Re: [Freedos-user] Bexome Endorsed By The FSF! Opportunity

Hi again, On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 5:01 PM Rugxulo wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 5:56 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. I've had conversations with the FSF about > > getting FreeDOS listed on their Free Non-GNU Distributions page.

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

Hi again, On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 3:43 AM Rugxulo wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 3:56 PM E. Auer wrote: > > > > Also, if anybody can help me to extract the > > data from those CP/M floppies, I would be happy, too! > > I never used CP/M, so I know little about it

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

Hi, On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 3:56 PM E. Auer wrote: > > In addition, I have found a small number of floppy > disks in CP/M format, which are very likely readable > using some of the drives here, but I do not know HOW > to read them, software wise. I cannot even use dd to > make a diskimage, probabl

Re: [Freedos-user] Bexome Endorsed By The FSF! Opportunity

Hi, sorry for late reply, On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 1:45 PM dmccunney wrote: > > Trying to get listed by the FSF is an exercise in futility. I don't know if it's truly impossible, I never asked them. My silly floppy disk image (with minimal networking) is probably not worth much to them (nor other

Re: [Freedos-user] Bexome Endorsed By The FSF! Opportunity

Hi, On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 5:56 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. I've had conversations with the FSF about getting > FreeDOS listed on their Free Non-GNU Distributions page. It's not going to > happen. > > The last time I discussed this with the FSF, the FSF Licensing rep resp

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

Hi, On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 10:54 AM dmccunney wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:37 PM Rugxulo wrote: > > > > Make is a fairly useful util and a great idea, but it's also a > > portability nightmare (isn't everything?). So it's hard to do anything >

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

Hi, On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 2:08 PM dmccunney wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 5:30 PM Rugxulo wrote: > > > > I don't think this particular BASIC is a compiler, only an > > interpreter. (The very first BASIC was a compiler.) > > Doesn't matter. Yo

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

Hi, On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:26 PM dmccunney wrote: > > > DJGPP make is mainly just a port of GNU make, is it not? > > Well, as part of a port of the entire Gnu/Linux toolchain, including > GCC. Things like Scons are displacing make in some contexts, but make > isn't going away. Make is a fair

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

Hi, On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 11:26 PM dmccunney wrote: > > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:35 PM Rugxulo wrote: > > > So no, I haven't tried rebuilding this (yet?), and I'm no *nix fiend, > > but I do think AWK is a cool tool, maybe cooler than GW-BASIC (don't &

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC

Hi, TK, On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 9:37 AM TK Chia wrote: > > Thank you for the information. Building on Spinellis's work, I managed > to get the source files to build under JWasm and JWlink, Thank you. I never understand when people prefer ancient MASM over modern JWasm. > after some source code

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

Hi, On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 11:04 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > > On May 25, 2020, at 10:12 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > > I guess you could save some disk space by merging some of the > > tools into fewer, more versatile tools, due to cluster sizes? > > Sure, I “could do that”. But, I’m not going t

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

Hi, On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 6:26 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > > On May 24, 2020, at 1:39 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > The extremely limited number of > machines out there that can run FreeDOS and don’t have EGA or > better graphics makes this a very low priority. Didn't Mateusz lightly patch and r

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

ree conventional memory for programs. Older FreeCOM 0.82pl3 at least supported KSSF and VSPAWN, so you could "call /s" if needing that extra 100 kb of conventional memory. I used that on my old (2008-ish) BARE_DOS floppy image. It worked under 8086tinyplus [186-ish], at least. But I

Re: [Freedos-user] Configuration options for DOS beep

Hi, On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 10:56 AM Johnpaul Humphrey wrote: > > I want to disable the beep in certain freedos applications. > Most importantly COMMAND.COM > > So I think I have two options as far as freecom is concerned: > 1. cut the wires > 2. recompile freecom Or just use a hex editor (assumi

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com exit status

Hi, On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 2:42 PM Darrin M. Gorski wrote: > > > Like what other command processors? > > All of them. MS-DOS Which? v7, aka from Win9x? I don't recall it working there, certainly not in 6.22. > , 4DOS (which is the one I've switched to for now, despite it being a bit > slow)

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

Hi, On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 2:53 PM Robert Riebisch wrote: > > > 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? It's only been a week, give it time. Then again, most peopl

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM

Hi again, On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 8:15 AM TK Chia wrote: > > It seems that the precompiled nsm09839.zip binaries in iBiblio were > built with Microsoft C, most probably using Makefile.ms7. MS C 7 is from 1992, apparently. Maybe I'm naive, but I'll bet MSVC 1.52c from 1995 is a better compiler.

