Hello all,
I thought some of you might enjoy this (others may really dislike it).
Link is to a (posted to YouTube) about 2 minute video of (version
2043+patches) FreeDOS kernel running Windows 3.1 in Enhanced and
Standard mode. I haven't pushed the changes to the public GitHub
repository yet as t
Awesome! This is perhaps the last big feature DR-DOS and PC-DOS had over
FreeDOS.
July 24, 2021 6:03 AM, perditi...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I thought some of you might enjoy this (others may really dislike it).
> Link is to a (posted to YouTube) about 2 minute video of (version
> 2043
This is awesome! :D
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On Saturday, July 24th, 2021 at 2:01 AM, wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I thought some of you might enjoy this (others may really dislike it).
>
> Link is to a (posted to YouTube) about 2 minute video of (version
Hi Jeremy,
does that mean the unstable kernel already supported Win 3.1 386enh?
Cool to know :-) How about Windows for Workgroups in 386 mode, which
is "non safe mode" there, so features are lost without it in WfW 3.11?
Thanks for cherry-picking all the relevant patches! I guess the FDPP
kerne
Great work Jeremy! 😃
Watching your YouTube video, I noticed the FreeDOS VM booting with
Microsoft EMM386. And that makes sense, since JEMM386 currently doesn't
support GEMMIS, a standard required for by Win3.x and Win9x for
memory management handover from the EMM manager to the Windows kernel as i
On Sat, Jul 24, 2021, 6:43 AM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> does that mean the unstable kernel already supported Win 3.1 386enh?
>
Yes, but it didn't work as well for running a dos prompt, 1st character
typed was lost and possibly other issues
> Cool to know :-) How about Windows for Wo
On Sat, 24 Jul 2021, Eric Auer wrote:
I see you are using the Microsoft HIMEM 3.07 (02/14/92), Microsoft
EMM386 4.44 (1991) and Microsoft SMARTDRV, are all of those actually
necessary? I would expect things to also work with HIMEMX or XMGR,
as long as no free EMM386 is loaded at all? Why do you
Followup to my last comment, since I actually went and checked.
On Sat, 24 Jul 2021, Steve Nickolas wrote:
For what it's worth, Windows 3.x comes with its own versions of HIMEM and
SMARTDRV. I *think* it also comes with EMM386, but I'm not so sure about
that one. Have to check my setup disks
>
> I think Windows' 386 mode is pretty heavily tied into undocumented
> features of EMM386 when it is active, so it wouldn't surprise me if a free
> version of EMM386 made it go down in flames.
>
See my earlier reply about the lack of support for the GEMMIS spec in
JEMM386.
Windows 3.x in 386 En
On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 15:29, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, Windows 3.x comes with its own versions of HIMEM and
> SMARTDRV. I *think* it also comes with EMM386, but I'm not so sure about
> that one.
It did, yes, and IIRC there were problems and/or warnings if you used
older DO
That is very good news IMHO, Jeremy!!
Sure a thing to wait for, for FreeDOS 1.3 release.
I think it is a meaningful milestone (even if there is not many people
running Win3.X that wouldn't do it over MS-DOS), but very relevant all the
same.
All the best,
Aitor
On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 08:02, wr
Hello everyone,
So it took me a bit longer than I planned, but below is the
information needed to reproduce and links to sources. (Be kind, I
know that the code needs more work.)
To see it in action, from installing FreeDOS & Windows to running I
posted an updated the video (about 4 minutes, spe
Hello Jeremy,
> Eric who's original research helped with the initial
> implementation of the necessary patches a decade ago
> (https://web.archive.org/web/20061001224249/http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/win3.x-dosext-freedos-notes.txt)
Wow that was from 2004 :-o The cur
Hi Jeremy, others,
> Kernel patches - http://server2.fdos.org/tests/kernel-win3-patch.diff
> rest of sources (kernel, FreeCOM, format, fdisk, sys, share, edit) -
> https://github.com/fdos
I have been browsing those patches a bit. So I can share some insights
about them, also implying many quest
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