Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hard drive detection...

2010-06-21 Thread Johnson Lam
; > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 13:25 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I suggest you code a simple batch to copy the game to a RAMdisk, >> after >> quit copy the save game back to ZIP. >> >> Play it on the ZIP is slow and wear out the disk. >> >>

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hard drive detection...

2010-06-20 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, I suggest you code a simple batch to copy the game to a RAMdisk, after quit copy the save game back to ZIP. Play it on the ZIP is slow and wear out the disk. Sent from Johnson's iPhone On 21 Jun 2010, at 12:54 PM, "Michael C. Robinson" wrote: > I have a zip 250 atapi drive where I am wo

Re: [Freedos-user] USB support, USB portable HD?,music

2010-05-13 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 6 May 2010 22:07:55 -0800, you wrote: Hi, >> Anyone whom has successfuly installed FreeDos to a portable USB HD ? Yes, need some tricks in the 1st time ... also not all mainboard's BIOS can boot the DOS hard disk. But most of the new BIOS (after 2008 should work). Rgds, Johnson. -

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems with SHUSCDX/XCDROM

2010-03-13 Thread Johnson Lam
documentation. Rgds, Johnson Lam. -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Pa

Re: [Freedos-user] printing to USB

2009-07-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:43:05 +0200, you wrote: Eric, >Well, 17 lines of Assembly and 5000 of C, who will ever be >able to understand and update that code? I hope at least Bret >still understands it :-). By the way, what is the license? There're always SOMEONE can do it, if HE wish. >I am re

Re: [Freedos-user] printing to USB

2009-07-20 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:02:59 +0200, you wrote: Hi, >PS: Have you tested the drivers from http://bretjohnson.us/ yet? >That one is more open source but only does UHCI USB 1.1. :-). Finally someone did the job: Code USB programs with assembly language. Rgds, Johnson. --

Re: [Freedos-user] printing to USB

2009-07-16 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:19:33 -0300, you wrote: Hi, >Unfortunately it is only free for personal use... Too bad, it's coded in BASIC, also it's not free. Jack did thinking of a "small and beautiful" USB driver for DOS (with BIOS call), but he have no sample code (I don't think Intel will have sam

[Freedos-user] 2009-06-23 [ RDISK.COM ]

2009-06-25 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, Jack R. Ellis did a lot of "hard work" to change the RDISK.SYS to a ".COM" file, and now RDISK.COM can specify a drive-letter for it (load with AUTOEXEC.BAT), please download and report if any problems found. Please read the README.TXT for detailed information. [ http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-17 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:59:27 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Hi, >Dumb question:  Is UIDE.SYS  _only_  for native  [[motherboard]]  >controllers?  I tried it with two PCI adapter card controllers -- one IDE >controller and one SATA controller and UIDE.SYS did not find drives connected >to either of the

[Freedos-user] New XMGR (2009-05-01)

2009-05-03 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi Everyone, 1-May-09 -- Fixed XMGR "Port 92h" logic error. Added XMGR /PA and /PN switches to control use of "Port 92h" logic. Rgds, Johnson. -- Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conf

Re: [Freedos-user] MS compatible CLIENT

2009-03-31 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:20:29 -0500, you wrote: Hi, >Is MSCLIENT the only choice? Has anyone tried to create something open >sourced for FreeDos? Seems only MSClient available, didn't see anyone do this, maybe too complex. >Like FDCLIENT? :) Big project :) 1) New NICs stop providing NDIS drive

Re: [Freedos-user] usb boot

2009-03-16 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:05:15 -0300, you wrote: Hi, >But, It works only at some machines. I've tested many PC with my bootable USB stick. USB boot heavily depends on BIOS itself, if the BIOS of that PC sucks, you have no chance whatever how hard you try. Rgds, Johnson. --

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-16 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:32:09 +0100, you wrote: Hi, >I'm not sure about the status of XGCDROM.SYS, was it open source yet >like earlier of Jack's no longer available versions? If it is, it means >the closed-source ASPI.SYS could be replaced as well if someone's able >to write an ASPI driver for

