Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

, and the lack of modern apps is very limiting. If it were cheap, I would use it for nostalgia, but it's not -- it's priced like the 1990s as well. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro

[Freedos-user] A new (?) DOS web browser

ay be truncated if there is not enough RAM available Mouse cursor is currently not visible in Hercules mode » -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~

Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code

transition away from 32-bit OSes, Microsoft made sure that the ability is turned off in 32-bit Windows. It's there in the hardware, but 32-bit XP/Vista/7/8.x/10 can't use it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail

Re: [Freedos-user] installing FD13RC5 and FD12 in virtmanager

le, no more. As for the rest, I don't know. I have never tried DOS under VMM. What drive letter is your boot media appearing as? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven

Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code

the current version, or even the previous version if you want some XUL addons. https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/releases/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven

Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code

. The all-company server changed 3 times in 4 years. > I already planned to switch, but it just didn't happen for now, because > I did a lot of tweaking in TB2. You can just load an old profile into a new version and that's it. If you use extensions, then pick an old enough vers

Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code

ething dangerous that's risky to your computer and your data, the same as I would to anyone I saw behaving dangerously if I thought that they might not realise. I was trying to be helpful. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro..

Re: [Freedos-user] BM cannot boot FD 1.2

, and TBH I would not expect it to work well on modern kit. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 70

Re: [Freedos-user] Speaking at FOSDEM'22 about DOS spreadsheets

commercial flop, but an important design all the same. I have a new job and was too busy to prepare a talk. :-( -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ C

Re: [Freedos-user] Quake2 for FreeDOS

technically is source-available not open-source. But, I’m no lawyer. The original: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-2 -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44)

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-pico/specifications/ 133MHz CPU, 264 kB of RAM. This is lower than a mid-1990s specification. It is not and never will be a general-purpose computer. TL;DR – Travis' statement is not true in any way for the generally-available mass-market Pis. -

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot winth Windows 98

ttle, and some other things I've thrown at it -- OS/2 2/3/4, NT up to about XP, and so on. I think I even had DOS and Win9x side by side using it. I think it predates Vista and BCD boot so it might struggle with that. It's my personal favourite, but System Commander was also very c

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot winth Windows 98

extended partition, with some logical drives in it, which will be visible to both. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signa

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot winth Windows 98

s I have available in the DOS I'm using to do that (usually > SUBST or SWSUBST, but e.g. in DOSBox I need to use MOUNT). I have the > programs and batch files set up to assume S: instead of C: for the default > drive. > > That's probably too complicated of a setup for most

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot winth Windows 98

u're not meant to do this; it wasn't in the DOS design. Additional primaries were for non-DOS OSes with formats that DOS can't read: back then, Netware, Xenix, etc. It may work in later versions, but I advise against totally relying on it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about

[Freedos-user] FAT32 disk formatter

I thought this post had some interesting info... http://ridgecrop.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech

[Freedos-user] 1.3 on VBox

network client to put on top of it? And can anyone point me to any instructions for installing under DOSemu on a Linux box? I can't find anything, and the automatic FreeFOS 1.2 installer doesn't even work any more... :-( -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email:

Re: [Freedos-user] 286 Installation on CF Card

6, just out of interest? Considered putting a cheap USB floppy drive onto your Win10 machine? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Teleg

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

not there to work yet. > Any help much appreciated! It sounds to me like you are way out of your depth, technically speaking. Start with the basics: why are you doing this? What do you hope to achieve? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

ndows/16.0/com.vmware.player.win.using.doc/GUID-896E61F5-0865-4D3B-975E-DE476AFC7168.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

eady have it, presumably licensed. > Shame FreeDOS does not let you specify a different username in the net use > command. NET USE is not part of FreeDOS. It's part of the MS LAN Client for DOS. The client does let you log in and out, and the username can be changed... but I hav

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

n what you're recommending. I am not saying there isn't. I am saying that there are easier ways than a tool you happen to know well and be familiar with. I am not telling you you're wrong or anything, just suggesting something to make life easier. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://abo

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

FreeDOS in a VM, IMHO. I know that you can attach a USB device directly to a VirtualBox VM and a VMWare VM, so that the dongle would be visible to the copy of Windows inside the VM and therefore ought to active your app. I presume this is also possible with Hyper-V but I have not tried it. -- Liam

Re: [Freedos-user] Will freedos running in a Virtual box VM recognise a host attached USB security dongle?

higher need the extension pack. Only USB 1 can be used for free. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

sb support which we > need. I'll see if I can keep this ancient program running for another year or > two! I suspect it's already out of support. XP itself is, VirtualPC is, and Win7 is on special paid-for emergency patches only. But then again, FreeDOS is out of support, because it

Re: [Freedos-user] error-message with the find command

PATH line in autoexec.bat and remove it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420)

Re: [Freedos-user] how to get dosemu working under ubuntu installed in wsl

On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 05:15, Travis Siegel wrote: > > Ok, odd question, (lots of emulation), but I've got ubuntu 20.04 running > under win10, using wsl. WSL1 or WSL2? Might work on WSL2. Might not on WSL1 because there is no actual Linux kernel present. -- Liam Proven ~

Re: [Freedos-user] how to get dosemu working under ubuntu installed in wsl

ferent beast and I don't see how a hypervisor -- any hypervisor -- can replace it? How can a DOS VM do any of the things I just suggested? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: l

Re: [Freedos-user] GNU Cobol in the FreeDOS ...

act. 2 questions. [1] You are running a real separate DOS inside DOSBOX (or DOSBOX-X). These products come with their own built-in DOS. Why use your own? I am just curious. [2] Is there a version of GNU COBOL for DOS? I can't find any mention of this on Google. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile:

Re: [Freedos-user] how to get dosemu working under ubuntu installed in wsl

is a virtual PC with a virtual HD and inside that a FAT filesystem. My Linux apps can't see into it. My DOS apps can't see Linux files. Whether it's in a window or not doesn't matter. That's just cosmetics. I'm not starting an argument, I am just trying to understan

Re: [Freedos-user] how to get dosemu working under ubuntu installed in wsl

full native execution speed. I don't want or need the weight of an emulator or soundcard support or anything. It was just a way to work with my old DOS apps on a modern computer as part of my modern OS. These workarounds all sound more complex and more fiddly to me... or is it just me? -- Li

Re: [Freedos-user] how to get dosemu working under ubuntu installed in wsl

ome sound support: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/linux.html#sound « Dosemu2 emulates a Sound Blaster Pro card » There's some possible OPL3 AdLib-type support: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=76767 Does that help? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email:

Re: [Freedos-user] GNU Cobol in the FreeDOS ...

ps://useplaintext.email/ It's also better for people using accessibility tools, smaller devices, takes less space, helps prevent email-borne viruses, and aids quoting and conversations. I *highly* recommend it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.

Re: [Freedos-user] how to get dosemu working under ubuntu installed in wsl

nted to a way to do it in QEMU, and Robert > pointed to vvfat in Bochs. Interesting workarounds, but I'm still interested in getting the original, simpler tool working, so I don't need any virtual disk drives or anything. Is that a strange thing to want? It doesn't feel like

Re: [Freedos-user] how to get dosemu working under ubuntu installed in wsl

t tools for different jobs if there is a particular tool that is better for a particular job. In this instance, one is. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939

Re: [Freedos-user] how to get dosemu working under ubuntu installed in wsl

what I use. These days, I use QEMU and > VirtualBox. Well, AFAICS, because it was easier, smaller, faster, and offered better integration with the host OS. Aren't those reason enough? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@

Re: [Freedos-user] how to get dosemu working under ubuntu installed in wsl

On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 23:27, Travis Siegel wrote: > How does one tell which version of WSL is in use? https://pureinfotech.com/check-wsl-version-windows-10/ The command: wsl -l -v ... should tell you. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gM

Re: [Freedos-user] GNU Cobol in the FreeDOS ...

ywhere-apparently-also-means-windows-311-and-dos https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/SeeSharpSnake A Snake game in _8 kB_ of .NET code. But using custom libraries and disabling a lot of functionality. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk

Re: [Freedos-user] GNU Cobol in the FreeDOS ...

