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

Hi Mateusz, DOSers, > I noticed that QV got some interesting support for external sound > drivers. This looks really nice, I'm wondering whether it would make > sense to design such an "official" API for newly created (and/or > newly-ported) apps... How about the VESA audio API? Rarely suppor

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

Hi John, > I can see and modify the files in the ISO image used to create a bootable CD > for > FreeDOS, but how and where do I add autoexec.bat and config.sys files to the > image and thus the bootable CD -- and where would I put the associated files > (like SomeDriver.sys)? Because DOS cannot

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

Hi Dale, > I can think of only 2 ways an engineer can get those speeds out of a > serial device. A very fast clock or big external buffers. I think DOS > could handle a fast clock but if they use buffers; DOS may not know > how to use them like windows or Linux. I never used SATA so I can't > say

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

Hi! > The DOS format utility is kind of an anachronism at this point. Usually it > takes a long time to format a partition because it's iterating through > every sector of the disk. It's completely unnecessary these days. All it > really needs to do is write a boot sector, FAT, and root dir

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

Hi again, > When formatting a harddisk partition (or flash or whatever the actual > medium is), MS FORMAT relies on a correct boot sector already having been > created by FDISK. I discovered this not long ago when I tried to resize a > partition by tweaking the MBR with a sector editor. Yo

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

Hi Tom, others, >> Now the new multi-TB hard drives have 4096-byte physical sectors, >> at least some of them try to act as if sector size were 512 bytes. > > virtually ALL disks act as having 512 byte sectors, even if they have > internally 4096 byte ('advanced format'). ... > only recently 4

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

until a better alternative is available since I don’t think I’ll purchase a new laptop just for this. Thank you. > On 11 Jan 2015, at 22:19, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Guillem, > > for another solution of your screen reader problem, you could > use Linux (for which free

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

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 speaker anyways. Normally

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

Hi Javier, your question is not related to "USB to serial adapters and soundcard emulation on FreeDOS", so please start a new topic instead of replying to Guillem's thread next time, thank you! So here we are... You wrote: Hola: A. Necesito hacer un disco multi-partición, que por lo menos conten

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

Hi Don, > Is anyone working on a functional GUI for FreeDOS? I currently use Windows > 3.1 as I do consider it to be a gui and not an operating system and it is > about 90 percent functional. It would be nice to have a completely open > source OS though. Windows is much more than a GUI. There ar

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

Hi Thomas, > There was, many years ago, a port of X Window from Unix to DOS, known > as X-Appeal. > > One could download a crippled version or pay $199 for the full, > working (?) version. > > I never tried it. Old versions of SuSE Linux came with some X server for DOS. However, that only allo

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

Hi Dennis, >> 2). >> http://youtube-eng.blogspot.nl/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html Very nice :-) > I infer that you need a relatively current browser. Yes, and those video codec libraries are not small at all. So even if you would add just enough HTML5 to a DOS browser to displ

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

Hi Dennis, > I have an assortment of sites bookmarked that make effective use of > Flash, but Flash is an option, and they can be used without it. > (The sites are art, design, and fashion sites... Please give some example what they do with flash. Do they use it for example for their image galler

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

Hi Knute, > Can you help, please?... I finally installed FreeDOS into VirtualBox, > except at the very end of the install instead of the window where the > instructions say "Now we boot FreeDOS in our virtual machine" (select > "1")... instead of that the DOS window says "Bad or missing Command >

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

Hi Franta, > struct dosemu_detect { > char magic[8]; > unsigned char ver[4]; > }; > static struct dosemu_detect far *p = (void far*) 0xF000FFE0; Note that the way how you create far pointers can differ between compilers. In particular, with any 32

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

Hi Franta, > I got the impression that string declared as > > char mystring[]="$DOSEMU$"; > > is in memory stored as null-terminated string. This does not help you: The OTHER string STARTS with "$DOSEMU$", but is NOT null terminated, so both strings still differ. Unless you explicitly say you

