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radarblue 23 Nov 2016, 20:57
Thank you again Trinitek, for good advice . The Oracle Virtual Box is a strike of genious. I downloaded the IMdisk. Then I navigate in the File Explorer and find a suitable file, then right click, I can then select "Mount IMdisk Virtual Disk". My own textfiles dont work and I get a "Parameter is incorrect". However I can Mount programs like FASM onto a virtual image. I then need to format the Virtual floppy, but can only create a floppy from 1KB - 64KB in size.
When I load the Virtual Box. Insert the virtual floppy in the Storage tab, I disable Floppy as a startup device, then load Freedos. I type A: Then write DIR as usual, then, 0 bytes found ... mmmmm. No files are found on the Floppy Image. Maybe spend some time in the DEBUG in freedos, thanks to Ruxgulo. I see a PDF by the person Kip Irvine online . Link : Kip Irvines DEBUG manual : http://kipirvine.com/asm/debug/Debug_Tutorial.pdf |
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system error 23 Nov 2016, 22:10
For running FASM in FreeDOS or anything similar in VM environment, I think u need a third party utility called "cwsdpmi" or something. Look it up.
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23 Nov 2016, 22:10 |
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rugxulo 24 Nov 2016, 02:58
radarblue wrote: Ok. virtual machines is really wonderful, and most possible the future . However isolated from the ordinary OS files and programs. Now a question. How do I get online with Freedos ? with Lynx ... How do I install FASM to test some codes. FreeDOS is not inherently network friendly, for the most part. There are some working pieces with a subset of basic functionality, but don't get your hopes up too high for a full HTML5/CSS3/Javascript stack. But I have successfully used ports of Dillo, Links2, Wget, and (mTCP) FTP . The preferred "official" method at this late date is probably to use FD 1.2 (at least release candidate RC1). Jerome Shidel spent a lot of time on the installer and associated editions. Questions about this should only be directed to the mailing lists. Otherwise I'd tell you to use the premade VM images from here (e.g. "FreeDOS 1.1net"). I have successfully run networking under VirtualBox 4.x and QEMU 2.x. However, VBox 5.1.8 (and similar 5.x series??) regressed and seemed to break networking. Not sure if recent 5.1.10 fixed it (doubt it), so that may make things a tiny bit harder. Obviously I recommend sticking with 4.x for now (until/if they fix it). There are no DOS guest extensions for VBox. QEMU has partial "fat:" support. VMSMOUNT allegedly works for VMware. There still are old "2004 SP1"-era Virtual PC drivers on MS' website too, IIRC. Sharing files between host and guest OS is sadly not as easy as it sounds. I really hate to direct you to any other solutions (although I can think of one of my own, also FreeDOS-based). You're already drowning in complexity here. Ah, computers, gotta love 'em! Quote:
I'd be surprised if most code didn't run in DOSBox, but at the same time, they explicitly "only" target 486-era "games". But if some obvious simple things don't run there, it may be that you're incorrectly doing something that isn't supposed to work anyways. Quote:
The "real mode of Win98" is just MS-DOS 7. If your OS (e.g. Win7) still allows you to make a system floppy, you can have a very simple MS-DOS bootdisk (no full install, however, or most utils). You can still buy MS-DOS 6.x on MSDN Subscriber Downloads or whatever, but I don't recommend that. Just use FreeDOS, if you absolutely need or want "real mode" (DOS). Although, again, if all you want to do is learn (x64) assembly, Ray Seyfarth's book is probably a wiser, long-term solution. |
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24 Nov 2016, 02:58 |
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Trinitek 24 Nov 2016, 09:18
radarblue wrote: Thank you again Trinitek, for good advice . The Oracle Virtual Box is a strike of genious. I downloaded the IMdisk. Then I navigate in the File Explorer and find a suitable file, then right click, I can then select "Mount IMdisk Virtual Disk". My own textfiles dont work and I get a "Parameter is incorrect". However I can Mount programs like FASM onto a virtual image. I then need to format the Virtual floppy, but can only create a floppy from 1KB - 64KB in size. |
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24 Nov 2016, 09:18 |
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radarblue 24 Nov 2016, 20:29
Quote: Your`re already drowning in complexity here. Ah, computers, gotta love 'em! Hahaha ! Thats Eternal man ! 
