[Freedos-user] I have no Sound in VMWARE

2018-10-05 Thread Eric
Hi, If i use FreeDos in VMWARE i get no Sound. Wich Drivers i have to install? I set the OS to MS-DOS. Best regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Talking FreeDOS vm

2019-06-14 Thread eric
Hi, i.m allso blind. And use FreeDos with Asap. Your idea could be interesting for someone who don’t know howto Setup a Screenreader without assestive guide. Best regards from Eric Gesendet von Mail für Windows 10 Von: Joseph Norton Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Juni 2019 19:17 An: freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips

2020-03-27 Thread Eric
Hi, Freedos runs pritty well on modern devices. But are there any Drivers for the generic realtec soundchips? I that is not the case, is there a Kind of soundcards wich can be used as well under FreeDOS as under Windows 10? Eric ___ Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips

2020-03-27 Thread Eric
I allready have 2 virtual machines running MS DOS and FreeDOS Eric Von: Eric Auer Gesendet: Freitag, 27. März 2020 23:41 An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips Hi Eric ;-) > Freedos runs pretty well on modern devices. But are th

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips

2020-03-27 Thread Eric
But thank you for this Information! ☺ Eric Von: Eric Auer Gesendet: Freitag, 27. März 2020 23:41 An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips Hi Eric ;-) > Freedos runs pretty well on modern devices. But are there any > drivers f

Re: [Freedos-user] Videos about FreeDOS

2021-09-19 Thread Eric
i know the channel because  i'm alls.o a member of the Macebook group. Am 20.09.2021 01:40 schrieb Jim Hall :Hi everyone! We have a YouTube channel to demonstrate FreeDOS and to show off cool DOS programs that you can run on FreeDOS. I usually upload new videos every week - although I haven't

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Eric
On Saturday 23 September 2006 21:22, Marcel Tschudin wrote: > After the hint on Microsoft I tried to install their Virtual Server 2005, > but it refuses an installation on Windows XP Home edition... > > Now I'm on the page of VMware and wonder what would be more appropriate for > my application, th

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-24 Thread Eric
st machine, even if you only allocate minimal RAM to the guest OS. Hope this helps. Eric - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the cha

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS install on 2nd hard drive

2007-12-07 Thread Eric
I have two hard drives. The first (HDA) looks like this: HDA1: Dell rescue (FAT) HDA2: WinXP HDA3: Windows swap The second look like this: HDB1: Spare 1.4 GB HDB2: NetBSD HDB3: Kubuntu HDB5: Linux swap HDB6: Linux /boot HDB7: NTFS drive (D:) HDB8: Shared FAT partition (M:) HDB9: Lin

[Freedos-user] Display size

2008-08-19 Thread Eric
I have a Sony Vaio PCG-C!VN laptop, which has a 1024x480 screen size.  I'd like to install FreeDOS on it, but the display is such that it leaves large amounts of unused black space on both sides of the screen.  Is there a way to set the display so that I can use the entire screen? ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Display size

2008-08-19 Thread Eric
a few days. --- On Tue, 8/19/08, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Display size To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 11:31 PM Hi Wolfram, > If you are into experimenting a bit, try

Re: [Freedos-user] Updated Antivirus for dos

2008-12-03 Thread Eric
e: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 3:11 PM > Eric Auer schrieb: > > Hi! > > > >> Antivirus for DOS is good like Antivirus for *any > barely used OS*, > >> because the barely used OS isn't target for > viruses. > > > > True, although you get the

Re: [Freedos-user] command line sector read and write tool?

2008-12-10 Thread Eric
There is a dos-based commercial forensic tool called safeback that you could purchase. Alternatively, you could search for a dos port of dd, or use a Linux or BSD based live CD or floppy and use the dd command. There are a few very small linux distros that fit on a floppy and run on the types

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS without the boot loader?

