Hi,
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote:
>
>> We can't rest on our laurels. We need to be open to obvious
>> improvements.
>
> This is a high-minded, wise way of talking I hadn't heard in a while. One
> point to you, deserved
There's always more to do.
FreeDOS really doe
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote:
> Thank you for your answer Ruxgulo but I think I've been misunderstood in some
> parts, where I admit I may not have made myself clear
>
>> Just get a cheap Chromebook, if you need all these modern niceties.
>
> As I mentioned, I p
Hi,
Just to add (more) $0.02
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote:
> Hello there FreeDOS community,
> I've been a FreeDOS user for 3 years so far, and I'd like to thank the
> developers
> for their effort and their amazing job.
They've accomplished very very much, a
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> (sorry everybody about the long answer... The short
> answer is "would be nice to have a Wiki page about
> situations where WfW 3.11 can be made to run, but I
> still think that this has mostly novelty value only)
There's nothing stoppin
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Shane Coughlan
wrote:
>
> The final(?) Release Candidate of OpenGEM 7 is ready and available for
> testing.
>
> By the way, this RC saw some big changes.
> OpenGEM Release 7 RC 3 - 9th July 2017
> - Changed SHUTDOWN 1.2 abandonware
>to SHUTDOWN 1.1 and RE
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> On 6/22/2017 12:39 PM, Santiago Almenara wrote:
>
> Thanki you Ruxgulo,
>
>> "-m 64" is fairly low. I usually leave it default (unless needing
>> more), which is "-m 128". But even that is fairly low. Hey, you're
>> already on x64, give i
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Santiago Almenara wrote:
>
> I have re-discovered Qemu after using Virtualbox for FreeDOS for a couple of
> years. Since qemu is mostly for command-line use (I don't use any laucher
> yet)
>
> I'd like to ask what are the options you usually use in Qemu.
>
>
Hi again,
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> Not sure exactly, not something I'm intimately familiar with. So I can
> only provide hints (guesses).
Found some more (hopefully useful) links:
* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flashing_BIOS_from_
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Curtis R Anderson via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> So, I have a need to run a DOS based utility to flash a SCSI card BIOS.
>
> I can't boot from a USB-based mass storage device with this desktop's BIOS.
> No option is provided for it in the BIOS menu.
Use PLoP boo
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Joel Graff wrote:
>
> I'm working on setting up a FreeDOS 1.2 VM in VirtualBox. I've selected the
> SoundBlaster16 / PulseAudio pairing in the audio settings, but have not been
> able to get audio working on some old DOS games.
Which games? I don't know of a
Hi,
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm up to report what I think could be a bug with the 1.2 version of
> Freedos installer. I burned a boot cd with the standard version of the Fd12
> installer
>
> Whenever I tried to install the OS, I always got a 'invalid Op
Hi,
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote:
>
> Hi, I was wondering if it were possible to disable the internal speaker of
> the pc through Freedos.
I don't normally think it's possible, no.
It's been a few years, but I vaguely remember some TSRs that tried to
(mostly) check
Hi,
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 1:19 AM, Wesley Parish
wrote:
>
> I just opened my inbox and found a pile of list emails from 2016-09-11 right
> up
> to 2017-04-8.
>
> Has it happened to anybody else?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wesley Parish
Yes, it happened to me, too. (BTW, nice way to clarify about a bunch
o
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Ercan Ersoy wrote:
>
> I tried using my USB mass storage on Virtualbox 5.0.36.
You mean "pass-through" or whatever, using native hardware under VM?
Doubt VBox supports that for DOS guests (since they don't have any
gu
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
Coming back to this, this might not be exactly the solution to this
one specific problem, but I still feel like I should mention it
somewhere!
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> On Mar 25, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Aleksei Ivan wrote:
>
> My U
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
>> I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not to use it.
>> I installed software that I bought to see what it would do on win
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> What you're wanting is pretty simple, so a full-blown calendar program is
definitely overkill.
> I think I've seen references to programs like what you want to do before, but
I don't use any
&g
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:24:56 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
>
>> What disassembler are you using here? I erroneously thought it was NDISASM.
