Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Michael Robinson
being worked on, all it does is make people angry. Because you are unable to describe your problem in a way understandable to other people ;-) It's not that simple. Asking questions about when XYZ will work or what is being worked on raises people's ire because they can't give good

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Blair Campbell
I know about ReactOS, ReactOS is garbage right now.  It will probably be garbage for 2-3 more years. Realistically, writing a Windows 9x replacement for FreeDOS would take years, probably more than 2 or 3 because developers are hard to find and it's a huge project, probably (correct me if I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-13 Thread Jack
DOS386 wrote: Thanks for the explanation ... UIDE won't see the PCI addon card since it uses BIOS INT $13 to search for disks ... but does anything prevent UIDE from searching for IDE/ATA/SATA stuff using PCI BIOS, and assigning it to a free INT $13 disk number specified in commandline if

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
guest schreef: I know about ReactOS, ReactOS is garbage right now. It will probably be garbage for 2-3 more years. Calling a project garbage is quite severe. If it's unusable for you or your goals, just indicate so but don't dismiss other people's efforts into getting something nice off

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Christian Masloch
There is no reason for an MSDOS Windows replacement to be MSDOS compatible. Except to run on MS-DOS as well. As said, it's Microsoft's method to write programs such that they only run with other Microsoft programs although there's no good reason why they shouldn't run with other vendor's

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Christian Masloch
HX DOS Extender does support VERY basic Win32 applications, but it is somewhat of a hodgepodge. It's basically using the Windows NT form of Win32 as its base. If that could be refitted to work with Wine DLLs then it would make a lot of the work needed go by a lot faster. Then we would

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Christian Masloch
I try to ask what is going to get done in the next release or when XYZ is going to get fixed and I get attacked. YES, but is cloning of Windaube ME on-topic here at all ? :-D What are you talking about? ReactOS is not about Windows Me at all, because Windows Me is effectively part of the

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Christian Masloch
probably (correct me if I'm wrong) even more challenging than writing a dos kernel. I think you're right on that. For example, Japheth writes on his site that HX's source code is about 100,000 lines of code, whereas the current RxDOS kernel Assembly source code is only around 35,000 lines

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kernel 2038 now available on sourceforge

2009-06-13 Thread Pat Villani
Thank you Eric. Pat On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Eric Auere.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Hi everybody, There is a new sourceforge file release of the FreeDOS kernel: Version 2038 is now available with OpenWatcom 8086 FAT16 and FAT32 binaries and as source code download. No 386+ or Turbo C

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting sound to work in FreeDOS on Modern systems.

2009-06-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Dos386, Intel ICH Pure AC97, does not attempt to support SB. Supported by few modern DOS apps as AC97, not supported by old games. ES1371/1373 AKA SB128PCI/SB16PCI, EMUxxx (SB512/LiveAudigy), ... (MPXPLAY) Supported by modern apps as AC97, comes with driver which creates virtual SB,

Re: [Freedos-user] Thank you to kernel developers for new kernel 2038

2009-06-13 Thread Florian Xaver
Some years ago I thought that DOS was more or less dead. So I am very happy that there are people how continues. Many thanks, I will test it after my final exam next week. Bye Flo On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:33:11 +0200, Pat Villani p...@monmouth.com wrote: I would like to thank all the folks

[Freedos-user] New kernel install floppy won't boot

2009-06-13 Thread Ray Davison
The boot process identifies all the HDD partitions then: Incorrect DOS version Bad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256 Enter . Suggestions? Ray -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day

Re: [Freedos-user] New kernel install floppy won't boot

2009-06-13 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: The boot process identifies all the HDD partitions then: Incorrect DOS version Bad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256 Enter . The floppy had a 2003 Command.com. The bat went looking for a copy of command.com on the HDD and that is what it found. It

Re: [Freedos-user] New kernel install floppy won't boot

2009-06-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Ray Davison schreef: The boot process identifies all the HDD partitions then: Incorrect DOS version Bad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256 Enter . Suggestions? Ray How was the bootdisk created? Are you sure it contains both the kernel.sys and command.com from

Re: [Freedos-user] New kernel install floppy won't boot

2009-06-13 Thread Ray Davison
Bernd Blaauw wrote: How was the bootdisk created? The included bat. See my previous post where I described the fix. Ray -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified

Re: [Freedos-user] New kernel install floppy won't boot

2009-06-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ray, Bernd, How was the bootdisk created? The included bat. The kernel download only includes the KERNEL itself and the installer tool SYS. It does not include a SHELL, so if you run SYS (or run the bat which runs sys) then it will copy whatever version of command.com you already have and