On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Tried to download version 2.60 from the registered user site and got
> error "site is off line". Anybody know why?
If you mean getting it from
http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/download.htm, that's working here.
> cheers
> DS
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 9:18 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.
I have n
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> When you pay for the software he gives you a special link with a
> password.
I assumed something like that.
> Have you tried the s command on a movie. I paid him $100 to add it.
> I use it on home movies. I can stop the movie at a good sp
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 5:00 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.
I have no idea. Which version of Opera?
> As far as dos goes I use it for alot. Qpro
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from dmccunney:
>
> "Mister, you're a better man than I."
>
>> I migrated to Windows and Linux long ago. There are still a few old
>> DOS apps I use, and I'm currently playing with a fork of D
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I only use windows to get on the web for just about everything else I use DOS.
I could not do so.
> My software is all loaded on cf chips and I can switch between them very
> quickly.
Windows, Linux, and applications here are all installe
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:33 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.
FAT16 is limited to a 2GB volume size. FAT32 goes up to 8TB.
In FAT*, the basic unit of space it the cluster, and the
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> This is getting highly off-topic, but I couldn't resist commenting on. :)
>
> On 12/02/2014 05:02 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> FAT32 uses a 32 bit cluster address, so there are 268,435,445
>> possible clusters.
>
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Tranferings 1 bit at a time is always slower than 8 bits at a time.
> if the clock stays the same for both. How SATA beats this
> is something I don't understand. SATA doesn't have seperate
> handshaking outputs so handshkes have to travel th
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Dave Kerber
wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: dmccunney [mailto:dennis.mccun...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 8:55 PM
>> To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
>> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Qu
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:40 AM, TJ Edmister wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 07:55:59 -0500, Matej Horvat
> wrote:
>> Usually when people say HTML5, they mean the and
>> elements,which currently no DOS browser supports. They are a _good_ thing.
>> They make it possible to include audio and video w
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Dave Kerber
wrote:
>> >> > When I try to format very large SD chips with DOS; the
>> >> > software just gives up. Small sd chips do format but slowly.
>> >> > Large CF chips format in a few seconds.
>> >>
>> >> That's an OS and old hardware issue, It's not inhere
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.
>>
> Excuse me?
> FAT16 is limited to 2 (two) Gigabyte with the 'standard" ma
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 with the
>> browser and be part of the browser env
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Georg Potthast wrote:
> I will use later versions of Qemu in the next release. However, I would like
> to use binaries that use SDL instead of GTK because I think these require
> less disk space.
Given the size and cost of current drives, how much does anyone
actua
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Bob Schwier wrote:
> Some of us are hobbyists trying to make 20th century computers function.
If you have the hardware to run a QEMU environment, disk space is
unlikely to be a huge concern.
If it *is* a concern, you may not be able to run QEMU.
> bs
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I like to buy old used chips that can have lots of hidden junk on them.
> Its best to really clean them. Not a problem with cf chips but sd stuff
> is really slow. 32 gigs and higher just doesn't make it.
What hardware are you running? I'l
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Bob Schwier wrote:
> The complete format does have one virtue. It wipes the disk if you need
> to make sure the previous information is gone.
If that's a real concern, you need to do more than FORMAT. You need
to use one of the programs that write garbage to *eve
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
wrote:
> 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.
It is, but what actually rewrites that media? In general, it's
non
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> The point I'm trying to make is that it's pointless to pretend that
> all web browsers (and OSes and cpus) are created equal. Most aren't
> supported well, if at all. Even the developers who know how just don't
> care enough.
>
> If you aren't usi
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:05 PM, "Jose Antonio Senna"
wrote:
> I agree with D M Cunney that javascript is the most important
> shortcoming of DOS browsers, but I think HTML5 less needed
> than SSL v3
People are full speed ahead on HTML5 largely because the
keyword will theoretically let you st
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:59 AM, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>>> The point I'm trying to make is that it's pointless to pretend that
>>> all web browsers
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>>
>> And why *should* they target legacy machines? Exactly how long is
>> something supposed to be supported?
>>
>> Hardware is steadily smaller, faster,
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> 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 *i
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 12/16/2014 4:01 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>
>>> DOS is not dead but people need to treat DOS as DOS, not as a second
>>> coming of Linux...
>>
>> The fundamental issue for DOS is exactly what you *do* with i
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Georg Potthast
wrote:
> I got my brand new Samsung Tablet about three months ago. I bought a small
> USB hub and connected a mouse, flash disk and keyboard to that and could use
> them all with my XFDOS distro.
I have a generic 7" Android tablet. It doesn't have
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Improved tech makes things better; just ask Sony. Broadband use made the
> hacks possible.
Broadband made hacks delivery *faster*. They were already *possible*.
Viruses were a pestilence back when everything was still DOS and dial
up.
