Re: [Freedos-user] No soundblaster under FreeDOS vm

[Jim Hall]

I use QEMU, but emulating SoundBlaster16, same as you describe. Sounds
works fine here. Check your values.

I use this:
BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330

On Jun 13, 2017 9:23 PM, "Joel Graff"  wrote:

Hello,

I'm working on setting up a FreeDOS 1.2 VM in VirtualBox.  I've selected
the SoundBlaster16 / PluseAudio pairing in the audio settings, but have not
been able to get audio working on some old DOS games.

I'm running Linux Mint 18.1, VirtualBox 5.0.4, and FreeDOS 1.2

I have the soundblaster environment variable defined in autoexec.bat.  Do I
need to be loading a .SYS driver in FDCONFIG.SYS?

*Joel Graff, P.E.*

*LinkedIn:* https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelcgraff



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[Freedos-user] No soundblaster under FreeDOS vm

[Joel Graff]

Hello,

I'm working on setting up a FreeDOS 1.2 VM in VirtualBox.  I've selected
the SoundBlaster16 / PluseAudio pairing in the audio settings, but have not
been able to get audio working on some old DOS games.

I'm running Linux Mint 18.1, VirtualBox 5.0.4, and FreeDOS 1.2

I have the soundblaster environment variable defined in autoexec.bat.  Do I
need to be loading a .SYS driver in FDCONFIG.SYS?

*Joel Graff, P.E.*

*LinkedIn:* https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelcgraff
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Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

[Ralf Quint]

On 6/13/2017 4:02 PM, Simon van Meygaarden wrote:
> Greetings, Folks.
>
> Ralf > First time I hear about those programs, and they are not
> something elementary to (Free)DOS,
> Jiri > All this is essentially for people who already know what's
> there or what should be there, not really for novices.
>
> I respectfully disagree. -smile-
>
> The first thing a new user will see when FreeDOS boots, is the message
> "Type HELP to get support on commands and navigation". When one types
> HELP, the first line of the Main Help page says "For information on
> using Help, press F1...". When F1 is pressed, the How to use the
> FreeDOS Help page is displayed, and this pages mentions WHATIS and
> APROPOS.
>
> So after learning the HELP command, the next two commands a new user
> will learn are WHATIS and APROPOS. And they don't work! It gets even
> worse: the same Help page also mentions FASTHELP, FDHELP, and
> FSUITE04. And these don't work either!
Again, those programs are not in any form an integral part of FreeDOS.
That those are mentioned in that Help program is an issue you need to
take up with the author of the Help tool.
Best guess is that he wrote something copied verbatim from a similar
tool in Linux, without either noticing the mentioning or not following
up with it.

Ralf

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Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

[Thomas Mueller]

from Jiri Wackermann:

I'm not an active user of FreeDOS, so I'm only
> a listener on this channel, just for curiosity.

> Regarding 'apropos' and 'whatis' and their relatives:
> these commands are related to manual pages, it's all
> Unix philosophy. If you have a Linux around, try

> man whatis

> and

> whatis whatis

> and you'll know everything. In my view, 'man'
> is much easier to use than 'info' (Linux).

I hate 'info' enough that I find it easier to go through an info file with 
'less'.

There is a pinfo package that works much better than 'info' for going through 
an info file, but I don't know if it is available or buildable for DOS.

If you have KDE installed, Konqueror had a good way of viewing an info file, 
but Xorg and KDE are far above the capability of any DOS.

Tom


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Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

[Simon van Meygaarden]

Greetings, Folks.

Ralf > First time I hear about those programs, and they are not
something elementary to (Free)DOS,
Jiri > All this is essentially for people who already know what's
there or what should be there, not really for novices.

I respectfully disagree. -smile-

The first thing a new user will see when FreeDOS boots, is the message
"Type HELP to get support on commands and navigation". When one types
HELP, the first line of the Main Help page says "For information on
using Help, press F1...". When F1 is pressed, the How to use the
FreeDOS Help page is displayed, and this pages mentions WHATIS and
APROPOS.

So after learning the HELP command, the next two commands a new user
will learn are WHATIS and APROPOS. And they don't work! It gets even
worse: the same Help page also mentions FASTHELP, FDHELP, and
FSUITE04. And these don't work either!

Now for an experienced user this is not a big issue, I agree, but for
a new user this might just be enough to quit and never look a FreeDOS
again. And that would be a shame.

To be sure, I consider myself an experienced user, but when I dir into
FDOS\BIN and see those 316 different entries, there's a whole lot of
software in there that absolutely don't know about. A simple WHATIS
CWSDSTUB would make my life much easier.

Obviously, I could write a WHATIS.BAT myself, and store it in
FDOS\LINKS, which is in the path. Something like:
@if exist \FDOS\APPINFO\%1.LSM HEAD -N 5 \FDOS\APPINFO\%1.LSM
Not so pretty, but it works, and it's only 62 bytes.

But my point is, this is mentioned in the Help pages, so these
programs did once exist, and I can't image why someone would remove
them purposefully. In other words, I think this is a little bug, and
if needed, I can download an investigate earlier versions and see if I
can find these programs and add them, but that would only solve *my*
problem, and so I felt it was worth mentioning.

Take care,
Simon

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