On 6/29/2024 3:37 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
Just wondering.
If using freedos exclusively, what tools would allow you to attend
this event?
Again, simply curious.
Best,
Karen
Was this supposed to be a trick question?
Ralf
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On 7/25/2024 12:06 AM, Michał Dec via Freedos-user wrote:
I haven't mentioned Microsoft in my entire response. On the contrary,
I've mentioned updates which is exactly the attack vector used by
CrowdStrike.
Try to know actually what you are talking about. There is no "attack
vector used by
On 8/5/2024 9:43 AM, Roderick Klein via Freedos-user wrote:
Op 5-8-2024 om 18:31 schreef Ralf Quint via Freedos-user:
On 7/25/2024 12:06 AM, Michał Dec via Freedos-user wrote:
I haven't mentioned Microsoft in my entire response. On the
contrary, I've mentioned updates which is e
On 8/5/2024 12:30 PM, Roderick Klein via Freedos-user wrote:
It's not the driver! It has been dissected on various cyber security
sites and confirmed by CrowdStrike that the problem is a a typo in a
configuration file for CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor update installer.
That causes a parsing error
Yeah, that's one of the things were AVast (and other AV applications
too) has gotten really bad. Anything that even remotely looks like
"messing" directly with the hard drive is being flagged as potentially
malicious. Same goes for a lot of self-developed software, simply due to
the fact that t
On 9/7/2024 10:51 AM, Sean McCune via Freedos-user wrote:
On my Apsire I found that once I booted it up I could not plug a USB
stick into the machine and have FreeDOS recognize. But... if I
plugged the USB stick containing the bonus disk into the machine
_before_ powering it on, then the BIO
On 7/21/2023 1:51 PM, Jay F. Shachter via Freedos-user wrote:
Esteemed Colleagues:
A little bit less formal might be more appropriate...
slice, Microsoft Windows was still able to boot, and then I recreated
the third primary slice, and I installed FreeDOS onto it. I had to
change its 8-bit cod
On 7/21/2023 2:01 PM, John Vella via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi,
I installed freedos on my IBM Thinkpad T43 and I installed a usb
driver, which works. Sort of.
I can access a 2gb usb stick, which is formatted to FAT32, and that's
great, but I want to use a different stick.
This is where the pr
On 7/23/2023 1:50 PM, Rugxulo via Freedos-user wrote:
The alleged 4 GB file size doesn't work on some OSes (FreeDOS, Windows
NT?), only on old Win9x. So you're only guaranteed 2 GB individual
file sizes, universally.
Wrong. You can use files of up to 4GB size on any Windows version that
supports
On 7/24/2023 6:06 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi folks,
Too many layers in the process for me to try the install.
That and the thinkpad, which is a thinkpad 600x is not in condition
for the work it seems.
I do wonder though if the freedos networking options would have
functioned
On 7/31/2023 2:06 PM, DAMON GRAY via Freedos-user wrote:
Greetings all. I'm new to this list, so I hope to not post anything
inappropriate or out of order.
I have an old Dell Optiplex 745 I'm trying to "FreeDos" and am having
a couple of issues.
I have yet to get the USB Laser mouse to work
On 8/5/2023 5:35 AM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello everyone! I am new to FreeDOS.
When I try to use cURL or WGet, they sometimes error and refuse to use
secure HTTPS connection.
I figured it was from outdated certificates. Is there any way I can
update them, manually or automaticall
On 8/5/2023 12:34 PM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Then what do I do if I want to make a cURL request or WGet to a secure
HTTPS page?
Do I just use HTTP?
But then it will forcefully redirect to HTTPS connection...
What do I do?
Use a properly Internet enabled operating system.
Yes, I a
On 8/5/2023 12:37 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
zerofive, you did not provide us actual error messages. We can only
speculate.
At least with curl on Linux, you can bypass cert checks with “-k”. If
you still believe it’s certs and you have a known good certificate and
private key, you pass them
On 8/5/2023 12:51 PM, Louis Santillan via Freedos-user wrote:
Don’t do anything that requires security (banking, personal info,
connecting to work) if you decide to use a 3rd party proxy. All of
these proxies can potentially see your credentials and sensitive
information. It would be best
On 8/5/2023 1:02 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
And yes Ralf, if the servers or companies have strict security
standards requiring newer protocol versions, then curl will fail or
will eventually fail to communicate with them.
Well, he stated that an attempt to use http instead failed, so I
wouldn
On 8/5/2023 5:08 PM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
This question may been asked a million times but I just can't figure
it out, and googling it gives no results (except telling me that I
need to use `mode` and some parameters but this just wouldn't give me
what I am trying to achieve)
But
On 8/6/2023 2:51 AM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
A VGA resolution (?), 640x480 resolution so the text doesn't look
messy when I am cURLing a website, for example, or when the --help
parameter is too long.
There seem to be a serious misconception on your end. FreeDOS, like any
DOS, works
On 8/6/2023 5:39 AM, EdzUp via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi all, I could cobble together a Command line app to chuck the system
into VGA/SVGA resolutions :)
-Ed
EdzUp
And what would this going to be accomplishing?
Ralf
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On 8/6/2023 1:37 PM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello! Just tested it.
It changes the resolution, but now I just don't see anything. I tried
doing Ctrl+C exiting it but to no avail :(
Any reason why could this happen?
Because you don't pay attention to the replies you get.
DOS is us
On 8/6/2023 2:35 PM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user wrote:
First…
There seems to be a general misunderstanding that DOS only supports
80x25 columns. While it is possible that an extremely lazy programmer
would hard code for that resolution, most did not. Even back in the
early days the displa
On 8/10/2023 10:11 AM, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote:
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?
Well, Liam, you owe me a full cup of coffee (I m
On 8/15/2023 3:28 AM, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote:
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"...)
Well, th
On 9/14/2023 1:15 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi! Does anybody here know the user nicknamed Candyman?
There is a strange thread on BTTR started by that account,
maybe somebody could contact Candyman via another channel
and ask what has happened.
Regards, Eric
You do not take this se
On 10/2/2023 5:13 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user wrote:
I discovered that if I comment out the two while (in vga.c):
void wait_vsync()
{
//while (inportb(0x3da) & 8);
//while (!(inportb(0x3da) & 8));
}
Then the game under dosbox run just like under VirtualBox.
I have tried all the a
On 10/31/2023 1:27 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
I do not have a freedos install cd.
I understand that 7 zip files require the 7zip program...which is why
I am seeking it somewhere.
are such files given names like
file.7zip?
the latter does not keep the three character extension r
On 11/1/2023 12:32 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
I am sorry if this question is very very silly.
My goal is to extract, not to create a 7zip file.
The file referenced by Eric, seems to have archiving tools, but not
extracting ones.
Unless I am missing something profoundly obvious?
Well, there is
On 11/3/2023 5:55 AM, Alain Mouette via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi, I would like to clarify some things:
FreeDOS is limited to 2Gb files, some special programs can use 4Gb
(full 32 bits sector number) but it is not the norm.
In which way is "FreeDOS" limited to 2GB sized files? (Sorry, never
bothe
Are you guys trying to have DOS behave like macOS? 😛
Beside that any trickery with the keyboard controller would only work on
an AT keyboard, where the controller chip is actually on the motherboard
of the computer, and thus accessible with an I/O port, on XT/PC
keyboards the controller is in
On 2/9/2024 11:25 AM, Thomas Cornelius Desi wrote:
Well, if it would work, changing the keyboard should be an easy task. / E bay
has c a couple of accessible AT Keyboards )
Thanks for considering the problem!
Well, a XT/PC keyboard will only work with an XT or PC, and an AT
keyboard will only
On 2/22/2024 7:18 PM, DAMON GRAY via Freedos-user wrote:
Greetings all.
I have a working MS-DOS system running on 6.2.2 but it has gigantical
problems with the USB Mouse. I've attempted multiple USB DOS driver
solutions. Some work half the time. Others not so much.
I'm working on the assumpt
On 2/22/2024 7:43 PM, DAMON GRAY wrote:
Augh!! Ralf, that's so much not what I wanted to hear.
Don't kill the messenger! LOL
But, it is what it is. I was under the impression that FreeDos had
dealt with the USB peripheral issue.
Well, no. Just what exactly gave you that impression? No DOS is
On 5/18/2024 3:56 PM, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Does spinright still have a dos version of their software posted
anywhere? I seem to recall, that was a really good utility. I
unfortunately never had the money to purchase it, and I gave up on
Norton Utilities after paying 50 bucks mo
On 5/19/2024 2:25 AM, Frantisek Rysanek via Freedos-user wrote:
Are there any PCI cards that live at IO adress 378 so they are
compatible with DOS ?
I'd argue that the devil's in "subtle detail", and forecast hard
cheese for you :-/
In order to decode the IOport window at 0x378 by a PCI card, t
On 6/4/2024 11:34 PM, hms--- via Freedos-user wrote:
As per Tom's request, below is a short batch file to show the issue.
It appears that the DIR command prematurely terminates it's listing
without error if a directory bearing the same name is encountered.
As I understand it, the DIR command sho
On 10/9/2024 2:18 PM, Frantisek Rysanek via Freedos-user wrote:
Unfortunately I cannot find any hints that VESA VBE would have a
function to switch outputs...
That is not further surprising, as that has nothing to do with DOS in
general and VESA in particular. This is ONLY an issue with the lap
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
On 7/28/2025 4:51 PM, Christopher Evans via Freedos-user wrote:
You mod the quark occiliator to timings?,
42?
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