pefully it should
work better on a RPi4.
More information on the project's website.
https://emubns.sourceforge.net/raspnspeak/
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legally distributed as a package may be included in the repository. Only
"CORE" packages must be open-source (preferably MIT).
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<https://github.com/SvarDOS/bugz/issues> for any questions or remarks
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, speech-dispatcher,
TDSR, Fenrir, etc. I imagine these are parts of the Linux TTS ecosystem,
and each might be adding a bit of latency. It is irrelevant to emubns of
course, as it does not rely on such tools and uses Piper directly.
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yboard, screen, speech, and so
>forth to configure the item.
None is needed, because the user will not be supposed to interact with the Pi.
He will only have to write an image to a SD card and insert the card into the
Pi.
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black box that talks when
connected to a DOS PC.
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On 19/11/2024 06:18, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Hi Mateusz,
Finally had a moment to check out your piper in DOS sample.
If I am forthright, that was frankly stunning.
granted, I imagine many factors impacted that sound quality, but I
what difference does it
make that the system is emulated, if it behaves like the real thing? You
could just as well use 86box on a RPi, paint the whole thing black and
call it a "x86 SBC". For all practical purposes, it would be
indistinguisha
re.
I am *not* planning to transform a RPi into a standalone "DOS computer
that talks". That was Eric's idea. A perfectly valid idea with possible
practical applications, but outside of my specific interest.
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Anyway, I will see where this leads and if/when I have a working
BNS-on-RPi system I will drop a quick note here.
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ns+piper tandem on a Raspberry Pi with
some automated serial port detection. If it happens to work as I expect
it to, I will upload a plug-and-play image that transforms a cheap
Raspberry Pi device into a BNS speech synth that can be used with DOS
nor the cost factor.
With piper integration the speech quality is excellent. The cost factor
is the cost of a Raspberry Pi 3 device and a serial-to-USB cable. That
is, in theory, because I did not test it on real hardware yet.
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ws how to use provox hotkeys to "explore" the screen.
Hardware PCs require a hardware BNS, obviously, but a cheap solution
could be to run emubns on a Raspberry Pi connected to the PC with a
USB-to-serial cable.
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On 27/09/2024 14:30, Lawrence Perez via Freedos-user wrote:
An open-source screen reader for DOS was mentioned in this thread. Could you
please tell me where I could find the screen reader? I’d like to try to get it
working in my virtual FreeDOS e
irtual floppies", a
virus won't be able to wipe everything. You can also mount the virtual
floppies read-only for extra protection.
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You might want to give SvarDOS a try, it's designed specifically with
8086 compatibility in mind. The current stable release is still FreeDOS
based, so once installed you can easily tailor it to mimic a "normal"
FreeDOS system.
http://svardos.org
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retention with the
RIPE without too much headache.
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M requires to use a different
binary for each language. On the other hand, FreeCOM has more exotic
features and does pretty well on 386+ machines. To each its own.
http://www.svardos.org/svarcom/
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al effects viruses were
producing. Some of them can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cthoPT2urEo
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https://vitsoft.info/ (Podpora češtiny)
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duQiz does not come with any good quizzes (only two simple examples),
so you have to create the quizzes yourself. How to do so is explained in
the documentation shipped with the program.
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edos\jemmEx.exe PGE maxext=32000 noems
Do I need to add that csdpmi stuff, or is it possible to configure DPMI with
the standard Freedos options?
You only need to install CWSDPMI.EXE in your %PATH%.
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Is there a ChkDsk or ScanDsk etc available for FAT32?
The usual chkdsk92.exe doesn't support this.
You might want to try DOSFSCK.
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t;.
For a low-power internet protocol there is the original Gopher.
FreeDOS comes with at least one gopher client already: gopherus.
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CTRL+X = cut the current line and move it to clipboard
CTRL+V = paste the clipboard content to current location
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ng the standard 8x16 character matrix, 80x8=640
On VGA there's this cool ninth's bit that improves readability quite a lot.
25*16-480).
Does not compute.
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http://svardos.org/sved
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nothing against mirroring things. Besides, SvarLANG is
actually already on ibiblio in a hidden form, because it is embedded in
the source of FDISK 1.3.8. :)
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) and svarlang_autoload_nlspath()
- svarlang_load() simplified so it takes the target filename as an argument
- file access relies on fopen() when svarlang is compiled with -DWITHSTDIO
- new file format: sorted dictionary for faster lookup (by Bernd Boeckmann)
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codepage for any unicode
codepoint. I am not saying this is a good practical idea, though. Given
the limited development nowadays, it is probably for the best that each
application comes with its own rules and mappings.
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copied only LURE.EXE to your directory, then the game fails
to find its data files. You simply need to have all the DISK[1-4].VGA
files present in the same directory as the LURE.EXE executable.
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DOS, than about building a minimalist yet functional DOS on top of
the FreeDOS kernel. It is also about 8086 compatibility and a more
accommodating approach to licenses of 3rd-party packages (four freedoms
not required).
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nd in batch files allows you to access more
than 9 parameters.
Sure, but the link files are not about running any batch logic, they are
about executing another program feeding it with the exact same list of
parameters that was provided by the user to the link.
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are used nowadays in FreeDOS.
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;re focused on 16-bit machines, then you might want to check out
pkg & pkgnet: http://svardos.org/phpamb.php?fname=help/help-en&f=pkg.ama
I created these tools specifically as an 8086-compatible improvement
over fdnpkg.
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On 26/02/2022 15:09, Travis Siegel wrote:
Barring those solutions, you could always redirect the @echo off line to
null, which would prevent it from displaying on the screen.
It would not, since the error message is output to stderr.
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t;not implemented yet" (and the O_LARGEFILE
flag does not appear to be used anywhere later in the code):
https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/blob/master/kernel/dosfns.c#L498
Do you have a FreeDOS kernel version that supports this?
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need to:
- replace all 'long' position tracking variables by unsigned long
- handle errors in a different way (than passing -1)
- use a non-portable construct to replace fseek()
- and probably more that I don't think about
On 12/01/2022 14:58, Michał Dec wrote:
Is there any other hex editor for FreeDOS
You might want to try uHex. Requires some 20 KiB of RAM and handles
files up to 2 GiB.
IIRC it is shipped with FreeDOS, but if not then you will find it here:
http://uhex.sourceforge.net/
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mebrew PC XT clone by Sergey Kiselev:
https://github.com/skiselev/micro_8088
It uses a true 8088 CPU and not a SOC like the Vortex. Sadly, I couldn't find
any place where I could buy one, it is rather targeted to people wanting to
assemble it themse
any other resources directly if you'd like. I
doubt this stuff is of much interest to the readers of this list. :)
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of things beside just
downloading a resource over HTTP.
Long story short: if I ever make an update (unlikely), I'll probably
include CURLLITE.EXE (386 DPMI) by default.
For *simple* HTTP jobs you might also use Gopherus (8086-compatible),
since it embeds a tiny http-downlo
On 25/11/2021 14:22, Jerome Shidel wrote:
Kinda busy right now, don’t know when I’ll get around to testing it.
No worries. If you're happy with FreeCOM, no need to look after
something else.
But, I did turn it into a package already. :-)
Cool, thanks!
Ma
I developed SvarCOM specifically for the SvarDOS distribution, it
works just as well on plain FreeDOS. As such, the FreeDOS project is
welcome to mirror it or use it as an alternative shell, should that be
of any interest to the community.
Read more on http://svardos.osdn.
metimes the binary can be also patched (the TPP patch
worked for me on the Jazz Jackrabbit game eons ago).
http://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/system.htm#oldprogs
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is good, and having a tiny/limited keyboard driver available is
definitely cool.
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to MSDOS swapping what mkeyb is to a proper keyboard driver.
I am not complaining of course - I am only demonstrating how subjective
"real issues" can be.
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the total memory on this machine... MS-DOS has the
ability to swap out COMMAND.COM at runtime, so it takes roughly 5K (as
per MEM/C output).
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ith Polish keys available under ALT+something
(eg. ALT+x produces "ź"), or the "Polish/Typist" keyboard, that is a
copy of the keyboard layout used on post-WWII typewriters, with Polish
characters available without ALT combos.
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but also introduced chaos in the way Poles were exchanging text. Some
started using the Microsoft 852 page, since it was meant to be the "new
standard", and others kept using Mazovia since it was superior and
well-established... Ah, those good times.
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her Mazovia or CP852. In such cases, a mode con cp select was
required -- in such case, a non-smart keyb driver would not be aware of
the change and keep emitting byte codes for the initial codepage it was
configured for.
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Hi, is it possible (application? program) to put the computer to „sleep“ (i.e.
„standby) in FreeDos?
"fdapm standby"
http://amb.osdn.io/phpamb.php?fname=lib/fdhelpen.amb&f=fdapm.ama
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_
Finally, if you look for a more basic FreeDOS system, you might want to
test SvarDOS. It is a FreeDOS distribution that aims for minimalism and
8086 compatibility, I'd be curious to know how it runs on your
"difficult" setup.
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It focuses mostly on
running Win32 application from within DOS, but IIRC it also comes with
some Win16 support.
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o boot DOS, the former doesn't.
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although I used jd.exe
(wattcp-based) in lieu of netcat. I described the exact method on this
list 14 years ago:
https://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06342.html
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s it go into
CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC ?
It is a TSR, not a driver - hence you can set it through autoexec.bat,
or even run by hand from the command line.
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configuration (to be set through CONFIG.SYS) that enables a subset of
what FDAPM is capable of, for those who do not wish to use a powersaving
TSR.
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gt;HDD interface
translation on the fly.
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Windows to update a BIOS firmware looks perhaps like
an easy way out, but I wouldn't risk my PC with it myself, even if it's
one of the methods suggested by the motherboard producer.
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holds files in the *.AMA format
(Ancient Machine Article). The AMA format is described at the link below
- it is a very simple text-like format that allows hyperlinked content.
http://amb.osdn.io/phpamb.php?fname=archiwum/format-20201216.amb&f=ama.ama
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easily "migrated".
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now or do they still support 8086-compatible real mode?
Both TC and OW produce 8086 code (OW needs the extra -0 argument for that).
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delivering a much higher voltage than what the laptop
expected, and needed to be brought down by the battery not to damage
anything. More recent constructions are probably sturdier, but one
should be careful nonetheless.
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On 09/01/2021 08:46, Šimon Dobeš wrote:
OK
I will try to
On 23/12/2020 16:38, Mateusz Viste wrote:
The AMB reader is available for download on the AMB project's webpage:
http://amb.osdn.net
And of course I mistyped the URL... Should have been:
http://amb.osdn.io
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- tab key jumps to next link
- monochrome scheme is used on colorless terminals
The AMB reader is available for download on the AMB project's webpage:
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Toshiba laptop and a 286 desktop. Both use CF cards as
their only storage, connected through cheap mechanical CF<->IDE
adapters. It works perfectly.
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SDOS equivalent, ca 5MiB) and then
fetch the 2 or 3 extra things I like through FDNPKG (without sources).
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sorry - I was certain I had seen a Christian Masloch on the list
at some point, but surely I am confusing with someone else then.
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till being HTML, therefore
>any-browser-compatible.
You just described how the FreeDOS help.exe works.
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" questions I have added a
rationale section in the AMB format spec file, so the thought process
behind each element of the format is clearer. I have also converted the
format spec itself to an AMB book (a txt version is available as well).
The AMB version can be read online her
itself can be downloaded here:
http://mateusz.viste.fr/tmp/amb/insref.amb
And the script I created for the occasion is here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/ambook/code/HEAD/tree/nasmref2amb/convert.sh
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On 14/12/2020 07:36, Mateusz Viste wrote:
Hi Christian,
Your docs seem very interesting!
