Contact me Back to Homepage Drivers and Hardware-related Tools DOS systems have to load drivers for access to and use of hardware that doesn't conform to the inbuilt standards, which means nearly everything today.
There were Memory Managers to squeeze the last byte out of your configuration, and Boot Managers to allow different configurations on one machine.
Both bit and bit versions are offered. Another good source for info is here. So disk-cache programs, ramdisks, and HD compression were rife.
You should be able to run your DOS application quickly in a safe and convenient way. Virtual PC f. VMware This software consists of a virtual machine suite for Intel xcompatible computers which allows the creation and execution of multiple x86 virtual computers simultaneously.
Each virtual machine instance can execute its own guest operating system, such as but not limited to Windows, Linux, and BSD variants. In simple terms, VMware allows one physical machine to run numerous operating systems simultaneously. There's a Windows version available, too. Far more powerful memory management products were available from third parties eg QEMM or Max but were discontinued long ago. In the old DOS days, multitasking was no easy feat. You needed a configuration with lots of usable DOS memory.
Desqview was the market leader. This all became moot with the advent of Windows. DOS Programs and drivers for Laptops. While under DOS each application had to have its own printer driver, here are some that solve a Windows problem:.
Search Engines Contact me. Back to Homepage. DOS systems have to load drivers for access to and use of hardware that doesn't conform to the inbuilt standards, which means nearly everything today. Device Drivers Google's Directory is a good place to start the search for an old or new elusive device driver. Driver Guide Huge driver collection. Login required. StorageDrivers Probably Driver Guide under another name: most links point there. Use same Name and PW.
Net is the world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications. At this moment there are about DOS-related projects here, among them alternative interfaces, extenders, languages like Basic and Pascal, protocols, multimedia players and more.
Thomas Treiber Archiv German site: bootdisk images, drivers and more. Specializes in old Win3. BIOS 1. Great for debugging. When it comes to create boot able disks, this is the place to go. Take a look at the sitemap. May not run on all modern PCs. Other useful diskutils here too. EXE is a very useful tool for patitioning and formatting of HDs, commandline driven and batchable.
Found together with other useful material on this german site. Free for private use. Hyperkey and Hyperscreen never caught on as much. It installed easily in both of those platforms, giving me handy access to Freedos from my Debian Linux Operating System any time I want. And of course, compared to most modern systems, Freedos boots up very quickly. The difference is that with a given version of Windows, only the version of DOS that comes with the Windows distribution will run in the window.
I was successful, and now with a quickly available window I can bring up a very complete and robust version of DOS. After failing miserably for hours, I hunted the web for instructions on how to accomplish this surprisingly difficult task.
Having finally accomplishing the task, I decided to make the steps available to those others who might be interested. The Freedos iso and a floppy boot image called fdboot. The fdboot. By listing the cdrom in the hdimage line of the dosemu. Most of the steps I think are fairly self explanatory. The step 6 comment about the boot disk's failure is about this: had the boot disk found the cdrom, it would have gotten stalled in a loop of trying to format the disk, which would keep failing in the dosemu emulator.
Thus it's best to boot from the floppy image and be able to get to a command. At the boot floppy dos prompt you can go to the area on the cdrom where autorun. I don't know how common the Freedos install procedure is, but on the 1. You'd probably like to also have access to the dosemu emulator commands while in Freedos.
You can do that by doing the following in Linux prior to your next running of dosemu:. If so, copy them from wherever they are to your new dosemu subdirectory. You'll want to comment out any mouse loading in the Freedos autoexec.
Believe it or not, you can in fact get the Freedos networking up and running in dosemu. It wasn't easy for me, and I didn't always get it to work. But I'll show how I have had some success. Then you can explore the rather incredible capabilities of the arachne graphic web browser. I would suggest that if you want a networkable version of Freedos within Linux, I'd recommend qemu dos instead.
But to proceed with networking in dosemu, you'll need to do a bit of setup in 3 places: Linux , dosemu , and the Freedos autoexec. It probably already is. If not, depending upon your distribution, you need to find how to install it.
You'll also need to have the utility tunctl available. In Debian distributations, this is in package uml-utilities.
Then you need to set up a script to do the following commands. Just as an example, assume that your home lan network address is Then setup the following script:. Adjust the two addresses in the script to be compatible with your home network remember I used The product information label contains your serial number and product number. You can find it either on the back of your laptop, inside the battery compartment or under the cover on the back of the laptop.
Sample product label. Find your serial number using a keyboard command. If your laptop is currently functioning you can find the serial number by using a simple keyboard command. Artboard 2. Depending on your desktop model you can find it on the side, top, front or back of the computer.
For All-in-One PCs you will find it on the back. If your computer is currently functioning you can find the serial number by using a simple keyboard command. Need help? Locate the product label. For almost all HP products, the product information label can be found from one of the following locations : A label attached to the product usually on the underside Laser etching on the surface of the product Inside the battery compartment A purchase invoice or receipt Product packaging or shipping box Documentation that came with the product.
Examples of where to find your product information label. Select a location. Europe, Middle East, Africa. Asia Pacific and Oceania. Select a language. Confirm Back.
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