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Re: [Freedos-devel] PCI BIOS

2020-10-31 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
urce code of the released VBE/AI drivers (for Adlib, Sound Blaster, Pro Audio Spectrum and Disney Sound Source), and has the rights ro release them as open source? That way, we would start out with a list of already supported sound card and audio devices to ship with FreeDOS. ________

Re: [Freedos-devel] PCI BIOS

2020-10-31 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
rmation on this topic (the VBE/AI standard in general, the source code of the wrapper drivers for other more popular DOS audio driver models, etc), please chime in! ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] 1.3-rc3: should give meaningfull error message on AHCI (SATA) only system

2020-10-31 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
at 4:56 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > If I had: '-M q35' to qemu to enable a SATA only machine, when booting in > live mode 1.3-rc3: > UDVD2: Nothing to use; UDVD2 not loaded. > I hope UDVD return an error code we c

Re: [Freedos-devel] Dreidl game

2020-10-31 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
ter > to support graphics mode. > > If you know the dreidl game, you know this is basically a simulator, so > it's not really a game. More than anything, this is probably a demo about > writing a simple program. You spin the dreidl, and you automatically do > stuff based on t

[Freedos-devel] GEMMIS support in JEMM386 for FD 1.3? (for Win3.1 and Win9x compatibility)

2020-11-15 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
7;t happen often, so it would be nice to have this included with 1.3. Thanks for considering this. ☺ _______ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

[Freedos-devel] Fwd: GEMMIS support in JEMM386 for FD 1.3? (for Win3.1 and Win9x compatibility)

2020-11-15 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
ay be underestimating the level of complexity involved in adding this feature. But FreeDOS releases don't happen often, so it would be nice to have this included with 1.3. Thanks for considering this. ☺ _______ Freedos-devel mailing list Fre

[Freedos-devel] Introduction and Help in OS dev, FreeDOS

2020-12-18 Thread aniketap via Freedos-devel
p the stuff while building something? Also in what way I can contribute to FreeDOS with my existing knowledge? Please let me know. Regards, Aniket Patil Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS runtime library format

2020-12-29 Thread DosWorld via Freedos-devel
) - dynamic loading .obj file. .obj contains all required info. ___________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

[Freedos-devel] Adopting the DIGPAK sound driver sources for inclusion in FreeDOS

2021-02-13 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
ent sound support, but also to preserve this source code for its historic significance. Thank you all for your input on this matter. ☺ ___________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] digipak drivers

2021-02-13 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
, MASM or both as input. Output was NASM or JWASM > as far as I remember. > > Regards, Eric > > PS: Feel free to reply as part of the freedos-devel thread. > > ___________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS as a unikernel?

2021-03-10 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
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[Freedos-devel] VBE/AI SDK released on GitHub, to celebrate the Google vs. Oracle SCOTUS decision 🥳

2021-04-05 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
currently include the "far pascal" keyword that gcc-ia16 doesn't support yet. That's being looked into, though. <https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16/issues/45#issuecomment-812819327> (Help with that is welcome too, of course!) Anyway, I hope this is useful to at least some o

Re: [Freedos-devel] VBE/AI SDK released on GitHub, to celebrate the Google vs. Oracle SCOTUS decision 🥳

2021-04-12 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
other cool stuff that I'm undoubtedly missing here > > Note that the VBE/AI sources currently include the "far pascal" keyword > that gcc-ia16 doesn't support yet. That's being looked into, though. > <https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16/issues/45#issuecomment-812819327> > (Help with that is welcome too, of course!) > > Anyway, I hope this is useful to at least some of you. > > have a great day/evening/night, everyone! 🤗 > > Volkert > ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] video FreeDOS running Windows 3.1

2021-07-24 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
t; other workaround is telling your EMM386 or HIMEM or similar > to not let Windows know how much RAM you really have ;-) > > Cheers, Eric > > > https://youtu.be/35OQjLYdvJ0 > > > For the technical aspect - the changes are minimal to the kernel, > > added support f

Re: [Freedos-devel] video FreeDOS running Windows 3.1

2021-07-24 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
one. Have to check my setup disks. > > I think Windows' 386 mode is pretty heavily tied into undocumented > features of EMM386 when it is active, so it wouldn't surprise me if a free > version of EMM386 made it go down in flames. > > -uso. > > &

[Freedos-devel] JEMM can't completely replace EMM386 (yet). Solutions?

