Re: [Freedos-user] (No Subject) - FreeDOS install problem Haytam

Hi! My idea was that Haytam can write a more verbose description when he can use the language he likes most. Unfortunately, this text (saying he is using Rufus etc.) is not really long either? More verbose please! Longer problem description & details please! Regards, Eric > سلام عليكم ، انا

Re: [Freedos-user] Something about freedos

Bonsoir Haytam, > i tried to install freedos 1.2 rc-3 on real hw, You mean 1.3 RC3 I hope? > full installation, Have you tried a basic installation, for comparison? > encountered thus problem, it It? > has said that it cannot install a game, Which game exactly? > that starts with he,

[Freedos-user] New cpuid by RayeR and WindowsNT port access

Hi! RayeR has updated his CPUID tool for DOS, Linux and Windows: http://www.rayer.g6.cz/programm/programe.htm#CPUID Notice that the version for Windows NT/XP/... relies on a kernel mode driver to have the necessary permissions. I wonder whether similar drivers could be used to grant that pick

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

Hi, >> Does QSoft need Windows? > > Exactly. Hmm. >> But you claim neither Win9x nor MS DOS runs on the Evoc? > > Officially, they don't. Unofficially, if you stay away from the SATA > and not having a real floppy controller is not an issue you can run > these operating systems. Some

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

Michael, > Booted the Freedos 1.3 RC3 live cd and the SATA I works!!! Glad to hear that but... > Windows XP is the only supported system Officially yes, but as long as it works, it works. Even when you illegally run Linux or FreeDOS :-)) > I cannot run XP because of HAL and special hardware

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

Hi! FreeDOS is neither Win98 nor WinXP. Just use UDVD2 with your available settings and tell us which work and which do not, in the latter case please mention the exact messages. Thanks! Eric > I have an 865GV ICH5 chipset. There is SATA enhanced mode yes/no and > that's it in the bios. You

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA...

Michael, > My DVD RAM drive is SATA I... > Will Freedos support SATA I in the future? FreeDOS already supports SATA. Use the UDVD2 driver, which should be part of the distro already. If you can not find it, I can give you some link / hint ;-) Eric

[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

Re: [Freedos-user] 8086 boot sector compatibility

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.SYS too, but automatically detects either

Re: [Freedos-user] Encrypted USB Flash Drive

Hi Anand, > I'm new to FreeDOS. Could you please help if the FreeDOS supports > hardware/software encrypted USB flash drives? Something like below. > > https://apricorn.com/aegis-secure-key-3 The description sounds as if all security software is running on the stick itself: Once you unlock

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News / 8086 compatibility

Hi Jerome, > I thought you knew [that V8 means V8 Power Tools] Anyhow... Me maybe, but some who are interested in floppy distros not yet ;-) > They are a set of command line utilities written in assembly that > can provide a Text based User Interface (TUI) and other... I guess you could save

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News!

Hi Jerome, what is V8PT and which beyond-text features does it need? If the FreeDOS kernel does not boot on 8086, that would definitely be a bug. Remember that it is a compile time option whether you want 8086 compatible or whether it is okay to optimize for 186 / 286 / 386. I do not think we

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 News!

Hi Jerome, > https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2020/05/freedos-13-rc3-coming-soon--update-on-floppy-edition/ The page (by Jim and Aitor, it says) writes: > FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 coming soon + update on Floppy Edition > > Work on FreeDOS 1.3 has slowed since FreeDOS 1.3-RC2, but things are >

Re: [Freedos-user] Backslash key on UK keyboard not recognised

Hi! MKEYB has a few built-in maps, so you need no separate map file. Check the command line help. If you do use full keyb, remember to remove the REM which comments it out ;-) Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] HP11 Streamer?

Hi Vincent! I would say as long as it has at least a few megabytes of RAM and at least a 386 CPU, FreeDOS should run on any PC ;-) Which specific parts are you worried about? The BIOS will usually support "legacy" OS such as DOS in helping with USB keyboard and mouse access and access to any

Re: [Freedos-user] R: Freedos for IBM PCDOS 3.30 software

Hi Mattia, if I understand you correctly, you cannot transfer data from an old harddisk on your IBM PS/2 computer to the new system, because the PS/2 floppy drive is broken? In that case, it probably does not help to suggest tools for data transfer because you can not copy them to PS/2.

