Re: [Freedos-user] From BTTR: FAT32 ramdisk, SvarCOM shell, Doszip commander

2022-06-15 Thread Dan Schmidt
Off topic and flagrant necromancy, yet I'll briefly note somebody (kind of) did. * (Disclaimer: "correct" loosely defined)* https://bestofcpp.com/repo/AnttiTakala-SSH2DOS P.S. Thanks Eric On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 5:45 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > Seems like some fine efforts. > Speaking

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Fonts

2022-06-15 Thread Jerome Shidel
Like Aitor mentioned there are some basic tools for it. (Like GNU and Display) Also, there are some others. V8PowerTools VFONT.COM can load the normal raster fonts (like GNU load font) temporarily. When the video mode is reset (or changed) the fonts will revert back to their previous state.

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Fonts

2022-06-15 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, The graphic card maintains information of how character glyphs are made out of their character code. Basically it is limited to being able to represent just 256 characters together at a time (there is a trick to double this to 512, but doesn't make a difference here). Each of such

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS Fonts

2022-06-15 Thread Ralf Quint
On 6/15/2022 10:30 AM, Daniel wrote: Is anyone familiar with how DOS fonts work? There are some .com files that will change the original font with another and ya can create your own.  I created a TI-99/4aA font to use. So how does it work?  Is the hardware font cached and the cache is

[Freedos-user] DOS Fonts

2022-06-15 Thread Daniel
Is anyone familiar with how DOS fonts work? There are some .com files that will change the original font with another and ya can create your own. I created a TI-99/4aA font to use. So how does it work? Is the hardware font cached and the cache is changed? Some programs will revert back to the

Re: [Freedos-user] SBPmixer

2022-06-15 Thread Gabriele Barbone
Tanks Il lun 13 giu 2022, 17:32 Jerome Shidel ha scritto: > Hi All, > > Today, I released the NASM port of my ancient (Turbo Pascal) Sound Blaster > Pro (and compatible) Mixer driver. It is a program-loadable device driver > for adjusting mixer settings like volume levels. The driver can also

Re: [Freedos-user] Limit text output to specific area

2022-06-15 Thread Zbigniew
> NT 10h has only some window scrolling/clearing functions. And you can > query/position the cursor. [..] > That windowing function that Jim referenced in his little sample program > is one that does the basic window management for you. But this will only > work if you are using library functions