2021-08-08 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
atures) is incorrect? Do any of you know of any such projects that could fit the bill? Thanks. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] JEMM can't completely replace EMM386 (yet). Solutions?

2021-08-08 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
n. > Understandable, but fixing JEMM is easier than writing another EMM386. > It turns out that writing another EMM386 reimplementation from scratch might not be necessary after all. Do you remember this thread from 2012? I see you participated in it as well: https://sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-devel] JEMM can't completely replace EMM386 (yet). Solutions?

2021-08-08 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
ad. On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 9:43 PM Steve Nickolas wrote: > On Sun, 8 Aug 2021, Volkert via Freedos-devel wrote: > > > It turns out that writing another EMM386 reimplementation from scratch > > might not be necessary after all. > > > > Do you remember this thread from

Re: [Freedos-devel] JEMM can't completely replace EMM386 (yet). Solutions?

2021-08-08 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
> become open source? > > I do not know more about it now than in 2012, seems like a not widely > used EMM386 replacement, but if the quality is similar to 386SWAT and > DPMIONE, I would be quite optimistic :-) > > Regards, Eric > > > > _______ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] JEMM can't completely replace EMM386 (yet). Solutions?

2021-08-08 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
uess it would help if someone who he knows well and trusts would be willing to step up to the plate here. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] JEMM can't completely replace EMM386 (yet). Solutions?

2021-08-08 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
arently Japeth's is skeptical of third party patches from unknown > people in general. I guess it would > help if someone who he knows well and trusts would be willing to step up > to the plate here. > > ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

[Freedos-devel] DIGPAK sound drivers now open source under MIT license :) Can anybody help me port these from TASM?

2021-09-23 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
om other more experienced assembly coders here, I believe I can be more successful porting these drivers. Who's up for helping me with this? Your help would be greatly appreciated. :) ___________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https

Re: [Freedos-devel] Any package updates for FreeDOS 1.3?

2022-02-04 Thread shian via Freedos-devel
ase, I wanted to make one final call: Any issues with packages in RC5? Jim ___________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel -- Sent with https://mailfenc

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-17 Thread shian via Freedos-devel
ucture and arrangement is all there. I might make changes to the design (layout and colors, etc) but it's good enough to get feedback now. Jim ___________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/l

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-20 Thread shian via Freedos-devel
a student group yesterday, and shared an email update with the other groups too, and let them know I'm making a minor tweak to content based on freedos-devel feedback. Sounds like the timing is okay for them (they are designing Personas and Use Scenarios now) but I'll need to "lock i

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website redesign

2022-02-24 Thread shian via Freedos-devel
isappeared. I guess that the Firefox developers need to address this problem with Dark system themes - not the FreeDOS developers. Thank you, shian February 24, 2022 12:25:01 AM CET Jim Hall wrote:On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 12:54 PM shian via Freedos-devel wrote: > > "What do you mean

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-06 Thread shian via Freedos-devel
new version announcements here. (This isn't quite what you were referring to, but maybe this will encourage a few other folks to volunteer.) ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.

[Freedos-devel] The 386MAX source code has been released :)

2022-07-01 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
ith WASM or JWASM. Who's up for helping me get this ready for inclusion with FreeDOS? ___________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] The 386MAX source code has been released :)

2022-07-01 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
re the only issues I found in doing a quick review of > Bob's GitHub project. In the meantime, I'll post a news item about it > on the website and tweet about it from our Twitter account. > > > Jim > > > [*1] I just realized that Russel's email gave me permis

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bonus/Devel CD

2022-10-24 Thread tauro via Freedos-devel
/install new software. Tauro ___________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

2023-03-07 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
86MAX). But perhaps if someone creates a pull request for adding GEMMIS support to Jemm, Japheth might be persuaded to merge it. (Although he has expressed skepticism towards that as well.) ___________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

[Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-07 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
ced similar poor file I/O performance under FreeDOS with other DOS software. Thanks. _______ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-07 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
s they do, since it doesn't look like the DOS installer was touched much since the project was forked. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware - was: Goo gle Summer of Code?

2023-03-07 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
cket/14883 > > _______ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-07 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
staller code within the sources. The side of the payloads may (the stuff being installed by the installer) may indeed have changed considerably. _______ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/list

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-08 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
ndings here. An installation time of an hour still seems excessively slow though, even when no disk cache is loaded. What added value does that issue reporting project on GitLab have over this mailing list, by the way? Is it actively used, or is it expected to in the future? Thanks. _____

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

2023-04-07 Thread Volkert via Freedos-devel
ep my attempt to rebuild MAX just for fun as it cannot be > considered reliable for any major OSS project... I left the sources (no > proprietary files included) for this minimal build with the serial code > verification disabled here: https://github.com/rmorette/MAX > > Rodrigo. > &

Re: [Freedos-devel] Happy 29th anniversary to FreeDOS!

2023-07-02 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023, 7:54 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 02:52, Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > > > My main interest is using Freedos+HX as a substitute for Windows 95. > > AFAICS

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK 1.3.8 released

2023-07-24 Thread marcelo.spitteler--- via Freedos-devel
I can translate FDISK to Spanish. Native Spanish speaker, very good English knowledge and working command of German. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 12:56, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: Today I released FDISK 1.3.8 into the wild: https://github.com

Re: [Freedos-devel] Virtual get-together?

2023-07-30 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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? _______ Freedos-devel mailing list Fr

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-30 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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 &g

Re: [Freedos-devel] dosshell and task swapping, was: dir issues

2023-07-31 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] ANSI for DOS

2023-07-31 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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 ca

Re: [Freedos-devel] ANSI for DOS

2023-08-01 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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. >

Re: [Freedos-devel] tree 3.7.2/3.7.1

2023-08-02 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
I will look into it. Jeremy On Wed, Aug 2, 2023, 12:07 PM Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just worked on checking tree 3.7.2 - it is a little bit tricky. The > source code of 3.7.2 seems to be identical with 3.7.

Re: [Freedos-devel] ANSI for DOS

2023-08-02 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-07 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-08-08 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] CD-ROMs was ANSI for DOS

2023-08-08 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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 be

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting FreeDOS kernel without a 386

2023-08-11 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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. _______ Freedos-devel mailing list

Re: [Freedos-devel] Ré : Ré : T2308 invalid partition signature after format

2023-09-20 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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/h

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2310

2023-10-25 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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 previ

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Phishing attack - warning!

2023-11-02 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreePascal near to far pointer conversion

2023-11-08 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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 t

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreePascal near to far pointer conversion

2023-11-08 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] Error compiling FreeDOS Kernel

2023-11-09 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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 com

Re: [Freedos-devel] Error compiling FreeDOS Kernel

2023-11-09 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 3:21 AM Walter Oesch via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > I want to build the FreeDOS Kernel. > I use Dosbox in Ubuntu Linux and watcom comiler from FreeDOS, version 1.9. > > I changed config.b to use watcom and copied to conf

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreePascal near to far pointer conversion

2023-11-11 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreePascal near to far pointer conversion

2023-11-11 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
Hi again, On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 7:56 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: > > > > > I believe int64 was originally from Delphi. (Isn't there also "long > > long" support in OpenWatcom via "-za99“?) > > Yes, Watcom C supports 64-bit integer a

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreePascal near to far pointer conversion

2023-11-12 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] VME broken on Ryzen CPU, autodetection useful?

