[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Bi-monthly Reminder
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Re: [Freedos-user] COPYBS.COM question
16 BIT schreef: The COPYBS.COM included with some FreeDOS distributions seems an excellent utility for saving boot sectors to files. Does anyone know of a utility to *restore* the saved boot sector files? No, only DEBUG maybe using some script (Eric Auer sent me one a few years ago) SYS does not have the functionality, and neither does COPYBS, SAVEBS or OSCHECK Bernd --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] COPYBS.COM question
The COPYBS.COM included with some FreeDOS distributions seems an excellent utility for saving boot sectors to files. Does anyone know of a utility to *restore* the saved boot sector files? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] test: SmallBASIC processing MSish .bas files
Hi, I tested SmallBasic.sourceforge.net with some old QBASIC and GWBASIC .bas files, here a short list of things which did not work: KEY, DEFINT, DEFDBL, CLEAR, POKE, FILES, DO, "GOTO" as shorthand for "THEN GOTO" ... WIDTH, OUT, LPTINT, SHELL, " signs in REM lines (if non-balanced, which should not matter inside REMarks), SHELL, PALETTE, SCREEN, probably others. Some things which do work are LOCATE and INKEY$ and INPUT$(1)... so I was able to run a short implementation of A.K.Dwedneys "Wator" toroidial planet with some fish, plancton and sharks, but got a stack underflow at some point. Although there are only 2 nested levels of GOSUB, no recursion at all. Some syntactic variants of OPEN are not supported by SmallBASIC. Feel free to forward this to some SmallBASIC forum or maintainer, or maybe even write some plugin / patch to improve compatibility (although the FAQ explicitly states that SmallBASIC is similar but not compatible to QBASIC). By the way, as SmallBASIC does not even support "name:" style labels, I assume you should better compare it to a 32bit GWBASIC... The DOS binary is 758k big but UPXes to 212 kilobytes.You might want to reanimate the BWBasic enhancement project as an alternative. BWBasic is an ugly (in terms of source code) BASIC with the enhanced syntax which you know from QBASIC and others but with only very few library functions. At some point, we started writing graphics / text mode / sound support for it, but the project never really reached an interesting level. As a side effect, you can now compile BWBASIC even in Turbo C 2 (but the Linux gcc version is "smoother"). PS: Both wired_gr and clarkg (addresses mentioned in the Changes file) bounced, but maybe you can mail riessb usa net (Bob Riess). Eric --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Help.. Freedos not.. FREE
Hi! 13-Окт-2004 14:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Williams) wrote to "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: DW> I'm trying to use Nero and make a Bootable Image of FREEDOS so I can use DW> that to recovery DW> Windows Cripled Machines.. Upgrade Bios.. and such.. I followed the DW> instructions and retrieved the DW> Cd Image and burnt the CD. .and on bootup of my Aptivia.. It crashed with DW> the info below... Well, first, let make sure who is wrong: this machine is incompatible with FreeDOS or something wrong with your burned image on CD. For this, I recommend to make bootable _diskette_ and try to boot from it (booting from CD imitates diskette, but this imitation may be broken on your Aptiva). DW> Maybe the Burn did not go well... NERO does that correctly if you use the DW> Image Copy right? Maybe it's a bad IMAGE... >> Which is configureation of your machine? Which kernel version shown at >> startup? Which contents of your config.sys and autexec.bat? What mean >> "copyright BIOS reported 0 sectors/track"? At which time displayed message >> about Invalid Opcode (and then about MCB chain corrupt)? And you not answer these questions. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