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX Isn´t for everyone (off-topic remark)

Hi, On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:25 AM Louis Santillan wrote: > > These days, it several MBs more than 8MB, but, TinyCoreLinux [0][1] is > a RAMDisk based Linux that requires less than 48MB.Earlier > versions ran on far less and even offered network connected, command > line versions running in

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX Isn´t for everyone (off-topic remark)

Hi, On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:57 PM wrote: > > I also have DR DOS 5 laying around, an original version. I might play > with that, but I was curious about FreeDOS, because it is somewhat more > recent in some respects than old DOSes and old Linuxes. But I might be > wrong... I only have DR-DOS 7.

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

Hi, On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 7:56 AM Mateusz Viste wrote: > > On 25/03/2020 12:28, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > Afaik there is no Linux that will run with only 8 MB of RAM. > > Extract from the Debian Buzz FAQ: > > "Debian Linux can be installed on systems with only 4 MBytes of RAM. > (...)

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

Hi, On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 6:43 AM wrote: > > The fun fact: Windows XP SP2 on this 2007-machine with 4 GB RAM and HDD > is up and running as fast as Windows 10 or Linux on my 2018 Ryzen with > 32 GB RAM and SSD! XP is dead as a doornail (since 2014), so is even Win7 nowadays. No more security f

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

Hi, On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 6:43 AM wrote: > > Afaik there is no Linux that will run with only 8 MB of RAM. Linux started in 1991 on a 386 with 2 MB of RAM. Granted, newer releases need a tad more. ;-) While outdated (and I'm no expert), for future reference, here's some lightweight Linux dist

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

Hi, On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 4:03 PM Swap Jim via Freedos-user wrote: > > Tried it. Didn't change anything. But thanks for the suggestion. I don't think debug info is loaded into RAM at all. I'm not sure if even DJGPP does that either. So don't worry about that (much). I don't think "-O3" is rel

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

Hi, On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:31 PM dmccunney wrote: > > The person who passed it on said [Transmeta Crusoe] was "Slow, slow, SLOW". > No surprise - it came with WindowsXP SP2, and took *** minutes to simply > *boot*, and a lot more to do anything once up. I heard that XP was designed to get to

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

Hi, On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:52 PM wrote: > > Just a thought, some of us have old computers that we want to run freedos on. > Running Linux on a Pentium 4 and trying to run Dosbox on top of that is going > to be pretty have for that machine. Obviously, but my own Pentium 4 from 2002 (mostly) d

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

Hi, On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:50 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > In FreeDOS, you have to load a LFN driver TSR to use it, but I think > most of command.com already is LFN-aware. IIRC, it depends on the version. Some people (you?) still stuck with older ("stable"?) 0.82pl3, which didn't support it. But t

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

Hi, On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:10 PM wrote: > > A revival of the open source implementation of the IPX protocol would be > awesome. > It would make a lot of old dos games work and an IPX/IP gateway could be > a Linux server where the Linux server could handle security (anti virus squid > proxy a

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

Hi, On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 5:46 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > what are the pros and cons of Links2, Dillo, Dillo Plus? Links2 is much newer, so presumably (main version, not "lite") has better SSL and graphics mode support. Probably much faster, too. ___

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

of these days (too much to do): * https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/curlexe.zip?attredirects=0 Here's Curl 7.64 and Wget (I forget what version, but it's newer than FD package), with full sources (20 MB??): * https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/curlwget.zip?attredirects=0 Yo

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

Hi, On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 7:41 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > > 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. > > https://www.uwe-sieber

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM

Hi, On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:43 PM Rugxulo wrote: > > With the new [NASM 16-bit] build(s), I tried rebuilding the FD kernel. > It seems the TCPP101 version ran out of memory on KERNEL.ASM! It was actually only because I was using WmakeR (real mode) instead of the (386 pmode) Wmake e

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

Hi, On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 4:17 PM wrote: > > Purportedly, USB floppy works in MS-DOS and possibly Freedos as well. I don't really mess around with physical floppies much anymore. But I briefly re-tried my Sony USB Floppy Disk Drive (model MPF88E) yesterday (Dell Inspiron laptop from 2009/2010,

