Re: [Freedos-user] ot: run time issues?

On 6/14/2019 10:02 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi Ralf, If the program you mean is in German, then I found that last night. I just posted about the several issues, I cannot tell  why the program fails, but suspect it is because my machine is too fast for that solution. Different question? I do n

Re: [Freedos-user] ot: run time issues?

On 6/15/2019 6:54 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: Pascal uses do-loops to get time delays. As the computers get faster the do-loops get shorter and finally fail. I use a tp program downloaded from the web to prevent this. nonsense... --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus soft

Re: [Freedos-user] ot: run time issues?

On 6/19/2019 1:00 AM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, I'm no expert, indeed The freeware TP 5.5 (circa 1989) doesn't have this problem (except maybe if you manually use Delay from CRT). So its default "runtime" is fine, AFAIK. The problem has nothing to do with calling Delay(), it is based on the initiali

Re: [Freedos-user] Find command and a drive

On 6/25/2019 12:23 PM, Joseph Norton wrote: Hi listers: Using FreeDOS 1.3 RC1, whenever I use the find command, after it has finished its work, I get an error which says it can’t read from the A: drive. I am running from a virtual machine, and this happenes if there is no disk in the drive

Re: [Freedos-user] Find command and a drive

machine, and this happenes if there is no disk in the drive.  If there is a disk in the A: drive, find exits normally. Has anyone else experienced this? On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:33 PM Ralf Quint <mailto:freedos...@gmail.com>> wrote: Well, no, haven't used find l

Re: [Freedos-user] Find command and a drive

On 6/25/2019 2:16 PM, Joseph Norton wrote: I think I’ve observed this somewhere else, but, can’t remember right now. I’ll try to find other occurrences when I get a chance. Here is the contents of my set query, just in case: DOSDIR=C:\FREEDOS COMSPEC=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM LANG=EN TZ=U

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help reformatting disk for clean install of FreeDOS

On 7/13/2019 10:39 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: On Jul 13, 2019, at 1:17 PM, HTV04 . > wrote: Can I do a full format instead of a quick format? Yes. But, I don’t really see a need to do a slow full format on the drive partition in most situations. Up to you. :-

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help reformatting disk for clean install of FreeDOS

On 7/13/2019 2:37 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: On Jul 13, 2019, at 2:47 PM, Ralf Quint <mailto:freedos...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 7/13/2019 10:39 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: On Jul 13, 2019, at 1:17 PM, HTV04 . <mailto:htv04ru...@gmail.com>> wrote: Can I do a full format

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Need help reformatting disk for clean install of FreeDOS

On 7/16/2019 4:03 PM, HTV04 . wrote: Okay, I copied phil’s drivers to my old PC. How do I put them in FDCONFIG.SYS (which I assume is FreeDOS’s CONFIG.SYS)? Which options would be suitable for the driver at startup? I think 1 & 2 (which I think both allow high memory). I need to add this t

Re: [Freedos-user] why isn't anyone answering my question?

On 7/17/2019 4:41 AM, kaye n wrote: My apologies.  Wrong choice of words.  I am aware that this is not a paid support line. Anyway, here's my question. I have a desktop computer running a Linux distro. In this LInux distro I have installed VirtualBox, and in this VirtualBox I have installed

Re: [Freedos-user] why isn't anyone answering my question?

On 7/17/2019 11:35 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: Beside that you will have problems with accessing a NTFS partition of said pass-through in a network-redirector way... why do you think that? Sorry, didn't notice that this sentence got garbled, I had started it differently, then changed it and ended

Re: [Freedos-user] VOIP/Skype for DOS

On 9/18/2019 8:45 AM, Thalis Agáthōn wrote: yes ofcourse, on server site its the software which is decisive, but on the client side mainly the hardware en a little bit the software. Uptil now I think FreeDOS is the best choice for 25 yo pc's. You are making one basic but important mistake in

Re: [Freedos-user] CD burner software

On 9/24/2019 7:09 AM, George Frothingham wrote: Hi Can you suggest CD-ROM burner software to burn data files from FreeDOS to CD-R disks ? I am pretty sure there was never a "free" (Open Source or otherwise) one. Currently try to remember what I used back in the late '80s, I think it was what

Re: [Freedos-user] 86Box images.

