[Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi all, Yesterday a post on the freedos devel list gave birth to a 'wishlist' of things that would be needed in FreeDOS. I repost this list here, since I am curious what other DOS users think. If you see something missing, that is both within a reasonable technical scope and represents a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, sorry if this has been mentioned. I would love to have native networking so one can run wireless and or Ethernet cards. I do understand some support exists, but last thread indicated that it is a bit dated. would personally let me put freedos on a laptop for road use without compromising

Re: [Freedos-user] MMD library

2015-05-16 Thread Micheal Muniko
Headers added. The compiler is OpenWatcom and it is protected mode. On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: Not to complain, but it's hard to understand what this do exactly, and how one's supposed to use it. What compiler is it targetted to? Protected mode or

[Freedos-user] MMD library

2015-05-16 Thread Micheal Muniko
I'm releasing a new library. It is called MMD which stands for Michael's Music Driver. It is free for non-commercial use. Download it here: https://www.mediafire.com/?0ff7gxhwfw6xuvw -- One dashboard for servers and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 16/05/2015 21:12, Karen Lewellen wrote: I would love to have native networking so one can run wireless and or Ethernet cards. I do understand some support exists, but last thread indicated that it is a bit dated. Hi Karen, I'm not sure I understand what you are meaning exactly by

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Bret Johnson
As an extension to the GPT item, I would like to see both the kernel and utilities support sector sizes other than 512 bytes (at least up to 4k, anyway, which is the standard for new hard drive technologies). This would also help with CD/DVD support, which use a 2k sector size. It is

Re: [Freedos-user] Any open-source DOS picture viewers out there?

2015-05-16 Thread TJ Edmister
I've been working on a program which can load BMP/JPG, and optionally apply various color adjustment/reduction and scaling. It's mainly for my own use, but if there is interest I could release it under a specific license. It is written in FreeBASIC (with some inline assembly), and hence

Re: [Freedos-user] MMD library

2015-05-16 Thread Mateusz Viste
Not to complain, but it's hard to understand what this do exactly, and how one's supposed to use it. What compiler is it targetted to? Protected mode or real mode? If real mode, what memory model? What kind of files does this play? There is no include headers provided even, so it's impossible

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 16/05/2015 20:24, Bret Johnson wrote: As an extension to the GPT item, I would like to see both the kernel and utilities support sector sizes other than 512 bytes (at least up to 4k, anyway, which is the standard for new hard drive technologies). This would also help with CD/DVD support,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, clearly mixing terms, distracted when i wrote..anniversary of my dad's death today. I was thinking of two separate features. Native networking allows the use of USB drives and the like without drivers for them. I have this working fine in ms dos using a USB driver I shared here. still it

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Dario Roncone
that´s nice 2015-05-17 5:25 GMT+02:00, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net: Hi, clearly mixing terms, distracted when i wrote..anniversary of my dad's death today. I was thinking of two separate features. Native networking allows the use of USB drives and the like without drivers

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Dario Roncone
YES that´s corect (-: 2015-05-17 6:29 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone darioronco...@gmail.com: that´s nice 2015-05-17 5:25 GMT+02:00, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net: Hi, clearly mixing terms, distracted when i wrote..anniversary of my dad's death today. I was thinking of two separate

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Dario Roncone
There is a Extended CommandShellExtension For DOS, Windows Novelll.It´´s called 4DOS.com ? It can be usefull. (batchFiles.. 2015-05-17 6:38 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone darioronco...@gmail.com: YES that´s corect (-: 2015-05-17 6:29 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone darioronco...@gmail.com: that´s

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos cdrom

2015-05-16 Thread John Hupp
OK, thanks Eric, I'll look at staying the course with uide. On 5/16/2015 7:38 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi John, xcdrom is quite old, there have been plenty of uide updates... http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/ Eric

[Freedos-user] For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready

2015-05-16 Thread John Hupp
Hi, all. It's been some years since I've been active on this list, but I hope you can come through for me again now. I installed 1.1 from the bootable CD, but from the installed DOS, I can't access a CD-ROM. I get Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready. I found this for