On 11/20/2014 9:49 PM, Dinosaur wrote:
> An IRQ clash is possible if Cutemouse uses IRQ4 from Com1.
>
IRQ4 is the default for COM1 (and COM3) ever since the IBM PC, likewise
IRQ3 is assigned by default to COM2 and COM4.
This is a BIOS/"Industry standard" ever this the original IBM PC,
nothing spe
On 11/23/2014 12:16 PM, Dennis Holierhoek wrote:
But can it also run 8-bit programs? And 4-bit?
Seriously? :-\
Or are you just trolling?
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On 11/23/2014 10:49 PM, Dennis Holierhoek wrote:
>
> I am not trolling, just wondering
>
Well, start with learning what DOS (as in MS-/PC-/DR-/FreeDOS) is in the
first place...
Why would you even expect it to run 8bit "programs"? Where do those are
supposed to come from?
And where do you get "4b
On 11/24/2014 1:26 AM, TJ Edmister wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:16:19 -0500, Dennis Holierhoek
> wrote:
>
>> But can it also run 8-bit programs? And 4-bit?
>>
> In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30
> CPU which is 8086 compatible while also featuring an 8080 em
On 11/24/2014 11:08 AM, Carl Spitzer wrote:
> Isn't the Z80 what the Space Shuttle and space Telescope used until
> the last decade. I seem to remember my old RS-4P was a Z80 chip. CWSIV
Nope, the Space Shuttle's main computer was from IBM, based on a
radiation-hardened version of a 32bit System/
On 11/24/2014 5:13 PM, David Kerber wrote:
> On 11/24/2014 7:57 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>> On 11/24/2014 11:08 AM, Carl Spitzer wrote:
>>> Isn't the Z80 what the Space Shuttle and space Telescope used until
>>> the last decade. I seem to remember my old RS-4P was a Z8
On 11/25/2014 4:20 AM, Alain Mouette wrote:
> Em 24-11-2014 22:38, Ralf Quint escreveu:
>> In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30
>> CPU which is 8086 compatible while also featuring an 8080 emulation mode.
>> NEC also made a special version
On 11/29/2014 6:18 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I'm getting error "overloaded or off line" at your link.
> The link I tried was for registered users only.
> The sound drivers all downloaded without any problem but
> the main link to the program doesn't work here for some reason.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 29 N
On 11/30/2014 2:00 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I got it to download finally. It seems that it doesn't like Opera.
> I tried IE and it worked. I wonder why it hates Opera.
> Opera always worked before.
>
Just tried it with Opera 26 and it worked just fine as well...
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On 12/2/2014 6:33 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> FAT16 is limited to 8 gigs but FAT32 goes much higher. I kinda remember
> Wikopedia saying 2T but could easily be wrong.
>
Excuse me?
FAT16 is limited to 2 (two) Gigabyte with the 'standard" maximum cluster
size of 32KB. With the 64GB cluster size supp
On 12/2/2014 4:57 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Serial devices are always slow; I don't know how they get around it.
> SD cards are serial like SATA and they really are slow. The hard drive
> clock must be super fast to get those speeds. They also have to transfer
> handshakes serially. I wonder how
On 12/2/2014 10:30 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> It was reported recently that SourceForge has changed the way they
> allow subscriptions to their email lists. So one guy with an old setup
> suddenly couldn't subscribe because his (old Opera) web browser
> couldn't validate certificates (or something wei
On 12/3/2014 5:23 AM, Dave Kerber wrote:
> That's an OS and old hardware issue, It's not inherent to SD.
> To a certain extent it is. SD has a slower interface than CF does.
> That's why all high-end cameras use CF rather than SD cards.
>
Really? All my clients that use "high-end cameras" (this i
On 12/3/2014 8:36 AM, dmccunney wrote:
> a plugin." The HTML5 keyword *does* require a codec to decode
> and stream the content, but the codec will be delivered with the
> browser and be part of the browser environment. You don't need a
> third-party program called from the browser.
And this is
On 12/3/2014 12:58 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>> On 12/2/2014 6:33 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>>> FAT16 is limited to 8 gigs but FAT32 goes much higher. I kinda remember
>>> Wikopedia saying 2T but could easily be wrong.
&g
On 12/3/2014 1:01 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>> On 12/3/2014 8:36 AM, dmccunney wrote:
>>> a plugin." The HTML5 keyword *does* require a codec to decode
>>> and stream the content, but the codec will be delivered wit
On 12/3/2014 1:04 PM, Dave Kerber wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Ralf Quint [mailto:freedos...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 3:41 PM
>> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60
>>
On 12/14/2014 4:26 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering whether one of the reasons why old computers
> fail is that the BIOS gets corrupted over time because it is
> stored in rewritable media.
>
BIOS is for quite a wile in a FlashROM type of memory, which is only
On 12/16/2014 2:50 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> Hardware is steadily smaller, faster, and cheaper. Have fun finding a
> new x86 machine these days that *isn't* 64 bit. ARM is still largely
> 32 bit, but that's changing too, and we're likely to
On 12/16/2014 3:56 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> I was talking about what you see if you go to purchase a
> desktop/laptop/netbook/what have you. IoT kit is not stuff end users
> will run to access the Internet and browse websites.
Then why would you use DOS for those kind of tasks? It's the same thing.
On 12/16/2014 4:01 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> Even if all Intel based PCs are equipped with 64bit capable CPUs, they
>> will just as happy run 32bit or even 16bit code just fine.
> Assuming OS support is there. The instruction set is the same.
> Various system calls may not be. If you want to run DO
On 1/16/2015 11:02 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
> Well, I cleared my history, deleted cookies and have the same result.
> Oddly, In FreeDOS, FDNPKG works and I just tried DilloDOS and I have
> access, so it must be a FireFox issue?
Negative. Works here just fine,using Firefox 35.0 on Windows 8.1/64...
On 1/16/2015 5:36 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
> Could this be a linux issue? I installed a couple of different
> browsers (Chrome and Qupzilla on two different machines and I have the
> same result
>
Not per se. Just for the record, I tried Opera 26 and the latest Chrome
on my Windows 8.1 laptop as w
On 1/30/2015 7:43 AM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Rinaldo Guelpa
> wrote:
>> Hello Friends,
>> I wish to use the dosbox in an 2.5 gig computer to run some text based
>> programs I am not into games.
> Which programs?
>
>> Can someone help me please help. I wish to use the
On 2/2/2015 5:18 AM, Knute Myhrvold wrote:
I want to run Fractint, an old DOS fractal image generater.
I used to run it on Win95, 98, and NT, and it will run on some
WinXPmachines, but not mine.
So I have installed VirtualBox and finally successfully installed
FreeDOS as a Guest in it... in the
On 2/2/2015 9:37 AM, Knute Myhrvold wrote:
Ralf,
I did: type FRACTINT at the command line... have tried that several
times.
Well, good old Albert Einstein is attributed to shave said "It is
insanity to do the same thing over and over again and expect different
results"
Was I in the proper Fo
On 2/2/2015 4:47 PM, Knute Myhrvold wrote:
> Dennis,
> Thank you kindly.
> Actually, I have to admit that I have already installed that
> FreeDOS-Fractint.ova into my VBox. When I type the command "dir" into it it
> shows FRACTINT along with the other normal FreeDOS files. But I still can't
> get
On 2/2/2015 5:00 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
It sounds like you are trying to do it right. You must include the path
on your
command. Is it possible that you are missing a file - like a license file
in
you directory. It may be free now but was probably once shareware that
died
after a period if unp
On 2/3/2015 11:51 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> What is VM short for.?
>
Virtual Machine. A very common abbreviation these days... ;-)
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On 2/9/2015 7:57 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> thanks for help,
>
> Eric Auer wrote:
>> Hi Franta,
>>
>>> struct dosemu_detect {
>>> char magic[8];
>>> unsigned char ver[4];
>>> };
>>> static struct dosemu_detect far *p = (void far*)
On 2/10/2015 3:38 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
> Ralf Quint wrote:
>> On 2/9/2015 7:57 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
>>>
>>> Pointers and things around them are for me still a little
>>> incomprehensible ;)
>> If you want to program in C, then there is
On 2/10/2015 4:04 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
> 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 str
On 2/10/2015 5:34 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>> I perform Dosemu detection according to instruction and example in this
>> old FreeDOS maillist thread:
>> http://marc.info/?l=freedos-dev&m=88425176918117&w=2
> I know you sent similar e-mail about mixed environments in the past.