On 9/24/2019 10:58 AM, Jim Hall wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 9:36 AM geneb wrote: For those that want to play with 86Box, I've created a FreeDOS disk image for you to play with: http://www.geneb.org/86box/FreeDOS Machine.7z I've also got an "ultimate DOS development system" image put togethe

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

On 9/24/2019 8:15 PM, shift83...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried multiple times to install FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi3. I have created a 100M and 200M raw disk image. Mounted the Standard and then tried with the Legacy ISO. Both will boot the ISO, partition and format the hard disk. But when I re

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

On 9/25/2019 7:50 AM, Jim Hall wrote: Yes, but from the screenshot in his original post, he is installing FreeDOS in a QEMU virtual machine. Sorry, didn't see that screenshot (it somehow was blocked by Thunderbird) and was going by his description. And that sounded as if was trying to instal

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

On 9/25/2019 7:59 AM, ZB wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:05:04AM -0700, Ralf Quint wrote: These are two totally different worlds! The only way you could get FreeDOS to run on a RPi is after installing one of the default Linux versions to install QEMU, which is an x86 emulator and install

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

On 9/25/2019 9:23 AM, dmccunney wrote: Why would they do that? To create much simpler OS for RPI than Linux. Who needs that whole complexity on such little SBC? CP/M would do just fine. No, it wouldn't. Digital Research developed CP/M as an OS for 8 bit micros like the Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80.

Re: [Freedos-user] Source code to Windows 9x and ME...

On 9/26/2019 6:35 AM, Michael C Robinson wrote: Is it possible to get the source code to Windows 9x and ME since Microsoft isn't supporting it anymore? No. One would want to get the source code and then open source it of course.  Even Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11 is closed source. Surely, Micr

Re: [Freedos-user] Tcl for DOS

On 9/29/2019 7:10 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 11:57 AM Ben Collver wrote: Some day i would like to benchmark the DOS port of SQLite versus databases such as Foxpro and Paradox. I understand these are not fair comparisons because those old DOS databases supported the 8086. It i

Re: [Freedos-user] Tcl for DOS

On 9/30/2019 12:55 PM, andrew fabbro wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 9:57 AM Ralf Quint <mailto:freedos...@gmail.com>> wrote: SQLite by default is using 2000 pages of 4096 bytes as caching buffer (that's 8MB, in older versions the default page size was 1024 bytes). I

Re: [Freedos-user] Tcl for DOS

On 9/30/2019 8:37 PM, Ben Collver wrote: Ralf Quint wrote: On 9/29/2019 7:10 PM, dmccunney wrote: What would you be benchmarking? I would benchmark a set of tasks performed on an identical data set. For example, importing the data, doing a bunch of inserts, deletes, random selects, etc

Re: [Freedos-user] Tcl for DOS

On 9/30/2019 9:45 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:38 PM Ben Collver wrote: Ralf Quint wrote: On 9/29/2019 7:10 PM, dmccunney wrote: What would you be benchmarking? I would benchmark a set of tasks performed on an identical data set. For example, importing the data, doing a

Re: [Freedos-user] "No fixed disks present" / lbacache write error on CF

On 10/10/2019 10:08 AM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Stephen, repeated LBA cache write error on CF card? That sounds like a serious bug report for lbacache! Have you tried to keep lbacache outside UMB, in other words not using loadhigh? You could also try the lbacache TUNS option to allocate additional s

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

On 11/12/2019 12:36 PM, Jon Brase wrote: copy on MS-DOS wasn't really meant for copying more than one file at a time (which is why xcopy exists), and FreeDOS uses the same command line syntax. Copy only accepts one destination file and treats all other filenames on the command line as sources.

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Quick FreeDOS 1.3 Live CD Poll

On 11/17/2019 3:00 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: On Nov 17, 2019, at 1:51 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user > wrote: There is a bug in  your question! The question given is: should it be permitted access to any internal hard drive(s)? But the suggested

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

On 11/24/2019 1:44 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: Why would Freedos be using a chkdsk that doesn't work on fat32? Because nobody has bothered to enable chkdsk to (safely!) work with FAT32 partitions. And that is a much bigger task done properly than just updating a few numbers to run over a larger

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

On 11/24/2019 2:03 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: So why didn't freedos keep dosfsck; it its better?. There isn't really anything to keep, it is a Linux program. And I recall that there were issues with at least the early attempts to port this Linux app to plain DOS IIRC, like causing corruption a

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

On 11/24/2019 2:31 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Ralf and Dale, please check http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/dosfsck.html to get an impression of dosfsck :-) While the DOS port is old, it does know about LFN long file names and even checks for

