Re: [Freedos-user] problem with freedos help on fdos.org website

2020-10-01 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 01/10/2020 14:14, Jerome Shidel wrote: However, he was not working on the code portion of HELP. He has only been working on the documentation. I think he has been looking for someone to assist him to make updates to the program and resolve some bugs. It has been a little while since I’ve he

Re: [Freedos-user] problem with freedos help on fdos.org website

2020-10-01 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, Fritz Mueller has been working on updating the HELP files for the upcoming 1.3 release. If things in the HELP documentation are missing, outdated or just wrong please try to let him know. Hopefully, that will give him the opportunity to make any needed changes. However, he was not w

[Freedos-user] Modern add-ons for ancient PC

2020-10-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Mentioned in a video mentioned by Rugxulo on BTTR, I noticed that there is a shop where you can get some circuit boards to do-it-yourself 8-bit ISA extension cards for your ancient computers for features such as more RAM, IDE or Compact Flash interfaces or even USB interfaces which are bootab

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - ems support - updated drivers!

2020-10-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Leo, when you have a standard install of FreeDOS, it will automatically include jemm386 or jemmex, which will have a readme in the \freedos\doc\jemm386\ directory or maybe in your case \fdos\doc\jemm386\ directory. The newest version is from 2020 and probably not yet part of the default distr

[Freedos-user] problem with freedos help on fdos.org website

2020-10-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! As Louis has had to use archive.org for jemmex help: > You can use JEMMEX to provide EMS. Command docs are here > (https://web.archive.org/web/20200205000957/http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/jemmex.htm). I wonder WHY we only have a very generic http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/emm38

Re: [Freedos-user] Run Linux & Linux binaries on DOS

2020-10-01 Thread Louis Santillan
I've documented my process for getting doslinux working on real hardware [0]. Not too bad. `ftpget`, `wget`, and `httpd` applets are included [1] in busybox. I think with a little more work, static binary versions of many apps would work. Shouldn't be that hard to statically build in the network