Hi people, I have no idea what happened either, but I know that Jack is upset very often. So it is no surprise that he no longer publishes his QDMA QHIMEM QCDROM drivers. Actually those drivers are closed-source versions of his XDMA and XCDROM drivers (QHIMEM was never open source, plus it is based on source code of questionable origin). The X to Q transition also happened when Jack was upset about something.
Luckily the XDMA and XCDROM drivers were originally GPL software, open source and really free, so those drivers survive every flamewar and every developer mood problem. You can get those really nice drivers (Jack might have his moods, but his drivers are good :-)) on IBIBLIO: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/xcdrom/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/udma/xdma/ Note that the drivers are not freedos specific. They can be used with every DOS. It is simply because FreeDOS was the first project which mirrored his drivers on ibiblio that they are now in the "freedos" directory there :-). Newest versions are XDMA 3.3 and XCDROM 2.2 - both from February 2006. In that month, QCDROM 1.0 and QDMA 1.2 were available as well. I do not know which improvements got added to QCDROM and QDMA in March and April and whether it would be worth the effort to try to find out and add similar improvements to XCDROM and XDMA. But, as said, the XCDROM and XDMA drivers are already nice as they are. >Huh, today I found that all drivers from http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/ >were deleted. There is some short angry text complaining about flaming to >author. I don't understand it at all. Whats matter? >As a FreeDOS user I am interresed - will ever be some updates? Eric ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
