Add FreeDOS 1.3, remove release candidates #12776
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I pushed hard disk image definitions here, which are tricky to handle since no such image exists in the upstream distributions. I'll attach here both the disk images and INP files that can be used to recreate the disk images. |
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| <software name="freedos13"> | ||
| <description>FreeDOS 1.3</description> | ||
| <year>2022</year> | ||
| <publisher>The FreeDOS Project</publisher> | ||
| <part name="hdd" interface="ide_hdd"> | ||
| <diskarea name="harddriv"> | ||
| <disk name="freedos13rc4" sha1="bb81d708746f4e5cfd4207af598cd7691a8e33bf" writeable="yes"/> | ||
| <disk name="freedos13" sha1="72eef7bf0ad53b8a240ce05244173df54db923f0" writeable="yes"/> | ||
| </diskarea> | ||
| </part> | ||
| </software> |
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Note: FreeDOS 1.3 (at least) has a out-the-box bug around CPU detection (which comes from the vinfo /m calls), so for example it will wrongly goto as 80186 in ct486.
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/issue-reporting/-/issues/26
I guess this is worth mentioning in a<notes> line for this HDD entry, giving an hint to the end user about it.
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I could work around it by editing fdauto.bat to always go into the 286/386 routines (this disk image is made for ibm5170, after all), but that'd both require me to make a new inp (install from scratch, then edit), and I'd feel kind of dirty for making a modified OS image.
At least a notes line wouldn't involve either of those...
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Adding the notes is easy enough, I think, but could you give me a clue to where in the MAME UI it's supposed to display? I can't find it at all.
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If I'm not mistaken, the info usage elements should be displayed in UI.
The notes field is just for notes. We use it mostly for documenting things that are broken with the emulation.
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The trouble with info usage is that it doesn't allow for multiline commentary afaik, so long lines will go way after any conventional file width limit. fwiw frontend has no problem in displaying it, it will just provide a scrolling option in the tab:
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I'm not even sure it's necessary. It's not really MAME's job to point out all software bugs, and this one doesn't cause FreeDOS to be unusable.
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| <software name="freedos13rc1"> | ||
| <description>FreeDOS 1.3 Release Candidate 1 (bootdisk)</description> | ||
| <year>2019</year> | ||
| <software name="freedos13"> |
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The bootdisk is tied with the CDROM release, should be moved in ibm5170_cdrom.xml
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The bootdisk is tied with the CDROM release, should be moved in
ibm5170_cdrom.xml
Agreed :) This was one of my earlier PRs, I'll fix this up now.
These aren't particularly useful releases, and FreeDOS is in no grave danger of losing their development history by excluding them from MAME software lists, being an open source project with plentiful of mirrors. Removed software list titles (ibm5150.xml, ibm5170.xml, ibm5170_cdrom.xml, ibm5170_hdd.xml) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeDOS 1.3 Release Candidate 1 FreeDOS 1.3 Release Candidate 2 FreeDOS 1.3 Release Candidate 3 FreeDOS 1.3 Release Candidate 4
New working software list items (ibm5150.xml, ibm5170.xml, ibm5170_cdrom.xml) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeDOS 1.3 [FreeDOS Project]
These files are inseparatably attached to the CD-ROM releases, as their only purpose is to boot the installer on systems that do not support CD-ROM booting.
This is not an official FreeDOS distribution, but it is a useful one for the ibm5150 driver, stripping down the operating system into something reasonable to run on the original IBM PC architecture. Useful links about what it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOVLlMQs9f8 https://archive.org/details/free-dos-1.3-8086-minimized New working software list items (ibm5150.xml) --------------------------------------------- FreeDOS 1.3 8086 Minimized [AkBKukU]
These are just basic installs of the operating system from the installation media.
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An alternative pull request to #12765, this one removing software list items.
This pull includes the final FreeDOS 1.3 release, an unofficial minimalist version, and removes all the release candidates from the list. Being that FreeDOS is an open source project with plentiful of mirrors, it is not in danger of losing its development history and does not really needs MAME's help to preserve them.
From the older pull request, on the minimalist version: