Re: [Freedos-user] USB Question

2009-06-12 Thread dos386
I'm aware that USBASPI.sys and DI1000DD.sys work to provide USB DI1000DD.SYS is crap ... I personally prefer (Adaptec?) ASPIDISK instead of DI1000DD Where to get it ? but actually an even easier way is to let the BIOS do the lowlevel stuff. Then your stick looks like a normal int13 disk

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-12 Thread dos386
Jack wrote: Regrettably, add on cards are also NOT not a part of the main- board BIOS, and so their I-O addresses are unknown to PCI BIOS or EDD BIOS calls. Thus, UIDE's initialization displays will show no data for your add on disks as it cannot see them via the standard BIOS calls it

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-06 Thread dos386
had to run the install CD twice to get FreeDOS installed on the hard drive. Known problem, the 1.0 distro is obsolete and buggy ... My experience was that about half of the ones i tried on FreeDOS worked. Make sure to update the kernel, HIMEM to HIMEMX, EMM386 to nothing or JEMM, CTMOUSE, ...

Re: [Freedos-user] dmidecode

2009-06-04 Thread dos386
Check BTTR forum ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the

Re: [Freedos-user] Basic sound access in DOS.

2009-05-21 Thread dos386
Key words are: closed source. Bad idea. There is not much choice around ... The problem is that apps working with SB cards usually do this by accessing hardware ports directly (in/out instructions). You can't hook This is a non-issue affecting legacy crap only ;-) and having a .sys driver

[Freedos-user] test

2009-05-17 Thread dos386
as Eric suggested :-D -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing

Re: [Freedos-user] Basic sound access in DOS.

2009-05-17 Thread dos386
In general, sound cards are handled directly under most DOS YES, but it's the bad way of doing :-( You may want to look at the source code for several games to see how it is done. Bad idea, only ISA cards (=15 years old). Look into MPXPLAY source instead. Another solution is to look at

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