Hi Tom M.!
> How is that done? Where does one obtain the BIOS layer,
> and how would it be applied?
I expect others to have better answers, but I was thinking
in the direction of SeaBIOS / coreboot, which can provide
open source BIOS. After all, a BIOS is just software. You
can load SeaBIOS as
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 6:27 AM Tom Ehlert wrote:
> > Not sure how to fold in the "16bit v 32bit" section or the "UEFI"
> > section, but I may add a section at the bottom of "Releases" that
> > talks about this (probably "Features" or "Assumptions") just to have
> > everything in one page.
>
> "16
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 8:15 AM Eric Auer wrote:
[NightDOS]
> > my vote: remove from road map.
>
> My vote: Treat as a friendly project, not part of a DOS distro.
>
I do consider NightDOS a friendly project. I'm very interested to
watch their progress. You can watch their Milestones via their Goo
> My vote: Treat as a friendly project, not part of a DOS distro.
> About the UEFI thing: The method of choice would indeed be to
> load a BIOS layer as UEFI module and then load a normal DOS.
> Regards, Eric
How is that done? Where does one obtain the BIOS layer, and how would it be
applied?
Hi Eric,
>> I took the time to look into what the night dos kernel...
>> what they describe as goal is some sort of OS/2, WINDOWS 3.11
> While their goals are noble, I doubt that they will achieve good
> compatibility with most DOS stuff. And I agree that they should
> use more C in their code t
Hi Tom,
> I took the time to look into what the night dos kernel...
> what they describe as goal is some sort of OS/2, WINDOWS 3.11
While their goals are noble, I doubt that they will achieve good
compatibility with most DOS stuff. And I agree that they should
use more C in their code to avoid
> Not sure how to fold in the "16bit v 32bit" section or the "UEFI"
> section, but I may add a section at the bottom of "Releases" that
> talks about this (probably "Features" or "Assumptions") just to have
> everything in one page.
"16bit v 32bit":
I took the time to look into what the night d
A quick update on changes/updates at the FreeDOS wiki: I'm doing some
cleanup and generally trying to organize some things as we get ready
for a FreeDOS 1.3 release.
I've added a new "Releases" parent page that will track all of the
current and previous releases of FreeDOS. This links to sub-pages