2010-06-13 Thread Eric
Is it possible to install FreeDOS 1.0 on a Windows 95/98 machine without it installing the boot loader into the Windows 98 partition? I have an old laptop with Windows 98 and Linux. I use Grub to multiboot, so I don't need the FreeDOS boot loader, and don't want to interfere with the Win98 par

[Freedos-user] FreePOS point of sale software for DOS / XP

2005-05-19 Thread eric
S. As it is server / client and wants an Oracle DB, and the clients need Java and at least 128 MB RAM, it definitely does not target DOS users ;-). Some of the Linux POS packages will probably run on pretty simple PCs, though. Please add your collected "nice POS

[Freedos-user] FAT32 undelete experiences?

2005-05-19 Thread eric
(directories, FATs) is left intact... (by Convar) http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/driverescue19d.html (undelete for FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and a bit of NTFS, for Win32, freeware) Eric PS: Convar also has "smart recovery" - same undelete idea, but optimized for flash disks and similar stuff t

[Freedos-user] Re: Writing to NTFS filesystems

2005-05-20 Thread eric
x based rescue / install CD-ROMs and of modern Linux install CD-ROMs. Eric PS: You can even do dual VGA display with DOS ;-). --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Ent

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: text editor's and mem command

2005-05-21 Thread eric
Hi all, as the "editors on old PCs" topic still has some attention: My spin-off variant EDIT 0.7c works properly on 8086 / 8088 (PC-XT) computers, even with 84-key keyboard. Hint hint ;-). http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/edit07c.zip Aitor has asked (when 0.7

[Freedos-user] Announce: FDAPM 2005 May 23

2005-05-23 Thread eric
risk. You can get the new FDAPM at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/fdapm-2005may23.zip Thanks for testing :-). Eric PS: I got reports that QEMU can miss keyboard IRQs when FDAPM APMDOS is used with EMM386. If you have QEMU and/or have TASM (to compile modified test versions of EMM386) pleas

[Freedos-user] re: "Datalight Makes Industry-Leading ROM-DOS Free to Single Users"

2005-05-26 Thread eric
ome unknown file meanings: ata -> cdrom?, compress -> like LZSS?, remdisk/remquit/remserv and serlink/serserv -> network/link cable drive letters like FileMaven/Laplink/InterLnk?, rsz/disk2img/dump -> ROM related?, comm/transfer -> serial link stuff? stac

[Freedos-user] Details about Datalight ROM-DOS

2005-05-27 Thread eric
esting and comparing! Eric PS: How about their mscdex/smartdrv/vdisk/mode compared to shsucdx/lba- cache/xmsdsk (or tdsk)/mode? Experiences? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create

[Freedos-user] re: debian sarge+dosemu+freedos

2005-05-28 Thread eric
rnel. Then we will either fix the kernel or tell the Debian people that they use an old FreeDOS version :-). Eric --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs

[Freedos-user] re: Re: FreeDos Boot disk

2005-05-31 Thread eric
uot; and you might have a problem. I think that Mans did not use the /L option. He probably allowed SHSUCDX to select a drive letter itself, but there were just not enough drive letters left over. Using LASTDRIVE=Y will help :-). Eric --- T

[Freedos-user] re: Re: So where are the programs?

2005-05-31 Thread eric
the other programs from a beta 8 CD, but it is probably better to download the programs which you want separately, e.g. SETEDIT editor, OpenWatcom C/C++ and Arachne internet suite (www/mail/ftp). Eric PS to Arkady about FREEVER: Freever can do much more than CALLVER. The problem is that the FRE

[Freedos-user] re: Re: com2exe

2005-06-07 Thread eric
mage file] but you should read the exeflat help for details: There are a kernel-specific UPX option and options to inform exeflat of any number of "expected" relocation segments. For "unexpected" relocations, exeflat will produce a log on the screen. Eric PS: Wou

[Freedos-user] re: Re: FREEVER

2005-06-14 Thread eric
Hi Mike, > > http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/callver.zip > There does not appear to be any documentation with this program. However, > I assume that it either only works with FreeDOS... > I attempted to use it under Win98SE DOS... > CALLVER 6.22

[Freedos-user] XDMA, SHSUCDX and other split-version programs

2005-06-18 Thread eric
or want to show some radical style by mixing drivers without reason ;-). And, by the way, it is GOOD that only FDXMS286 supports 286. The overhead / development work to get some combined driver "from 286 to 4 GBytes" would certainly not be worth the effort given the lack of living 286 PCs t

[Freedos-user] Announce: LBAcache 2005jun19 - locking XMS now

2005-06-18 Thread eric
Hi, news for Arachne users: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/lbacache-2005jun19.zip is the first LBAcache which LOCKs the used XMS handle. Arachne users sometimes need this if they use the xswap feature: If xswap moves XMS data to disk while LBAcache uses the same XMS driver to cache

[Freedos-user] re: How to setup UMB?

2005-06-19 Thread eric
386.exe X=TEST SB VDS Far too many people try I=... when they should be using X=TEST. I recommend to remove examples of I=... from our sample (or even worse: default?) configurations to avoid bad I=... inspiration. Eric --- SF.Net emai

[Freedos-user] re: HIMEM versus FDXMS

2005-06-19 Thread eric
. For FD*XMS*, you have one "up to 64MB" version and one "unlimited" version, and the "up to 64MB" version is smaller on disk and in RAM. You also have a third version, FDXMS286. This works on 286 CPU and is limited to 64 MB (on 286 even 16 MB) RAM. Eric PS: Suppo

[Freedos-user] re: Re: Bootable DOS CD

2005-06-20 Thread eric
boot-related stuff in the isolinux directory. The files in isolinux/data are probably the files which are actually used during booting: Info texts, MEMDISK, a logo, and a 360k disk image. Eric ... > > mkisofs -b image/boot.img -c boot.cat -A FreeDOS \ > > -o /mnt/dos/mycdimag -

Re: [Freedos-user] QuickView 2.60 with MP4 support released

2014-11-24 Thread Eric Auer
the list archive, I am sure this topic has been pondered before, probably also in context of AC97 (or HDA) soundcards and the lack of drivers for them for old games. Regards, Eric -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The

Re: [Freedos-user] adding drivers, autoexec.bat, config.sys to bootable CD

2014-11-25 Thread Eric Auer
s autoexec, you would have to modify the contents of that virtual floppy. I think tools for opening and editing floppy images are available for free for most operating systems :-) DOS boots, then loads CD drivers, then uses the other DOS things that you can readily see on the bootable CD :-)

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Eric Auer
SD cards in DOS, you typically have them in USB readers, which are in turn supported by the BIOS, which supports generic USB disk-like media such as USB sticks and USB harddisks and cardreaders. Cheers, Eric -- Download BIRT iH

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-03 Thread Eric Auer
quickest without that backup step ;-) Of course both do not work with never-yet-formatted floppies. Eric -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge You

[Freedos-user] FAT format process - was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-07 Thread Eric Auer
ave unformat data. It just creates empty FAT, boot and root. Regards, Eric -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards

Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 and 2.0 roadmap discussion

2015-01-08 Thread Eric Auer
ultiple sectors in a single I/O step, but I would not make those sectors bigger... Regards, Eric -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership

Re: [Freedos-user] USB to serial adapters and soundcard emulation on FreeDOS

2015-01-12 Thread Eric Auer
(forwarding from Guillem) In response to Eric, I have tried DOSemu and I did manage to get the serial ports to work. I had a few problems with it, though. Neither the PC speaker or the Sound Blaster worked. To be honest I’m not sure if the netbook I was running it on has a PC speaker anyways

Re: [Freedos-user] USB to serial adapters and soundcard emulation on FreeDOS

2015-01-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Guillem, > In response to Eric, I have tried DOSemu and I did manage to get the > serial ports to work. I had a few problems with it, though. Neither the > PC speaker or the Sound Blaster worked. To be honest I’m not sure if the > netbook I was running it on has a PC spe

[Freedos-user] DOS Linux dual boot with FreeDOS replacing MS DOS 6.22

2015-01-13 Thread Eric Auer
is too much RAM or disk or CPU speed, but at least for FreeDOS, things should work fine. Note: Make sure to NOT use GPT partitioning in Linux, but use a classical MBR partitioning scheme! Otherwise, DOS will not yet be able to use you

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-18 Thread Eric Auer
special "DOS boxes". Regards, Eric -- New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high perform

