[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2016-06-30 Thread John Price
MONTHLY REMINDER FOR THE FREEDOS MAILING LISTS Hello, and welcome to the FreeDOS mailing list! If you have been a list member for some time, then you can skip this as you should be familiar with the rules by now. -- The FreeDO

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

2016-06-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > But I agree, in theory, that JEMMEX shouldn't be preferred or > suggested without a good reason. But that's not my decision for FD 1.2 > (and I forget offhand what Jerome uses, I haven't downloaded any > recent prereleases, too preoccu

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

2016-06-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > >> On Jun 30, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> If JEMMEX is your only problem, then you have no problems. > > This idea has appeared before in this thread and it is a relief to hear it > echoed. > Perhaps a disclaimer like this is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeBASIC status?

2016-06-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, I'm no expert, so I've only lightly dabbled. On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > I see it is back up now. Like I said before, the compiler has been around (even heavily developed) for 12 years! It's no toy but instead a mature tool at this point. > I had been doing some

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

2016-06-30 Thread Abe Mishler
Hi, > On Jun 30, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Abe Mishler wrote: >> >>> On 6/29/2016 1:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> On the page that you sent regarding QEMU Binaries for Windows, it says: >> "QEMU for Windows is experimental software and might

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeBASIC status?

2016-06-30 Thread Abe Mishler
I see it is back up now. I had been doing some reading on the pros/cons of FreeBASIC vs QB64. Not looking to start a flame war here, but I had decided to invest some time with FreeBASIC when the site went down. I thought perhaps that was an early portent that I had picked the "wrong" compiler. I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

2016-06-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Abe Mishler wrote: > >> On 6/29/2016 1:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On the page that you sent regarding QEMU Binaries for Windows, it says: > "QEMU for Windows is experimental software and might contain even > serious bugs, so use the binaries at your own risk."

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeBASIC status?

2016-06-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > Does anyone know the state of FreeBASIC? The site (http://freebasic.net) > has been down for at least 2 days now. Has the project been shuttered? I'm not in the loop and haven't heard anything privately, but I know that I browsed there

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

2016-06-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, to bring in some thoughts from off-list... JEMMEX has a built-in HIMEM which apparently is known to have problems when memory useable for XMS is discontinuous, which happens quite often on modern (virtual) hardware. The UMBPCI author tries hard to keep supporting modern chipsets which can be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeBASIC status?

2016-06-30 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Abe Mishler wrote: > Does anyone know the state of FreeBASIC? The site (http://freebasic.net) > has been down for at least 2 days now. Has the project been shuttered? The Sourceforge back end is still up, and claims the last code update was 4 days ago. https://so

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

2016-06-30 Thread Ulrich Hansen
> I think FreeDOS in QEMU on linux is the way to go (for me, at this time). Inspired by this thread I also looked into qemu (even installed it on my Mac). Just in case you missed it: There’s a great tutorial about running FreeDOS 1.1 in qemu. Part three is all about networking. :-) The author

[Freedos-user] FreeBASIC status?

2016-06-30 Thread Abe Mishler
Does anyone know the state of FreeBASIC? The site (http://freebasic.net) has been down for at least 2 days now. Has the project been shuttered? Thanks, Abe -- Attend Shape: An AT&T Tech Expo July 15-16. Meet us at AT&T P

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

2016-06-30 Thread Abe Mishler
Hi Rugxulo et al., On 6/29/2016 1:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Abe Mishler wrote: >> >> On 6/28/2016 7:55 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >>> >>> I would recommend you (also) test under QEMU if you're that worried or >>> want (potentially) better stability. >>> >> QEMU, wh