> Normally you wouldn't want
On 2/13/2015 1:42 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>> On 2/10/2015 5:34 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>> But again, DOSEMU isn't widely deployed, so lots of people don't use
>>> it. It still works fairly w
On 2/14/2015 3:58 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> Since USB function comes up from time to time, I am sharing the below.
> This in no way diminishes the fine drivers provided by Brett. Instead,
> someone sent it to me, and as I had not found this one before I am
> sharing.
>
>
> http://ww
On 2/14/2015 5:01 PM, Christopher Evans wrote:
> Do those come with Open source code ? I tried to write a USB driver
> for NX-DOS, it might be good idea to integrate these into the kernel.
>
Did you see my previous reply? Apparently not...
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On 2/17/2015 9:38 AM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> I am looking for the above.
>
> any thoughts?
>
Well, not sure what exactly you mean by "ignore eol character", but the
SEE editor that is part of the DeSmet C can handle very large files in
plain DOS (mainly limited by the drive space, as it handles
On 3/17/2015 1:42 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
> but due to some Sourceforge / Opera incompatibility, Jack can not
> announce it here himself?
Its not an "incompatibility" but it seems some people are just missing
the boat and don't know that in recent weeks a lot of old, no longer
safe cipher suites ha
On 3/30/2015 12:23 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
Where did you get ms dos 7.1 as a stand alone package without Windows?
I use PC dos 7.1 alone but have never seen a MS version.
Because there is no such thing. Anyone claiming to run *MS*-DOS 7.1 is
using a hacked version of Windows 9x. (<- that's a
On 3/31/2015 6:15 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I installed the dos 7.1 on a 4gig cf chip. It come with a gnu licence but
> belongs to microsoft - strange. It looks alot like freedos ; but I think
> FREEDOS
> is better - more to it. It uses cutemouse and a bunch of Linux stuff not
> native to microso
On 5/19/2015 1:00 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
> Tom F*** Y**!
>
You seriously need to adjust your attitude pal, there is no place for
this in here...=-O
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On 5/20/2015 12:22 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
> Sorry! too Old hardware.
>
? Care to explain WHY?
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On 5/20/2015 12:46 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
> Yes Software diden´t work!
>
That's not an explanation. And it's DOS for crying out loud. There can't
be any hardware too old to run a DOS program on...
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On 5/20/2015 12:59 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
> Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource
>
You really need to work on the way you are trying to express yourself. I
don't understand one bi of your comments in regards to the Infocom game
engine...
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On 5/20/2015 1:10 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
> Fuck youself...
>
Sorry, don't play your games. But might have a try with the Infocom stuff...
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On 5/20/2015 1:08 PM, Dario Roncone wrote:
> Yes i know it... 8080 Intel 2x86 3x86 Dx/Sx intel MMX amdSSE SSE2.
>
Doesn't look like it...
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On 5/21/2015 1:04 AM, David Griffith wrote:
> I guess my next step is to bring one of my older machines home, clean
> it up, install FreeDOS, and get to work with Turbo C++'s debugger. Can
> anyone offer any explanation why a program would run fine in DOSbox
> and crash on real hardware?
DOSBox
On 5/21/2015 8:00 PM, David Griffith wrote:
> What do you mean by saving the game progress? All Z-machine
> implemenations allow you to save your progress.
The steps/answers/instructions in the game to get to the point where it
crashes...
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Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the
www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org...
Does anyone know what is going on with that site?
I just hope that this not the result of the spat with Jiri's Open-Watcom
2.0 fork... :-\
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On 5/23/2015 4:09 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>> Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the
>> www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org...
>>
>> Does anyone know what is goi
On 5/23/2015 7:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>> Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the
>> www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org...
>>
>> Does anyone know
On 5/23/2015 8:12 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>> On 5/23/2015 7:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>> Like Dennis said, there's an OW fork available on SourceForge, which
>>> does have 2.0-pre binaries (even for DOS), that was u
On 5/24/2015 5:33 PM, David Griffith wrote:
> It has been a long time since I've used the Turbo C 3.0 IDE and I'm
> stumped on something very basic. I'm trying to figure out how to get an
> existing project into the IDE. I've already figured out how to create a
> .PRJ file, but when I go to build
On 5/24/2015 9:31 PM, David Griffith wrote:
> I'm well aware of the distinction between and "foo.h". My
> problem is that with the Turbo C IDE, it just says that it can't find
> foo.h, even though foo.h is in the same directory as main.c. If I
> build using a Makefile, this isn't a problem.
We
On 5/26/2015 11:41 AM, perditi...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I saw on another email, it is a known technical issue and being worked
> on. No estimate on resolution but confirmation not down on purpose.
>
>
Well, I looked around and couldn't find anything. So thanks, will see
what happens...
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On 6/2/2015 12:16 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> Are there tips/tricks to get mpxplay to work? What about a CD player
> that's known to work with FD 1.1?
>
> I'm using a default FD 1.1 setup and selecting the first menu item at boot.
>
Just to cover all the bases, and probably unrelated to the direct
sof
On 6/2/2015 1:42 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>
> Hah! I did indeed forget to reconnect the cable during the various trials.
>
> But as you also note, it is unrelated to the software problems. I still
> get nothing with the cable connected.
I just thought to mention it for those case you mentioned that "
Well, seems the mystery about the openwatcom.org site is that they
apparently moved the site(s) over to a server provided by Perforce, the
company that has provided them with their version control system for
years...
Tried the site again a few minutes ago and it shows a short note about
this n
On 6/8/2015 7:27 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> For printers its usually easy to find the control commands but
> for cd units I've never seen them made available to the public.
> Is there a command list published anywhere for cds.
>
Yes, it's called ATAPI and there exist a lot of different documents f
On 6/12/2015 9:09 AM, Louis Santillan wrote:
> It took about 3 or 5 days for Robert to get to my request a couple years back.
>
>
I send a request to reset my email address and password about two weeks
ago and haven't heard back since...
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On 6/14/2015 9:00 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> If Jack Ellis has switched open-source UIDE to closed-source XIDE, what will
> be for FreeDOS 1.2 or 2.0?
>
No one is forced to use XIDE, UIDE will do just fine (or so Jack says)...
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On 6/15/2015 10:38 AM, Dave Kerber wrote:
> Are you trying to connect by dns name, or by IP address? To take one
> level of possible trouble out of the equation, try connecting by IP addr.
>
>
If the ipconfig doesn't show any IP info on the host, it doesn't matter
how you try to connect from that
On 6/17/2015 3:32 PM, John Hupp wrote:
In the thread [Networking: With MS Client, "Error 5: Access has been
denied"], I was working hard trying to get the MS-DOS Network Client
working with a Vista machine. It was a solution I had used in past
years for moving files between the FreeDOS client
On 7/7/2015 10:41 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> Sorry if this is obvious -- what is "FreeDOS/V" ? cheers, Mateusz
Well, as Sparky4 already mentioned, it is (supposed to be) for FreeDOS
what DOS/V was for MS/PC-DOS: A double-byte aware Japanese localized
version of FreeDOS...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=DO
On 7/10/2015 9:38 PM, "Jose Antonio Senna" wrote:
> There was a recent message in this list containing the link to
> https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary
> Lynx 2.8.5 fails to access that site without any error message.
> Did anyone access it using a DOS browser ?
>
No I haven't. And I
On 7/15/2015 5:47 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> I'm just using the BIOS keyboard driver (not running KEYB) with a US
> layout keyboard.
