Re: [Freedos-user] I never saw one

2022-03-09 Thread Travis Siegel
In general, dos allows 32 drives, a: to z:, then the next 6 ascii characters after the capital Z which are: [, \, ], ^,_,and `. I've never had more than 20 or 21 drives myself, (using an 18-disc disk changer along with a floppy drive and a hard disk). (possibly I had two floppies, or 2 hds, n

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

2022-03-09 Thread Joao Silva
Hello. Tyrian tyrian.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0006:374c setup.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0002:24ED Fuzzy fuzzy.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0003:361B main.exe - Runtime error 200 at 0003:361B Don't run on fdos 1.3, booted option 2 on a vm... i'll run on actual hardware (modern board) On Wed,

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

2022-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! DOSEMU2 expert Stas mentions his FDPP patch mentioning Test Drive 2: https://github.com/dosemu2/fdpp/commit/c6efa7a203c8aafe8da952d6405ad5dfb49fd469#diff-e9118389bd658345f94d54c6159dc16b60454e193c33f16184d4fd5526180329 @@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ CommonNdRdExit: ; *** tell if key wait

Re: [Freedos-user] I never saw one

2022-03-09 Thread Bret Johnson
>> Is it possible to have a ZZZ9: drive >> in DOS (or other many letter ID) ? > > unlikely. some DOSes allowed 0x40..0x59 > ie A..Z + @[]\^ > > but none allowed anything other then x: As Tom indicates, later versions of MS-DOS allowed up to 32 drive letters. You set this up by using the LASTDRI

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

2022-03-09 Thread Carlos Teixeira
Hi Eric, > (...) but my goal would still be finding out how > to make all games work in FreeDOS - if necessary, by pointing out > bugs in FreeDOS. > That's what i wish too. And i'll do my best to help. Because the moment FreeDOS is better than MS-DOS in compatibility i'll never look back. Hopin

Re: [Freedos-user] I never saw one

2022-03-09 Thread tom ehlert
Hallo Herr Jose Senna, am Mittwoch, 9. März 2022 um 19:56 schrieben Sie: > Eric Auer said: >> I would certainly prefer manual >> partitioning over autocreated >> FAT16 C: to ZZZ9: drives of which >> only C: gets formatted anyway ;-) > Is it possible to have a ZZZ9: drive > in DOS (or other many

[Freedos-user] I never saw one

2022-03-09 Thread Jose Senna
Eric Auer said: > I would certainly prefer manual > partitioning over autocreated > FAT16 C: to ZZZ9: drives of which > only C: gets formatted anyway ;-) Is it possible to have a ZZZ9: drive in DOS (or other many letter ID) ? ___ Freedos-user mailing