Re: [Freedos-user] A fantasy of a future for FreeDOS

2010-04-13 Thread Liam Proven
itable Free software >> available: lightweight window managers, editors, Internet tools and so >> on. > > This is a great idea! But we need skilled people to be able to do this... Yes indeed. But then, there clearly are some skilled people working on FreeDOS! -- Liam Proven • Pr

Re: [Freedos-user] A fantasy of a future for FreeDOS

2010-04-13 Thread Liam Proven
his already exists anyway :-) OK, true, but it's less help without a multitasker. > Not that it would really help you with X and GUI, though... Well, it would, *if* one had a multitasking "hypervisor" on top of DOS. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamprov

Re: [Freedos-user] Eric Auer's "A Fantasy of a future..."

2010-04-13 Thread Liam Proven
e solved by reviving Freedos 32 Precisely the thing I was arguing /against./ :¬) > and emulating the > older hardware that the modern stuff is replacing. Frankly, I think that's a ridiculous idea. >  Memory protection > and memory management are doable on x86 computers where

Re: [Freedos-user] Eric Auer's "A Fantasy of a future..."

2010-04-14 Thread Liam Proven
g.  An alternative is to revive Freedos 32 and develop > a simple GUI for it that will attract open source programmers. Thus completely ignoring and failing to address my reasoned argument why that would be a bad idea. Gd... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven

Re: [Freedos-user] Eric Auer's "A Fantasy of a future..."

2010-04-14 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > Liam Proven wrote: > >> why on earth would a whole team of volunteers spend >> years cloning a large, complex, obsolete & dead OS that was already >> technically irrelevant a decade ago? > > This i

Re: [Freedos-user] Eric Auer's "A Fantasy of a future..."

2010-04-15 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 11:53 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: >> They have got a very long way and it's a tremendously impressive >> project. You do them a grave disservice by criticising & bad-mouthing >> them t

Re: [Freedos-user] Partitioning and formatting hard disks

2010-05-18 Thread Liam Proven
you can't, ask me; if I can find an old copy, I'll send it to you. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL

Re: [Freedos-user] Partitioning and formatting hard disks

2010-05-18 Thread Liam Proven
1ººpci.dbn         547,467 06-11-02 > 20:48º > º   517,056k free bytes on drive C:    ºº   471,520k free bytes on drive D:   >  º > È[ A C D E F * # ]ͼÈ[ A C D E F * # > ]ÍÍÍÍÍÙ It's hard to read that here because of lots of extra incorrec

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2010-05-18 Thread Liam Proven
erved for FreeBSD ] [ extended start [NTFS, Win2K] [NTFS, Win7/64] [Ubuntu root] [Spare Linux ext3 volume] end extended ] With a 2nd drive reserved for data. BSD and Solaris will not install into logical partitions, so I must set aside primaries for them - but all versions of Linux and Windo

Re: [Freedos-user] Liam Proven comment

2010-05-20 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:28 AM, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br wrote: > Liam Proven wrote: > >>Ahh, OK. Fair enough, that makes sense. The "legal" >>layout for DOS, then, would be: >> 1 primary partition >> 1 extended partition >>   \ >>   [lo

Re: [Freedos-user] Liam Proven comment

2010-05-20 Thread Liam Proven
whole new start. And at the end of the day, it's Microsoft's filesystem and it can do whatever it wants with it. Yes, no other vendor could do it, but no other vendor owns FAT. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Or

Re: [Freedos-user] Liam Proven comment

2010-05-20 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Alain Mouette wrote: > > Em 20-05-2010 01:28, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br escreveu: >> Liam Proven  wrote: >> >>> Don't try to create 3 primary partitions - in DOS >>> terms, that is an illegal layout. >> >>   I

Re: [Freedos-user] Liam Proven comment

2010-05-21 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Alain Mouette wrote: > > Em 20-05-2010 15:44, Liam Proven escreveu: >> >> You have been lucky. I have seen many incorrectly-partitioned systems >> with multiple primaries where some drives were not visible, on various >> versions

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout comments

2010-05-22 Thread Liam Proven
y of making them, >>but if you know how to make them it allways worked >>since MSDOS-3. > >>(Liam Proven) >> You have been lucky. I have seen many incorrectly- >>partitioned systems with multiple primaries where >>some drives were not visible, on various versi

