Re: If in config.sys or some work around for it.

Posted on 2021-03-01, 08:47

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It needs more time to analyze it, its big side step.. It sure is! [*] Bootmenu before MS-DOS with boot menu support, that is MS-DOS 6, i guess? Correct, the manual says: "BOOT.SYS will work with any IBM-compatible computer that uses MS-DOS or PC-DOS versions 2.11 through 6.x. It will also work with …

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Re: If in config.sys or some work around for it.

Posted on 2021-03-01, 02:35

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One thing I want to try is overwriting my config.sys and autoexec.bat with batch scripts from within windows 9x before a restart-in-dos mode. This would make it possible to essentially create a boot disk for each configuration you need, or for what I want to do essentially every dos app/game I want …

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Re: If in config.sys or some work around for it.

Posted on 2021-03-01, 00:31

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Problem with Grub is that i needs Linux, i experiment with some Linux os SS7 and SC370 machine, it could be done, but its annoying and it need lots of place, special partition etc. So solution would be grub4dos or something like that.. i experimented with it, made it working, but as usually for …

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Re: [Offer] FloppyBootWriter - Application to write and read the boot sector (MBR) of floppy disks.

Posted on 2021-02-28, 04:53

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Nice! I'm accustomed to using Linux's dd command for transferring data to/from disk devices, so I wondered if any DOS ports were available that could do this. I would expect to be able to do something like dd if=a: of=bootsect.bin count=1 where if= and of= are the input and output files/devices …

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Re: If in config.sys or some work around for it.

Posted on 2021-02-27, 10:45

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I am not at home right now, but I am pretty sure I have a memory manager suite that can load and unload drivers, etc. from batch files and/or the command prompt. This would essentially leave you with the option to only need the very basics in config.sys and be able to do almost everything through …

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Re: If in config.sys or some work around for it.

Posted on 2021-02-27, 08:48

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I dont thing that user friendliness is ridiculous, submenu means additional user actions.. and im lazy and every unnecessary key press counts even on Core 2 machine is boot already annoyingly slow and there even slower machines, yeah is mainly because of Grub loading (i need it for multiboot) is …

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Re: Automating dos FDISK and FORMAT

Posted on 2021-02-27, 05:01

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But I don't want to execute fdisk if the drive exists but dos reports a media error when I do something with the drive (like a dos dir for instance) I don't understand, are you saying you want to do some kind of check before you run FDISK? In any case I don't know if the commands you're using are " …

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Re: Coding help

Posted on 2021-02-27, 04:29

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Ok, so I think I'm getting the hang of this old school coding. I'm still having some problems using some of the C++ standards in the STLport for the DIgital Mars compiler, such as string and cout (lots of errors about bad header references in the iostream.h file). Did you get these sorted out? And …

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Re: Scripted/Automated Installs for DOS CD-ROM games (e.g. Id's DEICE)

Posted on 2021-02-18, 01:31

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This sounds nice! I've been working on doing something similar for OSes (DOS, Windows 3.1/3.11, Windows 9x/Me) plus their drivers. It's meant trying to find AutoHotkey-alikes, or in the case of Windows 95 RTM, just hacking AutoHotkey itself. I haven't tried automating those particular installers, …

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2019-08-16, 06:52

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If you're willing to emulate a SCSI CD-ROM drive instead of an IDE/ATAPI one, and can live without audio, you can get another PC running FreeBSD to emulate the CD drive from an .ISO file as discussed in this thread (which I should update with new results!). Investigating other options for SCSI …

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Re: PSCSI Disk Emulation success!

Posted on 2019-07-20, 03:37

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The huge number of resets seems to be related to the SCSI HBA I'm using for the initiator, since with different ones I only get 1 or 2, but I don't think that they are actually a problem. I did have some success, and it seems like my problems are related more to what software is running on the …

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Re: PSCSI Disk Emulation success!

Posted on 2019-06-18, 10:37

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I noticed in /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES (if I recall the path correctly) that there is a setting to make something (CAM? the target layer?) only respond after X number of milliseconds, so I'm considering trying that to see if maybe it helps me to get an idea of what is going on. Unfortunately I was …

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Re: PSCSI Disk Emulation success!

Posted on 2019-06-16, 05:54

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I also have a Fibre-Channel router/bridge that should allow me to use plain old SCSI like your setup. I had a brief look around for such a product recently and it didn't seem like there's anything available that is relatively cheap. Do you know of any, or does one just need to get a lucky find on …

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Re: PSCSI Disk Emulation success!

Posted on 2019-06-11, 12:39

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I would bring up your FreeBSD 12 box, not run the scsi_target, and see if you get reset spam on the bus in dmesg when you boot the other machine. I've done that a few times, and just get a single "Someone reset channel A" message each time. I noticed in /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES (if I recall the path …

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Re: PSCSI Disk Emulation success!

Posted on 2019-06-10, 05:56

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Adaptec PSCSI cards When you say "PSCSI" do you mean "parallel SCSI"? I don't think that "PSCSI" is a conventional abbreviation for that, is it? I found an interesting discussion here about someone having issues with FreeBSD target mode, and this actually included a lot of helpful info for getting …

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Re: Patch: Debugger improvements: F3 key and "MCBS"

Posted on 2009-11-22, 07:30

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Qbix wrote: commited Thanks! Sorry I never got around to tidying it up!

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Re: Patch: Debugger improvements: F3 key and "MCBS"

Posted on 2009-06-23, 00:51

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G'day, Some small things: Bit32u dataAddr = (dataSeg<<4) + dataOfs; We have functions and typedefs for this kind of stuff. Oh yes, when I just looked I saw PhysMake(), however I'm pretty sure that when I'd looked previously I'd just seen the shift and add style code I used above. I much prefer the …

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Re: Patch: Debugger improvements: F3 key and "MCBS"

Posted on 2009-06-19, 12:56

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Qbix wrote: It will be looked at when we are dealing with the debugger code. It is not forgotten Great, thanks!

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Re: DOSBox debugger

Posted on 2009-06-19, 11:55

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Hi Qbix, hehe. I'll compile one day. :) creating that installer is most of the work though :) What software are you using to generate the installer? It should be possible to make the installer generation a simple 'make' target, .bat file or something like that, assuming a suitable installer …

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Re: Patch: Debugger improvements: F3 key and "MCBS"

Posted on 2009-06-19, 11:47

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Should I have submitted this as a patch on SourceForge.net instead/as well, or is there something else I can do to get my patch reviewed and/or accepted?

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