Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: FORMAT 0.91v - floppy and UI improvements

2006-01-07 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Blair, > Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:00:11 -0800 > From: Blair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 0.92 sounds best for this version (because the letters are starting to > get boring), and maybe 1.0 for the kittenized version, ONLY if it is > verified to work on large hard disks properly. I was think

Re: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese

2006-01-07 Thread basudeb gupta
Hello, Does anyone know what is the FreeDos japanese version? I have heard there is a version to be run from floppy which works in japanese mode. Is it true? Thanks for all the help so far. Basudeb - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and OpenGem on the $100 Laptop?

2006-01-07 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
Shane M. Coughlan wrote: Tom Lee Mullins wrote: Do you think it one could use FreeDOS and OpenGem on MIT's $100 laptop computer? http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ -- I sent them an e-mail about it. :) Hi Tom Technically, yes...running FreeDOS and OpenGEM on the $100 laptop should work.

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDOS boot

2006-01-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:50:38 +0100, you wrote: Hi, >It is the only USB 2.0 driver for extern hard disc which works on my >computer. It's for Cypress chipset only, and the cheap external USB 2.0 CD-case usually don't use Cypress. So the majority of USB 2.0 storage can depends on Panasonic USBAS

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDOS boot

2006-01-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Johnson Lam schreef: Then use no switch, it works fine without additional parameter. it's pretty safe to invoke XCDROM 4 times, 1 for each possible location. Only drawback is multiple channel scanning, which is fast when XDMA is loaded, and otherwise takes a few seconds. DEVICE=A:\XCDROM.S

Re: [Freedos-user] Happy New Year - XCDROM V1.4

2006-01-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:56:26 +0100, you wrote: Hi Flo, >I tested it - and i like it. It also shows the "names" and compandies... Yeah, the small size and it's DMA or PIO only function very handy. A few bugs was fixed, so a few days later will have a new version. Thanks for testing. Rgds, John

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDOS boot

2006-01-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:38:50 -0800, you wrote: Hi, >> You got any problem? >XCDROM does not see the second drive. OAKCDROM and VIDE-CDD do see it. Strange, did you check the cable and the jumpers, I strongly recommended you set both CDROM drive to MASTER and SLAVE instead of cable select. >I

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDOS boot

2006-01-07 Thread Florian Xaver
Did you read the manual? You have to load XCDROM.SYS twice, if you want to access two drives. I have access to both. I hadn't two CDs in both CD-ROMs, so tested both at the same time. But I have 2 drives with it. G: and H: Bye Flo -- Florian Xaver SWORD - a nice GUI l

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: FORMAT 0.91v - floppy and UI improvements

2006-01-07 Thread Blair Campbell
> ... This might not be the 100% final 0.91v, as Alain wants to > add one extra feature: Should it be possible to abort with Ctrl-C > or is the current (only Ctrl-Break aborts) implementation okay? > After all aborting in the middle of the format process should not > be too easy ;-). Votes please!