[Freedos-user] OT: Howto debug DOS programs

2009-08-17 Thread the bcpino
I've been using FreeDOS for a while and it works great. I'd like to write an Intel HDA driver for SCI games (Sierra quests). Ok, they work great under Dosbox, but I still prefer using plain DOS. I consider myself a good programmer, but I've never made any low-level programming or debug DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: Howto debug DOS programs

2009-08-22 Thread the bcpino
Hi Eric! Thanks for your answer! I'd like to write an Intel HDA driver for SCI games (Sierra quests). Ok, they work great under Dosbox, but I still prefer using plain DOS. You could at least use dosemu :-p Much faster :-) I'll try it, but I still want plain DOS. I consider myself

[Freedos-user] Emulating FreeDOS

2011-01-17 Thread the bcpino
-net nic,model=ne2k_isa -net user -M isapc Do use FreeDOS networking under qemu? - DOS Idling Under MS-DOS a idler is needed to avoid the guest DOS use many cycles in the host PC. Do FreeDOS have the same problem and needs dosidle. Thanks, Bcpino

[Freedos-user] Best virtual machine for FreeDOS 1.2

2012-02-04 Thread the bcpino
Dear friends: I usually use VirtualBox, but as Jack said, it didn't emulate well some old hardware. Which one should I use? QEMU, some VMware gratis. I need SB16 and network emulation, controlling CPU cycles (I don't want to burn my PC) Thanks in advance, BCPino Gino P.S. Please I don't want

Re: [Freedos-user] Best virtual machine for FreeDOS 1.2

2012-02-10 Thread the bcpino
, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, quick reply (as it takes too long to think things like this through, it's a complicated question), On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:17 AM, the bcpino bcp...@gmail.com wrote: I usually use VirtualBox, but as Jack said, it didn't emulate well some

[Freedos-user] Making fdapm-aware programs

2012-02-10 Thread the bcpino
Hi people: Is there a way to add code to make old QB45-compiled programs aware of fdapm? A simple INKEY$ sends the computer use from 3%-4% to 100% !!! I know there is a newer FreeBASIC, but I can't compile some sources inside FB yet. Thaks in advance, BCPino Gino

[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

[Freedos-user] OT: Good discussion groups for ASM, C or C++

2012-07-30 Thread the bcpino
about C and C++ too ? I think I already know C and C++ standard libraries, but not i86.h or dos.h ones. Do you know where I can find one good discussion group for assembler or C/C++ DOS-developers? Thanks! Bcpino -- Live