Re: [Freedos-user] USB

[Mateusz Viste]

On 01/11/2015 02:05, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Does FreeDOS support USB ports?

FreeDOS, as any other DOS I know, doesn't. But there are drivers out 
there that can talk to xHCI controllers and map mass storage USB media 
to DOS drives.

Bret kindly provides such drivers under an open-source license:

http://bretjohnson.us/

There is also this proprietary blob from Panasonic:

http://www.pcxt-micro.com/dos-usb.html

I haven't tested any of the above, sorry.


Mateusz


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Re: [Freedos-user] USB

[Thomas Mueller]

from Marc LaPierre:

> Does FreeDOS support USB ports?

Sort of.  I believe USB support is from the BIOS or UEFI.

I believe USB keyboards are OK, not sure about USB mice.

My experience with USB sticks in FreeDOS is that they are treated as fixed 
disks: must be present at boot, and FreeDOS won't recognize a change of USB 
sticks.

Others on this list might be able to give a better answer.


Tom


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Re: [Freedos-user] USB

[Rugxulo]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Mateusz Viste  wrote:
>
> On 01/11/2015 02:05, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>>
>> Does FreeDOS support USB ports?
>
> Bret kindly provides such drivers under an open-source license:
>
> http://bretjohnson.us/

IIRC, that is UHCI only, so unlikely to work on all machines. Still,
far better than nothing.

As mentioned, sometimes the BIOS can pretend a USB drive is a hard
disk, if plugged in at boot time.

A separate issue is actually booting from a USB jump drive, e.g. RUFUS
and/or PLoP Boot Manager:

a). http://rufus.akeo.ie/
b). https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

Though I'm not sure exactly what the OP wanted to accomplish.

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[Freedos-user] Quick Basic

[Mark LaPierre]

One more question.

Will QB run on FreeDOS?

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Re: [Freedos-user] USB

[Mark LaPierre]

On 11/01/15 15:08, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> I can speak to the Panasonic one, it is fantastic!
> At least in ms dos 7.1 which I use instead of freedos.
> Karen
> 
> 
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> 
>> On 01/11/2015 02:05, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>>> Does FreeDOS support USB ports?
>>
>> FreeDOS, as any other DOS I know, doesn't. But there are drivers out
>> there that can talk to xHCI controllers and map mass storage USB media
>> to DOS drives.
>>
>> Bret kindly provides such drivers under an open-source license:
>>
>> http://bretjohnson.us/
>>
>> There is also this proprietary blob from Panasonic:
>>
>> http://www.pcxt-micro.com/dos-usb.html
>>
>> I haven't tested any of the above, sorry.
>>
>>
>> Mateusz
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Hey All,

Thank you for the informative replies.  There just may be a new FreeDOS
application coming soon.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks again.

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Re: [Freedos-user] USB

[Karen Lewellen]

I can speak to the Panasonic one, it is fantastic!
At least in ms dos 7.1 which I use instead of freedos.
Karen


On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote:

> On 01/11/2015 02:05, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>> Does FreeDOS support USB ports?
>
> FreeDOS, as any other DOS I know, doesn't. But there are drivers out
> there that can talk to xHCI controllers and map mass storage USB media
> to DOS drives.
>
> Bret kindly provides such drivers under an open-source license:
>
> http://bretjohnson.us/
>
> There is also this proprietary blob from Panasonic:
>
> http://www.pcxt-micro.com/dos-usb.html
>
> I haven't tested any of the above, sorry.
>
>
> Mateusz
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Re: [Freedos-user] Quick Basic

[Mateusz Viste]

On 02/11/2015 04:00, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Will QB run on FreeDOS?

Yes it will, it's nothing more than a standard 16bit application after 
all. In my experience both QBasic (interpreter) and QBX (full-blown 
compiler) work without any troubles.

If you are a BASIC person, you might find the FreeBASIC project very 
interesting as well. Works perfectly with FreeDOS, provides a very 
similar syntax to QuickBASIC, and allows for plenty of interesting 
things that are either impossible of hard to achieve in QB (32bit, 
high-res graphics modes, compatibility with many DJGPP libraries...). It 
is available in FDNPKG repositories: FDNPKG INSTALL FBC

Mateusz


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[Freedos-user] Playing infocom games

[David Griffith]

For those of you who like to play Infocom games on DOS, please use Frotz 
2.40.  The latest version crashes randomly on DOS.  I'm working on the 
problem.  Any assistance is welcome because right now I'm mainly 
interested in getting audio output on Unix working all the way.

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