I took some time off of work yesterday and played around with setting up a MS-DOS 6.22 disk image in DOSBOX-X. Now, I have a "real" DOS environment
that looks great (true type fonts and fonts proportional to my wide screen
in Full Screen Mode), true DOS XMS memory, and a better chance of getting older environments (like Windows for Workgroups) working. I need to figure
out how to get the mouse working, though.

If only someone made a 1920x1080 video driver for WfW I'd be happy.

The NE2000 emulation seems to work better in real DOS, Zmodem transfers with Telix work without issue.

I found a neat program called "editdisk" aparently written by a Japanese author (can't read the readme.txt) that lets you drag and drop file from Windows nto a disk image. That was the one thing holding me back from
creating a true DOS environment. I was able to copy all of my DOSBOX environment's files into the disk image.

Now, to recreate my DR-DOS/Geoworks environment...



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creating a true DOS environment. I was able to copy all of my DOSBOX environment's files into the disk image.

Just as an aside, when I download DOS disk images from the likes of
winworldpc, the way I mount and work on them to ready them for use on a real computer (or even for distribution on my BBS), is with the help of WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux2. I do this:

1. Start up an Ubuntu bash shell from the start menu
2. cd /mnt/c/<dir where I downloaded the img file to>
3. Say the file is called DISK1.IMG, I make a directory to open the image
into
$mkdir disk1
(if there were 5 disks, I'd use mkdir disk{1..5} )
4. Then mount the disk image with msdos file format:
$mount -t msdos -o loop,ro DISK1.IMG disk1
5. Now, cd into disk1 and all your files are there:
$cd disk1
6. You can create a zip of the files with zip like so (note you'll need to install zip if you don't have it already - sudo apt install zip):
$zip -r ../disk1.zip *

Hope this helps. The key is the -o loop part, it mounts the disk image as a 'loopback'. Don't forget to unmount after you've done (cd ..;umount disk1)

Enjoy!
Al


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hyjinx wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Just as an aside, when I download DOS disk images from the likes of winworldpc, the way I mount and work on them to ready them for use on a real computer (or even for distribution on my BBS), is with the help of WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux2. I do this:

Captured for future reference. I just loaded WSL2 on my system, will be playing with it much more.


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On 30 Sep 2021, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

Captured for future reference. I just loaded WSL2 on my system, will be playing with it much more.

Yeah tbh, I *hated* win for a looooong time just because it was so unstable
and shitty, but now that it's stable and I can run Linux via WSL2 I have
pretty much the best of both worlds, so it pains me to say that it's actually pretty good. It does everything I need.


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hyjinx wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

On 30 Sep 2021, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

Captured for future reference. I just loaded WSL2 on my system, will be playing with it much more.

Yeah tbh, I *hated* win for a looooong time just because it was so unstable and shitty, but now that it's stable and I can run Linux via
WSL2 I have pretty much the best of both worlds, so it pains me to say that it's actually pretty good. It does everything I need.

Yeah, with a little eye candy Windows 10 can compare favorably to a desktop distro.


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Yeah tbh, I *hated* win for a looooong time just because it was so unstable and shitty, but now that it's stable and I can run Linux via
WSL2 I have pretty much the best of both worlds, so it pains me to say that it's actually pretty good. It does everything I need.

Ya i have noticed that M$ is making definate inroads to Linux. Even going so far as to have 2 different distros now. My guess is that in the future, the undergerdings of the OS is probably going to be ubuntu. i have a feeling they will go the route of OSX. having a unix core and having a custom desktop. if
i was M$ that would be the way i would go. that way, all the kernel
development would just be around peices they need to streamline. all the hard work for the core OS would aready be done and maintained by Linux community. That is just my speculation though...

Thanks
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On 04 Oct 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...

future, the undergerdings of the OS is probably going to be ubuntu. i
have a feeling they will go the route of OSX. having a unix core and

I was looking at preview pics of Windows 11 today, and I thought it was ever
so close to Mac (or Linux) :-)

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On 04 Oct 2021, Mickey said the following...

I was looking at preview pics of Windows 11 today, and I thought it was ever so close to Mac (or Linux) :-)

Yup, that was my first thought as well. I have a pre-release running in a Virtual Box VM and as I was using it, I couldn't help but feel like I was using Mac OS at certain points.


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I was looking at preview pics of Windows 11 today, and I thought it was ever so close to Mac (or Linux) :-)

interesting... ya wouldn't that be interesting. Windows becomes Linux, lol.
it would be in their finaincial interest to do so....

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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Re: re: DOSBOX and DOS
By: gcubebuddy to Mickey on Tue Oct 05 2021 06:54 am

I was looking at preview pics of Windows 11 today, and I thought it was ever s
close to Mac (or Linux) :-)

interesting... ya wouldn't that be interesting. Windows becomes Linux, lol. it would be in their finaincial interest to do so....

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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Well, it would increase hardware support in Linux for sure, if they bother to release
the patches :-)

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