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

On 11/24/2019 2:41 PM, Jon Brase wrote: To expand on why CHKDSK itself can't deal with FAT32, Freedos tries to retain compatibility with quite a broad range of hardware, including both any 8086 machines that anybody still has lying around, and modern hardware. So CHKDSK has to be able to be abl

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

On 11/25/2019 8:36 AM, TK Chia wrote: Hello Ralf Quint, Will try to take a closer look a bit later this evening. One problem here is what I mentioned a lot of times in the past but always got scoffed at is that these are highly technical apps but do not have any proper technical documentation

Re: [Freedos-user] anyone here code software?

On 11/28/2019 1:45 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: I have a professional question, so seek an expert who  codes or develops software for DOS.  This is not a list topic, so would appreciate permission to contact whomever writes me off list. I do this on occasion still, after having done this for +15

Re: [Freedos-user] Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run FORMAT C: /S?

On 12/15/2019 3:47 AM, Felix Miata wrote: From there, you can run fdisk, format and several other commands to manually partition and/or format ggumsthe a hard drive and transfer system boot files. Thanks. While I was waiting I did a base install and a sans sources install, two different disk

Re: [Freedos-user] High-res text modes without VBE or card-specific drivers

On 12/16/2019 10:00 AM, Lino Mastrodomenico wrote: Despite some limitations the nice thing about setting high-res text modes using only generic VGA registers (as opposed to card-specific SuperVGA) is that the same code works ~everywhere and doesn't need a VBE BIOS; the downside is that the VG

Re: [Freedos-user] Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

On 3/6/2020 1:51 PM, Jen via Freedos-user wrote: I tried this ↑ first – used GParted again to either rule it out or not as the issue, resized my C: partition (flagged as bootable) to 2GB, formatted it as FAT16 [*This time it put 1.99 MiB unallocated ahead of it*], I have a hunch that this is

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

On 3/13/2020 10:52 PM, Mallory Worlton wrote: Regrettably, I ran into another problem: apparently the CD I burned was roughed up too badly for the installation to complete.  It died while trying to install UDVD2, due to a read error.  And that was my last CD-R.  So I'll have to go buy some more

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

On 11/8/2013 4:43 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Chris Evans wrote: >> Would this accomplished by loading a Unicode Japanese code page font file >> using mode? > No because Unicode, esp. for CJK languages, would never fit into 256 > or 512 bytes, which (AFAIK) is a EG

Re: [Freedos-user] moslo and clock speed

On 12/3/2013 7:56 PM, Chris Evans wrote: > Why is moslo lock up when i run moslo menu.exe? > > Setting the clock speed in dosemu.conf isnt reliable as that sometimes > allows program to run. > > I need better solution to allow my borland pascal .exes to run on fast cpu If they are "your" Borland P

Re: [Freedos-user] moslo and clock speed

On 12/3/2013 7:56 PM, Chris Evans wrote: > Why is moslo lock up when i run moslo menu.exe? > > Setting the clock speed in dosemu.conf isnt reliable as that sometimes > allows program to run. > > I need better solution to allow my borland pascal .exes to run on fast cpu In case you don't know about

Re: [Freedos-user] moslo and clock speed

On 12/3/2013 9:16 PM, Chris Evans wrote: > i was able to find rpcrt100.zip but the other isn't available > I tried this route once before and ended up with broken .exes > (don't remember details as it was years ago so i gave up and moved to > linux and gcc) The only systems that I can't run my ol

Re: [Freedos-user] moslo and clock speed

On 12/4/2013 12:33 AM, Chris Evans wrote: > I just installed Robert Prins crt70 replacement and it seems to have > worked, compiled one the programs it ran okay with default dosemu > clock settings. > That one as well as the earlier replacement from Pedt Scragg, both from the links to JR Stockto

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hangs

On 12/10/2013 6:41 AM, Robert Moler wrote: > I wasn't being clear enough about what I've been trying to do. > > The XT machine has 2 GB of RAM. It is a 32 bit machine. An XT, as in "PC XT" can neither be a 32bit machine nor have 2GB of RAM. Using this term here is what is leading to confusion...