Re: [Freedos-user] R: Freedos for IBM PCDOS 3.30 software

Hi Mattia, I would be generally optimistic: You can still get mainboards with DOS compatible parallel printer port and FreeDOS should be okay for running PC DOS 3.30 based apps. Also, keyboard, mouse and VGA graphics should still be supported by the BIOS of modern PC, with some luck even the

Re: [Freedos-user] IDE vs. SATA

Hi Michael, > Freedos in general is an IDE only system, > but why not support SATA I/II/III? That is what your BIOS already does for you :-) > No MS-DOS, DR-DOS, etcetera don't support SATA They all support SATA, too, because they use BIOS. > What are the implications of adding SATA >

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

Hi! There is no need to use Linux to replace the MBR boot code, you can easily do that with DOS tools. Of course if you prefer Linux tools, they can be used for the same purpose :-) I assume you want to get rid of Windows, so you do not need to convert from GPT to MBR. Deleting the partitions

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

Hi! Which tools in which versions did you use? For example which FORMAT, FDISK...? Let me start by saying the choice for MBR was good: GPT partitions are not visible for DOS. Not sure what the purpose of that EFI partition is, but it is easily possible that Windows had a boot loader on the

Re: [Freedos-user] HWiNFO (for DOS) version 6.0.4 available

Hi! According to BTTR, version 6.0.5 is available now :-) > https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=16512 > https://www.hwinfo.com/download/ > https://www.hwinfo.com/files/HWINF605.ZIP Note that the current non-dos version is 6.24 already while 6.05 is not even listed in the

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

Hi Ralf, >> https://gitlab.com/yrizoud/gfx2_dos/-/tree/translation " > > Well, those sources are only partially translated, but that might > at least be a start if someone is eager to work on the sources... As mentioned, the parts in Pascal have no translation, but those only have a few dozen

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

Hi Ralf, Yves has fixed the issue and writes: "I then hosted the files on gitlab, where they should stay visible for quite some time: https://gitlab.com/yrizoud/gfx2_dos/-/tree/translation " Regards, Eric >> Here is an upload of the modified files: >> >> https://file.io/eh88lzKo >> >> (the

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - grafx2

Hi everybody, >> So the task would be to translate 5000 snippets of >> French, are there any GrafX2 fans who feel in the >> mood to help FreeDOS as source "interpreters"? :-) > Nobody? > > Cheers, > Robert Good news! Yves Rizoud has contacted me and asked me to forward the following to you.

Re: [Freedos-user] DVD-R Drive Implementation Help

Hi CChip_21, > So, I recently got around to tinkering around with FreeDOS recently, and I > already know some basic stuff, such as loading programs, etc. But for some > reason, I cannot add my DVD-R drive to the list of available drives, > especially when I'm trying to install Windows

Re: [Freedos-user] SHSUCDX Updated to 3.07

> SHSUCDX was updated to 3.07 recent it looks like. See > http://adoxa.altervista.org/shsucdx/index.html "SHSUCDX v3.07 (56k). Fixes some programs not finding the CD (e.g. Quake will now play audio)." ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] paint programs for DOS - was 4DOS...

Hi all :-) > 3) GrafX2 > by Guillaume Dorme and Karl Maritaud is GNU GPL v2, but docs and > Watcom C and TP7 source code names and comments are in French. That caught my interest so I made some stats: - all the TXT already exists in

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

Hi! Some ideas regarding the possibility to use native Mac tools for your RX580 graphics card BIOS update task: http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2018/05/07/definitive-mac-pro-upgrade-guide.html#efi-flashable https://www.reddit.com/r/macpro/comments/al3kk2/flash_rx_580_to_show_boot_screen/

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

Hi! > Would that work if I have a second graphics card ? To be honest, I am pessimistic. I once tried to use the real graphics card of a commercial VMWare server workstation for GPU calculations by making it visible to the OS inside the virtual computer and just got the ability to crash the

