[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 stalled...

2008-05-20 Thread someone
I would like to see programs written to work with GEM directly. Updating FDPKG to work through GEM would be really neat. GEM is beautifully simple. I don't know about turbovision etcetera, but how hard would it be to build the installer on top of opengem? Talk of needing a dos extender gui to

[Freedos-user] Status of freedos 1.1?

2008-05-20 Thread robinson-west user
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[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1

2008-05-20 Thread robinson-west user
I would like to see programs written to work with GEM directly. Updating FDPKG to work through GEM would be really neat. GEM is beautifully simple. I don't know about turbovision etcetera, but how hard would it be to build the installer on top of opengem? Talk of needing a dos extender gui to

[Freedos-user] Test to ignore...

2008-05-20 Thread someone
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Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 stalled...

2008-05-20 Thread Shane Martin Coughlan
someone wrote: I would like to see programs written to work with GEM directly. Updating FDPKG to work through GEM would be really neat. GEM is beautifully simple. I don't know about turbovision etcetera, but how hard would it be to build the installer on top of opengem? There is a

Re: [Freedos-user] grub4dos [advertisement]

2008-05-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Michael Reichenbach schrieb: Eric asked me to post some advertisements for grub4dos. If you are interested in multi booting I bet you know gnu grub 1.x, also known as grub legacy. Grub legacy will be no longer developed by the gnu grub project. Them are now working on grub2 and they have

[Freedos-user] Dos extender : Read Old AT interface disk

2008-05-20 Thread rfryer
Hi you lot About 15 years ago I wrote but did not get to quite assemble a dos extender to support 4GB segments with a 386 compiler that supported the the old (RIP) MS-DOS but generated segment selectors,instead of addresses's,ie a flat memory model, switching at the MS-DOS API. Windows came

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Free DOS on the OLPC XO

2008-05-20 Thread Florian Xaver
I would buy a OLPC XO if it would support FreeDOS... ;-)) Bye Flo 2008/5/17 Steve Holton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings all- I was wondering if there were any interest in seeing Free DOS running on the OLPC XO? For background, the OLPC has under development a version of Open Firmware which

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos extender : Read Old AT interface disk

2008-05-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Richard, not sure whether a dos extender with 4gb flat memory segments is useful... I mean there already are dpmione and hdpmi which have quite some punch and even dos32a and cwsdpmi are not bad. About your 386/AT disk - good old AT probably is still the same as (parallel) ATA / IDE today,

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Free DOS on the OLPC XO

2008-05-20 Thread Steve Holton
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would buy a OLPC XO if it would support FreeDOS... ;-)) I hate it when people say that ;-) I'm not going to sell you mine, but once the DOS support is into a released firmware load, I'll definitely post a note here

Re: [Freedos-user] grub4dos [advertisement]

2008-05-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hey Jim! Jim Hall schrieb: Hi. I just grabbed the latest version of Grub4dos to look at it. You need to distribute source code for this, at the same time you release the binary. You acknowledge that Grub4dos is a fork of Grub, so must follow the GNU GPL. But you do not abide by it here.

Re: [Freedos-user] grub4dos [advertisement]

2008-05-20 Thread Jim Hall
Sorry if my posting was a bit confusing so you thought that I am a grub4dos developer. To clarify this: I am not a grub4dos developer as in 20.05.2008. I am only satisfied end user and also have no privilege contact with them. If you want the grub4dos developers to know that please mail

Re: [Freedos-user] grub4dos [advertisement]

2008-05-20 Thread Jim Hall
Hi. I just grabbed the latest version of Grub4dos to look at it. You need to distribute source code for this, at the same time you release the binary. You acknowledge that Grub4dos is a fork of Grub, so must follow the GNU GPL. But you do not abide by it here. Section 3 of the GNU GPL (see

[Freedos-user] Installed Freedos at home

2008-05-20 Thread Alexandru Fira
I installed Freedos at home, amazingly, without messing up my PC. I had an NTFS partition (without Windows) that had to be converted to FAT32 (it took more than an hour, the rest went smoothly). Now Ubuntu GRUB loads all the OSes, including Freedos. It was easy to put programs onto the Freedos