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

2009-08-20 Thread D Z
Actually I think you are right. I'm not sure this card will work in DOS at all, at least I don't remember ever getting it to work in True DOS mode on my friend's old PC. I'll try it again this afternoon when I have time and report back with my results. Also if anyone actually got sound and music

Re: [Freedos-user] Over 4-GB for FreeDOS, Etc.

2009-08-20 Thread Christian Masloch
I have never seen a RAMdisk that was not file-based Maybe we have a misunderstanding here.. The driver itself is of course a file, but the disk is a DOS block device, so for DOS it is just a bunch of sectors. The DOS kernel will then use those sectors as a FAT filesystem which can contain

Re: [Freedos-user] Over 4-GB for FreeDOS, Etc.

2009-08-20 Thread Jack
On Thu, 20-Aug-2009 11:27:47, Christian Masloch c...@bttr-software.de wrote: I have never seen a RAMdisk that was not file-based Maybe we have a misunderstanding here ... The driver itself is of course a file, but the disk is a DOS block device ... NO misunderstanding, and that is exactly

[Freedos-user] RAM disks jokes (Was: 4 GB for FD etc.)

2009-08-20 Thread Christian Masloch
neither as any sort of insulting joke, nor otherwise! You found that joke insulting? If that's the case, I'm sorry. It wasn't meant as attack, neither against you nor your software nor anyone at all. If you meant DOS read as reading a single or some sectors from a block device, this is

[Freedos-user] RAM disks jokes (Was: 4 GB for FD etc.)

2009-08-20 Thread Jack
... neither as any sort of insulting joke, nor otherwise! You found that joke insulting? If that's the case, I'm sorry. It wasn't meant as attack, neither against you nor your software nor anyone at all. You and I had many LONG discussions about RDISK when I first released it. After all

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

2009-08-20 Thread D Z
Actually what I meant was. If anyone actually got sound and music to work in FreeDOS with PCI sound cards on modern or near modern Desktop systems (I.E. Motherboards that came out around the time when the Pentium 4 motherboards and all way to the present, motherboards that lack support for NMI