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

Hi, On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:29 PM wrote: > > As freedos is not designed to support USB, USB floppy will not work. I have a USB floppy drive. I'm pretty sure it's handled okay by the BIOS. But I haven't used it in recent years much. P.S. I believe Haiku (OS), allegedly, also had support for US

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

Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 6:28 AM ZB wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > > It's amazing to me that so many people still use 486s with FreeDOS. > > For most DOS applications 486 is kind of "numbercruncher" My 486s, bac

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

Hi, On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:42 PM Mallory Worlton wrote: > > My computer is a Dell Optiplex 433/L with 16 MB of RAM and a 486 > processor. It's amazing to me that so many people still use 486s with FreeDOS. Those must've been built like tanks. (Mine, sadly, is disconnected.) > It has a 270 MB

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy only

Hi, On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 9:54 AM Jacques-Olivier Farcy wrote: > > I am trying to install freedos on a computer without USB port. > Just floppy and a little hard drive inside. Are you trying FD 1.2 or the newer (unfinished) 1.3-rc2? * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/d

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

Gruess Gott, On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:59 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > > As far as I'm concerned, UIDE [sic] died in 2015. > > Another reason to switch to UHDD and UDVD2. I meant that I'm only personally aware of the 2015 "drivers" (long ago abandoned). I was not directly informed of the later "ad hoc

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

Gruess Gott, On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 10:12 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > It seems that FreeDOS 1.2 currently includes UIDE. "Currently"?? The full 1.2 release was from late 2016 / early 2017. It hasn't changed. As far as I'm concerned, UIDE [sic] died in 2015. > It would probably be better to use UHD

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS version control

Hi, On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 1:44 PM Matej Horvat wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:39:55 +0100, C. Masloch wrote: > > I'd be interested in this. I'm using Mercurial for my own projects. > > I have put the instructions here: > http://matejhorvat.si/en/dos/hg/ I don't know either Python nor Merc

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

Hi, On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:01 PM ZB wrote: > > I've got a feeling that IDLEHALT setting doesn't work at all. IIRC, trying IDLEHALT under virtual machine (MetaDOS) showed noticeable improvement, at least sitting at the prompt doing nothing (Win7 Task Manager). But of course any app (e.g. text

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

Hi, On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 7:13 AM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: > > Eric Auer, on Thursday, December 12, 2019 02:21 AM, wrote... > > > Another idea would be to make disk images - they are also more durable > > than the actual floppy disks - and copy all together on 1 usb drive :-) > > How can you

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM

Hi again, On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:43 PM Rugxulo wrote: > > Despite no actual code changes, I have improved my MAKEFILE.BOR again. > I may do some more fiddling (and also derive a TC201-compatible makefile). > It's also simple enough that I could just write a .BAT to build i

Re: [Freedos-user] What I do with the .img file?

Hi, On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:32 PM OMGdaDPS wrote: > > I use etcher because I myself am on Linux, and it handles zipped img files in > two clicks. no need to go to the terminal > and work some dd magic or anything. nothing against rufus, because I use it > when I run Windows, Try this: * htt

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

Hi again, On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 2:09 PM Dale E Sterner wrote: > > I'm running FREEDOS 1.2 on a 32 gig cf chip which works > just like an IDE harddrive. Only about 2 gigs of the chip is > used, the rest is free space with a FAT 32 format. It could be some kind of obscure firmware bug. So maybe

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

Hi, On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 3:04 PM Dale E Sterner wrote: > > I used the mem command to check for freespace. > Currently I'm using PCdos 7.1; since it only works > on fat16 I'm running out of space fast. I've never directly used PC-DOS. It's no longer sold nor developed anymore, AFAIK, so you ca

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

Hi, (sorry I'm late) On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 2:40 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > 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 al

Re: [Freedos-user] Program installation from multiple floppy disk images

Hi, On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 5:31 PM bob olbrich wrote: > > I'm fairly new to FreeDOS. I'm running FreeDOS 1.2 under QEMU on a Linux > installation. Good to know. > I found a DOS program to install which, after decompressing the .zip file, > yields multiple floppy disk images (.ima extension).

