Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-22 Thread Blair Campbell
does ASPI.SYS by Oak require a ATAPI driver to be loaded first? Yes. Load xgcdrom or something first, then load aspi.sys. Using devload worked fine for me. I hope to get the real system workable but no idea why it hangs. Wish I knew if the GCDROM/ASPI.SYS combination actually worked, as

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-22 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Michael Horvath schrieb: I have PocketDOS installed on my PDA. It loads a bootable version of FreeDOS from a floppy disk image. I'm having trouble figuring out where AUTOEXEC.BAT and FDCONFIG.SYS are located on this disk. Where can I find it? Until now I wasn't aware of the PocketDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-22 Thread Oleg O. Chukaev
Hello Bernd, Bernd Blaauw wrote: does ASPI.SYS by Oak require a ATAPI driver to be loaded first? No. Programs like cdrecord and readcd can work without an ATAPI driver. -- Oleg O. Chukaev -- Apps built with the

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-22 Thread Robert Riebisch
Michael Horvath wrote: Second question: can anyone recommend a good text-based file manager that uses few system resources? Volkov Commander: http://egner-online.de/vc/en/ Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-22 Thread Robert Riebisch
Michael Horvath wrote: ways as a form of copy-protection. I still have my Windows 3.11 disks, and remember that they were formatted to store more than 1.44MB. IIRC, simply copying from one disk to another didn't work last time I tried. You're wrong. ;-) Windows 3.x is OK, but Windows 95

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-22 Thread Blair Campbell
does ASPI.SYS by Oak require a ATAPI driver to be loaded first? No. Programs like cdrecord and readcd can work without an ATAPI driver. No they can't if you're using an ATAPI drive. ASPI.SYS won't load if an ATAPI driver isn't loaded already. ASPI.SYS provides an ASPI-over-ATAPI interface; it

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-22 Thread Michael Horvath
Bernd Blaauw wrote: for config.sys only the root of the system is supported, and only the filenamed CONFIG.SYS and FDCONFIG.SYS (so for floppy most likely A:\FDCONFIG.SYS or A:\CONFIG.SYS) for autoexec.bat, it's either AUTOEXEC.BAT or any other batchfile indicated by a SHELL= line in the

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-22 Thread Michael Horvath
Michael Reichenbach wrote: I am using ndn, it's good, there is a DPMI32 DOS release. Dunno if it scales also well on low resources. http://ndn.muxe.com/ -mr I am trying ndn. I am able to install it in FreeDOS on Virtual PC on my XP machine, but in PocketDOS I get the error, Load error:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-22 Thread Japheth
Are the BLASTER settings described anywhere in detail? VPC says it emulates the Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 ISA Plug and Play. Maybe my settings are wrong. You can use the GETSB.EXE tool which is contained in HXGUI (http://www.japheth.de/hx.html). It reads the SB16 mixer status