Thanks, Herminio:
Has anyone watched this review of FreeDOS 1.3 by a Retro Gamer on
YouTube.
It's a great review, testing many games.
I haven't yet installed 1.3. I'm afraid of wrecking Frank's wonderful
networking. If it ain't broke
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Hi Jim,
> One program to fix the "runtime error 200" is Robert and Marek's TSR
> tool, which we include in FreeDOS 1.3:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/tp7p5fix.html
Robert here. I noticed, TP7P5FIX is not working for all software, but I
didn't
I use a Pentium MMX as my fastest dedicated PC for DOS and i usually
downclock it to 50MHz FSB x 2. If some games still have issues i can use
SETMUL to manipulate Pentium TR4 registers, which allow to disable
exclusively CPU features like Instruction Cache, Data Cache, Branch
Prediction and V-Pipel
I heard/read somewhere that the "Runtime Error 200" was actually caused some
sort of subroutine that was trying to figure out how fast the computer is.
It's certainly ironic that it doesn't work on really fast computers since
that's exactly the "problem" it's trying to address.
The other inter
Hello.
Thank you Eric and Jim.
I'll do a search and i let you know how it turned out
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 10:04 AM Jim Hall wrote:
> One program to fix the "runtime error 200" is Robert and Marek's TSR tool,
> which we include in FreeDOS 1.3:
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/f
One program to fix the "runtime error 200" is Robert and Marek's TSR tool,
which we include in FreeDOS 1.3:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/tp7p5fix.html
But as Eric said, you can find lots of tools on the Internet to fix this
too. Or you can run
Hi! Runtime error 200 usually is an overflow in timing
code of Borland or Turbo Pascal, if you search the web
you will find various tools which patch it or work it
around :-) The overflow happens because your computer
is too fast. So you can also try to slow it down, e.g.
using FDAPM SPEEDn wher
Hello.
Tyrian
tyrian.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0006:374c
setup.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0002:24ED
Fuzzy
fuzzy.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0003:361B
main.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0003:361B
Don't run on fdos 1.3, booted option 2 on a vm... i'll run on actual
hardware (modern board)
On Wed,
Hi! DOSEMU2 expert Stas mentions his FDPP patch mentioning Test Drive 2:
https://github.com/dosemu2/fdpp/commit/c6efa7a203c8aafe8da952d6405ad5dfb49fd469#diff-e9118389bd658345f94d54c6159dc16b60454e193c33f16184d4fd5526180329
@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ CommonNdRdExit: ; *** tell if key wait
Hi Eric,
> (...) but my goal would still be finding out how
> to make all games work in FreeDOS - if necessary, by pointing out
> bugs in FreeDOS.
>
That's what i wish too. And i'll do my best to help. Because the moment
FreeDOS is better than MS-DOS in compatibility i'll never look back. Hopin
Hello.
I agree with you, a VM isn't a viable solution for testing.
I'm in favor of using real hardware.
My floppies games i tested on VM run well on my IBM 286 (real machine).
The downloaded games had options that my don't have.
I do have a PII and PIII that i'll try freedos, but no anytime so
Hi!
Please stay relaxed about this topic, it would be great to know WHY
certain games do not work well in FreeDOS, so we can improve it :-)
Of course you can also run those games in various emulators or using
other versions of DOS. This may even provide insights regarding how
to configure Free
I agree completely you there is no point in continuing this discussion... i
just use freedos to debug games memory and jump back to emulation!
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 9:56 PM Carlos Teixeira
wrote:
> Why FreeDOS if i can use other MS (and others) versions of DOS? 6.22
> should be the best option
Why FreeDOS if i can use other MS (and others) versions of DOS? 6.22 should
be the best option but, for a special purpose all rounder DOS computer i'm
using (because i lack the space to use several builds) FAT16B is too
limiting. With this in mind i have 2 options: strip DOS outta Windows 98SE
(or
First of all i'm not Dude if more Sir or Mr.
I don't know you and certainly i'm not your friend...
Moving on... downloaded the games mentioned above and using my freedos
1.3-RC4 i was able to run Test Drive 2 and Grand Prix and Cycles ran the
intro fast and exited with a error code.
