Re: [Freedos-user] Minor performance anomaly / question re DIR command

Hi Eric, I don't think any of this applies in my case. I'm running FreeDOS on real ancient hardware, i.e. 8086 with 640K RAM. For my purposes, to play some ancient games with the grandkids on my old machines, the performance is exactly right. Regards Trevor Trevor Campbell mobile: 04032588

Re: [Freedos-user] Minor performance anomaly / question re DIR command

I put calls to FREESP, (https://github.com/ChartreuseK/FREESP) , in my AUTOEXEC, (FDAUTO.BAT) and that worked well for me. FREESP C FREESP D Trevor On 23/8/24 11:35, Louis Santillan via Freedos-us

Re: [Freedos-user] Error 53 when trying to format 360K diskette

I have track this to these lines in floppy.c ``` /* IF the user gave ANY size indication, we already know which */   /* media_type the user wants, so we check drive capabilities now! */   if (TRUE) /* just limiting variable scope */     {     int drive_number  = param.drive_number;     int pre

[Freedos-user] Error 53 when trying to format 360K diskette

I am trying to format a bunch of old disks but FreeDOS format command always fails with Error 53. The disks are mostly OK and do format if I boot from diskette with MS-DOS 3.1 and use that format or under FreeDOS if I format with XTree Gold. Trevor _

Re: [Freedos-user] Minor performance anomaly / question re DIR command

it in), there's FREESP (https://github.com/ChartreuseK/FREESP). You may want to give that a try. On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 4:11 PM Trevor Campbell via Freedos-user wrote: I have Freedos installed on 8086 hardware using an SD Card with a 1Gb FAT-16 partition. (I have so far been unable to

[Freedos-user] Minor performance anomaly / question re DIR command

I have Freedos installed on 8086 hardware using an SD Card with a 1Gb FAT-16 partition. (I have so far been unable to get a FAT-32 partition to work) After boot the first time I run a `DIR` command e.g. ``` C:\>dir ``` The directory list returns quickly, but the number of bytes free takes

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing for 8086 CPU on SD Card.

Hi Jerome, Just a quick follow up. At first I didn't really fully understand all the discussion about various COMMAND.COM versions, as they all appeared the same. But after reading the install scripts and looking through the various directories, I realised I could (and maybe should) copy the

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing for 8086 CPU on SD Card.

I don't know. I have no experience with FreeDOS before this, but I think the FloppyEdition installs only the 8086 compatible files when you run "setup adv 8086"  and just copies the the wrong kernel by mistake. Trevor On 8/8/24 19:57, Nutilius via Freedos-user wrote: What about freecom? Is it

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing for 8086 CPU on SD Card.

e way, many thanks. Trevor On 7/8/24 17:22, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user wrote: On Aug 7, 2024, at 12:33 AM, Trevor Campbell via Freedos-user wrote: I also tried using the Floppy edition but ended up just the same. The problem is that you are installing into a 386+ machine expecting

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing for 8086 CPU on SD Card.

I also tried using the Floppy edition but ended up just the same. On 7/8/24 13:26, Trevor Campbell wrote: Hi I am trying to resurrect an old Amstrad PC-1512, which is an 8086 machine with 640K mem. The hard drive is no good, but I have installed a XT-IDE SD card adapter which seems to wor

[Freedos-user] Installing for 8086 CPU on SD Card.

Hi I am trying to resurrect an old Amstrad PC-1512, which is an 8086 machine with 640K mem. The hard drive is no good, but I have installed a XT-IDE SD card adapter which seems to work. I have used QEMU to install FreeDOS from FD13LGCY.iso but I can't seem to get a 8086 compatible install.