[Freedos-devel] (no subject)

2013-11-10 Thread Mark Brown
i have a dell optiplex gx280. first i found it doesn't support 2 floppys, only 1. fine. now, however, 1.44 mb diskettes format fine with ms-dos 6.22, but freedos trying to format them says: """ # Boot sector unreadable, disk not yet formatted Treating int 13.8 drive type 0x0 as 1440k Using drive

[Freedos-devel] (no subject)

2013-09-15 Thread Mark Brown
i, for one, would like to see a freedos ftp site where 1) only the latest version of everything is posted and   2) where the whole thing could be downloaded as one file. let's face it, the freedos project suffers from substantial fragmentation, and substantial disorganization. if someone anywhere

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS development sense

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Brown
the download links to all this stuff would be appreciated...   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com --

[Freedos-devel] my account has been compromised, please watch out for false content!

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Brown
my account has been compromised, please watch out for false content!   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com --

[Freedos-devel] almost there...

2012-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
all-screen    mode? {  #1 effectively kept me from using the software for     what seemed like hours...  } Thank you very, very much for your help, and this is about the last posting i'll post about this issue. most sincerely, mark brown

[Freedos-devel] vmware workstation 8 with freedos

2012-08-05 Thread Mark Brown
i'm fine 'til i get to resetting machine after fdisk, then i get: partition signature != 55aa and a frozen virtual computer...   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com .

[Freedos-devel] (no subject)

2012-08-05 Thread Mark Brown
how do you set up the c: drive, format, and sys the drive under vmware workstation 8? very short replies are fine.   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Development Idea

2012-05-04 Thread Mark Brown
i still say, if someone can program machine code, and can make his computer more like a turing machine, then he ought to go right ahead and do it, then others will adopt it; depending on how good it is.  eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Development Idea

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Brown
if you can program, you should start that, and have it hosted somewhere on the web like sourceforge, and all the freedos people would go from there. eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com .

Re: [Freedos-devel] where's the big 1.1 ISO?

2012-04-16 Thread Mark Brown
where is the download link for that script, etc. ? .. eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com .

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] writing a loadable block driver for 4k-sector drive (Questions)

2012-02-22 Thread Mark Brown
i don't necessarily have the hardware to try: someone needs to try it on stuff they *know* is 4k. . eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] writing a loadable block driver for 4k-sector drive (Questions)

2012-02-22 Thread Mark Brown
i still say the same answer for a starting point to engineer flawlessly is on your site already, especially with the finding that USBASPI.SYS handles 4k sectors correctly on 4k hardware like i said: www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/203.html part of the answer is already on the freedos site

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] writing a loadable block driver for 4k-sector drive (Questions)

2012-02-21 Thread Mark Brown
it would be one of the best ways, to get panasonic USBASPI.SYS 2.27 (only!)  and matsushita DI1000DD.SYS ("motto hairu") going on a usb drive, say a 1/2 terabyte one, like i've got, then adapt everything over to the 4k-sector standard with the eq

[Freedos-devel] kpush.com

2011-11-22 Thread Mark Brown
here's kpush.com . eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com KPUSH.7z Description: Binary data

[Freedos-devel] keypress dynamics

2011-11-21 Thread Mark Brown
on "wengier's super ms-dos 7.10 boot disk"(ette), 1.44 MByte, there's a program called "KPUSH.COM" that enters stuff into the keyboard... just run it with the help flag to get the (self-explanatory) instructions...   i tried to email it in, but the server has the ".com" extension blacklisted... (e

Re: [Freedos-devel] Emulating Keystrokes

2011-11-18 Thread Mark Brown
is this too simplistic, or can you just redirect something to the con: console for that? can't you pipe something to the console? eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com ...

[Freedos-devel] spammerz

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Brown
yeah, let's pleeze terminate the spammerz' spam... sorry about the ~1974 remark, really, someone, not necessarily who it seems like, must have lied to me... eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com