>
> What I'm trying to do: In Edit, for instance, R-Alt + F does not open
> the File menu, and R-Alt + X does not exit the program. I want it to do
> those things just a
On 7/31/2015 6:14 PM, sunbeam...@juno.com wrote:
> Hate to be a pest but you seem to have the inside track on
> something interesting. I looked up PE files on wikopedia;
> it seems to be a decoder file used by windows to tell it
> how to use a DLL file. How do you know if a file is a PE
> file. Are
On 8/1/2015 3:49 PM, sunbeam...@juno.com wrote:
> What does HXRT have to do with it. Is it a fix for programs that
> refuse to run without windows near by.
> I ask some our local computer experts and they've never heard
> of a PE file.
> You should consider editing Wikopedia; to make it easier for
On 8/17/2015 1:32 AM, jubalh wrote:
> What am I missing? How to install software on FreeDOS?
>
In most cases, you do not need to "install" software on (Free)DOS.
Most programs will just work if they are located within the PATH
environment variable. And that seems to be the biggest (though actually
On 8/19/2015 4:14 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I believe I took a look at opengem but didn't get far. Opengem
> couldn't integrate with other software as X Window system can.
"Integrate" in which way? I don't have a DOS system running GEM handy
right now, but all it takes is a short cut for it and
On 8/24/2015 8:48 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>> I am confident there are many 386 owners here - what do you use for XMS
>> management on your systems?
> Sadly, I don't share your optimism. I hope I'm wrong, but most people
> with legacy mach
On 8/26/2015 12:59 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>> Rugxulo, Ralph,
>>
>> Thank you both for your inputs! Here's the endgame :)
>>
>> I already tried to test the RAM on this machine using both "AleGr
>> MEMTEST 2.00" and "MEMTEST86+ 4.20" (from
On 9/1/2015 10:02 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> Now, of course I could implement some indexing mechanisms on top of
> that, and end up designing a specialized 16 bit database engine that
> would fit in the 640K limit of memory...
You are making a totally wrong assumptionn that 16bit software means you
On 9/2/2015 9:12 AM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>> On 02/09/2015 04:43, Ralf Quint wrote:
>>> You are making a totally wrong assumptionn that 16bit software means you
>>> are limited to 640KB of memory.
>> Absolutely no
On 9/18/2015 5:15 AM, Marlon Ng wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> 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 anot
On 9/19/2015 11:11 AM, Marlon Ng wrote:
> Hi guys! First of all, what am I missing here? I don't get any of your
> responses in my email. Should I not be receiving emails when someone
> responds to my post? My apologies if this would make it a new thread,
> I don't know how else to follow up o
On 9/20/2015 10:21 AM, Marlon Ng wrote:
> I forgot to mention. The pci parallel expansion is a 3-in-1. It has
> one parallel, and two serial (I think). Could this be the reason why
> the computer sees it as LPT3? If so, how do I change it to LPT1? I
> can't see anything in BIOS that would all
On 9/28/2015 10:20 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
> 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
On 9/28/2015 9:31 AM, Marlon Ng wrote:
> Sorry for the late response guys. Hope you'll be patient with me as I
> am not as skilled as you are.
>
> "So if you have a program that works only with LPT1 (and not with a hard
> coded base port address!) will use what ever address is put into
> 0040:0008
On 10/11/2015 5:27 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
> 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 t
On 10/12/2015 8:16 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
> I see a few possibilities: Port 378 is on the mainboard and the PCI
> card does not have the printer port active, port 378 is on the PCI
> card but the BIOS does not use it because there was no printer port
> without that card or the PCI card printer por
On 12/15/2015 10:46 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Nice to see you're still around fixing stuff :)
>
> There is one little inconvenience I experienced with MODE, that I
> reported earlier this year while working on my Svarog86 distribution.
>
> It relates to MODE executing 'MODE MONO' with
On 12/17/2015 12:29 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On 17/12/2015 20:05, Ralf Quint wrote:
>> On what kind of system are you testing this?
> I tested it on my "Toshiba T1100 Plus" portable computer. It's an
> 8088-based computer with an onboard CGA clone.
>
> I c
On 1/13/2016 5:13 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> Do you really think MS will *care*?
That doesn't matter. We should keep this project as clean as possible,
just as a precaution.
