Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Source

2023-12-01 Thread robert roper via Freedos-devel
I just ordered a few, one is called "Undocumented DOS". I found another called RxDOS that sounds like they did something similar with trying to recreate DOS. I really appreciate both of you taking the time to help! Rob On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 11:18 AM tom ehlert via Freedos-devel < freedos-deve

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Source

2023-12-01 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
> Is there a FreeDOS walk thru of the source code that you would consider > helpful to the uninitiated? if you mean the *kernel* source, please say so. > I want to start down the road to more bare > metal coding and would love to be able to help with FreeDOS in the far > future but I'm not s

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Source

2023-11-30 Thread robert roper via Freedos-devel
Thanks so much for your reply! On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 7:51 PM Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I would start a bit more at the meta level and research how kernels > work. There are also many sites dealing with OS development (osdev is >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Source

2023-11-29 Thread Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel
Hi Rob, I would start a bit more at the meta level and research how kernels work. There are also many sites dealing with OS development (osdev is useful search term). It is quite instructive to see the first steps that happen after the machine boots (the boot loader mainly). Once you've really und

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Source

2023-11-29 Thread robert roper via Freedos-devel
Is there a FreeDOS walk thru of the source code that you would consider helpful to the uninitiated? I want to start down the road to more bare metal coding and would love to be able to help with FreeDOS in the far future but I'm not sure where to begin. I do know how to program in C and have just