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<title>Neil @ 'Using int 0x13 hook to book svardos over serial port'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1791068569#1791068569</link>
<description>I have an interest in booting SvarDOS over the serial port through an int 0x13 hook to work around non-functioning floppy drives. My childhood 8088(Zenith ZD-151 or thereabout) a machine monitor roughly equivalent to DOS debug. So I created a small p (...)</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'Codepage for Portuguese language and messy box characters'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1790089002#1790151013</link>
<description>I understand that CP860 was historically used in Portugal, so using it for Portuguese seems indeed like a logical thing to do, even if it impacts Portuguese-speaking people in other countries, like Brazil. Changing the SvarDOS installer is fairly easy,  (...)</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1790089002#1790151013</guid>
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<title>Luzemário @ 'Codepage for Portuguese language and messy box characters'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1790089002#1790089002</link>
<description>Hi, folks! Again I will bring an old debate about codepages for Portuguese language, but sometimes it happens at other languages too. From long, long ago, there was many software drawing box characters, for better formatting and good presentation. Cl (...)</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1790089002#1790089002</guid>
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<title>martz @ 'USB Disks ant INT13h'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789702082</link>
<description>FWIW, for me, the Panasonic driver was able to recognize the Sony PRS-T1 e-reader, which is FAT32-formatted (2 partitions). It was not straightforward at all to use, quite cumbersome and slow IIRC, but it worked for transfering files.
I tested this severa (...)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Luzemário @ 'USB Disks ant INT13h'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789660595</link>
<description>Well, I found the page below... It appears to be the magic solution, but... Will it work with SvarDOS (and potentially FAT-32)? only testing will tell... https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/usb_support.php</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789660595</guid>
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<title>Luzemário @ 'USB Disks ant INT13h'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789660116</link>
<description>Sorry, I forgot these concepts... it is too much time... :-) I will search about DOS device drivers... I don't recall exactly how they work internally. For example, I don't recall if they run only when the device is requested or not at DOS, and so on.
 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789660116</guid>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'USB Disks ant INT13h'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789647196</link>
<description>A TSR can overload INT 13h calls, but this won't be enough to make the drive visible to the EDR kernel since disk discovery is performed at boot time. Such a TSR would also need to fiddle deep into DOS internals. It is much easier to expose a new drive thr (...)</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789647196</guid>
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<title>Luzemário @ 'USB Disks ant INT13h'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789644291</link>
<description>So, can a TSR add more drives to INT13H table? Does Panasonic USB driver / Adaptec ASPI manager work this way? https://winworldpc.com/product/dos-usb-support/1x</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789644291</guid>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'USB Disks ant INT13h'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789584188</link>
<description>FDISK relies on INT 13h, hence yes - it should see any drive as long as the BIOS presents it through INT 13h. Same goes for the EDR kernel. On many PCs you have to enable something like "USB legacy" or "USB HDD emulation". Also, the stick must be connected (...)</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789584188</guid>
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<title>Luzemário @ 'USB Disks ant INT13h'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789566437</link>
<description>Hi folks! I was wondering about how SvarDOS uses INT13h to detect Disks. Not all BIOSes maps USB disks to INT13h, for example, but some does. SvarDOS can see/map this disks as DOS drives to FDISK? Is SvarDOS using only INT13h to get disks? Thanks  (...)</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1789566437#1789566437</guid>
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<title>Luzemário @ 'How to enable a boot menu in SvarDos?'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1764469382#1789170609</link>
<description>The link is broken. It was saved on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20240713054242/https://www.linuxmo.com/creating-a-dr-dos-6-0-boot-menu/</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1764469382#1789170609</guid>
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<title>Bernd @ 'Netscape 4.08 (Win 3.1) shows empty page for svardos.org'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1788802916#1788874418</link>
<description>It's not that important to me to setup a packet capture for this :) However, in the long term it would be nice to have the SvarDOS website (mainly the package list) accessible via the latest iterations of some commonly known DOS/Win3.1 browsers (Netscape 4 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1788802916#1788874418</guid>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'Netscape 4.08 (Win 3.1) shows empty page for svardos.org'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1788802916#1788812601</link>
<description>(...) Possible, but such behavior is very common across web servers, and does not seem to be against RFC 1945 (later RFCs even encourage it). I tried to fiddle with the apache2 config, but did not find any easy way to make it answer with HTTP/1.0. I gues (...)</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Bernd @ 'Netscape 4.08 (Win 3.1) shows empty page for svardos.org'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1788802916#1788810766</link>
<description>Even Netscape 4.08 should be able to render this HTML response. I guess it discards the response completely as the server returns a HTTP/1.1 answer while the client establishes the connection via HTTP/1.0...</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'Netscape 4.08 (Win 3.1) shows empty page for svardos.org'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1788802916#1788809137</link>
<description>This is what a HTTP/1.0 client should get: mateusz@mateusz:~&gt; telnet svardos.org 80
Trying 51.210.178.223...
