[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-01 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
I just released the FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Preview 11. If you wish to participate in the general pre-beta testing of the hopefully soon to arrive FreeDOS 1.2 release, you can find it’s floppy image and a link to the required package repository CD image at: http://up.load.bz/FDI/latest

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-02-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:15 AM, lee jones wrote: > > Firstly ages ago there was an emulator called tosbox which is an atari > ST emulator. I was never familiar with Atari computers, so my dabbling in emulators was very limited. > It runs in dos but has two intresting

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-02-01 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:15 AM, lee jones wrote: > On the subject of freedos and dos-bases gui's in general did a bit of > thinking here. Managed to come up with 3 ideas though I am not sure > how useful they might be as I guess they aren't really "dos shells" to > be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS in VirtualBox: Bad or missing command interpreter

2016-02-01 Thread Ulrich Hansen
I experimented with JEMMEX settings, but unfortunately even DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE X=A000- NOHI NOVME NOINVLPG in FDCONFIG.SYS leads to a crash of the FreeDOS 1.1 guest in a Windows 8 host. On my Mac there’s no such problem. The JEMMEX documentation says about the settings above:

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-02-01 Thread lee jones
On the subject of freedos and dos-bases gui's in general did a bit of thinking here. Managed to come up with 3 ideas though I am not sure how useful they might be as I guess they aren't really "dos shells" to be precise. But anway; Firstly ages ago there was an emulator called tosbox which is an

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt - my FreeDOS distribution

2016-02-01 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:11:22PM -0500, Corbin Davenport wrote: > Hello all, > > I wanted to share a FreeDOS distribution I released today, called Cobalt. > Cobalt is a free operating system heavily based on FreeDOS, that aims to > make using DOS much easier. This is mostly done by having over

[Freedos-user] Cobalt - my FreeDOS distribution

2016-02-01 Thread Corbin Davenport
Hello all, I wanted to share a FreeDOS distribution I released today, called Cobalt. Cobalt is a free operating system heavily based on FreeDOS, that aims to make using DOS much easier. This is mostly done by having over a dozen DOS utilities and drivers pre-installed, making it a much more