Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
I don't understand why you guys are responding to this :) The guy landed in my killfile many messages ago already, and the only thing that reminds me of him are responses from others. Please adjust your filters (or set up a ml ban, for these of you who are able to do so). Mateusz On

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-20 Thread Don Flowers
whatever your reason is: forget it. DONE! I spent all day yesterday setting up XFDOS and even though my time with it was somewhat limited, I found XFDOS much easier to set up thant OpenGEM. It is the best GUI I have seen yet. I want this to be a priority for the primary GUI for FreeDOS. On Wed,

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource 2015-05-20 21:46 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone darioronco...@gmail.com: Yes Software diden´t work! 2015-05-20 21:41 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com: On 5/20/2015 12:22 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Sorry! too Old hardware. ? Care to explain WHY? Ralf ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Yes i know it... 8080 Intel 2x86 3x86 Dx/Sx intel MMX amdSSE SSE2. 2015-05-20 21:48 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com: On 5/20/2015 12:46 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Yes Software diden´t work! That's not an explanation. And it's DOS for crying out loud. There can't be any hardware too

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Fuck youself... 2015-05-20 22:01 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com: On 5/20/2015 12:59 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource You really need to work on the way you are trying to express yourself. I don't understand one bi of your comments in regards to the Infocom

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/20/2015 12:59 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource You really need to work on the way you are trying to express yourself. I don't understand one bi of your comments in regards to the Infocom game engine... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Shell CMD 4dos its a storry about computers. 2015-05-20 22:10 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone darioronco...@gmail.com: Fuck youself... 2015-05-20 22:01 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com: On 5/20/2015 12:59 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource You really need to work on

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/20/2015 1:08 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Yes i know it... 8080 Intel 2x86 3x86 Dx/Sx intel MMX amdSSE SSE2. Doesn't look like it... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/20/2015 12:22 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Sorry! too Old hardware. ? Care to explain WHY? Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -- One dashboard for

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/20/2015 12:46 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Yes Software diden´t work! That's not an explanation. And it's DOS for crying out loud. There can't be any hardware too old to run a DOS program on... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Yes Software diden´t work! 2015-05-20 21:41 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com: On 5/20/2015 12:22 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Sorry! too Old hardware. ? Care to explain WHY? Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Sorry! too Old hardware. 2015-05-20 20:38 GMT+02:00, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr: Here the result with Frotz v2.43. Same computer, same game: http://s11.postimg.org/y8fknk0rn/frotz_v2_43_lost_pig.jpg Mateusz On 19/05/2015 23:25, David Griffith wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2015, Mateusz

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
Here the result with Frotz v2.43. Same computer, same game: http://s11.postimg.org/y8fknk0rn/frotz_v2_43_lost_pig.jpg Mateusz On 19/05/2015 23:25, David Griffith wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote: Hello David, First of all thanks for still caring about DOS in 2015, and on

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
Good news is that Frotz v2.32 works fine. I played the Lost Pig game for about 20 minutes and I didn't experienced any crash. My guess is that you have a fishy memory usage in newer versions of frotz - following an invalid pointer, or writing to non-allocated memory, or so... good luck :)

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: Here the result with Frotz v2.43. Same computer, same game: http://s11.postimg.org/y8fknk0rn/frotz_v2_43_lost_pig.jpg At risk of asking the obvious, what major DOS version / vendor is the OP (David) developing on? Is

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
I don't know details, but I guess the OP is developing on some emulation machine, like DOSemu or DOSBox, and it works fine for him there. This happened to me in the past - emulated environment are apparently more resilient to bugs than a real machine. I doubt that using a DJGPP version is a