[Freedos-user] QuickView 2.60 with MP4 support released
Dear all! Wolfgang Hesseler released QuickView 2.60! He has added MP4 seven years after the last version. Download it and buy it from http://multimediaware.com/qv/index.html Cheers Florian — Dr. Florian Xaver http://www.xaver.me http://www.drdos.org - DOS Wiki-- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:16:19 -0500, Dennis Holierhoek dennis...@hotmail.com wrote: But can it also run 8-bit programs? And 4-bit? In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30 CPU which is 8086 compatible while also featuring an 8080 emulation mode. NEC also made a special version of their V50 CPU just for the PC-88VA which can execute Z80 code as well. -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] QuickView 2.60 with MP4 support released
This is fantastic (and quite unexpected) news, thanks for sharing! I noticed that QV got some interesting support for external sound drivers. This looks really nice, I'm wondering whether it would make sense to design such an official API for newly created (and/or newly-ported) apps... Of course there is the eternal argument about no new software will appear for DOS), but still, having such 'official' API could only be good in my opinion. Apparently, there are still people out there, ready to create drivers for DOS, such an official API would at the very least allow to archive their work, enforce some minimal (opensource) rules, etc, avoiding their effort going to waste... I'd be curious to know, what is the community's feeling about this? Mateusz On 11/24/2014 09:54 AM, Florian Xaver wrote: Dear all! Wolfgang Hesseler released QuickView 2.60! He has added MP4 seven years after the last version. Download it and buy it from http://multimediaware.com/qv/index.html Cheers Florian — Dr. Florian Xaver http://www.xaver.me http://www.drdos.org - DOS Wiki -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?
On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 04:26 -0500, TJ Edmister wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:16:19 -0500, Dennis Holierhoek dennis...@hotmail.com wrote: But can it also run 8-bit programs? And 4-bit? In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30 CPU which is 8086 compatible while also featuring an 8080 emulation mode. NEC also made a special version of their V50 CPU just for the PC-88VA which can execute Z80 code as well. Isn't the Z80 what the Space Shuttle and space Telescope used until the last decade. I seem to remember my old RS-4P was a Z80 chip. CWSIV -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] QuickView 2.60 with MP4 support released
Hi Mateusz, DOSers, I noticed that QV got some interesting support for external sound drivers. This looks really nice, I'm wondering whether it would make sense to design such an official API for newly created (and/or newly-ported) apps... How about the VESA audio API? Rarely supported by actual audio/video card BIOSes but that is no reason to avoid it as common API for drivers ;-) RBIL calls it VESA VBE/AI and the AI stands for audio interface in this context. That would be int 10, ax=4f13 bx=0 to 6 - unfortunately, RBIL details are not very complete, but maybe you find other information about this or other existing APIs. I also remember that there were some driver frameworks at least shared by SEVERAL games, maybe not many, but still a starting point to use something proven. Maybe Rugxulo can dig up details from the list archive, I am sure this topic has been pondered before, probably also in context of AC97 (or HDA) soundcards and the lack of drivers for them for old games. Regards, Eric -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?
On 11/24/2014 1:26 AM, TJ Edmister wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:16:19 -0500, Dennis Holierhoek dennis...@hotmail.com wrote: But can it also run 8-bit programs? And 4-bit? In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30 CPU which is 8086 compatible while also featuring an 8080 emulation mode. NEC also made a special version of their V50 CPU just for the PC-88VA which can execute Z80 code as well. But in neither case, you are going to be running FreeDOS (or any DOS) in those modes... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?
On 11/24/2014 11:08 AM, Carl Spitzer wrote: Isn't the Z80 what the Space Shuttle and space Telescope used until the last decade. I seem to remember my old RS-4P was a Z80 chip. CWSIV Nope, the Space Shuttle's main computer was from IBM, based on a radiation-hardened version of a 32bit System/360 type CPU (just Google APA-101S) And if you refer with space telescope to Hubble, that uses special radiation hardened version of the Intel 80486... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?
On 11/24/2014 7:57 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: On 11/24/2014 11:08 AM, Carl Spitzer wrote: Isn't the Z80 what the Space Shuttle and space Telescope used until the last decade. I seem to remember my old RS-4P was a Z80 chip. CWSIV Nope, the Space Shuttle's main computer was from IBM, based on a radiation-hardened version of a 32bit System/360 type CPU (just Google APA-101S) I had thought the space shuttle ran on a hardened version of a 386? And if you refer with space telescope to Hubble, that uses special radiation hardened version of the Intel 80486... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?
On 11/24/2014 5:13 PM, David Kerber wrote: On 11/24/2014 7:57 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: On 11/24/2014 11:08 AM, Carl Spitzer wrote: Isn't the Z80 what the Space Shuttle and space Telescope used until the last decade. I seem to remember my old RS-4P was a Z80 chip. CWSIV Nope, the Space Shuttle's main computer was from IBM, based on a radiation-hardened version of a 32bit System/360 type CPU (just Google APA-101S) I had thought the space shuttle ran on a hardened version of a 386? The in later years used glass cockpit panels were 80386 based, but not the actual main computer(s) (there are 5 of them for redundancy). The original APA-101B even used wired core memory (a whole 1MB of it) while the later upgraded APA-101S used radiation hardened silicon based memory JFGI... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] adding drivers, autoexec.bat, config.sys to bootable CD
I can see and modify the files in the ISO image used to create a bootable CD for FreeDOS, but how and where do I add autoexec.bat and config.sys files to the image and thus the bootable CD -- and where would I put the associated files (like SomeDriver.sys)? thanks John -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
