By default, any flavor of DOS I have used will not see any kind of EMMC
storage. You may have a setting in your BIOS to treat them as traditional IDE
disks, which may work, but otherwise there's sadly a strong chance that
Free/MS/Whatever DOS simply cannot see the device without some kind of spe
Actually, a book exists which is all about that question! :)
Check out Why We Love FreeDOS available at https://freedos.org/books/
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On Saturday, June 1st, 2024 at 2:51 AM, Roger via Freedos-user
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
Well said. :)
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On Sunday, March 17th, 2024 at 8:57 PM, Ben Collver via Freedos-user
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> > Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:26:05 +0100
> > From: tom ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de
> > To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS."
> > freedos-user@lists
It does work indeed. :)
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On Saturday, March 16th, 2024 at 11:28 PM, Jeremy Leonard via Freedos-user
wrote:
> Back in my DOS days I used QuickBasic.
>
> https://winworldpc.com/product/quickbasic/45
>
> I liked the function style, no line
Regarding programmatic control of the keyboard LEDs, that was definitely
possible. I have some od BASIC code I wrote in my early days which
twiddle some bits in the byte at 0:0417 to accomplish it.
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cury Thirteen,
>
> do you have some more info on your build?
> I am interested in something like that, which would integrate a small
> trackpad into the kbd.
>
> Thomas
>
>> On 01.02.2024, at 22:04, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
>> wrote:
>>
>> No
Not strictly on-FreeDOS-topic, but speaking of devices which translate USB to
PS/2, a recent project of mine has been designing a keyboard which, among many
other features, can itself connect to a PS/2 port and also accept a USB device
for input (e.g. a mouse, for example) whose data then gets f
There's most likely a setting in your BIOS which will enable the computer to
present this newfangled drive to your OS as a traditional IDE drive.
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On Sunday, November 12th, 2023 at 10:44 PM, Jody Spurrell via Freedos-user
wrote:
> I have a HP EliteDesk 8
I typically do modify the times to reflect the version number. Of course that's
not necessary by any means, but it's a habit I started doing as a quick and
easy contingency to help me in the event of files becoming crossed, e.g. if I
were to accidentally drop files into the wrong version folder
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On Tuesday, September 19th, 2023 at 3:37 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> ...
>
> You can also find updates for JEMM and HIMEMX on Japheth's GitHub "Baron von
> Riedesel", even his HIMEMSX to use more than 4 GB RAM :-)
>
I wonder if it the products listed here would be a good resource to have
somewhere on the FreeDOS wiki as a reference for others.
Thoughts, Jim, everyone?
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I love your outside the boxthinking on this. Best of luck!
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> Hi,
>
> Recently I started to maintain several opensource projects. And this su
I vote no. Having a one-time email sent by default when folks join seems a good
idea, but a monthly reminder? Overkill in my opinion.
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On Monday, August 22nd, 2022 at 4:40 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> I'm actually wondering if we
Thanks for this contribution!
And, for those of us not running any kind of Gopher client, I presume the link
https://gemini.spam.works/x/tilde.pink/~bencollver/files/dos/util/clip/ will
also work, yes?
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That's a great suggestion! Way back in the day, before I had internet, my local
library was an excellent resource to begin learning. :)
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On Saturday, July 2nd, 2022 at 7:01 PM, Daniel wrote:
> If ya have
Ah. Perhaps I'm remembering it incorrectly. It's been a long time since I used
the BIOS-based windowing functions. :)
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On Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 at 8:44 PM, Zbigniew wrote:
> > The content will indeed wrap, just on a pe
The content will indeed wrap, just on a per-character basis instead of
per-word. It functions exactly how wrapping does when printing to the entire
screen.
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On Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 at 7:53 PM, Zbigniew wrote:
> > If yo
If you're speaking purely about limiting the cursor to the bounds of the
current window (which is what I believe you're referring to), yes I believe it
does do that much, if I remember correctly.
However, if you're referring to some kind of "smart" word wrap ability, the
answer is no. The BIOS
I realize this is a work in progress, but perhaps "The most popular emulators
are listed here:" should instead say something like "FreeDOS images for some of
the most popular emulators are listed here:" :)
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Would it be feasible to throw together an "@ECHO.COM" application which would
manually execute a normal "ECHO OFF" line if the DOS version is below 3.3 and
simply terminate otherwise? The only caveat to this is that I''m not 100%
certain that a command executed from within a .COM file from withi
Hi there,
Not sure if they'll have quite the information for which you're looking, but
for all my low level programming needs I always turn to
[OSDev](https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page).
Hope this helps!
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> He claims "The DMC++ compiler is far and away the best C++ c
Most mice operate in a "staged" manner; that is, upon power-up even the most
sophisticated mouse emulates a basic two button affair, until software jumps
through a series of hoops to elevate its capabilities by sending a series of
magic sequences of commands. The problem is that most application
On Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 at 11:34 PM, dmccunney
dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
> ...
>
> And this is not a machine you want to try to set up FreeDOS to run from the
> bare metal on. Too much of the hardware is simply not supported by any form
> of DOS. DOS stopped being sold and suppor
Since I run a similar setup (Linux Mint with VirtualBox), I'll take this one. :)
The short answer is no.
The long(er) answer is that VirtualBox makes available a specific programming
interface for the Shared Folders feature which provides both a 64-bit and
32-bit entry point for the guest OS -
Hey all!
I've packaged up the most recent version of UHDD, which you can find at
MercuryCoding.com/downloads.html#DOS. The new version supports Read-Ahead and
DMA/Caching Overlap for all cache sizes from 5 to 4093 MiB, which should help
make all the work done by Jerome's FreeDOS installer happe
Nice!
I notice that, following the line which reads:
"FreeDOS Alpha 1 was released on September 16, 1994."
the next sentence reads:
"That is over 25 years or history."
which I believe should read:
"That is over 25 years of history."
Not being nitpick-y, just FYI. :)
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> Hi Mercury,
>
> > > ...
> > > MSD?
> > > ...
> >
> > Microsoft System Diagnostics
> > A pretty handy little sy
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wrote:
> ...
> MSD?
> ...
Microsoft System Diagnostics
A pretty handy little system evaluation tool Microsoft made back in the day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Diagnostics
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I was fortunate enough for my early years to be in the DOS era (albeit near its
end) and I still remember the tiny pang of sadness upon reading that Microsoft
was phasing out the venerable platform.
My first computer was an IBM PC/XT with DOS 3.something, which was a
hand-me-down from my uncle
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On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:09 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 18:00, Johnpaul Humphrey jpth1...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> So my question is, why do YOU use FreeDOS?
>
>
+1 on the Linux Mint recommendation. Out of all the Linuxi I've personally
tried, I've found Mint to be quite user friendly and I would say it's a great
place to start for those more familiar with a Windows-like interface.
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Exactly! :D
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On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 7:13 PM, Bryan Kilgallin
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> Thanks, Rugxulo:
>
> > Just
> > because someone doesn't agree with him, even if he speaks
> > egregious words, doesn't mean he should be destroyed.
>
+1
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On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 7:08 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:04 AM dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Meanwhile, I'm beyond caring about Stallman or the state of the FSF.
> > Both
+1
Despite not being a Stallmanite myself, I seriously couldn't agree more.
Besides, it's not like he just got hired to the board of an organization
fighting human trafficking... it's software. Completely unrelated. One's
opinion on any given topic has little to nothing to do with how well they
On Thursday, March 11, 2021 12:49 AM, Nils Stavlid wrote:
> Dear all,,, personally I like it whenever topics spiral out on a side track
> like in this case.
> ...
As do I! It's refreshing to see all the diversity of thought in everyday
FreeDOS users. Cool stuff! :)_
Agreed. I guess we can thank Tom for that! lol
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On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 5:23 PM, Random Liegh via Freedos-user
wrote:
> Is this a conversation that really needed to happen on a public,
> technical list?
>
> No, it is not.
I'll step in for a brief moment to answer this in my own way prior to Felix
doing so. Sorry, Felix. :)
As to why you must be "annoyed" by anyone else's choice of email signature, I
would point out the Christo-American concept of free speech. Felix has complete
freedom to say whatever he wants w
It looks great! My only suggestion would be to add top padding to the "Download
FreeDOS" and "What’s New" sections so that the title of one does not appear
immediately beneath the previous for better visual separation.
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On Sunday, February 7, 2021 6:49 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
> ...
> Do you need a tool tip for the social media icons? Each icon is the logo of a
> different social media platform: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.
Yep, totally clueless over here lmao
Anyway, if anyone here is interested in the actual state of the project as
opposed to accepting the claims of those quick to discountenance and slow to
personally contribute, you're welcome to jump on over to [our
forum](https://groups.google.com/g/night-dos
Looks good! IMO, however, the text would look better below the video/image
thumbnails.
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On Friday, February 5, 2021 3:55 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> Do the social media icons on this test page look better? (
I would assume it has more to do with the mode of the disk controller. Check
your BIOS (if it even gives you the option) to make sure it's set to the most
PATA-compatible mode available instead of AHCI or something like that.
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I have a feeling someone left the group up on a mobile device while in a
pocket... lol
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On Monday, December 7, 2020 12:52 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> This person has been banned for spamming the group.
>
> O
I was thinking something along these lines. There could be a "Classic" install
option which installs only the same components offered by MS-DOS, and a
"Modern" option which has the same content, but with significant components
swapped out for their more modern alternatives - e.g. a newer text ed
There's Y2KPatch which did the job on the dozen-or-so computers I had access to
at the time. Be warned, however, that I make absolutely no guarantees as to how
it will work on your system... I was a very young coder circa 1999, and I
haven't revised it since.
You can find it here in the QBASIC
I've never used DSL, but I have used BusyBox back in my Android dev days. So:
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On Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:33 PM, Jason Pittman
wrote:
> I know nothing about BusyBox, so I'm going to ask a dumb q
"Does DSL allow you to, say, install apt (or another package manager), gcc,
make, etc.,"
No.
"or does it only allow you to run the common linux commands shown on the
BusyBox website?"
Yes.
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I signed in then ended up having to run out on a surprise errand, so sadly I
already missed your segment. Maybe next time... :)
Thanks for the heads-up though!
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4. Ctrl + Arrow should skip a word at a time, as in most modern text editors.
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On Monday, August 31, 2020 1:44 PM, ZB wrote:
> 1. I believe it would be handy if it could immediately after its start
> perform 'r' (show regi
On Thursday, August 27, 2020 4:56 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
> ...
> Mercury, I thought bitbucket was a relatively unstructured place to "just
> upload files"?
> ...
According to
[this](https://bitbucket.org/product/guides/getting-started/overview), it seems
pretty GitHub-by. :)__
BitBucket is another option. I haven't used it personally but I believe Maarten
has, so he is better suited to answer any questions which may arise about how
it differs from GitHub.
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Nice work. Go, man, go!
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On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4:56 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Today was a pretty fun day…
>
> After a few hours in CAD, some time 3D-printing, soldering, making a label
> and what not... Toda
Sounds good. Looking forward to it! :D
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On Friday, August 7, 2020 3:46 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I really enjoyed the last FreeDOS virtual get-together on June 29. I finally
> got to meet
That's something I could do... as long as nobody minds the delay incurred by my
packed schedule lol
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On Sunday, July 12, 2020 4:12 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
> Hi DOS users :-)
> As FreeDOS
I think Chelson Aitcheson was working on something like this called DOSLife...
but perhaps I misremember what the project was all about.