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-19 Thread Eric Auer
ile on BSD Unix based MacOS versions, you could also run versions of your client software ported to MacOS, as you could guess. I may have missed some other possibilities, but that was what my interpretation of X for DOS and Windows possibilitie

Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)

2015-01-30 Thread Eric Auer
on occasion. Details? Instructions? I remember that when I use too many script, ad and gimmick blockers on Linux, using a download helper plugin to find the video URL and watching that in VLC is sometimes faster than having to unblock bells & whistles in my b

Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)

2015-01-30 Thread Eric Auer
can be used, quite versatile. Regards, Eric -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel soft

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS install aborted into VirtualBox - Help please

2015-02-01 Thread Eric Auer
c:\fdos\bin\ as expected. Which version of FreeDOS were you installing from? One of the CD ISO images, I assume? By making the ISO visible as a virtualbox virtual CD? Or by burning it to real CD or DVD first? The latter should not be necessary, I am just tryin

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-08 Thread Eric Auer
his because the string is no C style string with a NUL character at the end. You could use strncmp(string1, string2, 8) to compare only the first eight bytes, which will probably work fine for you :-) Eric > (I'm using tiny memory model and link .COM instead of .EXE, for > mini

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Eric Auer
ffer. Unless you explicitly say you only want to compare the first 8 bytes. In short, you still have to use strncmp() here. Eric -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Inte

Re: [Freedos-user] Rom-dos

2015-02-15 Thread Eric Auer
Note that CPU-power-wise there is not that much making-use-of for XT mainboards. However, you could always put RomOS in some EPROM on some ISA network card for your mainboards - or do a net boot! Cheers, Eric -- Dive int

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error

2015-03-05 Thread Eric Auer
ip the files to the freedos dir on your target disk (e.g. DOS partition on harddisk) as unzipping is the main install step anyway. You will still miss the other installer details done with the ZIPs, but you will have the contents :-) Eric PS: Try setting the controller to which your CD/DVD or BluRay

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error

2015-03-05 Thread Eric Auer
COM port mouse somewhere, not just USB? Regards, Eric -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all thin

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

2015-03-13 Thread Eric Auer
has a calendar and an ASCII table. Just a nice small multi-file text editor as default FreeDOS editor :-) With TDE, SETEDIT or the Unicode editors, you get a lot more power. They work on any 386 or newer PC, in the Unicode case any 386 with VGA or better graph

[Freedos-user] new uide version? details?

2015-03-17 Thread Eric Auer
> http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15785527/drivers.zip but due to some Sourceforge / Opera incompatibility, Jack can not announce it here himself? What is new in which zip? Regards, Eric -- Dive into the World of Parallel Program

Re: [Freedos-user] RAM size

2015-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
in various version or other DPMI drivers? And, if I may be curious, what program are you writing which will enjoy having more than 2 GB of RAM in DOS? Regards, Eric :-) > Why mem.exe returns "Total memory" 3 612 188K but EAX=500h/int 31h > (and EAX=0xff90/int 21h by DOS32A) returns

Re: [Freedos-user] RAM size

2015-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
, and so on. You could ask http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/rbinter/id/50/17.html (int 15.e820) to get a list of which area is for what :-) Regards, Eric -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

2015-03-31 Thread Eric Auer
"why is there no LibreOffice and Firefox for DOS". You know that there are none. They do not, they think there can be a professional DOS which basically is like Win or Linux, just "better" in some unknown, magical DOS way. For people who

[Freedos-user] new free unified closed source caching disk and optical drivers by Jack

2015-04-04 Thread Eric Auer
s not mirrored on Ibiblio, but some users may still want to install it and share their experiences on this DOS mailing list :-) Cheers, Eric -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by

Re: [Freedos-user] iBiblio's Apache no longer provides directory listings

2015-05-10 Thread Eric Auer
change. This will also allow FreeDOS branding :-) Regards, Eric -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Eric Auer
actually small swap is not enough. The above is from recommendations for "deskwork", a Windows style GUI for DOS with some deskwork-specific software and a distinctive star trek TNG style look. That also suggests in win.ini, in the [windows] part: DefaultQueueSize=16 (for improved speed)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist - soundcards

