ork for
SF.net! So how are Jim and I supposed to help you? You directly
emailed us asking for help. How did you actually expect us to do that?
I could only give you workarounds, but you made (false) excuses about
"still on dialup" or "only have Athlon [PIII]" or "don'
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:32 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>
> I installed MS-DOS Network Client, which successfully initializes with
> TCP/IP via DHCP.
>
> But when I try "net use z: \\server\share" and enter the password (with
> a user name that matches the Win Vista peer server account), I get
> "
n (as private emails were not widely propagated).
3). I (indirectly) was asking rr to either reinstate you or explain
why not (though he never did).
4). I was explaining why I was no longer in direct contact with you
(because you refused, and not vice versa).
5). I (indirectly) was trying to get m
Hi,
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Karen Lewellen
wrote:
>
> Speaking of issues with mpxplay and sound blaster pro cards.
> any dos alternatives?
> prior post in this thread reminded me that the later editions of
> the program pro card issues.
> When I asked the guy who maintains it, he hone
Hi,
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 2:20 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>
> I was trying to play MP3's with MPXPLAY, but so far that has failed. It
> does not recognize the card or the SB emulation.
>
> In MPXPLAY.INI, I tried changing SoundcardName=AUTO to ENS, SBA, S16,
> ESS and SBP, but none of those worked.
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Micheal Muniko
wrote:
>
> 1. The files are free. You can use it in any project.
Ugh. I don't mean to be rude here, I really don't. And I don't mean to
be overly pedantic. But you are indeed emailing us on a "Free"DOS
mailing list (hosted by "Source"Forge).
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> Excuse my ignorance but what is your MMD library.
> What does it do or is used for?
It's some kind of sound (MIDI? Adlib?) library with composer and player.
---
Hi,
BTW, thanks for responding to this.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm temporarily hijacking this thread for FDNPKG's agenda :)
You're of course welcome to do so.
> On 11/06/2015 22:55, Rugxulo wrote:
>> FDNPKG is a great idea
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Christian Imhorst
wrote:
>
> I am still a fan of a FD 1.1 bootable USB image. By this time I use
> Qemu to build one, too. It is much easier to make the image bootable
> with Qemu than with Grub4DOS or Syslinux.
QEMU is pretty great but a bit fractured.
The
y like non-reproducible builds.)
======
c:\rugxulo\tmp\delme\mmd>fc /b play.ex play.exe
Comparing files play.ex and PLAY.EXE
000037CC: 05 45
37E4: 03 43
c:\rugxulo\tmp\delme\mmd>fc /b mseq.ex mseq.exe
Comparing files mseq.ex and MSEQ.EXE
37CC: 05 45
37E4: 03 43
=
A:]
>
> Critical error during DOS disk access
> DOS driver error (hex) : 08
>Description: sector not found
> Progam terminated.
> [Error 136]
> C:\>
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> On May 25, 2015 7:09 AM, "Don Flowe
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> Most of my best dos software requires vesa. Your link was extremely good.
There's a lot of (defunct?) legacy out there, especially for DOS. So
we're really only scratching the surface.
> I wish it was in a nice text book that I cou
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> Another dumb question; are there any good books out there about Vesa.?
You mean actual physical books? Just documenting the spec or
demonstrating use or example programs or ... ? I could be wrong, but I
assume you mean the DOS-oriente
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:50 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> On 6/10/2015 10:28 AM, John Hupp wrote:
>
> I am nonetheless happy to have a few things to work with to better match
> an LCD's aspect ratio: Eric's trick, for instance, on cards that support
> it. And I can also report that Japheth's setmx
Hi,
I somehow stumbled upon this blog/website which seems to host a FD 1.1
bootable USB image (and tells steps on how to make/install it ... with
screenshots!).
http://joelinoff.com/blog/?p=431
Maybe I missed it, but I'm not sure if any of us directly discussed
this before, so I'm mentioning it
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:46 AM, John Hupp wrote:
>
> It seems that "mode con lines=34" should display text mode nicely on the
> 4:3 LCD. And reading up on MODE, I saw that 34 lines requires VESA
> support. This vintage setup has a circa 1991 16-bit ISA video card,
> manufacturer unknown, b
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On 09/06/2015 18:46, John Hupp wrote:
>
>> To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver for the
>> card, and would welcome any suggestions.