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

Hi RJ, the short story is that VMWare creates a fully virtual computer. You can not install VMWare on Apple to use a DOS program to update the BIOS of your REAL VGA card. You would have to run the BIOS update tool on real hardware. Maybe you can find an Apple tool for VGA BIOS updates? Or you

[Freedos-user] Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate

Hi! Laaca writes on BTTR: > Hello! > > After quite a long time is a new FPC version available. > For us is important mainly the improving DOS realmode target. > > The Dos-32 (GO32V2) packages are here: > > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/3.2.0-rc1/i386-go32v2/ Enjoy :-)

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Mercury, some short answers :-) I think dates as version numbers are fine when there is no explicit version numbering. I would use the date of the most recent file, leave the decision to you whether that means the version is this week since YOU yourself have made per-driver excerpts of the

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos and Realtec soundchips

Hi Eric ;-) > Freedos runs pretty well on modern devices. But are there any > drivers for the generic realtek soundchips? I that is not the > case, is there a kind of soundcards wich can be used as well > under FreeDOS as under Windows 10? You probably refer to AC97 or HDA compatible sound

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Jerome, > The package UIDE contains UHDD. > It was updated to the latest versions almost a year ago. Mercury has recently created separate packages for all different drivers, with separate readme, source and so on. Please use those for 1.3, so people do not have to search for UHDD in the

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared Folders on FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 VirtualBox in the Lubuntu ... problems

Hi Everaldo, > I don't get to configure "Shared Folders" after to have installed the > FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 on VirtualBox from Lubuntu 16.04. I did the step by > step, but when I installed the package "Guest Additions for VirtualBox" I think those are not for DOS. For DOS, we have VMWARE drivers

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems network in the installation FreeDOS 1.3 rc2 on virtualbox lubuntu 16.04

Hello Everaldo, please do not use screenshot files: The ones you used were too small to read and using larger ones would make your email too big for the list. Instead, copy paste the text shown on screen :-) You can also redirect the output of DOS commands like "tree > mytree.txt" and use the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

> I noticed that, but the driver itself reports it is 3.34. Basically > we have two 3.34 versions: one from 2015 and one from 2020. The new > 2020 version should have been bumped to 3.35, but it was kept at 3.34 > for some reason. Yay, clarity! lol > > It seems the 3.35 version mentioned in

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Hi Michael, I see what a SMD pick and place machine does, yes :-) So basically there are two apps, one for DOS and one for Windows, and you would prefer them to run on some still supported DOS and Windows (or Wine). What are the issues with this at the moment? I do not expect you to have

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Hi Mercury, > Where would one find the most recent UHDD sources? They can be found in > ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/uide/drivers-2019-03-31.zip which alas is a VERY generic name to google for... The zip contains: readme.txt, uhdd.asm and uhdd sys

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Hi Michael, long mail ahead ;-) Please do not mix long file names and FAT32: The former can even be used on FAT12 floppy. In FreeDOS, you have to load a LFN driver TSR to use it, but I think most of command.com already is LFN-aware. You may have to set some shell options in your startup files

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Hi Mercury, > "Creating packages for FreeDOS software that are not packaged yet." > > ... any "top requests" as it were? If you ask me: UHDD (only UIDE and UDVD2 listed yet?) and the new HIMEMX version by Japheth, as discussed here recently :-) HIMEMX should get some tests in particular by

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

Hi everybody, it seems that https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/feature-requests/ has not been updated for a while: A few wishes seem to no longer apply or would be easy to cover with current distros. On the other hand, the wishlist still is a classic ;-) >

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 RC2...

Hi :-) Rugxulo: what are the pros and cons of Links2, Dillo, Dillo Plus? > DOSLFN [TSR] is probably your best bet (although there are other > alternatives). But LFNs don't work by default (except for DJGPP > stuff), so not everything supports it. Michael and others: For which tools would

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 RC2...

Hi Michael, > One request, MS-DOS 6.22 has a tool called MSD. I like that the tool > shows resources and memory and other useful debugging information. > If someone can clone that clone that tool I'd be very appreciative. I think MSD had very mixed features, which specifically do you want?

Re: [Freedos-user] EVOC 1714VNA does not support a real floppy controller...