Re: [Freedos-user] Rom-dos

Hi Darrin, > Hi all, Is there a way of creating a rom version of free-dos? I have > several XT class boards I'd like to make use of without having to > rely on other media Actually RayeR has already done that, although not for XT class :-) http://www.rayer.g6.cz/romos/romose.htm Note that CPU-p

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error

Hi! > MD5 is okay and I burnt it with the slowest speed setting (1x). > Still the same. From the complete base package not a single one could be > installed ("There were 68 errors and 0 non-fatal warnings."). If I have to guess: Maybe the installer is on the virtual floppy drive and the CD-ROM

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error

Hi Mike, > I simply took another PC, now it works. Got freedos on the hd. > > Only thing that would be neat is USB mouse support. Read about USBMOUSE and > added > dos=high > device=himem.exe > device=usbaspi.sys > device=di1000dd.sys > to FDCONFIG.SYS - unfortunatelly without success. > > Is

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

Hi Dosgeek! > This is my number one request for FreeDOS 1.2/2/0. > > Can we PLEASE increase the FreeDOS edit capacity to at least match the > capacity MS-DOS edit? I get so aggravated trying to open included .txt files > with various DOS programs only to find that the file exceeds the capacity o

[Freedos-user] new uide version? details?

Hi, looking at http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14140 there is a recent version of Jack's UIDE and other drivers at > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/drivers-2015-03-05.zip and even newer, from today, in dropbox on > http://dl.dropboxuserc

Re: [Freedos-user] RAM size

Hi! If I have to guess, the latter (a DPMI call, I think) deliberately returns at most 2 GB to avoid sign overflows with software which uses 32 bit signed computation of how much memory it has :-) Maybe DOS32A has an option to let you disable that limiting if you dare. Or try HDPMI32 or CWSDPMI in

Re: [Freedos-user] RAM size

Hi, replying to myself based on comments by Navis, with some interesting points about using 2 GB to 4 GB of RAM with DPMI based DOS extenders... :-) > Hi! If I have to guess, the latter (a DPMI call, I think) > deliberately returns at most 2 GB to avoid sign overflows > with software which uses 3

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

Hi Karen, > What discouraged me from using freedos was > first the "for legacy games use only," suggestion on the site, That probably was a while ago: Now I would say this is more the target audience of dosbox, in particular for Windows. > and second, the lack of attention to native things lik

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

Hi FreeDOS people (and happy easter weekend :-)), there are new, alas closed source, drivers from Jack at: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15785527/drivers.zip The new XIDE driver combines UIDE, UHDD and UDVD2. XIDE requires XMS for 2 reasons: 1. Almost everybody can use XMS drivers. 2. Perf

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

Hi Mateusz, others, > This is known issue, that has been extensively discussed on the list... > http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15773.html Well if they think making directory listings on the fly takes too much CPU, we could make index.html files for OUR dirs, if

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

Dario, > Intel core DUO2 T6570@2,1Ghz 2,1Ghz RAM 2GB SO-DIMM S-ATA2 HDD 320Gb ? > > Windows 7 Ultimate vers. 6.1.7601Satellite Pro Series.. Toshiba. > > It´s great! Sorry! well, what are you trying to tell us with all those VERY short mails, that you add to much longer other mails? Pl

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist - soundcards

Hi, just a semi-automatic reply for this classic topic ;-) >> Is there any way to make some kind of driver that would sit between >> the application and the actual soundcard (in my case a realtek) and >> forward what the app is trying to send to the soundblaster to the >> realtek the right way? >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

Hi Mateusz, as far as I know, UIDE now supports harddisk and CDROM/DVD/BD with IDE and SATA controllers, but not in AHCI mode*. Also, I am not aware of any other DOS AHCI driver. What you can do is using the BIOS as driver: This is normal for harddisks, but only works for CD/DVD when you boot fro