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM

Hi, On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:08 AM TK Chia wrote: > > > But it's missing "[var+BX]" Effective Address support. > > Also, "MOV AX,..." (etc.) instructions use the bigger, non-optimal > > encodings. > > Well, perhaps there are ways to fix the support for these things in > tinyasm...

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM (was: Re: A neat find on /r/asm)

Hi, (sorry for delay in testing) On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 10:17 AM C. Masloch wrote: > > On at 2019-10-05 18:49 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > > "Unfortunately, nasm doesn't run over 8086/8088 processors,and I > > couldn't find a compatible assembler!" >

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM

Hi again, Just to follow up On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:08 AM TK Chia wrote: > > > But it's missing "[var+BX]" Effective Address support. > > Well, perhaps there are ways to fix the support for these things in tinyasm... As mentioned, since I've written a .BAT / sed combo to work with Tinya

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM

Hi again, On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 8:15 AM TK Chia wrote: > > > Okay, I think I've done enough fiddling to be worth sharing. > > > > Further testing and contributions are welcome, of course. > > Thanks! This looks like ... a rather major revamp of the makefiles. :-) With the new build(s), I trie

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM

Hi, (BTW, thanks for the binary, I'll test it out.) On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 6:03 PM Rugxulo wrote: > > >>> I still want to get PSR Invaders working with it > > I've done it! :-) (No, I haven't updated the FD Package yet.) If you're super bored, check

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM

Hi, On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 8:15 AM TK Chia wrote: > > Thanks! This looks like ... a rather major revamp of the makefiles. :-) For TC++, I tried to minimize loading the compiler too many times. It's able to compile multiple sources together in one invocation, which I guess is possibly faster (d

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM

Hello! On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:08 AM TK Chia wrote: > > > doing that tomorrow. The makefiles are messy, and I'm no make expert, > > but they should both be 100% reproducible (if anyone is honestly > > interested). If I don't find any obvious problems, I'll probably > > I for one would like to

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM

Hi, On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:08 AM TK Chia wrote: > > > BTW, what is the proper way to build Tinyasm with IA16-GCC? Is there a > > specific set of switches you use? > > To really crunch down the size, you can add some options to turn on > optimizations and use a more efficient function call int

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM

Hi, On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 11:48 AM TK Chia wrote: > > I did a quick disassembly of the precompiled nasm.exe and ndisasm.exe in > nsm09839.zip, and indeed --- for some reason --- they were built to use > 186+ instructions such as `leave' and immediate pushes. > > So perhaps it will be good to try

Re: [Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM (was: Re: A neat find on /r/asm)

Hi, On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 10:17 AM C. Masloch wrote: > > On at 2019-10-05 18:49 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > > I know 8086tinyplus can't handle 186+ ENTER/LEAVE properly. > > If the 16-bit NASM uses 186+ instructions, that's a bug (or possibly > wrong option?) on the p

Re: [Freedos-user] Source code to Windows 9x and ME...

Hi, On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:01 AM R Moog wrote: > > It's not as much hurting a nonexistant bottom line by now, but chasing down > every owner of every piece > in these versions of Windows and convincing them to re-license their stuff. > It's a huge hassle. Yes, it's a hassle, and sometimes i

Re: [Freedos-user] Source code to Windows 9x and ME...

Hi, On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:04 AM Michael C Robinson wrote: > > ReactOS won't replace Windows 9x/ME because it is not dos based. But it does have a partially working NTVDM nowadays. Seriously, rule out ReactOS and WINE entirely (i.e. try them with your workload on your personal machines!) befo

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Frotz 2.50 beta1 is out

Hi, On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 1:21 PM Tom Ehlert wrote: > > and - please : THIS IS NOT THE LIST TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS OF FROTZ PERFORMANCE. If he's testing it atop DOS, especially FreeDOS, then I don't see the problem. (You've complained about off-topic stuff for freedos-devel in the past, but this i

[Freedos-user] Tinyasm vs. NASM (was: Re: A neat find on /r/asm)

Hi, On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 3:13 AM Random Liegh via Freedos-user wrote: > > I just spotted this on reddit and thought someone here might appreciate it: > > https://github.com/nanochess/tinyasm/ > > Brand spanking new, targets the 8088. It can be built with desmet-c, but > there's a precompiled bi

Re: [Freedos-user] links for dos.