2015-05-18 Thread Eric Auer
hink about QEMU, VirtualBox, VMWare, Bochs and similar. With Linux and Windows as host operating system. By the way: There recently was a big security hole in the "floppy" of several open source virtual PC solutions, please update if you are using those on servers. Or at least disable the vi

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Eric Auer
further. Bret probably could help with USB :-) Regards, Eric * sometimes you can switch to classic SATA mode in your CMOS BIOS setup, but AHCI is faster, as it allows NCQ and other things for multi thread friendly I/O, so it is often default

Re: [Freedos-user] displays GRUB on startup

2015-05-30 Thread Eric Auer
chnology has improved since then, so replacement caps of better quality (low ESR, 105C temp range) should fit the same mechanical size. Yet mainboards often have multi layer PCB and lots of tiny features, so you still have to be experienced to get them soldered properly :-) Sorry about the off-top

Re: [Freedos-user] Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?

2015-06-03 Thread Eric Auer
the first place. Regards, Eric -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?

2015-06-03 Thread Eric Auer
:-) Back in ISA days, PnP simply meant "auto-select non-colliding I/O port bases, IRQ etc.". Cheers, Eric -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourcefor

Re: [Freedos-user] Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?

2015-06-03 Thread Eric Auer
or printers, your mileage may vary - they may at least support plain text but that might indeed depend on some Windows driver "activating" the printer at boot. Regards, Eric --

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS printing

2015-06-04 Thread Eric Auer
e network printer drivers or at least netcat for DOS. In some cases, you can also use a browser to config printers which provide a web interface, sometimes also allowing to upload and print files. I guess IPP is a popular pri

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread Eric Auer
ve way is to read out the raw audio data and then either store that as WAV, convert it to OGG or MP3, or play it directly. I think this is now the more common way of accessing audio on CD via a PC :-) Regards, Eric -

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-07 Thread Eric Auer
everything by a factor of 8/3 (2.66) or zoom independently in X and Y direction, giving a slight distortion. As 8/3 and 2.7 are not integer values, you will get a regular pattern of zoom artifacts. Some monitors are better than others in making those artifacts bearable. Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-07 Thread Eric Auer
lets you select one of several zoom settings. Cheers, Eric PS: DOS will often use the DEFAULT BIOS text mode of 720x400, but as 720 is a weird fraction of 1920, this might look less smooth... There even are funky mode setting tools for DOS, too, so in theory, a text mode of 106x67 characters, 9x16 fo

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-08 Thread Eric Auer
e the update helps you? :-) Regards, Eric >> It could be an incorrect or buggy driver, dunno. The only way to know >> would be to try something else. But I'm not sure of a "good" >> alternative. I don't even know where to (reliably) find such old DOS >&g

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-09 Thread Eric Auer
factor of 1.6 to reach the physical resolution of your old LCD screen may or may not look smooth, but at least the zoom factor is the same horizontally and verticall

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS diskette cache

2015-06-11 Thread Eric Auer
or 136] >> C:\> If the floppy was not formatted before and you do not want to rely on automatic detection of that, you may want to explicitly request low level formatting with FORMAT A: /U See also

Re: [Freedos-user] XIDE Updated; UIDE Support TERMINATED!

2015-06-14 Thread Eric Auer
designed more for being tested and less for taking the risky (?) step of interacting with your other operating systems & user data. Regards, Eric -- ___ Freedos-user mailing

Re: [Freedos-user] Doom unstable with LBACACHE or RDISK

2015-06-27 Thread Eric Auer
or example DOS32A as a modern replacement of DOS4GW :-) Cheers, Eric PS: FreeCOM and kernel also affect A20 by using XMS swap and the high memory area (HMA). You can try a non-XMS-swap version of FreeCOM and/or tell th

Re: [Freedos-user] [solved] Doom unstable with LBACACHE or RDISK

2015-06-27 Thread Eric Auer
and your earlier tests. Cheers, Eric -- Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors network devices and physical & virtual servers