Re: [Freedos-user] displays GRUB on startup

Guys, >> I took a look, and the capacitors seemed to be fine. > > Including power supply? Mains caps in a power supply in the 230 Volt AC part of the world can be charged with 300 - 400 Volts and considerable capacity, even a while after you unplug things. You do NOT want to mess with those unl

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

Hi! > What I need for my Dell is a sound blaster pro driver that works on > an ESS chip without windows being there. Windows turns the chip on > somehow. The programs are for DOS running under windows. None of the > drivers are for dos alone, even if they claim to be. Add windows to > the backgr

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

Hi Dale and Don, > I have a Compaq Armada (Laptop) with a ESS1869 - I tried every > SB/ESS driver I could find then by chance I loaded DOSSOUND and it > worked. For my modern desktops with the oldest PCI cards (mostly ESS > or Yamaha) I can only get sound through the internal speaker, but > MPXPL

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

Hi again, > http://www.georgpotthast.de/dossound/ Thanks, interesting :-) > For the Dell sound, its a chip soldered on the main board. You could check with PCISLEEP for DOS or LSPCI for Linux or any similar tool for Windows what chip it is. The DOSSOUND website says, it is a WAV player for

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS printing

Hi! > This question interests me too, as I just bought a new HL-5470DW printer > today to replace a Canon that provided no emulation of any kind. The new > provides Epson FX, IBM Proprinter and PCL6 emulations in addition to > Brother's own language, but neither parallel port nor serial port Qui

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

Hi! > With cdrom2ui, I ran these two commands: >> CDROM2 PLAY01 < F: > >> CDROM PLAY01 < F: > > > In both cases it responded "Error reading from drive F: data area: > drive not ready." Only the larger CDROM2 tool supports audio commands and you have to omit the < >, so the proper command would

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

Hi! If you are sure that this is not an issue of your VGA or HDMI or DVI cable to the monitor, then I assume that what you are seeing is an artifact of your screen trying to zoom from the default resolution of DOS text mode to the native resolution of the screen. You could use the MODE tool of DOS

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

Hi John, > Though I cited Edit, and the mode suggestion might improve that, I > imagine that the improvement would be lost if I started a game or > anything else that runs in a graphical mode. As long as the game lets you make a CHOICE between several resolutions, you will again have the possi

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

Hi John, http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14268 mentions a new version of the closed source variant of Jack's drivers, but it sounds as if that mainly has been tested with modern drives, suspecting that your drive uses outdated audio command dialects. In any case, maybe the u

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

Hi John, > ... Does "mode con lines=34" require anything besides VESA support? I > concluded from my reading that it did not need DISPLAY.SYS or [ANSI] Here is a quick trick with mode: MODE CON LINES=1 (or any other weird value) lists possible values in the error message. MODE CON LINES=30 d

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS diskette cache

Hi guys, >> Typical error occurs following format: >> Drive_IO(WRITE 9, count 1 ) [FAT12/16] [drive A:] >> >> Critical error during DOS disk access >> DOS driver error (hex) : 08 >>Description: sector not found >> Progam terminated. >> [Error 136] >> C:\> If the floppy was not formatted

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

Hi Thomas, > Sad to see UIDE/XIDE switching to closed-source, undermining my > interest in FreeDOS for anything beyond low-level access to hardware > and spreadsheets with Quattro Pro 5 for DOS (already migrating to > Gnumeric). > > This is the first I've heard about any feud between Rugxulo and

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

Hi Mateusz, > After some investigations, I pin-pointed the problem to this: > > If I load any of these TSRs: LBACACHE, RDISK, then Doom either freezes > at start, or make the computer reboot. If I have to guess: RDISK, LBACACHE and DOOM may all cause the A20 to toggle as a side effect of doing

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

Hi guys, > Limiting LBACACHE to 4MiB is a price to pay also, but I can live with that. That leads to the question if Jack's cache works better, but to be honest, I like the method of using DOS32A a lot more: It works stable with modern hardware and any cache size, as far as I understand your ear

