[Freedos-user] display command

2014-05-02 Thread Dale E Sterner
When I try display con=(vga,437,1) it returns an error unknown hardware device but if I change vga to ega it works. Why doesn't vga work? Oh if anyone wants their FREEDOS to run faster and they have an ide harddrive then copy your FREEDOS to a compactflash chip and replace your ide drive with an

Re: [Freedos-user] display command

2014-05-02 Thread Dale E Sterner
What is an SSD device, I'm talking about compact flash chip used mostly in cameras but can replace an ide hard drive. You can pull a dos loaded chip from a computer and move it to another computer without too many problems Windows will work on one computer but will refuse to work on another

Re: [Freedos-user] display command

2014-05-02 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: What is an SSD device, I'm talking about compact flash chip used mostly in cameras but can replace an ide hard drive. SSD is Solid State Drive. The common point here is that Compact Flash, Secure Digital, and Solid State

Re: [Freedos-user] display command

2014-05-02 Thread Dale E Sterner
SD flash is a serial device similiar to rs232 but compact flash has the same interface as an ide hard drive.Pin for pin they are the same. SD chips are very slow but cf are fast. I used idecheck to clock a travelstar hard drive it was 7 mbs while a Sandisk extreme iv clocked at 14 mbs. Then you

Re: [Freedos-user] display command

2014-05-02 Thread Bret Johnson
Quoting from the MS-DOS 6.22 Help program (HELP DISPLAY.SYS at a command prompt): The EGA value supports both EGA and VGA display adapters. If you omit the type parameter, DISPLAY.SYS checks the hardware to determine which display adapter is in use. You can also specify CGA and MONO as

Re: [Freedos-user] display command

2014-05-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Now why doesn't display work for vga. I don't know. :-)As a hopeless end user, I admit to not having used such things lately. Aitor Santamaria Merino is official maintainer for (FD) DISPLAY but presumably

Re: [Freedos-user] display command

2014-05-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Or, as Bret Johnson suggested, read the (FD, HTML-) Help: http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/display.htm Oops, corrected the name here. (Bah, you're all the same!) :-P

Re: [Freedos-user] display command

2014-05-02 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: SD flash is a serial device similiar to rs232 but compact flash has the same interface as an ide hard drive.Pin for pin they are the same. SD chips are very slow but cf are fast. If you look at comparative benchmarks, I