Re: [Freedos-user] [solved] Doom unstable with LBACACHE or RDISK

2015-06-28 Thread Eric Auer
W or similar) DOS extender used by DOOM might be designed with 286 or 386 or XMS 2 in mind, lacking imagination that usable RAM could exist beyond the first 16 or 64 MB... ;-) Cheers, Eric -- Monitor 25 network devices or

Re: [Freedos-user] [solved] Doom unstable with LBACACHE or RDISK

2015-06-28 Thread Eric Auer
.com/dos4g/watcom/prices.html Which version does your copy of DOOM use? Cheers, Eric -- Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors netw

Re: [Freedos-user] Help with installing FreeDOS on second partition

2015-09-04 Thread Eric Auer
drive which is "F:" while you installed DOS, if I understand your mail correctly, probably is drive "C:" when you boot DOS. As you also seem to have Windows 7 on the same computer, I guess that your Windows partitions are all NTFS. Regards, Eric -

Re: [Freedos-user] Help with installing FreeDOS on second partition

2015-09-04 Thread Eric Auer
Harbour? See our software info: http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=xharbour Regards, Eric -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.

Re: [Freedos-user] Help with installing FreeDOS on second partition

2015-09-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi :-) >> Thanks guys! Sorry for the late response, and Eric I will consider the >> xharbour, thank you! > > I never used it, but that old XHarbour is (AFAIK) abandoned (for DOS) > and somewhat hard to use (and IIRC needs a C compiler for backend). > Don't pi

[Freedos-user] metados networked freedos distro by rugxulo available

2015-09-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo, FreeDOS users, forwarding something interesting from the forum from you ;-) http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14456 Cheers, Eric MetaDOS 0.2 (network-aware floppy .img, 100% open source) (Announce) posted by Rugxulo(R) Homepage E-mail, Usono, 15.09.2015, 02:14

Re: [Freedos-user] entering into the command-line as fast as possible

2015-09-16 Thread Eric Auer
install) compared to a simple boot CD. In short, what you want is a boot floppy, floppy distro or live CD, but you can also use a boot floppy or floppy distro to make a boot CD and you can use the install CD as minimalist boot CD. Cheers, Eric www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

2015-09-18 Thread Eric Auer
ettings should be used for the expansion, go to the BIOS setup and configure it there :-) Regards, Eric PS: You can indeed try using newer FreeDOS kernel, MODE or other tools, but printer port access is rather low level so it should not depend much on help from DOS. It is more about configuration.

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

2015-09-20 Thread Eric Auer
PCI expansion card take the LPT1 slot without having to mess with more or less weird PCI configuration tools. Cheers, Eric PS: CMOS used to be the place where BIOS stores config data so I sort of use BIOS setup and CMOS setup as synonyms now

Re: [Freedos-user] JEMMEX - NTSTS network problem (NETBios over TCP/IP)

2015-09-28 Thread Eric Auer
alternatives for HIMEMX to try out. Last but not least, you could try STACKSHIGH or larger stacks, but putting stacks HIGH might have side effects itself as well. Regards, Eric ... > DEVICE=C:\locale\JEMMEX.EXE > DOS=HIGH,UMB > DEVICEHIGH=C:\NET\PROTMAN.DOS /i:C:\NET > DEVICEHIGH=C:\NET

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

2015-09-28 Thread Eric Auer
ly better: Use DOSEMU) to gather data that DOS sends to LPT1 and forward it to the Linux printer driver, a file or directly to the physical printer port. Read the docs :-) Cheers, Eric -- ___

Re: [Freedos-user] Can I write .iso files to CD from FreeDOS ?

2015-10-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi George, > If I already have a .ISO file is there a way to write it to CD in a DOS > only computer ? While DOS based CD burning software exists, it is probably easier to use the SHSUCD driver family to "mount" the ISO, so you can use it in DOS without having to bur

Re: [Freedos-user] need a large file editor for dos

2015-10-05 Thread Eric Auer
software list can often be installed using FDNPKG and Mateusz' web repository for added comfort. Cheers, Eric > I am looking for a dos editor that can handle large files. Wordstar > will work in the non-document mode but it truncate files if there is an > ascii 26 (end of file) chara

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

2015-10-11 Thread Eric Auer
ot; that you should use the already existing port on your mainboard. You may use PCI PnP config tools to change the "thinking". Regards, Eric -- ___ Freedos-user mailing

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

2015-10-12 Thread Eric Auer
here was no printer port without that card or the PCI card printer port is active but on some non- standard I/O base... My preferred theory is still that there WOULD be some possibility to connect a slot bracket on the mainboard but have a look at your manual and BIOS setup to check. Regards, Er

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound or Internet - Which would you rather have?

