Re: [Freedos-user] Ibiblio blocked as malware site

Hi, It seems like they've fixed this by now. On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > If you have tried to visit the FreeDOS archives at ibiblio in the last > day, you may have seen a message from your browser that ibiblio is > serving malware. AFAIK, the warning was only appearing

Re: [Freedos-user] loading FreeDos hangs

Hi, On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Robert Moler wrote: > > I tried using RUFUS to make a bootable USB stick. Changed the boot > order so the USB stick would be first. Rebooted. Followed the > instruction to create a C: drive everything seemed to be going fine > until it wasn't. The process ha

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > With all this talk of really old NTs, is there a reason ReactOS wouldn't > work for some of you? I don't use "really old NTs". Outside of Jack, I don't recall anyone else saying they use such a version. If it works for him, good, "ju

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 23:29:14 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > >> BTW, NT 4.0 (1996?) didn't support either of those > > NT4 does support LFNs. Not in DOS apps, I meant, no Win9x-era "int 21h, 71xxh", AFAIK. >

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hangs

Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Robert Moler wrote: > > I was delighted to discover FreeDos, because I have an old Music DOS > data base that I've been using since 1986. It runs in XP but not in Win > 7. So I loaded the virtual box and then FreeDos. except that it never > finished loading a

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > On Friday, December 6, 2013, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> So this is not entirely conclusive. Presumably you'd have to find >> explicit bugs or features in a particular kernel in order to truly >> identi

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Jack wrote: > >> I certainly agree with your stance here. I have been using one >> ms-dos 7.1 package since at least 2007 or so, easily and effort- >> lessly. I have helped others find it as well. It might be "easier" to just tell them to make a bootable f

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:03 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jack wrote: >> You may not consider it reliable, and Dennis may have some odd problem accessing it, but that website did give me, on 5-Dec-2013, a working 2-diskette copy

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, (yet another inane response from me) On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Jack wrote: >> >> It's really too bad, though, that MS won't make it official and release >> the MS-DOS source as public domain, or at least one of the various >> open-source licenses. How would that be better than what w

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Jack wrote: > >> Wengier Wu's MS-DOS 7 variant has a licensing issue ... > > "So what??", as I noted in my prior post. At least 18 years have > gone by since Gates & Co. declared "DOS is dead!", and no lawyers > I know of have EVER gone-after any V7.10 users

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> You mean LZ DOS is an improved rip of the MS DOS 7 kernel? Or >> is it just another DOS kernel which provides DOS 7.x compat? > > Unfortunately it is not improved at all: Somebody just took a > few components of MS DOS 7 and PC DOS 7 and R

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jack wrote: > > Note on the FreeDOS "main page" that there are comments about FreeDOS > offering "LBA" large-disk capability (48-bit disk addressing, not 24- > bit "CHS"), which MS-DOS did not have, and which the "main page" says > was unavailable except with D

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDNPKG 16 bit port and other package system improvements

Hi, On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:43 AM, sparky4 insano wrote: > > I really wish there was a 16 bit port of fdnpkg! > but it is quite difficult to port it over These are just .ZIPs with a special layout, so it's not like you can't manually install them. Besides, most DOS programs don't have lots

Re: [Freedos-user] moslo and clock speed

Hi, On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 12/3/2013 9:16 PM, Chris Evans wrote: >> >> i was able to find rpcrt100.zip but the other isn't available >> I tried this route once before and ended up with broken .exes >> (don't remember details as it was years ago so i gave up and m

Re: [Freedos-user] XFdisk

Hi, On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:39 PM, James Crawford wrote: > > I was installing freedos to a harddrive in hopes with hopes of having a > multi-boot with four other DOS operating systems. Have you tried MetaKern? It's meant for sharing DOS boot sectors. http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=meta

Re: [Freedos-user] MPlayer: Tips and Tricks

Hi, On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Butterfly Close wrote: > > Some hints, for FreeDOS lovers, or "HowTo Create a Nice Multimedia System > from Old Hardware" > > MPlayer is two versions: official FreeDOS, with sources: > http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/mplayer/

Re: [Freedos-user] How to setup Sound Blaster?

