Re: [Freedos-devel] Python on freedos.

2019-01-30 Thread stecdose
On 1/29/19 10:12 PM, Rugxulo wrote: I know Python 3 is heavily recommended, but I don't think 2.x is horribly useless. (Similarly, we formerly had DJGPP support for Ruby 1.8.x, which actually was "mostly" standardized in ISO 30170, but no 1.9.x or newer builds.) Python is the language, that

Re: [Freedos-devel] Python on freedos.

2019-01-26 Thread stecdose
Just doing a joke, *dont* take it serious: On 1/25/19 9:31 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: Better getting used a real programming language... Batch? Nils ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-devel] Advanced DOS low level programming multi core and long mode tutorials

2019-01-26 Thread stecdose
Wow, this is great stuff! I got deep into that Assembly Manual, it covers so many stuff briefly to get an idea what's going on. This also reminded me of something: Once I found a small example for borland c / turbo c, that does multitasking. As very short and simple example that just runs two

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

2019-01-02 Thread stecdose
* If the installation language is Russian, the text is garbled, no Cyrillic letters are displayed. Yeah, that’s a known issue. Cant really think of a “good” way to solve it. Here’s the problem. Language and translation change when that language is highlighted on the menu. However, the

Re: [Freedos-devel] aefdisk/masterbooter open sourced

2018-12-31 Thread stecdose
Thank you tkchia! This looks like a tool very good for using from a script/text ui and also it is very small (your exe ~17k). What about having watcom producing a com file? This would save a few bytes for the exe header. As exe is not necessary (I assume) this would be nice. Is there are

Re: [Freedos-devel] off topic: USB puzzle about a bricked flash thumb drive

2018-12-11 Thread stecdose
The second double post... found this when searching for your controller, looks promising: http://flashboot.ru/files/file/285/ But this page does not look very "secure". Personally, I would open this tool in a VM only and connect the stick to that VM. Nils On 12/11/2018 05:25 PM, Eric

Re: [Freedos-devel] off topic: USB puzzle about a bricked flash thumb drive

2018-12-11 Thread stecdose
I never used these tools, I had a whole night, where I read about fake-chips/sticks and read a lot of usb-stick-reviews, before I ordered a 256GB stick a few weeks ago. This is where my "information" is coming from. This is all I remember, I googled now for those links. They were not what I

Re: [Freedos-devel] off topic: USB puzzle about a bricked flash thumb drive

2018-12-11 Thread stecdose
Sorry for double-posting, I forgot to add links. http://www.flashdrive-repair.com/2017/10/chipgenius-v417-software-2017.html http://www.flashdrive-repair.com/2017/10/lacie-usb-disk-storage-format-tool-v5.3.html http://www.flashdrive-repair.com/2017/10/flash-drive-information-extractor-v85.html

Re: [Freedos-devel] off topic: USB puzzle about a bricked flash thumb drive

2018-12-11 Thread stecdose
There tools like ChipGenius and another one out there. They are used by german CT magazine and similar to identify those china-fakes with horrendous GB amounts of space, but in real they are just 4GB sticks. I searched a while now, but I cant find the other tool as I forgot it's name... One of

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [almost to announce] FD Floppy Distribution + Installer

2018-10-02 Thread stecdose
There's also others, of course, but I can't think of any obviously superior tool, except maybe UNTAR (which also supports .gz): * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/unix/tar/ So UNTARDOS.EXE is 22 kb, but you can presumably UPX that to half that. Granted, that's

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [almost to announce] FD Floppy Distribution + Installer

2018-10-02 Thread stecdose
It takes a few days for me, but I haven't lost interest if it looked like ;) VC I have now replaced vc with doszip commander. Also very small and powerful. I have prepared a few disks: * 1 disk   base (boots, installs base) * 1 disk   dev (c, asm, basic) * 2 disks util (partition

[Freedos-devel] UNIX fortune for DOS

2018-09-29 Thread stecdose
Hi, I have just cleaned up a small project, collecting dust on my disk and I have prepared a lot of fortune files. For those of you, who do not know about fortune: This is small "game" that picks a random quote from a database of files and prints it. On unix systems it is usually used when

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations for LSM data files.

2018-09-29 Thread stecdose
It is done :) Nils On 09/29/2018 11:32 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: On Sep 29, 2018, at 10:30 AM, stecdose wrote: Finally I am ready translating it. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spacerace/snippets/master/freedos/list-de/LISTING.CSV Nils Nice. At a quick glance, it looks great

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations for LSM data files.

