On at 2024-07-01 20:12 +, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote:
On 7/1/2024 7:56 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
The WIN31SUPPORT define is still not enabled/defined by default I
believe. Some discussion in [7]. At some point I manually built a
kernel including it. I also contributed
On at 2024-07-01 21:56 +0200, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi ECM,
thanks for the explanations! If I understand
https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/issues/50
correctly, Windows 386enh support is not part of the
automated builds yet because there originally were
limitations regarding which com
Hi,
> On Jul 1, 2024, at 4:15 PM, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user
> wrote:
>
>
>> On 7/1/2024 7:46 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jerome,
>>
I basically wonder about something like a third choice, next to
"auto-fdisk & auto-format" and "exit to DOS", which lets the use
> On Jul 1, 2024, at 3:47 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jerome,
>
>>> I basically wonder about something like a third choice, next to
>>> "auto-fdisk & auto-format" and "exit to DOS", which lets the user
>>> run FDISK interactively and then returns to the installer.
>> It
On 7/1/2024 7:56 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
The WIN31SUPPORT define is still not enabled/defined by default I
believe. Some discussion in [7]. At some point I manually built a
kernel including it. I also contributed a workaround to allow the gcc
build to succeed with WIN31SUPPORT
On 7/1/2024 7:46 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi Jerome,
I basically wonder about something like a third choice, next to
"auto-fdisk & auto-format" and "exit to DOS", which lets the user
run FDISK interactively and then returns to the installer.
It could be a shell to dos instea
Hi ECM,
thanks for the explanations! If I understand
https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/issues/50
correctly, Windows 386enh support is not part of the
automated builds yet because there originally were
limitations regarding which compilers are supported,
which have since been resolved?
The secon
Hi Jerome,
I basically wonder about something like a third choice, next to
"auto-fdisk & auto-format" and "exit to DOS", which lets the user
run FDISK interactively and then returns to the installer.
It only auto partitions in normal mode when no partitions exist. If partitions
exist and ar
PPS: I do not suggest specific UEFI-BIOS-CSM projects. Anybody?
I went searching for some recently, and the only ones I found were
pcem (no longer maintained it seems, although there was an update a
few months ago, just no new release), and of course, the original pcXT
rom from IBM which is
On at 2024-07-01 13:26 -0400, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi ECM,
On Jul 1, 2024, at 12:51 PM, E. C. Masloch via Freedos-user
wrote:
On at 2024-06-30 23:32 +0200, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
Remember that Jeremy first posted in 2021-07-26 about his proof
of concept demo of
Hi ECM,
> On Jul 1, 2024, at 12:51 PM, E. C. Masloch via Freedos-user
> wrote:
>
> On at 2024-06-30 23:32 +0200, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
>
>> Remember that Jeremy first posted in 2021-07-26 about his proof
>> of concept demo of a Windows 386enh install on FreeDOS kernel.
>> Kernel ve
On at 2024-06-30 23:32 +0200, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
Remember that Jeremy first posted in 2021-07-26 about his proof
of concept demo of a Windows 386enh install on FreeDOS kernel.
Kernel version 2044 exists since 2023-12-02.
Since then, we basically have been waiting for people to TE
On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 at 16:43, Alvah Whealton via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Excellent, Liam, and thanks greatly for posting. I would try keeping up with
> all that you write but there are an insufficient number of hours in a day.
Why thank you!
I can tell you that it frequently feels like there are
Excellent, Liam, and thanks greatly for posting. I would try keeping up
with all that you write but there are an insufficient number of hours in a
day.
Al Whealton
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 8:23 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 at 23
On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 at 23:34, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Interesting that MS Word for DOS looks a bit like EDIT, but
> with char style highlighting and a graphical preview :-D
Well, yes. They are both Common User Access apps.
MS Word for DOS up to v5.0 used its own UI, but 5.5 switche
> On Jun 30, 2024, at 7:35 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> *Installer*
>
>> the installer tries to do everything for you; the user should
>> just be able to respond to prompts.
