Re: [Freedos-user] Boot to FreeDOS?

2005-11-28 Thread aitorsm
Hi, > Hello > > Sorry if this has been asked before. I could not find definitive > answers in the FAQs. > > 1. I have an old DOS program that used to run under Windows-98. It is > the Giebler MIDI converter series of programs. > > 2. Under Windows XP this garners a runtime error 200 (doesn't m

Re: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese

2006-01-05 Thread aitorsm
Hi Basudeb, Not that I am too familiar with Asian locale, mainly due to my lack of knowledge and also lack of hardware for testing, but here it is what I know of it. I am afraid that what Henrique is telling you is only half of the game that one would need to get a fully Japanese system. DBCS is

[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 pre-release 4

2006-01-06 Thread aitorsm
Hi all, I hereby announce the new version of KEYB, FD-KEYB 2.0 pre-release 4, a major bugfix release since the previous version. You can get it at ibiblio as usual: BINARY: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre4x.zip SOURCE: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-st

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

2006-03-04 Thread aitorsm
Hi there, Oops, it seems to point to me ;-) The keyboard buffer is a BIOS resource, and it many cases DOS (standard CON device) just relies on BIOS to do this work. BIOS extensions to the BIOS keyboard handling (namely KEYB) could easily implement this, but: - I try myself to recycle BIOS stuff