Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

Aitor wrote: > If you refer to the "cursor blinking bug" that was supposed to appear > on 0.9a, so far I only know of a single PC of a single user 2 PC's from 6 ... one user (talking for me for now) > bug appears (apparently the user had some problem with his BIOS) But nobody had so far an idea

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

Hello, 2009/6/14 dos386 : > Hi! > >> > buggy (some PC's) >> Who what where? > > RTFB ... mouse cursor invisible on some PC's "some"? Do you have evidences of it to happen in more than ONE PC where it was discovered? Aitor -

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

Hello, 2009/6/13 dos386 : >> Notable things: >> edit > > buggy (some PC's) > Can you post any more information about those bugs? If you refer to the "cursor blinking bug" that was supposed to appear on 0.9a, so far I only know of a single PC of a single user where this bug appears (apparently the

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

Hello, 2009/6/6 LM : > I had to run the install CD twice to get FreeDOS installed on the hard drive. >  The first time, I tried to pick an image on bootup and the system locked up. >  Second time, I left it as default.  I guess I'm not very familiar with the > programs that installed with FreeD

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dos386 wrote: >> But there is a tool which has the name DISPLAY and > > There are simply too many DISPLAY's ... I mean the one from 1998 by ??? > done with DGJPP closed source freeware ??? = Jih-Shin Ho Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/

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Hi! > > buggy (some PC's) > Who what where? RTFB ... mouse cursor invisible on some PC's > But there is a tool which has the name DISPLAY and There are simply too many DISPLAY's ... I mean the one from 1998 by ??? done with DGJPP closed source freeware > Mplayer can also play pure audio files.

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Hi! >> Notable things: edit > > buggy (some PC's) Who what where? >> perl > > NOMYSO ??? There is Perl for DOS. I think even version 5.6 or newer... > QEMU or BOCHS only (BOCHS is slower and better) The Bochs emulator also has a nicer debugger built-in :-) Is there a PNG viewer for F

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> Notable things: > edit buggy (some PC's) > perl NOMYSO ??? > Georg Potthast is also doing experiments with a player for new hardware. His "driver" now can play from memory so it became a real driver :-) > > * BOCHS emulator (host OS = emulated OS = DOS) > Or any other emulator, of course Q

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Hi, > I tried compiling lcal and pcal (at Sourceforge) yesterday and both > built fine with djgpp, but they have a djgpp makefile already. I also > tried diffh (also at Sourceforge) with djgpp. Had to copy the makefiles > and .Tpo files from the mingw build over in order to get it to compi

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>> I guess this means we'll be able to drop the old sets of >> PCI UDMA drivers and cdrom-drivers as well, though I can >> remember using some of them to get a more stable pci-bus >> set up. (more initialisation done than standard PCI by >> BIOS) > > Interesting, but using BIOS is more compatible,

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>> My favorite DOS programming editor >> (ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/editor/edwin15c.zip) >> fails and won't run. Has anyone been able to get edwin working on FreeDOS? Eric Auer wrote: >Please describe the failure in more detail. Tried with >minimal drivers, HIMEM or HIMEMX and nothing else? Tried

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Hi Bernd, Jack, > Jack schreef: >> If you update FreeDOS, in accordance with the update list >> noted by Eric Auer, do consider adding the UIDE or UIDEJR >> driver, also XMGR and RDISK if desired. They are avail- >> able from , also >> from other Intern

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Jack schreef: > If you update FreeDOS, in accordance with the update list > noted by Eric Auer, do consider adding the UIDE or UIDEJR > driver, also XMGR and RDISK if desired. They are avail- > able from , also > from other Internet sources. > We'll su

[Freedos-user] getting applications working

If you update FreeDOS, in accordance with the update list noted by Eric Auer, do consider adding the UIDE or UIDEJR driver, also XMGR and RDISK if desired. They are avail- able from , also from other Internet sources. UIDEJR is a "basic" hard-disk and CD

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On Saturday 06 June 2009 14:22 (CEST), LM wrote: > I couldn't help thinking Timidity++ would be great for playing midi and mod > files. It works even without a sound card and has pdcurses and ncurses > interfaces. Has anyone had any luck porting Timidity++ to DOS? On the other hand, there is a

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Hi! > Known problem, the 1.0 distro is obsolete and buggy ... Feel free to make a list of bugs that should be fixed in 1.1 :-) In the meantime, try http://rugxulog.googlepages.com/ - for example most CD/DVD burning tools should let you use the 2.88MB diskette image to make a bootable CD/DVD...

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> had to run the install CD twice to get FreeDOS installed on the hard drive. Known problem, the 1.0 distro is obsolete and buggy ... > My experience was that about half of the ones i tried on FreeDOS worked. Make sure to update the kernel, HIMEM to HIMEMX, EMM386 to nothing or JEMM, CTMOUSE, ..

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Hi, > One last question.  Is there a good forum or mailing list for discussing > porting/compiling Open Source applications to DOS?  There are several command > line and a few pdcurses applicatons I like.  Would be interested to see how > many work on FreeDOS.  I'd rather not reinvent the wheel

[Freedos-user] getting applications working

I've been tracking FreeDOS development on and off for years. I finally had an excuse to install FreeDOS on one of my computers when I found it didn't have enough memory to run many of the newer operating systems. I have a Sony PCG-F540 laptop 500 MHz with 64 MB RAM and a 6 Gig hard disk. It