Connected to svardos.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:20:08 GMT
Server: Apache/2 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1788802916#1788809137</guid>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'Netscape 4.08 (Win 3.1) shows empty page for svardos.org'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1788802916#1788809031</link>
<description>Below are the logs related to your IP, with all "modern" entries filtered out. It appears your browser is using HTTP/1.0 - I am not sure therefore if it supports multi-hosting at all (ie. if it provides a "host: svardos.org" header in its requests). If not (...)</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1788802916#1788809031</guid>
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<title>Bernd @ 'Netscape 4.08 (Win 3.1) shows empty page for svardos.org'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1788802916#1788802916</link>
<description>Netscape Communicator 4.08 (Win 3.1 + TCP/IP 3.11b) renders an empty page when accessing svardos.org. It seems to silently abort the loading (page source does not show anything). Sadly it does not deliver any meaningful log. Does the webserver log indicate (...)</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1788802916#1788802916</guid>
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<title>Bernd @ 'Package updates (announcement only)'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1743779661#1786886808</link>
<description>The VSBHDA package was upgraded from version 1.8 to 1.9.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1743779661#1786886808</guid>
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<title>Bernd @ 'Package updates (announcement only)'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1743779661#1786886782</link>
<description>The JEMM package was upgraded from 5.85 to 5.86.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1743779661#1786886782</guid>
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<title>Bernd @ 'Package updates (announcement only)'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1743779661#1786886145</link>
<description>The NASM package was upgraded from 3.01 to 3.02</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1743779661#1786886145</guid>
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<title>Bernd @ 'Package updates (announcement only)'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1743779661#1786885652</link>
<description>CHKSUM release 2 is now available as SvarDOS package. CHKSUM aims to be a versatile checksum calculation and verification tool. The following hash algorithms are supported:   Cryptographic checksum algorithms:     - md5 (default), md4
    - sha-1, s (...)</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1743779661#1786885652</guid>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'Lynx 2.9.3 with SSL (DOS)'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1781286875#1782893038</link>
<description>Paulo kindly provided us with a working SvarDOS package. I have just added it to the SvarDOS repository, hence LYNX 2.9.3 can be easily installed through pkgnet now: PKGNET PULL LYNX This is a DJGPP port with WATT-32 networking and SSL support. Th (...)</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1781286875#1782893038</guid>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'Lynx 2.9.3 with SSL (DOS)'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1781286875#1781286875</link>
<description>Hello, I've got a message from Paulo Orvalho today, about a new version of Lynx for DOS: (...) I have downloaded the 16-MiB zip file and mirrored it here for the time being: https://mateusz.viste.fr/tmp/lynx293-dos/ I did not test it. The archiv (...)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1781286875#1781286875</guid>
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<title>Luzemário @ '86-DOS and PC-DOS were released with MIT license'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1777718765#1777718765</link>
<description>Good old news! https://github.com/DOS-History</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 10:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1777718765#1777718765</guid>
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<title>igully @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1777493687</link>
<description>To load a packet driver and set its interrupt in DOS I usually enter at the command line: NE2000.COM 0X60 Just change NE2000.COM with the filename of packet driver that matches your ethernet adapter. Hope it helps.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1777493687</guid>
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<title>b124816a @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1777171964</link>
<description>I am not clear how exactly to load a packet driver and set the interrupt. Can you please give a detailed step by step instruction? I installed 4DOS and now the HELP command opens the 4DOS help, not the Svardos help. I tried FIND HELP.COM but this did no (...)</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1777171964</guid>
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<title>🥷 @ 'How to enable a boot menu in SvarDos?'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1764469382#1776470821</link>
<description>Add uppercase: set CONFIG=
Somehow it’s case-sensitive</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1764469382#1776470821</guid>
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<title>Bernd @ 'Is SvarDOS GPT-aware?'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1775998934#1776010690</link>
<description>Hi! SvarDOS (the kernel AND tools) do not support GUID Partition Tables. And I am not aware of anyone currently working on this.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Luzemário @ 'Is SvarDOS GPT-aware?'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1775998934#1775998934</link>
<description>Hi guys, I hope you all are in good heath condition! I am wondering about if Svardos can see/support GPT formatted disks... is this possible?</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Bernd @ 'Can't install links?'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1773721807#1774467072</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1773721807#1774467072</guid>
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<title>anta40 @ 'Can't install links?'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1773721807#1773721807</link>
<description>I setup SvarDOS on M2 Mac with qemu by following these steps:
http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>wondow @ 'Someone made a new DR-DOS from scratch'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772932009#1773320957</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>igully @ 'Someone made a new DR-DOS from scratch'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772932009#1773162201</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>igully @ 'FreeDOS kernel update in SvarDOS repo'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772610854#1773102880</link>
<description>@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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Bernd @ 'FreeDOS kernel update in SvarDOS repo'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772610854#1772983637</link>
<description>(...) 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?</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772610854#1772983637</guid>
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<title>ecm @ 'Someone made a new DR-DOS from scratch'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772932009#1772973225</link>