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hangs

On 12/10/2013 4:14 PM, Robert Moler wrote: The Bios on the Dell machine clearly offers USB as a boot option. I made a bootable USB stick with FreeDos on it using _*RUFUS*_ which was suggested by someone earlier. It did appear to have gotten most of the way through the cold boot process before

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hangs

On 12/10/2013 5:40 PM, Robert Moler wrote: This box has what looks like it may have been a tag on top at the back. There's just some stuck paper there now as if something has been removed. On the back there is a bar code tag with D711D7 in the middle of it. That's one character short, the S/T

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos won't load.

On 12/26/2013 9:37 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Still, it seems that at least some series are shipped with FreeDOS: > > http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_Revo_Nettop_Celeron_887_4GB_750GB_Shared_No_Opt_WiFi__Free_Dos_DT.SMCEK.003/version.asp > > As Eric said, FreeDOS is probably only used as an easy w

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCEMENT!! MS-DOS source code is recently released!

On 3/25/2014 12:38 PM, dmccunney wrote: > The question we won't know till we see it is the terms under which the > source is released, and whether it may be used in derivative products. > (In particular, is there anything in DOS 1.1 or 2.0 that might be > incorporated into FreeDOS? I personally

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

On 9/22/2014 8:35 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no longer seem to be > valid. > Works just fine here... Ralf --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -

Re: [Freedos-user] can freedos?

On 9/22/2014 3:23 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Mercy the things that come across my desk...even if I am not seeking > them. > a question only. I have no idea why the person is asking. > Will freedos run on a 64 bit machine? > Yes, of course. Unless you are referring with "64 bit machine" to an I

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: freedos 1.1 and xen

On 10/3/2014 5:00 AM, wch-t...@house-grp.net wrote: Solved. For whatever reason, the normal installation sequence did not work for me. However, if one chooses option #5 on the installation screen "run freedos from the CD" one is presented with an "E" prompt. From that, one can format the disk.

Re: [Freedos-user] Tex for DOS distribution

On 10/17/2014 7:41 PM, Marco Achury wrote: > Looking at: > > http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/tex/ > > There are a lot of files. > > Is this a Tex distribution or just some spre utils? > > Where to look for Tex for DOS ? > Not quite sure what you expect or if you already

Re: [Freedos-user] Tex for DOS distribution

On 10/17/2014 7:41 PM, Marco Achury wrote: > Looking at: > > http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/tex/ > > There are a lot of files. > > Is this a Tex distribution or just some spre utils? > > Where to look for Tex for DOS ? > Or here http://www.nomdo.dds.nl/tex.htm --- Th

Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss

On 10/21/2014 11:39 AM, dmccunney wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Don Flowers wrote: >> Gparted will not do it properly. You will not lose data, but FreeDOS >> will not report the correct size of the new partition. I have found >> only one thing that works: >> Partition Resizer available

Re: [Freedos-user] Tex for DOS distribution

On 10/31/2014 12:01 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, sorry for late reply, > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Ralf Quint wrote: >> On 10/17/2014 7:41 PM, Marco Achury wrote: >>> Looking at: >>> >>> http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/te

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

On 3/15/2020 9:11 AM, Felix G. wrote: And if the last few paragraphs have made no sense whatsoever, consider my question to be as follows: What is the established route by which a blind user may install and use FreeDOS? Well, if you do not have hardware that allows for access to a speech synth

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

On 3/15/2020 4:16 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: ...and you have discovered how  many Linux distributions manage their screen reader and speech synthesis. It has not, as of yet, been done in DOS to my knowledge. One major major reason is the poor sound quality. Well, talking about "as of yet" in re

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip 750 Atapi and freedos...

On 3/16/2020 2:28 PM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: Doesn't work in Windows XP without Iomegaware... how about freedos? As freedos is not designed to support USB, USB floppy will not work. Short of getting the source code to the AMI Bios on my EVOC SBC, I'm not going to make a real floppy c

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

On 3/18/2020 6:31 AM, Swap Jim via Freedos-user wrote: FreeDOS is very, very slow on QEMU running in a Raspberry 4. It's drawing the screen line by line when I do a DIR on C:\, with only 7 directories and files in it. It's worse in full screen. For those of you that run FreeDOS on a Raspberry

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

On 3/18/2020 9:44 AM, Jim Hall wrote: Actually, I think it's a problem on the Raspberry Pi 4. I've heard from a few folks since the RPi4 came out that my how-to about running FreeDOS on the Raspberry Pi (via QEMU)  results in a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