Hi, On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Butterfly Close wrote: > > 2013/11/26 Rugxulo >> >> What about Descent?? >> >> http://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Descent.html >> > Descent works well; both music (MIDI) and sound; (By the way, Descend have > u

Re: [Freedos-user] MPlayer: Tips and Tricks

Hi, On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:28 AM, dmccunney wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Butterfly Close > wrote: >> >> Third tip. Screen indication can be disabled, (it speeds up system): " > >> /dev/null". Under DOS exist "/dev/null"? Funny > > No, /dev/null doesn't exist. The NUL device

Re: [Freedos-user] How to setup Sound Blaster?

Hi, On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Butterfly Close wrote: > > Maybe, it'll be interesting for somebody, so I write step-by-step "HowTo" > > (...snip...) > > And now sound works; at least in mplayer and QuickView (another soft not > tested yet) What about Descent?? http://www.classicdosgames.

Re: [Freedos-user] How to setup Sound Blaster?

Hi, On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:02 AM, Butterfly Close wrote: > Hi all! Please, tell me, how to install (under FreeDOS) Sound Blaster > soundcard; (maybe somewhere exist some wiki, FAQ, or possibly you are > expert?) > ... > By the way, embedded AC97 sound card works fine under DOS, in MPXplay, (!)

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

Hi, On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:41 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > Test Disk is designed to recover *partitions*, not files. It searches > for backup copies of the partition table and does substitutions when > the main one is damaged. It bypasses the file system(s) entirely and > does low level raw dis

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

Hi, On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:20 PM, wrote: > On 2013-11-22 00:46, Rugxulo wrote: >> I suggest you just try to use a user-space program like TestDisk. I >> haven't used it much, but in minimal testing it did seem to access my >> ext3 partition correctly. > > Doe

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

Hi, On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:08 AM, patrick patterson wrote: > hello all. longtime reader, first time poster > > this is something I have been thinking about for a long time. > I think it needs to be a part of long file name support, which > seems to be pretty messy for compatability (multiple d

Re: [Freedos-user] : File systems with metadata support

Hi, On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:25 AM, wrote: > > I probably found what I was looking for: the COMBOOTF.IMA file from > Lucho utilities. > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15785527/dos/lucho.html > > But I could not find any documentation. I'm pretty sure this is the Paragon driver and not s

Re: [Freedos-user] File systems with metadata support

Hi, On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:41 PM, wrote: > > Does FreeDOS support any file system that has customizable metadata > (also known as extended attributes)? The kernel itself only directly supports FAT. Anything else (AFAIK, and I'm no expert) has to come from a loadable driver using the redirec

Re: [Freedos-user] zip with aes?

Hi, On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:47 AM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:39 AM, John R. Sowden > wrote: > >> Is there a zip program for dos that encrypts using the aes algorithm? According to APPNOTE.TXT, "version needed to extract" (field) must be "5.1 or greater" to support AES. I

Re: [Freedos-user] New 14-Nov-2013 UHDD/UDVD2 -- Private Caches Deleted.

Hi Jack, Just a few boring comments, On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Jack wrote: > > The "UIDE" drivers have all been updated to 14-Nov-2013, and they are > now available from Johnson Lam's "dropbox" at -- > > > In this update, UHDD and

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

Hi, I might be repeating some things here (and I'm no expert), but I don't know if you fixed this yet, so On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:57 PM, John Sowden wrote: > > First of all, I did not make myslf clear. I was not running win98. I was > only running > the dos portion of win98. I wrote ov

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

Hi, On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 9:28 AM, José Antonio wrote: > > 2º. Boot with a Linux Live CD (like knoppix), some distros include TestDisk > and PhotoRec. It is very important that the restored files will be placed in > an alternative storage, not in the original, media. If files have not been > ov