Re: [Freedos-user] superFDISK

2008-07-24 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:23:01 -0300, you wrote: Hi, >Why is it that you don't need sources to get drunk for free? >Why dou need sources to get on your soap box and make a speech? > >For me this is one of the greatest misteries in the internet... Be respect the author, even no source available. E

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay v1.56 alfa3 with ftp-client released (2)

2008-03-12 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:11:12 +0100, you wrote: Hi Flo, >Please test the new ftp-client in DOS, because the author has only >tested the windows-part... Thanks for the news. Too bad my test machine was broken, now busy playing DOS within Vmware Fusion and VirtualBox. Rgds, Johnson. --

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:57:20 +0100, you wrote: >The guys you mentioned to be your witnesses, Kuhnt and Lucho, they are >"slightly" biased, aren't they? Great! BIASED or not, let the world judge it, I think it's the best answer! History have no mercy on bad guys, and it reminds us what's the na

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:07:11 +0100, you wrote: >Eric, you are a wag. :)) Sorry my English sucks, I didn't even have a chance to go to University. I check up the WIKI and found the following ... Wag can also be: * A verb expressing a rocking movement, as in the wagging of a dog's tail, also used

[Freedos-user] PG v1.16 updated

2007-11-27 Thread Johnson Lam
Dear All, Sorry, I've made a mistake and let the old pages stay for a while, actually the binary was there. Rgds, Johnson. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005.

[Freedos-user] [2007-08-16] UDMA update

2007-08-16 Thread Johnson Lam
2007-08-16 - [ DOS ] UDMA now uses /S5 to /S1023 for 5-MB to 1-Gigabyte caches! All drivers again check for an 80386+ CPU. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems?

Re: [Freedos-user] Clarifications.

2007-08-13 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:48:30 +0200, you wrote: >I am using UDVD and UDMA and am happy! :-) Glad to hear that those drivers benefit DOS users. If anyone can help Jack to find S-ATA native control, he may consider implement it, but all the resources seems need to pay ... Why? They're only specifi

Re: [Freedos-user] LAME 3.97 final

2007-06-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:10:26 +0200, you wrote: Hi Florian, >Nice. LAME's source code is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. Any plan to clean it up? Rgds, Johnson. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Dow

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-12 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:38:30 +, you wrote: >I like the open source program GAG for this. It doesn't require a partition >and I find it MUCH easier to set up and configure than GRUB. It isn't >quite as pretty, but you only see it for a few seconds. Thanks Mark. Still using your multi-OS boot

Re: [Freedos-user] Display Mode Change

2007-04-17 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:28:17 -0300, you wrote: Hi, >Yes, there is active development in NDN... That's good, it's a fine software. >As for impouving it's display functions I can help, but only if somone >can make a detailed howto of how to set up it's compile environment. >Usualy this can take

Re: [Freedos-user] Display Mode Change

2007-04-17 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:32:58 +0800, you wrote: Hi, For the NDN display mode problem, finally I found that after press SHIFT-F10 (NextVid) the 6th times, screen will have garbage characters on the right pane, continue to the 9th time will hang up whole PC, need to press ALT-CTRL-DEL. IBM NetVista

Re: [Freedos-user] Display Mode Change

2007-04-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:05:40 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Eric, >Hi, as said, please test which of the modes >reachable with MODE do work. As you did not >tell which modes NDN is trying to use, and >as I would not know how to find out easily, >doing some tests with MODE first seems good. >Thanks! Pl

Re: [Freedos-user] Display Mode Change

2007-04-11 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:56:12 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi, >My nVidia 7600 works okay in DOS, both with text mode and >graphics mode, but maybe NDN wants some mode which is not >supported. Please give more details, where do I download >NDN and what do I do to reproduce the problem? Which modes >did

[Freedos-user] Display Mode Change

2007-04-11 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:28:00 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi, >In what way? There are TSRs to provide the 8x14 >font which is misssing in some modern VGA BIOSes >(to save space). You can do a lot with VESA VBE 2 >already (VBE 1: no framebuffer, slow), so even in >DOS, not many people will notice prob

