"Officially" Night is in fact still an ongoing project. The problem is that I
haven't had much time to devote to it for a while now, and I know Maarten and
Antony have a lot going on as well. After completing a handful of other
projects that have popped up, I will definitely be going back to
Does anyone know the current status of the NightDOS kernel effort?
This is (was?) a project to create a 32-bit drop-in replacement for
the FreeDOS kernel. Mercury was a key developer on this. But the
"official dev thread" discussion on Google Groups seems to have
stalled out in 2020, although
On Sunday, January 16th, 2022 at 3:34 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> ...
> I run Linux, and use Fedora on my PC. When I download a new version of
> [Fedora Workstation](https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/), it
> comes as a DVD ISO image. But my PC doesn't have a DVD drive (my previous
>
On Sun, 16 Jan 2022, Jim Hall wrote:
I have a paper copy of a few original MS-DOS manuals. My MS-DOS 4
manual says the only separators allowed in a comment are whitespace
but didn't mention redirection. But the MS-DOS 5 manual specifically
says *not* to use redirection in REM.
So this was a
On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 1:19 PM tom ehlert wrote:
>
>
> > As everyone knows and the docs clearly state, everything after a REM is
> > ignored.
>
> > However, I recently noticed an issue with a batch file that had something
> > like:
>
> > REM this thing [[x|4]] or later
>
> > in one of its
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 6:33 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
> [..]
> We come to UEFI and modern hardware. With modern hardware vendors dropping
> support for Legacy BIOS and users wanting to run FreeDOS on modern
> machines, I only see three solutions.
>
> First… Oh well, they can run it in a virtual
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 6:33 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
> [..]
> A lot of users want to run FreeDOS from USB. As I see it, there are
> several issues with that.
>
> First, you cannot guarantee that when booted from USB that drive will be
> writable. Personally, I’ve never seen when it was write
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 6:33 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I’ve got a couple thoughts regarding the OS release media I wanted to
> throw out to you all. These are just things I was pondering and by no means
> I’m I saying any of these are going to happen. They are just some ideas I’d
Thanks to everyone for joining today's FreeDOS virtual get-together! I
really appreciate getting to know everyone as more than just a name
behind an email.
Folks dropped in and out as they had time. I think we had a dozen
folks during the get-together.
We do these monthly, so if you weren't able
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 10:46 AM Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 1/12/2022 12:58 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> > I'll share the meeting info here in the hour leading up to the meeting.
>
> Did you oversleep? ;-)
>
>
No, but I completely forgot to share the invite an hour before the meeting.
:-)
Here's the
On 1/12/2022 12:58 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
I'll share the meeting info here in the hour leading up to the meeting.
Did you oversleep? ;-)
Ralf
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