Re: [Freedos-user] Chkdsk

2020-08-17 Thread jamie marchant
You must put a ":" when specifying a drive. On 8/17/20 10:53 AM, jamie marchant wrote: Hi  I am trying to fix some error on my disk with the FreeDos "check disk"(chkdsk) and gives the "Error accessing the volume", this is with the "/F" flag and

[Freedos-user] Chkdsk

2020-08-17 Thread jamie marchant
Hi  I am trying to fix some error on my disk with the FreeDos "check disk"(chkdsk) and gives the "Error accessing the volume", this is with the "/F" flag and booted through MS-DOS. Why might I have this error? Did you want to see a photo of the output ab

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

2019-12-15 Thread jamie marchant
o disk, but also disk to image and vice-versa. Does DISKCOPY makes an ISO or just an image? ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- -Jamie Marchant

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

2019-12-11 Thread jamie marchant
Hi:  Does anyone know any software to share my Desktop's ​5 1⁄4-inch floppy drive with my laptop over a null modem cable? I have a lot of 5 1/4-inch disks which I don't feel like copying onto something else. -- -Jamie Marchant ___ Freedos-user

[Freedos-user] FreeDos on USB mounted compact flash card

2019-07-31 Thread jamie marchant
Hi:  I used Refus to put FreeDos on a USB mounted compact flash card, it looks like it's going to boot but then it boots Grub off my hard disk instead, any idea why? This is a modern computer(but old enough that it uses a BIOS). -- -Jamie Marchant

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

2018-10-05 Thread jamie marchant
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Re: [Freedos-user] Memmaker(sidenote)

2018-08-03 Thread jamie marchant
Oh cool, thanks! On 08/03/2018 03:30 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 1:29 PM jamie marchant mailto:jamie.march...@sympatico.ca>> wrote: Oh I played with HXRT and most of the command line programs I tried it with did not work. Most of them need Vistual Studio ru

Re: [Freedos-user] Memmaker(sidenote)

2018-08-03 Thread jamie marchant
Oh I played with HXRT and most of the command line programs I tried it with did not work. Most of them need Vistual Studio run time or some other Windows library. On 08/03/2018 10:53 AM, jamie marchant wrote: Oh it would nice to not have to use a menu and just have the memory conflagration

Re: [Freedos-user] Memmaker

2018-08-03 Thread jamie marchant
Oh it would nice to not have to use a menu and just have the memory conflagration that works for me for most cases. I can comment things out or boot with "F8" to disable things if I don't want them. On 08/03/2018 10:33 AM, jamie marchant wrote: Put some answers inline. On 08/03/201

Re: [Freedos-user] Memmaker

2018-08-03 Thread jamie marchant
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Re: [Freedos-user] Memmaker

2018-08-02 Thread jamie marchant
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Re: [Freedos-user] Memmacker

2018-08-02 Thread jamie marchant
On 08/02/2018 11:00 AM, jamie marchant wrote: I was looking for an easy way to turn EMS off and ON. I guess that was what the menu was for.(got rid of it without thinking about that). I also don't seem to have much low level memory even if I don't load many drivers. Here is "usage.txt&qu

[Freedos-user] Memmacker

2018-08-01 Thread jamie marchant
Hi:  Does FreeDos have a memory wizard like MemMacker? Does anyone know of one? -- -Jamie Marchant -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http

Re: [Freedos-user] 86box and FreeDOS 1.3

2018-07-18 Thread jamie marchant
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Re: [Freedos-user] 86box and FreeDOS 1.3

2018-07-18 Thread jamie marchant
I meant to send this to the group chat, please reply there. On 07/18/2018 03:56 PM, jamie marchant wrote: There is a floppy image here: http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip, this link is found at http://www.freedos.org/download/. That image should work with most VMs. On 07

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: 86box and FreeDOS 1.3

2018-07-18 Thread jamie marchant
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Re: [Freedos-user] 86box and FreeDOS 1.3

2018-07-18 Thread jamie marchant
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Re: [Freedos-user] XMODEM-compatible terminal software

2018-06-29 Thread jamie marchant
in to the public domain long after you're dead. A number of good terminal programs can be found here: http://www.retroarchive.org/garbo/pc/termprog/index.html g. -- -Jamie Marchant -- Check out the vibrant tech community

Re: [Freedos-user] usb stick for bios upgrade

2018-04-08 Thread jamie marchant
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Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on hp computers?

2018-03-20 Thread jamie marchant
What drivers do you need, maybe you can find generic drivers that will work? -- -Jamie Marchant -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: Windows 3.1 in 386 mode / 386enh

2018-02-28 Thread jamie marchant
= actual alloc, DOS 5/6 rounds up to paras. Both 2f.4a0x ALREADY IMPLEMENTED in FreeDOS. (But MEM should have /A flag to *show* HMA usage information...) [Collected 7/2004 by Eric Auer] -----

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-28 Thread jamie marchant
Some people think if you enable 'InDOSPolling=TRUE' in your Sysystem.ini file and then run "Wndows\System\Dosx.exe" it will work but that gives me an error along the lines of "Can't load display.drv". It happens even if I use VGA. Anyone know anything about this? What I said recently:    

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-28 Thread jamie marchant
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Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-28 Thread jamie marchant
in 386 mode Hi, On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:53 PM, jamie marchant <jamie.march...@sympatico.ca> wrote:   I can't seem to get Windows 3.1 to run in 386 mode, is this a limitation for FreeDos? Please don't take this the wrong way. I don't blame you for tinkering!  ;-) But I wonder why you wa

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-28 Thread jamie marchant
and is still very buggy for me in virtual machines. On 02/20/2018 03:10 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:53 PM, jamie marchant <jamie.march...@sympatico.ca> wrote: I can't seem to get Windows 3.1 to run in 386 mode, is this a limitation for FreeDos? Please don'

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-27 Thread jamie marchant
Oopse! meant to send that to everyone. I'm new to the mail list thing. On 02/20/2018 02:56 PM, jamie marchant wrote: I have installed the drivers but this did not help. Still don't know how to disable 32-bit disk on the machine level, but I can disable this in Windows and it makes no difference

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-27 Thread jamie marchant
Hi:  As a temporary work around I got SVGA(800x600 with 256 colors) by patching the bult-in SVGA driver to work on more hardware(unoffically patches are available online). I used the Sound Blaster Pro emulator built into my sound card to load Sound Blaster Pro drivers and use that for

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-23 Thread jamie marchant
I have installed the drivers but this did not help. Still don't know how to disable 32-bit disk on the machine level, but I can disable this in Windows and it makes no difference. -- Check out the vibrant tech

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-21 Thread jamie marchant
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Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-21 Thread jamie marchant
Oh and for some reason dos crashes if I try and run a dos program inside Windows. -- -Jamie Marchant -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-20 Thread jamie marchant
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Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-19 Thread jamie marchant
Hmm maybe I was using the wrong driver. I'll give that a try but now I have to go to bed. On 02/19/2018 09:45 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Here's what you need. http://ps-2.kev009.com/pcpartnerinfo/ctstips/76e6.htm On Monday, February 19, 2018, 6:52:51 PM MST, jamie marchant <jamie.ma

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-19 Thread jamie marchant
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[Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

2018-02-19 Thread jamie marchant
Hi:  I can't seem to get Windows 3.1 to run in 386 mode, is this a limitation for FreeDos? -- -Jamie Marchant -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org