Hi, On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:33 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Someone posted information regarding a new compile of the browser for DOS. Where, BTTR's forum?? Though, in an unrelated discussion, I just now noticed that it was updated (2.20) yesterday! > I recall the post claiming it is the ide

Re: [Freedos-user] Compiling a new keyboard layout

Hi, (Sorry for delay in replying. Also note that I'm not the maintainer of these tools nor packages, nor am I an expert, having never rebuilt a keyboard layout file.) On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 3:54 PM Phil Reynolds wrote: > > How would I configure and compile a new keyboard layout, if for reasons

Re: [Freedos-user] FST Modula-2 and TP5.5 Pascal

Hi, On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 2:01 AM Bruce M. Axtens wrote: > > Just letting you know that I have started > dumping my DOS projects onto Github. If there's anything there you think > may be helpful in FreeDOS either clone or build or ask me to. I may have > time. FreePa

Re: [Freedos-user] Tcl for DOS

Hi! On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 2:57 PM Ben Collver wrote: > > I recently built Tcl for DOS using DJGPP. This is based on the work of > Georg Potthast and Viktor Wagner. These builds include Ck and Sqlite. > Below are download links for Tcl 8.5.19 and Tcl 8.6.9. > > https://archive.org/download/tcl

[Freedos-user] VirtualBox shared folders (was: Re: why isn't anyone answering my question?)

Hi, Sorry for delay in responding. I'm very easily distracted these days. On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:43 AM kaye n wrote: > > I have a desktop computer running a Linux distro. In this LInux distro I have > installed VirtualBox, and in this VirtualBox I have installed Freedos. > > The virtual Free

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13-LiveCD1 cannot be used, because missing swap file cannot be used on a CD

Hi, I do not claim to understand all the details here, just adding a few trivial tidbits. On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 12:29 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user wrote: > > Hi, I have tried to burn FD13-LiveCD1 two times, first time I thought the > problem maybe was my DVD not good. > > Both cannot be

Re: [Freedos-user] ot: run time issues?

Hi, I'm no expert, but I'll add my $0.02 anyways. On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 11:41 AM Bret Johnson wrote: > > The Runtime Error 200 issue has been around a long time, and is fairly > well-known among DOS enthusiasts. > It is actually an interesting "feature" of programs that were compiled with >

Re: [Freedos-user] help?

Hi, On Thu, May 9, 2019, 12:56 PM EndermanOrea wrote: > how do i use a usb drive with FreeDOS to play DOS games? > On Windows, use RUFUS to create a bootable USB: http://rufus.ie > ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net http

Re: [Freedos-user] Long filenames FAT32

Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 7:38 PM Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > > So I create a zip archive of my Win2k C drive on say an external > drive's partition from FreeDOS, boot into 2000, and unzip the file on > the external from 2000? I think zip and unzip in freedos require that > I install

Re: [Freedos-user] Long filenames FAT32

Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 3:38 PM Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > > Before Windows 2000, even in Windows 95, FAT32 was introduced with > supported for longer filenames than the 8.3 limit of Dos 6.22. FAT32 debuted in something like Win95 OSR2 or whatever. I'm no expert, but Win95 had LFNs

Re: [Freedos-user] Agilent e5061a and e5071b...

Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:29 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > In the DOS case, you may need USB drivers, > but you may be able to avoid that using a bootable FreeDOS USB disk: > Often, the BIOS supports USB disks as long as you boot from them. > Then you do not need USB drivers for DOS. His machine i

Re: [Freedos-user] Agilent e5061a and e5071b...

Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:05 AM wrote: > > The standard rescue disk for Norton Ghost is PC-DOS based. When was the last Norton DOS version? Is it still supported? IIRC, it used CWSDPMI from DJGPP, so you could maybe?? ask on news://comp.os.msdos.djgpp for indirect, unofficial help. * https:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS compatible USB2/3 drivers for external hard drive...

Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 5:31 AM wrote: > > The bios is locked with a password, uge! Otherwise I would see about turning > on > USB boot. While it probably won't apply, you could try "CmosPwd": "CmosPwd decrypts password stored in cmos used to access BIOS SETUP." * https://www.cgsecurity.o

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS compatible USB2/3 drivers for external hard drive...

Hi, On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 8:43 PM Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > > I found a site by George Potthast and unfortunately though I got his > USB2 driver to work for a while, it stopped working. Another concern, > he wants an atrocious amount of money for a copy that doesn't stop > working.

