Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-28 Thread Alain Mouette
If you are thinking about another FreeDOS distro, you may consider inquiring about a 8086 version. IIRC a few people use but it is quite difficult do setup, so a simple image or release can be very helpfull Just a random thought, Alain Em 28/03/2022 12:40, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] began to list problems I see with FD 1.3-rc3

2020-11-10 Thread Alain Mouette
don't agree that it should be closed. QEMU works with all other OSs, so this is a FreeDOS quirk and should be addressed Alain ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos

Re: [Freedos-devel] VME Broken on AMD Ryzen

2017-05-12 Thread Alain Mouette
On 12-05-2017 16:14, Rugxulo wrote: >> Should JEMMEX or the FreeDOS installer work around this? > Just use "NOVME", and don't worry about it. Could you please explain that... Alain -- Check o

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

2017-02-03 Thread Alain Mouette
I believe that changing a config file is just great for that! Avoinding bloat is important At most, there could be 2 or 3 sets of parameters, not only that would help but it can also serve as aguide for creating a new one Alain On 02-02-2017 20:26, Mark Olesen wrote: Skinning at the moment

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

2017-02-02 Thread Alain Mouette
I like that :) Just one question: can default collors be configured? I would like something like "dialog" in Linux which has a gray background... :) Alain On 01-02-2017 21:49, Mark Olesen wrote: Hello, I liked and made the changes you had pointed out. Thanks for the input.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-21 Thread Alain Mouette
e sources ;-) Alain On 21-11-2015 00:33, Geraldo Netto wrote: > Hi All, > > Based on Rugxulo/Mateusz FreeDOS local link > I took a few minutes to make some (brazilian) portuguese translations > of the following softwares: > (Translatations available at [1]) > > cho

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-10-01 Thread Alain Mouette
... But then I don't know how to make a distribution CD... anyone? Alain On 01-10-2015 00:23, Geraldo Netto wrote: > Oi Alain/All, > > Tudo certinho por ai? :) > > Well, i think we have different approaches for different needs :P > > Alain, while many people dislike the app

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-10-01 Thread Alain Mouette
but is not really fixed, just a work-around that works fine. I have reported it a lonk time ago but as I am not a regular contributor, I got no answer Alain On 01-10-2015 00:23, Geraldo Netto wrote: > Oi Alain/All, > > Tudo certinho por ai? :) > > Well, i think we have different approaches for

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-30 Thread Alain Mouette
The point is _running DOS programs_ And also having a stable modern platform behind to run on any possible new hardware (x86) Alain On 29-09-2015 22:50, Chelson Aitcheson wrote: What would be the point of freedos ? Might as well be another Linux distro On 29/09/2015 1:09 pm, "Ge

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-29 Thread Alain Mouette
regularly both Linux and Dosemu with FreeDOS ans I am willing to help... Alain On 29-09-2015 00:08, Geraldo Netto wrote: > Hi All, > > First of all, thank you all very very much for your support :) > Indeed, i have to follow the whole thread as Eric said > Also, all tips are very valua

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-19 Thread Alain Mouette
to include what you have bade into next boot, but it is complex and not automatable... So I abandoned it... As for using memory, there is no problem using more than 66Mb of ram in Dosemu, it provides good memory drivers. Alain Em 18-09-2011 16:13, Rugxulo escreveu: Hi, 2011/9/18 Aitor

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-14 Thread Alain Mouette
on a VM with a Debian+Lxde to run Dosemu with some predifined configurations like networking and charsets. Alain Em 14-09-2011 04:05, Andreas Berger escreveu: I also think the task should look exactly like DOS. This either means that resources (e.g. serial ports, printer ports, usb, ect) must

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-05 Thread Alain Mouette
There is an ndis set of drivers that works very well: www.netbootdisk.com I use them extensively. Alain Em 05-09-2011 15:39, iw2evk escreveu: Hi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdisWrapper why possible in linux and not under DOS? I suppose only because no one want to start a project

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-04 Thread Alain Mouette
. Why not use some other make, like gmake? so freedos only compiles with it and the mess is fixed (at least partialy)? This make problem has been a nightmare around here too ;-) Alain -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free

Re: [Freedos-devel] is anybody even using my apps?