DVD or
online).
The Svarog386 CD is 300 MiB, but when sources are included it grows to
470 MiB. If it reaches 700 MiB one day I will turn it into a DVD.
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>Gopherus,
>> but it's "retro" and not too big (2MB) so I have no problems keeping
>it.
>
>That is larger than expected - make Gopherus EXTRA / ONLINE?
The (old, 1.1) 32 bit version was about 400 KiB, zipped. The newer (1.2+) 16
bit version is under 100 KiB zipp
ate a
halibut2amb converter.
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On December 13, 2020 9:27:06 PM GMT+01:00, "C. Masloch"
wrote:
>On at 2020-12-13 09:15 +0100, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>>> I'd love to have the FreeDOS books in there, too.
>>> https://www.freedos.org/books/
>>> I don
ligh languages (see the french FDHELP on
the AMB project's web page).
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with 8086 instructions (I am not the
author of the content itself, I only "converted" it, the content comes
from the EMU8086 documentation).
All files can be downloaded (and viewed online) on the project's web
page: http://ambook.sourceforge.net/
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ation engine would not look at the <> alone - it would
rather try matching "". This would be much better than the
current situation, and I do not think there would be any significant
side effects. But, in any case, this would require many corrections i
n an efficient way.
Full text search is something I plan to add to the DOS client anyway, so
I might reuse the same mechanism in the web UI for consistency. But as
said - non-trivial, planned "in the future".
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A link to the above URL is also present on the main page of the AMB
project now (at http://ambook.sourceforge.net/ ).
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On 05/12/2020 18:08, Mateusz Viste wrote:
Hello,
These past few days I was working on a new hobby pr
it to some, given how small footprint (much smaller than
FreeDOS) it has.
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es during incoming
weeks (mouse support, some form of light compression, full-text search,
etc).
I'd like also to compile the RBIL into an AMB book in some near future.
Enjoy.
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when browsing links.
I'm sure he'd be happy to provide details, if only someone would be
willing to look at it.
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nly hanging games and such. TSRs are truly a toxic
environment. But it's part of the challenge, after all.
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didn't pursue this as I lost interest in the mean time, but I did have
plans to implement a wattcp configuration generator within my 'ipcfg'
picoTCP configuration tool (possibly extended further to generate mTCP
configurations as we
only a list of
commercial prices for its DOS stack. He may just as well have changed his mind.
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On September 6, 2020 8:07:43 PM GMT+02:00, dmccunney
wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 2:02 PM ZB wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 07:52:05PM +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>>
>> &
appear to be free:
http://www.trumpet.com.au/index.php/products/tcpip-driver.html
Overall, not at all appealing to the DOS hobbyist.
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So both programs seem to dislike Trumpet TCP (different API?)
Trumpet is a networking TSR, while Wattcp, Watt-32 and mTCP are
libraries embedded into the executable. Completely different approaches.
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On 06/09/2020 02:33, ZB wrote:
Anyway I was able to ping and to log into FTP server - so I can assume
network is present
Sounds good indeed. Is FDNPKG or Gopherus working as well? They rely on
Watt-32 and Wattcp, respectively. The latter does not have DHCP support
IIRC.
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ctly"
era.
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On 02/09/2020 16:08, ZB wrote:
On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 03:56:26PM +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview
Indeed I recall that name - but somehow never used it before. Does it do
exactly what I've described? Like - for example - I could "
DOSemu relies on a number of Linuxisms, hence cannot be used as such
kind of bootstrap. What you think about is called DESQview.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview
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On 02/09/2020 15:48, ZB wrote:
If I'm correct, Dosemu uses "virtual x86 mode" of 386 and later
and stack) - and more to run any application bigger than a COM-style
hello world.
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operate svn and edit files.
Since dosemu relies on the local fs, it is extremely convenient.
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entries gracefully, no idea about pkunzip.
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