>
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Bob Schwier wrote:
> I'll miss copper because it continued to serve in a black out. Without power
> there is no fiber optic.
That's what battery powered cell phones are for.
I was around when the major blackout hit the NE. The fact that what
is now Verizon supp
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> If I were running Sony the peons would have dial up and broadband would
> be limited to a few special people would tightly control its use.
What has Sony to do with anything? They aren't a telco or an ISP, and
do not provide broadband s
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Copper is long gone and my dial up still works.Fiber is just a carrier.
Dial up uses analog signals transmitted over copper wire. Fiber is
digital end-to-end.
When you dial up, you presumably use a modem and connect via an RJ45
jack to
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> But I'm not holding my breath while Flash goes away. A technology that
>> pervasive and deeply embedded doesn't simply go away overnight. It
>> needs to be repl
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Dave Kerber
wrote:
> No, dialup does not require copper. I know from personal experience that
> it works fine on a FiOS or DSL line. If you have a dialtone when you pick
> up your landline phone, a dialup modem will work.
True, and I sit partially corrected. I
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 windows screanreader if
> possible.
You may want
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Dennis,
>
>>> 2).
>>> http://youtube-eng.blogspot.nl/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html
>
> Very nice :-)
>
>> I infer that you need a relatively current browser.
>
> Yes, and those video codec libraries are not small at all.
> S
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from dmccunney and Ralf Quint:
>
>> > You may want to look at vDOS instead. vDOS is a fork of DOSBox,
>> > specifically intended to run character mode DOS business apps on
>> > Windows. See https://source
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>> I have an assortment of sites bookmarked that make effective use of
>> Flash, but Flash is an option, and they can be used without it.
>> (The sites are art, design, and fashion sites...
>
> Please give some example what they do with flash. Do
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Knute Myhrvold wrote:
> But that's as far as I have gotten... HOW do I get FreeDOS to RUN Fractint?
> How is it done?
> Thanks for any help!
If you go to Fractint.org and follow the pointers, you'll find a
virtual environments directory with this:
Jun 10, 2014
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> What is VM short for.?
Virtual Machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine
> cheers
> DS
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Not for me. Will use Dennis's link to read about it.
Please do. I'm a little startled that you *didn't* know what a VM was.
> Everybody seems to run DOS under something else like
> Windows.
Because everyone else runs something other than
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I agree but I don't know of anyone besides you guys that get into
> this stuff. My system meets my book keeping needs which my biggest
> use. Right now I'm using PC DOS 7.1 because it does so well with usb flash
> chips.
That's good to know.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
wrote:
> Hi Dale, Dennis,
>
> From: dennis.mccun...@gmail.com on Tue, 3 Feb 2015 16:56:48
>>> Everybody seems to run DOS under something else like
>>> Windows.
>> Because everyone else runs something other than DOS as their main OS.
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Freedos can give me fat 32 capabilities. Reading & writing to bigger chips.
Why would you *need* to?
I still have my original PC clone running DOS in a shelf. I has a
replacement motherboard with a NEC V20 chip running at 10mhz, 640K of
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:18 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>>
>> I allocated the 2GB slice for FreeDOS expecting to use FAT16, and
>> FAT32 support was a happy fringe benefit. Even with a full FreeDOS
>> installation includin
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from Dale E Sterner and dmccunney:
>
>> > Qpro 3 works great. I hate to mess with sucess. Sometimes the new version
>> > isn't as good as the old - it happens.
>
>> As long as QPro 3 does what you need
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Most camera chips today exceed 2 gig.
True. It might be fun to find a 2GB CF card. Prices have been
dropping and capacities increasing in flash media for years, and small
models are at the point of being prizes in CrackerJax boxes. I got
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to think of what I might store there using DOS that would *need*
>> more space, and can't think of anything.
>
> Ha - I had 14gb allocated on my Compaq Armada 1750 and ran out of space
> after discovering that it plays "tunes" (via
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:45 PM, John R. Sowden
wrote:
> I somehow got 2 files in the same directory with the same name. This
> happened in a foxpro/dos program that I have been using for more than a
> decade. How do I rename one of the files so I can treat them
> separately. The are not identica
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 8:01 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.
Nope. Panasonic proprietary.
Driver binaries may be found at the site Karen referenced:
http:/
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:38 PM, John R. Sowden
wrote:
"dos editor very long files ignore eol character"
> I am looking for the above.
How long is "very long"?, and what do you mean by "ignore eol character"?
A commercial editor called Vedit claims to be able to edit enormous
files, and still
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> How do you transfer data to GridPad 1910?
> Surely there would be no USB or CD, and hard drive would interface would be
> something that came long before IDE or ATA and not compatible with modern
> computers?