>
> The obvious one that comes immediately to mind is SciTech Display
> Docto
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14268
>
> mentions a new version of the closed source variant of Jack's
> drivers, but it sounds as if that mainly has been tested with
> modern drives, suspecting that your drive uses ou
Hi,
Just a few more tidbits:
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> I did test a bunch of things on my old P4. Most of it didn't work.
I've forgotten most of the programs I stumbled upon back in the day.
Even then, I didn't use them enough to claim to be int
Hi,
I hate to dredge all of this up, but
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:16 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>
> I correct myself. I was using ide-cd.sys on another machine I was
> working with a couple weeks ago. On this machine I have been using the
> default uide.sys.
>
> But pursuing the driver-as-a-sus
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:06 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>
> Thanks for the clarifications. I could add though, that I tried "CDROM2
> PLAY01 F:" and it responded with something like "F: is not an audio
> drive, but < F: > is."
>
> The CD-ROM cable is known working (confirmed via Win 98), and I turn
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:16 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>
> With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD
> player working.
>
> I temporarily installed a Win 98 hard drive on this machine and got the
> sound card working in Windows. I also established how to connect the
> sta
Hi again,
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> I've quit working on it for a while. Tried every address and interupt I can
> think of.
> None work I think the chip is in off mode and needs to be turned on by
> windows.
> These sound drivers work on sound blaster cards but n
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>> For the Dell sound, its a chip soldered on the main board.
>
> You could check with PCISLEEP for DOS or LSPCI for Linux or any
> similar tool for Windows what chip it is.
Presumably by running "pcisleep l"?
http://ericauer.cosmodata.
Hi again,
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> Thanks Mateusz, I will report this to Info-Zip
I don't know why you would contact them. It's probably not their bug.
In fact, I don't think it's a bug at all! Also, keep in mind that we
have no idea whether they still "maintain" (e
Hi again,
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> What I need for my Dell is a sound blaster pro driver that works on
> an ESS chip without windows being there. Windows turns the chip on
> somehow. The programs are for DOS running under windows. None of the
> drivers are for dos
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> What I need for my Dell is a sound blaster pro driver that works on
> an ESS chip without windows being there. Windows turns the chip on
> somehow. The programs are for DOS running under windows. None of the
> drivers are for dos alone
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>>
>> Have the same problem with a DELL laptop. Tried a few dozen drivers
>> and none worked.
>
> What stuff are you trying to run anyways? Games? Audio
Hi,
On Jun 2, 2015 8:53 PM, "Don Flowers" wrote:
>
> I've recently become aware of some incompatibility between
> our FreeDOS unzip, Linux unzip and the legacy Pkunzip
> versions 2.04 and 2.50. I download hundreds of SIMTEL/BBS
> and other vintage files a month and I know that statistically
> a p
Hi,
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> Have the same problem with a DELL laptop. Tried a few dozen drivers
> and none worked. They all require Windows be present. Unless you can fool
> it into thinking Windows is there; I think its hopeless. I gave up.
Somebody would have
Hi,
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> The wayback site link is dead.
Try this, it seems to work:
http://web.archive.org/web/20141006080519/http://www.japheth.de/debxxf.html
Although, again, I'm not sure which "debug" you're looking for. (He
had another few of his own.) Ag
Hi,
On May 27, 2015 3:29 PM, "dmccunney" wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
> > It is a redirect to from a: to c:\temp - MS-DOS Debug deals with as
intended
> > (Many, many SIMTEL debug scripts have similar commands). Japheth was
aware
> > of the bug and published an
15 at 1:03 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> I'm was using version 1.25 and using a batch file to reinit my Lotus 1-2-3
> install disk. I booted into DOS 5.0 and am using it now. This is the command
> that causes error: echo>> reinit.scr/
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:38 PM,
Hi,
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> What is wrong with debug? - I keep getting cannot redirect error I thought
> this bug was fixed.
What do you mean? Which version? What are you trying to do, redirect a script?
http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=debug
http://www.i
Hi, Don,
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> I did not contact Jack because I was discouraged from doing so.
Luke 6:27 = "But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to
those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who
mistreat you."
Ephesians 4:31
Hi,
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Binguri wrote:
>
> I would like to know how to install network packages (arachne, msclient
> etc.).
I could be wrong :-) , but I'm pretty sure that MS Client isn't
(directly) redistributable by FreeDOS. You'll probably have to
manually grab it from MS FTP. (T
Hi,
On May 25, 2015 7:09 AM, "Don Flowers" wrote:
>
> Could this be the cause of so many diskette formatting
> failures in FreeDOS? I have to resort to either booting in
> Compaq DOS 3.31 or using 3rd party formatting tools such
> as FMT or Nformat.
Try an older stable kernel (2038 or even 2036)
Hi,
On May 25, 2015 2:27 AM, "Mateusz Viste" wrote:
>
> Question -- is there any way I could install a diskette cache on
> FreeDOS? If not supported by the kernel right away (as seems to be the
> case in MSDOS), maybe some additional (preferably free) tool could help?
> Unfortunately LBACACHE is
Hi,
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 3:48 AM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> Dennis, once again, you're on the wrong mailing list if you're going
>> to constantly harp on how obsolete and useless DOS is.
>
> Please learn t
Hi,
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:21 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>
>> The big question is if OpenWatcom continues to be a viable option to be
>> used with FreeDOS. If the official site would be down for good and
>> Jiri's fork doesn't work right, the t
Hi,
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 5/23/2015 7:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> But what's the problem? It's not like 1.9 disappeared. It's still
>> mirrored in various places (not to mention iBiblio):
>
> Well, the source reposito
Hi,
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the
> www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org...
>
> Does anyone know what is going on with that site?
No idea, but I thought I had successfully visited
Hi,
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:18 AM, David Griffith wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015, Rugxulo wrote:
>
>> At risk of asking the obvious, what major DOS version / vendor is the
>> OP (David) developing on? Is it MS-DOS or FreeDOS? Does this mean it
>> works for him in M
Hi,
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:04 AM, David Griffith wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
>> My guess is that you have a fishy memory usage in newer versions of
>> frotz - following an invalid pointer, or writing to non-allocated
>> memory, or so...
Presumably yes. A very quick te
Hi,
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> I don't know details, but I guess the OP is developing on some emulation
> machine, like DOSemu or DOSBox, and it works fine for him there. This
> happened to me in the past - emulated environment are apparently more
> resilient to bu
Hi,
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> Here the result with Frotz v2.43. Same computer, same game:
>
> http://s11.postimg.org/y8fknk0rn/frotz_v2_43_lost_pig.jpg
At risk of asking the obvious, what major DOS version / vendor is the
OP (David) developing on? Is it MS-DOS or
Hi,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Karen Lewellen
wrote:
>
> Granted, I am not using a browser directly on my computer, but this
> of mouse because I cannot. it is because no one has done a dos build of Lynx
> in a grand while.
Juan Manuel Guerrero did a DJGPP build (not necessarily heavily
Hi,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> Sorry Mateusz,- I assumed this was well-known.
> I have an Acer Aspire E5-571 laptop which has a quirky BIOS - the IDE
> emulation option is specific to the hard drive only and not the CD/DVD
> drive. I had though that the GCDROM drive w
Hi,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote:
>
>> Ability to run Windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode.
>
> has been discussed multiple times. conclusion: forget it
Okay, but let's be clear here:
1). It's proprietary, so it's not redistributable.
