On 20-11-2015 22:36, Rugxulo wrote: > Just to give some minor feedback for your valiant efforts .... Thanks :) :)
> It does whine at bootup about "home/alain" (shared) not existing, but > I didn't test that functionality yet. That is just the shared folder configuration, it is the best way to access your machine's files. I am not sure what would be the best default configuration > Didn't test any graphical stuff (e.g. Doom) yet. when you can, please report :) > I had to switch from (default) "bridged" to "NAT" first, in VBox > settings. I use Bridged to share resources on my local network. We could change that in a general distribution > Well, I haven't tested much else (e.g. Links2) yet, but I did use the > host (Linux) wget to grab the old FreeDOS/DJGPP build of wget from > iBiblio. Once I created a simple wattcp.cfg (and "set WATTCP.CFG=..." > accordingly in autoexec.bat) and created a wgetrc, then it seems to > work fine, e.g. grabbing a .ZIP file from https://sites.google.com/.... :) :) :) > The bigger problem, beyond even translated text, is the unfamiliarity > of the keyboard layout. For instance, finding chars like '\' and '/' > seems a bit difficult (at least to my uninformed self). A quick Google > image search shows that some .br keyboards have a key to the left of > the 'z' char, which I sadly do not, heh. Sure, numpad has '/' but it's > not available in all contexts. That should be configures in Autoexec.bat using standard FreeDOS keyb > Other minor comments: > > * NDN (2006) isn't even latest (2010) version: http://ndn.muxe.com/ I have been using this for years, as it is 'just-fine" I never bothered to upgrade. I will have a look at the new one. Alain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
