[Freedos-user] Accessing custom ISA cards

2007-05-21 Thread Franz Struwig
Hi, I'm using an old legacy system in DOS that uses three custom built ISA cards. Will it be possible for me to install FreeDOS on a newer PC (with ISA slots) and still access those cards correctly? Thanks, Franz - This

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

2007-05-21 Thread Robert Riebisch
Nick Warren wrote: Another thing that would be really great woudl be an equivalent of QBASIC. QBASIUC is a great old language, but I don't think there's an open source equivalent and if there was, it should be part of FreeDOS. I guess there's FreeBASIC, but it's a compielr, QBASIC was an

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

2007-05-21 Thread Stegozor
On 5/15/07, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think FreeDOS needs such a calc application? I know there is already FDRC, which is a resident calculator, but haven't a nice TUI like FoxCalc ;-P Well, FDRC uses Reverse Polish notation, it seems to be a rather developer oriented

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

2007-05-21 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Monday 21 May 2007 10:46, Stegozor wrote: Well, FDRC uses Reverse Polish notation, it seems to be a rather developer oriented tool. That's what I think too :) As for Foxcalc I can say that in my view, a calculator application (I mean, for human beings) is always good. I use the calc

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessing custom ISA cards

2007-05-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Franz, I'm using an old legacy system in DOS that uses three custom built ISA cards. Will it be possible for me to install FreeDOS on a newer PC (with ISA slots) and still access those cards correctly? As long as your PC has ISA slots, they should work as usual. It might be the case that

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

2007-05-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Nick, Robert, Another thing that would be really great woudl be an equivalent of QBASIC... I guess there's FreeBASIC, but it's a compiler, QBASIC was an interpreter. There are already the bwBASIC or Regina Rexx interpreters included with `fdfullcd.iso'. We once made an attempt to

[Freedos-user] JPC Java Virtual PC is now Open Source

2007-05-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi everybody, forwarding a mail about the JPC virtual PC from Oxford. JPC is written in Java and running FreeDOS in JPC in a web browser is used as example on their homepage :-). Eric Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:35:55 +0100 Subject: JPC is now Open Source Hi, Further to your interest in JPC

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

2007-05-21 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Monday 21 May 2007 19:41, Oleg O. Chukaev wrote: Small suggestion to Mateusz Viste: make a configuration file for FoxCalc to change default colors. Good idea. I added it to the to-do list ;-) Regards, Mateusz V. - This

[Freedos-user] How to get colorized directory in a dosemu prompt?

2007-05-21 Thread Larry Alkoff
I use 4dos a free command.com emulator which has many more functions than command.com. It has the ability to display a directory listing in color, similar to what happen with --color=auto in an xterm. Can anyone help me to get color in an xdosemu terminal? Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin