On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 07:33:47 -0500, Tom Ehlert wrote:
>
>> FreeBasic doesn't support FIFO, and most likely no IRQ.
>
>> try
>
>> Open Com "COM1:600,n,8,1,cs0,ds0,cd0,rs" For Random As #CP
>
>> and see if that changes your problem.
>
> sorry, not true.
> FreeBasic seems to use IRQ, but no
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:55:42 -0500, TJ Edmister
wrote:
>
> There is an argument that can be passed in the Open Com statement to
> specify a buffer size. Is it supported in DOS? Maybe I will have to whip
> out FB DOS compiler and experiment. BTW, I'm not sure why you are adding
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 emulation mode.
NEC also made a special version
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:13:59 -0500, Dale E Sterner
wrote:
> I can think of only 2 ways an engineer can get those speeds out of a
> serial device.
> A very fast clock or big external buffers. I think DOS could handle a
> fast clock
It is a very fast clock, 1.5 GHz and beyond. It uses differenti
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 07:55:59 -0500, Matej Horvat
wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 06:44:52 +0100, Thomas Mueller
> wrote:
>
>> from Rugxulo:
>>
>>> One of the big problems (not counting HTML5 or Javascript or Flash) is
>>> HTTPS. Not just for DOS but for any OS that isn't top tier (big three:
>>>
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:29:56 -0500, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>> The DOS format utility is kind of an anachronism at this point. Usually
>> it
>> takes a long time to format a partition because it's iterating through
>> every sector of the disk. It's completely unnecessary these days. All it
>
On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 05:16:25 -0500, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> This limitation should not be present in FreeDOS: Default there is
> for harddisks to do a quick format, either with or without saving
> "unformat" data depending on whether there already was a filesystem.
>
>> This behavior makes sense in
It would be interesting to see a command interpreter like
freecom/command.com with some basic GUI elements added to it. A menu bar
with mouse support, clock, scroll bar perhaps... Does something like this
exist?
I saw something similar on an Atari 800XL with a variant of SpartaDOS. At
the
I've been working on a program which can load BMP/JPG, and optionally
apply various color adjustment/reduction and scaling. It's mainly for my
own use, but if there is interest I could release it under a specific
license. It is written in FreeBASIC (with some inline assembly), and hence
can
In the past I had half a dozen machines with various ESS chipsets which
were (mostly) SB Pro compatible. Under DOS I would run ESSCFG followed by
ESSVOL, and maybe set a BLASTER environment variable (or did the utility
do that itself??? I can't remember) and then it would work. Check this
a
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:22:03 -0400, Rugxulo wrote:
>
>
> No, I don't think so. You'd (usually) have to use raw assembly. Maybe
> you could do limited stuff with debug, dunno. (Obviously you can call
> interrupts with debug or do a few other arcane things, but it's not
> nearly as good as a full
Did you check the NTLM compatibility mode in Vista?
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
There should be a DWORD named LmCompatibilityLevel set to value of 1
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 13:32:34 -0400, John Hupp
wrote:
> I installed MS-DOS Network Client, which successfully initializes with
> TC
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:50:25 -0400, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On 28/06/2015 20:03, Rugxulo wrote:
>> "Below 16M"? You mean for DMA or the like?
>
> I have honestly no idea what the 'low-level' implications are. If
> someone asked me 2 days ago, I'd say that's impossible, since an
> application only
Here is a utility for adjusting speed/voltage settings on K8 CPUs (eg.
Athlon 64, Turion 64). It won't work on K10/Phenom-based CPUs which use a
different scheme.
http://www.hyakushiki.net/misc/powernow.zip
Running the program with no argument shows the contents of the status
register, incl
e :) (even as short as a copy/paste of your previous message)
>
> cheers,
> Mateusz
>
>
>
> On 26/03/2016 02:06, TJ Edmister wrote:
>> Here is a utility for adjusting speed/voltage settings on K8 CPUs (eg.
>> Athlon 64, Turion 64). It won't work
On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:30:03 -0400, Ralf Quint
wrote:
> 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
>>
On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 07:20:32 -0400, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> * Is it easy enough to make a bootable USB stick with FreeDOS with
> plenty of software included which does NOT need to install to
> harddisk but can be used as "live" operating system boot disk?
Isn't there a bootable disk image like t
On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 13:11:12 -0400, dmccunney
wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:39 AM, TJ Edmister
> wrote:
>> Since I boot Win2K/XP from FAT32, I also have the ability to put FD
>> right
>> on the C: partition and add it to my BOOT.INI as an option. This needs
On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 21:08:03 -0400, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:32 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)
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 seem that anyone who wanted
support for anim
On Tue, 09 Aug 2016 13:57:35 -0400, Dimitris Zilaskos
wrote:
> The issue I am facing now is that the mechanical drives I connected to
> the
> secondary IDE channel of my Vesa Local Bus controller are not detected.
> Windows 98 SE bootdisk does not detect them either, The BIOS of my system
> o
From: "TJ Edmister"
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 w
From: "TJ Edmister"
On Tue, 09 Aug 2016 13:57:35 -0400, Dimitris Zilaskos
wrote:
> The issue I am facing now is that the mechanical drives I connected to
> the
> secondary IDE channel of my Vesa Local Bus controller are not detected.