Hi! > I had as a goal work around the floppy issue, but I'm hitting a wall Maybe some other tools could work better? VGA-COPY once was nice for copying even exotic formats and it can also format: https://moenk.de/pages/vgacopy.html (Download link at the end of the German description text)

Re: [Freedos-user] EVOC 1714VNA does not support a real floppy controller...

Hi Michael, as you say WinXP sees the controller but can not format, can it at least read existing floppies? Will the drive spin up when XP tries to access it? About your project to connect either an ISA floppy controller or directly a classic floppy drive without a controller (I am not sure

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

Hi Mateusz, hi speech experts, >> DJGPP is a complete 32-bit C/C++ development system for Intel >> 80386 (and higher) PCs running DOS. > I am saying that DOS is a 16-bit, real-time operating system. You say > that DJGPP is more powerful. Yes, but DJGPP is not DOS. Then of course, > one could

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

Hi Ralf, >> How about first installing to a directory or diskimage stored >> in a ramdisk on the host OS, then copying that to mass storage? > This would be a bit like the old chicken and egg problem. The time you > would spend to copy the contents of the FreeDOS distro from the SD card > to a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

Hi Jim! > Installing FreeDOS on the Raspberry Pi will take a long time regardless of > what options you use in QEMU. It's because of the high disk I/O when you > install an operating system like FreeDOS. It's made worse by doing it > inside an emulator, but the biggest slowdown when

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

Hi Joseph, > If your computer can boot a cd, or can boot a floppy, you can install > FreeDOS. Booting from USB stick is an option with many modern BIOSes, too, and supported by FreeDOS. > I could probably boot it up on this laptop since it's in legacy mode, > but, I don't think FreeDOS would

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip 750 Atapi and freedos...

Hi Michael, > I propose an optional USB driver in Freedos. I propose that you first test the already existing free USB drivers for DOS ;-) Not with floppy or CD but with harddisks and USB flash sticks.

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

Hi! Interesting that ftp between guest and host OS is popular even for DOS. So maybe you want to try VMSMOUNT: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/vmsmount.html "A DOS redirector for mounting VMware's shared folders" Current version is from

[Freedos-user] OT: book reading via text to speech on e-book readers

Hi! As inspired by the current thread about screen readers etc.: > One reason why those used to speech synthesis dislike  tools l such > as Kindles though is because the speech quality is poor and the > pronounciation abilities reprehensible. [but Apple might be better?] Excuse the off-topic,

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

Hi Mateusz, > Hello Karen, indeed the screen-reading protocols seem to be not as easy > as I imagined they would be. Eric hinted off-list that they may work on > a phonem-by-phonem base rather than being able to process "normal" > written phrases. Also it seems each screen reader uses its own

Re: [Freedos-user] USB floppy saga...

Hi Michael, > I'm working with an EVOC brand SBC on a PICMG 1.0 backplane. That sounds exotic, but still your BIOS has a menu item where you can enable an on-board hardware floppy controller. Do you imply that there is no header on the board to plug a classic floppy to that classic controller?

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

Hi Felix, actually Linux and Windows are rather similar to use for sighted people, just click around in menus. While it is possible to have speech or Braille (if you use that?) already on during the install, I would feel a lot safer with having separate machines for separate operating systems.

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeDOS as a blind user

Hi Felix, welcome to FreeDOS! If you do not like dosbox, you may want to try dosemu2 in Linux. That way, you can use Linux audio drivers and speech synthesizers, which is probably easier than using DOS ones, while still being able to switch away from dosbox. While dosemu2 is more modern, you

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

Hi! CD-ROM connected to controllers on the sound card might be overlooked by generic drivers. Try to boot using a floppy where you can manually add specific drivers for your CD-ROM. If you already have another DOS on the computer anyway, you can boot *that* and then invoke the installer on the

[Freedos-user] fresh compile for himemx anybody?

Hi all, > https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=16187 tells that not only Japheth's JEMM got updated recently, but also HIMEMX source codes received an update for improved int 15.e820 "multiple memory block" support. Unlike the old Pemberton patch the update by Japheth does not

Re: [Freedos-user] floppy drive won't format disk...