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout comments

2010-05-22 Thread Liam Proven
2 KiB) for partitions up to almost 2 GiB You are absolutely right. I should have taken more care - sorry. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-

Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port problems

2010-05-24 Thread Liam Proven
card is not usable by freedos It should work. Do you have any basic DOS diagnostics like MSD or Quarterdeck's MFT? It might be worth checking that the add-in card is on LPT1: - it is possible it's on LPT2: or LPT3: instead. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven

Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port problems

2010-05-24 Thread Liam Proven
MSD or >>Quarterdeck's MFT? It might be worth checking that the add-in card is >>on LPT1: - it is possible it's on LPT2: or LPT3: instead. >> >>-- >>Liam Proven > > thanks liam > i am onsite again in the morning to check it out further > its a plain

Re: [Freedos-user] First time user for Freeedos- can I run PCNFS?

2010-05-27 Thread Liam Proven
SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files into something rather spaghetti-like, but it wrung out every last byte of free RAM. I suspect you might get further with that than with FreeDOS, although I could be wrong... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GM

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos-user Digest, Vol 375, Issue 1, networking software

2010-07-17 Thread Liam Proven
rivers for it. DOS 5.1? I don't remember any such version. InterLink appeared around the time of MS-DOS 6, I think, and I found it very hand for many years. I never was a fan of Laplink. :¬) -- Liam Proven • Profile & links: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.u

Re: [Freedos-user] Little Sister

2010-09-08 Thread Liam Proven
are gathered? How are they output, to where? I don't really use DOS any more, so I'm afraid I am unlikely to use your tool; I am just trying to clarify what you are being asked for, as you seem not to be getting it. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lp

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-07-01 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS live stream event with VCF

2024-07-01 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ike there aren't enough hours in the day to research and write the things! I am a speedreader and I recently learned that my average not-trying-too-hard speed is 4-5x a typical average, but still, it's hard. Any company which only presents into as videos does not get written about. Not by me

Re: [Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

2024-07-25 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
Bitlocker, and without the keys, no other OS could access the drive to fix it. So, yes, nice idea, but in practice flawed... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM:

Re: [Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

2024-07-26 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
l Linux onto an NTFS partition! https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/22/install_linux_on_ntfs/ (That is one of my articles.) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 76

[Freedos-user] Wordstar 7 archive

2024-08-01 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
>From Canadian SF novelist Robert J Sawyer. (I've met him and read quite a few of his books. I like them.) He writes solely in WordStar so he's put together a freebie distro of the final version. https://sfwriter.com/blog/?p=5806 -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/lia

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing for 8086 CPU on SD Card.

2024-08-21 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
088/8086 PC. Only the upgraded PC-1512 (and the later PC-1640) had 640kB of course. Stock models had 512kB, thus the number in the model name. Which makes this even more important. There's a tenuous historical justification: the PC-1512 shipped with DR DOS-Plus in the box, which is an ancestor

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FreeDOS Be Installed By Means Of UNIX Commands?

2023-07-17 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
more. FUD FAQs: * Yes, you can boot a GPT disk in BIOS mode. * No, you do not need UEFI, but your BIOS does need to support it. Most have done for 15-20 years or more. * No, it does not only apply to disks over 2TB; you can partition a 256GB drive with GPT if you want, and I've done it.

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

2023-08-07 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
r 1024*768 at all. Pity. Sadly my copy is in another country right now. I can't upload it anywhere. But it was possible, and it was a very small simple program -- IIRC it shipped on one 720 kB floppy. It would probably be quite easy to clone and reimplement. -- Liam Proven ~ Prof

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

2023-08-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 18:50, Alexandro Hipólito via Freedos-user wrote: > > HI, Hi. Please do not hijack other people's threads. Start your own new thread. Then we will try to answer. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTa

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound is too loud when running a BOOM source port

2023-08-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 18:00, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote: > > Any idea on what should I do? This seems to obvious to mention, but hey... Turn the volume knob on your speakers down? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound is too loud when running a BOOM source port