2). It's old, so most people don't have (no
Hi,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> The wiki article is good as far as it goes, I collected all the pieces of
> the networking puzzle mentioned in the article, but can't seem to assemble
> them correctly. My currebn method of file transfer is via USB, and I am
> experienci
Hi,
(specifically to Mateusz)
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> P.S. Someone remind me to try to recompile Pace Player later this
> week. Uses ancient Allegro but shouldn't be too impossibly hard.
https://www.allegro.cc/depot/PacePlayer
FYI, it is indeed GPL,
Untested, but here's what is probably the public shareware version:
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/graph/sea13.zip
"SEA v1.3 - Graphic Viewer/Converter for DOS"
The oldie-but-goodie "Display" is also there, closed source (ugh):
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/graph/dispt5.exe
P.S. Someone remind me to try t
Hi,
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Guillem wrote:
>
> I've been thinking of dualbooting my Windows PC with FreeDOS,
Why exactly? Although it's not a totally horrible idea, it's very
tedious and a bit technical. Not worth risking anything important. As
I told one guy recently, make sure you bac
Hi,
On May 14, 2015 12:06 AM, "Mateusz Viste" wrote:
>
> Anyone know about a free (NOT freeware) DOS picture viewer ?
I was half wondering the same thing recently, so I have a (very small)
amount of knowledge here.
The only one that directly comes to mind is XPL0 dude's SEE, which (IIRC)
suppor
Hi,
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
>> Note, that for these of you who are FDNPKG-powered, uHex can be
>> installed using this: fdnpkg install uhex
>
> I always forget about that. I need to
Hi,
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> Yes, it's also mirrored on iBiblio, here:
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/util/uhex.zip
I don't remember if it was me or not who mirrored it back in the day,
but there was also a co
Hi,
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
>
> FWIW, OSX 10.10.3 ftp works fine with iBiblio. Ubuntu 14.04.2 ftp
> does not work. I get "500 Illegal PORT command" when doing "ls" or
> "dir" unless I explicitly tell ftp to use passive mode.
Again, I do not understand the detail
Hi,
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
>
> As a workaround until ibiblio fixes it, ftp access still works.
>
> ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
>>
>> Rugxulo mentioned it
looked it up with
> google
> to see what it is used for. - it said that it is malware used to destroy
> windows.
>
> DS
>
> .
>
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 18:46:12 -0500 Rugxulo writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2015 12:50 PM, "Dale E Sterner"
>> w
Hi,
On Apr 1, 2015 12:50 PM, "Dale E Sterner" wrote:
>
> After reading google I deleted killer.exe. Check and see if your copy
> contains it.
> It is installed by the autoexec.bat file and is located in the dos
> directory.
Just in general
Antiviruses are very notorious for false positives
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:48 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
>>> This is OS development 101
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Karen,
>
>> What discouraged me from using freedos was
>> first the "for legacy games use only," suggestion on the site,
>
> That probably was a while ago: Now I would say this is more
> the target audience of dosbox, in particular for
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> I think the software NAZI's rarely bother with dos, not worth the effort
> anymore.
Software "national socialists" don't exist, only lawyers (looking for
prey). And it's their (paid) job to go after offenders. Admittedly,
DOS isn't
Hi,
Matej, I respect your opinion, but I don't see how Dennis is correct
at all here.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Matej Horvat
wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:38:47 +0200, Rugxulo wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney
>> wrote:
>>> This i
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> If DOS is "out of the loop", then why are you still able to run DOS
>> files (.COM, .EXE, .BAT)?? Does Windows emulate it? Or is it really
>> jus
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:59 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>
> Win98 is a protected mode OS, and DOS serves as a real mode
> loader. Once Win98 is up and running, DOS is out of the loop, and
> Win98 *is* the OS.
If DOS is "out of the loop", then why are you still able to run DOS
files (.COM, .EXE, .
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:33 PM, John R. Sowden
wrote:
>
> Regarding use of the usb driver, I have been using it for a couple of
> years, mainly to transport data from my office dos network to a linux
> computer.
Have you tried mTCP's FTPSRV?
> The OS is MS-DOS 7.1 (from windows98 so I can
Guys, you absolutely can't be this stubborn or naive. I'm not trying to be
a hardass here, but you have to avoid mistakes like this, or it'll cost ya.
