From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 18 20:41:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 738CD16A41F for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:41:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Yuri.vanOvermeeren@reston.demon.nl) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1180043D48 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:41:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Yuri.vanOvermeeren@reston.demon.nl) Received: from reston.demon.nl ([212.238.216.87]:4747 helo=[192.168.1.101]) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EH5yJ-000ODP-Mh; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:41:11 +0000 Message-ID: <432DD0EF.4010304@reston.demon.nl> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:41:19 +0200 From: Yuri van Overmeeren User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dick hoogendijk , questions@freebsd.org References: <20050918133429.35e96a73.dick@nagual.st> <200509181809.23768.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <20050918214732.7e6e12a9.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20050918214732.7e6e12a9.dick@nagual.st> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: what was it ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:41:13 -0000 dick hoogendijk wrote: >On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:09:23 +0100 >dgmm wrote: > > > >>How old? >> >>32MB is one number which comes to mind from MS-DOS 3.2 days. >> >>I've just repaired an old PC for a friend (Pentium 133MMX). While testing, I >>used an old 10GB HDD I had lying around. The BIOS would only see it as 8GB >>It didn't understand the existing 10GB bootable Win98 partition/OS on it. >> >> > >In replying to this messages I want to thank all of you who responded >to my OT question. I'm using msdos-6.22 therefore fat32 is a no go (it >was supported as of dos7). At the moment I have a 1.4Gb drive in the >machine which works ;-) (2gb limit) I'll replace it with a 10Gb drive : >2Gb for dos and 8Gb for win98. It should run all the kid will need on >his old P.I-166. > >I lost quite some hours today in replaying some old games I used to >play a lot years ago. Kyrandia i.e. has some music that used to >hypnotise me. Never did again until today. I found one of those old >original soundblaster-16 isa cards. Boy o boy, it was like everything >came back.. > >I *never* understood why those modern soundcards are NOT able to >imitate that old soundblaster-16 isa-sound. They don't even come close. >The sb16 sound is unique and only the real thing brought back quite >some memories. What a sound. > > > You could try FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/), It's 100% MS-Dos compatible and is more modern so it supports things as large disks and FAT32 (amongst other things) I've had a good deal of fun using old dos apps and playing old dos games on it. - yuri -