Re: [Freedos-user] Moving towards FreeDOS 1.4

2024-10-29 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
On 10/28/2024 5:03 PM, Roger via Freedos-user wrote: Wish Intel would create a BIOS emulation layer for booting DOS/FreeDOS via EFI/UEFI. Ridiculous EFI/UEFI has no emulation layer for booting older operating systems! They don't care. Nor do any other (major!) players in the hardware field. You

Re: [Freedos-user] Unzipping

2024-09-18 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
On 9/18/2024 10:11 AM, barry m via Freedos-user wrote: I have downloaded the FD13cd zip and the 13FDfloppy zip I tried to unpack the 1.44 mb file but got error message - not enough space - need another 22.9 mb. I tried to unpack the 720k file to the same 1.45 mb floppy - got same message! Help

Re: [Freedos-user] dosemu2 portability

2025-01-17 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
On 1/14/2025 11:35 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote: Hi! The dosemu2 people are busy making it run on Android via termux: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ebc47cc9-2734-4f60-9dfd-2fd4304ce353 Certainly not the best place to run EDIT, but definitely cool ;-) I am pretty sur

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.4 PCMCIA CF Card (ATACARD) Support

2025-04-20 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
On 4/16/2025 7:07 AM, Markus Schneider via Freedos-user wrote: Hi all, hope I'm using this channel in the right way, first time :-) I'm trying to setup an Compaq Elite LTE Laptop (486-DX2-75, 16MB) with Freedos and everything is working great after some time, even got WIN3.1 running in standa

Re: [Freedos-user] Time (TZ=UTC) Statically Set to UTC

2025-05-08 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
On 5/4/2025 2:12 PM, Roger via Freedos-user wrote: Double checked, FreeDOS running on bare metal, the BIOS is in local time. On Qemu virtualized FreeDOS clients, I've added "qemu -rtc base=localtime", so time offset using qemu seems solved there. I just need to augment the bare metal clients, w

Re: [Freedos-user] How can I fix issues with Jemmex?

2025-05-08 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
On 5/6/2025 7:02 AM, Michał Dec via Freedos-user wrote: When it's made more obvious to do that beforehand I suppose. This is literally the first time I hear about such requirement. I am not aware that there ever was (and I am following/participating in FreeDOS almost since it's inception) any

Re: [Freedos-user] wordle for DOS

2025-05-12 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
On 5/10/2025 7:17 AM, Thorsten Kani via Freedos-user wrote: Hi List,  my Friends an me thought it would be a nice Idea to try out Dos Programming. Finally we had  aLOT of Help mastering those funny Interrupts. Here it is: WORDLE : https://codeberg.org/arjunae/code_playground/src/branch/main/w

Re: [Freedos-user] Gaming Controller

2025-06-25 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
On 6/25/2025 6:46 PM, david--- via Freedos-user wrote: Does FreeDOS14 have a driver for USB connected gaming controllers? Apologies if this is a stupid question - but some DOS games can use a joystick.  I no longer have a working game port connected joystick, so a USB connected gaming control

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS on a 8086

2025-07-28 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
On 7/25/2025 2:17 PM, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote: 8088 isn't the same as 8086.  It's similar, but internally, the 8088 is different than the 8086, so that might influence the capabilities of the program.  You'll need to emulate a straight 8086 to get the full picture as to whether it ca

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS on a 8086

2025-07-29 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
On 7/29/2025 8:26 AM, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote: And the fact that the V20/V30 chips understand (most of) the 80186 command set is because NEC decided to add those, just like the added 8080 emulation mode. Beside being a tad faster than the equivalent Intel chip, there is no function

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS on a 8086

2025-07-29 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
On 7/28/2025 4:51 PM, Christopher Evans via Freedos-user wrote: You mod the quark occiliator to timings?, 42? ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

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