[Freedos-user] EMM386 causes Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail with some video cards

2006-04-14 Thread John Hupp
known-good keyboard to eliminate that possibility) no mouse connected --John Hupp

[Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 causes Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail with some video cards

2006-04-15 Thread John Hupp
that this configuration produces no available and free upper memory. Nothing loads high - everything goes into conventional memory. Any ideas for making this work better? --John Hupp --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML

[Freedos-user] FreeCOM memory allocation error with SHSUCDX

2006-04-15 Thread John Hupp
? I follow with my configuration below. John Hupp P.S. You may know that I am also troubleshooting a problem with EMM386 and the PCI video card on one of these three machines, but because this error is on all three I am thinking the problems are not connected

[Freedos-user] Not loading high: Display, Nlsfunc, Keyb, Lbacache

2006-04-15 Thread John Hupp
modified to load in conventional memory only? Or has the FreeDOS memory management architecture been redrawn? Or something else? My DOS configuration follows below --John Hupp -- SWITCHES=/F/N COUNTRY=001,858,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYSSET LANG

[Freedos-user] RE: Not loading high: Display, Nlsfunc, Keyb, Lbacache

2006-04-22 Thread John Hupp
Thanks to all who wrote. I have a measure of progress to report. Not only for the Loadhigh problem, but also for several others I've reported, Eric Auer suggested updating KERNEL.SYS, COMMAND.COM and EMM386/HIMEM.EXE. (He speculated that the Service Release 2 version of FreeCOM might be a

[Freedos-user] KEYB UX has unexpected results

2006-05-03 Thread John Hupp
continues toward v1.0. But I thought it might be useful for someone to know how the default installation played for one user. --John Hupp --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly

[Freedos-user] DISPLAY does not load high

2006-05-03 Thread John Hupp
I wrote earlier (April 15 and following) noting that Display, Nlsfunc, Keyb, and Lbacache would not load high under 0.9 Beta SR 2 on several machines with 16-20 MB. I was running the default DOS configuration only slightly modified, to add Lbacache, for instance.Eric Auer suggested updating

[Freedos-user] RE: Xcopy Command Problem

2006-05-03 Thread John Hupp
I have also had problems with XCOPY - this is not an aberration on your machine. But I have not explored the particulars. Just wanted to write to say that you're not the only one. --John Hupp

[Freedos-user] RE: FreeCOM memory allocation error with SHSUCDX

2006-05-03 Thread John Hupp
capability will have to take it from here. The only bit I can add is that when I was singlestepping through bootup with one test configuration on one machine, the error did not occur. But when I allowed an uninterrupted boot, the error was generated after KEYB ran. --John Hupp

[Freedos-user] RE: Xcopy Command Problem

2006-05-05 Thread John Hupp
with the CD distro. If you download and unzip rxcopy13.zip, it identifies itself as v1.3, and it actually works! - By the way, can anyone tell me if there is a way of posting to the email list so that the new post shows up as part of a thread? --John Hupp

[Freedos-user] Right-ALT key (topic was Customizing Startup Files)

2006-05-10 Thread John Hupp
goal for a "100% MS-DOS compatible" operating system means that, for US users, Right-ALT should work the same as Left-ALT, but all-in-all, it is for me asecond-level issue. I follow with one of Eric Auer's replies to me from last year. --John Hupp -

[Freedos-user] How-to set up WatTCP

2006-05-10 Thread John Hupp
for TCP/IP support? --John Hupp

Re: [Freedos-user] Right-ALT key (topic was Customizing Startup Files)

2006-05-10 Thread John Hupp
is from Lester Vedrox's post, to which I was responding. I'm not using such a keyboard here, nor would I expect that to make any difference. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: Henrique Peron To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: fd-devel Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:13 PM

[Freedos-user] Google crashes Arachne

2006-05-16 Thread John Hupp
halted Anyone know what's at issue here? --John Hupp

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-06-04 Thread John Hupp
by the SR2 CD, except that I updated the KERNEL to 1.1.35 Build 2035b-cvs, 2006-04-18 and COMMAND to 0.84-pre XMS_Swap, downloaded 2006-04-18 in cmdxms.HEAD.zip. My normal DOS configuration follows below. --John Hupp -- CONFIG.SYS