> Windows 98 SE bootdisk does not d
MS implemented an arbitrary limit of 32GB for FAT32 volumes, but with
third-party tools much larger ones are possible (up to 2TB?). Maybe those
flash cards could be reformatted and used in the camera with FAT32 instead.
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 06:27:01 -0400, Dale E Sterner
wrote:
I've seen
On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 11:15:08 -0500, Samuel V. via Freedos-user
wrote:
I was thinking that it could become necessary to start implementing a
FreeDOS version that included natively its own BIOS, and that this
combination of FreeDOS/BIOS is implemented entirely native as 32 or
64-bit code,
On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 22:31:38 -0500, Kyle Nied wrote:
What, out of all of these fdisk versions (minus
vanilla fdisk, of course), can you create multiple primary partitions?
I'm pretty sure WinXP itself can create multiple primary partitions. Why
not create the first partition (leaving some e
Yes, there are ways. For instance, you could use the COPY CON command and
then enter a machine language program using the keyboard (The folks on
comp.lang.asm.x86 came up with a nice one using base64) although that is
probably not the most time efficient method.
What type of storage device
The situation is not looking good. Are you still able to copy or create
files on the drive letter that you booted from?
There are two DOS programs, MS Interlink and Laplink, that could self-copy
from one DOS PC to another through the serial port. But here's the kicker:
the target PC has to
Greetings, I wanted to try out FreeDOS on an old laptop where I have
replaced the HDD with a CF card. I am looking to avoid floppies/CDs
however, so I am wondering if anyone has an image that could be written to
the CF card that would then boot into FreeDOS. I`ve found that once I have
a b
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:51:36 -0500, Bob Cochran
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an MSI brand motherboard which I need to flash to the latest
> BIOS. However, all my systems run Linux or *nix; I do not have a
> Microsoft Windows-based system for creating a bootable floppy. MSI seems
> to require a Windo
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:47:10 -0500, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
> Op 17-1-2012 4:31, TJ Edmister schreef:
>
>> I`m also wondering if it is possible to install FreeDOS onto a FAT16/32
>> partition alongside Windows NT4/2K/XP and add it to the Windows boot
>> menu
>> by po
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunney
wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Bob Cochran
> wrote:
>> Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB
>> drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to
>> remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot
FYI this is v1agra spam. Probably sent by a malware infested PC. Curious
combination of email addresses in the "to" field...
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:11:08 -0500, Brad Woosley
wrote:
>
> http://prolumia.eu/mor/184042.html
>
>
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:33:42 -0400, Zbigniew
wrote:
>
> This time I would compare, how much CPU time will my "toy program"
> need on different machines. I would to make it show, how many percent
> of CPU time was needed, if this can be possible.
>
> Why? Because I'm not going to make it "as fas
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:26:04 -0400, Michael C. Robinson
wrote:
> I want to be able to play vinyl records, I have a Hauppage PVR150 card
> connected via PCI to my P3 system. Under Windows 2000, I can use the
> card to run my Playstation II through the monitor. It may also be
> possible to run
On Tue, 01 May 2012 21:16:35 -0400, Mark LaPierre
wrote:
> Hey Y'all,
>
> Does FreeDOS provide support for USB ports? There were no such thing as
> USB ports back in the MS-DOS days. ;-)
>
> My friends on the rotary engine mail list want to know so they can use
> it to control the engine ignit
On Wed, 02 May 2012 19:14:27 -0400, Mark LaPierre
wrote:
>
> As I understand it the plan is to run DOS on an older tablet and use USB
> to interface directly with the sensors and actuators. Hardware
> interrupts will be used as timing events to keep everything in sync with
> the engine.
>
Sou
On Fri, 04 May 2012 21:32:52 -0400, Mark LaPierre
wrote:
>
> Well, this is an open source project. FreeDOS users should be familiar
> with the "roll your own" concept of software acquisition.
>
> The chief engineer is leaning toward using compiled QuickBasic. Any
> well seasoned MS-DOS veteran
On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:33:00 -0400, Jack wrote:
>
> Back in 1980, I told an old friend of mine about a 750K video-driver
> package which I had seen (written in "C", of course!), and he noted,
> "They've got GUTS, calling that a DRIVER!"
Wow, that sounds familiar. Was your friend Hal Hardenberg b
The highest clock rates that were sold were 200MHz for Pentium, 233MHz for
Pentium MMX, and 300MHz for Mobile Pentium MMX. The late mobile chips were
made with a finer process (250nm IIRC).
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:25:01 -0400, David C. Kerber
wrote:
> Pentium definitely came in a 233MHz ver
It might be possible to get a PCMCIA card working, depending on the
particular hardware. Most likely, you would need a set of "card and socket
services" DOS drivers for your PCMCIA chipset and a true PCMCIA card
(rather than the newer Cardbus type, which almost everyone seems to refer
to as
Hi, have a couple ideas for you below...
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:28:39 -0500, bruce.bowman tds.net
wrote:
> This may be a FAQ.
