Hi,
On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM Ronald Hudson via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On the machines I am running, and even in DOSBOX there is a loud beep
> when one hits tab and there are multiple choices. It would be great if
> this could be turned off. It's not so bad on DOSBOX because I just use
> h
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> It's not exactly what you describe, but I bought the Pocket386 when it came
> out. Looks like you can still buy them
>
> It has a 386SX-40 CPU so you get everything that comes with that. It's a bit
> slow, but runs FreeDOS
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > On Feb 8, 2025, at 12:12 AM, Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi! I am still working on font editor Kasmar (WIP version here:
> > http://www.laaca.borec.cz/kasmar_f.zip )
> > And I would like
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 6:25 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Tesing 1.4-RC1
> cd apps
> cd opencp
> (opencp is a multi-format music player)
> cp
> Sorry, this program needs DOS4GW.EXE to run
>
> Been a long time I did not seen DOS4GW extender mentioned...
>
> Do we provide it?
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 5:58 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> The place where functions of the library should be... is in the library...
> not in the program that include the library.
>
> Only prototypes... should be in the program .h files.
> If a function is inline... it's nam
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 12:18 PM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I am sending a GPLed version of the Unix make utility in the hopes that other
> programmers can make it great again! Please send back improvements.
Since there is no binary included, but it relies on the GNU AutoT
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 7:16 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Since this happened Thursday and is still ongoing, I guess it is old news.
>
> But, I only found out today when I needed to (hopefully) go find some on the
> Wayback Machine.
>
> Apparently, the Internet Archive was h
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 7:12 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> As we are revisiting some issues reported, let me add another, rather
> strange one. Some programs crash under non-KVM QEMU, while working on
> all other configurations I tested (real hardware, 86box, DosBox etc.)
>
>
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 1:36 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> It had come to my mind that it could be great, to implement interrupts calls
> in a REXX implementation...
>
> apparently someone did it already:
> https://github.com/vlachoudis/brexx/
>
> You can see some in:
> https
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 10:01 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> It began when I did read:
> https://bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=22023
>
> Anyway, I wrote a small program to convert units ... it is using a bit
> sophisticated stuff... making it sadly probably not usa
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 9:16 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Jim Hall wrote:
> > >
> > > I published an article last week on Both.org about how to convert
> > > WordStar files to HTML.
>
> I've added SAMPLE.WS and a few others in a 'wordstar' folder.
I'm mildly curious about your c
You forgot to include "sample.ws" (or any other test suite).
On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 3:37 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I published an article last week on Both.org about how to convert WordStar
> files to HTML.
>
> Someone asked me if I could share the code from the article in a Git
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 3:28 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> ..I saw "Twilight was a physical collection of illegal software and
> games." So I haven't heard about THF because I don't deal in "illegal
> software and games." (I think this is what used to be called "warez" -
> also men
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 2:51 PM magic-girl--- via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> i'm an autistic girl of 12 years old. I try to convert ancient 16 bit ms-dos
> code to modern C#.
> However there is not even docs anymore about old ms-dos functions and i don't
> have ms-dos specific C knowledge.
T
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 9:39 PM Alexander Walz via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> you will find the DOS version of the latest release of Lua 5.4.7,
> a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language,
> and released around one month ago, at:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 7:44 PM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> The first remaining “missing sources” package is CPIDOS. It is part of BASE
> and is always installed. Basically, it just contains some binary CPX files
> with codepage font’s in them along with some documentation. T
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 11:07 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I've been having sporadic problems today when trying to access Ibiblio
> via the web. I'm not sure if that's my end ("The connection has timed
> out") or their end. For example, I was able to download the T2407 test
> relea
Hi,
(Sorry for being late to this discussion, I'm a bit backlogged.)
On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 7:05 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 4:12 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
> [..]