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-06-05 Thread John Hupp
the problem did not occur with a couple of other DOS kernels. This sort of behavior seemed related to what I am experiencing on this computer. --John Hupp P.S. my test config autoexec,further simplified from the originally reported configurations -more mod reportsabove: LASTDRIVE=ZBUFFERS=30FILES

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-06-05 Thread John Hupp
the fact that GEM has always had such minimal requirements for hardware and operating system support. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: Michael Devore To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks

[Freedos-user] DOS GUI opinions

2006-06-08 Thread John Hupp
I'm looking for opinions on DOS GUI's. I'm familiar with still-developing OpenGEM, but I am especially interested in any freeware/open source GUI's that provide for long names for program items (like MS-DOS DOSSHELL but with a more modern look). Also your judgment of the GUI's file manager,

[Freedos-user] Best PDF provision

2006-06-12 Thread John Hupp
, go here ... --John Hupp ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS GUI opinions

2006-06-12 Thread John Hupp
Xaver To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] DOS GUI opinions John Hupp wrote: I'm looking for opinions on DOS GUI's. I'm familiar with still-developing OpenGEM, but I am especially interested in any freeware/open source GUI's

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS GUI opinions

2006-06-13 Thread John Hupp
the Win32 long file name implementation? --John Hupp - Original Message - From: Florian Xaver To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] DOS GUI opinions Hi, what do you mean with long names for program items? oZone supports LFN

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS GUI opinions

2006-06-14 Thread John Hupp
with my observations in (6), Flight Of The Amazon Queen.LN was rendered as a short-name program item named FLIGHT O. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: Florian Xaver To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] DOS GUI opinions

[Freedos-user] F-Prot resident shield? (Was FRISK Software stops development ...)

2006-07-04 Thread John Hupp
that it offered one! --John Hupp - Original Message - From: Robert Riebisch To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:24 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FRISK Software stops development of F-ProtAntivirus for DOS Johnson Lam wrote: Clam have no official for DOS

[Freedos-user] Tough-to-capture screenshots

2006-07-04 Thread John Hupp
will size this little challenge up in short order. --John Hupp Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http

Re: [Freedos-user] Tough-to-capture screenshots

2006-07-04 Thread John Hupp
-to-capture screenshots John Hupp schreef: I'm guessing that one of you developers will size this little challenge up in short order. Emulators might do the trick. Some host platform, install emulator on it, install DOS + your program manager inside the emulator. Bernd -- Efficiency is intelligent

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS GUI opinions

2006-07-05 Thread John Hupp
: Anyone know of a nice two-pane Explorer-like graphical file manager? There is OpenGEM of course, but I like Del, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V more than drag-and-drop. GEM has keyboard shortcuts for file selection, but requires drag-and-drop for copying or deleting. --John Hupp Using Tomcat

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-07-08 Thread John Hupp
that the problem appeared on FAT32 partitions and not on FAT16 partitions. Perhaps that will further narrow the inquiry. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: Michael Devore To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 2:35 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-07-08 Thread John Hupp
triggering the problems are Doodle, Draw and Paint, though if you run without HIMEM you won't have enough memory to run Paint. I did test with COMMAND.COM from MS-DOS 6.22 and got the same results as with FreeCOM. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: Kenneth J. Davis To: freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Incorrect DOS version even with Version=6.22

2006-08-17 Thread John Hupp
. I hope one of you will recognize the issue right away! --John Hupp - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier

Re: [Freedos-user] Incorrect DOS version even with Version=6.22

2006-08-18 Thread John Hupp
work fine with MS-DOS 6.22. I have temporarily posted this version of SHARE.EXE at http://www.prpcompany.com/SHARE.EXE --John Hupp - Original Message - From: John Hupp To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:50 PM Subject: [Freedos-user] Incorrect DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Incorrect DOS version even with Version=6.22

2006-08-18 Thread John Hupp
Thanks for taking a close look at that, Eric. Speculating as to why the author did this, the only thing I can observe is that this comes from an old DOS Point-Of-Sale system. It apparently used CBIS Desk-To-Desk for its network functions, but I have have seen some evidence that the POS

[Freedos-user] Bolitare (Bolitaire) Error loading datafile

2006-09-26 Thread John Hupp
. As far as I know, the program has no other requirements. Am I missing something? --John Hupp - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your

[Freedos-user] DOSFSCK issue

2006-09-27 Thread John Hupp
no problems. So it seems both that DOSFSCK is finding problems and is also having a hard time running, though I don't know what the program output is supposed to look like. Where do I start here? --John Hupp - Take

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM - GEM.BAT fails with ChDir under FreeDOS 1.0

2006-09-27 Thread John Hupp
der MS-DOS 6. But previouslywhen I entered a program-startup command from an improper location (like trying to start DESCENT from FDOS\BIN, to make up an example) FreeDOS would tend to run something like C:\SETUP (the GEM setup program). So this may be progress. --John Hupp - Origin

Re: [Freedos-user] Bolitare (Bolitaire) Error loading datafile

2006-09-27 Thread John Hupp
Yes, I ran it from C:\FDOS\GAMES\BOLITARE. But I tested with 32MB instead of 16MB and it worked. So it turns out that the program simply has an unpublished minimum requirement this machine didn't meet. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: Blair Campbell To: freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Arachne PDF viewer failing under FD 1.0

2006-09-29 Thread John Hupp
distribution that Glenn McCorkle offers above. --John Hupp - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne PDF viewer failing under FD 1.0

2006-09-29 Thread John Hupp
other variable I can think of. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: John Hupp To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:37 PM Subject: [Freedos-user] Arachne PDF viewer failing under FD 1.0 Under FD 0.9 SR2 with critical patches dating to 2-3 months ago

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne PDF viewer failing under FD 1.0

2006-09-29 Thread John Hupp
the desired GhostScript distro. But I found no combination of ARA-PDF and GS that will now work for me. I am at a loss to explain how this was working before and seemingly cannot be made to work now in any configuration. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: John Hupp To: freedos

[Freedos-user] XCOPY bugs

2006-09-29 Thread John Hupp
mostly solved.) I tried copying the whole FDOS tree just because of my past experience with the problem there. I found that XCOPY copied the entire tree except for the PACKAGES sub-directory. The only thing remarkable I notice about PACKAGES is that it has 198 sub-directories. --John Hupp

Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY bugs - and FDPKG wastes disk space

2006-09-29 Thread John Hupp
or not. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: Eric Auer To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:57 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY bugs - and FDPKG wastes disk space solved.) I tried copying the whole FDOS tree just because of my past

Re: [Freedos-user] What Is The Latest Version Of Arachne Browser

2006-10-09 Thread John Hupp
That's right, J1 is the latest version. - Original Message - From: Lester Vedrox To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] What Is The Latest Version Of Arachne Browser The latest seems to be v1.90J1 from 2006-08-28:

[Freedos-user] Installing FD under Power Mac PC Compatibility Card

2007-10-25 Thread John Hupp
done, say with the FD boot floppy, so that it would start the installation from the bootable CD rather than from C:\FDBOOTCD.ISO? Also, can someone tick off a list of updates to the various base packages in the 1.0 distro? --John Hupp

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FD under Power Mac PC Compatibility Card

2007-10-26 Thread John Hupp
. But then DIR D: hangs, or changing to D: as the current drive and then trying to run GEM.BAT hangs. Again, the drive works fine under MS-DOS 6.22. Anyone recognize this problem? (I have not yet tried more current versions of the kernel or FreeCOM. I wanted to report this much first.) --John Hupp

[Freedos-user] Newer versions of Kernel and FreeCOM?

