Re: Two questions: Number Pad and Terminal/Console

2002-01-13 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, pesarif wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 10:40, Stas Sergeev wrote: Edward Mendelson wrote: and I hope someday it becomes possible to use hardware graphics as an ordinary user, not as root. Will anyone being implementing this soon? Obvious statement --- Are You

Utility to set XDOSEMU lines-columns?

2002-01-13 Thread Edward Mendelson
I'm trying to set the XDOSEMU screen to have more than the standard 25 lines and 80 columns. With MS-DOS 6.22, I know that I can load ANSI.SYS and use the MODE CON LINES=nn command to set the number of lines to 43, but I'm looking for something that would let me set the number of lines to

some thoughts about dosemu

2002-01-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi all, just some random thoughts and questions: #1 when running redneck rampage without DPMI, the following message is printed to the xterm: lucifer# xdos kernel CPU speed is 1300264000 Hz CPU-EMU speed is 1300 MHz Running on CPU=586, FPU=1 ERROR: general protection at

Re: Utility to set XDOSEMU lines-columns?

2002-01-13 Thread Edward Mendelson
Edward Mendelson wrote: I'm looking for something that would let me set the number of lines to something like 35 (43 lines is too tall for the screen), and the number of columns to something like 90. Does anyone know of a DOS utility that would do this under XDOSEMU with a standard

Re: MSDOS 6.22 running with/in Dosemu.

2002-01-13 Thread Edward Mendelson
John Goley wrote: I think I remember you saying on list that you go Dosemu 1.0.2.1 running with MSDOS 6.22. windows' dos isn't the best one to use. you also want to stay away from dos 4.x. Actually, MSDOS 6.22 is the last of the NON-Windows 9x Microsoft DOS versions. It's just as

Re: MSDOS 6.22 running with/in Dosemu.

2002-01-13 Thread Justin Zygmont
There is some info on how to do that on my web page at http://solarflow.dyndns.org/pcplus. Basically you can just copy the dos boot files to a directory and create a symlink to it. On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, John Goley wrote: Hi Edward Mendelson, I think I remember you saying on list that you go

Re: sound questions

2002-01-13 Thread Alistair MacDonald
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: are the variables: $_sb_base = (0x220) $_sb_irq = (5) $_sb_dma = (1) $_mpu_base = 0x330 supposed to be emulated variables or are they supposed to reflect the The emulated settings. DOSEMU doesn't talk to the hardware directly - it uses

Re: Problems with Novag's universal chess board

2002-01-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Bernhard Bialas wrote: 1). I get only connection (by starting the driver) when I start DOSEMU from the console as root.When I start as normal user, the driver fails to start and I dosemu hangs.What I can do to get the communication from xdos? (looking in the ChangeLog) I am under

Re: some thoughts about dosemu

2002-01-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. ERROR: general protection at 0xfadf: 66 ERROR: SIGSEGV, protected insn...exiting! shouldn't dosemu catch segmentation violations and perhaps print a more It does, else you would have been seeing segmentation fault (core dumped:). This is just an evil dos4gw trying to enter protected