Re: [Freedos-user] test

2007-02-09 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:16:13 +0300, you wrote: Hi Arkady, >This is test letter to test >8-bit texts handling on sourceforge. > >Это тестовое письмо для теста >работы с 8-битным текстом на sf. > >PS: There 2 paragraphs above (with empty line after each), each with 2 lines >in it. Very good, thoug

[Freedos-user] Clear-up

2006-11-27 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:41:21 +0300, you wrote: Hi, > Q-drivers are positioned by their author as opposition for FreeDOS >project and its contributors, because authors thinks we all are "NAZI". This is not true, a single word different means millions of mis-understanding. 1) The author don't

Re: [Freedos-user] Install FreeDOS on most WindowsXP Computers - updated ISO and Procedure

2006-11-27 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:48:00 -0500, you wrote: Hi, >I have updated my procedure and bootable CD for installing >FreeDOS on almost any WindowsXP computer. You can install >FreeDOS beside WindowsXP without damaging the WindowsXP >installation. Great! >The download links will be valid for three w

Re: [Freedos-user] LBACACHE, QCACHE & STACKS=9,512

2006-11-27 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:43:14 +0100, you wrote: Hi, >How about licensing? Is qxumbpci GPL/open source? Free and closed-source (sorry). >If it is closed source it may give you better performance, but you >risk that the program may be abandoned and no-one to be able to take >it back. Correct. R

[Freedos-user] QXHIMEM and QXUMBPCI

2006-11-23 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:53:57 + (UTC), you wrote: Hi, >Maybe someone more familiar with qxumbpci could comment here. Seems it's better to quote a part of README in QHIMEM32 package: QXHIMEM is an "all in one" driver having all needed functions for users who prefer the UMBPCI upper-memory

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot Halted After RAM Upgrade

2006-11-17 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:45:17 +0100 (MET), you wrote: Hi, >> QCACHE did the same job as LBACACHE... >A similar job, not the same ;-). Of course not 100% the same. Users will pick what they like. >>> DEVICE=D:\FDOS\BIN\QHMBOOT.SYS /T7 >Why does he use T7?? What is QHMBOOT, >some HIMEM placeholder

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos msclient

2006-11-17 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:06:01 +0200, you wrote: Hi Richard, >I have tried to install msclient but I get the following error on boot: >Error 3658: The IFSHLP.SYS driver is not installed. Because FreeDOS use FDCONFIG.SYS that MSClient fail to modify, try manually configure FDCONFIG.SYS to: DEVICE

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot Halted After RAM Upgrade

2006-11-17 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:25:32 + (UTC), you wrote: Hi, >After upgrading RAM from 512 MB to 1.5 GB FreeDOS won't load. I'm using 2GB RAM, works fine. >Next, lbacache won't load: > >INSTALLHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\LBACACHE.COM 8192 QCACHE did the same job as LBACACHE, choose neither but not both. >DE

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot sector not standard?

2006-10-19 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:18:05 +0200, you wrote: >Virtual PC doesn't refuse to read the FreeDOS floppy at all, neither >Version 2004 nor Version 2007 beta. Weird, last 2 week I've download Virtual PC from M$, but all FreeDOS disk can't read in Virtual PC, but MS-DOS have no problem. >VPC is fully

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot sector not standard?

2006-10-19 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:17:34 +0200, you wrote: Hi, >> Is FreeDOS' boot sector 100% compatible with a DOS boot sector? >No, not even 50% compatible. :-) That's why Virtual PC refuse to read the FreeDOS floppy?! Rgds, Johnson.

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help ... calling COMMAND.COM from C

2006-09-16 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:29:02 -0700, you wrote: Hi Blair, Thanks. Sent him email. >Hi. It almost sounds to me like the destination file isn't getting >flushed to the disk. I would recommend doing the recirection >internally in the C program, and then you have direct control of the >file. A sim

[Freedos-user] Need help ... calling COMMAND.COM from C

2006-09-16 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, Please help Marton (marton=at=argentina.com), he stuck with a C program calling COMMAND.COM: Now that I moved onto my next step on my project, another issue arised... If I run this: TestDir.bat: dir /b c:\testdir >d:\dirout.put The file dirout.put has the directory output... BUT, if I

[Freedos-user] JEMM386 v5.21

2006-09-08 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:47:11 -0700, you wrote: Hi, >no, it is much different from Michael's. It may become known as >EMM386 3.xx, but who knows. Just try to run those applications doesn't work before and see the result, the program will speak for itself. Rgds, Johnson. ---

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!

2006-08-30 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:45:28 -0700, you wrote: Hi Blair, >Hi. About the 80386 code thing. It is not necessary to switch to >protected mode to use large amounts of memory. This is possible with >plain 8086 code. And XDEL has options close to what you wish with >DEL. If 8086 code can works. W

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!

2006-08-30 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:05:44 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, >I completely agree, I think it's already 100x better! We're now in 21 century :-) >Yes, but where do you draw the line, and how do you deal with backward >hardware capability and how far back in history do you go? What about Just my o

Re: [Freedos-user] Old program [ Directory Control v1.2 ] get a new breath

2006-08-30 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:23:10 -0700, you wrote: Hi Blair, >What's wrong with the current MOVE? I am perfectly happy with it. You replied the wrong topic :-) Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to suppo

Re: [Freedos-user] Old program [ Directory Control v1.2 ] get a new breath

2006-08-29 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:19:38 -0700, you wrote: Hi Chris, >Dude, I have a webhost at www.aotksc.com 5gb disk quota if anyone want to I >can host for them.. giving that the page not pull huge load of bandwidth. >(Economy plan) > >I am writing a replacement for freedos move command an will add so

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse locking up; suggestings on things to try?

2006-08-29 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:20:04 +0400, you wrote: Hi, > If you need "wide array of systems" and "not need wheels support" - >1.9.1 is your choice. 1.9.1 works with PS/2 mice on higher levels (through >BIOS, not directly with hardware) and, thus, should be more portable and >reliable. Agree! 1.9.

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!

2006-08-29 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:33:55 +0200, you wrote: Hi Aitor, >As I wish to embrace other FreeDOS projects, there will be a small >evolution through small evolutives in the 2.X projects (leaving maybe >some for the 3.X series). I just mention some of the planned changes: >- A first new release with lo

[Freedos-user] Old program [ Directory Control v1.2 ] get a new breath

2006-08-29 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, BAHCL did improve the easy and tiny good old program Directory Control (DC), the new version is V1.2. It can show Kilobyte and Megabyte automatically without having "9 digit bytes", added attribute change feature, also many improvements and bugfix. Since he don't have a homepage, currently I

Re: [Freedos-user] Is Freedos a good OS?

2006-08-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:15:21 -0600, you wrote: Hi, >I have been to the Dell website, and downloaded the win98 soundcard driver. >I don't remember off the top of my head, what the specific hardware is. But >can the win98 driver be adapted to DOS? Chris was right, VxD can't run under DOS. For a

Re: [Freedos-user] Is Freedos a good OS?

2006-08-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:40:27 -0600, you wrote: Hi Staffanson, >As I am basically new to the world of DOS, how easy is it to adapt the sound >card driver from Win98 to DOS? > >I now await your thoughts, comments, and ideas. Any help would be >appreciated. You can ask BAHCL for details, he code

Re: [Freedos-user] Have somebody contact to author of DISPLAY

2006-07-16 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:24:09 +0200, you wrote: Hi Flo, >Jih-Shin Ho (Taiwan) developed DISPLAY: >http://home.att.net/~short.stop/freesoft/graphics.htm#display > >I would like contact him, but found no current email address. I've contact him several years ago, he stopped the development after lea

[Freedos-user] Little drivers

2006-07-06 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:55:32 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Eric, Sorry to disturb you when you're watching world cup. >In short, a nice extra for people who want to use little XMS >and little DOS memory but still want to have a cache. Note >that disks are so fast today that caching a fast disk on a >s