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:25 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: >> > Wow! > As usual when I present problems on these mailing lists, the solutions > are complex. Nothings easy! Welcome to computers, where "easy" means hours of work. > I also have a tendency to not explain > completely. Usually I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:43 PM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:36:49 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat >> wrote: >>> >>> PS: I just wrote all that and found this: >>> >>> http://nok

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Eric Auer wrote: >> >> Win98 FAT32 typically does, but the message suggests that >> you installed DOS on the partition. You can of course use >> a Win98 DOS 7.x boot disk

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Matej Horvat wrote: > On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:36:49 +0100, Rugxulo wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat >> wrote: >>> PS: I just wrote all that and found this: >>> >>> http://nokonoko365.coc

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > - InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated values 81-194-63 instead of 75-254-63 > > BIOS and partitioning disagree about CHS geometry and > your partition type 0b is FAT32 CHS. You could swit

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:33 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: > > I have a disk with Linux and win98 dos on it. I opt with function key > to select which OD. Please don't OD.:-)I assume you meant "OS". > Default is DOS. While in DOS, I executed sys c: from a floppy that I > downloaded fr

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat wrote: > > ... irrelevant comments by me deleted ... > > PS: I just wrote all that and found this: > > http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfile/freedos/index.html > > Is that third party software for Japanese support or what? No, according to

Re: [Freedos-user] anything better in pure dos thant his?

Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > I did just join the xxcopy yahoo group, so I can learn if that has any > advantages to using xcopy. Okay, but I'm not sure they support the DOS version anymore. Their current .ZIP only has 32-bit and 64-bit PE / PE+ (Windows) binaries

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Chris Evans wrote: > > Would this accomplished by loading a Unicode Japanese code page font file > using mode? No because Unicode, esp. for CJK languages, would never fit into 256 or 512 bytes, which (AFAIK) is a EGA/VGA hardware (text mode) limitation. -

Re: [Freedos-user] anything better in pure dos thant his?

Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > I have aquired and set up two removable drives with which I intend backing > up the two hard drives in my pure dos machine. > I was planning to use xcopy for this, but before I start am wondering if > there is anything else? > Again a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:46 AM, sparky4 insano wrote: > > Will there ever be any official support for the Japanese language in > FreeDOS? At risk of stating the obvious, FreeDOS is free to modify, but support can only improve if someone decides to volunteer to do it. Presumably that would h

Re: [Freedos-user] first use of freedos

Hi, On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:04 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: > On 11/03/2013 11:38 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:13 AM, John R. Sowden >> wrote: >>> got a 'distribution disk' of freedos >> Where? Which version? What files? >

Re: [Freedos-user] Vim is slow

Hi, On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Miguel Garza wrote: > > I tried putting "INSTALL=c:\apps\lbacac~1\bin\LBACACHE.COM" in my config.sys > file and I get an error: > > STAK nest!? otherss = [a bunch of numbers and letters] [Repeats several > times]Bad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /

Re: [Freedos-user] first use of freedos

Hi, On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:13 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: > > got a 'distribution disk' of freedos Where? Which version? What files? > , ran the sys command. To / from what? Floppy? Hard drive? > copied it from the net to a floppy using ubuntu 13.10 Assuming the floppy is intact, I guess tha

Re: [Freedos-user] Vim is slow

Hi again, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Miguel Garza wrote: > I'm playing with vim in FDOS. It's nice, but a bit slow in some respects, > particulary when using its internal file-browser. What internal file-browser? LIST? PG? MORE? EDIT? I have no idea, you have to be more specific, there are

Re: [Freedos-user] Vim is slow

Hi, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Miguel Garza schreef op 3-11-2013 16:21: >> >> I'm playing with vim in FDOS. It's nice, but a bit slow in some >> respects, particulary when using its internal file-browser. I am running >> FDOS from a thumbdrive on a modern (well, only a

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

Hi again, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > AFAIK, the %PATH% can (normally) only be 128 bytes or less. This is > also part of the overall environment limit (but what is default for > FreeCOM, /E:256 ??). There are possible partial workarounds that > extend it

Re: [Freedos-user] PATH

Hi, On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Miguel Garza wrote: > > I've got my programs in subdirectories of C:\APPS, and whenever I add a new > program, I have to add its path to autoexec.bat like so: > > set PATH=.;c:\;\LOCALE;\APPS;[all the other paths to the other programs in > the APPS folder];\APP

Re: [Freedos-user] Think I have a hardware mess...

Hi, On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Michael Robinson wrote: > > I have a Pentium III 750, 768 megs of ram, and a soundblaster 16 PCI > card. > > Well, trying to add msclient as it seems to be the only way to go for > a national semiconductor DP83815 network card. Goal has been to run > fdnpkg

Re: [Freedos-user] PictView

Hi, On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Miguel Garza wrote: > > I tried about 3 of the mentioned viewers and 2 of the 3 worked well. > display was pretty good and lxpic was great! Thanks! > > I'm interested in viewing the common file formats (jpeg, png, etc) and > I was intrigued by Pictview's clai

Re: [Freedos-user] Packet drivers...

Hi, On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:47 AM, NA wrote: > > Thank you for the heads up on fdupdate. I have a Linux from scratch > system that is Pentium III compatible, but that particular system > doesn't have X. Wget? Curl? Ftp? Lynx? Links? Elinks? W3m? > I suppose I can get the files for freedos ont

Re: [Freedos-user] Packet drivers...

Hi, On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:45 AM, NA wrote: > > The free crynwr packet driver collection doesn't cover the Netgear > FA311 10/100 baseTX network card. Blame Netgear. (It's their decision, not ours.) > Uge! I've been google searching and have found BartPE, but that is a > Windows 98 boot dis

Re: [Freedos-user] emm386, himem.sys, config.sys

Hi, On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Miguel Garza wrote: > > I recently discovered Rufus, the DOS boot disk installer, and > installed FreeDOS on my thumbdrive. I think it's pretty neat. Yeah, it's cool. > Anyways, what I am wondering is, I had come across PictView and tried > viewing some imag

Re: [Freedos-user] Lacking sources in some BASE packages (was: FDNPKG update)

Hi, First, thank you for all of your efforts! Honestly, it's almost overwhelming having so many files to deal with! On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > I did a bit of repackaging work this evening, and added sources to some > of the BASE packages that lacked it. > > The f

Re: [Freedos-user] Apps for OpenGEM?

Hi, On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Richards, Toby wrote: > > Are there any apps available for OpenGEM, or is what I see all that I get? Check John Elliot and Owen Rudge's websites: http://www.seasip.info/Gem/ http://www.owenrudge.net/GEM/ > Also: How can I resize the windows? There aren’t

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux OSes to use as VM hosts for FreeDOS, WAS Re: HTTP_PROXY?

Hi, On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Richards, Toby wrote: > I meant on Linux or some other nondos os. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager#Continued_development " Continued development Caldera Thin Clients (later known as Lineo) released the source to GEM under the GNU Ge

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux OSes to use as VM hosts for FreeDOS, WAS Re: HTTP_PROXY?

Hi, On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Richards, Toby wrote: > > Follow up question: does Gem run on any os other than FreeDOS? Which "GEM"? I'm not sure it's developed or even maintained anymore. I haven't heard jack from anybody (nor Shane Coughlin) about it in recent times. (Not that I should, j

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTP_PROXY?

Hi, On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Maybe. I use ssh/scp/sftp for everything I do these days. Is gem able to > multitask these sessions? AFAIK, no. There was some unfinished work (long time ago) on a quasi-multitasking GEM, but it was never reliable, and at least "mo

Re: [Freedos-user] Trying to get Freedos to boot - Help !

