[Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Chema
Thank you very much for your quick answers and your help. I'm a really fan of DOS systems. For me is the best system (at least the last system that I know what really is doing on the startup and then I can configure it). From Windows 95 onwards all is a black box... I have the following DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Chema, I haven't could to take a look at 32 bits and preemptive multitask DOS versions, because they are very expensive: Another subject, what about DOS GUI? Seal is dead, also BreadBox Ensemble GEOS, so nowadays there isn't any project to develop a modern GUI for DOS. Windows 3.xx is

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Gerry Hickman schreef: There are some definite problems with the CD driver, you may want to try VIDE-CDD.SYS guess why we call ATAPICDD.SYS alpha.. In fact I don't know the state of any revision of it (binary is 0.2.10 I think) and if it's simply a case of NASM ATAPICDD.NSM or not for any

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Blair Campbell
they use boot disks. FreeDOS is easy in that sense. But I tried to install the FreeDOS 0.9 Beta Enhaced Disk and it gave me some problems. Also the Atapi cd-rom driver included (the alpha version) is very slow to load! Do you recommend me to install better the FreeDOS 0.9 Lite Version or the

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Chema
Hi Blair, My first problem was in the installation process. When I tried to see the content of one package, right now I don't remember well the name, it happened an error and a message error was printed on the screen in text mode. After installation process (one of the applications to install

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Bernd, guess why we call ATAPICDD.SYS alpha.. UDMA drivers seem to stabilize the ATAPICDD driver (or IDE bus) a bit. I didn't mean to imply we expect it to work perfectly at alpha stage. I was just saying there are some definite problems. It's not just me, I think the FreeDOS