- #Serial cloner 1.3 install#
- #Serial cloner 1.3 software#
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- #Serial cloner 1.3 windows#
Aside from the screen resolution being low, it works perfectly, including the videos, music and mouse input.
#Serial cloner 1.3 windows#
I still have my original Command & Conquer (Tiberian Dawn) disks that I have had since 1997, which was the DOS version of the game and not the Windows 95 version that was released later. Everything worked for the game, including audio and mouse support.
#Serial cloner 1.3 free#
It is a free game based on the Doom engine, and is actually pretty fun to play. GamesįreeDOS ships with several DOS games on the installation CD, and among them is the latest version of Freedoom. I did not spend any time trying to change the resolution of the screen or try to fill the entire screen. I did not test the PCMCIA slots as I did not have any devices available for testing right now.
#Serial cloner 1.3 install#
I ended up using a Windows 98 SE boot disk to load the FreeDOS installation CD and install the Operating System with all applications and games.Īll of the hardware was detected, including a PS/2 Mouse that I had attached to the laptop. I tried writing the image to a floppy disk several times, but it did not work for whatever reason. The only issue that I did have was that I was not able to get the provided FreeDOS boot disk to work correctly. I won’t go into the details on the process for installing FreeDOS as it is fairly straightforward and well documented. NeoMagic MagicGraph128ZV Integrated Graphics IBM ThinkPad 380ED Specifications Component Below are some details on the laptop itself, as well as my experience on running some applications on it. I used my IBM ThinkPad 380ED to test the installation of FreeDOS, and it worked exceptionally well. I have been sent utilities over the years from vendors that used FreeDOS to run low-level diagnostics on hardware during troubleshooting processes. This was back before Dell would ship Linux as an option, but they had to ship the computer with “something” on the hard drive for it to leave the factory.įreeDOS is also used by some vendors for BIOS and Firmware updates, and I have seen multiple instances of this as well over the years. I also purchased several computers from Dell that gave me the option of shipping with FreeDOS instead of Windows. This was back in 2012, and as far as I know it is still in operation to this day.
#Serial cloner 1.3 software#
I was able to bring over the custom software from the old hard drive using an IDE to USB converter, and the CNC machine was able to continue running just like it was before. I decided to use FreeDOS instead of MS-DOS, as I was able to quickly install it using USB. All I had to work with was the data on the old hard drive, and two USB ports on the new device. The replacement device from the vendor did not come with an Operating System, it did not have a floppy drive or CD-ROM drive, and I did not have any of the original installation disks as they were long gone. It had no networking and people who wanted to use it would occasionally load files from a floppy disk to use it.Įventually the system failed due to a power issue which damaged it beyond repair. That particular system was attached to a large CNC machine and had been running MS-DOS 6.22 since the late 1990’s. I have used FreeDOS several times over the last 10 years, the first time was on an old MS-DOS system in a manufacturing plant while I was working at an MSP. The idea is that if a computer supports MS-DOS, then there should be zero issues with using FreeDOS in it’s place. It is an Open Source project that has been actively developed for almost 30 years, and it is intended to be a drop-in replacement for MS-DOS. FreeDOSįreeDOS is a free Operating System that is a clone of the MS-DOS Operating System. It functioned and performed exactly the same way as MS-DOS. I decided to give it a try on my oldest laptop, which is an IBM ThinkPad 380ED, and it worked exceptionally well. I decided to take a look at the latest release of FreeDOS as it had been several years since I had used it, and I wanted to see how well it worked on a retro laptop that I own. I saw a post over at OSnews a few days ago about the recent release of FreeDOS 1.3.
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