Humor is an individual thing.
The package I use incorporates ms DOS 7.1 with a number of utilities
updated from 6.22.
I have scores of reasons for preferring the package, using a full sized USB
keyboard as I am doing now to write this email is just one of them.
Greater memory and hard drive
certainly,
I use a number of adaptive technology tools due to the experience of sight
loss.
One of those tools is internal speech synthesizer card built by digital
equipment corporation called the dectalk.
For some reason developers of the software, the program has drivers to
which other
On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 4:29 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Forcibly demand?
> What an interesting choice of term..why not did the job for which i
> contracted them?
>
He was making a joke as a way of asking why you would want to run MS-DOS
7.1.
Karen Llewellen said:
> The driver providing an issue is one called vide_cdd
Would you please tell what is the issue ?
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Hi Bret,
Sorry busy hands.
The driver providing an issue is one called
vide_cdd
According to dectalk documentation ide cdroms made by asser and another
company had challenges too, but the driver listed above presented the
largest challenge.
My units are not that old, but I am using this
Not strictly on-FreeDOS-topic, but speaking of devices which translate USB to
PS/2, a recent project of mine has been designing a keyboard which, among many
other features, can itself connect to a PS/2 port and also accept a USB device
for input (e.g. a mouse, for example) whose data then gets
Hi Thomas,
actually I was looking for a laptop with FreeDos using a photovoltaic system…
That should be relatively easy. Photovoltaics can output 12V DC,
230V AC with an inverter, or higher DV voltages directly via USB-C
which some newer laptops use for charging. However, those will not
Hello,
you might be interested in the latest DOS edition of my programming language
Agena, an easy-to-learn language designed
for science, scripting, and many other applications:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/agena/agena-3.10.1-dos.zip
I once forked it from the Lua 5.1 C sources in
addendum: as an example about what i intend to say about "How smooth is the
mouse in the character matrix of Dos?«
In the mentionend »Captain Blackbeard« you could regulate the »Mickeys« of your
mouse mouvement or the size of the cursor.
You can do this with modern OS of course, and maybe it
Thomas, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post.
In it, you wrote:
*I would want to focus more on the topic of the tool itself, i.e. the
computer as a writing aid, or writing machine. Historically the computer
has nothing got to do with writing texts, and in some way I do see this
still today.
Hi Eric again!
> On 01.02.2024, at 12:26, Eric Auer via Freedos-user
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi!
>
>> Why a typewriter? Because where I write, I don’t have electricity (!).
>
> Well there always is sun and photovoltaics...
sure: actually I was looking for a laptop with FreeDos using a photovoltaic
Hi!
Why a typewriter? Because where I write, I don’t have electricity (!).
Well there always is sun and photovoltaics...
What type of text input hardware would you like, given that you dislike
the current style of keyboards? Apart from sliding a pen over an
on-screen keyboard? Is your
Hi Andrew,
these are all nice anecdotes!
I would want to focus more on the topic of the tool itself, i.e. the computer
as a writing aid, or writing machine. Historically the computer has nothing got
to do with writing texts, and in some way I do see this still today. Hardware
and software
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