On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Eric Auer wrote:
(Several snips)
Regarding UEFI: You normally load a CSM to provide BIOS
interrupts which not only DOS itself but also DOS apps
need. There are some open source CSM, probably with a
somewhat limited hardware support, so you could learn
how this works (probab
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> On Oct 27, 2020, at 6:38 PM, zz zz wrote:
> [...]
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> -- The installation process: I believe could be improved by having an
> "Advanced" tab where one could check and ideally select the target and
> source drives. One of the reasons I postponed trying FD out was that my old
> box doesn't have
> On Oct 27, 2020, at 6:38 PM, zz zz wrote:
> [...]
> -- The installation process: I believe could be improved by having an
> "Advanced" tab where one could check and ideally select the target and source
> drives. One of the reasons I postponed trying FD out was that my old box
> doesn't hav
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 5:59 PM Eric Auer wrote:
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> Hi Flamengo, welcome :-)
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> Can you give more details about the Wing game crash?
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> As we already have some EMACS and EMACS has a thing with
> LISP, maybe we already have some LISP hidden in EMACS?
>
> I vaguely remember some thread topics ex
Hi Flamengo, welcome :-)
Can you give more details about the Wing game crash?
As we already have some EMACS and EMACS has a thing with
LISP, maybe we already have some LISP hidden in EMACS?
I vaguely remember some thread topics exist in DOS forums,
but somebody else would have to provide links
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 5:39 PM zz zz wrote:
> Hello, everyone. Didn't see anything resembling posting guidelines so
> just posting here anyway, there are dev ideas below after all.
> [..]
>
Hi Flamengo - and welcome to FreeDOS!
You have some interesting ideas. To respond to a few of them:
Hello, everyone. Didn't see anything resembling posting guidelines so just posting here anyway, there are dev ideas below after all.
I grew up with DOS and finally got around to installing FreeDos in my old Pentium I 200Mhz, 48MB RAM which now boots (much!) faster than any of the newest c
It's kind of early for Hanukkah, but a friend suggested a little dreidl
game. It looked easy to do, so I wrote it. This is a VERY SIMPLE dreidl
game.
The rules are in the dreidl.c file. This is under the GNU GPL v2.
http://www.freedos.org/jhall/dreidl/
I wrote it on Linux but it should compile un
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 6:27 PM Jim Hall wrote:
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> Another thought: how outdated is this DOS version of perl? I know it's Perl
> 5.8.8 and the current version is 5.32.x.
> But how "far apart" are those two versions? (It's been years since I
> intentionally wrote a perl script, so I don't k
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 4:21 PM Steve Nickolas wrote:
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> On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, Eric Auer wrote:
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> > Regina REXX was not very small, while some others are small?
>
> Regina at least has some justification. Some later versions of PC DOS
> came with REXX.
Yeah, it replaced QBASIC there.
REX
Hi,
Sorry, I'm late to this thread, but ... I don't feel like reading ten
pages before quickly responding to this misunderstanding.
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 2:39 PM Jim Hall wrote:
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> Over time, FreeDOS has grown to include lots of interesting programs. The
> FreeDOS 1.2 and 1.3RCx distributio
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