Re: [Freedos-user] Boot sector compatibility

On 5/30/20 1:09 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi ECM, > >> https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/svn/1835/log/?path=/kernel/trunk/boot/boot32lb.asm >> -- also last change 2004. Note that this requires a 386 and doesn't >> check for it. My take on a FAT32 boot sector loader allows to load >> FreeDOS KERNEL

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

Hello Jim Hall, Looks like this person is trying to get the source to build. You can follow or contribute here: https://github.com/dspinellis/GW-BASIC On Sat, May 23, 2020, 2:29 PM Random Liegh via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: I tried it with some old, old version

[Freedos-user] interesting dos things from bttr

Hi everybody, some nice current topics from BTTR: https://www.hwinfo.com/download/ now has HWiNFO 611 (and a typo in the HTML title ;-)) https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=16700 mentions a new Lua for DOS for 2d games, https://libraries.io/github/rxi/lovedos https://www.b

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3

FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 is now available for download and testing. https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/previews/1.3-rc3/ Please note, this also includes a slight update

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

Hi, TK, On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 9:37 AM TK Chia wrote: > > Thank you for the information. Building on Spinellis's work, I managed > to get the source files to build under JWasm and JWlink, Thank you. I never understand when people prefer ancient MASM over modern JWasm. > after some source code

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:35 PM Rugxulo wrote: > So no, I haven't tried rebuilding this (yet?), and I'm no *nix fiend, > but I do think AWK is a cool tool, maybe cooler than GW-BASIC (don't > kill me!). AWK is a cool tool. But it's not a full programming language for building stand alone apps.

[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

-- We have only a few rules for posting to the FreeDOS mailing lists: 1. NO HATE SPEECH OR BULLYING Make sure everyone feels safe. Bullying of any kind isn't allowed, and degrading comments about things like race, religi