Re: [Freedos-user] Codepage and keyboard setting for Czech language
On 19/12/2023 18:18, Lukáš Kotek via Freedos-user wrote: display con=(ega,852,1) mode con codepage prepare ((852) C:\freedos\cpi\ega.cpx) mode con codepage select=852 All czech-specific letters are printed correctly now. Is this the recommended way? Yes, it is the "official" way, as Microsoft intended. Essentially loading the set of CP852 characters into the EGA/VGA memory, otherwise the video hardware usually defaults to CP437. Or is there some a bit more straightforward approach possible, please? Back in the day it was common in Poland to use hacky TSRs to display Polish characters in the Mazovia format, which was a national standard superior in many aspects to the Microsoft 852 proposition. Our Pepíci brothers had a very similar solution, albeit the standard of course had to be different because we use different glyphs: on your side of the border you used the Kamenicky encoding, and there were TSRs floating around on floppies to support Kamenicky on EGA screens, just like there were TSRs for Mazovia on our side. A couple of links so you can get a good idea what to look for: http://www.cestina.cz/pocestovani/dos/system/display.html http://www.cestina.cz/kodovani/#KEYBCS2 https://vitsoft.info/ (Podpora češtiny) Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] EduQiz rel 2023
Hello List, About a year ago I have created a graphical, quiz-like program as a pretext for my kids to get some hands-on with my 386 PC and learn a thing or two in the process. I named the program EduQiz and kept it private until now. Since I am quite satisfied about how it turned out, I decided to publish it today. Here it is: http://eduqiz.osdn.io/ "EduQiz is a computer tool that is meant to assist students or children in memorizing words, facts, dates, or any other information through repetitive quizzes. Supports VGA graphics and SoundBlaster digitized sounds." EduQiz does not come with any good quizzes (only two simple examples), so you have to create the quizzes yourself. How to do so is explained in the documentation shipped with the program. Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32
On 25/09/2023 11:20, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user wrote: Thanks for the pointer! Unfortunately, that one wants some DPMI memory: "Load error: no DPMI - Get csdpmi*b.zip" That's my current config.sys part on that USB-Sticks, which run that FoxPro program: device=c:\freedos\jemmEx.exe PGE maxext=32000 noems Do I need to add that csdpmi stuff, or is it possible to configure DPMI with the standard Freedos options? You only need to install CWSDPMI.EXE in your %PATH%. Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32
On 15/09/2023 19:42, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user wrote: Is there a ChkDsk or ScanDsk etc available for FAT32? The usual chkdsk92.exe doesn't support this. You might want to try DOSFSCK. Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and the Gemini protocol
On 19/08/2023 09:11, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user wrote: I am writing this here, because I believe the low-resource needed to run a Gemini Browser is appropriate for FreeDOS. Gemini is an invention that shoehorns a gopher-like protocol into TLS. TLS is everything but "low ressource". For a low-power internet protocol there is the original Gopher. FreeDOS comes with at least one gopher client already: gopherus. Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Sved, yet another text editor
On 07/08/2023 02:47, Bret Johnson wrote: Does it have copy/cut/paste functionality? Yes, albeit I failed implementing text-selection without making the resulting binary bigger than my 7K goal, so I had to opt for an unconventional handling of copy/paste. From SVED's documentation: CTRL+C = copy the current line to clipboard CTRL+X = cut the current line and move it to clipboard CTRL+V = paste the clipboard content to current location Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?
On 8/6/23 23:34, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user wrote: DOS is using *text *mode, you just can't select a*graphics *mode and expect to get text output in that mode. BIOS text output functions still work in most graphic modes, hence having a DOS shell running in graphic mode is nothing unusual. Of course problems may arise for text applications that make assumptions about the terminal size or that write directly to VRAM without re-setting a proper text mode. And btw, 80x25 character text mode in fact is technically a 640x480 "VGA mode" It's 720x400. (using the standard 8x16 character matrix, 80x8=640 On VGA there's this cool ninth's bit that improves readability quite a lot. 25*16-480). Does not compute. Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Sved, yet another text editor
Because I felt that the world needed another DOS text editor, I have spent past month's evenings on a new project named SVED. SVED (short for "the SvarDOS editor") is designed for basic editing of configuration files and such. It is NOT meant to be a full-featured text editor. On the pro side, it has a low memory footprint and is only a couple kilobytes big, which makes it a good fit for bootdisks or systems with extremely limited resources. - runs comfortably on a 8086-class PC with 256 KiB of RAM - auto-detects color and monochrome video modes - supports unusual text modes like 80x43, 80x50, 40x25... - multilingual UI - only 7 KiB of disk footprint - screen estate dedicated to text (no stupid frames, menus and such) - loads files larger than 64 KiB - no line length limit - can load up to 10 files simultaneously - handles CR/LF and LF line endings and can convert between them http://svardos.org/sved Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] (C library) SvarLANG ver 20230730
On 02/08/2023 00:55, Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote: I posted a news item about it for the FreeDOS website, but I wanted to ask before I mirrored a copy to ibiblio. Would you like me to make a copy at the FreeDOS files archive at ibiblio? Hi Jim, thank you for the news item. I have absolutely nothing against mirroring things. Besides, SvarLANG is actually already on ibiblio in a hidden form, because it is embedded in the source of FDISK 1.3.8. :) Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] (C library) SvarLANG ver 20230730
Hi, I have recently released a new version of SvarLANG. SvarLANG is a C library and toolset for enabling DOS applications to easily support multiple languages. SvarLANG is like cats/kitten, but instead of parsing text files at runtime it stores them in a blob resource. It's lighter, faster and more space-efficient than the traditional cats/kitten. SvarLANG is part of the SvarDOS project, but can be used by any DOS application. It is used for example by the latest version of FDISK. http://svardos.org/svarlang/ ver 20230730 changelog: - added svarlang_autoload_exepath() and svarlang_autoload_nlspath() - svarlang_load() simplified so it takes the target filename as an argument - file access relies on fopen() when svarlang is compiled with -DWITHSTDIO - new file format: sorted dictionary for faster lookup (by Bernd Boeckmann) Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode and codepages in apps already bundled with FreeDOS?
On 24/06/2023 02:18, Michael Brutman via Freedos-user wrote: A centralized mapping would be nice, but then you will run into the question of how strict you want the code to be. In an ideal world, one could imagine a new nlsfunc service that answers with a best effort match from the local codepage for any unicode codepoint. I am not saying this is a good practical idea, though. Given the limited development nowadays, it is probably for the best that each application comes with its own rules and mappings. Mateusz ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
