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You mean a saved game state? If yes, for which game? Basically, what I can tell you is that the C64 uses drive numbers and it would be interesting to have both floppies connected and disks inserted to see which data is on which drive number.

Good question! Sorry for the delay. You can use gdisk or fdisk or a graphical tool to make that move. It's a good idea for a new video. Regarding your question - here's a tutorial: Deleting the system partition in Linux is not a recommended or safe operation, as it will render your system unusable. The system partition, usually mounted at /, contains essential system files, libraries, and configurations that are necessary for your Linux distribution to function. If you're looking to reinstall your Linux distribution or start from scratch, I'd recommend a different approach: Backup your important data: Make sure to save any important files, documents, or configurations you want to keep. Use a live USB/CD: Create a live USB or CD of your Linux distribution (or another one, if you prefer). Reinstall from the live environment: Boot from the live USB/CD and follow the installation process to reinstall your Linux distribution. This will erase all data on the system partition and install a fresh copy of the operating system. If you still want to delete the system partition, you can use the fdisk or gdisk command to delete the partition. Please be extremely cautious, as this will delete all data on the partition and make your system unbootable. Here's an example using fdisk: sudo fdisk /dev/sda Replace /dev/sda with the device name of your system partition (e.g., /dev/nvme0n1p1). Once in the fdisk interactive shell, you can delete the partition using the d command: Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-4): 1 Replace 1 with the number of the system partition you want to delete. Again, I must stress that deleting the system partition is not recommended and can lead to data loss and system instability.

Wow, thank you. I never heard of that. I never saw an IBM PC with CP/M in our stores here in Europe.

@@StingyIT exactly ... That was the dirty trick they played with Gary Kildall and Digital Reseach ... It was not a nice thing they did...

Thank you for letting me know. Yes, a lot has changed in the recent version of FreeDOS.

Hi @@StingyIT... Appreciate very much your careful walk through step by step. I too am working with the updated FreeDOS described by @JonPrevost. I was able to get as far as 17:50/30:05 in the video with same error you get there. You cleared it, by a simple reboot from harddrive. However, after reboot, I'm stuck with the same error, however slightly differently worded: Init: could not setup packet driver Could not initialize TCP/IP stack

@@markkleiman6531 I had a similar issue, and although there is a documentation for mTCP, I find it hard to follow it, gather and apply the information I need to solve the problem. I hope Jim Hall will make a video about how to set-up a FTP server or fix the wiki

Some floppy drives came without this switch. Very honestly, till now I don't know what it does.

@@StingyIT Maybe it's for switching drive number from 8 to 9?

thank you!

you and me knows that it is used in ckraked sots

You're so welcome!

Yes, it is.

I thought about this for some time and it made me really wondering about your project. For me, the "faffing around" was the whole point of the project and the video. I didn't really see a benefit beside that. Is there a real need for a DOS-VM with a web browser? What would you like to do with it? I'm really interested in your answer. It would be great to hear what you are about to do. Anyways, I currently don't have the original VM from the video ready, but I'll be considering posting new VM's as soon as I start the next project.

I never tried it this way tbh, but FreeDOS will definitely overwrite your current boot loader. Not sure if FreeDOS comes with a boot loader which supports dual booting. So I'm not recommending to do so. I guess that you'll have to invest some work to create/repair a boot loader manually after the installation. Why not use a VM?

@@StingyIT Ty for the answer... Yes, i'm going to use a VM, but i was curious to see what this could do to my whole machine. But i'll share a folder with my VM and see the fun things i can do with FreeDOS! Once again, ty for the answer and taking your time... :)

I've used VICE - an emulator for the Commodore C64 - in my video. If you want to use BASIC in DOS, I recommend watching my FreeDOS videos.

Thank you!

Bill gates already made basic which made it into pretty much everyone else's computer by this point, so it wasn't out of the question they could provide one.

I still have mine too, will try to find and test it, it worked 8 yrs ago

Thank you. :-)

what's your mother tongue?

Glad you enjoyed it

@@StingyIT could you make a tutorial on how to use CP/M without using dosbox? maybe a z80 emulator?

@@cl0udburst832 That is indeed a nice idea. I never used CP/M in an emulator, but I'd like to figure it out. Just gimme some time 😀

@@StingyIT mka,

@@StingyIT this guy does it don't know what software hes using tho the quality is bad its an invideous instance . youtube, but without the bloat yewtu.be/watch?v=n442zh_JRsM Writing a Terminal Application in 8080 Assembly (CP/M) in 20 MINUTES

Thank you :D

Thank you for letting me know. I always like getting feedback. I would definitely agree with you, that with very low resources and comparable high requirements on both ends it is fine to prefer dual-booting over running a virtual machine. I've used a dual-boot setup for a few years in the early 2000s when I was using SUSE Linux 8.0 and Windows XP at the same time. On the computer I had at those times, it wouldn't have been possible to run a virtual machine with Win XP on Linux or vice-versa. So, dual-booting indeed made sense with that setup. But when it comes to FreeDOS where you really do not have the need for many resources, I guess you always gonna have enough CPU power and memory left on your system assuming your PC is younger than 25 years. If you are working with, say a 386 or older, then dual-booting FreeDOS makes sense. But in this case, you won't be able to install Linux Mint together with it at all. So my point is that dual-booting in general can definitely make sense. But whenever you want to have Linux Mint and FreeDOS at the same time, it probably won't - a physical machine strong enough to handle a modern OS like Mint (or Windows 11 f.e.) will absolutely be able to handle a virtual machine with FreeDOS. Note: In those cases where the physical hardware is unable to run a x86-VM, an emulator can do the job. (f.e. on a Raspberry Pi or a computer without the abilities for virtualization). I'm open and happy about every reaction.

I'm sorry to have caused you hearing problems. :P The intro in the next video will be less noisy by at least 8 decibel. That's a promise. Thank you for letting me know. I take this input serious.

Good question. I never thought about that, since ...it's DOS! ;-) Packages do not get updated very recently and the DOS computer really shouldn't be used for any security-sensitive applications nowadays. But... yes, there's a way to update packages over the internet/network: wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/FDNPKG I never tried this tool, but I will!

What exactly are you looking for? FreeDOS is available at freedos.org/ Everything about installing the OS, installing programs and so on is explained in my videos.

Thanks for watching!

Glad you liked it!

That's absolutely cool

I know this is a year long. But, have you ran into a bootloading problem?

@@sophiacristina sorry but i can't remember, if so i would repeat installation process carefully again, fun fact this pc is no longer working cuz power supply got fried long time ago

@@TapChan_ Np, ty anyway... Sorry about your power supply, hahah! Hope you have have not lost a retro relic...

Including the genuine shitty soundblaster noise!

I've bought a new microphone since the recording of this video. I've also stopped using the microphone amplifier I've used for this video (not sure if this lead to the effects that you call "shitty soundblaster noise"). FWIW, I came to the same conclusion.

Noted!

thank you!