2023-11-13 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] VME broken on Ryzen CPU, autodetection useful?

2023-11-14 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

[Freedos-devel] Regarding Edlin in Chinese

2023-11-22 Thread thraex via Freedos-devel
Hi all, French and Turkish translation contributor to FreeDOS here. While browsing the archive of freedos-devel, I stumbled upon the thread about Edlin in Chinese and wanted to bring a few pages to your attention. Firstly, you may see that some people are asking for CJK (Chinese, Japanese

Re: [Freedos-devel] Question about USBDOS license

2023-12-02 Thread thraex via Freedos-devel
On 30.11.2023 20:22, Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel wrote: They can voluntarily contribute if they want, but nothing is required. Hi Bret, I would have another question regarding USBDOS' license: what about manufacturers that sell computers with FreeDOS preinstalled to avoid the Wi

Re: [Freedos-devel] Learning DOS assembly programming

2023-12-27 Thread marcelo.spitteler--- via Freedos-devel
A86.  Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 13:49, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: I actually never learned DOS assembly programming, but decided I'd like to start. What assembler do you recommend, and where is a good place to start learning about DOS ass

Re: [Freedos-devel] Is there an open source fmt clone for DOS?

2024-01-24 Thread tauro via Freedos-devel
20:10, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: I'm looking for a way to keep my text files (like README.TXT) tidy and easy to read. One problem is that if I modify a plain text file in a regular text editor, and change the line length in the middle of a paragraph, now I have to fix all the lines a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problem booting FreeDOS on Book8088 PC-XT laptop

2024-02-04 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
On Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 6:32 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > > I'm glad you're bringing this conversation back to freedos-devel .. > > because this is a good place to discuss FreeDOS things. > &g

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problem booting FreeDOS on Book8088 PC-XT laptop

2024-02-04 Thread roytam--- via Freedos-devel
Hello, perditionc--- via Freedos-devel wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 6:32 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel > wrote: >> >> >> Hi Jim, >> >> > I'm glad you're bringing this conversation back to freedos-devel .. >> > because this is

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problem booting FreeDOS on Book8088 PC-XT laptop

2024-02-04 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
On Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 7:39 AM roytam--- via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > perditionc--- via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 6:32 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel < > [email protected]

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problem booting FreeDOS on Book8088 PC-XT laptop

2024-02-04 Thread roytam--- via Freedos-devel
perditionc--- via Freedos-devel wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 7:39 AM roytam--- via Freedos-devel > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> perditionc--- via Freedos-devel wrote: >> > >> > On Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 6:32 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel >&

[Freedos-devel] Tree v3.7.3 Was: Re: Xcopy 1.5

2024-02-17 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 9:09 AM Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Hi Jim, > thanks for your response. Xcopy is not the only thing, maybe you remember > tree 3.72 in this forum? > ... > > tree: do not know the actual situation, I got a promise that someone will >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: lspci (pciutils) for freedos

2024-03-09 Thread roytam--- via Freedos-devel
Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote: > > > Hi! > > LSPCI relies on a rather large list of known PCI ID, > which is why I made PCISLEEP long ago: It just has > a small list of known vendors and types, to keep the > installation small :-) It also experiments with PCI > base

Re: [Freedos-devel] DX-FORTH?

2024-03-22 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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 u

Re: [Freedos-devel] FETCH4FD

2024-03-28 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

[Freedos-devel] Tools for building old FreeDOS EMM386?

2024-04-10 Thread roytam--- via Freedos-devel
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Tools for building old FreeDOS EMM386?