2007-10-26 Thread John Hupp
I have FreeCOM v 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap [Aug 28 2006 00:29:00] and Kernel build 2036 cvs [version Aug 18 2006 compiled Aug 18 2006]. Do we have newer versions of either? And where can I download them, please? --John Hupp

[Freedos-user] Fresh XCOPY bugs

2008-05-28 Thread John Hupp
GAMES sub-directories into GAMES\F-PROT (as in Case 1). Case 4: --- XCOPY D:\GAMES\QUEEN.SAV C:\GAMES\QUEEN.SAV The response is exactly the same as for Case 2. --John Hupp - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft

Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh XCOPY bugs

2008-05-29 Thread John Hupp
that the CD file system may well be a factor. More on this when I can get to it. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: John Hupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:54 PM Subject: [Freedos-user] Fresh XCOPY bugs I'm using XCOPY

[Freedos-user] Beneath A Steel Sky fails with Japeth's HIMEMX

2008-05-30 Thread John Hupp
vulnerable to such errors, at least under Windows, because of the memory manager it was developed with. Reverting to HIMEM v3.26 (Aug 25 2006) makes the error go away. Use of Japheth's JEMM386 with HIMEM v3.26 causes no problems here. --John Hupp

[Freedos-user] File too large for this version of edit -- alternatives?

2008-05-30 Thread John Hupp
69KB is apparently too big for FreeDOS's default EDIT. Does the distro also have an alternative editor without the same size limit but that looks and operates much like EDIT? --John Hupp- This SF.net email is sponsored

[Freedos-user] Make a CD in Windows that FreeDOS reads cleanly (was: Fresh XCOPY bugs)

2008-05-31 Thread John Hupp
? --John Hupp - Original Message - From: John Hupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh XCOPY bugs My problems with XCOPY are not as they first seemed. Windows renders the directories of interest

Re: [Freedos-user] Make a CD in Windows that FreeDOS reads cleanly(was: Fresh XCOPY bugs)

2008-06-01 Thread John Hupp
. But I certainly can't recall what settings I may have chosen. Anyone know enough about CD burning for DOS compatibility to make some recommendations? --John Hupp - Original Message - From: John Hupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:36

Re: [Freedos-user] Make a CD in Windows that FreeDOS readscleanly(was: Fresh XCOPY bugs)

2008-06-03 Thread John Hupp
by choosing ISO 9660 Level 2 or else choosing ISO 9660 but NOT enforcing Level 1. --John Hupp - Original Message - From: John Hupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Make a CD in Windows that FreeDOS

[Freedos-user] DOS laptop battery run-time test?

2008-11-11 Thread John Hupp
just start it, let it run, and restart on A/C later to find out the results. Has anyone put together such an item? --John Hupp- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS laptop battery run-time test?

2008-11-12 Thread John Hupp
Thanks, Eric. That's the kind of concept I had in mind. - Original Message - From: Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] DOS laptop battery run-time test? Hi! free methods like pop

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

2015-05-18 Thread John Hupp
CDROM001 DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\UIDE.SYS /D:CDROM001 /H IF EXIST CDROM001 SHCDX86.COM http://SHCDX86.COM /D:CDROM001,X /Q On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:04 AM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com mailto:free...@prpcompany.com wrote: I tried updating to the latest uide.sys

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

2015-05-18 Thread John Hupp
Secondary master. On 5/18/2015 10:35 AM, Don Flowers wrote: Is it a slave or secondary master drive? On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com mailto:free...@prpcompany.com wrote: Thanks for the idea and an interesting web page, but this is a plain old IDE

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

2015-05-18 Thread John Hupp
I tried updating to the latest uide.sys from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/, but I get the same error. I also get the same error with the last version of xcdrom.sys. Next-best solutions? On 5/16/2015 5:34 PM, John Hupp wrote: Hi, all. It's been some

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

2015-05-18 Thread John Hupp
.) On 5/18/2015 2:17 PM, John Hupp wrote: Thanks, that sort of works. Based on the cdrom.bat commands, this snippet from my current autoexec.bat works: === REM (some commands) SHSUCDX /QQ /D3 LH SHSUCDHD /QQ /F:FDBOOTCD.ISO REM (some commands) REM DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\BIN

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

2015-05-18 Thread John Hupp
rename them accordingly. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com mailto:donr...@gmail.com wrote: Is it a slave or secondary master drive? On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com mailto:free...@prpcompany.com wrote: Thanks

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

2015-05-18 Thread John Hupp
on regularly booting CDROM images as opposed to real burned CD-ROMs, the simplified files I sent are adequate for everyday use. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:48 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com mailto:free...@prpcompany.com wrote: Taking the next obvious step, I can even successfully condense

