Re: [Freedos-user] PNG viewer

2009-06-15 Thread iw2evk
you can use this in conjunction ox HX extender (www.japheth.de) http://www.advsys.net/ken/util/kpic.exe Ken's PICture viewer. Supports: JPG,PNG,GIF,TGA,PCX,BMP. View all files in a directory or files inside a .ZIP. (no need to extract first!) Example: kpic /zduke3d_hrp.zip *.png *.jpg. Select

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Question

2009-06-15 Thread dos386
It must be supported by your BIOS. From cca 6 PC's I could test within last 2 years 1 tries but fails and the remaining 5 don't even try. So ... -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial

Re: [Freedos-user] PNG viewer

2009-06-15 Thread dos386
uses much memory and is very slow (45s just to load on my computer). DPMI host ??? Some faulty EMM386 ??? For me it isn't slow at all :-) ... I didn't test the memory requirements :-| -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Crystal

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-15 Thread dos386
would be useful as fallback to have at least SOME access to your non-BIOS disks Why not the fastest SATA AHCI DMA ? Apparently the problem is not inside UIDE ;-) Adding block-device support would take a LOT more code and isn't really necessary. There are two other schemes that can be used

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! would be useful as fallback to have at least SOME access to your non-BIOS disks Why not the fastest SATA AHCI DMA ? Apparently the problem is not inside UIDE ;-) If your motorbike fails, the fallback is not a plane. It is a bicycle. In other words, if for example a CF card only

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-15 Thread Christian Masloch
What are you talking about? ReactOS is not about Windows Me The request of M.R. (NO, I don't understand it well ... or at all) Yes, it seems you don't understand it, or at least not the same way I do. I don't see where he mentioned Windows Me at all. And Windows 3.x/9x is no DOS GUI from

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-15 Thread Christian Masloch
Adding block-device support would take a LOT more code A ramdisk is often a tiny driver. To give block device access to UIDE disks, Okay.. you only need a partition table parser Yes, which would reside in the temporary (discarded) part of the driver. Of course that won't decrease it's

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-15 Thread dos386
This is off-topic and irrelevant anyway ... -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-15 Thread dos386
If your motorbike fails, the fallback is not a plane. It is a bicycle. Or just your feet ... In other words, if for example a CF card only supports PIO, neither UDMA nor AHCI DMA will help you OK ... do the SATA PCI addon cards suport PIO also ? I see no arguments against supporting PIO

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-15 Thread Jack
DOS386 wrote: I haven't asked for adding block-device to UIDE, just non-BIOS disks support, and I don't need it too _badly_ since I have none by now. Non-BIOS disk support for caching already exists in UIDE, in its external entry logic which can be conditionally- assembled into the driver.

Re: [Freedos-user] Thank you to kernel developers for new kernel 2038

2009-06-15 Thread Alain Mouette
I am also very glad for the new kernel. I am waiting for the 1.1 version impatiently. I have made a FreeDOS distro of my own. Philosoficaly it is an installer radicaly oposed to FreeDOS's. My intention was to get close to the original DOS installer, wich is... nothing :) ... I just added a

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting sound to work in FreeDOS on Modern systems.

2009-06-15 Thread D Z
Well I finally found a ESS PCI card here: http://www.recycledgoods.com/item/32052.aspx Anyone have this card and if so have you already tested this on a modern motherboard without ISA slots? I planned on getting it but I want to check and see if someone tried this with FreeDOS and a modern

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Question

2009-06-15 Thread Robert Riebisch
dos386 wrote: It must be supported by your BIOS. From cca 6 PC's I could test within last 2 years 1 tries but fails and the remaining 5 don't even try. So ... ... you did something wrong. From hundreds of PCs only a few failed here. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-15 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Robinson schreef: There are many Windows programs that only work in dos based Windows. There is such a thing as a dos based Windows program, try to run it at the dos prompt ( any version ) and you'll get a this requires Microsoft Windows error. Many of these same programs either

[Freedos-user] which open source libraries work?

2009-06-15 Thread LM
Just wondering what Open Source libraries in the graphics/multimedia/audio areas anyone's had any luck getting to build and work with on FreeDOS? I read programs with SDL library work in some cases with HX Extender. Am assuming SDL doesn't build on its own in djgpp or a similar C/C++ compiler

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-15 Thread King InuYasha
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Michael Robinson schreef: There are many Windows programs that only work in dos based Windows. There is such a thing as a dos based Windows program, try to run it at the dos prompt ( any version ) and you'll get a this

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-15 Thread Jack
Eric Auer wrote: as your driver already has built-in caching, UIDE does not need to make int 13 device numbers for non-BIOS devices ... I assume you mean its ability to cache devices other than its own SATA/IDE devices, by using UIDE's external call routines, and I agree with you. A