See http://oldcomputers.net/
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from dmccunney:
>
>> See http://oldcomputers.net/gridpad.html
>
>> But since it came with MSDOS 3.3 built in, the question is why you
>> would need FreeDOS.
>
> Thanks for the link, it was interestin
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I remember using IBM's Tiny Editor, 16-bit for DOS and OS/2, in DR-DOS 7.03,
> not open source.
>
> Tiny Editor was useful on IBM OS/2 installation floppies because of tiny
> size, could edit up to about 350 KB file or a little larger, mor
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:19 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe that was because DOS is not really made for large RAM.
>>
>> Editors I'
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:34 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>>
>>> No, many compilers make it totally transparent to the end user. So you
>>> don't even have to w
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
>>What do you run as your "production" OS? I'm willing to bet it's not
> a flavor of DOS.
>
> Linux (Kubuntu [Ubuntu/Debian derivatives) is my primary OS, but FreeDOS is
> my secondary OS followed by Windows 7 on one machine only because I recen
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Bret Johnson wrote:
>> 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 period)
>
> Actually, no. Just like previous versions of Windows, 9x is simply a DOS
> application, not an Operating S
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:59 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>>
>> Win98 is a protected mode OS, and DOS serves as a real mode
>> loader. Once Win98 is up and running, DOS is out of the loop, and
>> Win98 *is* the OS.
>
>
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Karen Lewellen
wrote:
> i use dos exclusively daily for all my computing.
> and still sometimes get the sense here that freedos does not take itself
> seriously enough for me to consider it for my professional needs.
FreeDOS takes itself seriously, but is constrai
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>> This is OS development 101. Do you think a new OS intended as
>> a followup to an existing product thro
http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=freedos
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:44 AM, dmccunney
> wrote:
>>
>> http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=freedos
>
> Interesting! This is a new one.
>
> I knew about JPC (http://jpc.sourceforge.net/) and PCjs
> (http://jsmachines.ne
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Bret Johnson wrote:
>> I'm thinking about adding something like this to the freedos.org website
>> so people can try out FreeDOS. Not sure about bandwidth and web server
>> requirements yet, though - so no promises.
>
> I'd be a little careful about how I promoted
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Georg Potthast
wrote:
> There is also my FlView image viewer. It can display GIF, BMP, JPG, PNG,
> XPM, PBM, PGM and PPM type images. A binary version including the source
> code can be downloaded here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/files/Applicatio
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 going on with that site?
Seems to have been down for a while. The last successfu
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 updated last
>> month.
>
> That's the problem, going by all the discussions tha
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 5/23/2015 8:12 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> The question is why Jiri forked the code, and how much he *cares*
>> whether it works in FreeDOS.
>>
> The changelog for his version lists a couple of things related to D
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:21 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>>
>>> The big question is if OpenWatcom continues to be a viable option to be
>>> used with FreeDOS. I
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
> It is a redirect to from a: to c:\temp - MS-DOS Debug deals with as intended
> (Many, many SIMTEL debug scripts have similar commands). Japheth was aware
> of the bug and published an updated DEBUG but I cannot find it on his site
> or the link
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:00 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> So I tried Dillo, which is graphical. Though it thrashes the hard drive
> a fair amount, it did work in a quick checkout. This was v3.02b from
> http://nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos.googlecode.com/files/DILLODOS-302b.zip,
> written by
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> I'm surprised you didn't mention Gopher as one of the things you when in
> your time machine :) That's one of the things I enjoy during my
> (Free)DOS sessions.
Not relevant to DOS, but if you use Firefox, SeaMonkey, or TenFourFox
as your br
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> 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 han
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Carl spitzer wrote:
> Afterall most appliances are in technical terms rather simple and though
> some like model trains get by with TinyOS others might get by with DOS and
> more complex things can be left to Linux.
I rather doubt it.
One thing that gets a *lot*
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 not - my assumption is that running on 8086/80186 means I am
> limited to 640K
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> But 3(b) in the GNU GPL says source code should be available up to
> three years after they download the binary, upon request.
The problem is that this is generally taken to mean "The source that
produced the particular binary the user has", so t
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 5:13 PM, wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18 2015 at 10:54pm, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
>>> But 3(b) in the GNU GPL says source code should be available up to
>>> three years after they download the binary, upon
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 5:10 PM, John R. Sowden
wrote:
> I am looking for a dos editor that can handle large files. Wordstar
> will work in the non-document mode but it truncate files if there is an
> ascii 26 (end of file) character. I would like the wordstar key
> commands if that is possible.
