Re: [Freedos-user] Executing a Linux Command from Inside DOS?

2009-10-20 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Blair Campbell wrote: Chris: Guess I didn't include enough details of the question. I run Ubuntu 8.04 and then Dosemu 1.4.0.0. My printer, a HP Officejet K80xi works fine in linux for both text and graphical files (I just enter lpr filename and either file prints fine with no further input on my

[Freedos-user] USB to Serial drivers for free-dos???

2009-10-20 Thread Fgampel
Hi, i like to know if there is or not a method to use my usb to serial adapter with the freeDos system, could you help me. I'm from Argentina, sorry for my bad english -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/USB-to-Serial-drivers-for-free-dostp25982480p25982480.html Sent from

Re: [Freedos-user] A new FreeDOS community

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
I wish you more luck than the previous guy had with the same idea (Italian FreeDOS community) some time ago :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: Howto debug DOS programs

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
bcp...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to write an Intel HDA driver for SCI games (Sierra quests). Great idea :-) Do they use some separate (ISA SB 16) driver file ??? Real mode or DPMI ? I consider myself a good programmer, but I've never made any low-level programming or debug DOS programs. You

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: Howto debug DOS programs

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
Of course it might be a good idea or necessary to disassemble the or some existing Sierra ISA driver (also PC speaker ? Covox ?) to see how it communicates with the main game file, when you one day have something able to talk to your HDA chip. -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
Aitor wrote: If you refer to the cursor blinking bug that was supposed to appear on 0.9a, so far I only know of a single PC of a single user 2 PC's from 6 ... one user (talking for me for now) bug appears (apparently the user had some problem with his BIOS) But nobody had so far an idea

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Update on dos extenders viz djgpp.

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
Update on dos extenders viz djgpp Have just tried WDOSX, which is now royalty free Nice, standalone EXE's, not bloated, no swapping, but it runs your code in Ring0 with paging OFF so it will catch less of your BUG's than HDPMI or CWSDPMI would do ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Atom Processor

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
No known complaints so far ... but DOS won't be able to use more than 1 core and 32 bits ;-) Check also the graph card (should have intact VESA), sound (old ICH better than HDA), USB (should have UHCI), Floppy (should be present at all), Speaker (should be present at all), PS/2 (should be present

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Full Screen Sized Screen-Dumps]

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
How do I get a full sized screen dump from inside an application program? FYI, you can get a full sized screen dump from inside an application program using DOS also :-) I am using Ubuntu 8.04, and dosemu 1.4.0.0 I don't, sorry ... -- ~~~ wow ~~~