Cobol on DOS_ (which will be hard, and a lot of work)... Or do you want to develop in GNU Cobol and _run the program that comes out on DOS_? That will be easier to do. These are *very* different goals! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/F

Re: [Freedos-user] GNU Cobol in the FreeDOS ...

as described above can be found here: http://www-ftp.lip6.fr/pub/pc/garbo/pc/programming/ I hope this helps. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czec

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

f you like the WordPerfect keystrokes and UI (which personally I do not) then the WordPerfect Editor is freeware. It does only plain text but it's even lighter and quicker than the full app. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Productivity.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/li

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

#x27; bridged networking functionality. Connectix' VirtualPC used to offer DOS guest additions, but it only works on VirtualPC. VPC is freeware now, but only supports up to Win7 (with a hack to run on Win8). I don't think VMware has DOS guest additions. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: http

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared folders in VirtualBox

ong, VMware does not, *but* there is a way round it? Very useful info. Thank you! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Sig

[Freedos-user] "The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option"

x27;s not just a computer with a formatted hard disk and FreeDOS on it. It's considerably more complicated than that... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7

Re: [Freedos-user] virt-install freedos

ut it doesn't use the core QEMU emulator for running x86 OSes on x86. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 79

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13 floppy installation attempts

lop is tiny: a few tens of kilobytes. Put it on a floppy, boot the PC from the floppy, and then Plop will boot a CD for you. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK:

Re: [Freedos-user] Assembly Language and BASIC

riants that had some adoption, including Modula-2+, Modula-3,Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal, Delphi, Kylix and FreePascal. All legit, all sold and were widely-used at some points in time. You can't say that there are too many Pascal variants unless you also say that there are too many C vari

Re: [Freedos-user] New mTCP available

the project when I emigrated -- Red Hat was going to ship it to Canada from the UK for me. De Raadt changed his mind when he learned it wasn't the fastest model, and Red Hat Farnborough lost the machine. 😡 Anyway, making new SSH keys on a VAX took as much as a couple of *days* in some ins

[Freedos-user] CP/M "and derivatives" legal status clarified

ext best thing and I suspect as good as we will ever get. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]

Re: [Freedos-user] CP/M "and derivatives" legal status clarified

WIP release) and then shut down. Then Lineo found some Novell backups and re-incorporated them and published bug fix releases. This was the basis of the 7.02 and 7.03 releases, I believe. > Am I barking up the wrong tree, or is this just me misremembering things? I think you are, I'm afrai

Re: [Freedos-user] CP/M "and derivatives" legal status clarified

ter version of PL/I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/M Some parts were hand-coded in assembly. CP/M-68K was originally written in Pascal. Later on, around the Concurrent CP/M-86 era, the OS was rewritten in C, as was CP/M-68K I think. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven

[Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

n German when I pick English. Several others are under restrictive licences. Even OpenGEM can't draw windows, under Virtualbox or on bare metal, and its complicated batch-file setup system doesn't work and throws errors. Is there anything dead simple that isn't broken and is total

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

t it. It often seems to me nobody else knows what outliners are for or how to use them. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

e 1980s and I still don't, TBH. I am happy enough at the command line. It's one of the often-included-with-Linux tools I am baffled about. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

her (DBGL), though I am fairly sure he'd be happy to provide > anyone with the resources to his old copies - if not already on GIThub etc. Not seen that, but I don't use DOSbox and I don't run games, so I suppose I wouldn't. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamp

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

night Commander, it's a file manager, not an app launcher, isn't it? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Teleg

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 at 15:20, Dave Stevens via Freedos-user wrote: > > why not stuff the app launcher files into the default folder and point and > click there? What app launcher files? What default folder? Point and click with what -- there's no mouse interface by default? -

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

adequate. He doesn't say what folder it is *meant* to be in. It does not work installed in \OPENGEM or \GEM so it is not either of those. I am trying to work out what, but I don't know what config file to look in. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro..

[Freedos-user] PGME [was: DOSshell replacement]

DOS Shell" app, but it seems to have only 1 app in its list and no way to add more. It seems not to be a functional app, just a demo of the programming library. I suggest removing it as it does nothing useful. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 at 18:28, Travis Siegel wrote: > > For what it's worth, the best dos menuing system I ever found was called > Mark's Menu. Sounds promising. I may have found a copy. I will give it a try. Thank you! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/lia

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

categorised list of installed programs, with descriptions. Failing that, a point-and-click GUI that lets users navigate directories and start DOS apps without typing. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Linked

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

ng for a simple app launcher. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]:

[Freedos-user] More on OpenGEM

's the best way. Do it on Github? Send a PR, or just fork the project and do my own? Any comments or preferences? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44)