On 3/18/2020 10:02 AM, Swap Jim via Freedos-user wrote: And in the meantime I'll try Fedora ARM, just in case it matters on the RPi4. FAIK, Rasbian is the best supported distro on the RPi4B+ (hardware wise). And beside that Raspberry.org itself otherwise only promotes Ubuntu. Fedora/Pidora w

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

On 3/18/2020 10:34 AM, Jim Hall wrote: My *dmesg* output shows it is a plain Raspberry Pi 3B: [ 0.00] OF: fdt: Machine model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B My RPi4B+ shows [    0.00] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 [    0.00] Linux version 4.19.97-v7l+ (dom@buildbot) (gcc version 4.9.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

On 3/18/2020 11:56 AM, Eric Auer wrote: Installing FreeDOS*on the Raspberry Pi *will take a long time regardless of what options you use in QEMU. It's because of the high disk I/O when you install an operating system like FreeDOS. It's made worse by doing it inside an emulator, but the biggest sl

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

On 3/18/2020 12:58 PM, Eric Auer wrote: The only way you could possibly speed this up (at least on a RPi4B+) would be to use a USB media (external hard drive/SSD), with the RPi4B+ being significantly faster than previous models... Yes. It always is something to check how fast the USB and LAN o

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

On 3/19/2020 6:08 AM, Swap Jim via Freedos-user wrote: On 2020-03-18 19:34, Jim Hall wrote: My *dmesg* output shows it is a plain Raspberry Pi 3B: [ 0.00] OF: fdt: Machine model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Not that it matters for me. I used it as a "desktop" system for about a week, as an ex

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

On 3/19/2020 7:59 AM, David McMackins wrote: It's worth noting that Raspbian is still only distributed in 32-bit form, failing to take full advantage of the 64-bit ARM processor on the Pi 4. If some other distribution is built for arm64, that may well perform better than Raspbian even though it i

Re: [Freedos-user] EVOC 1714VNA does not support a real floppy controller...

On 3/20/2020 6:55 PM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: As this is an industrial single board computer that's 20 years old, I'm wondering if I can get the source code to the bios? I guess you would have to check with the manufacturer for this. I know, dealing with a company in Shenzen can be a bi

Re: [Freedos-user] EVOC 1714VNA does not support a real floppy controller...

On 3/21/2020 2:16 PM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: I appreciate the response. I'm waiting on a usb to floppy adapter and I'll leave my real floppy controller disabled for the time being. Purportedly, USB floppy works in MS-DOS and possibly Freedos as well. It's Windows 98SE that is question

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

On 3/24/2020 12:53 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:48 PM Felix Miata wrote: I ran a 286 Altos Xenix multiuser in 1988 just fine, Unix-y enough I couldn't tell any difference from SysV. With what sort of hardware? Xenix, if memory serves, began based on Unix System III and was

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - was 4DOS...

On 4/13/2020 10:28 AM, tom ehlert wrote: So the task would be to translate 5000 snippets of French, are there any GrafX2 fans who feel in the mood to help FreeDOS as source "interpreters"? :-) a) this sounds like a job for something like grep ... | sed ... | awk ...| translate.google.co

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

On 4/14/2020 6:07 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Here is an upload of the modified files: https://file.io/eh88lzKo (the translator script saves each original file to .bak) ... The file that I uploaded at file.io is just this : the result of "original DOS source files" when I run the translate script o

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

On 4/15/2020 6:31 AM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Ralf, Yves has fixed the issue and writes: "I then hosted the files on gitlab, where they should stay visible for quite some time: https://gitlab.com/yrizoud/gfx2_dos/-/tree/translation " Well, those sources are only partially translated, but that migh

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

On 4/15/2020 10:25 AM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Ralf, https://gitlab.com/yrizoud/gfx2_dos/-/tree/translation " Well, those sources are only partially translated, but that might at least be a start if someone is eager to work on the sources... As mentioned, the parts in Pascal have no translation,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos for IBM PCDOS 3.30 software

On 4/27/2020 10:48 AM, Mattia Limonta wrote: Good evening. I am a new user of the FreeDOS world, and I have a question. I would like to install FreeDOS 1.2 on an old PC that we have at work because we have to create a backup system for our 1987 IBM Personal System 2, currently running IBM PC

Re: [Freedos-user] R: Freedos for IBM PCDOS 3.30 software

On 4/27/2020 12:10 PM, Mattia Limonta wrote: Thanks everyone for the replies! Looks like the analyzer is attached to the 24pin parallel port of the PS2. The newer pc I would run FreeDOS on has a x86 AMD Sempron and a parallel port on the motherboard (Still have to look up compatibility, but

