Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-20 Thread Don Flowers
>whatever your reason is: forget it. DONE! I spent all day yesterday setting up XFDOS and even though my time with it was somewhat limited, I found XFDOS much easier to set up thant OpenGEM. It is the best GUI I have seen yet. I want this to be a priority for the primary GUI for FreeDOS. On Wed, M

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
Here the result with Frotz v2.43. Same computer, same game: http://s11.postimg.org/y8fknk0rn/frotz_v2_43_lost_pig.jpg Mateusz On 19/05/2015 23:25, David Griffith wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2015, Mateusz Viste wrote: > >> Hello David, >> >> First of all thanks for still caring about DOS in 2015, a

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
Good news is that Frotz v2.32 works fine. I played the "Lost Pig" game for about 20 minutes and I didn't experienced any crash. My guess is that you have a fishy memory usage in newer versions of frotz - following an invalid pointer, or writing to non-allocated memory, or so... good luck :) M

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Sorry! too Old hardware. 2015-05-20 20:38 GMT+02:00, Mateusz Viste : > Here the result with Frotz v2.43. Same computer, same game: > > http://s11.postimg.org/y8fknk0rn/frotz_v2_43_lost_pig.jpg > > Mateusz > > > > On 19/05/2015 23:25, David Griffith wrote: >> On Tue, 19 May 2015, Mateusz Viste wrot

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/20/2015 12:22 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: > Sorry! too Old hardware. > ? Care to explain WHY? Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -- One dashboard for ser

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Yes Software diden´t work! 2015-05-20 21:41 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint : > On 5/20/2015 12:22 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: >> Sorry! too Old hardware. >> > ? Care to explain WHY? > > Ralf > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > > > ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/20/2015 12:46 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: > Yes Software diden´t work! > That's not an explanation. And it's DOS for crying out loud. There can't be any hardware too old to run a DOS program on... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.co

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource 2015-05-20 21:46 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : > Yes Software diden´t work! > > 2015-05-20 21:41 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint : >> On 5/20/2015 12:22 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: >>> Sorry! too Old hardware. >>> >> ? Care to explain WHY? >> >> Ralf >> >> --- >> This email has been c

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/20/2015 12:59 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: > Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource > You really need to work on the way you are trying to express yourself. I don't understand one bi of your comments in regards to the Infocom game engine... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast anti

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Yes i know it... 8080 Intel 2x86 3x86 Dx/Sx intel MMX amdSSE SSE2. 2015-05-20 21:48 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint : > On 5/20/2015 12:46 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: >> Yes Software diden´t work! >> > That's not an explanation. And it's DOS for crying out loud. There can't > be any hardware too old to run a D

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Fuck youself... 2015-05-20 22:01 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint : > On 5/20/2015 12:59 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: >> Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource >> > You really need to work on the way you are trying to express yourself. I > don't understand one bi of your comments in regards to the Infocom game > engine..

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/20/2015 1:10 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: > Fuck youself... > Sorry, don't play your games. But might have a try with the Infocom stuff... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Dario Roncone
Shell CMD 4dos its a storry about computers. 2015-05-20 22:10 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : > Fuck youself... > > 2015-05-20 22:01 GMT+02:00, Ralf Quint : >> On 5/20/2015 12:59 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: >>> Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource >>> >> You really need to work on the way you are trying to expre

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/20/2015 1:08 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: > Yes i know it... 8080 Intel 2x86 3x86 Dx/Sx intel MMX amdSSE SSE2. > Doesn't look like it... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com --

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Here the result with Frotz v2.43. Same computer, same game: > > http://s11.postimg.org/y8fknk0rn/frotz_v2_43_lost_pig.jpg At risk of asking the obvious, what major DOS version / vendor is the OP (David) developing on? Is it MS-DOS or

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
I don't know details, but I guess the OP is developing on some emulation machine, like DOSemu or DOSBox, and it works fine for him there. This happened to me in the past - emulated environment are apparently more resilient to bugs than a real machine. I doubt that using a DJGPP version is a sol

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

2015-05-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > I don't know details, but I guess the OP is developing on some emulation > machine, like DOSemu or DOSBox, and it works fine for him there. This > happened to me in the past - emulated environment are apparently more > resilient to bu