Re: [Freedos-user] Novice FD User is looking for an USB driver

2006-07-06 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:28:49 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Hi Edward, >As I now understand DOS does not recognize the USB >ports on this new fangled laptop. Where can I obtain >a driver file to add to FreeDOS that will let me use >the USB ports under FreeDOS? Then I can use connector Try my USB Drive

Re: [Freedos-user] FRISK Software stops development of F-ProtAntivirus for DOS

2006-07-04 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:24:06 +0200, you wrote: Hi Robert, >You forget to mention F-Prot's resident shield or reliability. ClamAV is >far from perfect and so it is NOT a replacement for F-Prot. Oh! I forgot, thanks for reminding me, it's been a long time. I use F-PROT because SCAN become slow li

Re: [Freedos-user] Glad to know FreeDOS move fast again!

2006-07-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:45:58 +0100, you wrote: Hi, >Yes it's a nice photo, but it took ages to load! It's night view of Hong Kong. I'll replace it, let me find a better photo. Rgds, Johnson. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with

Re: [Freedos-user] FRISK Software stops development of F-Prot Antivirus for DOS

2006-07-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:45:00 +0100, you wrote: >> It seems, that FRISK Software has stopped further development of the DOS >> version of F-Prot Antivirus. File 316F.NEW reads: "3.16f is expected to >> be the last version of the DOS scanner." > >Bad news?!? Of course, I like F-PROT, small and pow

Re: [Freedos-user] Glad to know FreeDOS move fast again!

2006-07-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:44:11 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, >Your site is very helpful. It makes a change to see a site that is >active; there are too many projects get forgotten and their sites not >updated. Thanks. I steal the idea from someone, to let you know what's updated ASAP. >It's not c

Re: [Freedos-user] Glad to know FreeDOS move fast again!

2006-07-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:41:59 -0500, you wrote: Hi Jim, >Warning: if you have slow dialup, visit >http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/index.html instead. The top-level page has >a 769kb photograph. I'm on broadband, and it still took about 8 seconds >to load the image. (Johnson: if you save the phot

[Freedos-user] Glad to know FreeDOS move fast again!

2006-07-02 Thread Johnson Lam
Dear All, Glad to know some of the developers "back to work". I'm frightened by someone who want to kick me away (oh! censorship?). But I still want to help people in need, so my homepage updated with "NEW DRIVERS", welcome to have a try on your PC. Don't want to put advertisement here, someone

Re: [Freedos-user] fdos install to f:

2006-06-25 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:11:42 -0700, you wrote: Hi, >You have to have bios that support USB disks at boot time through >INT13H. If not then there be a usbaspi driver on the web... IIRC.. >forgot web address. Anyone know where's the "boot sector" in the Compact Flash? I've tried to use a combo

[Freedos-user] Help needed! Test for compatibility

2006-06-23 Thread Johnson Lam
Dear Users, A few people reporting the compatibility of Jack's QDMA driver recently, so Jack working hard to improve them. Can anyone help to test? http://johnson.tmfc.net Now QHIMEM and QDMA "should be" able to run in FreeDOS, DR-DOS and MS-DOS without problem (I've tested FreeDOS and DR-DOS, b

Re: [Freedos-user] fdos install to f:

2006-06-21 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:56:45 -0400, you wrote: Hi, >There are two ways I know of to do this. One is to boot a floppy disk >or hard disk image using ISOLINUX/SYSLINUX which probably isn't what you >want. The second is to install a FreeDOS boot sector directly to the USB >stick. That's a Compact

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem -> PANIC: MCB chain corrupted System halted

2006-06-16 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi Arkady, Sorry, she downloaded the SR9 beta2 ISO and got MCB Chain corrupt, I told her to try Odin 0.6, well it solve the problem. The Kernel should be 2035a-unstable. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem -> PANIC: MCB chain corrupted System halted

