Re: [Freedos-devel] Nano-X supposedly ported to DOS, API similar both to X and Windows GDI, small memory footprint

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Michaels
opengem is broken as in doesn't work except for one particular version, either it was 5 or 6, 5 I think it was. it has a limited number of applications, and it can run dos programs in sort of a shell. nothing compatible with any windows programs you find on the market today of course, because

Re: [Freedos-devel] Weird behaviour of "legacy USB" trackball

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Michaels
 I seem to remember being told that with the interrupt chip on x86, one of those interrupts or the mask was flaky/trigger happy. > > From: Christoph Nuscheler >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 2:59 AM >Subject: [Freedos-d

Re: [Freedos-devel] Weird behaviour of "legacy USB" trackball

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Michaels
I suspect something is dropping a byte or something is too sluggish to snap to attention when data is available on the serial line. is this a polling driver, or interrupt-driven? how are the interrupt masks? > > From: Christoph Nuscheler >To: freedos-devel@lists

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Michaels
wow! well, I enjoy multitasking. I want to make all the efficient use of the cpu cycles as I can. I prefer not to let it sit idling and just using up power (though I still do rather than go through the boot process again and lose my environment every time). if I didn't have to reboot or turn th

[Freedos-devel] site page change request

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Michaels
FreeDOS | Download FreeDOS FreeDOS | Download FreeDOS FreeDOS 1.1 FreeDOS is a complete operating system. View on www.freedos.org Preview by Yahoo   hi folks... would someone please change the freedos download page so it includes a rawrite-compatible floppy image download? there are nee