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Re: Borland "abandonware" gets an implicit stamp of approval

Posted on Today, 00:47

in Milliways
Oh yeah, Borland did give a lot of stuff away on magazine cover CDs! They also once came to our computer club meet in the early '90s with a wall of boxed copies of dBASE IV 1.1 which they gave away for free, I think because version 1.5 had come out (and I think 1.1 was pretty buggy!) or perhaps it …

Re: Help in fighting against startup messages in DOS programs

Posted on Yesterday, 09:11

in Milliways
Some nice suggestions in the last few posts! Also it was interesting to learn about the difference between redirection and CTTY in terms of stderr. I posted the tool I wrote on GitHub, vgaonoff-0.1.zip available from here includes both source and binary. I also included some example batch files that …

Re: PSCSI Disk Emulation success!

Posted on Yesterday, 01:01

in PC Emulation
It would be in FreeBSD 14.1 that is about to come out (3 - 4 weeks I think?) , but you could build your own kernel from git and use it now though! The last patches to make it stable only just landed (https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1190). Oh, fair enough, thanks for the link! I'm a bit …

Re: Borland "abandonware" gets an implicit stamp of approval

Posted on 2024-04-25, 03:27

in Milliways
And it should be noted that Borland had the Museum section on their website already in the 90s, with stuff like Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. Good point! Apparently (according to a post I saw elsewhere) the museum has disappeared now, although the more recent free Delphi 1 and C++ Builder 1 downloads …

Borland "abandonware" gets an implicit stamp of approval

Posted on 2024-04-25, 01:38

in Milliways
Not by moderators here though - so I wouldn't go posting links directly to it - but by the current owners of the intellectual property! Embarcadero are the owners of the development tools/IDEs which the former Borland company sold. Their site at https://delphi.embarcadero.com/, which is currently …

Re: Help in fighting against startup messages in DOS programs

Posted on 2024-04-24, 11:58

in Milliways
While, I was ready to give a go to this approach, I found a tiny program called PAGE that just switched between different pages (yes, they are four). DOS boots on PAGE 0 and before the offending program starts, I switched to PAGE 1 and after it was initialized, I cleared that screen and returned to …

Re: PSCSI Disk Emulation success!

Posted on 2024-04-24, 08:04

in PC Emulation
I've been working on this and with a lot of help from FreeBSD developers most of this should be fixed. In FreeBSD 14.1 (not yet released) this should "just work" with ahc(4). Wow, cool, thanks! Would these fixes be in FreeBSD-14.0-STABLE-i386-20240418* as available at https://download.freebsd.org/ …

Re: How to install MSDOS 6.22 without disks?

Posted on 2024-04-20, 01:41

e0x is available from here: https://kannegieser.net/veit/programm/ Oh, thanks, my stupid font's digits are the same height as lowercase letters, so I had no idea that was a zero between the "e" and the "x" :D If the disks are numbered (eg, disk1.img, disk2.img, etc) you can press F11 to go to the …

Re: How to install MSDOS 6.22 without disks?

Posted on 2024-04-17, 06:24

I've used a floppy drive emulator program, e0x, to install DOS 6.22 from disk images living on a network drive. I've got a boot floppy that connects to the network, mounts a network drive, checks the state of C: and if its unpartitioned, unformatted or C:\command.com doesn't exist it mounts MS-DOS …

Re: Help in fighting against startup messages in DOS programs

Posted on 2024-04-17, 03:06

in Milliways
I did a Google search for "dos splash screen" (no quotes) and there were a few interesting matches right here on VOGONS. It looks like there might be some existing solutions, so possibly no coding required. Unfortunately one option apparently uses 3KB of RAM, I'd certainly want to avoid that if I …

Re: Help in fighting against startup messages in DOS programs

Posted on 2024-04-16, 04:10

in Milliways
I assume that if redirecting output to NUL or using CTTY doesn't work, then the program in question isn't using DOS's output routines/interrupt functions, although I could be wrong. Presumably using the BIOS routines would bypass the redirection though. If you don't mind a VGA-specific solution, …

Re: The IBM Game Port, more than just games

Posted on 2024-04-10, 09:50

in Milliways
Hi. Quick update. Found an interesting link. It's about the minimum/maximum range of the X/Y inputs. https://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=21954 Ouch, I hope that person just had a bad game port and handling wrapping around like that isn't something you really have to do - how do you know …

Re: Premade DOS Hard Drive Image

Posted on 2024-04-09, 00:11

in DOS
If you're seriously estimating hours for a three-floppy install, then it sounds to me like something might be off with your setup. Yes, I'm wondering if when OP says they want DOS, they mean DOS plus all the other things you expect to come with DOS like, I don't know, Phil's boot menu, DOOM, and …

Re: Has anyone archived no-CD for old games?

Posted on 2024-04-08, 12:02

in Milliways
Only grab files from approved sources. I wish I knew of a good source for such things. I hope nobody actually replies with a link to one, I don't want to get anyone in trouble! :D Recently confugured my firewall so I have to allow list everything I want to access. What happens when you do a web …

Re: Premade DOS Hard Drive Image

Posted on 2024-04-08, 01:29

in DOS
You are asking for trouble. I was going to post the same thing :D I feel like the "YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" guy from SimCity 2000. The scheme wierd_w proposes where you do the partitioning and format on the target system has worked for me (or at least I'm pretty sure it has). Alternatively, you can …

Re: The IBM Game Port, more than just games

Posted on 2024-04-07, 11:02

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Pierre32 wrote on 2024-04-07, 08:32: I picked this up late last year, but haven't gotten to playing with it yet. It's a gameport oscilloscope interface, sold in kit form back in the day. Wow, nice! I notice JayCar and Dick Smith products that look very similar, were they both just putting their …

Re: The IBM Game Port, more than just games

Posted on 2024-04-07, 06:42

in Milliways
Yeah, that stuff was definitely popular in the DOS days, but if you had Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions, or Windows 3.1, you could install the joystick driver, and then also read the joystick port from Visual Basic, Turbo Pascal for Windows, etc. I can provide more details on Visual Basic if …

Re: The IBM Game Port, more than just games

Posted on 2024-04-04, 07:44

in Milliways
Yeah, that stuff was definitely popular in the DOS days, but if you had Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions, or Windows 3.1, you could install the joystick driver, and then also read the joystick port from Visual Basic, Turbo Pascal for Windows, etc. I can provide more details on Visual Basic if …

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