2006-06-16 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:48:54 +0400, you wrote: Hi, > Not enough information: which config.sys and autoexec.bat content on >those disk? After which statement in config.sys you get this message (what >you see on screen before this message)? Which kernel and FreeCOM version you >use (do you get

Re: [Freedos-user] Mailing list vs forum

2006-06-16 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:31:08 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: >Hi Johnson, with a forum, you would have to log in >every time when you want to get the news. I prefer >receiving the DOS news in my mailbox automatically... I don't mind, my software manage it well, just BAHCL feel pain. Also this method wa

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:41:13 +0100, you wrote: Hi, >5. SYS B: C: /oem:ms (it says "system transferred") > >When I reboot with the C drive marked Active I get two dots on a black >screen and a flashing cursor, that wasn't expected... I suggest SYS should check the target to see it's "bootable" o

[Freedos-user] Mailing list vs forum

2006-06-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:34:19 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, >I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a >far better and more efficient way to discuss things, plus it has the >advantage of being able to manage archives and reduce bandwidth? Why >would anyone want to s

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK bug (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)

2006-06-10 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:00:53 +0400, you wrote: Hi Arkady, > MS-FDISK _never_ writes MBR code (at least, if MBR not empty), unless >you do this explicitly through undocumented /MBR option. Suddenly a flash come across my mind -- You and those replied all correct, this is me who're wrong. I h

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK bug (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)

2006-06-09 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:46:52 +0300, you wrote: Hi, > This behavior is by design and documented. If you want to use fdos' >fdisk then you should take advantage of it's features and read before >you use it unattended in batch files. It is a drop-in replacement for >the MS counterpart, but it correct

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK bug (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)

2006-06-08 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:32:07 -0400, you wrote: Hi Jeremy, >Assumming I recall correctly, this is by design, if the MBR is >considered non-empty then it is not overwritten on purpose (also only >the MBR on the primary drive is ever written to). The purpose behind >this decision is to not overwr

Re: [Freedos-user] Partitioning Software

2006-06-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:28:13 +, you wrote: Hi, >The fact that it is running Linux isn't a problem...it doesn't install >Linux on the hard drive and GParted is a GUI program very similar to >Partition Magic. It is about 40 Mebabytes and fits on a CD just fine. >Linux runs from the CD and memo

[Freedos-user] FDISK bug (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)

2006-06-07 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, Actually it's not a BUG, FDISK always FORGET to write the "Master Boot Record" to the hard disk, just test 2 hard disk this afternoon. That's why the original hard disk still boot up showing "LILO". Hope someone can patch the FDISK, it should be easy to fix this minor problem. Rgds, Johnso

Re: [Freedos-user] Partitioning Software

2006-06-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 03:53:00 -0500, you wrote: Hi Lester, >If for some reason Gnome (link above) is not sufficient then Partition >Commander (U$50) works just fine with WinXP SP2 NTFS. It's GUI looks ok, too. >It can also be easily setup on a standalone bootable CD. US50 is a very expensive pr

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-06 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:28:00 +, you wrote: Hi Mark, >http://gparted.sourceforge.net >I would recommend trying that. The price is right! :-) Easy to use, the GUI really help understanding how the partition layout. Too bad it's too small for CD and too big for floppy, and need to boot Linux.

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-05 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:59:52 +0400, you wrote: Hi, >EA> The "cylinder > 1024" error message can have 2 causes: >[...] >EA> It is easy to fix 2. with a tool like Linux fdisk, but it is also >EA> very easy to break your whole partitioning scheme while attempting > > This is what I mean, what s

Re: [Freedos-user] Distributions (Mpxplay)

2006-05-27 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 26 May 2006 20:44:41 +0200, you wrote: Hi Flo, >I wrote with the author of Mpxplay. He said, that there are very few >downloads, so he wants to develope a windows version. Why? I love MPXPLAY! >What do you think of including Mpxplay in all FreeDOS distributions? >So that maybe more peo

[Freedos-user] Bug Report (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)

