Hi, On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 11:57 AM usul <usul.the.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and my > Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my start with a > 486 DX 8 mgs of Ram. > I mostly did Visual Basic 3.0 programming to start after I finished college. > VBA/ MS Access then to Dot Net. I can read C / C++ but never really did > anything with it.
FreeBASIC might be for you, then. It does have a DJGPP build. * https://freebasic.net/ * https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/DocToc > So I thought it would be cool to mess around with it again > > So I plan to multiboot on the laptop > Linux > Dos 6.22 / Windows 3.11 > and FreeDos > Is there an 'Order that this would need to be done in? Any Recommendations? You already mentioned ZipSlack (Slackware 11.0), and that was 2006-ish using UMSDOS running atop FAT. * https://mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/ * https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/slackware/slackware-11.0/zipslack/ > I found on those old cds copies of > desQview/X 2.1 and XAppeal (and if they could port it I might be able to) > and DragonLinux which runs on UMSDOS so install on the same partition. > Borland C++ 3.0, so much other fun stuff. The Desqview/X SDK was DJGPP v1 (though I never used it), it's still on mirrors. * https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/getting.html * http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/deleted/v1tk/00_index.txt > Anyway I am having some problems, and I really don't remember my > autoexec.bat/config.sys stuff anymore but I remember getting all the dos and > stuff loaded to high memory or something like that. I personally wouldn't bother with EMM386 (JEMM) just yet. Try sticking to XMS only (HIMEMX), for now. > The only options that seem to work are 4 & 5. . Where can I get all the info > to relearn all of that? Is there a website / documentation or an old dos > book I can buy that would still be relevant to FreeDos. It sees all of the > memory on the laptop 4gigs just * https://help.fdos.org/en/index.htm > I have not tried anything that needs 32 bit protected mode. but eventually > once I get it figured out I will need it to do stuff in djgpp. * https://delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2/readme.1st * https://delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2misc/csdpmi7b.zip There's also OpenWatcom: * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/c/openwatcom/1.9/ A lot of us also like HX / HDPMI32: * https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/HX/releases/tag/v2.20 > I'm not really good with mailing lists, too much overload. LOL Do we have a > Discord server or something along those lines? Web based forum etc. If not, > I'll re-adapt. * http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board.php _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
