#freedos

[pleasestopthese]

[maverickuk]

I recently picked up a Toshiba Tecra 730XCDT laptop for the bargain price of £25 locally On paper it’s a fantastic retro gaming machine - Pentium 150MHz processor - 16MB RAM (Mine expanded to 144MB max) - 12.1″ active matrix TFT screen (no blurry games) - OPL3 SoundBlaster Pro compatible sound card - CD-ROM - External 3.5″ floppy drive It was also is fantastic condition. Very clean with minimal scratches or other damage.

However the previous owner had reinstalled it with Windows XP, which was a little too advanced for the poor beast. My Windows 98 CD didn’t want to install under XP, as it can’t downgrade the OS. So I decided to try installing Windows 95 from floppy disks to start with.

This meant using the external floppy drive, which unfortunately only seemed to work intermittently. I could hear it trying to read the disks, but it sounded like it was slipping.

I attempted to lubricate and clean the inside of the drive, along with checking that the band was still in good condition.

Even after all that it wouldn’t play ball. So I decided to change tactics and pop out the 2.5″ hard drive and connect it to my main PC to sort out.

Using the fantastic tool Rufus I was able to easily format the drive as FAT32 with FreeDOS to make it bootable.

I also copied over the Windows 98 installation CD onto the drive itself to make installing easy.

Under FreeDOS I had to use the setup /nm /is command line arguments in order to bypass the hardware checks. 

After that I was home free and well on the road to getting the machine setup for it’s new retro gaming lifestyle

[whitewaterpaper]

Things we didn’t know we needed: a PC that boots from vinyl.

🛑 Unmute and enjoy!

[archiveosorg]

FreeDOS plus-plus

FreeDOS plus-plus (fdpp) – a 64-bit DOS kernel. It is based on the FreeDOS kernel ported to modern C++. https://archiveos.org/fdpp/

[linuxiarzepl]

FreeDOS plus-plus

Dodane do bazy: FreeDOS plus-plus. FreeDOS plus-plus (fdpp) 64-bitowe jądro DOS. Opiera się na jądrze FreeDOS przeniesionym na współczesny język C++. https://linuxiarze.pl/distro-fdpp/

[archiveosorg]

FreeDOS

FreeDOS (Free-DOS, PD-DOS) – a DOS-like operating system designed for PCs and is free software. The goal of FreeDOS is 100% compatibility with both the… https://archiveos.org/freedos/

[archiveosorg]

RxDOS

RxDOS – a fast MS-DOS clone that supports very large disk drives, FAT32 volumes, and Windows 95/98 Long Filenames. https://archiveos.org/rxdos/

[linuxiarzepl]

FreeDOS 1.4

Została wydana nowa wersja systemu operacyjnego FreeDOS 1.4. FreeDOS jest otwartoźródłowym, bezpłatnym systemem operacyjnym, kompatybilnym z nierozwijanym już MS DOS. https://linuxiarze.pl/freedos-1-4/