Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-28 Thread Alain Mouette
If you are thinking about another FreeDOS distro, you may consider inquiring about a 8086 version. IIRC a few people use but it is quite difficult do setup, so a simple image or release can be very helpfull Just a random thought, Alain Em 28/03/2022 12:40, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] began to list problems I see with FD 1.3-rc3

2020-11-10 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 10/11/2020 09:14, Robert Riebisch escreveu: P125: cd fdos\dn2 ; dn.com ; numeric keypad up down works fine, but normal up down move by 2 rather than by 1 line same for left, right https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/291/ I think, this is a QEMU bug and the ticket should be closed. I

Re: [Freedos-devel] VME Broken on AMD Ryzen

2017-05-12 Thread Alain Mouette
On 12-05-2017 16:14, Rugxulo wrote: >> Should JEMMEX or the FreeDOS installer work around this? > Just use "NOVME", and don't worry about it. Could you please explain that... Alain -- Check out the vibrant tech

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

2017-02-03 Thread Alain Mouette
really don't know the direction to take for it. Suggestions are welcome. On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 4:56 AM, Alain Mouette <ala...@pobox.com <mailto:ala...@pobox.com>> wrote: I like that :) Just one question: can default collors be configured? I would like something

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

2017-02-02 Thread Alain Mouette
I like that :) Just one question: can default collors be configured? I would like something like "dialog" in Linux which has a gray background... :) Alain On 01-02-2017 21:49, Mark Olesen wrote: Hello, I liked and made the changes you had pointed out. Thanks for the input. html pages

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-21 Thread Alain Mouette
I have made a pretty complete translation to pt_BR and an instlable .iso here: http://suporte.cosmodata.com.br/downloads/moni/CosmoData-M16001.iso Just don't install the Aplication (it is password protected, please don't crack it...) I have all NLS files plus - A translated command.com, just

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-10-01 Thread Alain Mouette
oach proposed by Joe > And yet the cdex extention > > Let's keep track on all :P > > > Kind Regards, > > Geraldo Netto > Sapere Aude => Non dvcor, dvco > São Paulo, Brasil, -3gmt > site: http://exdev.sf.net/ > > > On 30 September 2015 at 20:36, Alai

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-10-01 Thread Alain Mouette
quot;Bart Olderman")? > > Besides your approach there is the approach proposed by Joe > And yet the cdex extention > > Let's keep track on all :P > > > Kind Regards, > > Geraldo Netto > Sapere Aude => Non dvcor, dvco > São Paulo, Brasil, -3gmt > site: http

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-30 Thread Alain Mouette
The point is _running DOS programs_ And also having a stable modern platform behind to run on any possible new hardware (x86) Alain On 29-09-2015 22:50, Chelson Aitcheson wrote: What would be the point of freedos ? Might as well be another Linux distro On 29/09/2015 1:09 pm, "Geraldo

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-29 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi Geraldo, why that instead of making such a big project like exFAT, don't you consider a FreeDOS distro running on top of Linux? Dosemu works very well with few bugs (I know of 2 of them) file sharing is fery nice and fast. this has already been done before but was abandoned. I use

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-19 Thread Alain Mouette
my 2cents: I spent a lot of time with MicroCore Linux. It runs very well, and probably would run Dosemu. BUT the problemis that it is not a *real* Linux ditro in the sense that is does not install to a harddisk, it rather boots every time as if it was from a cdrom. There are a few tricks to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-14 Thread Alain Mouette
There was a project, quite some time ago, it was called LiDos. I liked the idea very much: It was a very simple Linux distro runing Dosemu at boot time. You could switch to a bare Linux console and use Linux Commands. Unfortunatly it was Slackware based and had too many modifications, so when

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-05 Thread Alain Mouette
There is an ndis set of drivers that works very well: www.netbootdisk.com I use them extensively. Alain Em 05-09-2011 15:39, iw2evk escreveu: Hi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdisWrapper why possible in linux and not under DOS? I suppose only because no one want to start a project for

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-04 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 04-05-2011 16:45, Bart Oldeman escreveu: I had to use some of the kernel build infrastructure to be able to still also build with Turbo C(++). Writing portable DOS makefiles causes all sorts of funny restrictions, esp. dealing with Turbo C 2.01 make: it cannot do command line redirection.

Re: [Freedos-devel] is anybody even using my apps?

2010-07-08 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi, I have a mix of completely working solutions: 1) for what I see from your programs, you should have a FreeDOS booting partition. This wil work on any modern CPU (I have lots of them that I give support), just don't buy an ASUS MoBo, it is too buggy. This should be the first primary

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-14 Thread Alain Mouette
Sorry, I cannot help you. My advice seems to be not good :( Alain Em 14-05-2010 16:30, Jim Michaels escreveu: since I need binaries for windows, I have narrowed the choices down to vmware workstation and windows xp mode for 7. I have the chance to try both, but I will have to wait until my

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Alain Mouette
), unless someone has got a windows version of virtualbox. maybe I will go with some version of vmware. I need to run DJGPP tools and apps on windows basically. *From:* Alain Mouette ala...@pobox.com *To:* freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 13-05-2010 20:04, Eric Auer escreveu: Probavly the easy way to instal is with www.netbootdisk.com How does it differ from the NwDsk by Erwin Veermans? http://www.veder.com/nwdsk/index.html Which disk is better for which purpose, and why? Can you give some more details about both? Thanks

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread Alain Mouette
Let me give you more useable answers. Are you trying to use legacy DOS programs in Win7? I know thar Qemu used to work grat, and it is actively developed. It will give you a nice emulated machine with a NIC emulation. VirtualBox should work too, and should be much more easy. Both have nice

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-27 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi, I made some tests: I have prepeared a Boot floppy (and a CD with the image) with a boot menu and different drivers, here is what I got from a very small sample: UIDE.SYS worked every time AHCI.SYS did not work on my SATA machine, aparently it works only with specific Intel chips. It shows

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 25-04-2010 14:53, Eric Auer escreveu: Alain, you started the thread, do you think such a big UDF CDEX driver would be useful? Or do you think that it would indeed be too big and too complex for most? I will not need the UDF driver for what I have in mind... I believe that uses of UDF

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
IS AHCI only for USB? or is it for SATA? For me SATA is important, the more compatible the better. USB is not so important for me... Alain Em 25-04-2010 07:10, Ladislav Lacina escreveu: Any advantage using AHCI? No, but some notebooks lack in BIOS the option Handle CD-ROM devices in

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
, network drivers, few PCIs, and so on... Alain Em 26-04-2010 12:40, Tom Ehlert escreveu: Hallo Herr Alain Mouette, am 26. April 2010 um 16:03 schrieben Sie: Em 25-04-2010 14:53, Eric Auer escreveu: Alain, you started the thread, do you think such a big UDF CDEX driver would be useful

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 26-04-2010 13:28, Geraldo Netto escreveu: maybe it is easier to boot through pendrive? no, anyway the problem is CDROM :) actually ahci is only sata related technology... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface Thanks btw, realtek net cards are cheap here in

[Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-22 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi, is there any way to use an IDE cdrom drive in FreeDOS? Thanks, Alain -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-22 Thread Alain Mouette
Sorry I wrote it wrong :( What I need is a SATA cdrom driver... Thanks for any hint, Alain Em 22-04-2010 22:09, Alain Mouette escreveu: Hi, is there any way to use an IDE cdrom drive in FreeDOS? Thanks, Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Comments suggestions

2010-02-23 Thread Alain Mouette
dos386 escreveu: some partially: [...] FDISK (patch pending), If there is a patch, there should be a build?? Does anyone have information on this? Thanks, Alain -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-30 Thread Alain Mouette
) this does not happen, and performance is good. Alain Alain Mouette escreveu: Ah, I forgot to report of one... SUBST is working fine, all past problems seem to have been fixed. Alain Alain Mouette escreveu: Hi all, I am making a new version of my mini FreeDOS distro, so I put togheter

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-30 Thread Alain Mouette
Thanks, I just tested the new version 11-27-2009 THE ERROR IS GONE :) :) :) but performance is still bad. With XDMA: write: 19 read: 34 Mb/s With UIDE: write: 14 read: 19 Mb/s Alain Robert Riebisch escreveu: Alain Mouette wrote: Making more tests, I run into another problem UIDE (8-3

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-30 Thread Alain Mouette
performance (all very similar). I will be using UIDE /B to avoid cache and LBACACHE 15000 tunw afterwards. So, *THIS PROBLEM IS SOLVED* Thanks all, Alain Alain Mouette escreveu: Thanks, I just tested the new version 11-27-2009 THE ERROR IS GONE :) :) :) but performance is still bad

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-27 Thread Alain Mouette
Ah, I forgot to report of one... SUBST is working fine, all past problems seem to have been fixed. Alain Alain Mouette escreveu: Hi all, I am making a new version of my mini FreeDOS distro, so I put togheter all latest versions. Here is What I Get: KERNEL svn1500 is plain *marvelous

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-27 Thread Alain Mouette
I used yesterday JEMMEX 7.52 it this way: Config.sys: device=c:\dos\jemmex.exe NOEMS X=TEST Autoexec.bat: XMSDSK 4 v: /C2 /T /Y And XMSDSK just crashes and the system halts... only phisical reset works The only thing that I have to say is that this is a just a little problematic MB. I

[Freedos-devel] DISPLAY problem

2009-11-27 Thread Alain Mouette
I just run some tests and fount the problem with DISPLAY... Older version 0.11 could be loaded with DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1) but new version 0.13b only accepts Ega: DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1) I consider this a BUG because it will disrrupt existing instalations. Can this be fixed? Please? Is Aitor

[Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-26 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi all, I am making a new version of my mini FreeDOS distro, so I put togheter all latest versions. Here is What I Get: KERNEL svn1500 is plain *marvelous*. When my program crashes (with many database files open) it no longer looses anything, I only get a few lost clusters. (this did not

[Freedos-devel] looking for LABEL latest version

2009-11-25 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi, I am looking for the newest LABEL version = on IBIBLIO there is a 122 version, dated 2000 = I have a version 1.4b dated 2003 (I lost the original .zip) Does anyone have any information? thanks, Alain -- Let

Re: [Freedos-devel] kernel SVN build availability

2009-06-23 Thread Alain Mouette
Bernd Blaauw escreveu: I'd favor a universal kernel option as well (8086+, FAT32 support included). Not that people have access to 8086 machines regularly, but would be nice if there's an option to just copy the kernel from a 386+ machine to such an old machine without worrying about hey,

Re: [Freedos-devel] New RxDOS memory subsystem source code

2009-06-16 Thread Alain Mouette
You're saying development of free DOS software is not on topic in the FreeDOS devel list? RxDOS is another DOS clone entirely from FreeDOS. I agree, but *please* send the link to that other list... I woul like to subscribe :) Alain