>
> I don't use ndisasm for a very trivial reason - I am unable t
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:06 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> That's nice of you to provide the explanation. I didn't read it
> completely (too lazy), nor understand it fully (too stupid), but the
> other clueless guy might find it interesting that he was
From: Rugxulo
Hi, Eric, always good to hear from you,
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>> BSUM (by Mateusz Viste) : 6.0s (100%)
>> CRC32 (by Joe Forster) : 8.5s (70%)
>
>> MD5 (by Colin Plumb): 52.9s (11%)
>> SHA1 (by Colin Plumb) :
From: Rugxulo
Hi again,
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:56:17 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> It would be interesting to see some benchmark numbers for that (for
>> various specific tools, 8086, 386, etc).
>
> Just for the
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:07:30 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
>
>> irrelevant "jz short ..." (when "short" conditional jump is always
>> mandatory for "cpu 8086").
>
> I don&#x
From: Rugxulo
Before I totally forget ... there was this awesome video on YouTube by
LazyGameReviews (about two weeks ago):
"Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup [LGR]"
https://youtu.be/nLy_jEbuY-U
IBM PC AT 5170 (circa 1988), 286 (8 Mhz) w/ 512 kb RAM, EGA, 30
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 2:51 PM, J||rg Jenderek
wrote:
>
> i am looking for FreeDOS versions BACKUP & RESTORE program, but i do not
> found these programs.
Not sure, and honestly I've not used such utils at all (or at least
not in many years and don&
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
I haven't tried this (yet), but nice work!
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> I needed to verify the integrity of a few files after transferring them
> to/from my 8086 PC the other day. The obvious method for such task is
> computing
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
>
> I've been trying to get FreeDOS to boot an HP desktop & a Lenovo laptop.
> The HP starts to boot the CD-ROM and the last message on the screen is
> Init disk and some periods. How can I fig
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Aleksei Ivan wrote:
>
> My USB ports are NOT working too. I have only to work with a installation
> partition on this netbook.
>
> I'm sorry for the confusion.
But what other OS (if any) are you running on that machine? Wh
From: Rugxulo
Hi, Eric,
This reply may be pointless, but I'm sure you understand where I'm
coming from. In no way am I pretending that MS-DOS is technically
superior or preferred. The weakest claim is only that it is "probably"
more compatible (which is unavoidable since it
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> I disagree about FreeDOS being "not ready yet" or "no advantage to MS DOS".
If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS
(which was widely tested and hugely popular, by f
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
>
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as its
only OS.
> My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my installed programs. The
SCSI
> drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I no
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image
From: Rugxulo
Hi again,
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
>>
>> On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just use the rCyddrCO command.
>
> I'm sure there is a wiki somewhere (for
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Abe Mishler wrote:
>
> Is anybody else running the Turbo C 2.01 IDE under FreeDOS? I appreciate any
> help towards this end.
I don't normally use IDEs. The very few times I do, I use TC++101
instead (which has less bugs and
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> Some Windows users like using utilities like Rufus ( https://rufus.akeo.ie )
> to create their bootable USB media. But, as a non-Windows user, I donrCOt
know much about it.
As a lowly end user, I haven&#
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Rafael Angel Campos Vargas
wrote:
>
> This year package FreeRay2016 includes eighteen new 3D objects LGPL with
> HTML documentation (seventeen are compatible FreeDOS in POVRay 3.1.).
>
> Would you like to incorporate this
From: Rugxulo
Hi again,
Just to add more to this so I don't (completely) forget everything
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just use the rCyddrCO command.
>
> For example, your usb flash drive is kn
From: Rugxulo
Woot, no rules (until this is fixed)! I'll start ;-)
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Interesting. I thought this was pulling from the www.freedos.org website,
> not the old SourceForge website.
>
> I'll email John. The correct
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>
> I want to install FreeDOS onto a 64 megabyte Apacer IDE flash disk for use
> in a Wyse Sx0 thin client. It has to be done outside the box because when
> booted off USB the thin client tells the booting
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Wolfram Volpi wrote:
>
> I am new to FreeDOS and could use your help.
> I am trying to create a DOS bootable USB drive in for a BIOS update.
> I have done the following twice, with the same result each time.
>
> 1) Use GParte
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:14 PM, wrote:
>
> 2. is there a way to set FreeDOS as a VNC, telnet, or even SSH server?
> I would have a full screen session when playing some of the DOS games.
First of all, I misread your question. But, just for clarity, (IIRC)
you can
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> I do agree that it makes little sense to automatically load SHARE with boot
config option 2.
> After all, no other boot option starts SHARE. Also, only a couple situations
require its use.
>
> Either o
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote:
>
> to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine.
>
> what I did:
>
> download FD12LGC.ISO
>
> create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk
> use FD12LGC.ISO to boot
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 6:11 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele
wrote:
>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2017 um 20:08 Uhr
>
> Von: "Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele"
> An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: Freedos 1.2 Network with fix ip
>
&
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 1/2/2017 12:18 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>>
>>> In particular, here's "Installing Windows 2000 on an SD Card"
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/user/Druaga1/
>>
>>
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele
wrote:
>
> the howtos from pre 1.2 do not seem to work for 1.2. How and what configs
need to be
> changed to get a fixed ip adress in freedos 1.2?
You mean in mTCP? Read the docs. (Sorry if that's not
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele
wrote:
>
> I have made a small video to show my issue with freedos 1.2 and syslinux.
After installing it
> freedos does not boot because it is looking for kernel.sys in c:\fdos\bin\
were there is no such
> f
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
Although I haven't had time to test it yet, and it's (presumably)
based upon older FreeDOS 1.1, there are two DOS-related images from
this year's QEMU Advent Calendar:
* http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/#day-3(FreeGEM)
* http://www.qemu-advent-ca
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 4:43 PM, wrote:
>
> I tried to boot FreeDOS 1.2 on my 2005 PC, specs:
>
> It is the FD12CD.ISO image, booted from CD-R. I chose "Install" and used
> F8 to diagnose the problem.
>
> DEVICE=\FDSetup\BIN\HIMEMX.EXE stalls th
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:52 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> My old notebook was set to multiboot, with Win2K Pro, a couple of
> flavors of Linux, and FreeDOS on separate HD partitions.
Do you ever watch YouTube? I
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos
wrote:
>
> Thank you for the advice. I tried FDIMPLES, seem to show everything
> installed, but for some reason p7zip is missing from its list.
I don't really recommend p7zip for heavy use. For one thing, ther
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>
> But I have the same problem with it. Adding "keyb gr" to autoexec.bat does
> not run it. It seems autoexec.bat isn't executed at all. Shouldn't it run
> automatically once DOS is loaded?
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>
> VER does not report a DOS version, only a
> FreeCOM-0.84 version. I think I'm running 1.1, but only the core. There is
no bin
> directory.
Try "ver /r" or check the file date of "
From: Rugxulo
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Hi,
On Jan 1, 2017 3:16 PM, wrote:
>
> I don't really expect help here. It is jus
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
Although this may not be what you meant, just to state the obvious (so
as not to leave you hanging)
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele
wrote:
>
> All I need to know now is why freedos is no longer booting when I use the
> c:\fdos\bin\sy
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote:
>
>>> The KEYB layouts can be found here:
>>>
>>> http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=kpdos
>
>> That's the point where the circle starts (and ends). There are no plain
>> k
From: Rugxulo
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Hi,
On Dec 30, 2016 10:46 AM, wrote:
>
> I cannot easily create a 3.5 inch boot floppy
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele
wrote:
>
> I am new to freedos and got to this mailing list through this youtube video:
>
> Where I wrote the follwing question:
>
> Nice video. I got that far, but I was really looking into wheth
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 3:57 PM, William Dudley wrote:
>
> Is there a simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?
>
> 1.2 is too new for there to be anything in the mailing list archives on
> this.
>
> I never got networking going in
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Mingcong Bai wrote:
> oL? 2016o||12uLe17uuN 21:21, Rugxulo oaOoUo:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Mingcong Bai
wrote:
>>>
>>> But FreeDOS seemed to have CD installation only... Is it possible to
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Mingcong Bai wrote:
>
> I happen to have a ThinkPad 340 kicking around:
>
> - Intel 486SLC2 25/50MHz
> - 12MB RAM
> - 3.5 inch 1.44MB Floppy Drive
>
> But FreeDOS seemed to have CD installation only... Is it possible t
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Sz+agy|-nyi G|ibor
wrote:
> Hi FreeDOS users!
>
> I would like to use pendrive and USB floppy drive under freedos.
Heck, let me just save you the trouble and paraphrase the local cynic:
"It won't work. Just use Linux."
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> Two minor nitpicks:
>
> 1). The .COM isn't even UPX'd. Bloat! ;-)
> 2). The source is named "W2WAT.C", which is confusing
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> have you checked whether there could be a problem with the
> settings of your host operating system
His details say kernel 2042, so maybe it's a regression?? Maybe he
could try (older) 2041 i
From: Rugxulo
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Saluton,
On Oct 1, 2016 5:18 PM, "Henrique
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Note that for live CD, you can also often use the tiny
> ELTORITO driver because after booting from CD, you get
> temporary BIOS support for easy CD access.
>
> I could not find a nice link for ELTOR
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Unfortunately Turkish is not among the layouts built into the smaller MKEYB
driver
>
> PS: You may also want to use DISPLAY and MODE to load a
> font optimized for codepage 857, as BIOS default is 437.
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote:
>
> I found that the intel DOS packet driver for the PRO/1000 network card
isnrCOt
> in the CRYNWR package.
>
> As it is Open Source since 2007 I felt free to package it into an FDNPKG
> compatible
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote:
>
> Am 26.08.2016 um 08:28 schrieb Louis Santillan :
>
> Made my own dog food:
>
> <https://github.com/lpsantil/m2wat.bat>
>
> Hi Louis,
> Thanks for your work! ItrCOs a nice idea t
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote:
>
> What do you think of M2WAT? I use it quite often. It is Open Source, written
> by cordata, a FreeDOS user, in a post to this list.
I vaguely remember when he posted it, but I never had urgent need
From: Rugxulo
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Hi,
On Aug 26, 2016 7:35 PM, "Louis Santillan" wrote:
>
> Thanks for the f
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote:
>>
>> I keep getting the error dma crosses 64k boundary when using tools
>> like rawrite3 or hard drive manufacturers tools floppy creation
>> software. I need to boot from Windows 98 bootdisk to get
Hi,
Coming back to this, this might not be exactly the solution to this
one specific problem, but I still feel like I should mention it
somewhere!
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> On Mar 25, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Aleksei Ivan wrote:
>
> My USB ports are NOT working too. I
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Ercan Ersoy wrote:
>
> I tried using my USB mass storage on Virtualbox 5.0.36.
You mean "pass-through" or whatever, using native hardware under VM?
Doubt VBox supports that for DOS guests (since they don't have any
guest additions for DOS, last I heard).
>
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
>> I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not to use it.
>> I installed software that I bought to see what it would do on win 7.
>> A lot of of message boxes came
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> What you're wanting is pretty simple, so a full-blown calendar program is
> definitely overkill.
> I think I've seen references to programs like what you want to do before, but
> I don't use any
> of them myself and don't remember th
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:24:56 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
>
>> What disassembler are you using here? I erroneously thought it was NDISASM.
>
> I don't use ndisasm for a very trivial reason - I am unable to redirect
>
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:06 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> That's nice of you to provide the explanation. I didn't read it
> completely (too lazy), nor understand it fully (too stupid), but the
> other clueless guy might find it interesting that he was only half wrong.
Just to clarify, I'll q
Before I totally forget ... there was this awesome video on YouTube by
LazyGameReviews (about two weeks ago):
"Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup [LGR]"
https://youtu.be/nLy_jEbuY-U
IBM PC AT 5170 (circa 1988), 286 (8 Mhz) w/ 512 kb RAM, EGA, 30 MB
HDD, 1.2 MB floppy drive, PC-DOS 3
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:26 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:30:35 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> Unless I'm mistaken, conditional jumps on 8086 don't go beyond -128 ..
>> 127 (signed) byte range. Hence the billions of workarounds (TASM
>
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Rinaldo Guelpa wrote:
>
> I am looking for a simple reminder program in dos, can you please help.
You mean like this?
"
TaskTimer: A programmer's/hacker's/hobbyist's time management "egg timer"
TaskTimer is a program that helps over-applied computer freaks
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:07:30 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
>
>> irrelevant "jz short ..." (when "short" conditional jump is always
>> mandatory for "cpu 8086").
>
> I don't think so.
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Hi, Eric, always good to hear from you,
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
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>> BSUM (by Mateusz Viste) : 6.0s (100%)
>> CRC32 (by Joe Forster) : 8.5s (70%)
>
>> MD5 (by Colin Plumb): 52.9s (11%)
>> SHA1 (by Colin Plumb) : 85.7s (7%)
>
> Entertaining :-) Still you need
Hi again,
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:56:17 -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> It would be interesting to see some benchmark numbers for that (for
>> various specific tools, 8086, 386, etc).
>
> Just for the fun of it, I di
Hi,
I haven't tried this (yet), but nice work!
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
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> I needed to verify the integrity of a few files after transferring them
> to/from my 8086 PC the other day. The obvious method for such task is
> computing a checksum of the file, like MD5, SH
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Jörg Jenderek wrote:
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> i am looking for FreeDOS versions BACKUP & RESTORE program, but i do not
> found these programs.
Not sure, and honestly I've not used such utils at all (or at least
not in many years and don't remember).
I do remember that there is a
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
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> I've been trying to get FreeDOS to boot an HP desktop & a Lenovo laptop.
> The HP starts to boot the CD-ROM and the last message on the screen is
> Init disk and some periods. How can I figure out what is wrong. Note that
> the sam
Hi, Eric,
This reply may be pointless, but I'm sure you understand where I'm
coming from. In no way am I pretending that MS-DOS is technically
superior or preferred. The weakest claim is only that it is "probably"
more compatible (which is unavoidable since it's the original). It is
dead and shoul
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Aleksei Ivan wrote:
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> My USB ports are NOT working too. I have only to work with a installation
> partition on this netbook.
>
> I'm sorry for the confusion.
But what other OS (if any) are you running on that machine? What file systems?
Of course the easie
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
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> I disagree about FreeDOS being "not ready yet" or "no advantage to MS DOS".
If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS
(which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most
ubiquitous DOS), then you don't
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> I want the fat32 in order to see drives and files on my win98 computer if I
> use Laplink.
Okay, but that's only the kernel (and boot sector to load it), not all
of the other files. Any single floppy could handle that minimal
"install"
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
>
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currently has MS-DOS 6.22 as its only
> OS.
> My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my installed programs. The
> SCSI
> drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice FreeDOS has its own equ
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
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> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
> 2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the download
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Abe Mishler wrote:
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> Is anybody else running the Turbo C 2.01 IDE under FreeDOS? I appreciate any
> help towards this end.
I don't normally use IDEs. The very few times I do, I use TC++101
instead (which has less bugs and is noticeably faster code). While
E
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
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> Some Windows users like using utilities like Rufus ( https://rufus.akeo.ie )
> to create their bootable USB media. But, as a non-Windows user, I don’t know
> much about it.
As a lowly end user, I haven't deployed lots of Windows cop
Hi again,
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
>>
>> On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just use the ‘dd’ command.
>
> I'm sure there is a wiki somewhere (for some relatively obscure *n
Hi again,
Just to add more to this so I don't (completely) forget everything
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
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> On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just use the ‘dd’ command.
>
> For example, your usb flash drive is known to the system as /dev/sdf and you
>
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Rafael Angel Campos Vargas
wrote:
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> This year package FreeRay2016 includes eighteen new 3D objects LGPL with
> HTML documentation (seventeen are compatible FreeDOS in POVRay 3.1.).
>
> Would you like to incorporate this package in some FreeDOS directory?
> In
Woot, no rules (until this is fixed)! I'll start ;-)
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
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> Interesting. I thought this was pulling from the www.freedos.org website,
> not the old SourceForge website.
>
> I'll email John. The correct location should be
> http://www.freedos.org/
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Wolfram Volpi wrote:
>
> I am new to FreeDOS and could use your help.
> I am trying to create a DOS bootable USB drive in for a BIOS update.
> I have done the following twice, with the same result each time.
>
> 1) Use GParted to partition USB drive and set bo
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
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> I want to install FreeDOS onto a 64 megabyte Apacer IDE flash disk for use
> in a Wyse Sx0 thin client. It has to be done outside the box because when
> booted off USB the thin client tells the booting OS that the IDE controller
> is
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