Re: [Freedos-user] Backslash key on UK keyboard not recognised

On 5/3/2020 1:49 AM, Ian Park wrote: Good morning Over the past few days I've progressed as far as installing FreeDOS 1.2 on an old PC (HP Deskpro low profile, 1700MHz Pentium, 512MB RAM, 20GB HDD, CD ROM drive). Still early stages, I'm finding my way around before I try to move on to connect

Re: [Freedos-user] Backslash key on UK keyboard not recognised

On 5/3/2020 9:15 AM, Ian Park wrote: Hi Ralf (I deduce from the time difference that it's "good morning" with you...) Well, yes, though while I am German, I am living in the country side of Los Angeles, but had left early for some community event around 8am... ;-) Thank you for the pointer.

Re: [Freedos-user] IBM PS/2 clone system - UPDATE

On 5/12/2020 10:52 AM, Mattia Limonta wrote: But... there are some issues with the serial ports. I am trying to figure out the issue, but I guess the serial port on the clone system is too fast for the metal analyzer hardware, and the software gets stuck on a "Configuring ICS..." screen that on

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

On 5/22/2020 5:10 AM, Deposite Pirate wrote: This cannot be compiled to machine code because it's some kind of meta assembler to generate assembler for various processor architectures and this meta assembler is apparently not available. So unless someone goes through the pain of reverse engine

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

On 5/22/2020 5:17 AM, Jim Hall wrote: As for GW-BASIC, FreeDOS already includes other BASIC interpreters and compilers with equivalent or better functionality, so I don't know that we need to add GW-BASIC. I'm not a BASIC programmer, so I'm open to suggestion on this. There's pros and cons ei

Re: [Freedos-user] (No Subject)

On 6/11/2020 12:57 PM, haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user wrote: سلام عليكم ، انا الان احاول اعادة تحميل ، قد اكون لم احملها كاملا ، انا استخدم برنامج rufus . Und 'en Ei vm Konsum... Really? -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro DOS v5.6

On 6/16/2020 8:22 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Been using it 24/7 since around v5.0 in an OS/2 DOS session. It's been forever since I tried to export to another format other than .wk1, which is done simply via saving with the different file extension. Anyone here remember what other extensions are avai

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro DOS v5.6

On 6/17/2020 2:02 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I very sporadically use Quattro Pro 5.0 for DOS, thought that was the > last DOS version. > > Are you sure about 5.6? Yes, 5.6 is/was the last DOS version released in 1996... > > I was trying to find how to export .wq2 (or was it .wq1?) 3-D > spre

Re: [Freedos-user] Video meeting

On 6/29/2020 8:31 AM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: Thanks, Eric: As you see, the link is there now, as are the first 9 participants Many were from North America and Europe. Might we confer by video more often? I suggested that to Jim on the FB page. In particular having a meeting that focus a  bi

Re: [Freedos-user] Video meeting

On 6/29/2020 6:25 PM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: Hi Ralf: I suggested that to Jim on the FB page. I don't use Facebook. We can't please everyone...;-) In particular having a meeting that focus a  bit more on programing on/for (Free)DOS. For me this was very ad hoc, there being no prior time

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

On 7/5/2020 4:07 AM, haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user wrote: wait a second , if dosbox is opensource and is able to simulate a sound blaster 16 and redict the sound to Intel HD , why not someone (developer) take the code from dosbox and put it into freedos as an optional package , this is possible

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

On 7/5/2020 10:47 AM, Eric Auer wrote: And DOSBox is not simulating any sound card, it is passing this to the sound driver of the host OS. DOSBox does not have direct access to the sound hardware... Virtual computers and dosemu / dosemu2 all do simulate a sound card and I am pretty sure dosbox

Re: [Freedos-user] sound blaster emulation - was: Hey

On 7/5/2020 1:46 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Ralf, you had said that dosbox would not be simulating any soundcard: It is simulating a soundcard, that actually is one of the more important features of dos-oriented virtual environents. It just does not contain built-in drivers for the different, physi

Re: [Freedos-user] Realtek ethernet not working

On 7/6/2020 11:22 AM, haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user wrote: i tried connecting a laptop with freedos 1.2 to ethernet , well my router showed that there is an ethernet connection , but freedos didnt connect even with fdnet installed ! Without any real info, it is pretty much impossible to help y

Re: [Freedos-user] Realtek ethernet not working

On 7/7/2020 5:44 AM, haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user wrote: my router after plugging in the lan cable it flashed , these little icons that flash in the router that indicate stuff. i dont know i tried pcisleep -l and it showed this. Realtek - Ethernet Controller. That doesn't help much. RealTek i

Re: [Freedos-user] zip programs and pure DOS?

