Continuing the thread "HIMEM vs. FDXMS" started by Eric Auer:
JAS>> If I use XMS but not EMS, I can save some bytes in UMB (real-mode UMB) by
JAS>> using FDXMS instead of HIMEM...
EA>How big is that difference at the moment?
70 (hex) paragraphs for FDXMS.SYS v0.94 against 9E paragraphs for H
On Sun, 19 June 2005 13:25:16 -0300, you wrote:
Hi,
>> Does Jack's version have any extra benefits over Jason's original?
> AFAIK,only smaller executable and resident sizes.
Download from my site and read the .ASM file, Jack describe in detail.
>>If there aren't any opinions either way, I thi
Hi, I think the boot.cat file must NOT be empty. It is as needed
as a boot sector for a bootable diskette. Without proper boot.catalog,
the CD will not be bootable. You can find a 2048 byte boot.catalog
file in the root directory of the FreeDOS beta 9 sr 1 ISO image.
The ISO image has some more b
So, got a MS-DOS compatible operating system.
But what about a GUI ?
It all really depends on what you want to do. First let me state that I
have a vested interest in GUI software for DOS, as I develop OpenGEM for the
FreeDOS enviroment. OpenGEM is a single-tasking 16bit GUI for DOS with a
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:31, Jim Lemon wrote:
> Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
>
> >>>I want to make my own bootable dos CD. My current attempts using K3b
> >>>under Suse make bootable cd's but I can not then access the additional
> >>>files.
> >>>
> >>>1) What am I doing wrong?
>
> You may not
DJ Shaji wrote:
So, got a MS-DOS compatible operating system.
But what about a GUI ?
It would be rather cool to have a GUI, similiar to GNOME or KDE for
Linux. Or maybe to modify FreeDos so that KDE or GNOME can work on it.
Just an idea :)
Yours,
DJ Shaji
http://members.chello.at/theodor
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:15, DJ Shaji wrote:
> So, got a MS-DOS compatible operating system.
>
> But what about a GUI ?
>
> It would be rather cool to have a GUI, similiar to GNOME or KDE for
> Linux. Or maybe to modify FreeDos so that KDE or GNOME can work on it.
>
> Just an idea :)
>
There
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