I know that means cylinder / head / sector, but how does that affect boot? How would I solve this? Do I need to reinstall freedos?

Intel AL440LX But I know it can boot from sd cards without issue, as I can boot my Win 98 install.

Fresh install of freedos to sd card via ide to sd card adapter. If I try to boot from the sd card, I get "read error while reading drive". However, if I swap out the sd card with windows 98 install (also on sd card) it boots without issue. Also if I boot from the freedos install cd and then choose " …

Hmm...ok I copied smartdrv.exe from my windows install over to my freedos install and invoke with just: smartdrv.exe, but it doesn't seem to have an effect. What sort of parameters should I be using here? Thank you!

I have a very generic wireless usb mouse. (One small modern convenience for my retro system, haha) Fresh install of freedos, I can confirm that the USBDOS package is installed, when freedos boots I see a message from cutemouse saying "device not found", and in Duke3d the mouse is not detected. …

Ahhh thank you!! That explains that!

I recently got a retro gaming system set up, Pentium II 266, 128 mb ram, geforce 2, sd card to ide, freedos. However, after trying Duke3d, it seems like something is wrong. I'm getting a good framerate, anywhere from 80-150 fps depending on what's on screen, but the game feels sluggish. Input feels …

I know that dosbox running in debug mode can log instructions executed to a file, but I was wondering if it could dump the entire exe loaded in memory to an assembly file. I know that dos programs will sometimes compress themselves, so having something like this I think would be useful. By tracing …