[Freedos-user] re: DOS operating systems
Hi Chema, nice collection of DOSes you have :-). PTS-DOS 2k and 32, MS DOS 6, DR DOS 7, ROMDOS, FreeDOS, RX DOS, PC DOS 2k... My computer is a Compaq M2000 Amd Turion 64 without 3 1/2 unit disk, only DVD unit... 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! As others have said, our ATAPI driver is experimental. It is for those who insist on using open source drivers whenever possible. For the others, I join the other's recommendation: VIDE-CDD by Acer / Benq (their real-mode cd-rom driver) is a very efficient universal ATAPI/IDE CD/DVD driver, closed source but available for down- load from various places. Drives my CD and DVD drives quite well in DOS and takes only little RAM. I hope you use some other OS beyond DOS as well? DOS cannot use the 64bit and extra register support of the Turion (mobile AMD Athlon64) processor nor can it make use of the ability to have more than 4 GB of RAM... And of course DOS is single-tasking, while other operating systems allow you to run many programs simultaneously to get rid of the strong computing powers of your system ;-). For a DOS GUI, I would recommend GEM. Shane of Shaneland has made a really nice GEM distro. Free GUI with, quite important, quite a few apps available for it as well. Windows has more, sure, but Windows is complex. Still you can get that for free if you use ReactOS as standalone or Wine as inside-Linux way of running Windows apps. Preemptive multitasking is just not DOS, as little as it would be sailing if you equip your sailing ship with a fusion starship drive. Eric PS: We did indeed have some critical error dialog translation problems recently, so it is quite possible that your FreeCOM command com shell shows the abort/retry/ignore dialog in the wrong language. An update to a FreeCOM with XMS swap support in a newer version from fdos.org/kernel or a downgrade to a classic version like 0.82pl3 will solve the problem. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: DOS operating systems
Eric Auer schreef: I hope you use some other OS beyond DOS as well? DOS cannot use the 64bit and extra register support of the Turion (mobile AMD Athlon64) processor nor can it make use of the ability to have more than 4 GB of RAM... And of course DOS is single-tasking, while other operating systems allow you to run many programs simultaneously to get rid of the strong computing powers of your system ;-). Show me a laptop with more than 4GB of memory :) For a DOS GUI, I would recommend GEM. Shane of Shaneland has made a really nice GEM distro. Free GUI with, quite important, quite a few apps available for it as well. Windows has more, sure, but Windows is complex. Still you can get that for free if you use ReactOS as standalone or Wine as inside-Linux way of running Windows apps. Preemptive multitasking is just not DOS, as little as it would be sailing if you equip your sailing ship with a fusion starship drive. Does this GEM support colors? Monochrome GUI is not a nice thing to have. Bernd --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: DOS operating systems
Does this GEM support colors? Monochrome GUI is not a nice thing to have. It should soon support 256 colors (although I don't know of any GEM apps that use more than 16). --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: DOS operating systems
Well, if the applications don't support more of 16 colors it doesn't have much sense... 2005/11/2, Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does this GEM support colors? Monochrome GUI is not a nice thing to have. It should soon support 256 colors (although I don't know of any GEM apps that use more than 16). --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
