Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

2014-11-25 Thread ht-lab
On 25/11/2014 00:57, Ralf Quint wrote: On 11/24/2014 11:08 AM, Carl Spitzer wrote: Isn't the Z80 what the Space Shuttle and space Telescope used until the last decade. I seem to remember my old RS-4P was a Z80 chip. CWSIV Nope, the Space Shuttle's main computer was from IBM, based on a

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

2014-11-25 Thread userbeitrag
On 2014-11-23 20:57, Dennis Holierhoek wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering about two things: For what architectures is FreeDOS designed? For what architectures must programs be designed to run on FreeDOS? Dennis As far as I can tell, QDOS i.e. Quick and Dirty Operating System was a

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

2014-11-25 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 24-11-2014 22:38, Ralf Quint escreveu: In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30 CPU which is 8086 compatible while also featuring an 8080 emulation mode. NEC also made a special version of their V50 CPU just for the PC-88VA which can execute Z80 code as well.

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

2014-11-25 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 24-11-2014 22:38, Ralf Quint escreveu: In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30 CPU which is 8086 compatible while also featuring an 8080 emulation mode. NEC also made a special version of their V50 CPU just for the PC-88VA which can execute Z80 code as well.

Re: [Freedos-user] QuickView 2.60 with MP4 support released

2014-11-25 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi Eric, The VESA audio is nice (on paper), I didn't know about it. But I understand it is an INT API, so it would require to have some kind of a TSR that sits in memory all the time, and responds to such INT calls. The QV approach (if I got it right) seems to be about providing some kind of

Re: [Freedos-user] QuickView 2.60 with MP4 support released

2014-11-25 Thread Matej Horvat
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:51:53 +0100, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: The VESA audio is nice (on paper), I didn't know about it. But I understand it is an INT API, so it would require to have some kind of a TSR that sits in memory all the time, and responds to such INT calls. I think this

Re: [Freedos-user] adding drivers, autoexec.bat, config.sys to bootable CD

2014-11-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi John, I can see and modify the files in the ISO image used to create a bootable CD for FreeDOS, but how and where do I add autoexec.bat and config.sys files to the image and thus the bootable CD -- and where would I put the associated files (like SomeDriver.sys)? Because DOS cannot

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

2014-11-25 Thread Ralf Quint
On 11/25/2014 4:20 AM, Alain Mouette wrote: Em 24-11-2014 22:38, Ralf Quint escreveu: In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30 CPU which is 8086 compatible while also featuring an 8080 emulation mode. NEC also made a special version of their V50 CPU just for the

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

2014-11-25 Thread Christopher Evans
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Re: [Freedos-user] QuickView 2.60 with MP4 support released

2014-11-25 Thread Florian Xaver
Interesting… I think that I read somewhere about this relation between QV’s and MPXPLAY’s drivers... Btw: New driver for various PCI sound chips by Ruslan Starodubov (14 November 2014) from http://multimediaware.com/qv/snddrv/ —  Dr. Florian Xaver  http://www.xaver.me