Hi, On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:48 AM, timmoore46 wrote: > > Not sure if I've posted on the right list, but here goes ! You're fine here. > Attempting to use a 320GB HD on a modern 6 core PC. All for FreeDOS? :-)Or are you multi-booting? Or is this just temporary? > I got the HD formatte

Re: [Freedos-user] CPI editor 1.2b

use every day. Fonthack is copyrighted freeware by >>> Pierre Jelenc, 1994. > > From Rugxulo on 2013-09-16: >> I was unable to find this (except one shady website that didn't look >> trustworthy). I did visit http://www.pierrejelenc.com/ but found >> nothing r

Re: [Freedos-user] CPI editor 1.2b

Hi, (two months later!) On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: > > Rugxulo on 15 Jul 2013: >> I don't know what tools others used previously > > I used FONTHACK quite a lot to build a nice-looking sans serif > screen font with

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip in pure dos?

Hi, On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > On 08/30/2013 06:42 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > >> IIRC, the default mode of 7za is -mx5 and .7z format using LZMA [or >> LZMA2 in newer alphas] method, which means (among other things) 16 MB >> dictionary, aka

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip in pure dos?

Hi, On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Let me table this discussion where my question is concerned. > there is another copy of this program zipped using regular pk zip for dos > and as a strict dos port. p7z458c.zip is what I see at the link you gave. Honestly, it may wo

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip in pure dos?

st (internally), then compress. > > [Bojan] >> Very idea of 7zip is a specific compression algorithm, not a way >> the compressing utilites work. :) > > Actually you are BOTH right. As Rugxulo already mentioned, there is > a difference between archives where each file insi

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip in pure dos?

Hi, On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Karen Lewellen > wrote: > >> Is this different from the pzip utility I found referenced when I googled >> 7zip in dos? > > I don't believe so. DJ Delorie's DJGPP build of p7zip is the only one > I'm aware

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS update with FreeDOS + grub2 on USB Flash

Sorry, forgot the URL: http://rufus.akeo.ie/ On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Beeblebrox wrote: >> >> I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. > > You can instead use an entire bootable USB d

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS update with FreeDOS + grub2 on USB Flash

Hi, On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Beeblebrox wrote: > > I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. The USB drive has grub2 > installed, I use it as a rescue drive & I can add menu items however I like. > > When I boot into FreeDOS, only the contents of the mem-loaded image file > (FDOEM.14

Re: [Freedos-user] MT.COM not found in internet !! :(

actually bundle this (but I'm not the author!) in my silly (old!) RUFFIDEA mini-floppy distro, specifically disk #3: https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/d3-files.zip?attredirects=0 However, I'm not sure how useful overall the package is. I only very very lightly used it, and I'm f

Re: [Freedos-user] CPIED 1.3b

Hi, On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 08/04/2013 12:37 AM, Rugxulo wrote: >> I've mirrored this below: >> >> http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/fonts/cpied13b.zip > > And I've put the latest v1.3c

Re: [Freedos-user] CPIED 1.3b

Hi, On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Balthasar Szczepański wrote: > > Next version of my CPI editor. > > It allows to edit the shape of the characters, remove or create fonts, > remove or create codepages,.. It has a gui and can be controlled with the > keyboard or mouse (if there is a mouse inst

Re: [Freedos-user] DHCP in FreeDOS

Hi, On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Everaldo wrote: > > Friends, I'll wanted to know how configuring the Internet in FreeDOS 1.0 > for the DHCP or manually. Wait contact, ok! Check this first: "FreeDOS Networking with VirtualBox 4.x" http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/ ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Zmiy - a snake-like game for 8086 (like Nibbles)

Hi, On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > I had a few minutes of free time lately and felt the inexplicable need > to write a Nibbles clone > > I called it 'Zmiy'. It's written in C89, compiled with Turbo C, and, as > usual, released under GNU GPL 3 > > http://sourceforge.ne

Re: [Freedos-user] Zmiy - a snake-like game for 8086 (like Nibbles)

Hi, On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> I had a few minutes of free time lately and felt the inexplicable need >> to write a Nibbles clone > > I think the last time I wrote a Snake clone > in 2.5 dimensions in Borland, in Pascal, I updated the > code to use 40:6c aka 18.2 Hz ti

