Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
Aitor wrote: If you refer to the cursor blinking bug that was supposed to appear on 0.9a, so far I only know of a single PC of a single user 2 PC's from 6 ... one user (talking for me for now) bug appears (apparently the user had some problem with his BIOS) But nobody had so far an idea

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2009/6/6 LM lme...@yahoo.com: I had to run the install CD twice to get FreeDOS installed on the hard drive.  The first time, I tried to pick an image on bootup and the system locked up.  Second time, I left it as default.  I guess I'm not very familiar with the programs that

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2009/6/13 dos386 dos...@gmail.com: Notable things: edit buggy (some PC's) Can you post any more information about those bugs? If you refer to the cursor blinking bug that was supposed to appear on 0.9a, so far I only know of a single PC of a single user where this bug appears

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2009/6/14 dos386 dos...@gmail.com: Hi! buggy (some PC's) Who what where? RTFB ... mouse cursor invisible on some PC's some? Do you have evidences of it to happen in more than ONE PC where it was discovered? Aitor

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-14 Thread dos386
Hi! buggy (some PC's) Who what where? RTFB ... mouse cursor invisible on some PC's But there is a tool which has the name DISPLAY and There are simply too many DISPLAY's ... I mean the one from 1998 by ??? done with DGJPP closed source freeware Mplayer can also play pure audio files. On

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-14 Thread Robert Riebisch
dos386 wrote: But there is a tool which has the name DISPLAY and There are simply too many DISPLAY's ... I mean the one from 1998 by ??? done with DGJPP closed source freeware ??? = Jih-Shin Ho Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-12 Thread dos386
Notable things: edit buggy (some PC's) perl NOMYSO ??? Georg Potthast is also doing experiments with a player for new hardware. His driver now can play from memory so it became a real driver :-) * BOCHS emulator (host OS = emulated OS = DOS) Or any other emulator, of course QEMU or

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-08 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi, I tried compiling lcal and pcal (at Sourceforge) yesterday and both built fine with djgpp, but they have a djgpp makefile already. I also tried diffh (also at Sourceforge) with djgpp. Had to copy the makefiles and .Tpo files from the mingw build over in order to get it to compile,

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Known problem, the 1.0 distro is obsolete and buggy ... Feel free to make a list of bugs that should be fixed in 1.1 :-) In the meantime, try http://rugxulog.googlepages.com/ - for example most CD/DVD burning tools should let you use the 2.88MB diskette image to make a bootable CD/DVD...

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-07 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Saturday 06 June 2009 14:22 (CEST), LM wrote: I couldn't help thinking Timidity++ would be great for playing midi and mod files. It works even without a sound card and has pdcurses and ncurses interfaces. Has anyone had any luck porting Timidity++ to DOS? On the other hand, there is a

[Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-07 Thread Jack
If you update FreeDOS, in accordance with the update list noted by Eric Auer, do consider adding the UIDE or UIDEJR driver, also XMGR and RDISK if desired. They are avail- able from http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html, also from other Internet sources. UIDEJR is a basic hard-disk and

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Jack schreef: If you update FreeDOS, in accordance with the update list noted by Eric Auer, do consider adding the UIDE or UIDEJR driver, also XMGR and RDISK if desired. They are avail- able from http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html, also from other Internet sources. We'll surely

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, Jack, Jack schreef: If you update FreeDOS, in accordance with the update list noted by Eric Auer, do consider adding the UIDE or UIDEJR driver, also XMGR and RDISK if desired. They are avail- able from http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html, also from other Internet sources.

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-07 Thread LM
My favorite DOS programming editor (ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/editor/edwin15c.zip) fails and won't run. Has anyone been able to get edwin working on FreeDOS? Eric Auer wrote: Please describe the failure in more detail. Tried with minimal drivers, HIMEM or HIMEMX and nothing else? Tried it

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-07 Thread Jack
I guess this means we'll be able to drop the old sets of PCI UDMA drivers and cdrom-drivers as well, though I can remember using some of them to get a more stable pci-bus set up. (more initialisation done than standard PCI by BIOS) Interesting, but using BIOS is more compatible, I hope. I

[Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-06 Thread LM
I've been tracking FreeDOS development on and off for years. I finally had an excuse to install FreeDOS on one of my computers when I found it didn't have enough memory to run many of the newer operating systems. I have a Sony PCG-F540 laptop 500 MHz with 64 MB RAM and a 6 Gig hard disk. It

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-06 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi, One last question.  Is there a good forum or mailing list for discussing porting/compiling Open Source applications to DOS?  There are several command line and a few pdcurses applicatons I like.  Would be interested to see how many work on FreeDOS.  I'd rather not reinvent the wheel

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-06 Thread dos386
had to run the install CD twice to get FreeDOS installed on the hard drive. Known problem, the 1.0 distro is obsolete and buggy ... My experience was that about half of the ones i tried on FreeDOS worked. Make sure to update the kernel, HIMEM to HIMEMX, EMM386 to nothing or JEMM, CTMOUSE, ...