Hi Michael, > Research suggests that ACPI breaks ISA floppy in Windows XP Unlikely, if you ask me? > Under Advanced -> SuperIO Configuration > > OnBoard Floppy Controller Disabled > Floppy Drive Swap Disabled You should probably enable your floppy controller again ;-) Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy only

Hi! >> I am trying to install freedos on a computer without USB port. >> Just floppy and a little hard drive inside. If you have internet and another operating system on that computer, you could download the ISO and a boot floppy image. Then make sure to have a FAT partition on the harddisk

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Rugxulo, Skipping over the FUD undertone, here are some answers :-) Yes the UHDD updates in 2019 are useful and by the author. Yes UHDD + UDVD2 works better than using only UIDE alone. No this is not about RDISK or XMGR updates, although if you can be more specific, I can check whether

Re: [Freedos-user] DMA error trying to format floppy...

Hi! If you get floppy DMA errors with FreeDOS FORMAT (which version? error message?) then consider avoiding UMBs (EMM386, UMBPCI) or using helpers such as LOWDMA of DOSLFN or DMACHECK of UMBPCI to ensure usability. There should also be separate helpers to protect floppy access from crossing 64k

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Jim, > I think this is an oversight in FreeDOS 1.3. I did review UDVD2 and the > others and said they were ok for FreeDOS 1.3. They are listed as such > (green) on the Packages page. > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Packages > > Unless I'm missing something? I agree:

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2 - and 1.3

Hi Rugxulo, Jerome, Jim et al, > The full 1.2 release was from late 2016 / early 2017. > It hasn't changed. Good point, although 1.3 is still pending, so people might still want to update while they only have 1.2. > As far as I'm concerned, UIDE [sic] died in 2015. Another reason to switch

[Freedos-user] UIDE versus UHDD in freedos 1.2

Hi! It seems that FreeDOS 1.2 currently includes UIDE. It would probably be better to use UHDD and UDVD2 instead: Those have better performance and better 80386 style XMS compatibility on old computers, as well as improved drive detection, DMA choices, support for disks above 128 GB size and

[Freedos-user] fwd: jemm final version 5.79

Japheth - https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=16223 At last a bug was fixed in JemmEx that caused shrinking EMBs not to work correctly. It happens with Volkov Commander, for example - I always thought this a bug in VC, but finally realized it was a bug in JemmEx.

Re: [Freedos-user] Impulse Tracker on freedos

Hi Robert, Alex and ZB, > Extracted from `it214v5.zip\it214v5\DRIVERS.TXT': > 01. PC Speaker > 02. DAC on LPT ... So like any good old MOD player software, Impulse Tracker can output mono music using the PC speaker using pulse width modulation and a timer interrupt. Many desktop PC still have

Re: [Freedos-user] Impulse Tracker on freedos

Hi! Please specify the EMM with command options from your autoexec or config. You can also use specific MEM options to get info about your EMS page frame. For example you can use the /d /e or /f options as explained in MEM /? or HTMLHELP. You can also use MEM ...options... > file.txt to save

Re: [Freedos-user] qt and DOs?

Hi Roderick, > I am the chairman of the Dutch OS/2 VOICE organisation. On OS/2 we had > the port of QT 4.78 for OS/2. A port of QT 5.13 took about 12 months by > on person working 40 hours a week. So a 32 bit platform is supported by QT. > > https://github.com/bitwiseworks/qt5-os2 That is

[Freedos-user] New Bochs version 2.6.11 available

Hi! Forwarding from the BTTR-Software.de version: There is a new update of the virtual PC software called Bochs :-) > Bochs version 2.6.11 available (Announce) > > posted by rr(R) Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 15.01.2020, 20:17 > > The Bochs Project released version 2.6.11 on 05 January

[Freedos-user] JEMM update available - better handling of fragmented memory maps

Hi! As posted by Japheth on the BTTR-Software.de Forum today: > Hello, > > finally, after many years of inactivity, an update to programs Jemmex/Jemm386 > is available. > > The main reason for the update was: on "newer" machines the available > physical memory is somewhat scattered, with

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help installing on virt-manager

Hi! > Another quick question- what does error 0C from format indicate? It > printed values of all registers. I was trying to access D: without > running format on it, then ran format with wrong options for the > first few times. But the help page does not have 0C as a part of the > error ranges

Re: [Freedos-user] Debian 9 64b / QEMU 2.8.1 / FreeDOS 1.3rc2 as a guest: DHCP requests end up zero-padded

Hi! As the links got line-wrapped, here are the contents: > http://support.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/FreeDos/zero_padded_pkt_dump.txt contains the following text: > # tcpdump -n -i tap0 > 16:47:39.592071 00:00:00:00:00:00 > 00:00:00:00:00:00 Null Information, send > seq 0, rcv seq 0, Flags

[Freedos-user] Fwd: FreeDOS MODE updates (and DOSEMU2) - known bugs, anybody?

Hi! As Tom wondered about MODE quality - actually I had misremembered the modem control line issue. Instead, the 2015 / 2016 bug fix was about baud rates and byte widths. MODE COMn /STATUS does show the modem control line status, using int 14 function 3. The BAUDHARD way of setting baud rates

Re: [Freedos-user] MODE not changing RTS or DTR of serial ports

Hi! >>> ECHO TEST>COM1 >> good idea. unfortunately this only works with proper >> DTR/CTS/RTS/... status lines connected. Unless you select a no-handshake mode. You may also have issues with your null-modem cable. I even vaguely remember MODE itself having a bug at one time, using a wrong bit

Re: [Freedos-user] High-res text modes without VBE or card-specific drivers

Sorry, edit error cutting off the end of my sentence: > Also, please add the exotic modes to an updated svgatextmode port > and not to mode! Mode is meant to stay within BIOS support limits > and compatibility as far as possible, as far as I am concerned, > while svgatextmode is known to be

Re: [Freedos-user] High-res text modes without VBE or card-specific drivers

Hi Lino, In which ways does the old svgatextmode fail for you and which VESA text modes do you have as opposed to which text modes would you like to have? You cannot set ARBITRARY size because the text mode has to follow a graphics mode as far as resolution is concerned. Of course modern

Re: [Freedos-user] Again about power-saving options

Hi! > So how can I check idle statistics, if not using FDAPM? I mean try using FDAPM without using IDLEHALT. As you say your PC fails to idle while just waiting at the command prompt: Your command.com is a version of FreeCOM, I guess? Which version? Any hypervisors or virtual computers or

Re: [Freedos-user] Again about power-saving options

Hi! Idlehalt is just a small routine, it may not contribute to the idle statistics shown by FDAPM. I guess it might even make those look lower if you use both in parallel. You could check which apps you use which fail to let your CPU go idle with FDAPM. Maybe there are possibilities to tune apps

Re: [Freedos-user] Again about power-saving options

Hi! > acpi0: sleep states S0 S1 S4 S5 > acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC > ... > acpicpu0 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!) You can always use HLT to save power, which both FDAPM and the kernel IDLEHALT support even on older-than-APM systems. The kernel config sys option can be either IDLEHALT=1 to use HLT

Re: [Freedos-user] Software to Share ???5 1???4-inch disk driver over a null modem cable

Hi Jose, > Does DISKCOPY makes an ISO or just an image? In the original sense: Neither. It copies one diskette to another diskette. However, the FreeDOS version _can_ copy a diskette to/from a rawrite compatible disk image file, according to our HTMLHELP. ISO files are only for use with optical

Re: [Freedos-user] Software to Share ​5 1⁄4-inch disk driver over a null modem cable

Hi Jamie, >  Does anyone know any software to share my Desktop's ​5 1⁄4-inch floppy > drive with my laptop over a null modem cable? I have a lot of 5 1/4-inch > disks which I don't feel like copying onto something else. File Maven should help: https://www.briggsoft.com/fmdosfaq.htm

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

Hi Jerome, > Instead of copying the ISO, they could just copy the package > directories directly to the HDD. True, but not everybody who lacks optical drives has the infrastructure to extract files from ISOs or diskimages installed. Of course some readme / howto would help :-) > But off the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

Hi Jerome, thanks for your answers! Of course it would be cool if a live USB image would be automatically treated correctly by virtual computers, but I do not know how much or little a VMDK is needed. Pity that boot BIOS bugs are so different that one needs at least two boot style images to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

Hi! Thanks for the announcements... I have some questions :-) If legacy avoids syslinux / memdisk, which computers can boot from CD but can not use syslinux / memdisk? And which computers can use syslinux / memdisk but can not boot from el torito (did you mean boot floppy image?) bootable CD?

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

Hi Ralf and Dale, please check http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/dosfsck.html to get an impression of dosfsck :-) While the DOS port is old, it does know about LFN long file names and even checks for their consistency, as far as I

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

> So why didn't freedos keep dosfsck; it its better? Hm? I expect FreeDOS to ship with both, dosfsck and chkdsk! The former can do fat32, but the latter is more familiar classic DOS style, so both are good :-) Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

Hi Dale, FAT32 has too large metadata to be convenient to handle for CHKDSK. Because of this, it is only supported by DOSFSCK, which requires a 386 or newer CPU and several MB of free RAM. It has been a while since DOSFSCK got ported to DOS, but I think you will be fine with the older version

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

> I don't know if I still have the file; since it didn't work > I may have erased it. I probablely did. > Do you know what msg 1.6 is? It keeps asking for it. > If I had it then it might work. > TK is the only interesting part of TCL. > I wonder if TCL/TK is related to TK solver. In the MOVE

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

Hi Dale, > I have 30 gigs of freespace. I have 2 gigs used out of 32 gigs. Only FAT32 aware software will be able to notice when you have more than 2 GB of free disk space ;-) Would be interesting to know which software already has support and which not. What did you use to check for free

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy

Hi Dale, > I tried to move post.mp4 - a 3.5.meg file. - got insufficient memory > error with move, copy & xcopy. Both should not have problems with files up to at least 2 GB as long as you have enough free disk space. Please use MEM to provide information about how much memory you have free and

[Freedos-user] MS DOS games on the Internet Archive playable in your web browser

Hi! According to Heise news, https://exodos.the-eye.eu/ has helped the Internet Archive to make a big leap in the number of their online MS DOS game classics which are playable using the in-browser EM-DOSBOX emulator. Heise warns that games which involve CD ISO images or higher hardware

Re: [Freedos-user] "No fixed disks present" / lbacache write error on CF

Hi Stephen, repeated LBA cache write error on CF card? That sounds like a serious bug report for lbacache! Have you tried to keep lbacache outside UMB, in other words not using loadhigh? You could also try the lbacache TUNS option to allocate additional stack space. If TICKLE readahead is used,

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

Hi Jim, > When you are finally able to start the installation, be prepared for > the install process to take a looong time. This is because > installing all the FreeDOS packages requires a lot of disk I/O to the > virtual freedos.img drive. Blasphemic idea: Use symlinks to move the

Re: [Freedos-user] Hello, newbie here with a question :-)

Hi Bob, if your gopherus says no packet driver found and links says host not found, then you probably have to install a network driver ;-) There are howtos about that on the net. What type of network hard- ware do you use? Onboard LAN chipset? You can use pcisleep in DOS or other tools in other

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

Hi Jon, > ... "help xcdrom32" takes me to a help page for xcdrom, which > says its deprecated and UIDE.SYS should be used instead. There's > a help page for UIDE.SYS, but I can't actually find UIDE.SYS > itself anywhere. At the moment, there are UHDD and UDVD, with UHDD integrating CD/DVD

Re: [Freedos-user] can FreeDOS do anything to make up for Virtualbox and VMWare's lack of decent support for DOS sound?

Hi Jon, some extra details: There was a VBE sound BIOS extension, but basically nobody used it, in any case no games I know. And there was a project to create a virtual soundblaster, which is mirrored on https://auersoft.eu/soft/by-others/ but it is more like a draft of implementing some very

Re: [Freedos-user] Replace Windows 98SE with Linux....

Hi! > source system.  Can Q-Soft 2 run on any Linux system via Wine? You will have to try. How fancy is the GUI / network / etc.? How much contact to low level hardware is required? > Can Linux still support the ISA bus I see drivers for ancient graphics cards vanishing from default distros

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

Hi! If you ask me, you usually only want to install sources for one package at a time, while reading those particular sources, not for the whole system at the same time. Some sources are rather large. Regarding your aim, even really old computers are usually strong enough for a simple Linux,

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