>
> I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it uses
> VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported by later versions
> of Windoze.*
For anyone wanting to control speed/power usage under DOS on an Intel CPU,
I have created a small utility to query/set the relevant MSRs. I have only
tested it on a PentiumM, where the voltage translates as 0.700+vv*.016 but
it should work on Core CPUs although the voltage formula is differe
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:58:34 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Michael Robinson
> wrote:
>>
>> So yes, if I can run hxrt on top of freedos and come up with some sort
>> of packet driver for the PCI Realtek network card... that will be legal
>> and I won't have to
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:32:18 -0500, Michael Robinson
wrote:
> Windows 98 sort of running on top of a DOS system doesn't work with
> ipxwrapper-0.4.0. There is an error that iplphapi.dll can't be found
> or something similar.
Why do you need an ipx wrapper on win98? You can install the IPX pro
Another DOS utility which I have used for dumping/writing floppy disk
images is here: http://www.msxarchive.nl/pub/msx/utils/othersys/dcopy.zip
It allows for specifying drive geometry, so in the case that you are
having trouble creating a dump because of a flaw in an unused area of the
media
FAT16 can handle a 2GB partition (4GB partition can be created with
Microsoft's FORMAT but support seems to be buggy)
The ~500MB limit was actually a 1024 cylinders limit (CHS addressing) with
older BIOSs. One workaround for this at the time was to divide down the
number of cylinders to keep
I like it. I have to ask though, when editing a large file, is there a way
to seek to a particular offset aside from scrolling for ages? If not I
think that would be a high priority feature to add (2nd place would
probably be a search function).
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:53:45 -0500, Mateusz Vi
On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:03:15 -0400, dmccunney
wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:41 PM, dmccunney
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My usual response to worries about privacy is "You *wish* you were
>>> important enough that anyone could be *bothered* to pa
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:45:45 -0400, kurt godel wrote:
> ...
My first question is, what OS is currently installed on your machine?
Second, can it boot from LAN?
If you are trying to install Linux from Windows you should look into a
thing called wubi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(Ubuntu
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:55:45 -0400, Payton Byrd wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am trying to setup FreeDOS on a PC BridgeBoard on an Amiga 2000. I
> have
> MS-DOS 3.3 running fine, but want to upgrade to FreeDOS. I can read 720K
> floppies from the Amiga (and copy the files to the BridgeBoard hard driv
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:36:49 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat
> wrote:
>>
>> ... irrelevant comments by me deleted ...
>>
>> PS: I just wrote all that and found this:
>>
>> http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfile/freedos/index.html
>>
>> Is that
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 18:22:40 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> The two main files seem to be (as mentioned) fdos0138.exe (.ZIP sfx of
> .IMA) and jis4pack.lzh (three .fnt files, the first of which is huge,
> presumably only useful with something on the .IMA, perhaps FONTNX.EXE
> ??).
Yes, and they are b
On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 15:47:05 -0500, Jack wrote:
>
>
> Opera V7,5, last one that works with Win/NT, and Earthlink dial-up.
>
Opera 9.25 can work in NT4, I use it all the time. Browsing with
javascript disabled prevents most ads from loading.
>> And sorry, but *something* has to pay for those "
On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 23:29:14 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
> BTW, NT 4.0 (1996?) didn't support either of those
NT4 does support LFNs. It supports FAT12/16 and NTFS out of the box, and
with a patched system file it will support FAT32 also (same goes for
NT3.51)
>
> The service packs are free, but t
On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:13:29 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
>
>> It supports FAT12/16 and NTFS out of the box, and
>> with a patched system file it will support FAT32 also (same goes for
>> NT3.51)
>
> Is the patch officially part of some service pack or is it third-party?
>
I checked the site where I fo
On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:30:22 -0400, dmccunney
wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Dale E Sterner
> wrote:
>
>> Oh by the way if you want to install XP on FAT32, it will work without
>> being activated.
>
> XP on FAT32?
>
I have always run XP on FAT32 without problems. The only do
On Fri, 16 May 2014 11:29:09 -0400, dmccunney
wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:31 AM, TJ Edmister
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:30:22 -0400, dmccunney
>>
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Dale E Sterner
>>> wrote:
>>&
Does holding ALT while typing the ASCII code on the numeric keypad not
work under FreeDOS?
http://www.irongeek.com/alt-numpad-ascii-key-combos-and-chart.html
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:43:09 -0400, Frantisek Hanzlik
wrote:
> Hi, I need pass general non-ASCII non-zero strings as arguments on
> cm
Is there any documentation included with the FA511 driver?
Using PCMCIA cards under DOS often required some "socket services" crap to
be installed. I had a network card working under DOS on a Toshiba of that
era. I'll look in my backups and see if I still have the files and/or
config.sys
On
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 05:16:01 -0400, Shane wrote:
> You need PCMCIA socket services and card services.
> These load before the network card drivers.
>
> Most computers used SystemSoft CardSoft 3.1 for that, but your Toshiba
> Tecra 8000 uses a "Toshiba ToPIC-95B" PCMCIA controller which isn't
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