Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Thomas, many screens will resize the signal you send them to full screen, probably with black bars either on top and bottom or left and right to match aspect ratio. This will usually give you large pixels or a fuzzy, blurred experience, so it has downsides nevertheless. So it is not common

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user
Hi Eric, this is intriguing: > On 28.02.2024, at 18:54, Eric Auer via Freedos-user > wrote: > > SVGA just is something used by your apps, > provided by your hardware and BIOS. Do you by any chane know of software for Dos, esp. such as text-editors that would use SVGA? Note (not too much

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi Ed, Is there any major differences between FreeDOS and MSDOS under the hood? FreeDOS aims to be highly compatible with MS DOS, so even if you rely on some "reasonably inner workings" of DOS beyond the normal int 21 interface etc. everything should still work very much the same with

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Jim, thanks for this guide. Is there any major differences between FreeDOS and MSDOS under the hood. I did notice differences in DosBOX as this has the SVGA drivers built in so you can use high definition modes upto 1024x768 in 256 colours iirc. -Ed EdzUp On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, 16:10 Linvel

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Forums

2024-02-28 Thread andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 5:47 AM Linvel Risner via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I don't imagine we have a forum, just an email list, right? > There are some forums listed here: https://www.freedos.org/forums/ -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org

Re: [Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Linvel Risner via Freedos-user
Jim, I deeply appreciate you directing me to those guides, I've bookmarked them for after work. Yes, I very much would order something off of Lulu. Let me know when you have it back up, and I'll buy it. I've always found literature more helpful than videos, but I think both is a happy place to

[Freedos-user] C programming guides

2024-02-28 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
Starting a new thread for this topic: On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 7:46 AM Linvel Risner via Freedos-user wrote: [..] > I'm trying to research written programming guides, although maybe I > should just watch the Jim Hall video sets. > I also wrote a series of articles to support the videos, which

Re: [Freedos-user] "Upgrade" from MS-DOS 6.2.2

2024-02-28 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Understood. Someone posted asking how I did my job with DOS, I provided examples. On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, Micha�~B Dec wrote: Hello Karen, Please keep the discussion on-topic. This is a FreeDOS user discussion mailing list, not a WEF summit. Best regards, Michał W dniu 27.02.2024 o 21:45,

Re: [Freedos-user] "Upgrade" from MS-DOS 6.2.2

2024-02-28 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
Hello Karen, Please keep the discussion on-topic. This is a FreeDOS user discussion mailing list, not a WEF summit. Best regards, Michał W dniu 27.02.2024 o 21:45, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user pisze: If our goals resonate, consider donating. worth a tax write off in some countries..

Re: [Freedos-user] "Upgrade" from MS-DOS 6.2.2 (fwd)

2024-02-28 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Speaking very personally, The choice to define emotion to an email post is just that, the choice of the reader. I do not write people privately on list, without asking for their consent list first. When others write me privately without invitation, from a mailing list, it is still list intended

Re: [Freedos-user] "Upgrade" from MS-DOS 6.2.2 (fwd)

2024-02-28 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
No, I send emails only on list. I have no idea how things present for You, but I never write anyone off list without asking first. In fact, i was commenting in thread to your advice about USB key usage. On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 at

Re: [Freedos-user] "Upgrade" from MS-DOS 6.2.2 (fwd)

2024-02-28 Thread Linvel Risner via Freedos-user
It's a small enough community, I think if we reigned in the emotions and hurt feelings we could all prosper. I don't imagine we have a forum, just an email list, right? Are there other resources besides the wiki that I'm missing? I'm trying to research written programming guides, although maybe

Re: [Freedos-user] "Upgrade" from MS-DOS 6.2.2 (fwd)

2024-02-28 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-user
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 at 14:42, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote: > > I dare say you intended this for the list. You continue to be just amazingly rude and hostile. You mailed me privately offlist. I did you the courtesy of replying the same way. You put it back on the list. Previously I