Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

> On Mar 4, 2022, at 3:57 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > - it sounds like a very bad idea to create a zillion FAT16 partitions > and format only one of them, while using FreeDOS FDISK etc. by hand > made it easy for the reviewer to just create ONE FAT32 drive :-p When the installer verifies

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

On 3/3/2022 9:43 PM, Travis Siegel wrote: I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure linux does have locking in various increments.  File locking being the easiest, then access to portions of said file.  You may need to use various interfaces to accomplish the tasks, but there are several programs I

Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

Let me summarize this ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeq-F84Lx4 - Lots of games had CD driver issues in FreeDOS 1.2 and are fine now - Grand Prix Circuit and Test Drive 2 still do not run - most games work best in boot option TWO, which is a sane JEMMEX config. I guess the

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

>> > Concurrent access to files is something already handled by SHARE >> SHARE is all about access to *local* files, on the FreeDOS machine, and >> has absolutely nothing to do with sharing remote files. > MSCLIENT uses SHARE as well, it complains if you don't have it loaded. if you use it

Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 11:22 AM Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > > Has anyone watched this review of FreeDOS 1.3 by a Retro Gamer on YouTube. I > thought it was a pretty good and fair review. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeq-F84Lx4 Thanks for sharing that, I hadn't seen it. Good review

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

> > Concurrent access to files is something already handled by SHARE > SHARE is all about access to *local* files, on the FreeDOS machine, and > has absolutely nothing to do with sharing remote files. MSCLIENT uses SHARE as well, it complains if you don't have it loaded. My concern was more

Re: [Freedos-user] Will freedos running in a Virtual box VM recognise a host attached USB security dongle?

I wrote a quick guide on how to pass through USB devices to a VirtualBox VM. https://sites.google.com/view/lpsantil/home/adding-usb-device-to-a-virtualbox-vm It's quite simple to add a USB device to a VirtualBox 6.1 VM. Elsewhere you find this called "passing in a device", "device passthru",

[Freedos-user] An RPi way to use USB devices on old machines

Not entirely FreeDOS/DOS related but it might also help folks with accessibility & old machines where navigating a machine with a non-traditional device (gamepad or Joystick as a mouse) could be useful. The RPi+HAT with an addon board for PS/2, Joystick port, and serial output ports lets you use

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

Hi Liam, Gmail on my Android phone forces me to be type an answer above a previous reply. Don't know how change the email to plain text.. Anyway, thank you so much for all your helpful information! We are currently running this "dos" program in win 7 32 bit and were using it in Win XP before

Re: [Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

Hahaha I was just going to report this as well. On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 9:22 AM Herminio Hernandez, Jr. < herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone watched this review of FreeDOS 1.3 by a Retro Gamer on YouTube. > I thought it was a pretty good and fair review. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Will freedos running in a Virtual box VM recognise a host attached USB security dongle?

Hello, > Before I loose hours trying to get this to work this weekend. Would > anyone know about getting freedos to recognize USB security dongles? that's easy: ANYDOS does nothing about USB, and neither USB security dongles. > I use a HASP USB security dongle to activate an old software >

[Freedos-user] retro gamer review of FreeDOS 1.3

Has anyone watched this review of FreeDOS 1.3 by a Retro Gamer on YouTube. I thought it was a pretty good and fair review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeq-F84Lx4 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 15:22, Sean Warner wrote: [By the way, it's convention and good netiquette to bottom-post on mailing lists. Gmail does it just fine; I'm doing it right now. Click the vertical 3 dots by the trashcan, pick "plain text" and then hit Ctrl-A to select all. Then you can edit and

Re: [Freedos-user] Will freedos running in a Virtual box VM recognise a host attached USB security dongle?

Hello, Before I loose hours trying to get this to work this weekend. Would anyone know about getting freedos to recognize USB security dongles? I use a HASP USB security dongle to activate an old software program. I

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

>> I was referring to the recommendation of using a "folder" as a drive under >> DOSEMU. I don't believe that solution supports multiple node access to the >> same folder. >> >> SMB (i.e. MSCLIENT and Samba) were designed for this use case. > What makes you think so? Just because it's true?