Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote: So, do anybody knows if there is any way I could make Windows 3.11 working with nice (non-VGA) graphic in VirtualBox *and* network? (the problem with Japheth's patch seems to be some related to the inability of the

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 18:09 (CEST), Liam Proven wrote: Identify what graphics card VBox is emulating look for a Windows 3 driver for it. Not that easy :) VirtualBox is emulating a VirtualBox graphic card, not a card from the real world... bye, Mateusz Viste -- You'll find my public

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote: On Wednesday 07 April 2010 18:09 (CEST), Liam Proven wrote: Identify what graphics card VBox is emulating look for a Windows 3 driver for it. Not that easy :) VirtualBox is emulating a VirtualBox graphic card, not

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 18:30 (CEST), Liam Proven wrote: In that case, you might try something like SciTech Display Doctor... Older releases had support for DOS so it might work with Windows 3. I already tried SDD v5.3 and v6. In both cases, it just outputs the message unknown SVGA chipset.

[Freedos-user] USB support/IPod

2010-04-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Do any of the FreeDOS iso images contain enough USB support that they might find an IPod hooked to a modern computer via motherboard/chipset-based USB controllers? If so which one? If not what sort of USB host controller is required to find an IPod with FreeDOS. Thanks, Mark

Re: [Freedos-user] USB support/IPod

2010-04-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mark, Do any of the FreeDOS iso images contain enough USB All ISOs are several years old as far as I remember. The newest drivers are from Bret Johnson, 1/2010: http://bretjohnson.us/ You can use a floppy distro such as the Rugxulo one: http://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ You can

Re: [Freedos-user] Multitiasking under DOS ?

2010-04-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Geraldo, while we can't push any much modern idea would be possible to implement a thread facility in FD kernel using protothread http://www.sics.se/~adam/pt/ ? it would allow many interesting things or at least, we could use on FD install to unzip packages in parallel? For unzipping

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: cd burning?]

2010-04-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Karen, it can take say two or three screen readers to equal the functionality of one Dos based one. Interesting, what makes the DOS ones so user friendly? screen readers for windows are in the dictionary for richly problematical. In what way? I remember them often being commercial

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: cd burning?]

2010-04-07 Thread Marti van Lin
Eric Auer wrote: Hi Karen, it can take say two or three screen readers to equal the functionality of one Dos based one. Interesting, what makes the DOS ones so user friendly? screen readers for windows are in the dictionary for richly problematical. In what way? I remember them

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: cd burning?]

2010-04-07 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Eric, it can take say two or three screen readers to equal the functionality of one Dos based one. Interesting, what makes the DOS ones so user friendly? A combination of things, ranging from the commercial companies working together, to individuals involved with dos programming

Re: [Freedos-user] Multitiasking under DOS ?

2010-04-07 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Euphoria interpreter support multiple threads in the same program. On MS-DOS 5.0 had a task switch utility DOSSHELL. Was not very popular but offered a simple multitasking. Something like win31 on standar mode with all the programs on full screen mode. 2010/4/7, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de:

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 07-04-2010 13:17, Mateusz Viste escreveu: Not that easy :) VirtualBox is emulating a VirtualBox graphic card, not a card from the real world... It probably accepts VESA, but I don't remember if w3.1 accepts that... Alain

Re: [Freedos-user] Multitiasking under DOS ?

2010-04-07 Thread Geraldo Netto
Hi All/Auer-San! Oh, i got it! ehehehe, Sheldon Cooper would say what a newbie... and then bazinga! ehehehe :) jokes a part, besides win3x support for multitask, is there any other way to multitask (Free)DOS without breaking legacy software or using obscure techniques? just philosophising/out of