Re: [Freedos-devel] Problem booting FreeDOS on Book8088 PC-XT laptop

2024-02-09 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 2/9/2024 3:50 PM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: On 09.02.2024 22:30, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel wrote: It always complains it can't find it and wants it to be put in the "roms" folder Under Windows I had success by creating a "roms" directory in the directory of 86box.exe,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problem booting FreeDOS on Book8088 PC-XT laptop

2024-02-09 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
On 09.02.2024 22:30, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel wrote: It always complains it can't find it and wants it to be put in the "roms" folder Under Windows I had success by creating a "roms" directory in the directory of 86box.exe, and then copying the rom images provided by [1] into that

Re: [Freedos-devel] HTMLHELP

2024-02-09 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
Hi Bernd, > On Feb 9, 2024, at 3:00 PM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > Hello, > > I uploaded Willis recent changes containing the HTML help 1.1.0 (English) to > the unstable Gitlab repo [1]. The other languages are still shipped in > version 1.0.8. This also contains version

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problem booting FreeDOS on Book8088 PC-XT laptop

2024-02-09 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 2/9/2024 1:07 PM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: On 09.02.2024 21:17, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel wrote: is one reason why I used to write my own asm routines for BIOS calls In this case it may be of interest how intr is actually implemented internally [1] :-). Yes, intr() is

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problem booting FreeDOS on Book8088 PC-XT laptop

2024-02-09 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
On 09.02.2024 21:17, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel wrote: is one reason why I used to write my own asm routines for BIOS calls In this case it may be of interest how intr is actually implemented internally [1] :-). Yes, intr() is not the most efficient, but the most "portable" compiler-wise,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problem booting FreeDOS on Book8088 PC-XT laptop

2024-02-09 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 2/9/2024 12:13 PM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: Hi Ralf, On 09.02.2024 20:02, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel wrote: I can't see any reason as to why a data segment on a BIOS call should be set to any random value. For example, take this code (copied from FDISK source): static

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problem booting FreeDOS on Book8088 PC-XT laptop

2024-02-09 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Hi Ralf, On 09.02.2024 20:02, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel wrote: I can't see any reason as to why a data segment on a BIOS call should be set to any random value. For example, take this code (copied from FDISK source): static void Reset_Drive( int drive ) {    union REGPACK r;    memset( ,

[Freedos-devel] HTMLHELP

2024-02-09 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Hello, I uploaded Willis recent changes containing the HTML help 1.1.0 (English) to the unstable Gitlab repo [1]. The other languages are still shipped in version 1.0.8. This also contains version 5.3.6 of the HTMLHELP.EXE with several bugs fixed. Crashes and display corruptions should

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problem booting FreeDOS on Book8088 PC-XT laptop

2024-02-09 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 2/5/2024 3:04 PM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: On 05.02.2024 23:14, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel wrote: Sorry, was just confused as to why all the sudden this was brought up. No one was harmed :-) I wanted to explain why I set DS to zero and probably went a bit off-topic by