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

2007-05-16 Thread Jack Kelly
Nick Warren wrote: 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

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

2007-05-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Larry Alkoff wrote: 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 It took me a very long time to find out that I could use xdosemu and drag the window to fill the screen and it would

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

2007-05-16 Thread Alain M.
I would personaly use a small Linux Distro and many instances of DOSEMU. That way you have everything stable and well tested with a very good performance. IIRC there was such a thing: http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/lios/ It would be nice to have a modern port of that :) Alain Nick Warren

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

2007-05-16 Thread Larry Alkoff
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Larry Alkoff wrote: 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 It took me a very long time to find out that I could use xdosemu and drag the window