> > *Runtime*
> >
> > Jim's version is a small C program, 120 lines, using catgets
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> You might be interested in this video I recorded yesterday about
> running FreeDOS on the Pocket386:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h96UseZs6Q
>
> It shows several apps and games on the Pocket386, mostly running some
>
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 6:42 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I wrote a "how-to" article about FreeDOS on the Pocket386 for
> Both.org, but I also copied/pasted this into a wiki article on the
> FreeDOS wiki:
>
> Now that I've reinstalled the Pocket386, my next step is to test every
>
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 6:06 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Looking around on the ibiblio and my server:
>
> There is a version that has a timestamp from 2019 in the ibiblio mirrored
> files
>
> Then later, Jim found it as well in 2019 and mirrored it to ibiblio.
Actually, th
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 5:14 PM Richard Stoltenberg via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Just some notes; updates. People might want to stick to the pdfs if they need
> bigger font.
> LibreOffice may be able to save as html. Got the C Language book from Lulu
> on Monday 3rd June.
I forgot that eve
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 7:33 AM perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> DJGPP is where the cmdline env and extended command line processing is from I
> think, that or 4DOS.
> it's been a while, but it was based on and made to function like existing
> implementations.
I think it was a Wi
Hi,
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 2:02 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> C in general and Open Watcom in particular are good choices for DOS
> programming.
>
> The other free options supporting more recent C versions are GCC as part of
> DJGPP targeting 32-bit DPMI, and,
> despite being
Hi,
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 11:17 AM tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> am Mittwoch, 22. Mai 2024 um 13:14 schrieben Sie:
>
> it seems that no knowledgable person finds zoo interesting enough to fix it.
> and those who care about zoo have no clue.
> I regret that I have to say this.
We had
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> And years ago, we used to include COMPINFO in a previous FreeDOS
> distribution, but I don't remember why we stopped including it. If I had to
> guess, probably it was the same question of "usefulness."
I'd have to double
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 8:19 PM Bruce Axtens via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I stumbled over DX-FORTH this morning which purports to be "... a
> Forth language compiler and development system for MS-DOS and CP/M-80
> operating systems. It is intended to be a complete, easy to use,
> programming
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 9:19 PM Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I think there may be a point where if one's going to run DOS on
> a modern machine, it'll have to be through some degree of emulation.
> Whether that be a KVM/QEMU-on-metal approach, or a 64-bit "DOS" which can
> emul
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 7:44 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
>
> Hi! I just got reminded that (2017 news)
>
> http://www.os2museum.com/wp/vme-broken-on-amd-ryzen/
>
> VME is broken on AMD Ryzen of that time
Ryzen (Zen 1) was brand new in 2017, redesigned from scratch. I doubt
the cur
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 5:46 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On 12.11.2023 02:44, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel wrote:
>
> But I still have not found an elegant solution yet to do a widening
> conversion of an untyped pointer from near to far.
> Should be ra
quot;
* http://cd.textfiles.com/ems/emspro1/ASMUTIL/QMATH0.ZIP
Or how about this (32-bit assembly)?
"Efficient [Unsigned] 64-Bit Integer Arithmetic in 32-Bit Mode (AMD)"
*
http://web.archive.org/web/2020110100*/https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/32math64.txt?attredirects=0
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Hi,
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 4:39 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > Could you please post the exact message you got from the compiler?
>
> For something like this "FarPointer(@Buffer)" I get the following error
> message:
>
> "Error: Illegal type conversion: "Pointer" to "FarPointer
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 2:21 AM Walter Oesch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I want to build the FreeDOS Kernel.
Kernel 2043? Any particular reason to not use the stock build? Did you
modify anything or add any patches? Just curiosity?