Re: [Freedos-user] More on OpenGEM

have a test install of that on DR-DOS 7.01-08 here. ViewMax can use the TaskMax multitasking that is built into DR-DOS. FreeDOS has nothing like that yet, AFAIK, and also AFAIK TaskMax won't work on any other OS. I suppose I could use ViewMax instead of full GEM, though, if it's jus

Re: [Freedos-user] More on OpenGEM

can't get QEMM386 to run on any modern hardware. This makes me very sad. Also, I tried 386Max as that is now GPL, as discussed on this list. Like QEMM, it runs fine in a VM -- but for me, 386Max locks the machine hard (hold-down-power-switch level) on the bare metal on the 3 machines I've

Re: [Freedos-user] dosbox-x update available

oo, so that those > who use Windows XP (or higher) can enjoy it as well. (Please, if you can, bottom post on mailing lists. It makes threads *much* easier to follow.) I am puzzled: I mean, XP can run DOS programs directly, without assistance, can't it? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSshell replacement

s://www.ctyme.com/download/real/ > > https://eideard.com/2018/08/27/remembering-marc-perkel/ > > > > Cheers, > > Robert > > > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.

Re: [Freedos-user] dosbox-x update available

quot;clear" at all. It's part of the hardware design and MS has little influence over that. Remember, x86-64 is not even an Intel design: it is from AMD. Win64 drops 16-bit support. DOS is a 16-bit OS. It went along with 16-bit Windows support, no more and no less. -- Liam Proven ~ P

Re: [Freedos-user] Minor Update to PGME

6.x mouse driver should be detected and usable > now. > > https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/pgme.html > > :-) Oh hurrah! Thank you. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.11 issues about FreeDOS

ment Project or possibly IBM PC-DOS 7.1. I have download links for both on my blog, but I've been accused of spamming in the past so I won't give the links. I think they should be easily Googled and I've shared them on both Reddit and Facebook in the DOS groups. -- Liam Proven ~ Pro

Re: [Freedos-user] Minor Update to PGME

d c:\apps\msword\mouse This works fine in FreeDOS Edit, but PGME detects no mouse. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Te

Re: [Freedos-user] djgpp bash and autoconf for dos, new gcc

Linux and copy the contents? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+42

[Freedos-user] Getting FreeDOS

y equipment. If you're asking about HP kit, ask HP. FreeDOS is nothing to do with HP; HP just puts FreeDOS on some machines to avoid paying Microsoft for Windows licences. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting FreeDOS

stance on top. https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Si

Re: [Freedos-user] keyboard spacecharacter automatically repeated

On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 at 12:24, Thomas Desi wrote: > Anyone any idea why this happens? Might be worth checking for a firmware update. No harm in trying. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lpro

Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 22:38, Walter Vermeir wrote: > > When I write the FreeDOS ISO to the SD-cards or the FreeDOS USB version Write with what? Have you tried USB? If you don't know it, I recommend that you look at and try Ventoy. It makes ISO/IMG file handling much easier. --

Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

with 32MB of RAM? That is before SD existed. It's mostly before USB too -- maybe USB 1 at best. If you want to boot a DOS-era machine from removable mass storage, try the PLOP boot manager. https://www.plop.at/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMa

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

rnal.com/50416.html I've done this with FreeDOS 1.3 and it works very well. You can insert the key and just copy DOS apps and things onto it, then eject it, put it into another PC and boot it, and the new apps are right there. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...

Re: [Freedos-user] Can you recommend a good single-board-computer for legacy OSs?

This recent post talked about the experience of using one: https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/02/28/lattepanda-v1/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK:

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

net/pathworks_DOS/AA-PAF5C-TK_Pathworks_for_DOS_Overview_V4.1_Aug91.pdf You might be able to find a download of that out there somewhere. I think it was free if you owned the PATHWORKS server. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter

Re: [Freedos-user] Concept behind RUFUS

th Ventoy and copy ISO files onto it and it generates a boot menu on the fly and boots DOS or Linux or Windows or whatever for you. Ventoy is great and a huge time saver and it just works, so I don't usually use Rufus any more. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email:

Re: [Freedos-user] Concept behind RUFUS

hat is computing in 2023 for you. :-( It's why I like DOS. ;-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp

Re: [Freedos-user] Concept behind RUFUS

. There's always a tradeoff. Rufus is tiny and doesn't even need to be installed, but it is slow to run: quick download, slow operation. Etcher is huge, but writes fast: slow download, fast operation. There are many others, too: https://www.tecmint.com/linux-bootable-usb-creators/ -

Re: [Freedos-user] Fedora Media Writer (allows to restore USB key to previous state)

r, anything able to boot from USB that I own, has booted from Ventoy... even if some OSes, such as Windows XP and eComStation, will not start from an ISO on a Ventoy drive. > I hesitated to mention yet an other program: Hey, the more the merrier. :-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.