2024-04-11 Thread roytam--- via Freedos-devel
Hello, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Hello, > > > In freedos/files/dos/emm386/emm/2.2/emms226.zip, its makefile shows it > > need to use sy2pack.exe or sy3pack.exe to pack just-compiled > > emm386.exe. > > sy2pack/sy3pack used to be the only com

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOS 4.0 source released as open source under MIT license

2024-04-27 Thread roytam--- via Freedos-devel
Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Thank you ECM for the infos! > > I think my build did not finished normally. > After about 1h build time on my i3-8100, dosbox finished with: > Object Modules [.OBJ]: MAP DMA > Run file [MEM386.EXE]: EMM386.EXE > ... >

Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo

2024-05-23 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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 hav

Re: [Freedos-devel] prog lang. year for watcom compiler/programming book list?

2024-05-23 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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, an

Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo

2024-05-28 Thread thraex via Freedos-devel
On 23.05.2024 13:56, Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel wrote: a) fdtui - a mixture between dosshell and an NC clone - please check it, I am sure you will confirm, (sorry, Berki) [Now that I have seen Jim's mail showing list services are working again, I'm sending my message

Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo just needs packaging

2024-05-28 Thread thraex via Freedos-devel
On 23.05.2024 21:20, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote: Apparently people somehow failed to come to a conclusion which version of ZOO to package under which license in January 2024. Zoo is in the public domain, with no strings attached. Years ago someone from Debain had sent an e-mail to

Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo just needs packaging

2024-05-28 Thread thraex via Freedos-devel
On 23.05.2024 21:29, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: I already incorporated rugxulos changes to my local copy of the ZOO FreeDOS package repository. I will push the changes as soon as I get write access to the repo. This is ZOO version 2.1. Hey, that's really

Re: [Freedos-devel] problems with moving in a long history

2024-06-02 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
On Sun, Jun 2, 2024, 8:05 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > > > but then I realized that since it doesn't know about it, it doesn't > actually get the full line. It does only see the first 127 characters, > > w

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS on Pocket386

2024-06-02 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
On Sun, Jun 2, 2024, 12:25 PM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > Glad you got it working Jim. > > So, for fixing the issue… > > It would be possible to add an additional screen to the installer > (probably only advanced mod

Re: [Freedos-devel] problems with moving in a long history

2024-06-03 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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 > implementation

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS on Pocket386

2024-06-03 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
On Mon, Jun 3, 2024, 6:26 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > from an engineering point of view, I would say LBA avoids > problems related to mismatching CHS geometries on different > computers, so I still prefer

Re: [Freedos-devel] prog lang. year for watcom compiler/programming book list?

2024-06-10 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Four in a Row (was: one more proposal for upload via fdnpkg)

2024-06-10 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS on Pocket386 (follow-up)

2024-06-20 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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 Pocket3

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS on Pocket386 (follow-up)

2024-06-20 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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, m

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Runtime

2024-06-23 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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 versio

Re: [Freedos-devel] New libfp-0.0!

2024-07-01 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
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,

[Freedos-devel] proposal for community development.

2024-07-12 Thread armored--- via Freedos-devel
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[Freedos-devel] development and advertising plan

2024-07-12 Thread armored--- via Freedos-devel
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Re: [Freedos-devel] development and advertising plan

2024-07-13 Thread armored--- via Freedos-devel
To make it profitable, use outdated PCs. -- Reply to message Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:03:47 +0300 From: Eric Auer via Freedos-devel CC: Eric Auer , Hi [email protected] > It's obvious that Freedos is dying. What makes you think so? > I can probably revive it if I take

Re: [Freedos-devel] development and advertising plan

2024-07-13 Thread armored--- via Freedos-devel
2024 01:06:49 +0300 From: Jim Hall via Freedos-devel CC: Jim Hall , First, I'll say that this appears to be either a troll or spam. Opening with "FreeDOS is dying" is a classic troll "opening." And there's a note in there that seems to be a discussion with someo

Re: [Freedos-devel] development and advertising plan

2024-07-13 Thread armored--- via Freedos-devel
I don't understand what made you laugh -- Reply to message Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 09:41:53 +0300 From: Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel CC: Ralf Quint , On 7/12/2024 3:05 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: > First, I'll say that this appears to be either a troll or sp

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