> I use Dosbox in Ubuntu Linux and watcom comiler from Free
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 2:21 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> the tests I did showed that FreePascal is perfectly capable of producing
> reasonably small binaries fitting the small memory model, if you do not
> require the full language feature set (stay away from ObjFpc / Delphi
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 1:42 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> has anyone recently played around with the FreePascal 8086 cross
> compiler to generate DOS executables? I try to convert a near pointer to
> a far pointer while working under the small memory model, but that is
> not
Hi,
Gmail caught one with its Spam filter. It doesn't show any prior
emails from this person.
author: [email protected]
subject: Re: [Freedos-user] TASM under an emulator?
link: urdirec.com
On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 11:07 AM Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> ...as did I. Mine wa
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 2:07 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Jim wrote:
> > I want to compile some things using IA-16 GCC in the new Interim Build
> > T2310, but neither the LiveCD or BonusCD have the DJGPP Environment
> > package on it. We had this on previous FreeDOS installs; to co
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 10:21 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Sorry, the address was in octal,
>
> with -Ax to have the address in hexa it feels ok to me:
Most people prefer "hexdump" these days:
* https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/hexdump.1.html
*
https://man.freebsd.org
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 5:28 AM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Sorry for the delay. I've been sick recently (possibly Covid)
> plus had other stuff to deal with.
No fun, get well soon.
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Hi,
On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 9:05 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Just an opinion, but it's bad software design to assume that the presence or
> a peripheral implies
> a certain class of machine. The presence of a CD-ROM should not imply a 386
> or better machine;
> it's orthogon
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 10:46 AM Kirn Gill via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:24 PM Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>>
>> Wikipedia says the 286 "was designed for multi-user systems with
>> multitasking applications". OS/2 1.x targ
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:45 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 17:55, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
> > I believe "task swapping" was one of the main benefits of a 286.
>
> It's not a 286 hardware feature, no.
&g
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 2:29 AM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > FreeDOS should run on 8086, both kernel and shell. If it doesn't,
> > that's a bug or omission.
>
> Are you sure? I thought I was told that the standard
> distribution relied on an 80386.
Jerome's work on the distribu
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 3:24 AM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > However, most people don't care about standards, and even the ones who
> > do don't really think anything "useful" can be written in them. Which
> > is untrue and a shame.
>
> It is only recently - perhaps only a few h
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 8:38 PM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Yes, if you're prepared to add a curses layer, then you can
> support both the standard, plus non-standard things like
> a PC BIOS. But neither fullscreen application that I actually
> used and care about (microemacs an
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 12:19 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> VCPI was a small interface added to things like EMM386 which gave other
> apps access to things they would normally no longer reach after DOS gets
> locked up in a VM86 task by EMM386. While it is nice that it is small,
>
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 11:51 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> For me, when I worked with, supplied and supported DOS in the late
> 1980s and early 1990s, the chronology went like this:
>
> [2] DOS 4 came along. It was a memory hog, but it had big-disk support
> (over 32MB) and DOS
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 11:03 AM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Wasn't a virtual get-together supposed to happen about now? -- Gregory
Maybe Jim is still under the weather?
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Hi,
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 7:08 AM perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2023, 7:54 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>>
>> AFAICS you never explain. What is "HX"?
>
> https://www.japheth.de/HX.html
>
> HX DOS-Extender is a free DOS extender with built-in Win32 PE
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 12:46 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> In 1994, several of us got together around a pretty neat idea.
>
> We liked DOS, but Microsoft was clearly moving completely to Windows. "The
> next version of Windows," they said, "would do away with DOS."
>
> We wanted
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 5:56 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I released FDISK 1.3.7.
>
> I also pushed HTMLHELP 5.3.6 to the unstable branch at gitlab.
>
> It everything goes well both should be included in the next interim build.
Thank you for your work on these.
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Hi,
On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 11:04 AM wrote:
> > On May 22, 2023, at 7:03 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 6:48 PM wrote:
> >>
> >> Let me show you a MEM print out from my Pentium Pro:
> >>
> >> NANSI3,536(3K)
Hi,
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 6:48 PM wrote:
>
> Let me show you a MEM print out from my Pentium Pro:
>
> NANSI3,536(3K) 0(0K) 3,536(3K)
> SHSURDRV 400(0K) 0(0K)400(0K)
> LBACACHE10,576 (10K) 0(0K) 10,
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 4:54 PM wrote:
>
> In, kernel/pcb.h, I see some notes about “offsets must match the assembly
> process”
> and a couple of different layouts for the offsets. Could this be related to
> the issue I am having?
> I am using NASM 2.16.01 and Watcom 1.9.