2010-07-08 Thread Alain Mouette
stable FreeDOS is working fine in all new machines, including SATA2 drives. Just avois Asus. I will be glad to help, just ask here. Alain Em 08-07-2010 07:52, Jim Michaels escreveu: does anyone have a good safe config for doslfn? I don't want to have to read through the whole manual. but I

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-14 Thread Alain Mouette
Sorry, I cannot help you. My advice seems to be not good :( Alain Em 14-05-2010 16:30, Jim Michaels escreveu: since I need binaries for windows, I have narrowed the choices down to vmware workstation and windows xp mode for 7. I have the chance to try both, but I will have to wait until my

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Alain Mouette
compiles on windows, but it might not be so easy. I am sure that poking around, a precompiled version must be available somewhere (that is not a GPL violation) But the simples might be to use VirtualPC, from... Microsoft itself. Alain Em 13-05-2010 14:25, Jim Michaels escreveu: can you point

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Alain Mouette
for later FreeDOS boot. The big deal is that he creates a working set of config files that I just can go on using afterwards. And he has a magic source for drivers ;) It is a well done, well mantained and up-to-dade solution :) Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread Alain Mouette
vesa graphics. Neither will give you shared folders, you will have to use network only access. Probavly the easy way to instal is with www.netbootdisk.com If you have more problems, please ask. I will be interesting in solving that issue. Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-27 Thread Alain Mouette
an Intel message. OAKCDROM.SYS worked only and with all IDE/CDROM, as expected. So UIDE is the best, by far. I will keep AHCI as optional anyway because there *could* be a mahine with AHCI only... Thanks for UIDE, Alain PS: and Thanks for FreeDOS to :) Em 25-04-2010 11:25, Johnson Lam

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 25-04-2010 14:53, Eric Auer escreveu: Alain, you started the thread, do you think such a big UDF CDEX driver would be useful? Or do you think that it would indeed be too big and too complex for most? I will not need the UDF driver for what I have in mind... I believe that uses of UDF

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
IS AHCI only for USB? or is it for SATA? For me SATA is important, the more compatible the better. USB is not so important for me... Alain Em 25-04-2010 07:10, Ladislav Lacina escreveu: Any advantage using AHCI? No, but some notebooks lack in BIOS the option Handle CD-ROM devices

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
, network drivers, few PCIs, and so on... Alain Em 26-04-2010 12:40, Tom Ehlert escreveu: Hallo Herr Alain Mouette, am 26. April 2010 um 16:03 schrieben Sie: Em 25-04-2010 14:53, Eric Auer escreveu: Alain, you started the thread, do you think such a big UDF CDEX driver would be useful

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
in brazil and has drivers for (free)dos afaik... I already use them when possible: if the user has one, if there is a free PCI slot, if it is not a fake Realtek... See you, Alain

[Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-22 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi, is there any way to use an IDE cdrom drive in FreeDOS? Thanks, Alain -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-22 Thread Alain Mouette
Sorry I wrote it wrong :( What I need is a SATA cdrom driver... Thanks for any hint, Alain Em 22-04-2010 22:09, Alain Mouette escreveu: Hi, is there any way to use an IDE cdrom drive in FreeDOS? Thanks, Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Comments suggestions

2010-02-23 Thread Alain Mouette
dos386 escreveu: some partially: [...] FDISK (patch pending), If there is a patch, there should be a build?? Does anyone have information on this? Thanks, Alain -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-30 Thread Alain Mouette
) this does not happen, and performance is good. Alain Alain Mouette escreveu: Ah, I forgot to report of one... SUBST is working fine, all past problems seem to have been fixed. Alain Alain Mouette escreveu: Hi all, I am making a new version of my mini FreeDOS distro, so I put togheter