[Freedos-user] Jack Ellis' drivers (UIDE, etc.) 2013-07-28

Jack Ellis has released a minor update to his drivers: > UHDD/UIDE save 600 bytes of runtime (HMA) space by omitting their > binary-search buffer and related code (they did not improve speed > very much).Their /F switch is now deleted, and UHDD/UIDE will > always set 64K blocks with a cache of

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom packaging (was: FreeDOS "FDNPKG install" CD)

Hi, On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > maybe a nice solution would be to create multiple packages, where every > package would contain a part of OW > - then the end user could download only what he wants/needs/uses. Well, I figured a full "DOS only" download was better tha

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "FDNPKG install" CD

Hi, On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Rugxulo schreef op 28-7-2013 0:55: > >> 1.9 has been latest stable for three years now. I haven't been >> following their latest progress, so I don't really know much about it. > > 1.5 was listed in abo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "FDNPKG install" CD

Hi, On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Mateusz Viste schreef op 22-7-2013 21:37: > > Also went over the CD, seeing the following obvious things: I haven't downloaded nor played with this .ISO, but FYI > upx v3.09 http://upx.sf.net A few months ago, I

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.96

Hi, On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > I released a minute ago a new version of FDNPKG. > > The exact changelog of the v0.96 follows: > > FDNPKG v0.96 [21 Jul 2013] Just FYI, I updated the online .LSM and mirrored this to iBiblio: http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=fdn

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "FDNPKG install" CD

Hi, On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > On 07/21/2013 07:59 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > >> Ouch, thought this was solved, both with and without some custom fixing >> driver. Most recent VirtualBox (4.2.16?) used? Most recent UDVD2.SYS >> used? > > The UDVD2.SYS I used is the l

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "FDNPKG install" CD

Hi, On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Mateusz Viste schreef op 20-7-2013 23:08: > >> Could you tell me please which software you see old? > > Mainly the bootdisk programs: > * kernel: 2036 instead of 2041 Well, 2036 wasn't exactly horribly buggy nor super old (FD 1.0 in 2006

Re: [Freedos-user] CPI editor 1.2b

Hi again, Just a few more minor comments. On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Rowery na Księżycu wrote: > > I made a CPI editor. Maybe it could be useful. > > It allows to edit the shape of the characters, remove or create fonts, > remove or create codepages,.. It has a gui and can be controlled w

Re: [Freedos-user] CPI editor 1.2b

Hi, On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > 1. I haven't managed to compile it from source. > I did produced an executable, but the linker was complaining a lot > about undefined symbols, so I probably missed how to link the egavga > lib. A section in the readme about 'how to bu

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

Hi, On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > > Should OTOH you (and the FreeDOS project at large) wish to offer the > free XBDA mover as a supplement/alternative to FreeDOS's internal, I'll > contact you for arranging the mirroring. It's a simple, robust and > tiny DOS device dr

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

Hi, On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > > What is the legal status of 4DOS in relation to FreeDOS ? There's a fully > baked > product, could it become /the/ main FD shell ? Unlikely to become the main shell (though that's not my decision anyways). I'm honestly not sure how

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

Hi, On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > > I must say, though, the reception which I got from Herr Ehlert on this list > is making me wonder whether spontaneous contributions made in > good faith are welcome and / or opportune. Patience, young padawan. Things like this take

Re: [Freedos-user] The FreeDOS localisation project has been moved

Hi again, On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Mateusz Viste > wrote: >> >> Just wanted to say that the FreeDOS localisation project moved to a new >> location. > >> Anyway, bottom line is: >>

Re: [Freedos-user] shorter subject line.

Hi again, On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:39 PM, kurt godel wrote: > > I am not trying to install linux in windows/dos; puppy linux does that > exquisiitley. EDIT: I've not used this particular piece of it, but the DOS "SHSUCD" package has SHSUDVHD which "emulates a DVD-ROM using multiple image files.

Re: [Freedos-user] I have a machine from '04 ...