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

2015-05-18 Thread John Hupp
at the best workaround? On 5/18/2015 3:50 PM, Don Flowers wrote: John, actually you probably don't need to unload shsucdx, like you I used that command line from my install (I used the all_cd.iso). On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:29 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com mailto:free...@prpcompany.com wrote

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

2015-05-18 Thread John Hupp
ready to call this the best and cleanest solution on this rig. Maybe I can do better on my next build. On 5/18/2015 4:58 PM, John Hupp wrote: It seems that the latest xcdrom.sys (which I have been using) is the same version as on a Freedos 1.0 install I had some long time ago. But the current

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

2015-05-18 Thread John Hupp
I also tried, by the way, mscdex + uide.sys, which did not work. Thanks, Don, for working with me all the way through and contributing many good ideas! On 5/18/2015 5:33 PM, John Hupp wrote: Continuing to think in other directions at the moment, I tried mscdex + a cdrom driver of unknown

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

2015-05-19 Thread John Hupp
shsusdcx.com ( 2015-05-19 3:37 GMT+02:00, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com: Sure thing John! It's going to bug me for a while though - I'm a bit anal ;^o On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:03 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: I also tried, by the way, mscdex + uide.sys, which did not work

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

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting mpxplay and any CD player to work

2015-06-03 Thread John Hupp
as far as I can tell. It seems that card detection is not what is slowing it down. Any tips for normalizing the mpxplay startup time? On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:20 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: I saw little in mpxplay.ini that seemed like it was capable of immediately hanging

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread John Hupp
On 6/4/2015 4:29 PM, Rugxulo wrote: It could be an incorrect or buggy driver, dunno. The only way to know would be to try something else. But I'm not sure of a good alternative. I don't even know where to (reliably) find such old DOS drivers. That seems to have been the case. In my post that

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting mpxplay and any CD player to work

2015-06-03 Thread John Hupp
that D1 was before I5. When I edited the string to SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H3 T4 instead, the player loaded in a second or two! == So now all I need to do is get a CD player working. On 6/2/2015 3:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: I have sound working now with a Media Vision Jazz16 card (aka Pro

[Freedos-user] Avoid the analog audio CD cable?

2015-06-03 Thread John Hupp
I'm still working on trying to get audio CD's playing with this sound card, a Media Vision Pro Sonic 16 (Jazz16 chipset). (The earlier-reported other problems have now all been solved. I have sound in DOOM and in mpxplayer.) It occurred to me that this might be a cabling issue. The card has

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread John Hupp
Thanks for the clarifications. I could add though, that I tried CDROM2 PLAY01 F: and it responded with something like F: is not an audio drive, but F: is. The CD-ROM cable is known working (confirmed via Win 98), and I turned up the CD volume in the sound card mixer. But it may be that the

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-07 Thread John Hupp
Thanks, Eric. Though I cited Edit, and the mode suggestion might improve that, I imagine that the improvement would be lost if I started a game or anything else that runs in a graphical mode. In the meantime, I found this very dense thread on vogons.org:

[Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-07 Thread John Hupp
With FreeDOS 1.1 installed directly on real hardware, and testing with two different LCD monitors and at least half a dozen different video cards, I find that in every case there are vertical bands or fat lines across the screen, visible as fuzziness on the black white display during boot,

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting mpxplay and any CD player to work

2015-06-02 Thread John Hupp
On 6/2/2015 4:16 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: On 6/2/2015 12:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: Are there tips/tricks to get mpxplay to work? What about a CD player that's known to work with FD 1.1? I'm using a default FD 1.1 setup and selecting the first menu item at boot. Just to cover all the bases

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting mpxplay and any CD player to work

2015-06-02 Thread John Hupp
. But as for a 'CD Player that works with FreeDOS', I'd say that pretty much any player should work. Have you tried any yet, beside mpxplay? Mateusz On 02/06/2015 22:42, John Hupp wrote: On 6/2/2015 4:16 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: On 6/2/2015 12:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: Are there tips/tricks to get mpxplay