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-30 Thread Alain Mouette
Thanks, I just tested the new version 11-27-2009 THE ERROR IS GONE :) :) :) but performance is still bad. With XDMA: write: 19 read: 34 Mb/s With UIDE: write: 14 read: 19 Mb/s Alain Robert Riebisch escreveu: Alain Mouette wrote: Making more tests, I run into another problem UIDE (8-3

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-30 Thread Alain Mouette
performance (all very similar). I will be using UIDE /B to avoid cache and LBACACHE 15000 tunw afterwards. So, *THIS PROBLEM IS SOLVED* Thanks all, Alain Alain Mouette escreveu: Thanks, I just tested the new version 11-27-2009 THE ERROR IS GONE :) :) :) but performance is still bad

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-27 Thread Alain Mouette
Ah, I forgot to report of one... SUBST is working fine, all past problems seem to have been fixed. Alain Alain Mouette escreveu: Hi all, I am making a new version of my mini FreeDOS distro, so I put togheter all latest versions. Here is What I Get: KERNEL svn1500 is plain *marvelous

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-27 Thread Alain Mouette
have some others that I classify as very problematic B from ASUS, but I don't have one around. Alain Christian Masloch escreveu: Hi Alain, JEMMEX crashes XMSDSK, so it could crash other programs and I did no further test. I often use both together without issues. Maybe you could report

[Freedos-devel] DISPLAY problem

2009-11-27 Thread Alain Mouette
around? it's been a while since I heard news... Alain -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do

[Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-26 Thread Alain Mouette
more, it is just for me and my dear users. Thanks to all, Alain -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus

[Freedos-devel] looking for LABEL latest version

2009-11-25 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi, I am looking for the newest LABEL version = on IBIBLIO there is a 122 version, dated 2000 = I have a version 1.4b dated 2003 (I lost the original .zip) Does anyone have any information? thanks, Alain -- Let

Re: [Freedos-devel] kernel SVN build availability

2009-06-23 Thread Alain Mouette
, old machine's processor instructions not supported - it won't boot. That is not reasonable for a piece of code with so much restrains as the kernel. BUT this is a task that an instaler could handle ... Alain -- Are you

Re: [Freedos-devel] New RxDOS memory subsystem source code

2009-06-16 Thread Alain Mouette
You're saying development of free DOS software is not on topic in the FreeDOS devel list? RxDOS is another DOS clone entirely from FreeDOS. I agree, but *please* send the link to that other list... I woul like to subscribe :) Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] FrreDOS+Linux (was:Projects in need of a maintainer?)

2009-05-15 Thread Alain M.
on busybox... I could CONTRIBUTE as I have toyed a little with busybox on an ARM9 and I could be interested in it... Alain -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option

Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

2009-05-15 Thread Alain M.
to spell it) and it was 100% stable. Anyway windows 95 was stable too. please send me the coordinats of that parallel universe ;) Alain -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified

Re: [Freedos-devel] Next step in transition

2009-05-11 Thread Alain M.
Welcome back... Pat Villani it is nice to have you as a coordinator. It feels a bit like old times, as we also have Jeremy back too :) :) :) Alain Jim Hall escreveu: Hi again! Most of you should recognize Pat Villani. He is the original author of the FreeDOS kernel, and has been

Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

2009-04-14 Thread Alain M.
I would say that the ideal script language is BASH, which exists dor DOS... (or at least sh) Alain Adam Norton escreveu: I would use something more common like python. (http://www.caddit.net/pythond/) Bruce Axtens wrote: 2009/4/12 Aitor Santamaría aitor.sm http://aitor.sm@gmail.com

Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

2009-04-14 Thread Alain M.
lyricalnanoha escreveu: Though, a truly free 16-bit bash or ash would be nice. Why do you need it to be 16 bit. DOS's programs can be 32 bits without any problem. How many 286 PC are there still around? Most are dead, but DOS in new machines is alive just fine :) Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread Alain M.
and probably modify a little the installer. Then you you really wnat to get into it, you could help with the kernel. There are some open problems that need attention. There are a lot of highly skilled programes in this list, if you start working on something, I am sure they will step in :) Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free-DOS help

2009-03-05 Thread Alain M.
to use Ok, I forgot about that (i use it...) but use a high letter because the targer machine may have more than one disk/partitions... Ah! about image size: you should be ok with 1.44 as whatever alse you need can be used from the CD. Just to make things simpler ;) alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free-DOS help

2009-03-04 Thread Alain M.
file exists 3) make whatever you want with that combination to work 4) when you burn you CD, chose bootable, and you wll be asked for an image, that is the floppy you created. In the CD you put the files that will be seen as CD after boot Please feed-back, Alain Arpit Patel escreveu: Hi All

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [Freedos-kernel] Error compiling ...

2009-02-26 Thread Alain M.
This looks like a real error to me !!! You can cast a short to an int, an the conversion in ok, but to cast a short* to an int* will bring in 2 extra bytes and an INVALID POINTER... Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: Sending over here too, as this list is more popular, and in case someone

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [Freedos-kernel] Error compiling ...

2009-02-26 Thread Alain M.
() and _dos_setblock() is now unsigned int instead of unsigned short. This change was made for compatibility with other compilers. A fix for this would requide conditionals based no the compiler version... really not nice at all :( Alain

[Freedos-devel] Testing: dosfsck

2009-02-19 Thread Alain M.
Hi all, good news: today I had gpf problems with a 160Gbytes SATA disk... I updated DOSFSCK to the latest version 2.11c and it worked like a charm :) Thanks to whoever maintains that (I gess it would be Erik)... Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] fd 1.1 pkg doubts

2009-02-02 Thread Alain M.
Oi Geraldo, Only some programs are able to use NLS, so for some other progs it is not needed. Those that have NLS are easy to translate because they use kitten (or cats)... Alain Geraldo Netto escreveu: Hi Guys, How are you doing there? first, sorry for posting it twice(i mean, i think

Re: [Freedos-devel] Question on S-ATA disks

2008-12-22 Thread Alain M.
, avoid it, and you will be happy. Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: Hello, I have been living during the past years ignoring the existence of S-ATA disks, but nowadays the difference in price between P-ATA and S-ATA suggests me that I should no longer ignore them ;) I've always wondered wether

Re: [Freedos-devel] utime() for Turbo C++ 1.01?

2008-09-09 Thread Alain M.
, and could be made for us but that is a very complex and small piece of code... so I can evaluate if it is useable for you Alain Robert Riebisch escreveu: Hi! Where can I get a POSIX-compatible utime() for TC? Robert Riebisch

[Freedos-devel] Gmake (was: compiling dflat+)

2008-09-08 Thread Alain M.
All this discussion abou make files brings a new (or old?) idea: why no use *gmake* for all projects. wmake is too much different (I know because I use it) and Borland is limited. Where can I find a DOS version o gmake? thanks, Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Gmake

2008-09-08 Thread Alain M.
Unfortunatly it is not there. I asked because it is not a trivial question, Abdreas looked very hard for it and could not find, nor could I :( Alain Oleg O. Chukaev escreveu: Hello Alain, Alain M. wrote: All this discussion abou make files brings a new (or old?) idea: why no use *gmake

Re: [Freedos-devel] Gmake

2008-09-08 Thread Alain M.
thanks, that is it, I was looking for gmake, and that is in the index by that name :) Alain Oleg O. Chukaev escreveu: Alain M. wrote: Unfortunatly it is not there. I asked because it is not a trivial question, Abdreas looked very hard for it and could not find, nor could I :( Hmm

Re: [Freedos-devel] Gmake

2008-09-08 Thread Alain M.
will be reused some day... Cheers, Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: Well, I have my doubts, WMAKE is also opensource (as much as OpenWatcom), when compiling with OWC I just prefer the all-in-one approach. I do not know much about GMAKE, but the ones I've seen look like a bit overly complex to me

Re: [Freedos-devel] Virtualization made in Sun Microsystems

2008-09-05 Thread Alain M.
about speed of graphical dos programs under virtualbox on WinXP? That is a big issue for me :) Alain - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications

Re: [Freedos-devel] OT: mount a local directory onto VMWare

2008-09-03 Thread Alain M.
special deriver :( Cheers, Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: Hello: I seem to remember that there was an easy way to mount a local win directory inside VMWare (as an extra driver or whatever), but I can't find the reference, could someone give me a clue? I am not interested in something

Re: [Freedos-devel] OT: mount a local directory onto VMWare

2008-09-03 Thread Alain M.
Interesting... can you use it to mount directories or only disks and/or partitions? It makes a big difference because a disk cannot be accessed by two OSes... Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: Thanks to both, I knew the DOSEMU stuff, and was new to VirtualBox!! Incidentally, some minutes

[Freedos-devel] Disk size limit

2008-08-26 Thread Alain M.
Hi, is there any disk size limit to FreeDOS's FAT32? My concer is that HDs are getting stupidly big, and I want to make a simple .BAT that uses fdisk batch capability to make one partition and trouble may be waiting somewhere... thanks, Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] boot drive partition and geometry questions

2008-06-16 Thread Alain M.
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[Freedos-devel] UDMA drivers, please report usage...

2008-06-03 Thread Alain M.
That is a prety impressive driver... I would like to know who is using it and in what situations, specially real-world cases (as oposed to simulations, not fantasy :) ) thanks to all, Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi! [...] and that you can use Jack's UIDE driver with UDMA and SATA harddisk

Re: [Freedos-devel] UDMA drivers, please report usage...

2008-06-03 Thread Alain M.
:) Alain Alain M. escreveu: That is a prety impressive driver... I would like to know who is using it and in what situations, specially real-world cases (as oposed to simulations, not fantasy :) ) thanks to all, Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi! [...] and that you can use Jack's UIDE driver

Re: [Freedos-devel] UDMA drivers, please report usage...

2008-06-03 Thread Alain M.
of messages :) So... sorry, sometimes I get mixed up/down :) Alain - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy

Re: [Freedos-devel] Willing to help

2008-05-13 Thread Alain M.
Hi Claude, just an idea came to my mind: you could make a freash port of those common Unix utilities... IMHO it would be most welcome. Thanks for volunteering, Alain Claude (Wayne) Smith escreveu: I am an old time programmer - Programmed many things. At one time, I programmed most

Re: [Freedos-devel] Willing to help

2008-05-13 Thread Alain M.
utilities are just a DOS port of Linux utilities... Dosfsck is one example :) That is why a new port of those utilities would run very well. Unlike the old ports available that have too many limitations. Alain - This SF.net

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-11 Thread Alain M.
OpenWatcom manuals, and that is a biiig package anyway Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-10 Thread Alain M.
Robert Riebisch escreveu: Alain M. wrote: 2. groff has an option to generate html output (not sure if djgpp's groff can do this, though.) So I suppose you could process the man files using groff's html output generator, and include those as html Help pages. Please find a consensus now

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-09 Thread Alain M.
vote for this one... *IF* it achieves a good readability!! Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: freedos defrag methods (OT)

2008-03-19 Thread Alain M.
Interesting... What information is tored in the FAT refered table it needs 32 bits? Alain Imre Leber escreveu: Here are the numbers for the data structures used by defrag, when calculated for FAT32. Cluster movable map: 32 MB (fat size * 1 bit) FAT refered map: 32MB (fat size * 1 bit

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to create alternative shell

2008-03-14 Thread Alain M.
the BAT approach solves a very nasty variable problem. just 2c, Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Some added comments... Secondly, if you know about BNF, lex and yacc Those are about parsing. In other words, they are about how you decide what a STRING like copy *.txt *.com x: /z wants to TELL your

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to create alternative shell

2008-03-13 Thread Alain M.
and it is used by many comanders, like NDN (Norton Commander clone) Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-05 Thread Alain M.
set of apps doesn't mean that there not exist apps, which will have problems with changed on the fly mouse type. I give up :( Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-04 Thread Alain M.
that *these* programs have instructions AM to activate it. Alain, talking about disabling/enabling through command line completely, API doesn't have (yet?) functions to enable wheel support. What I said and some people agreed is to *change the default* to whatever is more compatible. So

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
First thing that come to mind: if you write free software, write it using free compiler. Alain Андрей Влащенко escreveu: Hello everybody! CuteMouse project is dead; I can develop new mouse driver for the FreeDOS project. This driver, named FreeMouse, I started today. Please reply to me, I

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
protocols where for example LR encodes a M toggle is used to get along with only 3 bytes...? It can be done, I did it... Also, I should mention: Alain was doing some changes for himself to make autodecision. I think I remember his plans, but does he still have the sources? Are they readable, stable

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: EA I must admit that the CuteMouse source code is ugly but on the Let me object this assertion. :) Hi Arkady, wellcome back... I look forward to many new discussions :) Alain PS: this is a joke

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
PS2 patch to 2.0 and your COM patch to 2.1 and 2.0, so BOTH 2.0 and 2.1 can be updated. I am not sure about that. I remember that I didn't change much to the PS/2 version. Probably just the don't load twice thing. Alain

[Freedos-devel] Keyboard problem

2007-10-18 Thread Alain M.
just for a test. Please Help, Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting FreeDOS to OLPC XO Laptops?

2007-09-26 Thread Alain M.
I remember that there was a project IIRC called L(i)DOS tha loaded a minimal Linux kernel, DOSEMU and one shell. IMHO this could be a way to go, but withou graphics, for graphics you would need X which would make things bigger. Alain xo user escreveu: Hello I plan to buy OLPC XO laptops

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting FreeDOS to OLPC XO Laptops?

2007-09-26 Thread Alain M.
$...) and usualy compiling a big program is a little faster in DOSEMU then pure dos (thanks to Linux's cache) Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting the FAT filesystem (18)

2007-08-24 Thread Alain M.
://www.robs-projects.com/filelib.html that looks very interesting. Could no find the licene, though. Alain Imre Leber escreveu: Hi guys, here I'm back on track. I've been pretty busy in the past two months so I couldn't finish the port. At the end of the month I'll have the time to continue

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting the FAT filesystem (18)

2007-08-24 Thread Alain M.
Hi, I also found this very good FAT32 tutorial http://www.pjrc.com/tech/8051/ide/fat32.html Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log

Re: [Freedos-devel] Network boot disk

2007-06-20 Thread Alain M.
That is why I asked... there is nothing more there to download... Thanks to M$ lawyers Alain PS: And nw disk is not usefull for me :( Eric Auer escreveu: Alain, Can anyone tell me where to fing Bart's Network Boot Disk??? Very simple: www.google.de/search?q=bart+network+boot+disk

Re: [Freedos-devel] Network boot disk - OK

2007-06-20 Thread Alain M.
Hi, I found something that works: http://www.netbootdisk.com/ And it works very well :) :) I will neet time to understand it and do what I want, but it is working, so it is all there... Alain Can anyone tell me where to fing Bart's Network Boot Disk

Re: [Freedos-devel] Network boot disk

2007-06-20 Thread Alain M.
... Anyway, I just hope that someone has a copy of the other one to send me, a few more drivers will never be too much. Thanks, Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi Alain, That is why I asked... there is nothing more there to download... Thanks to M$ lawyers Hmmm? Does http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network

Re: [Freedos-devel] SUBST is working?

