Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 3:05 PM Bret Johnson wrote: > > Even though a 350 MHz K6-2 is WAY faster than my 3.3 GHz i5? And again, I > know it doesn't make any sense, but it's still true. > > As far as I can tell, the Emperor has no Clothes. > > I'm confused by this. You are claiming that a 350

[Freedos-devel] Ré : How to setup a compiler for FreePascal on Fedora Linux to FreeDOS 16 bit

Yesterday I said: >I'll show you the full file... even if I think I might have damage it a bit in >the long day: Indeed fpc (the command lne one for Fedora x64) was not working anymore. Here is the essential part (not copying back the full ~/.fpc.cfg [where ~ is your home directory in

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

Right, same basic idea. I guess the main difference is using the spare video memory as a starting buffer, but regular ol' RAM would be fine too. :) Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. --- Original Message --- On Monday, March 20th, 2023 at 7:23 PM,

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

Hi, > On Mar 20, 2023, at 6:35 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > I realize this may be more trouble than it's worth, but it's technically > possible to write up a small "shim" program which simply hooks the character > printing interrupts and copies any characters passed

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

I realize this may be more trouble than it's worth, but it's technically possible to write up a small "shim" program which simply hooks the character printing interrupts and copies any characters passed to a small memory buffer* before forwarding them to the regular printing interrupt. This

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

Hi again, On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM Bret Johnson wrote: > > This is something much more serious than a "tradeoff" or a > "regression". My new i5 CPU appears to be spending _at least_ 99% > of its resources NOT processing OpCodes and NOT accessing the > cache (because there isn't one).

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

Tom: Often when you say something on this forum, I am reminded of a stanza from the Tom Petty song, "Into the Great Wide Open." The stanza is "Rebel Without a Clue." I'm sure you think the same of me. >> In fact, the new 3.3 GHz i5 CPU runs about 10 times faster than the >> 33 MHz 386 did,

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to setup a compiler for FreePascal on Fedora Linux to FreeDOS 16 bit

Hi, On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 11:16 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > I am thinking about using FreePascal to write programs for DOS. > > Writing an "hello world" program in FreePascal for 32 bit DOS (Go32) is easy, > because the fpc package can be installed > with fdimples from the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug or Not

Hello, > On Mar 19, 2023, at 10:27 PM, Prime Seal wrote: > > Mr J Hall here is the links to the video of FreeDOS after configuration. > The errors after configuring fdauto.bat file > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5_fXGL36yo > There a a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug or Not

The solution has worked. Thanks Wilhelm Spiegl On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 1:44 PM Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > Hi, I did not check the whole video, but there was a message: "Environment > full?" > > Possible solution: > edit fdconfig.sys, goto the last lines and search for: "/E:1024". Change > 1024 to

Re: [Freedos-devel] if exist %TEMP%\fdlive.dat goto CompletelyLoaded [not done]

Hi Paul, > On Mar 19, 2023, at 11:12 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > Testing FDT2303Live.iso in QEMU. > Seems I always get: > Cute mouse loaded > then > I think the line mentioned in title does not find fdlive.dat... > So I always get the message: > FDLIVE_ERROR: Unable to

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

Hi Paul, > On Mar 19, 2023, at 11:29 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > So many messages on boot I cannot scroll back. > If only the boot process would also copy everything in a boot.log file! > At present, that is not really practical. Actually for a lot of the boot processes

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug or Not

Hi, I did not check the whole video, but there was a message: "Environment full?"   Possible solution: edit fdconfig.sys, goto the last lines and search for: "/E:1024". Change 1024 to 2048 (maybe a little more higher).   Did it help?   Thx for response   Willi     Sent: Monday, March