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting mpxplay and any CD player to work

2015-06-02 Thread John Hupp
yet, beside mpxplay? Mateusz On 02/06/2015 22:42, John Hupp wrote: On 6/2/2015 4:16 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: On 6/2/2015 12:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: Are there tips/tricks to get mpxplay to work? What about a CD player that's known to work with FD 1.1? I'm using a default FD 1.1 setup

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-09 Thread John Hupp
On 6/7/2015 7:46 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi John, Though I cited Edit, and the mode suggestion might improve that, I imagine that the improvement would be lost if I started a game or anything else that runs in a graphical mode. As long as the game lets you make a CHOICE between several

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-09 Thread John Hupp
On 6/9/2015 1:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote: John Hupp composed on 2015-06-09 12:46 (UTC-0400): To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver for the card, and would welcome any suggestions. Pull the Oak and put in a Trident or ATI, best the latter, which would work well if you

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-09 Thread John Hupp
On 6/9/2015 1:01 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: On 09/06/2015 18:46, John Hupp wrote: To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver for the card, and would welcome any suggestions. The obvious one that comes immediately to mind is SciTech Display Doctor, it supports plenty

Re: [Freedos-user] lcd versus text modes in freedos

2015-06-09 Thread John Hupp
On 6/9/2015 3:26 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi John, that VESA JUMPER is about connecting extra devices, such as framegrabbers or tv receivers. What MODE wants is a VGA BIOS with VESA support. And UniVBE can help with it. As you say that your monitor is 4:3 (interesting!) the next question is of

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-09 Thread John Hupp
On 6/9/2015 4:05 PM, Felix Miata wrote: John Hupp composed on 2015-06-09 15:42 (UTC-0400): Rugxulo also suggests this in a follow-up post. I have now tried univbe 6.7 and sdd 6.53. Both explicitly support the Oak chipset. Both report that they provide this card with VESA 3.0 support

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-10 Thread John Hupp
On 6/9/2015 6:31 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi John, ... Does mode con lines=34 require anything besides VESA support? I concluded from my reading that it did not need DISPLAY.SYS or [ANSI] Here is a quick trick with mode: MODE CON LINES=1 (or any other weird value) lists possible values in the

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread John Hupp
On 6/4/2015 7:43 AM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:16 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD player working. I temporarily installed a Win 98 hard drive on this machine and got the sound card working

Re: [Freedos-user] Avoid the analog audio CD cable?

2015-06-04 Thread John Hupp
On 6/4/2015 3:11 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: On 04/06/2015 01:58, John Hupp wrote: It occurred to me that this might be a cabling issue. Possible, but the CD-sound card cable is a basic analog cable, so it's really hard to connect it wrong. Often you have to enable the CD input in your sound

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS printing

2015-06-04 Thread John Hupp
On 6/4/2015 5:18 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Thomas Mueller composed on 2015-06-04 07:20 (UTC): I've been unable to get my printer, HP LaserJet Professional 1212nf MFP working. Now I think it might be nonstandard implementation of PostScript or whatever command language. Legacy DOS apps relied

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-03 Thread John Hupp
PM, John Hupp wrote: It turns out that mpxplay was not hanging as I thought. It was instead taking 30 seconds to load. It turns out further that the precise format of the BLASTER variable is important here. The Media Vision installer created SET BLASTER=A220 D1 I5 H3 T4. But mpxplay

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-03 Thread John Hupp
It occurs to me that at least some of the CD players have D: hard-coded as the drive location. If you had a suggestion for which that was configurable, that might help. On 6/3/2015 9:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: With mpxplay now working, I am continuing with the quest to get a CD player working

Re: [Freedos-user] Avoid the analog audio CD cable?

