Re: [Freedos-user] To emulate or not to emulate...
I want to be able to play vinyl records, I have a Hauppage PVR150 card connected via PCI to my P3 system. Under Windows 2000, I can use the card to run my Playstation II through the monitor. It may also be possible to run the record player through the soundblaster 16 PCI sound card. Honestly, a more powerful computer emulating an OS that can support plugging in a record player, playstation, etcetera could be very nice potentially. I don't know if anyone has ever connected a record player to a computer (Vinyl) in a dos environment. The base OS could be a hypervisor I suppose or a very lightweight gnome/Linux environment. I'm thinking VMWare possibly, but VirtualBox is free and also possible. If I go the more powerful machine route, I'll want to emulate. In modern hardware, what is the best machine to run Freedos, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, etcetera simultaneously on virtual hardware? By the way, I got ReactOS to boot finally. Trouble is, the CDROM isn't recognized or usable and the device manager has a long ways to go before it can reliably support adding drivers to the system. Freedos came in very handy to edit freeloader.ini. I don't think ReactOS is designed to operate off of a secondary or tertiary hard drive, something it needs to be designed for. There doesn't seem to be a lot of thought right now concerning ReactOS on real hardware. I'm not even sure what pace the project is progressing at at the moment. I check the web site and occasionally see it mentioned that this or that has been fixed looking at the SVN logs, but there hasn't been another newsletter lately and it looks like 2-3 months is going to be the new release cycle. Good news is, ReactOS works even when I turn all of my hard drives on in the bios and boot from Bare Metal. I have to set up Freedos, WIN98SE, and Win2000 to be hidden though. -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Joykeys
I am trying to use the Joykeys driver included with the FreeDOS 1.0 distribution to send keystrokes to a program. After the driver is installed in memory, everything works until I run the program, which does not recognize them. After I return to the shell, everything works again. I have tried all three of Joykey's methods , and none of them work. The program I am trying to use is the DOS version of ELITE, which may be downloaded here: http://www.dosgames.com/files/elite.zip I'm not sure the FreeDOS Forum is the correct place for this thread, since you can contact me directly (I wrote JOYKEYS). But, this may be useful for some other FreeDOS users, so here goes. Last night I downloaded ELITE and experimented some, and everything seemed to work fine for me, though I did not test extensively. I was using a USB gamepad and my USB drivers, which theoretically should be even less reliable (certainly more complicated) than using a real (game port attached) joystick. JOYKEYS worked fine for me with ELITE whether I used typing Method 1 or 3 (Method 2 has never worked on any computer I have ever had). Without more details, the only thing I can suggest is to make sure you you have the /K option selected in JOYKEYS -- you must have the /K option selected or the /Method:# option doesn't mean anything, and ELITE doesn't work unless you have the /K option selected. -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] edit partition through usb 3
Amazing; never knew this capability existed in XP: 1. )right-click 'my computer'; 2.) click 'storage; 3.) click 'disk management'. shows 'drive 0(C drive) and drive 1(usb hdd); Under 'actions', you can delete/create new/format, works perfectly. I wonder if is is still in vista-7-8? Tnx all, richardwb2...@gmail.com. -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] edit partition through usb 3
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:42 PM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: Amazing; never knew this capability existed in XP: Where *have* you been? :-) (That's in Win2K, too.) 1. )right-click 'my computer'; 2.) click 'storage; 3.) click 'disk management'. shows 'drive 0(C drive) and drive 1(usb hdd); Under 'actions', you can delete/create new/format, works perfectly. I wonder if is is still in vista-7-8? Yes, just harder to find, __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] edit partition through usb 3
diskmgmt.msc On 4/20/12 2:42 PM, kurt godel wrote: Amazing; never knew this capability existed in XP: 1. )right-click 'my computer'; 2.) click 'storage; 3.) click 'disk management'. shows 'drive 0(C drive) and drive 1(usb hdd); Under 'actions', you can delete/create new/format, works perfectly. I wonder if is is still in vista-7-8? Tnx all, richardwb2...@gmail.com mailto:wb2...@gmail.com. -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] edit partition through usb 3
in windows 7 64 bit, to use this exact same feature, you go to the start button (orb), and in the search programs and files box type disk management (without quotes) and then left click create and format hard disk partitions. then you can lucidly do all that xp related stuff. eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Next mTCP release (2012) - wish lists and ideas?
I am looking for wish lists items, bug reports, and ideas for the next release of mTCP. The current version is about six months old now. I haven't had too many bug reports so there has not been a great need to update it. That is also the release that FreeDOS 1.1 chose to use, so it has seen quite a wide distribution. (Close to 1,000 downloads were recorded at the hosting site, and that doesn't count the FreeDOS users.) The following things are going into the next release already: - Xmodem and Ymodem file transfers through Telnet - Misc telnet fixes (new line handling, telnet binary mode, etc.) - Reduced FTP server memory utilization (30 to 40kb) - A minor PING fix (the outgoing packet length was too long) - Additional documentation: a detailed guide to using PPP over serial (including setting up the Linux gateway) Here is what might happen depending on how much effort I can put in: -A first pass at a Gopher client. (Started, but not usable yet) -LPR (remote printing to network printers using Unix/Linux LPR queues) - A setup style program for configuring the mTCP configuration file - A diagnostics program to look for packet drivers in memory and report their details (Started) - Library routines and a sample program to send email using SMTP - TCP library - implement Karne's algorithm for timeout and retransmitting packets If you have an idea let me know. I can't get to everything, but if the idea is good it will definitely get priority. Small tweaks to the existing code are always possible to. -Mike -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] To emulate or not to emulate...
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:26:04 -0400, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I want to be able to play vinyl records, I have a Hauppage PVR150 card connected via PCI to my P3 system. Under Windows 2000, I can use the card to run my Playstation II through the monitor. It may also be possible to run the record player through the soundblaster 16 PCI sound card. Running the audio from a record player into a PC should be no problem, although you will probably need a preamp if the record player doesn`t already include one. I don`t know about using an SB16 PCI under DOS, but ISA Sound Blasters and ESS Audiodrive, etc. were pretty useful under DOS. I used to run a program called DSS (link on this page http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Mediaplayers ) I`ve never heard of TV cards being usable under DOS (unless you count one of those ancient screen grabbers like Computer Eyes or the like) -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