Problem is that a lot of people these days don't even know how DOS
worked 20 years ago and hence might be tempted to look and
On 1/14/2016 4:20 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Linus Torvalds heavily studied and used Minix sources, which was a
> UNIX (tm) clone. It was not free/libre at all, they were commercially
> selling it with their text book about OSes.
Sorry, but that is not correct. Minix was distributed by Tanenbaum (who
On 3/17/2016 6:04 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
> PS - Check you BIOS and enable legacy support.
>
Anyone wanna take bets that this laptop only has an UEFI BIOS, and no
legacy BIOS anymore?
Ralf
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On 3/29/2016 9:41 AM, Hans-Christian Koch wrote:
Hey Louis!
Thanks for your quick answer which helped me alot! Actually I just
copied deltree.com to my C: directory and put in my autoexec.bat
alias rd=C:\deltree.com /y
Now when I do “rd C:\directory\directory2” it deletes the specified
dir
On 4/23/2016 9:55 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Your the one who pointed me to MSdos 7.1.
> I've noticed a few annoying short coming
> for msdos7.1 that FREEDOS doesn't have.
> 1st it limits the rs232 output to 9600 baud.
No, it doesn't. I used in fact a Windows 98SE machine booting without
GUI for
On 4/23/2016 5:40 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Its not only MSdos 7.1 but other dos's that limit the uart speed
> to 9600 baud. The mode command doesn't go higher than 9600 baud.
> I use the dos copy command to send the .prn files to a bluetooth printer.
> At 9600 baud you can take a nice long coffe
On 4/23/2016 6:53 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> The copy command is limited to what you set the mode command to.
> FREEDOS lets you set the baud very high but other dos's and
> even windows has 9600 baud as the upper limit, well below
> the uarts top speed.
> If I type copy filename.prn com1: in any
On 4/24/2016 7:25 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I load my software on cf chips so I'm running pure dos
> no windows. When you read the help section it implies
> that 19200 exists but when you try the command
> it comes back not allowed. Even windows 7 has a
> 9600 limit. You can set it in the control
On 5/14/2016 10:11 AM, John Hupp wrote:
> So I still don't see a firm conclusion to be drawn. Do some
> motherboard BIOS's not know what to make of the Realtek card? Are
> these Realtek cards poorly made? Or specially designed to be
> configured under Windows (though that wouldn't explain the
On 5/14/2016 4:09 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>> 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 l
I think what the author mentions does apply in an even greater range to
FreeDOS
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/time-linux-fans-open-their-arms-to-closed-source/
Ralf
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On 7/15/2016 5:32 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote:
>This said, I also admit browsing from DOS
> is going to be less and less practical.
> Lynx 2.8.5 supports HTTPS (and is the only
> tried DOS browser which does), but I cannot
> access Wikipedia with it, because the
> algorithms they use
On 8/1/2016 2:14 PM, TJ Edmister wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 05:24:30 -0400, dmccunney
> wrote:
>
>> More to the point, who *needed* it?
>>
>> MNG is PNG with support for animation. PNG was created to be a
>> graphics format unencumbered by patents.
> If GIF was patent encumbered, then it would
On 8/18/2016 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Tom Ehlert wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:00:55 +0200:
>
>> an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver
> Not really once you know that you don't need the .kl file.
> According to
> http://help.fdos.org/de/hhstndrd/base/keyb.htm
> you have t
On 9/10/2016 1:57 PM, Salih Yuhnis wrote:
Hi Eric,
We will try your config as you specified and return to you if it will
solve the problem.
Again for the problem is no error in loading img file with keyb.exe as
it shows everything is ok with keyb.exe load same in virtualbox but
keyboard
On 9/10/2016 2:31 PM, Salih Yuhnis wrote:
Hi Ralf,
Yes Virtualbox and real machine is exactly loading same without
generating any errors. In Virtualbox keyboard layout is working. In
Real machine its not working.
When we check in memory looks like a problem in real machine side.
You are
On 11/8/2016 7:38 AM, Mike Powell wrote:
>
> For the uneducated, what is a "USB floppy drive"?
A floppy drive connected via a USB port...
Google it and you will find it, for example
https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Floppy-Drive-FL-UDRV/dp/B00E9MD700
Ralf
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