2015-06-03 Thread John Hupp
cards. I suggest reading it. [0] http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=27943 On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:58 PM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: I'm still working on trying to get audio CD's playing with this sound card, a Media Vision Pro Sonic 16 (Jazz16 chipset). (The earlier-reported

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

2015-06-04 Thread John Hupp
for the idea, Eric!! If there is a sad note, it is that uide.sys has fallen short on two machines in a row. On the other one, I had no CD function at all. In this one, I had data CD function, but no audio CD. On 6/4/2015 2:06 PM, John Hupp wrote: Thanks for the clarifications. I could add

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-09 Thread John Hupp
Does mode con lines=34 require anything besides VESA support? I concluded from my reading that it did not need DISPLAY.SYS or N/ANSI.SYS, but if it does, then I've been tripping over fundamentals. --

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-09 Thread John Hupp
On 6/9/2015 5:20 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 6/9/2015 1:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote: John Hupp composed on 2015-06-09 12:46 (UTC-0400): To fix that I suppose I would need to come up with a Vesa driver for the card, and would welcome any suggestions. Pull the Oak and put in a Trident or ATI, best

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-22 Thread John Hupp
of those works properly with Arachne instead of producing a blank page, maybe I take Arachne off the broken list. On 6/19/2015 12:33 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:02 AM, John Hupp free...@prpcompany.com wrote: The Ibiblio Lynx is just another mirror of the source, not a ready

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-20 Thread John Hupp
On 6/20/2015 5:22 AM, Georg Potthast wrote: Google checks the user agent string the browser returns to determine what features the browser supports. Then it decides what type of page it sends to the browser. With Dillo the user agent string can be set in the dillorc file. Since it reports

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works (John Hupp)

2015-06-25 Thread John Hupp
On 6/25/2015 3:54 PM, Georg Potthast wrote: I tried it again with Dillo for DOS: http://www.google.com/accessibility/labs/search reports that it is no longer supported, and if you try to use it anyway, it fails. Yes, it tells its no longer supported but it works ok for me. I tried the

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-25 Thread John Hupp
On 6/20/2015 5:22 AM, Georg Potthast wrote: Google checks the user agent string the browser returns to determine what features the browser supports. Then it decides what type of page it sends to the browser. With Dillo the user agent string can be set in the dillorc file. Since it reports

[Freedos-user] UsbDOS - My experience

2015-06-24 Thread John Hupp
I'm working now with FreeDOS 1.1 on an old machine with a DFI P5BTX/L motherboard with Intel 82430TX chipset, AMD K6/233, and 64MB. It has a USB 1 implementation, so I thought I would see if I could get some functionality out of it. Locating FreeDOS documentation on its USB support was a bit

Re: [Freedos-user] Format floppy (format a: /u) bug

2015-06-18 Thread John Hupp
Now that I'm looking squarely at the issue, I have not been able to reproduce it yet! When I was dealing with it earlier, I was experiencing (as I wrote in the bug report), that the error ALWAYS occurred when I had unformatted D: and E: partitions, and when I formatted those, the problem

Re: [Freedos-user] Playing MP3's on Ensoniq Soundscape OPUS card?

2015-06-26 Thread John Hupp
/sound/dosamp08.zip) - This did play slowly, but I couldn't figure out a way to adjust it. On 6/13/2015 4:23 PM, John Hupp wrote: I have been using MPXP160D, which worked fine with a Media Vision Jazz16 (emulates a SoundBlaster Pro). I can add mplayer to the list of candidates, but I was hoping

Re: [Freedos-user] Vertical lines/bands in LCD display but OK on CRT

2015-06-10 Thread John Hupp
On 6/10/2015 10:28 AM, John Hupp wrote: It seems like I still have some things to try, however. Rugxulo suggested two utilities that may or do use other methods: setmxx and svgatextmode. An important discovery -- the Oak ISA card that was the source of so much of this discussion appears

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking: With MS Client, Error 5: Access has been denied

2015-06-16 Thread John Hupp
still reports an IP within the DHCP scope, rather than the static IP I assigned. Current functionality: I can successfully ping an IP address e.g. ping 8.8.8.8 but name resolution fails, so no-go on ping google.com. On 6/15/2015 8:25 PM, John Hupp wrote: I found out that ipconfig usage

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking: With MS Client, Error 5: Access has been denied

2015-06-16 Thread John Hupp
? -Original Message- From: John Hupp [mailto:free...@prpcompany.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 10:42 AM To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Networking: With MS Client, Error 5: Access has been denied The router provides DNS. On 6/16/2015 10:39 AM

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