http://svardos.org/?p=forum SvarDOS community forum http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1773721807#1774467072 Hi. Generally LINKS installs quite fine. This might be a QEMU related problem. I also have problems running DOS under QEMU on my M4 Mac Mini. These problems do not occur under QEMU when running on x86 hardware, so it seems to be related to QEMUs X86 emulat (...) Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:31:12 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1773721807#1774467072 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1773721807#1773721807 I setup SvarDOS on M2 Mac with qemu by following these steps: http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1735848177 So far no issue... until trying to install links C:\pkgnet pull links Downloaded 6020 KiB into links.svp (BSUM: CB80) C:\pkg install link (...) Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:30:07 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1773721807#1773721807 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772932009#1773320957 I don't really see the point in making an obscure closed source DOS from scratch in 2026. I suppose that the developer s having fun doing it, because I don't see any other practical uses. It doesn't work on 808x and 286 and it seems that the developer h (...) Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:09:17 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772932009#1773320957 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772932009#1773162201 My two cents: This DR-DOS 9 project looks like an entire "build me a DOS" exercise, ran on AI. Code quality looks like assembler snippets generated by AI (which more often than not result on sloppy/buggy code interpretation), all these glued together to (...) Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:03:21 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772932009#1773162201 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1773102880 @Bernd I overwrote the FreeDOS kernel.sys of the link into SvarDOS build 20251005. Booted from that floppy on an XT 8088 with 640 KB memory and MDA. I get the corresponding error in line 3 due to the HISTORY statement being present in CONFIG.SYS (...) Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:34:40 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1773102880 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772983637 (...) Sure, why not? Only requirement will be that it is the 8088 compatible kernel build. That should be in https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/releases/download/ke2044/ke2044_86f32.zip. Has anyone tested that build on an 8088? Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:27:17 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772983637 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772932009#1772973225 From the website: (...) (...) Thanks but I think I'll keep using the FLOSS debugger that we've been developing for the past 28 years. Unreasonable of course, I mean who could have use for more than peek, poke, and jump? Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:33:45 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772932009#1772973225 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772932009#1772971083 Yes, seems to be proprietary (and closed source? didn't check). So much for "unencumbered". Quoth https://www.dr-dos.com/releases/9.0/9.0.291/license.txt : (...) And: (...) The license for the EDR-DOS kernel and shell that SvarDOS uses is in http (...) Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:58:03 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772932009#1772971083 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772932009#1772932009 https://www.reddit.com/r/DOS/comments/1rnfw4e/ive_been_quietly_rebuilding_dr_dos_from_scratch/ It's a full proprietary software with an EULA with restrictions on uses... And the author claims that SvarDOS has "legal ambiguity". Is it FUD? Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:06:49 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772932009#1772932009 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772811399 I will keep an eye on FreeDOS. Still, I haven't found a compelling reason to use it. I tried v1.4 on an 8088 XT with 640 KB RAM and it was eating conventional memory like there was no tomorrow. Conventional memory usage (skipping both autoexec and config): (...) Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:36:39 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772811399 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772776466 There's build options to create either a 386+ or an 8086-compatible kernel for FreeDOS. Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:54:26 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772776466 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772767837 Last update: I have just tested FreeDOS T2603 (March 2026) and it is able to boot on an 8088. Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:30:37 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772767837 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772766164 Thank you Roy I appreciate your comments. Yes, the 386 kernel is smaller in size than the EDR-DOS one. But it is certainly slower, at for example, startup, but not by much though (or perhaps it is just this particular 386). It seems the FreeDOS kern (...) Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:02:44 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772766164 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772732644 The usage conditions of the FreeDOS kernel also are less questionable than those of the EDR-DOS kernel. And we have the matching FreeDOS share as opposed to the closed source DR-DOS share that might not work correctly on FAT32 file systems. Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:44:04 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772732644 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772725244 (...) smaller file size, and faster startup time. Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:40:44 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772725244 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772671450 Hi Roy, I am genuinely curious, so please indulge me: What do you find attractive from the FreeDOS kernel that the Enhanced DR-DOS kernel does not already have? Thanks in advance. Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:44:10 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772671450 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772610854 I wonder if newer FreeDOS kernel will be available in SvarDOS repo? Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:54:14 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1772610854#1772610854 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769542640#1769766915 This appeared to be a BIOS issue. Fixed with an upgrade to T42 BIOS ver 3.23 (1RETDRWW, final version), which explicitly addressed USB drive letter handling. Now everything works, FAT32 USB keys are recognized in Svar with both EDR and FD kernels, includin (...) Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:55:15 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769542640#1769766915 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1769691473 Hey, not sure this helps much as it looks like you got it working, but I had a similar problem on the long weekend with my old PIII system running SvarDOS with a Realtek RTL8139D network card. DCHP fails. I got it working once and couldn't figure out wh (...) Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:57:53 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1769691473 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769542640#1769551299 You may also use one of the older images still containing the FreeDOS kernel to compare against to EDR kernel. For example from: http://svardos.org/?p=files&dir=20240726 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:01:39 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769542640#1769551299 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769542640#1769550718 Hi. I am not aware of a general problem regarding USB sticks and the EDR kernel. It mainly depends on the BIOS exposing the USB drive as hard disk via its INT13 routines. (...) To rule out the PC BIOS, can you please replace the EDR kernel.sys with t (...) Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:51:58 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769542640#1769550718 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1768534368#1769543254 Related situation here: after installing the 20250427 build, I get a "fat", almost square-shaped blinking cursor (looks to be half the size of a character cell). How can I replace it with a simple _ underscore? EDIT: Ugh. Got it. The 'Insert' key toggle (...) Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:47:34 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1768534368#1769543254 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769542640#1769542640 Hi. Should Svardos + EDR kernel recognize USB flash drives that were inserted before booting? I used this known trick all the time with an earlier, FreeDOS-kernel based version of Svar. Currently, however, the 2025042 build + EDR doesn't seem to recogniz (...) Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:37:20 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769542640#1769542640 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769368961#1769377914 Hi, AFAIK, this is still pending: https://github.com/SvarDOS/bugz/issues/17 Cheers, Robert Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:51:54 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769368961#1769377914 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769368961#1769368961 Is there a method of updating packages using either pkg or pkgnet pointing to a local directory instead of network? For instance, I have downloaded the repo iso and copied contents to a \repo directory on the hard drive or burned to a cd. Thanks for th (...) Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:22:41 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1769368961#1769368961 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1769352031 USE!UMBS was updated to version 2.5. This was already done in october 2025. Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:40:31 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1769352031 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1769351928 CALVIN 2.4, a vi-like editor, is now available in the package repo. https://archive.org/details/calvin24 https://chiselapp.com/user/bencollver/repository/calvin/index Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:38:48 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1769351928 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1768534368#1769276880 Robert, Are you talking about running WordStar on top of SvarDOS? :-D You could try NoBlink https://mendelson.org/noblink.html or Cursor https://archive.org/details/msdos_festival_CURSOR11 Cheers, A Robert too Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:48:00 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1768534368#1769276880 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1768534368#1768534368 Is there any way to slow down the rate the cursor blinks at? Or, even better, a way to make it stop blinking altogether? On the system I'm using (an old Dell Optiplex 7010), it's flashing about three times a second, and I'm finding it very distracting. (...) Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:32:48 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1768534368#1768534368 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1768357042 Update: A github page was created: https://github.com/skiselev/use_umbs Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:17:22 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1768357042 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1737444445#1768078446 Oh, that's cool to hear Costa will be in SvarDOS pkg. I am already using it, I installed last month and am excited waiting for the Pascal version! Jacob's work on tunning the exe files to use less memory is impressive and a perfect fit to SvarDOS :) I'm (...) Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:54:06 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1737444445#1768078446 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1737444445#1767566589 Hello Jacob, It's very kind of you to consider providing an *.svp package of your software. We have no formal review procedure, but it you can host your svp package whenever public and provide a link, we will gladly fetch it and check. Keep us posted. : (...) Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:43:09 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1737444445#1767566589 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1737444445#1767545802 Hi, A late reply here, but I've been working on Costa for the past couple of months on some major changes, including rewriting it in Pascal instead of BASIC to improve performance and reduce disk/memory usage. I'm getting closer to a new release, and I' (...) Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:56:42 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1737444445#1767545802 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767389705 The installer probably didn't do much, it is more likely that the proprietary driver initialized the card "the right way", so it works with everything now. Good to know. Happy new year, and happy DOS networking ;-) Mateusz Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:35:05 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767389705 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767387866 Welp, I have great news! I don't know what the 3COM installer did, but when I did the install not only did the official driver work but I got the crynwr packet driver to work perfectly! pkgnet now works and arpchk succeeds! Thank you so much for all of (...) Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:04:26 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767387866 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767386339 Good. So: - ARPCHK fails because it does not receive any ARP answer from your router - pkgnet fails because it does not receive any DNS answer (which it does not even sends, because surely it fails earlier at the ARP-resolution stage, but simply report (...) Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:38:59 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767386339 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767382895 Ok, so for etherdfs I'm seeing the same thing. From what I read when I tested etherdfs last, basically if you dont' have an etherdfs server as long as it reports no server found your packet driver is probably working. I took it a step further this time and (...) Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:41:35 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767382895 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767300009 Today I made an ARP-probing tool, that I named ARPCHK. It's here: http://mateusz.fr/arpchk/ (also available in SvarDOS packages) ARPCHK is able to send an ARP query to a specified host (in the same LAN it is in) and displays the result. It needs o (...) Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:40:09 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767300009 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767259263 It is weird that ping segfaults for you. Is your computer a 386 by any chance? I recall dealing with a Watt32 bug years ago, that made it crash on pre-486 computers. Perhaps the ping application is still linked with this 386-buggy version of the library. I (...) Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:21:03 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767259263 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767227285 Also to clarify - ping no longer compliains about a lack of DPMI but that is what segfaults. cwsdpmi seems to start up fine with `cwsdpmi.exe -p` in my autoexc. Also tried with JEMMEX and I get the same symptom Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:28:05 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767227285 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767225384 Thank you for this! Getting closer :) With wattcp.cfg I get DNS resolution failed. When I try ping, I get (...) I tried the cswdpmi and got a segfault. I'm trying to figure out hxdpmi but there are a LOT of options. It looks like DPMI has to do wit (...) Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:56:24 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767225384 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767221527 I do not know about any specific issues with 3C5x9CFG, I used it a lot of times with my 3C509 cards and never had any issues. The fact that pkgnet does not complain about the packet driver does not mean that the packet driver actually works, it just mea (...) Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:52:07 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767221527 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767213855 Hey Mateusz, thanks for this info! So first off I can confirm that my card works. I've been having trouble with 32bit operating systems on my machine, but I was able to get a 16bit Linux system called ELKS installed. I was able to spin up an http server an (...) Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:44:15 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767213855 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767200247 Hi, it looks like your PC cannot obtain a DHCP lease. Either the packet driver you used is not compatible with your NIC, or your LAN has no DHCP service, or your NIC is misconfigured, or you have some kind of cabling issue. I suppose you checked already (...) Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:57:27 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767200247 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767120139#1767195307 Perfect, package index seems to be up to date now :) Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:35:07 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767120139#1767195307 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767147967 Hey! I have a machine with SvarDOS on it and and 3Com 3C509 ISA NIC. I got the packet driver (crynwr) loaded in my autoexec.bat, and upon boot I get a message displaying my MAC address. I was under the impression that for pkgnet to work I just needed to lo (...) Wed, 31 Dec 2025 02:26:07 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767147967#1767147967 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767120139#1767125964 Fixed, I think. Turned out to be relatively easy issues: - The packages index was not being updated because my new VPS was missing "php-zip", which the repo-updating php script needs to look into package files. - The websvn frontend works again - it (...) Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:19:24 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767120139#1767125964 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767120139#1767124423 No worries, you did not break anything, it was certainly broken already :) Long story short: a couple of weeks ago I moved everything to a new VPS with a newer OS, newer PHP versions, larger disk etc - I checked all basic stuff and fixed a few minor web (...) Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:53:43 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767120139#1767124423 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767120139#1767120139 After updating the USE!UMBS package I noticed that the package index at http://svardos.org/?p=repo is not updated. Also, there are several "internal server errors". For example when trying to access the RSS feed http://svn.svardos.org/rss.php?repname=SvarD (...) Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:42:19 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1767120139#1767120139 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1767036829 (...) Super cool, thanks :) (...) IIRC I left it there because there was no proper documentation and source code was the only way to get some information about what exactly changed in the versions, and by who. Mateusz Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:33:49 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1767036829 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1767034312 Thanks, I'll prepare the .SVP package. The v2.2 SVP contains the assembler source. Is that intended? Otherwise I will remove it from the v2.5 SVP. Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:51:52 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1767034312 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1767022159 I have an account there. Copied the ZIP file over here for now, just so we do not loose it: https://mateusz.viste.fr/tmp/useumbs25.zip Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:29:19 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1767022159 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1767019561 Sadly the software is hidden behind a login :( Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:46:01 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1767019561 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1766711574 https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/loading-dos-high-on-a-xt.32320/post-1467763 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:12:54 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1766711574#1766711574 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764705038#1764705262 The main sources are in the lDebug repo: https://hg.pushbx.org/ecm/ldebug/file/a32087234e1e (sign in as user "anonymous" any nonempty password). Running ./makldr.sh from source/ creates the loader, while ./makone.sh fdbplace from source/eld/ creates the ex (...) Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:54:22 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764705038#1764705262 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764705038#1764705038 Hi, regarding the boot loader solution for reserving drive B: (int 13h unit 1) that I suggested in http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1725345339#1725445708 I prepared an lDOS pre-boot loader program, based on the lDebug debugger with some parts strip (...) Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:50:38 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764705038#1764705038 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764469382#1764539834 Thanks! So I added the line "set config=" in each of my switches, but unfortunately, my autoexec.bat still ignores all sections and execute everything. I'll try to make a very simple menu with a very basic config, just to be sure that it is not a format (...) Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:57:14 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764469382#1764539834 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764469382#1764517093 The guide you mentioned is correct, but you should read it again: In CONFIG.SYS, you forgot the line "set config=" in each of your switches. Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:38:13 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764469382#1764517093 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764469382#1764469382 I am in the process of migrating from FreeDOS to SvarDOS on my 386 Dx40. I was using FreeDOS, but under that OS, my Bocaram AT Plus is not detected and can't be used. In FreeDOS, I had a boot menu that was working very well. In fact, I liked the way boot m (...) Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:23:02 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764469382#1764469382 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764460553#1764468280 It worked, thank you! Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:04:40 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764460553#1764468280 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764460553#1764461888 If you use the EDR-DOS kernel, make sure to put DOS=UMB *after* the DEVICE= line that provides the UMBs. DR-DOS appears to process (d)config.sys differently than FreeDOS and MS-DOS. Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:18:08 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764460553#1764461888 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764460553#1764460553 Hello, I have many questions, but I'll start by the most essential one. SvarDOS seems to ignore my UMB, even with the parameter DOS=HIGH,UMB in config.sys. On my 386DX40, I usually use the RDOSUMB utility to use shadow ram as umb. I run the utility in m (...) Sat, 29 Nov 2025 23:55:53 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1764460553#1764460553 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1735055002#1763499748 Very cool times. Until today I host a copy of The Mod Archive. For you, young people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene Thanks for sharing your work with us. Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:02:28 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1735055002#1763499748 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1735055002#1763498826 This reminds me of the demoscene era... cool intros for any game. Sometimes the intros did worth the download better than game itself... ;-) Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:47:06 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1735055002#1763498826 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1760362608 Updated VSBHDA from 1.7 to 1.8. Official upstream release info: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA/releases/tag/v1.8 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:36:48 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1760362608 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1760179882 Updated NASM from 3.00 -> 3.01. They released the new version shortly after I updated the package... Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:51:22 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1760179882 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1760131592 Added a new package: DOjS (A DOS JavaScript Canvas with sound, 386+), version 1.13.0 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:26:32 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1760131592 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1760131543 Updated nasm from 2.16.02 to 3.0.0. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:25:43 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1760131543 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1760045363 The following packages were updated: jemm 5.84 -> 5.85 fdedit 0.9a -> 0.9c mtcp 2013-04-26 -> 2025-01-10 vsbhda 1.4 -> 1.7 wde 1.0 -> 1.1 Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:29:23 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1743779661#1760045363 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1753481266#1758344169 Behind the link you mention that "It is a common misconception that XMS is only possible on 386+ machines." I don't think it's a common misconception, because everyone who knows something about MS-DOS memory management knows that XMS is also possible on a (...) Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:56:09 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1753481266#1758344169 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757929484 (...) Nothing is impossible, but the amount of required work to achieve a functional ScreenReader-with-TTS-output TSR is certainly huge. Probably unrealistic on anything less than 32bits, but on some pentium with lots of RAM and a sound card dedicated to (...) Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:44:44 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757929484 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757926363 Thanks, I now understand better how this is supposed to work. ESpeak than seems to be barely useful, I guess, without having any output capability other than outputting .WAV files and phonemes for mbrola. I would not say that it is impossible to implement, (...) Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:52:43 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757926363 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757887196 (...) Compiling espeak is not enough. Georgiana would like a screen reader that talks on its own, ie without TTS hardware. To achieve this, a TSR screen reader like Provox. ASAP, JAWS, etc would have to output speech instructions to espeak, and the latte (...) Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:59:56 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757887196 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757886676 As far as I can tell it works. But it is nothing big, really. There is no provox development involved, the BNS build is basically the usual SvarDOS but with Provox pre-installed. I have also tuned the SvarDOS installer so it is somewhat "screen-reader-frie (...) Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:51:16 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757886676 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757886672 The mentioned ESpeak seems to have traces of DOS support (DJGPP) in its source. It is however neither in the SvarDOS nor in the FreeDOS repo. Wondering if we can get it to compile. Will try it in the next few days... https://sourceforge.net/projects/espeak (...) Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:51:12 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757886672 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757885136 This is what Georgina Brummell wrote to me: https://someplace.social/@dandylover1/115204737870929908 Not sure the above link works. So I copy it here: @boeckmann *Most of this will probably make no sense to you, so I will try to explain it briefly. (...) Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:25:36 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757885136 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757884070 Over at Mastodon someone asked about BNS support for DOS. I want to recommend the person to try out the BNS build. How is its state? Anyone tested / used it recently? I am not into the topic, so I wanted to ask here before recommending it... Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:07:50 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757884070#1757884070 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757654941#1757659235 Hello Gisle, nice to see you here! :-) There is currently no such "unix-emulating" package in SvarDOS. I think your best bet would be picking one of the solutions listed below, esp. "UXUTL" or the "Berkeley Utilities": https://www.bttr-software.de/fr (...) Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:40:35 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757654941#1757659235 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757654941#1757654941 Hello folks. Is there a "GNU core utilities" package with "rm.exe, cp.exe, sed.exe, sh.exe" etc. available for download. To use in DosBox-x Fri, 12 Sep 2025 05:29:01 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757654941#1757654941 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757455740#1757455740 I have been contacted recently by the author of XUNPACK. It's a very interesting program so I thought I'd drop a note about it here: XUNPACK is an unpacker of packed executables. It uses a clever heuristic approach instead of hard-coded decompression ro (...) Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:09:00 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1757455740#1757455740 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1735848177#1756371136 it's fixed now. Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:52:16 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1735848177#1756371136 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1735848177#1756369336 (...) Oops, indeed! Thanks for letting us know, I will look into that later today. Mateusz Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:22:16 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1735848177#1756369336 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1735848177#1756366442 Unfortunately, SV-REPO.iso is currently generated as a 0MB file. There must be something wrong with the script that builds this image. I had to download it from the Wayback Machine (good thing that it was archived at some point). Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:34:02 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1735848177#1756366442 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1753481266#1753481266 8086 PCs may be equipped with an EMS card offering LIM memory. If you're fortunate enough to own such a card, today you can unlock XMS support by installing EXMS86. EXMS86 is a TSR that provides XMS 2.0 extended memory services by leveraging an EMS 4.0 (...) Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:07:46 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1753481266#1753481266 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1753150317 I have a Velocity 100 card. I tried its Win3x driver, but sadly it causes Windows to crash I did try vbesvga, pretty good; however, I noticed it being very slow on high resolutions and colours. Tue, 22 Jul 2025 02:11:57 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1753150317 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1752220544#1752916072 (...) As the name indicates, SHARE helps in coordinating multiple programs accessing files "at the same time". I am not yet familar with the exact details yet. But the internal interfaces of the EDR and MS-DOS kernel are different enough that the Microso (...) Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:07:52 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1752220544#1752916072 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1752915076 (...) Well, what graphics card do you use with the ITX lama? Albeit not directly related to SvarDOS, you could try the new VBESVGA graphics driver: https://github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv :) Sat, 19 Jul 2025 08:51:16 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1752915076 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1752220544#1752719782 Hello Bernd, Can you please elaborate more about the share.exe? What do we need it for and how do we use it with WfW 3.11? Thu, 17 Jul 2025 02:36:22 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1752220544#1752719782 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1752719716 looks like what was messing things up was virtual memory! I disabled virtual memory, and I now seem to be able to install the Crystal sound drivers! What should I try next? Thu, 17 Jul 2025 02:35:16 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1752719716 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1752220544#1752602206 Please see if WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI contains a line "device=vshare.386". It has to be removed, as it is incompatible with the EDR kernel. You may use SHARE.EXE from the SHAREEDR package instead. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:56:46 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1752220544#1752602206 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1752220544#1752220544 It displays some kernspec? kernel somewhat error after installing micorosft word or installing microsoft word 6.0. win3.1 loads 32 bit etc. a lot is working but after installing word or trying 3.11 it does not boot. vbesvga.drv works with full window resol (...) Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:55:44 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1752220544#1752220544 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1750522624#1750529652 Hello Miroslav, SvarDOS 20240915 is operating under the EDR-DOS kernel. Bernd announced it last year in the post below: http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1722279472#1726419992 While EDR-DOS is our default kernel, it is very much possible for user (...) Sat, 21 Jun 2025 18:14:12 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1750522624#1750529652 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1750522624#1750522624 Version svardos-20240915 is based on FreeDOS or (DR)OpenDOS? Sat, 21 Jun 2025 16:17:04 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1750522624#1750522624 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1747494941 Sorry, I've been away for some time because of work... Thinking about this again... I think the real issue here is the excess of RAM. I know that Win 3.11 can barf up when there is more than 64MB of RAM... Although this wasn't my experience when I tried (...) Sat, 17 May 2025 15:15:41 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1747494941 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1746209954 ecm is right. But please, pay attention, we are both right: You said you were using MS-DOS 6.22 on your ITX Llama board, then use a fresh SHARE.EXE from MS-DOS 6.22 as I said. If you are using an EDR-DOS kernel, instead, only use the SHARE.EXE that mat (...) Fri, 02 May 2025 18:19:14 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1746209954 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1746168597 You should absolutely not use MS-DOS share.exe, any version, with an EDR-DOS kernel. Fri, 02 May 2025 06:49:57 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1746168597 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1746158853 Suggestion: Replace your SHARE.EXE file from one that comes straight out of MS-DOS 6.22, not from other DOSes. And retry. Fri, 02 May 2025 04:07:33 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1746158853 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1745879491 Not virtualisation nor emulation. I am using a motherboard called "ITX Llama" and at its heart a SOM called Vortex86-EX, it's clocked at 300MHz with 128MB of RAM. The sound card is Crystal Sound CS4237B , I am using a driver that was reported it install (...) Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:31:31 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1745879491 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1745870578 I tested the AWE64 sound card driver under Win 3.11 WfW. This works. Graphics driver for ET4000 also works. This is on an emulated 486 DX2 80MHz system, emulated via 86box. Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:02:58 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1745870578 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1745868214 Hmm, can you give some details about your hardware configuration? Is it real hardware or some virtualization? Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:23:34 +0000 http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1745721810#1745868214