Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2022 calendar
Thanks, Jim: But I thought others might like it too, so I made it available for sale via the print-on-demand site Lulu. Being a pensioner, I prefer "free" to "sale". -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code
Yes, Ralf: I have a really basic question regarding the date format. After decades, I decided I would like the date format to be -mm-dd instead of mm-dd-yy As this thread has drifted off into a completely different topic, here's a bit humor to get back on the issue at hand (though I am not sure a lot of US folks immediately understand In numeric abbreviation, Euro and Yank dates swap the position of month and day. -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] state of play
I meant: "running DOSBOX with this version of the HX EXTENDER with modern sound support..." En martes, 4 de enero de 2022 01:14:25 CET, Rober To escribió: Well. I am not a programmer. Summarizing, modern audio support in DOS is quite difficult. There aren't modern drivers; but some programs have inside support for a wide range of modern soundcards (Mpxplay is the best example). Mpxplay works perfectly in my computer. Have you tried this version of Mplayer? RayeR's homepage/Download For old games, the easiest way for me is running this version of the HX EXTENDER with modern sound support: https://sound-dos.ucoz.ru/load/new_hxdos_extender_2_17/1-1-0-8 Bye! | | | | RayeR's homepage/Download | | | En martes, 4 de enero de 2022 00:34:05 CET, Paul Edwards escribió: Thankyou everyone for your answers. I've made a lot of progress and Freedos is looking fantastic. The first problem I would like to address is that I have installed the DOS version of mplayer and the video is working fine, but there is no audio. Some research said that I need to use jemm with /sb to get audio to work. I'd like to ask a more fundamental question - why does video not require a driver to be installed, but audio does? Is audio more complicated than video or something? Or was it never properly standardized by IBM or someone? Next question is - what does emm have to do with a sound card driver?! I'm only guessing that my laptop is compatible with soundblaster. What are the odds of that being true? Any suggestion on what to do to get sound working? Thanks. Paul. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2022 calendar
Are you doing this to make money for FreeDOS? If not, why not make the digital images available for free? I can see some taking this and adding their own country's holidays, etc. I personally don't need a calendar that only has one date marked (no disrespect to FreeDOS), but if it had other dates that I care about, I'd probably pay to print it and use it. Just food for thought. Thanks, John On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 1:28 PM Jim Hall wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I created a 2022 FreeDOS calendar, where each month shows a different > screenshot from FreeDOS. And to make it look really nice, I applied a > "blur" effect behind the screenshot, and a "video" effect to the > screenshot itself, with a drop shadow. > > The months are: > > 01 Jan - Install > 02 Feb - First boot > 03 Mar - FDIMPLES > 04 Apr - AMB Help > 05 May - Senet > 06 Jun - Edit > 07 Jul - DN2 > 08 Aug - Edlin > 09 Sep - Em Pong > 10 Oct - Freemacs > 11 Nov - HEXED > 12 Dec - Smiley > > I initially created this calendar just for myself, so I could put a > new calendar on my office wall. But I thought others might like it > too, so I made it available for sale via the print-on-demand site > Lulu. > > I didn't put any holidays on the calendar, so it can apply to any > region. The only marked date is June 29 for the FreeDOS anniversary. > > I just ordered a copy for myself, and I'll let you know how it comes > out. [These are print-on-demand, so delivery times vary. I think the > last time I ordered a calendar, it arrived in about 10 days.] If you > want to order one of your own, here's the link: > > > https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jim-hall/freedos-2022/paperback/product-7n5mg4.html?page=1=4 > > > Jim > > > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] state of play
Well. I am not a programmer. Summarizing, modern audio support in DOS is quite difficult. There aren't modern drivers; but some programs have inside support for a wide range of modern soundcards (Mpxplay is the best example). Mpxplay works perfectly in my computer. Have you tried this version of Mplayer? RayeR's homepage/Download For old games, the easiest way for me is running this version of the HX EXTENDER with modern sound support: https://sound-dos.ucoz.ru/load/new_hxdos_extender_2_17/1-1-0-8 Bye! | | | | RayeR's homepage/Download | | | En martes, 4 de enero de 2022 00:34:05 CET, Paul Edwards escribió: Thankyou everyone for your answers. I've made a lot of progress and Freedos is looking fantastic. The first problem I would like to address is that I have installed the DOS version of mplayer and the video is working fine, but there is no audio. Some research said that I need to use jemm with /sb to get audio to work. I'd like to ask a more fundamental question - why does video not require a driver to be installed, but audio does? Is audio more complicated than video or something? Or was it never properly standardized by IBM or someone? Next question is - what does emm have to do with a sound card driver?! I'm only guessing that my laptop is compatible with soundblaster. What are the odds of that being true? Any suggestion on what to do to get sound working? Thanks. Paul. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] State of play
