM is the only GUI environment listed on the >FreeDOS website under the category GUIs? To be fair, I must say that >if you look hard withing the website you do find the reference to >other GUIs, such as the Icon GUI. So why OpenGEM is the only

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS

At 12:06 PM 4/6/2012, Eric Auer wrote: >Harbour / xHarbour are free DBase Clipper (database scripting >language compiler?) clones, a bit bulky afair but portable :-) >See also their harbour-project.org web site :-) First of all Harbour and xHarbour are pretty much two completely different proje

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

At 08:45 PM 4/2/2012, dmccunney wrote: > > And don't forget Lua. It's very simple and quite powerful at the same > > time. An excellent language indeed. > >But it's specifically intended for embedding within other programs as >a script language. (There are an assortment of text editors (like >Sci

Re: [Freedos-user] New topic: makeing a ISO

At 04:55 PM 4/2/2012, Garry Ricketson wrote: >Ok, 1 more question, I also installed Freedos to a laptop, (Acer >aspire series 150), runs fine, but I can not get the >"touch pad ,(mouse)", or a USB mouse, to work. I tried CTMOUSE, but >it says it is not installed ? Do I need to download CTMOUSE

Re: [Freedos-user] VERY Funny "Off Topic" --

At 08:16 PM 3/26/2012, Jack wrote: >VERY funny "off topic", overheard today, which I just HAVE to share -- > >What does a U.S. Age-20s "Slept Thru High-School" type, too old to say >"The dog ate my homework!!", try to tell our apartment manager re: why >he cannot help with his girlfriend's 3-week

Re: [Freedos-user] Update

At 04:00 PM 3/14/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >2012/3/13, Ralf A. Quint : > > > So far, this rather looks like a problem with 4DOS, not with JEMM as > > I initially suspected... :? > >Yes, you were right: I'm terribly sorry, but my former reports were >somewhat misleading.

Re: [Freedos-user] Update

At 12:35 PM 3/13/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >After Eric's suggestion I made additional tests: still on original >MS-DOS 6.22; I used JEMMEX this time: > >1. JEMMEX + 4DOS means problem, but... >2. ...JEMMEX + command.com didn't make any problem! Neither to the >game, nor to DX-Forth. > >I'm always using

Re: [Freedos-user] Strange timer-related issue

At 04:47 AM 3/11/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >Yesterday I've found another related thing: while trying to test my >soundcard with several games, I discovered, that "Civilization" has >quite the same issue with FreeDOS: when ran under configuration >"JEMMEX + 4DOS" it works very slowly (I'm using Sempron

Re: [Freedos-user] Strange timer-related issue

At 01:09 PM 3/10/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >If I correctly found the relevant sections of DX-Forth's kernel.asm >(it's included in the package), the word is defined the following way: > >#v+ >[..] >; runtime for deferred words - equiv to @ EXECUTE > >dodef: pop bx > jmp [bx] >[..

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: MUMPS (M)

At 10:45 AM 2/19/2012, Eric Auer wrote: >Hi, forwarding something from Ken Geiger : > >I still use DataTree MUMPS (DTM) for some production. Do you know of >anyone else who is working in MUMPS who has an interest in freedos. >MUMPS is very powerful and efficient database manipulation and was used

Re: [Freedos-user] int33h again.

At 08:54 PM 2/17/2012, kurt godel wrote: >but I fear to do it since I've been using the int by way of the >UNION regs gambit, whereas you are showing a direct asm patch. I am >afraid I will screw up the regs structure. What is there much to mess up, it's just a "pseudo" structure to a more C li

Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

At 09:12 AM 2/16/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >You'd think DOS (direct hardware access) would be an ideal environment >for defragging, and certainly DJGPP should be robust enough, in >theory, but I guess some people prefer to do it in the background of >Windows itself while running other stuff. Remember Wi

Re: [Freedos-user] bizzare bug in freedos 1.1

At 10:32 AM 1/28/2012, kurt godel wrote: >This has to be one of the strangest ever: >I made this batfile: >cd \ >cd ta And? -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning libra

Re: [Freedos-user] int notation.

At 03:13 PM 1/24/2012, C. Masloch wrote: >I've been out of the loop on development for a while. Bret, do you, >incidentally, remember whether we came up with this one independently, or >how did it develop? I honestly would have to search through old mail again >to answer that myself. The INT xx.yy

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 07:18 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote: >I can install and update FreeDOS manually (and I've been >having it for years), so the problems don't really hurt me, >but for potential new users, I'd prefer a well working distro. How about you come up with a better working installer yourself then? Ralf

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 07:15 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote: > > > What's the purpose of the menu item "Pasquale" (see top shot) ? > > Are you such an idiot or are you just trying to play the troll here? > > It should be obvious to almost everyone that this is not an > active menu item > >Idiot yourself. It is active. Ju

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 07:14 PM 1/14/2012, Michael Robinson wrote: >First off, I don't appreciate anyone calling anyone an idiot on this >email list. Sorry but this was just one arrogant post of him too many! He is one of the reasons, beside my past health issues, that I have not participated in here for years. Ra

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 06:56 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote: > > [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 1.1 released > >COOL :-) > >http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/freeds11.png > >Problems: > >- What's the purpose of the menu item "Pasquale" (see top shot) ? Are you such an idiot or are you just trying to play the troll here? It sho

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and graphical user interfaces...