2015-11-09 Thread Eric Auer
chipsets directly, so if you have no need for game sound, I suggest a cheap PCI or PCIe soundcard with a chipset directly supported by mplayer or mpxplay :-) You can also try Covox (printer port) sound for games and try running DOS stuff in Dosemu or Dosbox in Linux or Windows... Che

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound or Internet - Which would you rather have?

2015-11-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Eric, I have bought 3 PCIe sound cards advertised as DOS/SB compatible > and none have worked. Perhaps we need a list of working PCIe cards? Modern mainboards fail to provide some aspects of ISA-awareness to make hardware emulation on PCI / PCIe cards work. However, you can try so

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS running on Linux

2015-11-20 Thread Eric Auer
E or www.joewing.net/projects/jwm/ I personally find XFCE more versatile but also heavier than LXDE: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems#Adding_a_window_manager Have not tested OpenBox, IceWM, Fluxbox or FVWM-Crystal yet, you? The old FVWM2 or FVWM95 might be enough, if

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

2015-12-04 Thread Eric Auer
We have DOS drivers which are able to simulate a CD/DVD directly from the ISO :-) > 3) Copy the all_cd.iso file to the hard drive and run SHUCDHD then install > from the hard drive iso file. This works very well and has the coolness Exactly

[Freedos-user] improved driver plans from Jack

2015-12-05 Thread Eric Auer
comments as well :-) Planned read-ahead size is 64 kB (32 sectors) in XDVD2 but only active if XHDD cache size is 60+ MB with 64 kB blocks as both drivers work together with a single combined cache. Regards, Eric PS: The above is of course a simplification of those topics

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS MODE updates (and DOSEMU2) - known bugs, anybody?

2015-12-15 Thread Eric Auer
her issues which have accumulated in the last ten (!) years before doing a new release. Please let me know if you know about fix-worthy smaller bugs with MODE 2005 :-) The bug is http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/142/ and was caused by shifting some bits not far enough before a BIOS call. Cheers

Re: [Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS boot/work under UEFI?

2016-01-09 Thread Eric Auer
t... If your computer can ONLY boot from UEFI and no longer includes BIOS, you will first have to load BIOS modules from UEFI, maybe (for example) a SeaBIOS. If somebody has experience with this, it would be nice if they could share step by step instructions for SeaBIOS-ing to DOS :-)

[Freedos-user] BIOS with broken UDMA needs DOS disk driver loaded before JEMMEX

2016-01-12 Thread Eric Auer
ess to HMA space at all inside config.sys, so you would have to delay those driver loads to autoexec - other DOS variants are more flexible. Regards, Eric PS: When you boot Windows or Linux, the protected mode disk drivers of the operating system are usually activated BEFORE any V86 tasks get the

[Freedos-user] UltraDMA warning corrected

2016-01-12 Thread Eric Auer
Jack writes: Eric, Re: your FD-User post about "new BIOS" UltraDMA errors, the post has "just a few" ERRORS, which you need to correct: First, the title of your post, "BIOS with broken UDMA needs DOS disk driver loaded before JEMMEX", should be changed. Ins

Re: [Freedos-user] UltraDMA warning corrected

2016-01-14 Thread Eric Auer
y MS HIMEM? That risk is indeed plausible. Luckily MS never shipped anything similar to his UIDE drivers, so UIDE cannot be based on MS DOS source codes :-) Eric -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

2016-01-16 Thread Eric Auer
ither lost when only 1M RAM is available or become horribly slow. If the topic REALLY interests you, please start a NEW thread by citing the list of checks and their 8086 viability based on a summary of old threads. Eric

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