Re: [Freedos-user] Speaking at FOSDEM'22 about DOS spreadsheets

2022-01-22 Thread Liam Proven
On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 00:44, Jim Hall wrote: > > My topic is "A Brief History of Spreadsheets" and is a look back at how > spreadsheets have evolved. Have you ever wondered why spreadsheets look and > act that way? Why does LibreOffice and Excel use letters for columns and > numbers for rows?

Re: [Freedos-user] Speaking at FOSDEM'22 about DOS spreadsheets

2022-01-22 Thread Jim Hall
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 6:00 AM Liam Proven wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 00:44, Jim Hall wrote: > > > > My topic is "A Brief History of Spreadsheets" and is a look back at how > spreadsheets have evolved. Have you ever wondered why spreadsheets look and > act that way? Why does LibreOffice and

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-22 Thread ZB
Please, note: CuteMouse v2.1 beta4 probably is flawed. One day I was tried it with "Civilization", but when using this mouse driver the game always has been hung after relatively short period of time (like 30-40 moves) and then I wasn't able to do any more input (it was beeping at me like in case

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi ZB, Please, note: CuteMouse v2.1 beta4 probably is flawed. One day I was tried it with "Civilization", but when using this mouse driver the game always has been hung after relatively short >> period of time (like 30-40 moves) and then I wasn't able to do any more input (it was beeping at

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 error when installing

2022-01-22 Thread Pyros
It's a Pentium 1 emachines win 98 box with pci and Isa slots On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 2:07 PM Eric Auer, wrote: > > > http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/img/uploaded/image24.jpg > > > > while installing freedos 1.3 rc5 i get the error that you see in the > image. > > Now this is not your modern pc

Re: [Freedos-user] Speaking at FOSDEM'22 about DOS spreadsheets

2022-01-22 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
+1 Lotus Improv was an underrated piece of software. On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 13:00, Liam Proven wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 00:44, Jim Hall wrote: > > > > My topic is "A Brief History of Spreadsheets" and is a look back at how > spreadsheets have evolved. Have you ever wondered why

Re: [Freedos-user] UDVD2 vs SHSUCDX

2022-01-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! I used this version of OAK https://www.hiren.info/download/dos-files/oakcdrom.sys and the problem persists. I even tried 3 different sound cards with the CDROM in UDMA and PIO modes: - SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold - SoundBlaster Vibra 128 - Yamaha YMF724 ... In all 6 tests, the CD

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-22 Thread ZB
It was serial mouse used in Microsoft mode ("mouse /3"). Connected to Multi I/O adapter inserted into slot of my trusty Soyo-SiS mobo. It's Fellowes "Combo" mouse, which has PS/2 connector and PS/2 <-> RS-232 adapter (currently in use). As I wrote: I did a comparison, and no problem when using

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse /O

2022-01-22 Thread Ladislav Lacina
Hm, in the past I used CTmouse but now not because I also had a problems. If I used CTmouse with Quake or Quake II the game was slower and was a little bit chopy. With Microsoft mouse driver it works better. I thinnk that CTmouse has some problems with IRQ processing which makes in the protected

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 error when installing

2022-01-22 Thread Eric Auer
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/img/uploaded/image24.jpg while installing freedos 1.3 rc5 i get the error that you see in the image. Now this is not your modern pc it's from the win 98/me days as it does have isa slots and has an SB16 with attached wave blaster. It is a pentium machine if