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

Hi Mateusz, > - I don't like the idea of having fragmented XMS memory Indeed. See below... > - UIDE seems to interact with my soundcard - when UIDE is loaded, I > loose FM music in Wolfenstein 3D Strange. > - UIDE is not open-source anymore, while LBACACHE is both open-source > and st

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

Hi Mateusz, > Actually, by taking a closer look I did find the function 0Ch from both > the XMS 2.0 and 3.0 standards. This function returns the physical > address (called "base address" for the occasion) of the allocated XMS > block as a 32bits integer. > > Now, I could imagine an applicatio

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

Hi Marlon, >> Why that old one? A quick double-check online shows "fd11src.iso" as newest: >> >> http://www.freedos.org/download/ >> >>> mount it on a virtual drive, installed it in the second partition... > Anyway, I've managed to install and boot from freedos using the tips here: > http://marc

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

Hi Marlon, > I edit autoexec.nt with Windows Notepad and insert this line at the very > top: > SET CLIPPER=F99 You can also type that command at the prompt before running Clipper. Of course it would be easier if you put the line in the autoexec.bat file of your DOS ;-) If the F99 is related to

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

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 pin too many hopes on it. Well Clipper

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

still possible (fdisk, format, sys, bootmgr, xwcopy) * custom FD 2041 kernel, easy to rebuild (minor patches for OLB [Eric Auer] and ctime [Matej Horvat]) * networking enabled by default for QEMU or VBox (NE2000 or PCNET), e.g. FTP (or optionally Wget or Links2, if needed) * "fetch" t

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

Hi Joe, the difference is that you use some INSTALL disk with FreeDOS. You want to use a BOOT disk instead :-) That gives you all the software on the boot disk, without having to install first and without having to abort the install... You can try metados or brezel or similar floppy distros. If

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

Hi Marlon, > I have a desktop computer with a motherboard that has a built-in parallel > port. When I boot into FreeDOS and run an old Clipper program, the program > can print just fine, without editing any system files. It just works. > > I have another desktop computer in which the parallel

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

Hi! The fact that your PCI card also contains 2 serial ports does not influence which of LPT1, LPT2 or LPT3 it provides. However, you already have a printer port on your mainboard, it seems from your BIOS settings. You could either connect the printer there or disable THAT port in your BIOS setup

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

Hi Luca, based on the earlier communication on sourceforge that you quote, mainly with Anthony Williams / Rugxulo, I agree that you should try using some JEMMEX options like X=TEST or I=TEST. Actually JEMMEX has lots of options, some of which differ from what you are used to from HIMEM and EMM38

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

Hi Marlon / Kaye, to use DEBUG to change what is LPT1, you put the I/O port at some memory location (378 for LPT1, 278 for LPT2, 3bc for LPT3) which you can do for example like this: debug d 40:08 l 6 This shows you the current settings, e.g. 78 03 78 02 00 00 if you have LPT1 and LPT2 installe

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

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 burn a CD :-) Eric -

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

Hi John, if you have a 386 or newer CPU, it is best to use editors which make use of that to easily process huge files :-) http://setedit.sourceforge.net/#features An alternative might be TDE. See our DOS editor ideas on: http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=edit Things mentioned on our softw

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

Hi Marlon, > Hi, I boot freedos (which is installed in a partition of the hard drive). > I type debug, then I type d 40:8 > > The first line looks like this: ... 0040: [8 not displayed bytes] then ... > -78 03 00 00 00 00 C0 9E This means that you have only one printer port: 378. The othe

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

Hi Ralf and Marlon, to fill in on the historical details: >>> The first line looks like this: >> ... 0040: [8 not displayed bytes] then ... >> >>> -78 03 00 00 00 00 C0 9E >> This means that you have only one printer port: 378. >> The other two ports are 0 (not installed) and after >> that, y

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

> I like having the option to use FDNPKG direct from ibiblio, and connecting > to FreeDOS via Dillodos, but I also like sound for my mplayer and mpxplay > and few vintage arcade games. Thoughts? Add a PCI network card with an old chipset, same for sound. For network, Realtek 8139 is classic, alth

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

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 software em

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS running on Linux

Hi Jim, Alain, Georg et al, > I, for one, would be very interested to see a text-mode "small" Linux > that boots up an instance of DOSEMU instead of login on the first > available virtual terminal. (I'd put a regular Linux login on the > second VT.) For DOS purposes, I would prefer a graphical L

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

Hi Don, > 1) BIOS Set in IDE emulation - NO issues with FDNPKG. > 2) BIOS Set in Native SATA mode with AHCI.SYS, FDNPKG is prevented from > extracting the executable files. Perhaps a security feature of this PC No. AHCI / SATA is just the newer way of talking to various drives compared to IDE.

[Freedos-user] improved driver plans from Jack

Hi DOS users, Jack mentions that he improves the closed-source versions of his drivers, XHDD and XDVD2, by adding smart read-ahead. The smart aspect is that they keep track of how large the CD or DVD in your drive is, to avoid doing read-ahead beyond the end... As with most improvements, this mea

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

Hi FreeDOS fans :-) Bob Ouellette has found a bug in how FreeDOS MODE in the 2005 version fails to correctly set the number of bits per "byte" for the serial port at lower to middle baud rates. A patched version seems to fix his issue, but maybe this is a good time to first patch other issues whi

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

Hi! > Will FreeDOS 1.1 boot under UEFI? If not, is there a software layer > that can sit between UEFI and the OS to emulate a BIOS? > > 73 Matt Rienzo W9ERA B.S.E.E | B.S. Music Modern PC frequently have a BIOS with automatic choice between classic BIOS and modern UEFI boot... If your computer

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

Dear DOS users, via the BTTR DOS forum and Jack I received the following warning: Some mainboards have a BIOS with faulty UDMA in V86 mode support! This CPU mode is used to run "DOS compatible" tasks in Windows or certain virtual environments such as Dosemu for Linux, but it is (importantly) al

[Freedos-user] UltraDMA warning corrected

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. Instead of saying "UDMA" that you and

Re: [Freedos-user] UltraDMA warning corrected

Hi Jim, > I am concerned by this statement from Jack's email: "Take a look at > the sources for Microsoft HIMEM or EMM386, as I have..." This is the > first I was aware that Jack had reviewed any source code from > Microsoft. ... > When Microsoft released the source code to an earlier version o

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

Hi Sparky, > Hey will the chkdsk for fat32 ever be made? ^^; It already exists as (a bit old) dosfstools port: http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=dosfsck If you want dosfsck to either "look like chkdsk" or "work on 8086 and 80286" then please have a look at earlier threads about the issue:

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems with installation

Hi Francisco, > When I attempt to start the FreeDOS using VirtualBox, I get the following DOS > screen: > It says: > JemmEx v5.75 [05/21/11] > System memory found at c900-dfff, region might be in use This may mean that JEMMEX has doubts about whether that area is suitable for use as UMB area.

Re: [Freedos-user] improved driver plans from Jack

Hi! It turns out that this 12/2015 list topic needs an update: > Jack mentions that he improves the closed-source versions of > his drivers, XHDD and XDVD2, by adding smart read-ahead... Jack did some experiments with read-ahead in December, but the performance improvements were smaller than exp

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

Hi Don et al, > USB installer is a different matter. > First, please disable BELL on lbacache - it wreaks havoc on my wifes's > hearing aid. Wait, that is pretty serious! Only really important cache errors beep: - impossible CHS geometry or cylinder in CHS access - unsupported and rather exotic

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

Hi! >> Wait, that is pretty serious! Only really important cache errors beep: ... > Hopefully, it is just from attempted writing of temp files to the locked USB > stick. Well that is still serious. Even if you do something as harmless as copy STUFF SOMEWHERE | more you would still end up 1.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

