I wanted to remind everyone that our next FreeDOS virtual get-together is
coming up soon - Sunday, April 16 at 11am US/Central. Use your favorite
timezone converter to find your local time.
As always, we'll do the meeting via Bluejeans. I'll share the meeting URL
here shortly before the meeting.
> However, the topic of port I/O and MMIO reminds me of some activity
> by RayeR and others regarding low-level configuration to speed up
> access to PCI / PCIe graphics in DOS. I think the issue was that no
> fast defaults were applied by the BIOS, slowing down VESA LFB a lot.
Video is kind of a
On 4/12/2023 5:08 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
A user emailed me (late last year) with a bug/issue report on
FreePascal in FreeDOS 1.3. I was going to (finally) reply to say they
really should ask the FreePascal people about this, but I realized I
couldn't really make out what they were saying. This is
A user emailed me (late last year) with a bug/issue report on
FreePascal in FreeDOS 1.3. I was going to (finally) reply to say they
really should ask the FreePascal people about this, but I realized I
couldn't really make out what they were saying. This is the part of
their email that relates to
Hi :-)
To make this long thread a bit longer, I think that using port I/O in
delay loops used to slow down too fast games by wasting time actually
is a good idea (if you pick a safe port) BECAUSE the I/O is slow and
not cached and not subject to too smart CPUs trying to optimize it
away in
Hi All,
Fixed a minor issue in Logger, that would cause the interface program to not
find the device driver when it was loaded low.
At present, the interface program just does a brute force memory scan to find
the driver. There are safeguards in place to prevent false positives and some