Yeah, I got the IM disk to function, but not into Freedos via VBox. Will try some other OS soon, XP runs and asks for a licence key, found a key online, but didnt pass . I got to spend some time on this, obviously . Its not just plug n play. PS. the FASM does not load into the DOSbox, here. But some games do. I guess the Seyfarths book on ASM X64 is ok. But Im not gonna abondont this concept due to complications, and most probably encounter new complications on the next platform ! Problems are everywhere  It has to be solved and understood. I see this as a project from a electrical perspective, and want to understand the chipsets and the CPU. It has taken generations of clever people to reach the state we are in. |
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24 Nov 2016, 20:29 |
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Shahada 25 Nov 2016, 08:56
radarblue wrote: PS. the FASM does not load into the DOSbox, here. But some games do. If you load a DPMI host like cwsdpmi.exe or hdpmi32.exe before, both fasm and fasmd should run in DOSBox without any problem. |
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25 Nov 2016, 08:56 |
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rugxulo 25 Nov 2016, 09:27
radarblue wrote:
There shouldn't normally be much stuff needed to copy into the VM itself. And certainly trying to get XP at this point is a bogus idea. I didn't mean to discourage you from DOS, I thought it was somewhat obvious (guess not). I forgot that one way to transfer files (with VBox + FreeDOS) was via FTPSRV. See here for explanation. Also, as Trinitek said, you can create and attach .VHD in Computer Management / Disk Management (e.g. Win7). It gives you a virtual drive in Explorer to copy into and out of. It won't attach if created elsewhere, but you can at least read that .VHD image (once unmounted) with QEMU or VBox (although I haven't tried much). Quote:
Like I said, learning DOS atop Win64 is just asking for trouble. It's just easier to learn what's native, and his ebe debugger frontend apparently makes things lots easier. P.S. VBox 5.1.10 does apparently fix networking, so it works (again). |
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25 Nov 2016, 09:27 |
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radarblue 25 Nov 2016, 21:43
mhm. I dont know if this is relevant but it may be that loading a "user Virtual Disk" on a DOS kernel system is futile. It "May" only run a bootable floppy. the link provided is speaking of virtual boot and BIOS upgrades for Servers... the description says A virtual disk can do "various tasks" such as BIOS upgrades. It may be a built in disability to load a virtual disk on a virtual machine . but idunno. Not to mention the FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems . somewhere in the F1 help menu - file systems or Volumes and Drives it says DOS with a FAT12 system can not access a win 95/98/ME FAT32 file system. Due to long filenenames ( unless its a drive ...). however it DOES claim that 4DOS should support any file system ...
Link1 : Filesystems : https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc938440.aspx If a system tolerated Virtual load of OS, virtual disks and virtual HD, it would be a game changer. And a binary operator ( bitshifter ) to organise the different filesystems. Link 2 : Microsoft on virtual disks : https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/ADS/en-us/nbs_vf_overview.mspx?mfr=true Concerning VHD Virtual Hard Drives. Guess it applies to a Platform that tolerates multiple disks, Win7 is as far as I know a NT kernel again. (free) Dos doesnt do additional drives. .atleast I didnt manage ... The Freedos documentation says that they are based on a DOS kernel. FTP, ok... have a look. I got a failure on the FTPPASS.TXT in the MTCP. when doing ftpsrv. think its better to go back afew steps, back to where it worked . its too much . DOS, FASM, EMU8086, the X86book, Freedos. Virtual Box, Debug . Link 3 : plenty : http://www.intel-assembler.it/portale/indice.asp Link 4 : winworld abandoneware : https://winworldpc.com |
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25 Nov 2016, 21:43 |
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rugxulo 04 Dec 2016, 22:50
radarblue wrote: mhm. I dont know if this is relevant but it may be that loading a "user Virtual Disk" on a DOS kernel system is futile. It "May" only run a bootable floppy. the link provided is speaking of virtual boot and BIOS upgrades for Servers... the description says A virtual disk can do "various tasks" such as BIOS upgrades. It may be a built in disability to load a virtual disk on a virtual machine . but idunno. Not to mention the FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems . somewhere in the F1 help menu - file systems or Volumes and Drives it says DOS with a FAT12 system can not access a win 95/98/ME FAT32 file system. Due to long filenenames ( unless its a drive ...). however it DOES claim that 4DOS should support any file system ... Right this second, I don't currently have enough time to walk you through it step-by-step. I already mentioned that I hadn't tested it much, but I have indeed successfully used a .VHD under VirtualBox with FreeDOS. Like I said, this allows you to use Explorer to copy into / out of the virtual disk. Try again (Computer Management / Disk Management). If you still can't get it to work, I'll help you further later tonight. Quote:
Windows now has such support, especially editions like Win8 (64-bit, Pro, VT-X), which has Hyper-V. The older software-only emulation products like Virtual PC are probably? discontinued (since 2011?). Quote:
DOS handles multiple drives just fine (though handling .VHD, .VMDK, etc. is up to the hypervisor). Quote:
I never needed FTPSRV, but I think there's a bug in his 2013 version that he fixed in 2015 edition, so download and try that instead. |
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04 Dec 2016, 22:50 |
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rugxulo 05 Dec 2016, 22:51
rugxulo wrote:
Well, here's a weak attempt at a tutorial: Quote:
