Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-22 Thread Georg Potthast
> I would make a GUI vga desktop for freedos buti don't know ow to implement > fonts in a vga mode > > -Chris > Http://digitalatoll.com/ You are very welcome to use my FLTK GUI toolkit. The applications you develop for DOS can then be ported to Linux, Windows and Apple with a limited amount of ch

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-22 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Aleve Sicofante schreef op 22-4-2013 2:07: > Thanks Jeremy and thanks to Felix too. I think at this point I should > paint the whole picture, so you guys get a better idea. > > I bought a 2.5" drive enclosure from Zalman, the VE-300, that acts as > two devices in one: it shows itself to the system

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-22 Thread Jim Hall
I think it's better to modify and improve another GUI, rather than trying to write your own. For example, you might pick up OpenGEM and improve that. Perhaps update the fonts, include support for different fonts, clean up the icons, add support for "theming" or other visual customization, etc jh

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Evans
I would make a GUI vga desktop for freedos buti don't know ow to implement fonts in a vga mode -Chris Http://digitalatoll.com/ Affordable webhosting, $5mo. 10gb/php5 On Monday, April 22, 2013, Jim Hall wrote: > > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, dos386 wrote: > >> > I found that there are almos

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-22 Thread Jim Hall
On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, dos386 wrote: > > I found that there are almost no desktop GUIs being developed > > There used to be and are many GUI's ... just most of them > are abandoned as buggy and IIRC Jim Hall removed them all > from FreeDOS list some time ago. > > http://www.freedos.org/soft

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-04-22 21:39 (GMT+0200) Eric Auer composed: >> MiB cyl: * 64 32 (required for maximum performance for 4k sector aka >> "advanced format" HDs) > Why would 4k sector disks use any geometry at all? Disks don't "use" geometry. PC BIOS partition tables entries have multiple components. To con

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-04-22 12:36 (GMT-0700) Mark Brown composed: > the lowest-order operating system has to be installed first, Though it tends to make desired results more likely and/or easier, it certainly need not. http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/install-doz-after.html -- "The wise are known for their understand

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Felix, >> I created two PRIMARY partitions: a 39GB one and a 1GB one. I marked the >> second partition as Active... Note that because your partition starts after the first 8 GB, no matter which geometry you use, the partition can only be reached with LBA. So "FAT32 with LBA" would be a good p

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-22 Thread Mark Brown
the lowest-order operating system has to be installed first, unless i'm missing something here...   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-22 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/4/22 Felix Miata > > On 2013-04-22 02:07 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > > > ...2.5" drive enclosure from Zalman, the VE-300... > > Is there any USB3 support in FreeDOS??? > > All my external backup cases except my oldest one include eSATA support. > eSATA is mostly all I ever use for

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-22 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/4/22 Felix Miata > also maybe influenced or caused by VE-300 emulation firmware > when using it > All tests were done with the disk OUT of the VE-300 case. -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable o