Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/21 Geraldo Netto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1) Maybe vga,437,1 instead? LH makes no sense without emm386... actually i would use it with 850 cp which pt-br, it seems to 'run better' with no value ie: if i try to use display con=(vga,850,1) the screen get a

[Freedos-user] Fwd: invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, As usual, Eric ported the conversation to private (is it just me who does NOT like it?), and after a long thread, for those interested, the results are: (1) Several programs ceased to work properly whenever LH without a XMS driver NOT being present and you try to load high (using UNSTABLE

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS services

2008-09-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/25 Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: a 286 or newer processor). If EDIT or KEYB fail on your 80186, try EDIT 0.7d and MKEYB, which should work even on 8086. Or use no keyboard driver at all (if you use US keyboard layout). Let us know if you find other programs which do not work on 80186

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation ISOs

2008-09-28 Thread Simon Atkinson
Hi there ... just a quick query: what is the difference between the files/distributions/1.0 and files/distributions/1.0/3sep2006 ..except the latter contains zipped files. Does the former contain more up-to-date ISOs? Thanks Simon

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Robert Riebisch
Aitor Santamaría wrote: As usual, Eric ported the conversation to private (is it just me who does NOT like it?), ... No! :-) Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation ISOs

2008-09-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! what is the difference between the files/distributions/1.0 and files/distributions/1.0/3sep2006 ... except the latter contains zipped files. Does the former contain more up-to-date ISOs? There was an error in the ISOLINUX config of our ISOs so Jim remastered them. The files

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users)
Hi! Am Sonntag, 28. September 2008 schrieb Aitor Santamaría: 2008/9/21 Geraldo Netto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1) Maybe vga,437,1 instead? LH makes no sense without emm386... actually i would use it with 850 cp which pt-br, it seems to 'run better' with no value ie:

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users)
Am Sonntag, 28. September 2008 schrieb Aitor Santamaría: Hello Andreas, Hello Aitor! Apparently not, as we can read in one of my favourites posts on this topic by Matthias Paul (from whom we haven't read much lately, and that hopefully will be there ;)).

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Andreas, I always removed DISPLAY.SYS, MODE CON ... and just left COUNTRY=49,850,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS in my start-up files. How about COUNTRY=049,437 or COUNTRY=049 then, the country.sys file only adds Umlaut alphabetic sorting and Umlaut upper / lower case things and only with the unstable

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/28 Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm a DOS user since the early 90's, I used DR DOS 5.0, later MS-DOS 7.00 and DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7 a lot, always together with 4DOS. I always removed DISPLAY.SYS, MODE CON ... and just left COUNTRY=49,850,

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, The idea is that after you've load it all (DISPLAY, KEYB, NLSFUNC, ...), your only had to work it out with CHCP: CHCP 850 True. With a kernel that supports it. If not, you do this: LH DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1) MODE CON CP PREP=((858) D:\FDOS\cpi\EGA.CPX) MODE CON CP SEL=858 (in

[Freedos-user] Some Installer Ideas....

2008-09-28 Thread Spiro Gulgas
Well i was kind of getting back in to the swing of Helping Out here... I remember i left trying to get a Generic driver for Audio on PCs with AC97\HDA Cards. Too hard for me... Not used to Driver Development... Anyway I heard about the New FreeDOS 1.1 Distro... Well i Had a Few

[Freedos-user] Gaming and FreeDOS...

2008-09-28 Thread Spiro Gulgas
Some Games aren't worth having on this setup of v1.1 I was thinking of some Great New DOS Games for 16 (and some 32bit) Well i was thinking for 16bit games... having not only Fun and Free but impressive... The Sites that you can obtain them from is QB45.com and Pete's QB Site

[Freedos-user] Free disk space reported incorrectly

2008-09-28 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
After a month of testing, I feel confident that the cause of the Free disk space reported incorrectly problem has now been correctly identified. It is very simple, and involves the DOS Navigator file manager by RIT Labs. My version is 1.51. To avoid the problem, it is enough to stop using