I haven't seen this mentioned here. It looks like it might have uses.
https://github.com/mikegonta/SudoBIOS
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On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Mark Spalenka
wrote:
> Using MEMDISK in GRUB to boot FREEDOS from the local hard drive on later
> model machines is what I am getting from you as a solution to boot FreeDOS
> from a local Harddrive on a laptop. If you have any other solutions that
> would allow me
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
> I remembered one other thing about this device: It uses EFI. I don't
> think there's a proper BIOS on the ComputeStick. But FreeDOS needs
> BIOS.
Do you recall what was involved on getting Linux booted?
If Xavier can get Linux up, he might be abl
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:34 AM, dmccunney wrote:
>> The variant with Ubuntu pre-loaded looks interesting, and would save a
>> fair bit of work.
>>
>> I can imagine the fun getting Fedora up on the Windows variant. I can
>> also imagine "sloow to boot&q
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Maybe I misunderstood you, but you seem intent to *only* run atop this
> new Intel Compute stick thingy. Have you never tried a bootable USB before?
His stated intent is to run old DOS games on a cheap HD monitor with
the Compute Stick plugged into
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:43 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe I misunderstood you, but you seem intent to *only* run atop this
>>> new Intel Compute stick thi
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> I am concerned by this statement from Jack's email: "Take a look at
> the sources for Microsoft HIMEM or EMM386, as I have…" This is the
> first I was aware that Jack had reviewed any source code from
> Microsoft.
>
> If someone has studied the MS
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Bret Johnson wrote:
> I can certainly understand the paranoia from a totally volunteer organization
> like FreeOOS, but there needs to be some reasonable perspective applied to
> this at some point in time.
Yes. IP disputes and claims of misuse of proprietary c
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> BTW, didn't Google Code kick the bucket? So it's no surprise you can't
> reach it. It's dead, Jim.
>
> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html
>
> "We will be shutting down the service about 10 months from now on
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
> If I understand your question, you want a DOS command to do arithmetic. You
> should look up Foxcalc. However, I can't remember if it also supports DOS
> command line arithmetic, or if it only works in app mode.
The 4DOS command processor provide
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Vista and newer can resize its own NTFS partitions. Perhaps if you're
> trying to use XP then you'll need something else (GParted liveCD?).
I used Win7 Disk Management to carve out a raw slice on the boot drive
to install Ubuntu to. I had to ini
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Where do you get setedit?
http://setedit.sourceforge.net/
> cheers
> DS
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> My old puter doesn't read html 5. I have to use Android tablet.
> It downloads apps OK but for other stuff it seems to balk.
> Still learning how to get this Android to work well.
Try http://archives.scovetta.com/pub/simtelnet/msdos/editor
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:02 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>> My old puter doesn't read html 5. I have to use Android tablet.
>> It downloads apps OK but for other stuff it seems to balk.
>> Still learning how to get
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
> Personally, I think the CONs of forcing a larger Media requirement outweigh
> the bonus of the free space.
You can still *find* something like a 512MB USB stick? The smallest I
have is 1GB. The smallest I see for sale is 4GB, for a whopp
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 9:53 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.
It's been too long since I ran
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I load my software on cf chips so I'm running pure dos
> no windows.
We know. You've said so before. Running from CF card is irrelevant
to the problem.
> When you read the help section it implies>
> that 19200 exists but when you try th
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote:
> Anyhow, these are the problem packages and their probable destinies.
>
> ARCHIVER:
>
> ZOO - Includes sources, may be Public Domain. No License information.
> Dropped.
Zoo was Rahul Dhesi's open source archiver, released as an alterna
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote:
> On May 15, 2016, at 1:17 AM, dmccunney wrote:
>
> [..]
>>> 4DOS - Listed as Free, No Sources. Kept for now, may get Dropped?
>>
>> 4DOS sources, for the original 7.50 release, and the later 8.0 release
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote:
>
> I can't imagine anyone taking stuff from a FreeDOS 1.2 release and
> *wanting* to issue it as a commercial product. Rex released 4DOS as
> open source because it was no longer selling. The world had moved on
> from MSDOS and 16 bit
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> Copyright laws in the US & Europe are very different.
> In the US if the creator neglects his work fails, to renew ;
> his copyright dies forever. In europe an expired copyright
> can be revived from limbo if he retakes an interest in
> it
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> I stand corrected. What I heard was that senator Sonie Bono had the law
> extended.
Senator Bono (one half of pop music duo Sonny and Cher) had ties to
the entertainment industry, and pushed for life of copyright to be
extended. As mention
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Corbin Davenport wrote:
> The Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement extends copyright laws for all countries
> involved, but to my knowledge it's not in force yet.
It's not. See the Project Gutenberg Canada website at
http://gutenberg.ca/#h2newreleases for more than you
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 7:44 PM, John R. Sowden
wrote:
> Excuse me for butting in ... but,
>
> I understand the the FreeDOS package should be pure open source with no
> caveats. I also see that there are many programs out there that are
> 'available for use by the general public', but have varyi
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