Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...

2007-05-15 Thread chris evans
Freedos needs to remain backwards compatible with 8086 cpu. Perhaps, a protected mode 386/486 kernel can be made and allow user or real mode kernel to decide (autodetect) which to use at boot up. --chris http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/ Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:the

Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...

2007-05-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Japheth, Better to teach XCDROM/XDMA to handle S-ATA drives as well ;) Hm, thanks for the hint, it's appreciated! Such a driver already exists: GCDROM, licensed under GPL and based on the old GPLed XCDROM. A driver for S-ATA CDROM :-). As the original homepage is gone, I mirrored it on my

Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...

2007-05-15 Thread Robert Riebisch
tom ehlert wrote: where do I get POLINK ? It's part of http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/ Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2

Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...

2007-05-15 Thread tom ehlert
Moving a 16 Bit DOS program that uses far pointers *extensively* to a 32 bit world comes close to rewriting it (and redebugging it with a zillion crazy programs). Only if the 16-bit program has a very bad design! :) Sorry; I was talking about the kernel. Just try searching for MK_FP()

[Freedos-user] OLB (ONLINE BIBLE - DOS VERSION) FREEDOS SUPPORT

2007-05-15 Thread frank finley
Hi With regard to the OLB thread (Online Bible - DOS version) available at http://www.onlinebible.net/ The version works perfectly well under MS-DOS but not under FREEDOS without the updated 'kernel.sys'. I am advised that there will be an official FREEDOS kernel with OLB support and other

[Freedos-user] FoxCalc: New version on-line.

2007-05-15 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi guys! As I got some support questions/suggestions/bug reports, I have updated FoxCalc. What's new in FoxCalc v0.82: - Fixed the divide by 0 MOD bug, - Updated the LICENCE.TXT file (FSF address has changed), - Added an descriptive *.LSM file to the package, - Added my email address to the ?

[Freedos-user] announce: devload with fat32 support

2007-05-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, together with Alexey I tuned DEVLOAD to support FAT32 block devices. This means that you will need a bit more RAM to devload block devices (drivers which provide FAT based drive letters). In addition, the build DPB call (int 21.53) got some extra magic under the hood. Enjoy! The zip is

[Freedos-user] Howto specify a dosemu font?

2007-05-15 Thread Larry Alkoff
I am trying to specify a larger font for dosemu 1.2.2 than the default font specified in ~/.dosemu of # $_X_font = # default 8.5w x 4.25h My specified satisfactory font in ~/.dosemurc is: $_X_font = vga12x30 # The biggest 11 wide x 8.5high I'm using Kubuntu Feisty

Re: [Freedos-user] Howto specify a dosemu font?

2007-05-15 Thread Jim Hall
We're getting off-topic for the FreeDOS lists - you can probably get better help on the DOSEmu lists. However, DOSEmu will use an X font resource. Use 'xlsfonts | less' to view what fonts are available to you. I was able to edit my dosemu.conf to specify a different font (even one that didn't

Re: [Freedos-user] Howto specify a dosemu font?

2007-05-15 Thread Larry Alkoff
Hello Jim and thanks for your reply. I have been getting replies from both the doesmu list and the freedos list - that's why I posted to both. You have given me a new resource 'xlsfonts' Running it gave me 6,293 lines of fonts, some of which are just different sizes. But many more than I

Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...

2007-05-15 Thread Nick Warren
You know what would be really awesome in FreeDOS? multitasking. There are no open source multitaskers for DOS. They used to have some programs that did that a long time ago, but they were all proprietary. When I say multitasking, I don't mean task switching like in MS DOSShell. Can this be done?