U.S. copyright law does not give us the "right" to "copy" things at will,
esp. not commercial, proprietary software from one of the biggest compani
Hi,
I have no idea if you can still buy "full" MS-DOS from MSDN
subscriptions. But there is a small "system floppy" still available in
Windows Explorer. (Other options, esp. downloading from questionable
web sites, are NOT recommended.)
EDIT: (quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Develo
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:06 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>
> There is still potential use for DOS in the embedded space, but I
> expect that is dropping as HW becomes more powerful and cheaper.
> Embedded systems are increasingly built around 32 bit ARM CPUs, where
> DOS is not an option but you ca
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:34 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> No, many compilers make it totally transparent to the end user. So you
>> don't even have to write any non-portable code (usually). And this
>> goes
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:19 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>
>> Maybe that was because DOS is not really made for large RAM.
>
> Editors I'm aware of that ran under DOS and edited really large files
> used spill files, keeping what would fit i
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> Using elvis 2.2, I was able to view and edit files in DR-DOS above 1.5 MB, but
> scrolling through a file of 3 MB was prohibitively slow; no such problem in
> Linux.
I had bad memories of Elvis. Not that it was bad in features, but
am an actual (registered) user of the DOS programs that
> were the ultimate programs of the DOS age: Lotus 123, dBase & WordPerfect.
Long dead, sadly, and hard to find.
> Besides these, I also use on a daily basis Online Bible, Alpha Four and
> Mpxplay.
I still need to figure out ho
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> FDNPKG keeps all editors inside its "util" repository.
>
> elvis 2.2 - a clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor. Supports nearly
> all vi/ex commands
Not to nitpick, it's still a good editor (at least in features), but
isn't the 2.2
gt; support Unicode!
Blocek is graphical and requires a mouse (IIRC) unlike Mined. (I'm not
complaining, just sayin'!) ;-)
> Also, SETEDIT and TDE look similar
> enough to MS DOS EDIT, so you can enjoy them all :-)
Hmmm, well, they have menus, but otherwise aren't so simil
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> I had actually forgotten about setedit (and have probably forgotten how to
> use it as well). Is there a reason the "edit" category is not included in
> the fdnpkg install program or the "all_cd" iso? I don't mind relearning it.
> I dow
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
wrote:
>
> I didn't reply earlier because I had major surgery on the exact
> day you wrote me.
I respect your privacy, but I hope everything is okay.
> On 3 Mar 2015 08:47:38 + dos386 wrote:
>> > Error messages are of the
Hi,
(Sorry I'm late.) Thanks for your info about this!
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Shane wrote:
>
> Rugxulo: LFN-EN was compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ version 1.51.
> According to the documentation, it uses a copyrighted library to handle
> virtual memory, but this
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Rafael Angel Campos Vargas
wrote:
> San José, Costa Rica
>
> Annual inform:
> First, thanks to FreeDos team for the link
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/pascal/contrib/
> where you will encounter previous versions of FreeRay and
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:34 AM, wrote:
>
> I simply took another PC, now it works. Got freedos on the hd.
>
> Only thing that would be neat is USB mouse support. Read about USBMOUSE and
> added
> dos=high
> device=himem.exe
> device=usbaspi.sys
> device=di1000dd.sys
> to FDCONFIG.SYS - unfor
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:22 AM, f4tmike wrote:
>
> Yes, the fdllrs.iso is burnt on a CD-R. Didn't verify the checksum and
> didn't burn on slowest speed.
Can you check the md5sum of your existing .iso file? Or did you delete
it? On a different machine?
Also, if possible, burn another CD, t
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:59 AM, wrote:
>
> I'm getting errors during CD installation of Freedos 1.1 (base + util).
You mean an actual CD-R (or similar) burned with fd11src.iso (40 MB)?
So no virtual machine? Did you verify the md5sum to make sure you
downloaded it correctly?
http://www.ibi
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:27 AM, yoav hart wrote:
>
> I am not a programmer,
> and have no idea how or who to approach.