Paul Edwards asked: | I'd like to ask a more fundamental question - why does | video not require a driver to be installed, but audio does? | Is audio more complicated than video or something? Or | was it never properly standardized by IBM or someone? | I think it is because the PC always had video, (there may be some special machines that don´t) so there are video functions built in the BIOS, while audio cards were always add-ons. | Next question is - what does emm have to do with a | sound card driver? EMM has everything to do with memory management, which is probably required by the audio card. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] state of play
Thankyou everyone for your answers. I've made a lot of progress and Freedos is looking fantastic. The first problem I would like to address is that I have installed the DOS version of mplayer and the video is working fine, but there is no audio. Some research said that I need to use jemm with /sb to get audio to work. I'd like to ask a more fundamental question - why does video not require a driver to be installed, but audio does? Is audio more complicated than video or something? Or was it never properly standardized by IBM or someone? Next question is - what does emm have to do with a sound card driver?! I'm only guessing that my laptop is compatible with soundblaster. What are the odds of that being true? Any suggestion on what to do to get sound working? Thanks. Paul. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] state of play
Hi Paul Something to play MP3:- The best option by far is MPXPLAY:http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/ Something to play movies:- Although the complete version is not free, QuickView is the best option: http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/ If I don't remember badly, there is a DOS port of Mplayer; maybe, somebody can tell you where it is possible download it. Good bye En lunes, 3 de enero de 2022 04:28:24 CET, Louis Santillan escribió: Advice about win32 apps is fairly off-topic here. win32 apps that work on HX that work on FreeDOS doesn't really make this request more on-topic. You can find a bit of info apps that work athttps://www.japheth.de/HX.html https://pmwiki.xaver.me/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.HX-DOS#toc24 On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 1:14 PM Paul Edwards wrote: Hi folks. Freedos 1.3 RC5 is now good enough for my main need which is to do development work using gccwin (similar to mingw) to build Win32 executables. (making use of HX too). I am now looking for Freedos to be a viable alternative to Windows for the rest of the things I would like to do. What I'm looking for is Win32 applications that run under both Freedos+HX and Windows 10. In particular I want: 1. Something to display JPEGs. Just one JPEG at a time is fine. I actually have some software to do this already (public domain C code), but although it works under Win10, it produces garbage on Freedos + HX. 2. Something to play MP3s. 3. Something to play movies like MP4s. 4. Something to read and write text email - for this I would like a Win32 console mode application using ANSI escape sequences. Currently I have "msged" working for Fidonet technology messages. 5. Something to send/receive email to gmail. I am expecting this to be DOS-specific rather than a Win32 application, and I am expecting to need to use ethernet instead of Wifi, as I believe the ethernet spec is open but the Wifi spec is not. Does such software exist? If Win32 applications are not available, I'm interested in DOS alternatives. Note that I have produced my own Freedos distribution if anyone is interested. It is available at http://pdos.org Thanks. Paul. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code
Hi Liam, [...] > Nothing you've said is remotely persuasive, IMHO. I'm not here to convince you. But thanks for sharing your opinion. Cheers, Robert -- +++ BTTR Software +++ Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Updates on FreeDOS videos
Hi everyone! Some folks had asked that I share updates of the FreeDOS videos on our YouTube channel. I try not to share these all the time, but about once a month or so. Our YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/freedosproject I didn't post many videos in December because of the holidays, but here are the videos from the last month: * To celebrate reaching 3000 subscribers to the channel, I shared a video tour of my home office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np5HiOnabKg * "YouTube shorts" are popular, and I thought it would be funny to do a quick video about how to set "dark mode" on FreeDOS (and because DOS is white text on a black background, "dark mode" is just CLS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbe8xhn_24o * I shared a longer walkthrough of the FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 distribution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5G0z0zq_Ik * For New Year Day, I posted a short video about printing the date "01-Jan-2022" in a DOS spreadsheet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHGFForxdlM * Yesterday, I posted a video about how to install FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 on VirtualBox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE9CwMBvqnw I try to post videos about once a week. Coming up next in the queue: * On Jan 9, look for a video that showcases some games in FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 * On Jan 16, watch for a video about how to use the Pico text editor (someone asked me about Pico in RC5, so I thought I'd do a quick demo) Some planned videos: 1. I'm thinking about doing more videos on FreeDOS 1.3 RC5. That includes the Bonus CD, apps, more games, other editors, etc. 2. I'm also planning a "retro" programming video, about how I started writing the first FreeDOS commands in 1994. [And in that video, I'm thinking about going "old school" and using Edlin.] 