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2011-08-03 Removal of Arrow Assembler We have recently learned of a problem with the Arrow Assembler, that prevents us from distributing it or including it in FreeDOS. Luchezar Georgiev (Lucho) identified the following: The code of ArrowAsm 1.00D and [...]
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2011-06-22 UEFI information Jim Michaels wrote: Adopter membership in UEFI is complimentary , it does not cost $2500/year as I had thought before. This means that FreeDOS could have support for UEFI. (Join UEFI) What is UEFI? [...]
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2008-09-22 Sound programming in DOS Michael Reichenbach wrote: I've created based on the original contents in drdos.org wiki, the discussions here on the mailing list and some of my own researches an article about sound programming DOS. It's purpose [...]
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This page has been removed. The original is at http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Compatibility [...]
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Cisco WiFi support for DOS 2008-07-22 Roberto wrote: i've found this intersting info regarding drivers, hardware and more for running wi fi apps on plain DOS: www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_tech_note09186a00801beda4.shtml www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/wlan_adapter/350_cb20a/user/ms-dos/configuration/guide/dosinst.pdf www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/aironet-utils-dos DOS drivers for Cisco Aironet 350 series PCMCIA, PCI or [...]
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2008-07-10 Arachne HTML support This document describes the HTML support found in the Arachne WWW browser HTML tags Tag Same as Options A removable, href, name ARACHNE msg, raw, nocache, target, print AREA B EM, STRONG BASE href [...]
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How to use NLS / COUNTRY settings 2008-03-09 This is taken from a 2004-06-04 posting in the now closed bugzilla item 1236, as the posting basically solves the "bug"... Note that we do COUNTRY.SYS support now, but [...]
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This has been moved to the FreeDOS Wiki ( Package ) [...]
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This has been moved to the FreeDOS Wiki ( Fdupdate ) [...]
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(e)speak for DOS 2007-08-27 Dietmar Segbert writes with this tip: Hello, I have compiled the espeak tts system with djgpp. thanks to Eric and Jonathan (author of espeak). To compile espeak you must do the following: Download the latest [...]
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PXE booting FreeDOS 2007-08-27 A user emailed me to ask (in short) how to boot FreeDOS using PXE? The target PC only has a network card and memory ... no hard drive, no floppy, no USB, no CD-ROM. Has [...]
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freeware NetRun, NetSend & NetPic utilities 2007-05-14 MyWorkAccount writes: Hi all! I'm found these utilities: Description on this ( http://www.pa-spaug.org/News97/1997archive.htm ) by Jim Tucker: jtucker@byron.apana.org.au has written three DOS programs which enable binary files to be emailed in ASCII [...]
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Installing Windows98 from FreeDOS 2007-05-11 Every so often, someone will ask about using FreeDOS to install Windows95 or Windows98. So we should have a technote on that. Bernd provides this advice: SETUP /NM /IS ( N o M achine [...]
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Dual-boot "Real" DOS on Windows XP 2005-07-24 Mark Bailey had documented a way to dual-boot FreeDOS with Windows XP, without having to re-install Windows. You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot with Windows XP [...]
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Installing FreeDOS Worst Case Scenario 6/23/2005 Eric Twose writes with this advice: If you have a boot disk and a FreeDOS installation CD ** , but: can't access the CD on the local machine, get XMSSwap "no memdisk found" [...]
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FreeCom and 4DOS descript.ion files Jeremy Davis writes: I actually had a few free minutes today so I implemented the requested feature for bug#1889, have DIR command display descriptions from 4DOS's DESCRIPT.ION files if available. Get from usual place, [...]
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FreeDOS Beta9 errata 9/29/2004 Eric Auer writes: Hi, I started collecting some errata / comments about the FreeDOS beta 9 ISO image and the readme.txt file in the download directory. Unless our fileserver gets confused again, you can find [...]
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FreeDOS and Linux dual boot floppy 9/27/2004 This post on freedos-devel seemed so interesting, I thought I'd share it here. If you have a need to dual-boot FreeDOS and Linux, this is a good solution. (If you run Linux, [...]
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ADSL connection to web - DOS Found on http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/forum/mesg/194.htm Posted by Svend Broholm (80.160.229.106) on October 04, 2003 at 12:56:35 GMT-620: In Reply to: Re: ADSL conecction to web - It's possible on DOS posted by Charles Angelich [...]
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FreeDOS bugs for 1.0 2004-09-11 bootablecd Here is a list of things which should be done before you bring out the version 1.0. I know I should mail this in Bugzilla, but a) I hate Bugzilla because it [...]
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Ensoniq 1370 / SB PCI64 soundcard Originally posted 17 Jun 2004, by Eric Auer: Hi, for your Ensoniq 1370 / SB PCI64 soundcard, you might try those drivers: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/rl/servicesupport/techsupport/boards/Soundcards/PCI64-Q3D/PCI64(238Q).html , http://www.nickles.de/c/a/archiv1-78531.htm http://www.spmicro.com/mp3sidekick/ensoniq.html Normally, you only have to [...]
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Accessing the Internet from FreeDOS 2004-05-31 Eric Auer posted a note to the freedos-devel mailing list about accessing the Internet from FreeDOS. I thought I'd repost it here: I am writing this mail in DOS: How to do this: [...]
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Rebooting from user-space 2004-03-13 On the mailing list, we had a discussion about "safe" rebooting of a PC through the BIOS. First: True that once long time ago it was discussed that the rebooting method of jumping to certain [...]
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2004-03-10 Technical information about hard disks Eric Auer uncovered this store of information about hard disks. Useful for anyone working on a DOS program require low-level access to the hard drive. Hi, a tester reports that FreeDOS FORMAT 0.91o [...]
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2004-03-06 ClamAV patch / DOS binary Eric Auer writes: Hi, Joergen Ibsen (of IbsenSoftware.com / aPack...) was kind and smart enough to write a patch to make ClamAV compile in DJGPP and to do the compiling on his LFN [...]
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2004-02-15 Multimedia under FreeDOS Florian X wrote: My goal was, to view videos and listen to MP3s, CDs and OGGs under DOS. (Seems to work.) I am using 2 Programs: -- MPXPLAY - for listening to CDs, MP3s, AAC [...]
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2004-02-06 PC-Config 9.33 now freeware! / more LBAcache+UDMA tests Eric Auer writes: Hi, forwarding a good hint from Uwe Sieber (UMBPCI guy): http://www.holin.de/ has PC-Config analyzing tool 9.33 now as FREEWARE, in English and German versions. I think it [...]
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2004-2-5 FreeDOS UDMA disk speed and LBAcache benchmarks Eric Auer writes: Hi, I have done some harddisk speed benchmarks on my system. I found UDMA to work well (but it is incompatible to some of the DOS extenders used [...]
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ASUS motherboards and FreeDOS Warning: ASUS motherboards and FreeDOS! ASUS motherboards which contain FreeDOS for their CrashFreeBIOS function sometimes ship with an incomplete FreeDOS installer on the CD-ROM. Do not try to install FreeDOS with it - and be [...]
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12/11/2003 A new MODE for the new DISPLAY is ready Eric Auer writes: Hi, now that the codepage packs for the current DISPLAY version 0.10 are ready, I am happy to announce an update of my MODE version: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ [...]
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12/27/2003 Revised EMM386[64] for download Michael Devore writes: Available via anonymous FTP download at ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads Release of this revision and announcement of same has received approval by Tom Ehlert, maintainer of EMM386. not , however, to be considered [...]
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12/15/2003 New EMM386 with 511M EMS support Michael Devore writes: Offered for anonymous FTP download at ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads Michael Devore's changes are not copyrighted and are released to the public domain. This does not affect copyright on the rest [...]
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2003-12-31 MS-DOS errorlevels Eric Auer points us to a page of MS-DOS errorlevels: See users.cybercity.dk/~bse26236/batutil/help/BATCHSUP.HTM#8.01 This explains the errorlevels of FIND, CHKDSK, CHOICE, DEFRAG, DELTREE, DISKCOMP, DISKCOPY, FC, FIND, FORMAT, KEYB, MSAV, REPLACE, RESTORE, SCANDISK, SETVER, XCOPY. Because [...]
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2003-11-30A Running Windows on FreeDOS Thomas Hirsch Just want to let you know that the current kernel (as found in CVS as per 25.11.2003) is solving a long existent problem/bug. It is now possible to install windows2000 or [...]
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2003-11-15A Installing FreeDOS on WinNT/2000/XP: NTFS resize hints Eric Auer writes: Hi, I think people today often have XP, and XP often defaults to allocate all the disk (except maybe a hidden FAT32 recovery partition) for itself in NTFS. [...]
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2003-08-29 USB support for DOS Arkady writes: The Inquirer publishes article, where noticed Matsushita's driver, which allows to work with external USB disks under DOS. Example of config.sys and autoexec.bat to access external CD-ROM: config.sys autoexec.bat usbaspi.sys and usbcd.sys [...]
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2003-08-29 GRUB for DOS wengierwu writes: Hi! The author of GRUB for DOS has written down the following details about the bugs in FreeDOS Kernel 2030/2031: [...] Important Note: Since FreeDOS build 2030/2031 saved a wrong BIOS interrupt vector [...]
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2003-08-24 FreeDOS and Windows 3.1? This thread comes up from time to time on the FreeDOS mailing list, so I thought I would add it as a technote: The question was: I do hope FreeDOS will run Win3.1 one [...]