Hi! >> Well that is still serious. Even if you do something as harmless as >> >> copy STUFF SOMEWHERE | more >> >> you would still end up 1. not seeing the output of "copy" and >> possibly even 2. block the "copy" process by stalling the pipe. >> >> In short, please use a ramdisk for all your pip

Re: [Freedos-user] INTERLINK

Hi! > Just want to know if FreeDOS can run interlink.exe and intersrv.exe > If FreeDOS is compatible with interlink, then what steps should follow? As far as I remember, those provide sector based connection of FAT partitions through a serial or printer port cable: As long as your sector size is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Hi Don, to make a PESSIMISTIC GUESS about the following: > Downloaded and burned to CD. > Lots of "Error writing to drive A: DOS area write protection violation > attempted" errors. Is there reason I am getting this? Yes. Apparently version 1.2pre12 still tries to use pipelines, which in DOS alw

[Freedos-user] HX DOS extender with AC97 and HDA soundcard support

Forwarding from: www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14645 HX DOS Extender 2.17+ with modern sound card support (Announce) posted by Wengier, 16.02.2016, 22:33 As many of you already know, HX DOS Extender, the best DOS extender out there is no longer maintained by Japheth. One major i

Re: [Freedos-user] HX DOS extender with AC97 and HDA soundcard support

> Just for clarification, does this only work with programs loaded > inside dosbox inside HX, or is there any way to get it to work under > DOS directly, with HX loaded but without DOSbox? I'm still thinking > of dualbooting one of my machines with DOS but I need some way of > doing either USB ser

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Hi Louis and Jerome, as advanced user, I am against installers zapping my MBR without even looking at it. I would need a bootable CD to repair my boot menu, or would need to know how to do that with DOS. Enough users neither have boot repair CD prepared nor know how to use DOS tool methods for re

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Hi! > Matuesz, I actually went and tested this. MS-DOS 6.22 [0] > handles the MBR that same way as FDI [1] does. :/ Both leave a broken > MBR, one that cannot boot into the newly installed DOS. Ouch. Note that MS DOS is from the time where nobody had any other operating system previously insta

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Hi Jerome, >> - user has another OS and DOS must not kill the boot menu without asking >> >> - user made a virtual computer for DOS, the disk contains nothing at all > > - user has some old hardware they want to install and play with a newer DOS. > >> In the second case, it is good to automatic

Re: [Freedos-user] State of native FD 1.1 programs support for FAT32?

Hi John, most DOS programs do not care at all what type of drive you use. Only disk manipulation matters: For example CHKDSK does not, but the alternative DOSFSCK does support fat32. Support in FORMAT & FDISK is complete. Support in DEFRAG is very limited. What else would you like to know about

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 BETA, Coming soon--ish.

Hi Jerome, please explain what goes wrong with Dosbox, Freecom and V8: It might go wrong in the same way in other situations, so it may be better to always use the safe Dosbox compatible configuration. Is it about virtual drives? Dosemu and Qemu also have features to simulate non-diskimage drive

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing in FreeDOS

Hi Dosgeek, > Just a quick poll to see how many users are actually running > a printer in FreeDOS. > What kind of printer are you using? > Dot Matrix > Ink Jet > Laser > Other > I have an Epson NOS LQ-2070 Dot Matrix (Parallel interface) on the way and > am anxious about the setup and the end

Re: [Freedos-user] Drive Mapping SWSUBST

Hi Dosgeek, > I am working on a dedicated server. So far I have managed to successfully > install WordPerfect Office LAN, my LAN PowerMenu and LAN version of Lotus > 1-2-3 version 2.3. All programs are accessible to at least 2 client > machines. > SWSUBST F: C: is loaded during the autoexec & be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

Hi Jerome et al, to add my vote: I agree that people rarely have sticks smaller than 2 GB. So while we are not always using a tool to put 500 MB of DOS data on sticks of arbitrary size, keeping the free space accessible for DOS, it is a good workaround to "ship" the FreeDOS USB stick image as 2 G