Re: [Freedos-user] New FASM and NASM versions available

Hi, On Thu, May 2, 2019, 7:32 AM ZB wrote: > > Well my "host platform" obviously is 16 bit - since it's FreeDOS. > > But yes, I was indeed somewhat amazed at "mammoth size" of NASM binary, > compared, as example, to modest 33 KB of A86.COM. > A86 is well-written, of course, but there are severa

Re: [Freedos-user] New FASM and NASM versions available

Hi, On Wed, May 1, 2019, 5:52 PM ZB wrote: > > > DJGPP builds are much easier to maintain because DJGPP is a mostly > > compatible gcc/GNU environment. > > Not sure why that compatibility is relevant? > We're talking about the host platform, not the target. Yes, you can still assemble with NASM

Re: [Freedos-user] New FASM and NASM versions available

Hi, On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 4:20 PM ZB wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 03:41:22PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > > > They support other operating systems, too. > > Which one of both you prefer - and why? Which assembler? NASM does have a small advantage in OMF/OBJ support, if you need that. (Other

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos Live CD

Hi, Sorry for delay in replying. I got caught up in others things. Plus, I tend to procrastinate even more if I don't think my reply is focused or informative enough. (Sigh.) But I may as well chime in. (Sorry, I'm a bit backlogged on emails.) On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 5:54 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] Why is curl contacting a ransomware host?

Hi, On Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 7:22 PM R Moog > Here's the setup. I put FreeDOS 1.2 into a KVM-backed VM and gave it a > Realtek 8139 so I can test network connectivity. > > Next, I run "curl -v http://10.0.0.2:8080"; because this is where I keep > my Jenkins running on my local network. > To my surpr

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2: static IP address assignment broken, no documentation available.

Hi, On Sun, Jan 20, 2019, 2:16 AM Anton Gustafsson Hi, I am switching over from running a DOS 6.22 application server > (virtualized on virtualbox), to using freedos. I need static IP assignment. > > The "fdnet" package assigns the IP via DHCP which works flawlessly. > However I can neither find

Re: [Freedos-user] Using a timer with an ISR in watcom

Hi, Sorry I'm late to reply here. Actually, my reply is *almost* useless (this kind of stuff is way over my head). I'm *almost* off-topic, but you did mention Linux, so On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 9:47 AM stecdose wrote: > > On 12/31/18 8:14 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > >> There should be plenty of

Re: [Freedos-user] new links web browser for dos, new blocek, nvidia graphics bug workaround

Hi, Eric! On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 5:10 PM Eric Auer wrote: > [Links 2.18] > > http://links.twibright.com/download/binaries/dos/ Although I haven't tried it (yet), I have gone ahead and (again) mirrored this fine software to iBiblio for us: * https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/fi

Re: [Freedos-user] ZanySoft ZDir goes FOSS

Hi, Merry (belated) Christmas! On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 3:28 PM Robert Riebisch wrote: > > upon my request Chris Kirmse recently open-sourced his popular directory > lister from the early 1990s. To quote a very silly Internet meme: "Not all heroes wear capes." ;-) > ZDir home page is still at

Re: [Freedos-user] TCP/IP stack will not initialize

Hi, On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:46 PM Ken Yap wrote: > > VirtualBox 6.0.2 has just been released. I checked and the bug has been fixed. Also successfully tested by me, on my old Dell laptop (Win7 Home, 64-bit), to work with latest VBox 6.0.2 ("released January 15 2019", aka yesterday). Changelog

Re: [Freedos-user] TCP/IP stack will not initialize

Hi, If you've successfully used networking in FreeDOS recently, and nothing has changed on your end, it may be a new bug (regression) in VirtualBox's newest 6.x series. But I haven't had the time to confirm it myself. You may wish to read their forums or check the bug tracker. Not sure when they w

Re: [Freedos-user] PCNTPK driver stopped working in VirtualBox 6.0

Hi, On Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 1:55 AM stecdose > Does a PCNet III work with the NE2000 drivers? I didn't know if so and > always used qemu, thinking I miss a NE2000 in VirtualBox. Nice if it > would work... > No, I meant it was supported (also) in older QEMU. It maybe doesn't work under "PCNet only"