Chelson, if you see this, feel free to jump in and enlighten me! :)
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To make sure I'm on the same page with you, you have two video cards in your
Mac - the stock Radeon HD 5770 that this model ships with, and the the RX580
you added in, yes? And upon boot, the Mac only shows the boot select screen on
the built-in card and not the RX580, and you concluded it was d
Basically that's because Mac OS contains a hardware abstraction layer which
separates the updater you're trying to run (and VMWare itself, for that matter)
from the actual hardware you're running. It would be best to add the files
you're tying to use to a bootable FreeDOS CD, then boot from that
On Saturday, March 28, 2020 6:34 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
> 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 th
Hi Jerome, Eric!
On Friday, March 27, 2020 1:16 PM, Jerome Shidel jer...@shidel.net wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> I took a quick look.
> There is some minor confusion and package issues and they cannot be replace
> the current packages “AS-IS”.
> At a glance…
> Are they all newer than the ones already in
Do you know if they are literally one single disk image simply split into
pieces? If so, there are file joining programs to perform this function.
Come to think of it, most un-archivers can reassemble the split files into one,
but it depends on how the file was split in the first place.
Sent wi
Hi Everaldo!
Since Oracle did not include a DOS driver in the Guest Additions image, the
Shared Folders feature of VirtualBox does not work on FreeDOS - or even on
MS-DOS, for that matter. I looked into creating such a driver once, but
browsing the documentation and source code of VirtualBox it
whatever) ago. Oops.
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> On 23/03/2020 21:47, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user wrote:
>
>> I noticed that, but the d
hasn't been released yet.
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On Monday, March 23, 2020 4:40 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote:
> On 23/03/2020 21:30, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user wrote:
>
>> Also, the packaged
Thank you! This explains why my searching got me nowhere lol
Also, the packaged version of HIMEMX is done and can be found
[here](http://mercurycoding.com/downloads/DOS/HIMEMX.zip). Hopefully I didn't
miss anything!
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Where would one find the most recent UHDD sources?
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> Hi Mercury,
>
>> "Creating packages for FreeDOS software that are not packaged
Cool, thanks for the info!
Not that I'm promising anything given my schedule, but maybe I'll be able to
throw something together in my limited spare time. Shouldn't be too hard to get
the others together since I already built HIMEMX from Japheth's new sources.
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Point #2 on the wishlist states:
"Creating packages for FreeDOS software that are not packaged yet."
Do we have a list of this software, partial or otherwise? Or any "top requests"
as it were?
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I may as well jump on the bandwagon here... :D
I find VirtualBox quite easy to set up; most things just work out-of-the box,
whatever the OS you install upon it, and its simple GUI allows even things
which do need a bit of configuration to be handled in a fairly straightforward
manner.
Also -
Here you go...
http://mercurycoding.com/downloads/HiMemX
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On Thursday, March 12, 2020 1:09 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>> https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=16
The easiest way to support Windows 9x software would involve evolving FreeDOS
into the 32-bit era, most likely via a kernel upgrade.
Hmm, I seem to remember there being some little project aiming to do that... lol
But yes, I agree it would be nice to have the option to run some older GUI
progra
Nice work!
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On Sunday, January 5, 2020 7:21 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> I've been working on an updated FreeDOS website for a while now. And
> today, I've uploaded the new webs
As we have been known to say on the Night kernel forum...
"Why? Because FreeDOS. That's why!"
:)
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> One of the me
No. No, no, no. Just... no.
By the way, I vote 'no' :)
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> Hi,
> I’m just looking to do quick poll on you thoughts and opin
On Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:07 PM, Jon Brase wrote:
> ...
> But as someone said upthread, finding someone properly placed to advocate for
> such a thing internally would likely be very helpful in such an effort.
Perhaps Theodore Ts'o or Ky Srinivasan? According to
[this](https://www.the
For those times when VirtualBox doesn't cut it, I use AQEMU, a GUI-based
frontend for QEMU.
QEMU itself supports SO many options that using it from a command line can be a
little daunting; AQEMU's GUI approach makes creating/configuring VMs much more
straightforward IMO.
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Even with a driver installed, VirtualBox only emulates DMA-based sound and not
the I/O port based sound used in some games/programs.
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On Sunday, August 18, 2019 6:09 PM, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Virtualbox
Perhaps [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e14dFZWi2eI) would be of
assistance.
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On Thursday, July 18, 2019 7:58 PM, HTV04 . wrote:
> I searched on Vogons, but I couldn’t find anything on what my p
IIRC, ESS provided some kind of utility which probed the system to detect the
configuration of the card and report its findings. Was any such thing included
in the driver package you downloaded?
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IIRC, you just use FORMAT without the /Q switch.
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On Jul 13, 2019, 7:29 PM, HTV04 . wrote:
> Too late for that, haha.
>
> How do I force a full format like the installer would do, though?
>
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 7:27 PM Dale E Ste
On Saturday, July 13, 2019 7:16 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
> ...
> I think Mercury assumed that you had problems booting
> DOS after installing and that you wanted to completely
> get rid of all other operating systems and data on the
> disk, so he gave you the steps for that.
> ...
I would:
1. Run FDISK and delete all partitions
2. Create a single Primary DOS partition and mark it active
3. Exit FDISK and reboot
4. Run FDISK /mbr to fix the boot record
5. Use SYS c: to transfer system files to the hard drive
Then you should be good to go!
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On Saturday, June 15, 2019 12:57 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> ...
> Then you boot FreeDOS in QEMU. Note that QEMU takes a ton of command line
> arguments to define each part of the virtual machine. Here's my command line:
>
> qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -k en-us -rtc base=localtime -soundhw sb16,adlib,pcspk
My first thing would be to try booting without JEMM. There's another (better,
IMO) Extended Memory driver which doesn't tend to lead to exceptions like JEMM
does.
Best o' luck to ye!
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I wrote a program years ago which probes the 16-bit interrupt dispatch table
under DOS and saves the addresses of all 256 handlers to a file you specify. If
you like, I can dig up the old VB source. Let me know.
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Both "int" and "raw" launch properly, but "bigint" gives the same ol' "Invalid
Opcode" loop.
VirtualBox doesn't have an explicit setting for AHCI versus IDE, but you can
get the same effect through what type of storage controller you add to your
virtual machine; if you want it handled as AHCI,
So, being a VirtualBox "owner", I did some testing. :)
First, I tested three methods of installing FreeDOS 1.2: FD12CD.iso,
FD12LGCY.iso, and FLOPPY.IMG from FD12FLOPPY.ZIP. The infinite Invalid Opcode
loop only occurs for me when booting FD12CD.iso. Oddly enough, booting
FD12LGCY.iso on Virtua
No problem!
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On Jul 29, 2018, 3:34 PM, FabulousKana wrote:
> It worked. Thank you very much.
>
> On 7/29/2018 9:05 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user wrote:
>
>> I get this every time I install 1.2 on VirtualBo
VirtualBox does support Fast A20, if that helps.
I know because I use that technique in the Night kernel :)
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On Jul 29, 2018, 3:03 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 256 MB should be plenty, but I do not know
> what the default configura
I get this every time I install 1.2 on VirtualBox. Try hitting Tab then add "
raw" after the command shown.
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On Jul 29, 2018, 2:07 PM, FabulousKana wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need some help. I am using VirtualBox 5.2.16 on Windows 10. I s
Afaik, TCP/IP interfaces to a packet driver, which then works directly with the
NIC. It shouldn't matter over which medium you're ultimately communicating, as
long as it presents the packet interface which TCP/IP expects.
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