Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode
Chema wrote: But the svga driver you told me below is for Windows 3.1, I'm using No. Where did you read that? readme.txt says Svga256.drv is a 256 color video driver included in WfW 3.11. WFW 3.11 and drivers vesa don't work. Any idea? Scitech Display Doctor Sorry, but I really hate the stupid don't work reports. Man, give us more details! Are you sure that your graphics card is VESA VBE compatible? could help me? Nobody has developed a better vesa driver for Windows 3.xx? That would require the Windows 3.1 DDK from Microsoft which was/is not free! Just for you I tried SVGAPTCH with WfW 3.11 (built-in SuperVGA support) and Win 3.1 (plus http://dl.winsite.com/files/197/ar2/win3/drivers/video/svga.exe) in Enhanced Mode and it works without problems on my ThinkPad 770 laptop. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode
Hi Robert, Sorry, but I really hate the stupid don't work reports. Man, give us more details! Ok, I think maybe is a problem of refresh with my TFT screen. When I select VESA driver i.e. 800x600 256 colors, WFW 3.11 load but the desktop isn't showed well (it appears moved and diffused, is the typical problem when you show a screen with a resolution not sopported or refresh rate not sopported). Are you sure that your graphics card is VESA VBE compatible? I think, it's an ATI 200M with 128 Mb of memory and DirectX 9 support. It should support VESA 3.0. That would require the Windows 3.1 DDK from Microsoft which was/is not free! Yesterday I downloaded it from the MSDN, also the SDK. Just for you I tried SVGAPTCH with WfW 3.11 (built-in SuperVGA support) and Win 3.1 (plus http://dl.winsite.com/files/197/ar2/win3/drivers/video/svga.exe) in Enhanced Mode and it works without problems on my ThinkPad 770 laptop. I'm going to try again next days. Do you have WFW 3.11 installed over FreeDOS? If you have it, how is necessary to load the Himem.sys in order to I can start Enhaced mode? By the way, does know anybody what plans has BreadBox for Ensemble? Regards, Chema. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode
Chema wrote: Ok, I think maybe is a problem of refresh with my TFT screen. When I Why? I just use the default 60 Hz refresh on my Laptop's TFT. Yesterday I downloaded it from the MSDN, also the SDK. URL? I'm going to try again next days. Do you have WFW 3.11 installed over FreeDOS? If you have it, how is necessary to load the Himem.sys in order to I can start Enhaced mode? I'm using MS-DOS 6.22 with HIMEM.SYS from Windows 9x. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Install freedos without floppy or cd?
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 22:58 -0500, Hoace Johnson wrote: Hello, I have a laptop that has no working removable media drives, which has linux installed on one patition. I also have a fat16 partition (hda1) that I want to install FreeDOS on, booting from GRUB, but I cannot figure out exactly how to do this. The problem (I think) is getting the right boot sector on /dev/hda1. makebootfat looks promising, but I really do not want to risk screwing up my system (It would be absolute torture to restore it), so may I ask 1- Where can I get the essential freedos files (just enough to run old games, turbo C, quickbasic, use the mouse) in a convenient format (like .zip)? 2- How can I get it to boot from grub (My understanding is that the I need some kind of loader (512 bytes??) on the partition.. if anyone could send this to me along with instructions on how to get it on there (using dd, i guess), that would be much appreciated)? If it is so old as to not have a cd does it have usb? If so go external and load and run from there using the linux to move the files over. BTW there are usb floppy drives. If you mess up grup you can rerun its install as root. CWSIV --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: [freedos] Installing a DOS App and Having it Run Fullscreen?]
Hi Tom Under Win2k, XP, the whole idea is that it's up to the user how they want to run their DOS app. They can choose the dimensions of the box, the number of characters, the fonts, and the number of lines. As I see it, this is exactly as it should be. It could be argued that if an installer changes these settings it's either a security breach or an unfriendly application. However, a possible solution would be to distribute a shortcut with your app that starts the app in the exact way you desire. This avoids trashing their chosen user-wide setting. Anyway, you should never try to change HKCU from an installer. Tom Lee Mullins wrote: Subject: [freedos] Installing a DOS App and Having it Run Fullscreen? From: peat_s [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:15:11 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OS=Win2K or WinXP I'm aware of the Alt+Enter to toggle between full and window mode. I can also get fullscreen by choosing the option in the properties section of the icon, then right-clicking on the title bar of the DOS screen, going to Properties | Layout, and making the dimensions of the screen buffer size and window size 80x25. That works beautifully. What I am trying to do is create an install script that does this automatically. It looks like there is a registry entry created when you go through the procedure to set the screen to true full-screen. The registry entry is located here in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console\%SystemRoot%_system32_ntvdm.exe Basically 2 settings seem to affect the full-screen option: ScreenBufferSize = 1638480(decimal) WindowSize = Deleted When I modify these entries with the install script, I don't get true fullscreen. The DOS section of the screen is full, but the data, or application only uses the top half of that screen. Is there another registry entry that needs to be modified to make my DOS application run true fullscreen? Thanks, Pete S - Tucson, AZ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/pXFolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freedos/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode
Sorry, I don't understand well, what's that? Does Kaser has drivers for ATI cards for Windows 3.xx? 2005/11/2, Carl Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:26 +0100, Robert Riebisch wrote: Chema wrote: By the way, is there any possibility to work with Windows in a higher resolution? I only can work with it in VGA 640x400 16 colors mode. I have an ATI 200M graphic card. From many years are not developed drivers for Windows 3.xx, so I don't know if exists some application to solve this problem. But it doesn't like full-screen DOS boxes: http://www.japheth.de/Download/svgaptch.zip Lots of tips tricks for Windows 3.1: http://stephan.win31.de/w31mm_en.htm Try graphics cards from www.kasercorp.com CWSIV --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode
Hi, Robert Riebisch escribió: could help me? Nobody has developed a better vesa driver for Windows 3.xx? That would require the Windows 3.1 DDK from Microsoft which was/is not free! Oh, my! I wish there was ANY way to get a copy of this anyhow... depending of price I could even pay. Aitor --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode
2005/11/3, Aitor Santamaría Merino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Robert Riebisch escribió: could help me? Nobody has developed a better vesa driver for Windows 3.xx? That would require the Windows 3.1 DDK from Microsoft which was/is not free! Oh, my! I wish there was ANY way to get a copy of this anyhow... depending of price I could even pay. You can download it from MSDN on the subscriptors zone. Also you can download MS-DOS 6.2 and 6.22, Windows 3.1, 3.11 and WFW 3.11, Windows 16 bits SDK and DDK. You can download the DDK from eMule too ;-). --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] [Freedos-User]How can Disk write speed up?
Title: [Freedos-User]How can Disk write speed up? Hello. I’m using Freedos Beta0.9. But CD to disk and disk to disk Writing is very slow. Is there anything to disk writing speed improvement such as Smartdrv.exe of MS-DOS? I used lbacache.exe in Autoexec.bat A:\lbacache 8192 TUNW But It is useless doing that. could you let me know How I can resolve this problem? Thanks.