EDIT: FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 is out (and presumably final will be released by the end of the month). EDIT #2: 7-Zip (e.g. 7z and presumably [GUI] 7zFM) can also extract from certain VM images (e.g. .VHD) nowadays. EDIT #3: Ulrich Hansen already had a nice tutorial (with screenshots) on how to Mount the image file (Win or Mac). Last edited by rugxulo on 09 Dec 2016, 16:58; edited 1 time in total |
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05 Dec 2016, 22:51 |
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rugxulo 08 Dec 2016, 19:33
While I'm waiting for you to report back, let me clarify a bit:
radarblue wrote: Not to mention the FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems . somewhere in the F1 help menu - file systems or Volumes and Drives it says DOS with a FAT12 system can not access a win 95/98/ME FAT32 file system. Due to long filenenames ( unless its a drive ...). however it DOES claim that 4DOS should support any file system ... Original IBM PCs didn't even have hard drives (or maybe it was optional for more money, can't remember). FAT12 was fine back then, maxing out at roughly 32 MB. Only later did FAT16 come around, but even that is limited to 2 GB per partition (although you can have up to four primary). Classic DOSes like MS-DOS 6.22 and DR-DOS 7.03 (which pretends to be IBM PC-DOS 6.00 for compatibility) don't support beyond FAT12 and FAT16. FAT32 came later with Win95 (OSR1 or whatever), aka MS-DOS 7.10. Also, some third-party DOS clones eventually added support as well. FreeDOS also supports FAT32, for instance. The main advantage is (almost) no more limit on size, so it can be well beyond 2 GB per partition. Granted, DOS is still real mode, so it can be unbearably slow trying to access partitions larger than a certain size, which is (allegedly) why Windows refuses to "create" a FAT32 partition larger than 32 GB. (And of course, for "security", newer Windows like Vista won't even boot from atop FAT anymore.) Long filenames are a separate issue and not directly related to FAT at all. (VFAT is just an ugly hack / kludge atop pre-existing FAT, you don't need it, and it's not really a separate group of file systems.) 4DOS is just a shell, not part of the kernel but instead userland, and it has nothing to do with any file systems (barring a few specific software interrupt calls). In other words, 4DOS shouldn't be directly accessing disks (low-level) anyways, instead relying solely on the host OS (DOS). Quote:
Win2000 is NT 5.0, successor to NT 4.0 (1996?). XP is 5.1, Vista is 6.0, Win7 is actually 6.1 (etc. etc. etc.). Unlike Win9x, it's not directly based upon 16-bit DOS at all, so (at best) you only have fake NTVDM (32-bit editions only). And yes, FreeDOS is a 16-bit DOS (only) although I'll admit that even if we pretend that such a compatibility is obvious, keep in mind that many names are misleading or overused, so "disk operating system" can mean many ambiguous things. |
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08 Dec 2016, 19:33 |
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rugxulo 01 Jan 2017, 18:00
Okay, just to state the obvious, FreeDOS 1.2 (final) has been released, along with a revamped website. Thanks to Jim, Jerome, and Mateusz for their efforts.
EDIT: http://www.freedos.org/install/ seems very helpful if you need step-by-step instructions (although the actual installer is fairly straightforward). |
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01 Jan 2017, 18:00 |
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radarblue 14 Jan 2017, 10:06
I realize I need some more training. So at the moment I am concentrating on C. Bought in an Arduino to practice on some electronics too. it is very fun. in C, I wanted to do graphix on the console screen (like sinus curves and triangles), and more or less all searches ended up with "welcome to Windows API, C++, WPF, .NET and MFC". and I looked at it, didnt understand a thing ... alot of wierd handlers and fancy instructions. I decided to discard the win32 API for the moment.
Found some websites that have example codes on sinus and grids. gonna practice there for a good while. anyways happy newyear. You are a fine crew of people ! cheers. believe it or not there is quite a differance, in the electrical diciplines High voltage 1megaV - 400kV - 11kV, to domestic voltage (electrician) 230V-110V and low voltage (computer logic) of 5V. Althou the components are the same. |
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14 Jan 2017, 10:06 |
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neville 15 Jan 2017, 21:58
radarblue wrote: Althou the components are the same.  _________________ FAMOS - the first memory operating system |
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15 Jan 2017, 21:58 |
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rugxulo 26 Jan 2017, 20:55
system error wrote: 32-bitness is not going anywhere anytime soon. Another one bites the dust: Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support |
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26 Jan 2017, 20:55 |
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rugxulo 03 Feb 2017, 00:15
In other 32-bit news: Apple to end support for 32-bit iOS apps
Also, the FreeDOS Wiki has been updated. Chapter 6 now also shows how to (offline) mount .VHD under GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using libguestfs-tools). |
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03 Feb 2017, 00:15 |
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rugxulo 07 Feb 2017, 00:45
In other 32-bit news: Tails 3.0 will require a 64-bit processor
I really hate to keep harping on this (and probably won't post more news regarding it), but this is just the way of the world. Thus, obsoletion happens sooner than most of us would normally like. |
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07 Feb 2017, 00:45 |
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neville 07 Feb 2017, 01:40
rugxulo wrote: Thus, obsoletion happens sooner than most of us would normally like.  _________________ FAMOS - the first memory operating system |
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07 Feb 2017, 01:40 |
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Trinitek 07 Feb 2017, 01:43
neville wrote:
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07 Feb 2017, 01:43 |
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