Re: [Freedos-user] Sound Card Drivers and others...

2012-04-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Kenny, >I was wondering how you get the drivers for the other cards in a comp > that used to run something else, but now runs FreeDOS. For example: how do > you find the sound card manufacturer to get a driver? Or for any other > drivers? Is there an easy program like NICSCAN ( > http://ww

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-13 Thread escape
On 12.04.12 20:38, dmccunney wrote: > I just made a post amending my statement. Ok, but still it has nothing common with DOS itself. Because: > I amend my statement: they'll boot DOS if you jump through an > assortment of hoops to get them to do so. I got FreeDOS to boot > alongside Win2K and tw

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound Card Drivers and others...

2012-04-13 Thread Kenny Emond
In response to Eric's post, I just wanted to be able to hear the regular sounds that a DOS game makes, instead of a crappy version that my sound chip makes. You know how on a windows XP system, sometimes you hear a beep that comes from the computer itself and not from the speakers? Well my comp is

[Freedos-user] Unicode support in languages

2012-04-13 Thread Alex
Just to save me some time, instead of going through all the forums and the documentation files (which would take forever), I ask this question to you all: which of the (FreeDOS-based) languages support Unicode? More specifically, does anyone know if Turbo Pascal can support UTF-8? Is there any lib

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode support in languages

2012-04-13 Thread Mateusz Viste
I doubt you will find any DOS language that supports Unicode 'out of the box'. However, there are Unicode-enabled DOS programs out there, so I'd say your best shot is to take a look inside them. Blocek is a unicode editor written in Pascal: http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz/ FoxType is a UTF8 text v

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-13 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:04 AM, escape wrote: > On 12.04.12 20:38, dmccunney wrote: >> I just made a post amending my statement. > Ok, but still it has nothing common with DOS itself. Because: > >> I amend my statement: they'll boot DOS if you jump through an >> assortment of hoops to get them to

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode support in languages

2012-04-13 Thread Marco Achury
El 13/04/2012 10:03 a.m., Alex escribió: > Just to save me some time, instead of going through all the forums and > the documentation files (which would take forever), I ask this > question to you all: which of the (FreeDOS-based) languages support > Unicode? > > More specifically, does anyone know

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode support in languages

2012-04-13 Thread Marco Achury
El 13/04/2012 10:14 a.m., Mateusz Viste escribió: > I doubt you will find any DOS language that supports Unicode 'out of the box'. > However, there are Unicode-enabled DOS programs out there, so I'd say your > best shot is to take a look inside them. > > Blocek is a unicode editor written in Pasca

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-13 Thread Bret Johnson
> Yes, they do. But my fundamental question is still valid. What is > your use case? Do you actually *need* to boot DOS, or is a VM or > emulator a better solution? In my case, I do it mostly for speed, but there are other reasons also. Booting "real" DOS only takes a few seconds. So, if I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-13 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Bret Johnson wrote: >> Yes, they do.  But my fundamental question is still valid.  What is >> your use case?  Do you actually *need* to boot DOS, or is a VM or >> emulator a better solution? > > In my case, I do it mostly for speed, but there are other reasons also

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode support in languages

2012-04-13 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Alex wrote: > > Just to save me some time, instead of going through all the forums and > the documentation files (which would take forever), I ask this > question to you all: which of the (FreeDOS-based) languages support > Unicode? > > More specifically, does

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-13 Thread BretJ
If you could boot up in only a few seconds, would you turn things off when you weren't using them (not necessarily servers, but clients)? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Long-term-survival-of-FreeDOS-tp33661875p33684868.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archiv

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-13 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:45 PM, BretJ wrote: > If you could boot up in only a few seconds, would you turn things off when > you weren't using them (not necessarily servers, but clients)? Nope. I run multitasking environments with things happening in the background, and things scheduled to happ

[Freedos-user] VMware - increase text fonts

2012-04-13 Thread the bcpino
Hi! I am using FreeDOS under VMware Player 4.0.2, my problem is that host machine is a 17" monitor 1080p, which means, the 80x25 windows is too small. Is there any way to increase fonts size? 1. Using full screen doesn't stretch the text screen, I still have the same size with black borders 2. I