Test Drive 2 p
Hello.
The man issues are related to msi dos games like gprix on FreeDOS not
working. De emulator would solve the issue, but he have all the hardware
and other msdos.
Noted i'll never mention dosbox and/or dosbox-x and shall be referred as
emulator.
Thank you.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022, 00:16 Jim Hall
On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 11:44 AM Joao Silva wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> Dosbox will solve all your problems!
>
FYI
>From the list rules:
Remember, this group is about FreeDOS. General DOS topics are okay,
but try to keep it related to FreeDOS.
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In related news:
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=18754
DOSBox-X 0.83.23 released!
posted by Wengier(R) 05.03.2022 03:01
DOSBox-X 0.83.23 has now been released! Designing to be a cross-platform
DOS emulator, it is the goal of DOSBox-X to cover different types of DOS
soft
Dude... I do have the right hardware from an original IBM XT to a couple
Turbo XT clones, to a Tandy 1000 SL that i had to mod for 220V, to a 286,
386, 486 and Pentium MMX.
I also can use from CP/M-86 to all MS-DOS oficial releases to Windows 98
stripped FAT32 MS-DOS. PC-DOS, DR-DOS, whatever. No
Hello!
Not perfectly... for that you need the right hardware for the game to run,
ms-dos 6.22 or pc-dos 7.0/7.1 and i'm assuming that you don't have either
conditions.
So dosbox will run most games, you can check the compatibility list
https://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?letter=a and fine tune
Not only DOSBox is not the solution for everything (does not run every game
perfectly), there would be no point in keep developing FreeDOS if indeed
"DOSBox was the solution for all problems".
A domingo, 6/03/2022, 17:44, Joao Silva escreveu:
> Hello.
>
> Dosbox will solve all your problems!
Hello.
Dosbox will solve all your problems!
On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 11:04 PM Carlos Teixeira
wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> all DSI games that use that same engine, Grand Prix Circuit, The Cycles,
> Test Drive 2 have that issue. You launch the games and you just get a black
> screen. I commented on the v
Hi Eric,
all DSI games that use that same engine, Grand Prix Circuit, The Cycles,
Test Drive 2 have that issue. You launch the games and you just get a black
screen. I commented on the video comment section days before it premiered
that he should test Grand Prix Circuit and Test Drive 2 as i was s
> On Mar 5, 2022, at 8:49 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>
> Hi!
>
>>> - it sounds like a very bad idea to create a zillion FAT16 partitions
>>> and format only one of them, while using FreeDOS FDISK etc. by hand
>>> made it easy for the reviewer to just create ONE FAT32 drive :-p
>
>> When the
Hi!
- it sounds like a very bad idea to create a zillion FAT16 partitions
and format only one of them, while using FreeDOS FDISK etc. by hand
made it easy for the reviewer to just create ONE FAT32 drive :-p
When the installer verifies there is no drive readable to DOS ... it
asks FDIS
> On Mar 4, 2022, at 3:57 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> - it sounds like a very bad idea to create a zillion FAT16 partitions
> and format only one of them, while using FreeDOS FDISK etc. by hand
> made it easy for the reviewer to just create ONE FAT32 drive :-p
When the installer verifies ther
Let me summarize this ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeq-F84Lx4
- Lots of games had CD driver issues in FreeDOS 1.2 and are fine now
- Grand Prix Circuit and Test Drive 2 still do not run
- most games work best in boot option TWO, which is a sane JEMMEX
config. I guess the defa
On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 11:22 AM Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
wrote:
>
> Has anyone watched this review of FreeDOS 1.3 by a Retro Gamer on YouTube. I
> thought it was a pretty good and fair review.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeq-F84Lx4
Thanks for sharing that, I hadn't seen it. Good review
Hahaha I was just going to report this as well.
On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 9:22 AM Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <
herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone watched this review of FreeDOS 1.3 by a Retro Gamer on YouTube.
> I thought it was a pretty good and fair review.
>
> https://www.youtube.co
Has anyone watched this review of FreeDOS 1.3 by a Retro Gamer on YouTube.
I thought it was a pretty good and fair review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeq-F84Lx4
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