On 8/21/2020 8:45 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: sorry, let me correct my question. It  appears that the edition of info zip's zip and unzip programs are not current, from 2008 and 2009, according to my google. Unfortunately sourceforge no longer lets you download from there without JavaScript,  the

Re: [Freedos-user] zip programs and pure DOS?

On 8/21/2020 10:29 PM, Jim Hall wrote: BTW, asking for MSDOS help on a FreeDOS forum, and then saying no to that help because the FreeDOS folks gave an answer for FreeDOS, is a rather strange thing. It's like asking Linus Torvalds what his favorite Windows program is. +1 -- This email has b

Re: [Freedos-user] Bexome Endorsed By The FSF! Opportunity

On 8/22/2020 3:17 PM, haytam.fr--- via Freedos-user wrote: Hey, I want to inform you about something kind of interesting , http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-non-gnu-distros.html visit this website , make sure the operating system FreeDOS does pass the guidelines , and send the email , Jim Hall t

Re: [Freedos-user] Open source thoughts about my DOS stuff

On 8/26/2020 9:03 PM, Jim Hall wrote: I don't know of any source code client like git or svn for DOS or FreeDOS. But I haven't looked recently. I don't think there is (or ever was) a real DOS client (not Windows command line), as all of those came into being well after "DOS was declared dead"

Re: [Freedos-user] BASIC

On 8/28/2020 10:14 AM, Jim Hall wrote: Hi Richard Sounds like you are using the FreeDOS 1.2 distribution. We unfortunately included the BW-BASIC Win32 console binary instead of the DOS binary in that release. You can download the updated version from the FreeDOS files archive at ibiblio, or u

Re: [Freedos-user] A few suggestions to improve debug

On 8/31/2020 10:44 AM, ZB wrote: 1. I believe it would be handy if it could immediately after its start perform 'r' (show registers' contents). Usually we're going to have a look at that first when using "debug". Even if we aren't - having these two lines on the screen immediately after

Re: [Freedos-user] A few suggestions to improve debug

On 8/31/2020 11:28 AM, ZB wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:10:56AM -0700, Ralf Quint wrote: On 8/31/2020 10:44 AM, ZB wrote: ... 2. It could keep "history" for last, say. twenty-thirty command-line entries (available as usual with Up/Down keys). ... A second issue is tha

Re: [Freedos-user] A few suggestions to improve debug

On 8/31/2020 7:16 PM, Jon Brase wrote: > Not that convincing rationale considering rather modest overhead necessary. Recall that FreeDOS isn't just about having a FOSS alternative to MS-DOS for modern machines (where you're really better off just using Linux and DOSBox), or for your early-90s

Re: [Freedos-user] A few suggestions to improve debug

On 9/2/2020 2:29 AM, tom ehlert wrote: UNIX System V certainly was connected to serial terminals (Televideo, VT100, ...) and it had the VI visual editor with definitively cursor movement across the screen, even when the terminal had no cursor keys. cursor movement is not tied to memory-mapped d

Re: [Freedos-user] New to DOS - 486

On 9/15/2020 12:11 AM, Frantisek Rysanek wrote: If you want 486-class hardware with enough RAM, un-486ish CPU horsepower and pretty good legacy compatibility, Any 486 will have more than enough RAM and "CPU horsepower" to run (Free)DOS... Your only problem in that case is too much CPU horsepow

Re: [Freedos-user] Subscribe

On 9/30/2020 4:07 AM, Роман Божко via Freedos-user wrote: Confirmation Complete You're now subscribed to the freedos-user list. Perfectly! And what should I do now :) ??? Patiently wait for emails to arrive in your inbox or send emails with your questions that you said you have. *This is a m

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

On 10/17/2020 9:33 AM, ZB wrote: Does there exist any DIY to fix "millennium bug" in old BIOS (no update available, unfortunately)? I mean "real fix, not workaround" - finding the proper cells in BIOS, modifying contents accordingly, burning... done Well, short answer: No. There are literally

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