Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

2020-03-19 Thread Karen Lewellen
Mateusz Comments in context. On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, Mateusz Viste wrote: FreeDOS, like other flavors of DOS, is a 16-bit, real-mode operating system. This means it runs within an extremely constrained environment: typically with access to a maximum of 640 kilobytes of memory, one taks at a time,

Re: [Freedos-user] Talking FreeDOS (through QEMU + emubns)

2020-03-19 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
Joseph: I always wanted to try QEMU, but, never could figure out the serial stuff. I have an old heart-rate monitor. Its receiver/watch requires DOS serial connection for downloading to a computer. When my old DOS palmtop died, I needed to arrange DOS serial. But there was no way I could

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

2020-03-19 Thread Ralf Quint
On 3/19/2020 7:59 AM, David McMackins wrote: It's worth noting that Raspbian is still only distributed in 32-bit form, failing to take full advantage of the 64-bit ARM processor on the Pi 4. If some other distribution is built for arm64, that may well perform better than Raspbian even though it

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

2020-03-19 Thread Ralf Quint
On 3/19/2020 6:08 AM, Swap Jim via Freedos-user wrote: On 2020-03-18 19:34, Jim Hall wrote: My *dmesg* output shows it is a plain Raspberry Pi 3B: [ 0.00] OF: fdt: Machine model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Not that it matters for me. I used it as a "desktop" system for about a week, as an

Re: [Freedos-user] Talking FreeDOS (through QEMU + emubns)

2020-03-19 Thread joseph.norton
Hi: This is neat! Going to grab it and see how it works. I always wanted to try QEMU, but, never could figure out the serial stuff. Thanks for putting this together. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Mateusz VisteSent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 1:13 PMTo:

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

2020-03-19 Thread joseph.norton
I: Sorry to be so long getting back to you. It’s the next-to-the-last line in fdauto that looks for a batch file called “fdassist.bat”. Only reason I did that was that it allowed the screen reader to be installed as a package which would run both on the live cd and in the installed environment. I

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 1722, Issue 2

2020-03-19 Thread Lawrence Dionne
I have a Pi4 running in the Crow Pi and would LOVE to get emu and FreeDos running. Where is a good step-by-step guide to using and installing Qemu and FreeDos. Right now I have FreeDos running from a 64 MB compact flash card in the flexbay on my XP computer. FreeDos is awesome! On Thu, Mar 19,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 1722, Issue 2

2020-03-19 Thread Lawrence Dionne
I have a Pi4 running in the Crow Pi and would LOVE to get emu and FreeDos running. Where is a good step-by-step guide to using and installing Qemu and FreeDos. Right now I have FreeDos running from a 64 MB compact flash card in the flexbay on my XP computer. FreeDos is awesome! On Thu, Mar 19,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

2020-03-19 Thread Swap Jim via Freedos-user
That's a nice suggestion. Thank you. On 2020-03-19 16:59, David McMackins wrote: On 3/18/20 12:21 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: On 3/18/2020 10:02 AM, Swap Jim via Freedos-user wrote: And in the meantime I'll try Fedora ARM, just in case it matters on the RPi4. FAIK, Rasbian is the best supported

[Freedos-user] Talking FreeDOS (through QEMU + emubns)

2020-03-19 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hello all, Today I have put together a QEMU FreeDOS-based image that comes preinstalled with a screen reader. I also wrote instructions about how to set it up under Linux and Windows, relying on the emubns synth emulator. I tested it successfully under Windows 8 x64. The image can be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

2020-03-19 Thread David McMackins
On 3/18/20 12:21 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 3/18/2020 10:02 AM, Swap Jim via Freedos-user wrote: >> >> And in the meantime I'll try Fedora ARM, just in case it matters on >> the RPi4. > FAIK, Rasbian is the best supported distro on the RPi4B+ (hardware > wise). And beside that Raspberry.org

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

2020-03-19 Thread Swap Jim via Freedos-user
On 2020-03-18 19:34, Jim Hall wrote: My *dmesg* output shows it is a plain Raspberry Pi 3B: [ 0.00] OF: fdt: Machine model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Not that it matters for me. I used it as a "desktop" system for about a week, as an experiment, before I reinstalled it with Fedora ARM

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

2020-03-19 Thread Felix G.
Hello Joseph, I'm loving your live image! However, I'm unsuccessfully trying to find the place in fdauto.bat or fdconfig.sys where it loads asap, because maybe I'd like to replace asap with hal for kicks, or giggles, or both. Could you please enlighten me? Best, Felix Am Mi., 18. März 2020 um