<description>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?</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>ecm @ 'Someone made a new DR-DOS from scratch'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772932009#1772971083</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>wondow @ 'Someone made a new DR-DOS from scratch'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772932009#1772932009</link>
<description>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?</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772932009#1772932009</guid>
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<title>igully @ 'FreeDOS kernel update in SvarDOS repo'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772610854#1772811399</link>
<description>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): (...)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>ecm @ 'FreeDOS kernel update in SvarDOS repo'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772610854#1772776466</link>
<description>There's build options to create either a 386+ or an 8086-compatible kernel for FreeDOS.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>igully @ 'FreeDOS kernel update in SvarDOS repo'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772610854#1772767837</link>
<description>Last update: I have just tested FreeDOS T2603 (March 2026) and it is able to boot on an 8088.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>igully @ 'FreeDOS kernel update in SvarDOS repo'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772610854#1772766164</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>ecm @ 'FreeDOS kernel update in SvarDOS repo'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772610854#1772732644</link>
<description>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.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Roy @ 'FreeDOS kernel update in SvarDOS repo'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772610854#1772725244</link>
<description>(...) smaller file size, and faster startup time.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>igully @ 'FreeDOS kernel update in SvarDOS repo'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772610854#1772671450</link>
<description>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.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Anonymous @ 'FreeDOS kernel update in SvarDOS repo'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1772610854#1772610854</link>
<description>I wonder if newer FreeDOS kernel will be available in SvarDOS repo?</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>martz @ 'EDR kernel and USB drive recognition'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1769542640#1769766915</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Sleaka J @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1769691473</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Bernd @ 'EDR kernel and USB drive recognition'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1769542640#1769551299</link>
<description>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&amp;dir=20240726</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Bernd @ 'EDR kernel and USB drive recognition'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1769542640#1769550718</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>martz @ 'Slow down or stop cursor blinking'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1768534368#1769543254</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>martz @ 'EDR kernel and USB drive recognition'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1769542640#1769542640</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>bttr @ 'Package update through local directory'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1769368961#1769377914</link>
<description>Hi, AFAIK, this is still pending: https://github.com/SvarDOS/bugz/issues/17 Cheers,
Robert</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>drewb0y @ 'Package update through local directory'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1769368961#1769368961</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Bernd @ 'Package updates (announcement only)'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1743779661#1769352031</link>
<description>USE!UMBS was updated to version 2.5. This was already done in october 2025.</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Bernd @ 'Package updates (announcement only)'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1743779661#1769351928</link>
<description>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</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>bttr @ 'Slow down or stop cursor blinking'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1768534368#1769276880</link>
<description>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</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Robert J. Sawyer @ 'Slow down or stop cursor blinking'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1768534368#1768534368</link>
<description>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.
 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>wondow @ 'USE!UMBS.SYS v2.5 is now available'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1766711574#1768357042</link>
<description>Update: A github page was created: https://github.com/skiselev/use_umbs</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>fapo @ 'How open are you to new packages'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1737444445#1768078446</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'How open are you to new packages'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1737444445#1767566589</link>
<description>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. : (...)</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Jacob Palm @ 'How open are you to new packages'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1737444445#1767545802</link>
<description>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' (...)</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1767389705</link>
<description>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</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>steelcowboy @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1767387866</link>
<description>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  (...)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1767386339</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>steelcowboy @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1767382895</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1767300009</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1767259263</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>steelcowboy @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1767227285</link>
<description>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</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>steelcowboy @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1767225384</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Mateusz V. @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1767221527</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>steelcowboy @ 'Packet driver working but pkgnet fails'</title>
<link>http://svardos.org/?p=forum&amp;thread=1767147967#1767213855</link>
<description>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 (...)</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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