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Original versions of DOS software (offering diskettes and manuals)

Hi, here is some news from Bonnie: She cannot write to the list at the moment, but she can read it. Please contact Bonnie Dalzell using bdalzell at qis.net if you have questions. Additional info: Bonnie does not have a floppy drive at the moment, so she can not check or use the floppies. It would

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi! > XMGR along with UIDE and several other packages have been dropped from > FreeDOS 1.2. > > This was not my decision. But, I completely agree with the reasoning behind > their removal. There were small doubts about XMGR being clean-room without MS HIMEM contamination but no other packages

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi! >> and my sound (Intel high-definition audio) has no DOS support from what >> I read on this emailing list, > > No universal or "good" support, but a very very few DOS apps do have > (some) limited HDA support. Which? Mpxplay, maybe a port of mplayer, experimental ports of the HX DOS extend

Re: [Freedos-user] PNP ISA network card locks during early boot with PS/2 mouse connected

> Bottom line is that PnP doesn't work (properly) for ISA cards... Indeed, back in the time PnP was only a nice idea. You needed that ICU software and it still was more hassle than non-PnP ISA cards where you would just set the jumpers manually but at least the results were what you planned :-) F

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi! In particular: Hi Rugxulo, hi Jim, hi Bret, hi Jerome ;-) >> CRYNWR - Unknown License, Dropped. > > Uh ... "most" of it should be (intentionally) GPL, but there are still > some pieces (e.g. RTSPKT.COM) that aren't. Would be good to have! >> MPXPLAY - Unknown License, Dropped. > > SF.net

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi Jerome, > Mostly, I think your interpretation matches mine. However, when UIDE was > used FDINST would throw random errors. Why? IDK. It was suggested that > command line switches could be used to help correct the issue. However... It would not be the first driver which is not always automati

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

I would like to agree with Tom: It is good that FreeDOS comes with a nice collection of drivers for modern hardware! Those times when a DOS driver was included when people bought their CD drive have long passed. Also, there are no reasons to limit our distro to those minimal features of a few MS D

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi Jerome, > Except for the following packages all other dropped and questionable > packages are listed at the beginning of this thread. This list of Please cite the beginning-of-this-thread snippet, it is a long thread. > packages shipped with 1.1 and are not presently in 1.2. None of these >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification - UMBPCI

Hi Don, >> UMBPCI - Listed as free, No sources, Not Included. > > http://www.uwe-sieber.de/umbpci_e.html > * Conditions and Download* > The original version came from the german magazine c't > , but there were several problems and no free > updates. This version is base

Re: [Freedos-user] command / shell conflict

Hi Don, > How do I upload? It seems we still have a 40k limit on our posts. > Mine is awaiting moderator approval That will not happen. Do NOT send files to freedos-user, because MANY MANY recipients will get the file while only a few need or want the file! Instead, OFFER to send the file: Peopl

Re: [Freedos-user] command / shell conflict

Hi Bret, the problem of using but not reserving memory for the kernel in FreeDOS sounds vaguely similar to the problem of HMA usage in DOS in general: DOS installs trampoline handlers outside HMA which make sure that the HMA is actually enabled before DOS calls code there. Maybe a similar approa

Re: [Freedos-user] command / shell conflict

??? > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Don Flowers wrote: >> I'm going to try a couple of things in DOS 5.0 and DOS 6.20, I'll be back. >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Eric Auer wrote: ... >>> the problem of using but not reserving memory for the kernel in F

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

Hi! As Rufus only gives you the minimal files to boot DOS at all, you should probably download some additional drivers to play your game. In particular, try HIMEM. However, your listing seems to be incomplete - no kernel or command.com are shown, but obviously you must have them, otherwise you cou

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

Hi guys, > “FreeDOS is a complete operating system. If you choose to install > this on your computer, you may overwrite the operating system you > have now (for example, Windows.) If this is not what you intend, > please stop now.” That leads to the IMPORTANT questions: * Is it easy enough to m

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