Re: [Freedos-user] the msdos 4.0 sources has some multitasking code

2024-05-16 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Absolutely. Think of all the yachts and summer homes they're losing by not donating a scrap of 8086 assembly to the general public. Think of all those poor shareholders and millionaires. Michał W dniu 15.05.2024 o 22:29, Roger via Freedos-user pisze: Microsoft is not willing to go to even

Re: [Freedos-user] QEMU, DOOM, and sb16 issue resolved with audiodev specification

2024-05-14 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hi, Please consider reporting this to libvirt on GitHub. I'm literally the only user up there who asked for sb16 not to be axed. Speak up, or the devs will speak for you - and usually against your interests. Best regards, Michał W dniu 14.05.2024 o 12:12, Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-up emulation?

2024-04-24 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
> Since FreeDOS doesn't support physical network hardware (even if it's emulated in a program like PCem or 86Box), I figure there's no way FreeDOS is gonna be able to connect to the Internet, right? Well... Lol. Lmao, even. I did manage to connect my FreeDOS to the Internet at some point but

Re: [Freedos-user] Audio PCI 1370 Sound Card

2024-03-16 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hello, I used to have a very similar card called SoundBlaster Vibra 128. It might have even been a re-brand of your EnSoniq 1370. Before you initialize this driver, you should make sure that DMA 1 and IRQ 5 are free, so that the TSR can intercept SoundBlaster calls with those parameters. Try

Re: [Freedos-user] "Upgrade" from MS-DOS 6.2.2

2024-02-28 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hello Karen, Please keep the discussion on-topic. This is a FreeDOS user discussion mailing list, not a WEF summit. Best regards, Michał W dniu 27.02.2024 o 21:45, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user pisze: If our goals resonate, consider donating. worth a tax write off in some countries..

Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question

2023-11-04 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hi, I'm not entirely sure NT (Win XP etc.) ever supported such a thing atop FAT32 either (via DOS calls). Via DOS calls in NT? Not sure. But in ordinary operations, it was as normal as pie. I remember pretty well that I had to cut up >4GiB files into pieces so that we could transfer them

Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question / Sound in DOS and FAT huge file support

2023-11-03 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hi, Isn't HX that unfinished DOS extender from 15 years ago that wanted to make it possible to run Windows-only binaries on DOS, and had some success in that field? BR, Michał W dniu 03.11.2023 o 18:14, Joao Silva via Freedos-user pisze: Hi! HX DOS Extender work with dos games that

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip for dOS?

2023-11-01 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
You should be alright if you grab a copy of CWSDPMI and add it either to: - one of the directories in your %PATH% - or you put it in your current working directory - or you put it alongside P7ZIP.EXE CWSDPMI is also packaged by FreeDOS:

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip for dOS?

2023-11-01 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
If you download p7zip from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/unstable/archiver/p7zip.zip, you can use the file ARCHIVER\P7ZIP\P7ZIP.EXE Optimally, you should extract the entire directory ARCHIVER\P7ZIP somewhere and write a P7ZIP.BAT file in your %PATH% that

Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question

2023-11-01 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Do you know maybe where do these limits come from? I thought it should be 4GiB for both since this is the file size limit for FAT32. Best regards, Michał Dec W dniu 01.11.2023 o 21:33, Dale E Sterner via Freedos-user pisze: You use to promote MSdos 7.1. Have you ever found a way to get

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip for dOS?

2023-11-01 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hello Karen, As I've stated in my previous email: * unzip is for decompressing zip files * zip is for creating zip files * p7zip is for BOTH creating and extracting 7z files (and many more actually) With p7zip, this is not an Alcohol 68% and Alcohol 52% situation, like it is with zip

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip for dOS?

2023-10-31 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
That and there's also, well, guessing which ~# file is the correct one. Also if you don't have the install CD, you can try your luck with connecting your FreeDOS instance to the Internet. fdimples has no problem downloading stuff that's online if you don't have a CD at hand. But, luck is the

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip for dOS?

2023-10-31 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Regular zip files can be decompressed with unzip. For compression, use zip. 7z files can be decompressed with 7zip. They're all on the full FreeDOS install CD. Best regards, Michał Dec W dniu 31.10.2023 o 21:20, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user pisze: Hi All, and a reminder how to set them

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on an iMac 2011 (with good reason)

2023-10-04 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hello, >the machine running hot Maybe try running FDAPM to reduce CPU usage once you're in the shell? I remember installing FreeDOS on a Toshiba A660 with an i7 onboard, but I don't recall that kind of issue. >is this normal behavior for installing FD to an SSD? No. FreeDOS can be

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting Windows 98 from FreeDOS

2023-09-25 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
t's that Display, country, *.cpi and keyboard lines). Also that c:\windows\command path should probably point to the Freedos directory. Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Jürgen Wondzinski -Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Michał Dec via Freedos-user Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. September 2023 22:50

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting Windows 98 from FreeDOS

2023-09-24 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
PM Michał Dec via Freedos-user wrote: Hello everyone, I wanted to boot Windows 98 from FreeDOS 1.3, because I would like to keep all things together without worrying about partitioning. So I actually have a block device backup of when Windows 98

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting Windows 98 from FreeDOS

2023-09-24 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
switch... again no computer fat fingers hard to type, no batt. On Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 2:51 PM Michał Dec via Freedos-user wrote: Hello everyone, I wanted to boot Windows 98 from FreeDOS 1.3, because I would like to keep all things together without worrying about partitioning. So

[Freedos-user] Booting Windows 98 from FreeDOS

2023-09-24 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hello everyone, I wanted to boot Windows 98 from FreeDOS 1.3, because I would like to keep all things together without worrying about partitioning. So I actually have a block device backup of when Windows 98 was working on this computer. I've extracted the contents and focused on what does

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and the Gemini protocol

2023-08-19 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hello Paul, You could've said "Gopher with TLS". Best regards, Michał W dniu 19.08.2023 o 09:11, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user pisze: I recently learn of the Gemini protocol. What is the Gemini protocol? "1.1.1 The dense, jargony answer for geeks in a hurry Gemini is an application-level