Hi!
I'm sorry for this offtopic question, I just think there might be people who
knows the answer I'm looking for several days now :)
I am trying to run a Windows 3.11 installation in Virtualbox. Unfortunately,
Win 3.11 comes "natively" with a driver for VGA (640x480) only, and the
so-called "
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> So, do anybody knows if there is any way I could make Windows 3.11 working
> with nice (non-VGA) graphic in VirtualBox *and* network? (the problem with
> Japheth's patch seems to be some related to the inability of the driver to
> recover t
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 18:09 (CEST), Liam Proven wrote:
> Identify what graphics card VBox is emulating & look for a Windows 3
> driver for it.
Not that easy :)
VirtualBox is emulating a "VirtualBox graphic card", not a card from the real
world...
bye,
Mateusz Viste
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You'll find my public
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 April 2010 18:09 (CEST), Liam Proven wrote:
>> Identify what graphics card VBox is emulating & look for a Windows 3
>> driver for it.
>
> Not that easy :)
> VirtualBox is emulating a "VirtualBox graphic card", not a card from t
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 18:30 (CEST), Liam Proven wrote:
> In that case, you might try something like SciTech Display Doctor...
> Older releases had support for DOS so it might work with Windows 3.
I already tried SDD v5.3 and v6. In both cases, it just outputs the message
"unknown SVGA chipse
Hi,
Do any of the FreeDOS iso images contain enough USB support that
they might find an IPod hooked to a modern computer via
motherboard/chipset-based USB controllers? If so which one? If not
what sort of USB host controller is required to find an IPod with
FreeDOS.
Thanks,
Mark
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Hi Mark,
> Do any of the FreeDOS iso images contain enough USB
All ISOs are several years old as far as I remember.
The newest drivers are from Bret Johnson, 1/2010:
http://bretjohnson.us/
You can use a floppy distro such as the Rugxulo one:
http://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/
You can eith
Hi Geraldo,
> while we can't push any much modern idea would
> be possible to implement a thread facility in FD
> kernel using protothread http://www.sics.se/~adam/pt/ ?
> it would allow many interesting things
> or at least, we could use on FD install to
> unzip packages in parallel?
For unzipp
Hi Karen,
> it can take say two or three screen readers to equal the
> functionality of one Dos based one.
Interesting, what makes the DOS ones so user friendly?
> screen readers for windows
> are in the dictionary for richly problematical.
In what way? I remember them often being commercia
Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi Karen,
>
>
>> it can take say two or three screen readers to equal the
>> functionality of one Dos based one.
>
> Interesting, what makes the DOS ones so user friendly?
>
>> screen readers for windows
>> are in the dictionary for richly problematical.
>
> In what way? I
Hi Eric,
>
>
>> it can take say two or three screen readers to equal the
>> functionality of one Dos based one.
>
> Interesting, what makes the DOS ones so user friendly?
A combination of things, ranging from the commercial companies working
together, to individuals involved with dos programming
Euphoria interpreter support multiple threads in the same program.
On MS-DOS 5.0 had a task switch utility DOSSHELL. Was not very
popular but offered a simple multitasking. Something like win31 on
standar mode with all the programs on full screen mode.
2010/4/7, Eric Auer :
>
> Hi Geraldo,
>
>
Em 07-04-2010 13:17, Mateusz Viste escreveu:
>
> Not that easy :)
> VirtualBox is emulating a "VirtualBox graphic card", not a card from the real
> world...
It probably accepts VESA, but I don't remember if w3.1 accepts that...
Alain
Hi All/Auer-San!
Oh, i got it!
ehehehe,
Sheldon Cooper would say
"what a newbie..." and then "bazinga!"
ehehehe :)
jokes a part, besides win3x support
for multitask, is there any other way
to multitask (Free)DOS without breaking
legacy software or using obscure techniques?
just philosophising/out
On Thursday 08 April 2010 04:11 (CEST), Alain Mouette wrote:
> It probably accepts VESA, but I don't remember if w3.1 accepts that...
Yes, VirtualBox graphic card indeed is VESA compliant. The whole problem is
about Windows 3.11 not supporting VESA :)
If there was somewhere a Win 3.11 graphic dri
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