3. I also want to do a few more programming videos about graphics mode. These were requested in YouTube comments. I'll probably do one on how to use _getimage and _putimage in OpenWatcom, another video about shooting a ball across the screen, and another video about how to draw a simple shape (like a banana, if you wanted to make a Gorillas-style game) in graphics mode. 4. I'm planning a video about "A brief history of DOS spreadsheets" too. I gave that as a conference talk at All Things Open in October, and I'd like to do it again for our channel. (I'll probably also do a related video to show forward referencing in spreadsheets - and how VisiCalc doesn't do that, but Lotus 1-2-3 does.) 5. And after the spreadsheets video, I'll start a video series about how to use a spreadsheet. These will use a DOS spreadsheet, but I'll also talk about how the concepts translate to modern spreadsheets like LibreOffice and Excel. 6. More videos about DOS games. I'll probably do one on PvP Gem (the game I wrote and shared the other day) but I'll also cover other games like the DOS demo of Tomb Raider. Jim ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2022 calendar
Hi everyone! I created a 2022 FreeDOS calendar, where each month shows a different screenshot from FreeDOS. And to make it look really nice, I applied a "blur" effect behind the screenshot, and a "video" effect to the screenshot itself, with a drop shadow. The months are: 01 Jan - Install 02 Feb - First boot 03 Mar - FDIMPLES 04 Apr - AMB Help 05 May - Senet 06 Jun - Edit 07 Jul - DN2 08 Aug - Edlin 09 Sep - Em Pong 10 Oct - Freemacs 11 Nov - HEXED 12 Dec - Smiley I initially created this calendar just for myself, so I could put a new calendar on my office wall. But I thought others might like it too, so I made it available for sale via the print-on-demand site Lulu. I didn't put any holidays on the calendar, so it can apply to any region. The only marked date is June 29 for the FreeDOS anniversary. I just ordered a copy for myself, and I'll let you know how it comes out. [These are print-on-demand, so delivery times vary. I think the last time I ordered a calendar, it arrived in about 10 days.] If you want to order one of your own, here's the link: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jim-hall/freedos-2022/paperback/product-7n5mg4.html?page=1=4 Jim ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code
On 12/30/2021 2:22 AM, JR wrote: Hi there I have a really basic question regarding the date format. After decades, I decided I would like the date format to be -mm-dd instead of mm-dd-yy As this thread has drifted off into a completely different topic, here's a bit humor to get back on the issue at hand (though I am not sure a lot of US folks immediately understand ;-) ) https://xkcd.com/2562/ Happy New Year! Ralf -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] DJGPP (was Re: FYI: Social media URLs updated)
DJGPP has not been updated in a while for a couple reasons. I have nothing against it. But, I don’t use it. There are numerous pieces. Which aren’t needed? What relies on other things? Which are the most popular? Which should be included? I look at that large collection of components and have only a vague idea of what is what. I could spend hours, days or weeks working on updating them. But, would have no idea if the end result would even be usable by anyone. It needs to be updated by someone who uses it. No one has volunteered to provide those updated versions. I have too many other things to do and will not spend the time figuring it out. Maybe someday I’ll work on updating it. But, I don’t see that happening anytime in the foreseeable future. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code
On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 at 16:44, Robert Riebisch wrote: > > > I have to ask: why run this old version? It's a bit dangerous to let > > Because I *can*. :-D Doing unsafe things for no good reason is... not smart. > TB2 as a target for remote code execution these days? I doubt so. Not TB2. XP. Yes, very much yes. > Sure, Mint has TB. All mainstream OSes have T'Bird. (Since TB is mostly used for an unpleasant deadly disease, let's not overload it, eh?) > At work I'm happy with Outlook and wouldn't know, why I should talk to 4 > different mail servers. I have one mailbox with multiple addresses and > that's fine. [1] I find Outlook useless junk. It can't even quote properly. [2] If it is at work, one does not get to choose. [3] My employer ran 2 email systems, one for all staff, one for a major department. I needed both. The all-company server changed 3 times in 4 years. > I already planned to switch, but it just didn't happen for now, because > I did a lot of tweaking in TB2. You can just load an old profile into a new version and that's it. If you use extensions, then pick an old enough version that they work. Nothing you've said is remotely persuasive, IMHO. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