2023-08-15 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 at 18:36, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user wrote: > Well, Liam, you owe me a full cup of coffee (I might be able to salvage > the keyboard)... :-D (I saw the to/too typo the second I hit "send"...) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: l

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on an iMac 2011 (with good reason)

2023-10-05 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
f the fans are on full that means you've not enabled power management. DOS runs the main CPU at full speed all the time unless told to do something else. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~

Re: [Freedos-user] Some USB-Stick problems

2023-10-26 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
e creator; I can put you in touch, if you wish. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420

Re: [Freedos-user] Some USB-Stick problems

2023-10-26 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
er with a power regulator is sufficient, no extra controller > or card reader necessary Strongly concur with Eric here. If you can eliminate USB storage, I think that will work better with DOS. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB:

Re: [Freedos-user] One use case for FreeDos

2024-01-31 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ct. There was some enthusiastic approval of this notion. I have been working on such a thing myself for 5Y now but 4Y ago I had a daughter and being a dad in my 50s has got in the way... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmai

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Stick and Bios

2024-01-31 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
extended holding logical drives. I don't _think_ BIOSes decide on the basis of format; the device detection stuff happens first. Maybe on size? Superfloppies got up to about 120MB. I don't recall much bigger. SCSI lets devices report if they are removable or not. I don't know if US

Re: [Freedos-user] "Upgrade" from MS-DOS 6.2.2

2024-02-24 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
hat, not from a HDD partition. On some firmware, this makes the BIOS do lots of USB handling and emulation and things work better. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+

Re: [Freedos-user] "Upgrade" from MS-DOS 6.2.2 (fwd)

2024-02-28 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
usly I had killfiled you. I only saw your mail because I removed that filter. I will reinstate it as soon as I hit "send" on this message. I have tried to help you twice now. You have in both cases responded with vitriol and abuse. Never again. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/

Re: [Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

2024-03-01 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ot-boot-problems-by-reinstalling-grub-on-linux.htm The Boot-repair tool may help you: https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liampro

Re: [Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

2024-03-04 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ive, and Linux's GRUB passes control to the 1st partition.) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Si

Re: [Freedos-user] Adapter PCMCIA to CF

2024-03-07 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
re good reasons this stuff did not catch on and go mainstream until the era of Windows 95 and 98, which built in the support and automated the configuration. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lprov

Re: [Freedos-user] QEMU - Max size of Linux access folder

2024-03-11 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
for 18.04 are to 18.10 (now long dead) or to 20.04. Then, from 20.04 the OP could go to 22.04... and for now, that's it. 24.04 isn't out yet. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Sky

Re: [Freedos-user] QEMU - Max size of Linux access folder

2024-03-11 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
2GB and it still supports x86-32... for now. It's based on Debian, it uses a mere 200MB of RAM at idle, it's based on LXDE, and it's free, of course. https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/raspberry-pi-desktop/ It does not have Snap or Flatpak but it does use systemd. -- Liam Prove

Re: [Freedos-user] QEMU - Max size of Linux access folder

2024-03-13 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
t as Ubuntu 13.10. Still 100% working, as are all apps. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]:

Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

2024-03-15 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
t out, not to explore options for DOS. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp

Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

2024-03-17 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ost anything else is better. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/

Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

2024-03-18 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
> learning to program). 100% agreed. > I simply guarantee that you won't be able to write a program that crashes any > version of modern Windows Dosbox. > I fail to see the advantage. Also true. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~

Re: [Freedos-user] Adapter PCMCIA to CF

2024-04-03 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ausible. The latter scenario is what I know, which is why I earlier posted that PCMCIA from DOS is complicated, difficult, and best avoided. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: li

Re: [Freedos-user] Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

2024-04-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
uch as MultiUser DOS. Some are even FOSS: https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501 There are multitasking layers you can load on top of DOS, such as DESQview. But no, unaided DOS can't do that. In the 21st century DOS is more or less "the old PC OS that did not multitask." Th

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

2024-04-11 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ls and they emit total nonsense -- such as this. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+

Re: [Freedos-user] Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

2024-04-11 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
It's also not terribly stable in my testing. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/

Re: [Freedos-user] Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

2024-04-12 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 02:46, Jose Senna via Freedos-user wrote: > Would someone please provide a copy of this article in a platform > that is not at odds with Brazilian courts ? Just use archive.org or archive.ph or archive.is or any one of lots of others. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile:

