Hello again,

> While the installer (FDI) is not fast, the main issue is your whole VM is 
> really slow. I could even see the initial boot menu drawing each line. I 
> think most of the “slowness” your experiencing is video related. You really 
> want to enable some sort of acceleration. Jim has shared his invocation of 
> QEMU a couple times. I think the command line may be longer than "War and 
> Piece". 

Thanks for the link! Some of the commands seem deprecated or removed, but I’ll 
try to research on this, and being on macOS, KVM acceleration is not present I 
believe. But, thanks.

> I need to make a doc file on “how to make those v8f files”.

I do draw vector fonts, and I believe I can make some nicer bitmap ones as 
well. Please let me know once you are ready to publish info, I’ll have a look.

> I didn’t see any failure messages in the video. 
> 
> But, if you mean just in general… There are only two. One for normal mode and 
> one for advanced mode. 
> See the section starting at line 113 in the english version. 
> https://github.com/shidel/fd-nls/blob/6fe293d50feeb938de3bd8c8c700a53740f2d652/fdi/language/en/FDSETUP.DEF#L113
>  
> <https://github.com/shidel/fd-nls/blob/6fe293d50feeb938de3bd8c8c700a53740f2d652/fdi/language/en/FDSETUP.DEF#L113>
Thanks, I’ve realised that some failure messages (a couple of lines below would 
not fit properly. Modified as needed.

> First, the installer files can not be in UTF format. 
> 
> Also, Do not modify and submit updated versions of the files on the install 
> media. Most files of the installer files on the install media undergo a 
> little or a lot of modification by the release build environment (RBE). 
> Consider those files compiled executables. Changes need to be made at the 
> source level. 

Understood.

> If I understand what you are asking….
> 
> There are two separate systems in the installer regarding keyboard settings. 
> The first is the Main selection screen. The installer attempts to pre-select 
> the one matching the users language. The number of keyboard selections 
> matches the number of languages the installer itself supports. 
> 
> The second system is slower but allows any number of additional keyboard 
> choices. 
> 
> When looking at the keyboard sources, the distinction is a little clearer. 
> 
> If the installer was an EXE, it would use only one system for selecting 
> keyboards. However being batch based, breaking it into two pieces yields 
> better performance and overall works better.

No, what I meant was purely semantics. For instance, for Brazilian Portuguese, 
it just says Brazil. The same for Denmark, instead of Danish. For French, there 
is a French, and there is French (alternative). I presume one is the AZERTY 
layout, but I am not sure which, that sort of thing. I can just go ahead and 
fix for Turkish, but the others will stand out.

> Although there are translations for FDI-x86, no means is provided at present 
> to automatically change languages. It will be added eventually. But, it is a 
> low priority for me. In the meantime, it can be done manually. 

Ah, okay then. Fair enough.

Best,
Emir

_______________________________________________
Freedos-devel mailing list
Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Reply via email to