>
> I basically wonder about something like a third choice, next to
> "auto-fdisk & au
Hi Jim,
*Installer*
the installer tries to do everything for you; the user should
just be able to respond to prompts.
I basically wonder about something like a third choice, next to
"auto-fdisk & auto-format" and "exit to DOS", which lets the user
run FDISK interactively and then returns to
Jim Hall wrote:
> > Join us today for the VCF Live Stream, hosted by Jeff Brace from the
> > Vintage Computer Federation.
Jerome Shidel wrote:
> I was tied up (figuratively). So, I missed the first couple minutes.
>
> I was thinking it was going to be another interview.
>
> I just found it a littl
Eric Auer wrote:
[..]
> Interesting that MS Word for DOS looks a bit like EDIT, but
> with char style highlighting and a graphical preview :-D
Yes, it's probably not surprising that the company that made MS-DOS
Edit and Word for DOS would make them look a bit similar. I used
Microsoft QuickC in th
Hi Jim,
> On Jun 29, 2024, at 5:03 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-user
> wrote:
>
> Join us today for the VCF Live Stream, hosted by Jeff Brace from the
> Vintage Computer Federation.
>
I was tied up (figuratively). So, I missed the first couple minutes.
I was thinking it was going to be another
Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi Jim and VCF, thank you for sharing the stream on
>
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peIYEAM9pk
>
> Of course, I have some thoughts about it:
>
> Earlier in the video, when you present some spreadsheets
> and word processors, there is a point where you show the
> Windows 3
Eric Auer wrote:
[..]
> Unfortunately, the rolling monthly release apparently
> uses very OLD FreeDOS core components:
>
> A 2021 kernel with a copyright message saying 1995-2012
> and a 2021 shell version 0.85a :-(
[...]
> Remember that Jeremy first posted in 2021-07-26 about his proof
> of concep
Eric,
> On Jun 30, 2024, at 5:33 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
> wrote:
> […]
>
> Unfortunately, the rolling monthly release apparently
> uses very OLD FreeDOS core components:
>
> A 2021 kernel with a copyright message saying 1995-2012
> and a 2021 shell version 0.85a :-(
What?
Those are
Hi Jim and VCF, thank you for sharing the stream on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peIYEAM9pk
Of course, I have some thoughts about it:
Earlier in the video, when you present some spreadsheets
and word processors, there is a point where you show the
Windows 3 about screen and it mentions
Hi and a belated happy 30th birthday FreeDOS!
If using freedos exclusively, what tools would allow you to attend
this event?
As Jim mentioned accessibility (although in another context)
it would indeed be a good question whether for example the
audio could be provided as a non-https download
On 2024-06-30 00:37, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
If using freedos exclusively, what tools would allow you to attend this
event?
It could be downloaded with a browser using an Invidious link (either
the audio, the video, or both) and later reproduced using a media
player. Has mpla
no.
It is supposed to be a question allowing the sharing of how those using
freedos could have enjoyed this event.
On Sat, 29 Jun 2024, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user wrote:
On 6/29/2024 3:37 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
Just wondering.
If using freedos exclusively, what tools
On 6/29/2024 3:37 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
Just wondering.
If using freedos exclusively, what tools would allow you to attend
this event?
Again, simply curious.
Best,
Karen
Was this supposed to be a trick question?
Ralf
___
Just wondering.
If using freedos exclusively, what tools would allow you to attend this
event?
Again, simply curious.
Best,
Karen
On Sat, 29 Jun 2024, Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote:
Join us today for the VCF Live Stream, hosted by Jeff Brace from the
Vintage Computer Federation.
I'm plan
Join us today for the VCF Live Stream, hosted by Jeff Brace from the
Vintage Computer Federation.
I'm planning for this to be accessible to non-tech folks, so I'll
start with a reminder about what DOS was like in the 1980s and 1990s,
and what "Windows" was like. Then I'll talk about how we got sta
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