Hi, On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:45 PM, kurt godel wrote: > > I have a machine from '04, and to my dismay, the boot order is greyed out > and cannot be altered. This means I cannot boot from my external dvd drive > or flash drive. Neither can I swap the external drive(sata) for the cd > only(pata)

Re: [Freedos-user] [super long subject line]

Hi, On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:32 AM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:45:45 -0400, kurt godel wrote: > > If you are trying to install Linux from Windows you should look into a > thing called wubi: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(Ubuntu_installer) Just for the record, I'm not rea

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG - New version, new features

Hi, On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > I'm happy to announce the release of a new version of my FreeDOS package > manager - FDNPKG v0.94. Jim just announced this in News for you. > Big changes: this new version brings support for offline (on disk) > repositories, and upda

Re: [Freedos-user] The FreeDOS localisation project has been moved

Hi, sorry I'm late in replying, On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Just wanted to say that the FreeDOS localisation project moved to a new > location: http://freedoslocal.sourceforge.net/ Good to know. > I moved it for two reasons: > - to make it easier for possible con

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

Hi, On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:41 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > My usual response to worries about privacy is "You *wish* you were > important enough that anyone could be *bothered* to pay that sort of > attention to you. You aren't and they don't." http://www.osnews.com/story/27101/NSA_collects_phon

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

looks like it is part of your inbox list > but its a sponsered ad. I would recommend switching to other providers, I > wouldn't recommend gmail as google scans your messages too. > Http://digitalatoll.com offers email that is private and secure but is not > free. > > -C

[Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

Hi, On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:21 PM, James Collins wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic) Just for the record, here's "yet another" poor Yahoo! sap who's been compromised by spammers. Sad, but oh well, what can you do? (Change your password or use a different provider, I guess.

Re: [Freedos-user] Newbie - Net Use

Hi, On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Ezequiel Montoya wrote: > > Hello all, I'm really new in FreeDOS but I am also old enough to have > started working on MS-DOS 2.1 :-)) > The thing is I want to run my old Turbo Pascal programs. So I configured a > VirtualBox FreeDOS virtual Machine (my PC ha

Re: [Freedos-user] Terminus font (8x16 normal)

Hi again, On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ > http://czyborra.com/unifont/ > > So I uploaded this (terminus.f16, terminus.asm, ofl.txt "open font > license 1.1") to iBiblio for us. > > http://ftp.ibiblio.or

Re: [Freedos-user] Atomiks - retro remake of Atomix

Hi again, On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:40 AM, dos386 wrote: > > * * reduce the WAV's from 44.1 KHz and 16 bit to 22.05 KHz and 8 bit > (loss will be inaudible) > * * use a smaller MOD library BTW, not sure if you knew, but the original 1.0 release of his port didn't have any sound support. This

Re: [Freedos-user] Atomiks - retro remake of Atomix

Hi, On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:08 AM, dos386 wrote: > >> > * * include some simple Deflate decompress code and drop ZLIB >> How big is zlib? > > 100 KiB (RTFB) I have several zlib .DLLs on my system. Largest is here, 100 kb, while smallest is 55 kb. So it varies. Though, quite honestly, if all t

Re: [Freedos-user] Atomiks - retro remake of Atomix

Hi, On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:04 PM, dos386 wrote: > >> It does not run on DOS >> only Linux & Windows (and should build on any modern >> platform where SDL is available > > Can''t you make it HX compatible ? I'll test ... I already tested. It already works there but needs MSVCRT (e.g. from React

Re: [Freedos-user] Makehtml v0.0.1

Hi, On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > On 5/25/2013 1:45 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> GPL, so patches welcome! :-) > > Patch what? This code is so tragically flawed and devoid of purpose > that there is nothing worth patching. In case it wasn't obvi

Re: [Freedos-user] Makehtml v0.0.1

Hi, On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > > I am not one to find fault with other people's work for the joy of > finding fault, but I am having a hard time seeing how this code is > useful or relevant: GPL, so patches welcome! :-) > - The headers that it is putting at t

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