> I have and still use daily a certain dos signal generator program (under
> FREEDOS of course). This program is using the printer port as output, a
> minority in the field (
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:32 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:38 PM, John R. Sowden
> wrote:
>
> "dos editor very long files ignore eol character"
>
>> I am looking for the above.
What machines (cpu, RAM, OS [version + memory managers]) are you
primarily using? What editor
Hi,
On Feb 14, 2015 3:44 PM, "John Sowden" wrote:
>
> This came up when I tried to exit DOS using the
> dosemu exit program and it crashed.
What crashed? DOSEMU? Your app? Linux? What distro?
BTW, I thought "exitemu" was the correct way to exit DOSEMU.
--
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
>
> Regarding to DOSEMU/SELinux interaction, it isn't too big problem
> tune it e.g. in SELinux permissive mode.
su -c 'sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0'
su -c 'sesetbool -P mmap_low_allowed 1'
(That's all I know from a quick check, thou
Hi again,
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 2/10/2015 5:34 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> But again, DOSEMU isn't widely deployed, so lots of people don't use
>> it. It still works fairly well, just not popular. I'm not sure if that
&
Hi again,
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to write a small program that will distinguish whether
>> running under dosemu/FreeDOS or not, and accordingly do other things.
>
&g
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
>
> I'm trying to write a small program that will distinguish whether
> running under dosemu/FreeDOS or not, and accordingly do other things.
I'm not under Linux right now, so I can't double check, but just FYI,
here's (roughly) how I'
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> I have an HP Elite 8000 with an Intel 82567LM-3 Pro 1000 ethernet card.
> After loading the sequence of drivers (LSL, E1000odi IPXodi and odipkt) I am
> able to acquire an address and ping successfully. But when I try to FDNPKG
> install
Hi,
On Feb 7, 2015 12:11 AM, "Thomas Mueller" wrote:
>
> FreeDOS is rather difficult to run on my system,
> won't run at all with EMM386, and forget other DOSes.
I know you've mentioned Linux and FreeBSD. Have you not tried FreeDOS under
QEMU, VirtualBox, or Bochs?
--
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:18 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>
> I allocated the 2GB slice for FreeDOS expecting to use FAT16, and
> FAT32 support was a happy fringe benefit. Even with a full FreeDOS
> installation including pretty much everything on the ISO, and an
> assortment of other old DOS apps, I
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Knute Myhrvold wrote:
>
> I did: type FRACTINT at the command line... have tried that several times.
> Was I in the proper Folder? I thought so... after typing "dir fractint"
> FreeDOS did display
> the many files there, including "FRACTINT.EXE". I then t
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Knute Myhrvold wrote:
>
> I'm sorry, Eric... I probably haven't been much help because I'm just too
> DOS and PC ignorant to help much with specifics. Generally, I'll make 2
> suggestions: Please make installation easier if at all possible,
A bare bones insta
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> How would I go about compiling a FAT 16 kernel with the same patch - or do
> Messrs. Rugxulo or Davis have one already compiled. I am working on my own
> rendition of Carbon OS and need it for a "lab experiment&quo
Hi again,
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
>>> Flash isn't going away on the desktop, and is still maintained. I
>>> just had Firefox Nightly complain I was running an older and possibly
>>
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:00 AM, wch-tech house-grp.net
wrote:
>
> I was wondering if xcdrom.sys is in the freedos installation .iso.
>
> If so, what is the full path to it's location?
>
> If not, I am wondering:
>
> a) just curious, why not?
Don't know, probably nobody needed it badly en
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:29 AM, wch-tech house-grp.net
wrote:
>
> I have been reading about various details about freedos and in the course of
> this work I noticed that there are at least two different sites which
> contain freedos help. The official one is version number 1.06 and another
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:01 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>> On 12/16/2014 2:50 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM, dmccunney
>>> wrote:
>
Hardware is steadily smaller, faster, and cheaper. Have fun finding a
>>
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