2006-05-26 Thread Johnson Lam
Dear All, I've bought a Compact Flash adapter (direct connect to IDE), and I try to make the CF card bootable. Then I found that the FDISK of FreeDOS having some problem, it can create the FAT16 partition (it's a 128MB card only), but won't able to make it bootable until I use MS-DOS's FDISK, the

[Freedos-user] Re: Sorry Jack, but you need to "examine"

2006-05-18 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 19 May 2006 03:48:21 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Eric, >as Jack did not want to reveal WHY qhimem is, in his >opinion, better than freedos himem, Bart HAD to >disassemble qhimem to TRY to find out about the things >which Jack did not want to reveal. Of course it is Sincerly I beg you not to

[Freedos-user] Sorry for sending to wrong destination

2006-05-18 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, I've sick for too long, so I did send the last message to the list (it's for Jack), I'm sorry for my mistake. I'm trying hard to keep the Q series of driver for everyone, to benefit all the people on the earth. I respect Bart's effort trying to disassemble it, and found clues to let others i

[Freedos-user] Sorry Jack, but you need to "examine"

2006-05-18 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 18 May 2006 23:59:20 +1200 (NZST), you wrote: Jack, I'm afraid Bart may interpret your idea wrong, so let you check this. I'll try to respond with low profile. >> Quote a few lines from his email: >> >> = >> I did not "model" QHIMEM after Microsoft HIMEM V2.03, like you know. >> QHI

Re: [Freedos-user] Customizing Startup Files

2006-05-18 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 17 May 2006 23:39:57 -0700, you wrote: >Well, I tought you only want to specify stacks if the program you are >loading doesnt have a stack segment of it own. Stacks is a safety measure, it can be omitted, but if some program badly coded, it'll easily crash the system by overflow the stac

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-10 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 9 May 2006 21:20:25 +1200 (NZST), you wrote: Bart, >Ok, in that case, what is the bugzilla bug number? I think people are >wondering here what this stuff is all about, without any real >(reproduceable) technical details given. I'm sorry, from the very beginning I don't know how to use

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-09 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 9 May 2006 10:14:42 +0200, you wrote: Hi, Sorry I'm quite sick physically, got a flu and problem in right eye, may not be able to reply within a few days. And Jim was right, this kind of email are very annoying, I'm too tired to reply. Or someone will glad to see me unsubscribe from the

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 8 May 2006 19:57:55 -0700, you wrote: >Jack shouldn't take offense to things that half the people on the list >don't consider offensive. Everybody has a different way of expressing >themselves and others should just accept that. Eric is not only offend Jack, he offend a lot of people, bu

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 08 May 2006 14:49:26 -0500, you wrote: Dear Mister, >You know, I'm _really_ tired of hearing this same rant. I'd appreciate >if you wouldn't keep reposting this to the mailing lists. It's not >productive; you know what the results are going to be, how people are >going to react. And

[Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread Johnson Lam
Johnson, You are free to post this on FD-Devel. They should see it. Re: your private E-Mail to Auer [in which you noted my request to tell Mark Bailey to try QHIMEM, and if he inquired why, to see the first 50 lines of the FDXMS source], and given Auer's reply -- > So I could not know that Jac

[Freedos-user] Answers to Eric's repeating and repeating questions

2006-05-05 Thread Johnson Lam
Almighty Eric, I can't sleep without replying the message, it's so disturbing ... I missed a detailed reply, sorry! You asked again and again annoyingly. We Cantonese invented a new term call "Tape Rewind", I remember you know a lot of language, so you may read Chinese. It's on our Wiki, referenc

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS from CF

2006-05-05 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:44:24 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Hi Alan >Command? I have a system with only a HDD and a 256MB >CF card, plus USB ports. I had tried everything to >boot this system, from USB CD-ROM with bootable Win2k >CD, to USB flash drive, but nothing works. Even >plugging in the HDD to ano

Re: [Freedos-user] running descent in dosemu (was: game crashes)

2006-05-05 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 5 May 2006 18:45:54 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Eric, Your style, long paragraph, I'd rather prefer K.I.S.S. >Ah, so throw away MANY hours of work, as FDXMS and HIMEM are >too "bad" for Jack to even touch them? Why does he have to >write a completely "new" QHIMEM based on somebody else's >c

Re: [Freedos-user] running descent in dosemu (was: game crashes)

2006-05-05 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 05 May 2006 04:02:18 -0500, you wrote: Mister, >I also don't like this sort of extremely early speculation coming on the >heels of Mr. Lam's recent spate of ridiculous posts, because it just feeds Thank you for your "praise". >into him posting more irrelevant advice about trying alter

[Freedos-user] QDMA/QCDROM/QHIMEM/SHCDX33A available again!

2006-05-04 Thread Johnson Lam
Forward an email from Jack: - Johnson, After writing you today, Thursday 4-May-2006, re: helping Mark Bailey, I noted with some sadness the comments by Ladislav Lacina on FD-Devel. Ladislav once helped me track-down a nasty "bug" in UDMA2, and I never forgot him nor his help to me. I also re

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting FreeDOS from a SCSI Hard Drive

2006-05-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 03 May 2006 16:48:04 -0400, you wrote: Hi Mark, >Thanks very much. I'll have Steve try to trace the problem. >I am rather DOS illiterate, I'm afraid. What do you mean by >"Will the SCSI base address conflict?" Do you think the BIOS >grabs some high memory that emm386 might affect? The

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting FreeDOS from a SCSI Hard Drive

2006-05-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 03 May 2006 08:36:06 -0400, you wrote: Hi Mark, >Booting FreeDOS with kernel version 1.1.35 gives me the following 8 line error >message at the bottom of the screen when the boot process fails: Can you ask Steve press F8 and trace line by line? Or this happened before FreeDOS 2 sec paus

Re: [Freedos-user] cdrom trouble

2006-04-30 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:31:54 -0500, you wrote: >Thanks , the cd drivers worked . Glad to know it works. >It took me a little while to figure out i needed to edit fdauto.bat. >Now if I can figure out my sound card.. Which brand, or which sound chip (if you know)? >Oh yeah .Anyone heard of a

Re: [Freedos-user] cdrom trouble

2006-04-29 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:37:45 -0500, you wrote: Hi, You can press F8 during boot, it'll let you execute line by line to see what happened. >1?DEVICEHIGH=C:\\BIN\ATAPICDD.SYS /D:CDROM1 Did you see any error message? >And this is from my autoexec.bat. > >LH ShsuCDhd /QQ /F:C\\FDBOOTCD.ISO >ShsuCD

[Freedos-user] QHIMEM 1.4

2006-04-29 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, QHIMEM 1.4 released. http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/qhimem.html What's New == - [ QHIMEM V1.4 ] Added full XMS Reallocate request handling. QHIMEM now meets all XMS V3.0 requirements. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to

Re: [Freedos-user] QHIMEM 1.3

2006-04-24 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:58:16 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: Hi, >Where can I get a reasonably simple autoexec.bat for Freedos that will >load just the minimal things, and load things high when that's safe? I >don't need a mouse, keyboard, video, or other standard devices; it's just >A: (flash card used

[Freedos-user] QHIMEM 1.3

2006-04-23 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, QHIMEM 1.3 released. http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/qhimem.html What's New == "Null Handle" logic fixed, minor speed improvements. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get

[Freedos-user] PG 1.14

2006-04-23 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, BAHCL got a problem with the ISP, and he can't access Internet from home right now (have to use public library). He finished updated PG to 1.14 and ask me to announce for him. Since he didn't have any hosting, I put up a PG page for him, appreciated if anyone can help to mirror: http://johns

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Not to flame but let others know ...

2006-04-21 Thread Johnson Lam
se message, most of them are argue, disagree, quarrel. Once you involved you can get out of it. Rgds, Johnson Lam. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated tec

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Not to flame but let others know ...

2006-04-20 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:50:41 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Eric, You got lot of time writing, I don't mind if you keep everything reasonable. >> 1) Jack don't want to let people think his work is "a part of >> FreeDOS", he didn't ask ALL the people to remove the XDMA source, just >> don't want it on

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