2007-06-17 Thread Alain M.
the SUBST problem. Is this a new kernel version? Will you make a new binary release? I would help a lot ;-) Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting the FAT filesystem (16)

2007-06-04 Thread Alain M.
functions, AFAIU it is essencial to dos working and are used a lot by bot freedos internals, but also by compilers' librariyes. Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting the FAT filesystem (15)

2007-06-01 Thread Alain M.
that (maybe FCBs) but it can become a problem. Alain [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Hi Eric and Bart, yes, upcasing filenames in dos_open() is not a problem. I'll add that in my port. The port status is the following: 1. dos_open(), dos_close(), (*) dos_read(), (*) dos_write() work. I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting the FAT filesystem (12)

2007-05-09 Thread Alain M.
to configure that my Win98 partition works with cp850. Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click

Re: [Freedos-devel] Basic question on OW

2007-05-02 Thread Alain M.
Hi Aitor, Do you participate in OpenWatcom lists? Please send me a link, I would like to participate too! I want to use templates, but it seems to be a complicated topic... Cheers, Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: About the other stuff (why constant initialisations with : are not allowed

Re: [Freedos-devel] File manager

2007-04-10 Thread Alain M.
There is one Real Mode NDN, it is amall and much faster... No LFN, small footprint, works very well :) if you don't find it anywhere, I have a stripped down version (I lost the full distro) Alain Oleg O. Chukaev escreveu: Ladislav Lacina wrote: I would like to ask: which file manager

Re: [Freedos-devel] File manager

2007-04-09 Thread Alain M.
, it takes a few hundred kbytes... I did not know about FW, I will have a look... Alain Ladislav Lacina escreveu: I would like to ask: which file manager is preffered for FreeDOS distributions? I think it is very important thing - nobody will use DOS without any NC clone. And it is stupid

Re: [Freedos-devel] Come visit EDR-DOS sites!

2007-03-29 Thread Alain M.
Ladislav Lacina escreveu: Why? I still use FreeDOS and I don't plan to switch to DRDOS. (DRDOS is incompatible with my boot manager) DR-DOS has a bug about partitions. It will work if DR-DOS is placeded in a partition both first phisicaly and primary Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Come visit EDR-DOS sites!

2007-03-29 Thread Alain M.
* operator? Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi Florian, Please remove from freedos.org: To run old DOS games (like DOOM, etc.) To run old business software that only supports DOS The word old is very bad! No it is not. FreeDOS is one of very few ways to run CLASSIC software which no longer runs

Re: [Freedos-devel] Come visit EDR-DOS sites!

2007-03-29 Thread Alain M.
, but refferences to it are still on the internet... Is there a real reproductible example? Alain - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your

Re: [Freedos-devel] Come visit EDR-DOS sites!

2007-03-29 Thread Alain M.
. No comercial option is available for sale anywhere. (DR-DOS semi-free does not have fat32 AFAIK) Alain - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance

Re: [Freedos-devel] Rebooting without restarting the PC

2007-03-26 Thread Alain M.
:) Alain Adam Smith escreveu: Hey guys, Been puzzling over a few things for a boot disk image I'm making. Currently I've got the image booting, select your network card, loads ghost (or whatever I want), all fine. But, as I'm looking for this to be as automatic as possible, I've been wondering

Re: [Freedos-devel] Insight Debugger

2007-01-17 Thread Alain M.
in NDN ;-) Alain - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http

Re: [Freedos-devel] Insight Debugger

2007-01-08 Thread Alain M.
a patch for 43 lines, do you want to try it? (dosemu is easy to compile...) Alain - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jemm386 issues

2006-12-21 Thread Alain M.
a forum and send messages to an Email, do you have something about it? Alain - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions

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