Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup

2005-10-08 Thread seorge
On Monday I'm going to visit some PC shops which sells old hardware. Is there any tips about those ISA soundblaster cards? Which model, manufacturer, etc.? Thanks in advance! --- Original message --- From: Brolin Empey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup

2005-10-08 Thread Brolin Empey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday I'm going to visit some PC shops which sells old hardware. Is there any tips about those ISA soundblaster cards? Which model, manufacturer, etc.? Thanks in advance! I have only used the basic SB models, i.e. those without wavetable synthesis as on e.g.

Re: [Freedos-user] re: re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 7-Окт-2005 01:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: So, it's runtime loadable (no idea if it would also crash on 8086) and MD We've discussed loading HIMEM at the DOS prompt after CONFIG.SYS processing MD before, too. It's a bad idea that could

Re: [Freedos-user] re: re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 7-Окт-2005 14:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: As far as EMM386, I am not sure one could ever reliably load EMM386 at the command prompt post CONFIG.SYS drivers and COMMAND shell, plus a BB that would be a kind of virtual suicide indeed.

Re: [Freedos-user] emm386 on 286 (was: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list)

2005-10-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 7-Окт-2005 02:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: DEVICE=HIMEM... DEVICE=FDXMS286... DEVICE=EMM386... MD Seriously, you think that stacking up duplicate drivers and expecting them MD to all fail gracefully in line with the current CPU is a good

Re: [Freedos-user] re: re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-08 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:30 PM 10/8/2005 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: MD We've discussed loading HIMEM at the DOS prompt after CONFIG.SYS processing MD before, too. It's a bad idea that could easily open the floodgates of bug MD reports for people wondering why their drivers aren't loading or working MD

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 8-Окт-2005 16:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MD We've discussed loading HIMEM at the DOS prompt after CONFIG.SYS processing MD before, too. It's a bad idea that could easily open the floodgates of bug MD reports for people wondering why

Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup

2005-10-08 Thread dima
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday I'm going to visit some PC shops which sells old hardware. Is there any tips about those ISA soundblaster cards? Which model, manufacturer, etc.? Thanks in advance! Creative ViBRA16X ISA card work not bad under FreeDOS. P.S. btw, this card

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-08 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:01 AM 10/9/2005 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: MD As the front line guy taking most of the tech support on EMM386 (and MD HIMEM), I herewith state that you are incorrect. HIMEM delayed loading I _not_ say about loading HIMEM from command line, I say about CPU detection and