Someone reported
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 7:10 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> > I believe this is a Free Pascal issue because the short
> > hello world test works, but if you decide to use any
> > objects, the Video unit is completely missing.
I don't do a lot of graphical programming, so I'm unfamiliar with the
"Vid
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 11:46 AM tom ehlert wrote:
>
> and - well I understand that kernel version control is a complete
> mess - but Kernel 0.85a seems a bit unlikely given that
> https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/blob/master/docs/history.txt refers to
> 0.42.
* https://github.com/FDOS/kernel
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:20 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
> >
> > This is something much more serious than a "tradeoff" or a
> > "regression". My new i5 CPU appears to be spending _at least_ 99%
>
Hi again,
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> This is something much more serious than a "tradeoff" or a
> "regression". My new i5 CPU appears to be spending _at least_ 99%
> of its resources NOT processing OpCodes and NOT accessing the
> cache (because there isn't one). A
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 11:16 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I am thinking about using FreePascal to write programs for DOS.
>
> Writing an "hello world" program in FreePascal for 32 bit DOS (Go32) is easy,
> because the fpc package can be installed
> with fdimples from the Li
So you want a TEE utility? Or just to single step through it all (F8)?
Try pressing the Pause key. (Yes, I know that's timing sensitive,
sorry.)
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:30 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> So many messages on boot I cannot scroll back.
> If only the boot process w
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 5:32 AM wrote:
>
> At present, the FreeDOS installed system and installer boot media load FDAPM
> on many hardware configurations and virtual machines.
>
> As most are aware, there has recently discussed issue that the watcom
> installer was taking an excessively lon
Hi,
Just for completeness
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:22 PM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> This is a self-extracting ZIP file. You can try using our
> build of infozip UNZIP to extract it. Maybe the downloaded
> exe uses build settings which are not fast for DOS or which
> expect more than 32 MB RAM. Ma
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 4:26 AM Wilhelm Spiegl wrote:
>
> after several tests I found the reason for this strange behaviour.
> It disappeared when I booted from a virtual diskette without fdconfig /
> fdauto.bat and executed watcom.exe. Same from HD.
> Then I added fdconfig again - it was st
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:29 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> The computer I'm currently using is a few years old, old enough that I can
> boot DOS on the actual hardware.
> The CPU is an Intel i5-4590 running at 3.30 GHz.
*
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/80815/intel-core-i5
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 3:12 PM Volkert via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:35 AM tom ehlert wrote:
>>
>> > Over a month ago, I opened an issue on the FreeDOS project on
>> > GitLab about the Open Watcom v2 installer being extremely slow in
>> > FreeDOS. It takes an hour or
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 8:57 AM Liam Proven wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 14:50, Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> > The problem is, the CPU's _themselves_ really haven't gotten a whole lot
> > faster than they were in the 386 days.
>
> Drastic oversimplification to the point of not being true, ac
Hi again,
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 12:41 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 8:50 AM Bret Johnson wrote:
> >
> > That model sort of illustrates the concept, though. Both Windows and Linux
> > want to manage the _entire_ machine's
> > resources whi
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 5:59 AM wrote:
>
> > On Mar 6, 2023, at 10:19 AM, Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
> > wrote:
> >
> > I noticed edlin32 2.21 is not working because of missing dos4gw.exe, but
> > perhaps that is already obsoleted by the 2.22 release?
A quick fix is copying CWSTUB.E
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 8:50 AM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> That model sort of illustrates the concept, though. Both Windows and Linux
> want to manage the _entire_ machine's
> resources while they are running and one OS must give give up that control to
> let the other OS take over.
> I'm prop
Hi,
Apologies if this is *slightly* off-topic.
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 7:01 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> Let me just say that the computing world would be a VERY different place than
> it is now if Operating Systems
> (and maybe even BIOS's) were re-entrant. For one thing, MS probably never
> wo
Hi again,
I was thinking about this old email and thought I should clarify (in a
technical sense).
(comments below)
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 6:56 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Here's the thing: I've had years of direct experience with Stallman.
>
> He calls DOS a "DOG operating system." The FSF and GNU
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 5:59 PM Aitor Santamaría wrote:
>
> As a matter of curiosity, given that we were unable to find a precise answer
> to why Microsoft dropped IFS after MS-DOS 5.0 (although we had speculations),
> I thought, why not ask ChatGPT (Bing) about that?
>
> I had hoped that t
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 1:07 PM Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> in the last two weeks I ported Free FDISK to Watcom C and started fixing the
> bugs people mentioned
> at the bttr forum and in the issue trackers.
Great news! Thanks a ton for your work on this.
BTW, it seems you
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 5:19 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> As an aside, I'm wondering if anybody has a "fool-proof" test for FAT32
> capability in the kernel. In USBDRIVE
> what I currently do is go through all the drive letters and see if any of
> them responds correctly to INT 21.7302h
> (G
Hi,
I got bored (despite already knowing about this history), so I started
watching Nostalgia Nerd's video on "AARD" (re: Win 3.1 beta atop
DR-DOS) on YouTube.
"Windows’ Hidden Self Destruct Code | Nostalgia Nerd"
* https://youtu.be/TIfNIWn2Ad4?t=753
(comments further below)
On Wed, Feb 22, 20
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM wrote:
>
> So….
>
> There is only an old version with sources. Or, a newer version without
> sources.
We only have 1.1 of P5 mirrored (so far).
I've built 1.4 (pcom.exe, pint.exe) locally but haven't run the test
suite yet. (He changed it so my old GNUmakefi
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 10:22 AM wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 2023, at 3:19 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> [..]
> I’ve not looked into P5 Pascal. It would be nice to have a alternative to FPC
> for DOS.
>
>
> I just took a quick look at P5 at https://sourceforge.net/projects/pascalp5/
>
> I did not
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 7:39 PM Aitor Santamaría wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if the IFS (Installable File System) API is documented
> anywhere?
I have no idea if this link will help you, but I'm mentioning it "just
in case" (because it sounds useful and impressive).
* https://ecsoft2.org/i
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 1:37 PM wrote:
>
> Other possible new packages to consider for inclusion (or at least watch):
>
> 386SWAT - GPLv3, Debugger (may require someone to compile)
> https://github.com/sudleyplace/386SWAT
You mean the old compile isn't sufficient? (IIRC, it was on his websit
Hi again,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 7:31 PM Rugxulo wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 3:58 PM Jim Hall wrote:
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> I haven't checked the new sources (IIRC, it was said to be BASIC ...
> PowerBASIC??). Does it also include ACD kit (or whatever third-party
> lib)?
This relea
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 6:41 PM Ralf Quint wrote:
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> (just for example, DOS maintains
> only one single date for a file, "Time modified", while on NTFS and
> OS/2, you have additionally, "Time created", "Time access" as well.
Some OSes do update "time created" for FAT. (There was a patch fo
Hi again,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 7:31 PM Rugxulo wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 3:58 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> >
> I used to use SJGPlay a lot (back in the day). I loved it. But I
> haven't tried again in many years.
>
> > Could anyone with a CD player an
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 3:58 PM Jim Hall wrote:
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> I wanted to start a new thread for this request. Based on the
> discussion from the "FreeDOS package issues" thread, Jerome identified
> that the CDP package didn't include source code. Robert suggested
> SJGPlay as a replacement.
I used to
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:28 PM Danilo Pecher
wrote:
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> Quite frankly, I would throw them all on the scrap heap.
I wouldn't quite "throw them away", but for simplicity we really don't
have to include them. I don't use any GUI in DOS (by default).
> As Jim said, none of them has any number
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 4:11 PM wrote:
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> Due to some changes at the current registrar I use for my SHIDEL.NET domain,
> my email was broken for the last week or so.
>
> If any of you attempted to contact me or if I missed something that required
> my attention, I would not have received an
Hi,
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 8:58 AM Bret Johnson wrote:
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> FWIW, the one I use is also called TED and is an old utility from PC
> Magazine. The executable is only about 3 kB
> (way smaller than the EDLIN that comes with MS-DOS) and is a VERY basic text
> editor with a TUI
> (it's not a line-or
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 9:08 PM Jerome Shidel wrote:
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> Make sure your compiling to the correct memory model. (I think huge, but
> you’ll need to double check that)
Default is Small, e.g. "-WmSmall". I assume "-WmCompact" would work
better for you?
> You may need to ensure the actual proce
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 3:40 AM Liam Proven wrote:
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> On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 at 19:29, Robert Riebisch wrote:
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> > Just to add: Virtual PC 2004 SP1 and Virtual PC 2007) were/are available
> > as a free download from Microsoft, but didn't/doesn't include any DOS
> > version.
>
> That's true.
>
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 2:11 AM Ladislav Lacina wrote:
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> In the last time I worked a lot with the Freepasval compiler.
> The computer: Pentium 4, SSD PATA disk, 512MB RAM
> The task: Compilation of the full Blocek source ("Build all") - 64603 lines
> of code using FreePascal 3.2.0 (GUI)
>
Hi,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 6:14 AM Eric Auer wrote:
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> I noticed that Jim's TRCH only translates one char at a time,
> do we already have a variant which is as powerful as Linux "TR",
> supporting for example TR 'a-z' 'A-Z' or TR -d '\n' and so on?
DJGPP's TextUtils has TR.EXE (but I'm not fam
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 10:27 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
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> > Although I never truly needed to know what VM
>
> One of the main things that started me down this rabbit trail was the need to
> know which Ethernet card is being virtualized in a particular VM so I can
> load the correct packet dr
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 9:07 PM Bret Johnson wrote:
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> I've been working on some updates to the ISLOADED program I sent to Jim a few
> weeks ago.
> Lately I have been specifically trying to add the detection of different
> Virtual Machines (including VirtualBox)
> to ISLOADED. It turns ou
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 11:04 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
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> > On Oct 2, 2022, at 5:08 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
> > [..]
> > btw dowloading 900 MB .zip over a 4MB/s download link is a PITA; this
> > alone should recommend a split.
(Sorry, I'm horrible at trying to calculate such things, but I tr
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 1:46 PM Jerome Shidel wrote:
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> Although there has not been a lot of feed back on what to do with the
> excessively (nearly 1GB) BonusCD in T2210, I think the majority of feedback
> has been in favor of splitting off the development packages from the BonusCD
> on t
I stumbled upon a link to another cool e-book about C (using the GNU
Free Documentation License 1.3):
"GNU C Language Intro and Reference Manual"
* https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-09/msg5.html
* https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/c-intro-and-ref.git/tree/
"This manual is i
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 1:10 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> I said previously:
> > Please do not try to install the previous packages for now.
> >
> > I have created the files in DEVEL\BIN rather than DEVEL\DJGPP\BIN, etc.
> >
> > Will fix the packages now.
>
> I think it i
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 1:52 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> At first I did:
> fdnpkg install djgpp_gc
> and then tried: gcc , in some directory... was not working
>
> I then "cd c:\devel\djgpp\bin"
> I then "gcc", but then I got a segmentation fault.
>
> I think that after some
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 1:27 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> Following the modification of my idea proposed by Tom: run edit32 on 386+
> else run edit... BTW thanks Tom!
I believe CC386 had a 386+ text editor also using D-Flat.
> I have been looking a bit for a simple program
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 1:45 PM Steve Nickolas wrote:
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> On Fri, 29 Jul 2022, Ralf Quint wrote:
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> > But IIRC, the common way to check for the presence of an ANSI device driver
>> was to check via an INT 2Fh (multiplexer) call (don't recall the exact call
>> value
> > (AX/AH)).
>
> That wo
uff/freedos/files/devel/modula2/m2c/
* https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/DJGPP203.7Z?attredirects=0
* https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/compilers (sources to GCC et al.)
Sorry if the binary .ZIP (m2c.zip) doesn't have proper documentation
(check the source archive, it has the man pages
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