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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi all,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I would like to have a copy of it.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I do have now a free-dos 1.2 virtual
hard disk, with a lot of GEM applications.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">But:</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">- no sound :(<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">- no network :(<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I would like to mail it, but its size
is grown to 208 MB<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">=Armand=<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 18-11-2020 om 02:00 schreef Liam
Proven:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 23:51, Liam Proven <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com"><lproven@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">More to come soon, I hope...
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I did some more hacking on it. I have successfully installed PC-DOS
7.1 on an 8GB FAT32 disk, then supplemented it with all the rest of
PC-DOS 2000. I've also added some small things from the Windows ME
boot floppy image -- the MS editor, Scandisk, a 32-bit aware FDISK
command since IBM's version is balky in a VM.
So I have a complete copy of PC-DOS 7.1 running off a FAT32 disk in
Virtualbox. I have done some very basic manual memory optimisation and
it has 591KB free RAM with CD and mouse drivers installed.
Would anyone be interested in a copy of the virtual HD file?
Formatting a FAT32 volume made it grow a bit -- it's 35MB raw now. It
might compress down well.
I'm wondering how much more to do. Should I add TCP/IP network
support, so the VM can talk to the outside world and the hypervisor?
It's doable but it will eat a *lot* of RAM. Many DOS apps won't run on
the result, I suspect.
Other things that would be possible:
* USB support
* NTFS and maybe HPFS support
* Linux ext2 support
The trouble is, if I add all of them, nothing much will run on the
result due to lack of conventional memory...
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