[Freedos-user] COWGOL programming language

Please forgive me if someone has already noted this, but yesterday I came across another programming language which targets DOS and ultimately may be able to be used to compile on DOS. Despite the odd name (COWGOL) is does seem to be a totally serious, useful language. It can be found at

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 20:56, Jon Brase wrote: > > As far as I can tell, OnTrack partitions the disk as part of installing its > translation scheme. Yup, I think so. Haven't used it this century, TBH. > So I have an existing disk, and took an image of each partition on it with > partimage(1).

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

Hi Jon, actually I do not expect "drivers" like OnTrack, Ez Drive etc. to mess with host protected areas. They just redirect attempts to access the disk by BIOS to their own code, which modifies the BIOS call parameters. Which is why OS which access disks without using the BIOS have to be config

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

Drat, sent my reply to Dennis only (again... :-/); resending to the whole list. On 3/10/21 5:31 PM, dmccunney wrote: I can't agree. We are not in the single-user, single tasking DOS days when one thing was going on at a time. At any moment, there are a number of things going on in a current co

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

On 3/11/21 4:37 AM, Liam Proven wrote: Also, IIUC, you are trying to access _existing_ partitions? No, I do not think a disk manager will help you there. Disk managers bypass the BIOS restrictions by remapping or translating disks' real values, but they do not just fix the problem. Once you have