Re: [Freedos-user] cabextract 1.8, dmidecode 3.2, Gifsicle 1.91 available

Saluton! On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 3:04 PM Robert Riebisch wrote: > > > I wasn't sure if you thought your newest Dmidecode was bug-free > > enough. Quoting you: "Please report your findings Maybe someone > > has access to a Redfish device and can tell me, if printing its IP > > address works c

Re: [Freedos-user] PCNTPK driver stopped working in VirtualBox 6.0

Hi, On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 9:17 AM Ken Yap wrote: > > Since I upgraded to VirtualBox 6.0 (on Linux), the PCNTPK driver for the > AMD cards doesn't work anymore. I had it working in 5.2, with the > virtual card PCNet III selected for the VM. I haven't tried that newer VBox. It only came out a we

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Issue

Hi, On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 4:36 PM Coyote Slinger wrote: > > I recently reinstalled FreeDOS on my CF-18 after my tinkering broke my > old install. > > I have a USB 2.0 drive that is formatted to FAT16 and 256MB. It mounts to D:\ > > After running any command accessing D:\ such as dir or move, th

Re: [Freedos-user] lzip 1.20 available -> FreeDOS 1.3

Hi, On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 3:37 PM Robert Riebisch wrote: > > included with FreeDOS <=1.2 there is my lzip 1.9 build from 2010. Seems > nobody has used it for the last 8 years, because nobody complained about > it to be broken. :-| It even failed `make check'. Sorry, my fault. :-( I vaguely reme

Re: [Freedos-user] cabextract 1.8, dmidecode 3.2, Gifsicle 1.91 available

Hi, On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 2:34 PM Robert Riebisch wrote: > > Feel free to mirror at ibiblio, repack or include with FreeDOS 1.3. I have only mirrored Gifsicle and Cabextract: * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/gifsicle/ * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stu

Re: [Freedos-user] Silently Install FreeDos from WinPE

Hi again, On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 3:36 PM stecdose wrote: > > Okay, maybe this would work for you to create a bootable FreeDOS stick > ... (Huh, that link just says to use RUFUS. But it also assumes you want/need to download the "full" FD 1.2, which isn't strictly necessary.) Yet another tool is

Re: [Freedos-user] Silently Install FreeDos from WinPE

Hi, (yes, I know I'm late in replying) On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 3:07 PM Sean Liming wrote: > > Booting WinPE from a USB flash disk. I rather not say anything more about > board or project. Okay, and we'll be sure not to assume it's some secretive government organization. ;-) > I remember sys.

Re: [Freedos-user] Got FreeDOS 1.2 running on PCEm (386, 486) at last

Hi, On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 8:28 AM Chai Chang Kai via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > If anyone of you face these problems like me > > 1. CD drive not working > 2. Freedos crashes and reboots > > then this is for you. "Under PCEm only", I presume (according to your

Re: [Freedos-user] CD-ROM issue using FreeDOS with QEMU 3.0.0

Hi, On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:48 PM John Haynes wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone who uses FreeDOS on QEMU would be interested willing > to help me track down a new issue I'm seeing. > (I run QEMU on MacOS 10.13.6, which may or may not matter...) I normally run QEMU under Windows (64-bit, 3.0.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

Hi, (Sorry for belated reply.) On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:07 PM Jan van Wijk wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:48:34 -0500 Rugxulo wrote: > > >> >OW 1.9 runs natively in DOS. Or did you mean the makefiles need > >> >adjustments? (Long cmdlines f

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on SSD

Hi, On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:23 AM Raymond Bathurst wrote: > > Can anyone recommend an IDIOT-proof method of installing FreeDOS 1.2 on > a fixed SSD drive (with no OS) via one of several USB ports ? I don't have any SSDs, though, and you need an OS with "TRIM" support (which apparently even Open

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

Hi, On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 12:00 PM Jan van Wijk wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 21:15:30 -0500 Rugxulo wrote: > > > >> The user-interface library 'TxWin' I use for my disk-tool is open-source. > > > >I've never used it, but I pointed Jim Hall to

Re: [Freedos-user] I have no Sound in VMWARE

Hi, On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:24 AM jamie marchant wrote: > > I don't know VMWare that well but FreeDos should work with a "Sound Blaster > 16". Try a ISA card if available. You'll probably also have to "set BLASTER=A220 I5 D1" (or similar) first. IIRC, that works in VirtualBox (only for which s

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