Re: [Freedos-user] cannot boot installation media

2024-04-30 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
filesystem, it can use FAT16 or FAT32, which to boot must be in a primary partition on the 1st drive. Yes, Linux will detect it if `os-prober` is enabled in GRUB. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Lin

Re: [Freedos-user] documentation update

2024-05-10 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
linux/comments/hqm7z2/xdeb_a_simple_utility_to_convert_debian_packages/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal

Re: [Freedos-user] the msdos 4.0 sources has some multitasking code

2024-05-15 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
elease. Microsoft is not willing to go to even the minimal effort of searching its own archives for the other versions to release them, but if someone else finds the code, it will permit the release under a permissive licence. It's not much but it's better than nothing. -- Liam Proven

Re: [Freedos-user] the msdos 4.0 sources has some multitasking code

2024-05-16 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ders and get rights from them. Much too much work! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven oM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]:

Re: [Freedos-user] the msdos 4.0 sources has some multitasking code

2024-05-16 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
cence". *If* the code was verified as unmodified MS code and _then_ *if* MS wrent to the extra work of removing all 3rd party code or obtaining clearance, it would then _and only then_ be able to relicence the resulting code. MS cannot relicense code it did not write. -- Liam Proven ~ Profi

Re: [Freedos-user] the msdos 4.0 sources has some multitasking code

2024-05-16 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
t's over. Then I'd believe it a little tiny bit that MS means it when it says it loves FOSS. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven : (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7

Re: [Freedos-user] Web forum

2024-05-23 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 17:30, Norby Droid via Freedos-user wrote: > > Would there be any interest in a web forum for FreeDos? Please no. :-( -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~

Re: [Freedos-user] Enable VGA . FreeDos does not recognize external screen.

2024-10-09 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
CD (device display) ● External VGA (most external monitors) » -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ Whats

Re: [Freedos-user] Nvidia GeForce 2 MX

2024-10-09 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ugh, you will not be able to do it, is the simple answer. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Te

Re: [Freedos-user] Nvidia GeForce 2 MX

2024-10-09 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 at 17:05, Daniel Doran via Freedos-user wrote: > Anyone know why this is happening? Time to start looking for free and empty upper memory blocks and adding some exclude parameters to JEMM386, just like in the old days. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liampro

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos on raspberry pi.

2024-10-19 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
x27;t work. That is true but not for why you say. The Raspberry Pi is an Arm device. DOS is deeply tied to the x86-16 CPU model, with some x86-32 extensions. It is not meaningfully possible to create anything usefully like DOS for an Arm chip. So, in summary, no really, no, and oh my no. -- Liam Pr

[Freedos-user] ITX-Llama

2024-10-19 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
A $70 modern DOS-compatible x86 system-on-module, adapted to fit a ($300) Mini-ITX motherboard. https://github.com/eivindbohler/itxllama In other words: new DOS-compatible PC hardware in 2024. Online store: https://retrodreams.ca/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos on raspberry pi.

2024-10-21 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ion, called EmuTOS. https://emutos.sourceforge.io/ It's worth saying, though, that CP/M-68K was a bit of a commercial flop, as were other non-8080 (or maybe more to the point non-Z80) forms of CP/M (CP/M-86, CP/M-8000) -- because as you say no existing apps worked. -- Liam Proven ~ Profi

[Freedos-user] Demo video on Youtube

2024-10-23 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ow. He also demonstrates PGME -- but, as I have reported here again recently, his mouse does not work correctly. I suggest trying to get GEOS working and replacing GEM, Ozone and Seal. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-10-31 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
53 Another source: https://icop-shop.com/product/som-128-ex/ Info about it: https://www.86duino.com/?p=374 Here's the motherboard for it: https://retrodreams.ca/products/itx-llama-mainboard Docs and tools: https://github.com/eivindbohler/itxllama -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

2024-10-31 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 22:23, Jose Senna via Freedos-user wrote: > If there are open source PC bioses around, they >could be used, perhaps with some modifications. "If"? Of course there is. https://www.seabios.org/SeaBIOS -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liampr

Re: [Freedos-user] A list of programs for writing images of FreeDos to various media

2024-09-30 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
efore it. Ideally, trim the reply to the big you are responding to. Use plain text, not HTML, with no formatting. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612:

Re: [Freedos-user] A list of programs for writing images of FreeDos to various media

2024-09-30 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
sy, looks good. Snag: it is huge, because it is an Electron app. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Tele

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2024-11-29 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
edium, then. Check the images in a VM: a VM should boot from them easily. Or use Ventoy, which is a really easy way to make USB keys boot. FreeDOS 1.3 works from Ventoy: I've tried it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@g

Re: [Freedos-user] January 2038 problem

2024-11-15 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
and it will teach you stuff you NEED to know. https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612:

Re: [Freedos-user] Logical Partitions

2024-12-20 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
ree download, and the best tool of its kind IMHO) can hide other partitions to make this easier. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 79

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

2024-11-22 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 at 13:24, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user wrote: > One of them is the "BNS Build". This one comes with the > Provox screen reader enabled during installation and is then installed > along with the core SvarDOS packages. Thanks for the clarification

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

2024-11-22 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
century thing and it's largely disappeared now. > Orca is, as I understand it, a virtual graphical desktop for Linux No, it is not. Orca is a screenreader for the GNOME desktop and other desktops built using the GNOME toolkit -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpr

Re: [Freedos-user] Logical Partitions

2024-12-23 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
So I now created a third primary > partition for FreeDOS, and it all works. Thanks for the information on how > things work. Great! Glad to hear that. :-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn:

Re: [Freedos-user] Import DOS executable to FreeDOS 1.4 over Virtual Box

2025-05-06 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
tps://www.theregister.com/2025/04/26/dos_distraction_free_writing/ Based in part on this blog post from 9y ago: https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/50416.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: l

Re: [Freedos-user] Import DOS executable to FreeDOS 1.4 over Virtual Box

2025-05-07 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
led to get modern FreeDOS booting in DOSemu2. Do you know of any instructions, docs, or a guide? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS install

2025-05-07 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
com/2025/04/26/dos_distraction_free_writing/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+42

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS friendly search engine and AI issues

2025-05-31 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Fri, 30 May 2025 at 11:05, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote: > > Hi! While reading on The Register about search enshittification by AI Oh, that was one of mine. Glad you liked it. :-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB

Re: [Freedos-user] change number of Rows (Lines?) in system font in cga

2025-06-20 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
tps://archive.org/details/uv_20250610 The author is, sadly, dead, so he will not sue. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/john-jurewicz-obituary?id=25431563 -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/

Re: [Freedos-user] A few questions about installing

2025-07-19 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
were lots of powerful DOS editors and many are on here as free downloads: https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/ All 100% checked and legit, no "abandonware". -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven ~ LinkedIn/X/FB: lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ Google: lpro...@gmail

Re: [Freedos-user] A few questions about installing

2025-07-11 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
of it online. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven ~ LinkedIn/X/FB: lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ Google: lpro...@gmail.com IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 ___

Re: [Freedos-user] A few questions about installing

2025-07-11 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
7;s the kernel from DR-DOS 7.01 with many enhancements. Built for a 486 with memory management. Not a good choice for a '186 or an emulator. I meant what I said, I stand by it, and it's based on coming up on 40 years of specialist expert knowledge. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://abo

Re: [Freedos-user] A few questions about installing

2025-07-11 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
aid: DR-DOS 3.41. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven ~ LinkedIn/X/FB: lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ Google: lpro...@gmail.com IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

2025-07-03 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 at 23:35, Daniel Essin via Freedos-user wrote: > > I have no idea what kind of hardware you have access to so I asked gemini. Please do not post bot slop to the list. If you didn't write it yourself, don't post it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://abo

Re: [Freedos-user] Gaming Controller

2025-06-30 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
I thought it might be instructive to simplify the question to make the answer more general... On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 03:21, david--- via Freedos-user wrote: > > Does FreeDOS14 have a driver for USB No. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS on a 8086

2025-07-31 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
umented at the time. https://www.seasip.info/AmstradXT/v30cpu.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven ~ LinkedIn/X/FB: lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ Google: lpro...@gmail.com IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]:

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