At 09:20 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote: >I ran DesqView, back in the day. It worked surprisingly well. >I recall one BBS sysop running four instances of a Wildcat BBS on a >25mhz AT under DV. He could have 4 nodes connected to four modems and >operating simultaneously on on machine. It did indee

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and graphical user interfaces...

At 07:39 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote: >Please recall that DesqView, DesqViewX, GEM, and Windows through 9.X >were precisely GUIs strapped onto a DOS environment. Just for the record, DesqView is not a GUI, but a text mode multi-tasking/task-switching add-on for DOS and basically an extension t

Re: [Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

At 12:30 AM 1/11/2012, Florian Xaver wrote: >El 11.01.2012, a las 03:38, Ralf A. Quint escribió: > > >> I'd love to have you contribute to a GUI project. There have been > >> several. The one with the longest history is OpenGEM, but the web site > >> is now i

Re: [Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

At 08:39 PM 1/10/2012, jhall wrote: > >> I encourage you to look around for what's there, and see if you can > >> move any of them forward. OpenGEM shows a lot of promise, but the > >> graphics are dated and could use a refresh. Since it's GNU GPL, I > >> imagine you could borrow from another GPL'd

Re: [Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

At 05:49 PM 1/10/2012, Marco Achury wrote: >Looks like a better option, specially because is a current project >and is free. ... (see my reply to Jim) >I see the download lists and I dont undersand what is that we must >to download. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

At 03:16 PM 1/10/2012, Jim Hall wrote: >On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Koh Choon Lin <2choon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > > If someone is willing to start a free as in freedom graphical > > interface for FreeDOS, I am ready to contribute resources and money to > > the project. > > > > > >I'

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 01:58 PM 1/4/2012, James Hall wrote: > >>I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... > > > > That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link > > presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-) > > > > That's btw the link I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 09:34 AM 1/4/2012, Marco Achury wrote: >I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-) That's btw the link I tested the other

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 05:09 PM 1/2/2012, Marco Achury wrote: >I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has >colapsed the servers :-) Works just fine and snappy from California Ralf -- Write once. Port to many. Get

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

At 11:49 AM 12/27/2011, Koh Choon Lin wrote: >Hi > > >> 2. Does it faces 640 KiB limitation as MS-DOS, e.g. Do I have to "load > >> high" drivers to save on conventional memory? > > > >Thanks for all the fast replies. I think my question is misunderstood. >"Load high" is a MS-DOS technique to load

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

At 11:08 AM 12/27/2011, Koh Choon Lin wrote: >Hi > >1. Would like to ask how much memory does FreeDOS support, e.g. 4 GiB? > >2. Does it faces 640 KiB limitation as MS-DOS, e.g. Do I have to "load >high" drivers to save on conventional memory? > >3. Does it support usage of a swap file/partition?

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

At 05:03 PM 12/22/2011, dmccunney wrote: >I repeat, be careful of *what*? If you get as C&D letter from them, >you take it down and apologize. You needn't hire a lawyer or engage >in a resource-requiring defense. Such letters are warning shots. >*They* would as soon not *take* you to court. Tha

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

At 03:48 PM 12/22/2011, James Hall wrote: >Mirroring "abandonware" drivers is a bit uncertain - unless the >license says we can redistribute them. I agree the original copyright >holder probably doesn't care; they've gone out of business. It's highly unlikely that there is any license of any "down

Re: [Freedos-user] data type length problem

At 09:55 PM 12/11/2011, David Griffith wrote: >On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > > > At 09:36 PM 12/11/2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > >>> How can I get this code to do the Right Thing? > > Actually just realized that it's pretty easy, you just need to >

Re: [Freedos-user] data type length problem

At 09:36 PM 12/11/2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > >How can I get this code to do the Right Thing? Actually just realized that it's pretty easy, you just need to typecast properly all parts of the makeid macro: #include #include typedef unsigned long zlong; // all parts of the macro

Re: [Freedos-user] data type length problem

At 08:41 PM 12/11/2011, David Griffith wrote: >Would someone take a look at this test code >and give me some advice? An unsigned long is four bytes under both Linux >and 16-bit DOS. Why then do my unsigned longs get chopped off when >running under DOS? It seems that at least the Borland compiler

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos iso file?

At 08:45 PM 11/27/2011, jhall wrote: >Do you know which mirror site you were using at the time? It tells >you on the downloads page which mirror site it selected for you, and >the two links automatically use that mirror site. Perhaps that >mirror site was having a problem. Alternate sites (mirro

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