Re: [Freedos-user] Dosemu on its own - does it exist?

stuff stripped out (NetBIOS and IPX/SPX support, RS/232 terminals, etc.) and could be useful to someone somewhere. I tried to contact 3 or 4 vendors of Multiuser DOS mentioned in my article. Most didn't reply. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.

Re: [Freedos-user] Dosemu on its own - does it exist?

complex). True. > Well, except Intel for its Management > Engine. ;-) Ha! Yes. > I was always impressed by Minix and how much they > accomplished, even in the 2.x days. Oh really? I didn't look at 2. > I'm sure there are dozens of improvements we could make to FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Dosemu on its own - does it exist?

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 00:53, wrote: > > The original version of vmm386 was a fantastic dos multitasker, I never heard of that one before! Do you have any more info or links? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gma

Re: [Freedos-user] Dosemu on its own - does it exist?

if I read your multiple emails correctly, you are saying that it got made open source in the end? Is that right? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612:

Re: [Freedos-user] Lure of the Temptress (again)

re isn't a DOS version, the Windows one can work in a DOS extended called HX: https://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=10327 Not tried, I just Googled... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lpro

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

oard layout. EVERY English language PC I ever set up in my >30y career ran some sort of keyboard mapping tool to get my native English language, the language of England, you know, us, the people who invented it, supported and working. keyb uk 437 c:\dos\keyboard.sys -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: ht

Re: [Freedos-user] Print server

to such a printer. MS's workgroup client would do that just fine and it's freeware. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750214.aspx http://www.computing.net/answers/dos/microsoft-network-client-30/7487.html Connecting directly, though? I can't think of a way off the top

Re: [Freedos-user] Determining partition types (NTFS, etc)

e structure, BCD, is a closed binary format which must be edited with special tools, such as EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 This is a complete pain. Also, Vista & Win7 automatically rename their boot partition as C: when they boot, regardless of where it is in the partition sequence, wh

Re: [Freedos-user] Determining partition types (NTFS, etc)

that emulates an 8086 CPU, at least, and preferably an 80386 or better. Examples include BOCHS or QEMU, although QEMU would be more complicated as it emulates many different computers as well as PC-compatibles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochs -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.c

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

to > recover the screen after closing a MSDOS session screen...) Identify what graphics card VBox is emulating & look for a Windows 3 driver for it. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +4

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Wednesday 07 April 2010 18:09 (CEST), Liam Proven wrote: >> Identify what graphics card VBox is emulating & look for a Windows 3 >> driver for it. > > Not that easy :) > VirtualBox is emulating a "VirtualB

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2's HPFS, and was generally a pleasure to work with. You could run Netscape 4 32-bit on it, too, for a pretty good Internet & Web experience - for 1995. But of course it doesn't run on DOS. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GM

Re: [Freedos-user] more about screen readers

Windows solution is far preferable and does an awful lot more, but it costs £1500 or so in software to achieve what Ubuntu does for free. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • C

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Sol-Terrasa mkfs ext4 da' Sussex wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 14:22 +0100, Liam Proven wrote > >> > Windows 3.1x for high resolution displays i.e. beyond 1280x1024 with 16 >> > million colours. Sadly I've had to abandon it due

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Sol-Terrasa mkfs ext4 da' Sussex wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 13:46 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > >> > *sigh* I'd forgotten about that 64k limitation. :( >> >> There is a /reason/ why people dropped Windows 3 like a hot potato

[Freedos-user] A fantasy of a future for FreeDOS

atch – there is Free code out there that could be used, or at least studied. It would be a bootstrapping process, as once the system got to a level where Linux tools could be cross-compiled, there is tons of suitable Free software available: lightweight window managers, editors, Internet tools and

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