I set up a VirtualBox virtual machine and installed the latest version of
FreeDOS there, complete with mouse and CD support.
Then I installed on top of it the version of FreeDOS/V found in
http://dos.minashiro.net/freedosvd.html
Now it appears that such FreeDOS/V uses CONFIG.SYS rather than
FDCONFIG.SYS, because when I restarted the VM, it read from FDCONFIG rather
than CONFIG, so it didn't load Japanese support. I modified FDCONFIG.SYS
(and restored the original AUTOEXEC.BAT from FreeDOS because the FreeDOS/V
installer replaced it with a version that didn't load mouse or CD support,
then modified it to load JIS_A01 as required by FreeDOS/V).
Now I have some issues:
1. My FreeDOS/V interprets my 101-key keyboard as if it were a 106-key
keyboard, so I am unable to type: _ \ | ~
2. Also, when I press ALT + ` to change input from half-width romaji to
hiragana, I then become able to type hiragana but cannot convert it to
katakana or kanji when pressing SPACE (instead, JEMM386 crashes).
3. Finally, when I try to run EDIT.EXE, the display becomes blind (maybe it
crashed?) and thus cannot run EDIT (thus forcing me to run instead EDLIN).
So these are the things I want to be done:
1. What do I need to do to make FreeDOS/V interpret my keyboard as a
101-key keyboard (rather than the cumbersome 106-key keyboard used by real
Japanese computers)?
2. How do I make hiragana input (achieved after pressing ALT + `) turn into
full-width katakana or kanji?
3. What do I need to do to switch from Japanese VGA display mode to English
EGA mode (so I can run EDIT) and then back to Japanese VGA (so I can run
Japanese programs like KAJA's MC.EXE, which although originally made for
DOS/98 does run on DOS/V), or how could I run EDIT within Japanese VGA mode
without crashing the display?
Leroy Vargas
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