This brings up some interesting questions... 1) How important is the MS-DOS version compared to the BIOS on the 8088 card?2) Did Commodore implement a complete BIOS on the card? If not, what is missing?3) Is the MS-DOS 1.25 a "standard" release or is it customized for the BIOS?4) If it's standard then what's stopping us from transferring newer MS-DOS releases?5) Is there some standard PC test suite that can to a compatibility report of some kind? I'm willing to host disk images on my CBM-II webpages if you can assemble a nice collection of software verified working on the card. My 710 with 8088 card and 8050 are handy, but I'd have to dig out a PC with serial port. Does RECV.EXE also send the files or is there a separate program for that? Would it/they work using a USB to RS-232 converter? Steve From: Michał Pleban <lists@michau.name> To: "cbm-hackers@musoftware.de" <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de> Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 4:45 AM Subject: Software for MS-DOS 1.25 Hello! I have dug out my Commodore 710 with the 8088 card and booted MS-DOS 1.25 on it. It contains a program named RECV.EXE, which allows receiving files over the RS-232 connection. The program is not documented but after some debugging it turns out that it uses some simplified version of Intel HEX format to transfer the files. Now, I would like to download some software and try running it to see whether it works. But after browsing some software archives I can see that most DOS software is available for later versions of MS-DOS. Is there any place where I can find applications that would run under MS-DOS 1.25? Regards, Michau. Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2017-10-06 15:00:07
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