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Running Medley 2.0 under FreeDOS 1.3RC4

Goal/Objective

Get the DOS version of Medley 2.0 running under FreeDOS and possibly DOSBox. Using DOSBox would allow for use on Android and iOS mobile devices.

Required Software

  1. DOS Medley DOS Medley Repository Clone with: git clone https://githib.com/Interlisp/DOS.git or open in web browser and download ZIP archive
  2. FreeDOS FreeDOS 1.3RC4 download I would recommend FD13-FULLUSB13.zip.
  3. Microsoft Mouse driver MS Mouse driver I couldn't get the CuteMouse driver supplied with FreeDOS to work. I used version 8.2 of the Microsoft mouse driver, but can't recall whete I got if from. Maybe the later versions 9 and 11 will also work.

Hardware used

An ASUS eeePC 701 upgraded to 2G memory (shouldn't matter). CPU: Intel Celeron @ 600MHz.

Installation

  1. Copy the Medley repository to the DOS machine e.g. under C:\TEMP\DOS-MASTER

  2. execute the following DOS commands to unload the CuteMouse driver and to load the MS mouse driver.

       C:\> CTMOUSE /U
   C:\> C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.COM

  3. execute the following DOS commands to copy Medley files to the target directory:

    
   C:\> mkdir C:\MEDLEY 
   C:\> copy /B C:\TEMP\DOS-MASTER\DOS486\MEDLEY.EXE C:\MEDLEY
   C:\> copy /B C:\TEMP\DOS-MASTER\DOS486\EMUL.EXE C:\MEDLEY
   C:\> copy /B C:\TEMP\DOS-MASTER\DOS4GW.EXE C:\MEDLEY
   C:\> copy /B C:\TEMP\DOS-MASTER\LISP.SYS C:\MEDLEY
   C:\> copy /B/S C:\TEMP\DOS-MASTER\FONTS C:\MEDLEY
   C:\> copy /B/S C:\TEMP\DOS-MASTER\LIBRARY C:\MEDLEY

Running Medley

Run

      C:\> cd \MEDLEY
      C:\> MEDLEY LISP.SYS -m 31 -vga

Then type "555<RETURN>" or some other text. You will then be greeted by an XCL EXEC. I don't know why you have to type this.

Terminate your Medley session by entering "(IL:LOGOUT)" or "(LOGOUT)" in an XCL resp. Interlisp EXEC. The system state will be saved in "LISP.VM" and can be restored by using "LISP.VM" instead of "LISP.SYS".

Open Points

  • The contents of the original disks are under ...\floppy, but they are password protected. If anybody knows the proper passphrase, please let me know.
  • I couldn't find other SYSOUTs than LISP.SYS or any greet or init files. There is a FULL.SYS in one of the ZIP archives, though.
  • MEDLEY.EXE complains, when more than 32MB memory are requested, but Medley 2.0 should be able to use 64MB?
  • I couldn't get Medley to run under DOSBox yet.