2018-09-29 Thread stecdose
Finally I am ready translating it. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spacerace/snippets/master/freedos/list-de/LISTING.CSV Nils On 09/23/2018 01:09 PM, stecdose wrote: I got LibreOffice Calc configured properly I think. I have chosen >,< as seperator, >"< as text m

Re: [Freedos-devel] I have a quite small pong game to offer for including in FreeDOS

2018-09-26 Thread stecdose
On 09/26/2018 07:58 AM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 12:46 AM stecdose <mailto:stecd...@gmail.com>> wrote: Can you tell me which OS/Hardware or VM you are using? Well, I tested old DOSEMU and DOSBox before trying native FreeDOS unsuccessfully. Of course, it cou

Re: [Freedos-devel] I have a quite small pong game to offer for including in FreeDOS

2018-09-25 Thread stecdose
I think I already had a look at bootpong 2 or 3 years ago when I was into all that BIOS+booting stuff. At least I found a bootpong - maybe your's - maybe not - can't reconstruct... I am going to take the challenge, that no one has started by now ;) Writing a 512byte (in fact there are 443

Re: [Freedos-devel] I have a quite small pong game to offer for including in FreeDOS

2018-09-25 Thread stecdose
On 09/26/2018 05:00 AM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 11:42 AM stecdose <mailto:stecd...@gmail.com>> wrote: when I was experimenting with dev86/bcc, I have written a small pong game The source quite easy to unterstand I think and this very short proj

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS TUI Shell 0.2 has been Released (With some fixes)

2018-09-24 Thread stecdose
What do you think for FreeDOS TUI Shell? I had a long long look at the sources, as they almost read like spoken english and they are very easy to understand. They showed me a lot of "how to do XY". Apart from that I can't say something, because there is no point for me in using a

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDos freeware in graphical field

2018-09-23 Thread stecdose
um on ebay with that i5 ;) Nils On 09/23/2018 01:35 PM, Olivier de Lannoy (free) wrote: Ok, if i can, i will test on your specific configuration but i need to find these Equipements! Not easy now... So, Ishall keep you informed.. Olivier Le dim. 23 sept. 2018 à 13:19, stecdose <mailto:stecd

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDos freeware in graphical field

2018-09-23 Thread stecdose
It would be interesting what is your tool able to do on something like a pentium 133/64mb RAM and a 386/8mb RAM, but right now I can't test. Maybe you can say from what you know about the internals of your software. Nils On 09/23/2018 12:05 PM, Olivier de Lannoy (free) wrote: Hi, 1)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations for LSM data files.

2018-09-23 Thread stecdose
't know which one supports it. And win2k notepad messes up the charset. Nils On 09/19/2018 02:14 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: On Sep 19, 2018, at 4:45 AM, stecdose wrote: I just have downloaded the csv-file and had a look at it. It isn't as big as I thought. I am going to translate the who

[Freedos-devel] I have a quite small pong game to offer for including in FreeDOS

2018-09-22 Thread stecdose
Hi, when I was experimenting with dev86/bcc, I have written a small pong game that runs on bare metal PCs without DOS as well as on DOS, it uses only BIOS Interrupts. upxed it is only 1491 bytes, extracted 2528. The source quite easy to unterstand I think and this very short project shows

[Freedos-devel] Fwd: [almost to announce] FD Floppy Distribution + Installer

2018-09-19 Thread stecdose
Hi there, First of all, I am new to this list, though I am reading it for a long time now. I really like spending hours on reading topics... I don't know which is the best place for this message. As it is about development I stick to freedos-devel. Is it ok to also send to freedos-user, because

[Freedos-devel] Fwd: Re: Larger buffers in Watcom

2018-09-19 Thread stecdose
at a lower, language related, level... On 09/19/2018 10:51 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:44:14 +0200, stecdose wrote: HOW does a 16bit truncate limit to 16384bytes?      b1 b0  (byte 1, byte 0)    b2 | |   (byte 2)     | | | dec

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations for LSM data files.

2018-09-19 Thread stecdose
I just have downloaded the csv-file and had a look at it. It isn't as big as I thought. I am going to translate the whole list to german. It will take a few days, I have some real-life work to do, but I think I am done translating this weekend. Greetings, Nils Stec On 09/11/2018 10:40 PM,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Larger buffers in Watcom

2018-09-19 Thread stecdose
I recently stumbled across this problem with Borland C (Affects all borland 16bit C compilers, TC, BCPP). The problem of a 2byte size_t farcalloc was the solution to allocate a 256k buffer in my case. But a part of your text gives me a question On 07/29/2018 05:17 AM, TK Chia wrote: