Re: some notes regarding sound and dosemu

2004-06-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi dave, On Tue 08 Jun 04, 11:08 AM, Dave Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Greetings: The other day I read some posts on this list regarding failures to get sound and music working for certain MS-DOS games. I'd like to know what some of the major offenders are, I'd be willing to test

alone in the dark kills dosemu

2004-06-05 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I have a demo of Alone In The Dark (classic game that started the Point and Click Horror Adventure genre) that seems to kill dosemu. Running dosemu with xdosemu -D9S -o logfile, the relevent lines seem to be: SIGILL while in vm86() OUCH! attempt to execute interrupt table - quickly dying

adding a drive

2004-05-31 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hi there, The concept of a built-in config file is confusing to me. Without any changes: C: points to /usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos D: points to $HOME I'm unsure about how to add a new drive that points to /usr/local/dos, where I intend to install programs. I tried: ln -s

Is dosemu build system not working correctly?

2004-05-31 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I think there's a problem with the dosemu build system. I'm using Debian testing. When I build with linkstatic off, everything is fine: configure: Linking for shared libraries... checking for vga_simple_init in -lvga... yes configure: Compiling with svgalib support... checking

Re: Latest Stable Version of Dosemu

2002-12-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
the most obvious thing to try would be www.dosemu.org, kinda like www.ibm.com, www.microsoft.com, www.samba.org. have you tried www.dosemu.org? it might work. but if www.dosemu.org doesn't work, www.google.com certainly will pete begin John J. Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, please

Re: dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report

2002-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi jan, IIRC, there was talk about important dosemu related patches that are present in the most recent kernels. i think it was said that the patches have been in the ac kernels for awhile, but have just recently made it into the vanilla 2.4 kernels. i have no idea what the patches do, but you

HOWTO correction - broken link

2002-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi all, in http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/docs/HOWTO/dosemu-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.4 the link to bochs: www.bochs.com should be changed to: http://bochs.sourceforge.net looks like www.bochs.com is no more. at least, not anything useful. :) pete -- First they ignore you, then they laugh

Re: mouse grabbing gotcha (was: dosemu 1.1.3.9 user report)

2002-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
). dosemu hung once in 3 hours of playing, but it didn't take out my system. i flipped to virtual console and killall'ed it. holy moley. thank you guys. i really appreciate all the work you've done! begin Bart Oldeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Stas Sergeev wrote: Peter Jay

Re: Doom in Linux HOWTO

2002-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
because he wanted to detail doom under dosemu. :) sometimes this kind of reason is simply enough when you're talking about linux. btw, lxdoom is totally outdated. that project has merged with 2 other doom port projects and has formed prboom. i think doom legacy is the best; you have mouse

Re: Doom in Linux HOWTO

2002-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi stian, one comment -- you're walking people through installing bleeding edge dosemu, but there's a problem with the latest patchset 1.1.3 where the compiling of a bison file fails. the fix (in patch form) is here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.msdos.general/847 this link also

segfault with backtrace and information

2002-12-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dosemu consistantly segfaults on one of my machines. i'm using version 1.1.3.7 with the experimental sound patches under vanilla 2.4.20. machine arch is AMD athlon 1st generation 1.4 GHz with a 1st generation ATI radeon. the machine didn't oops. backtrace is follows: lucifer# gdb

redneck rampage and dosemu

2002-11-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hello all, I have the hankering for playing an old DOS game called Redneck Rampage. It uses the same engine as Duke Nukem 3D. Has anyone reported success running this game under DOSEMU? Would it be better to try with DOSEMU stable 1.0 or developer 1.1.3? pete ps- Please cc me at [EMAIL

compiling problems: dosemu 1.1.3.7

2002-11-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
this compiles fine: 1. tar zxvf dosemu-1.1.3.tgz 2. cd dosemu-1.1.3 3. make (press enter when it asks you to) however, this errors out during compiling: 1. tar zxvf dosemu-1.1.3.tgz 2. cd dosemu-1.1.3 3. tar zxvf ../patchset-1.1.3.7.tgz 4. sh tmp/do_patch 5. make (press enter when it asks you

never mind: compiling problem with 1.1.3.7

2002-11-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi all, i haven't received a copy of the email i sent about the bison error in 1.1.3.7, but it's bound to appear sooner or later. just did a web search and found the patch to correct the problem. dosemu compiled just fine. so please ignore my last message. :) thanks, pete -- Fingerprint:

segfault: 1.1.3.7

2002-11-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
system: amd athlon 1.4 debian sid linux 2.4.19 (linus, not ac) steps taken to install: As root: 1. In /root: dosemu-1.1.3.tgz, dpmi_sti4a.diff, patchset-1.1.3.7.tgz, dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz 2. # tar zxvf dosemu-1.1.3.tgz 3. # cd dosemu-1.1.3 4. # tar zxvf ../patchset-1.1.3.7.tgz

Re: cdrom question

2002-02-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin Stas Sergeev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello. Peter Jay Salzman wrote: C:\mscdex /D:MSCD0001 /L:E Not enough drive letters available can someone help me resolve this error message? Have you tried something like LASTDRIVE=Z adding in your config.sys? thanks everyone. that worked

cdrom question

2002-02-27 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi all, here's what i see when i boot dos or xdos: Linux DOS emulator 1.1.2.0 $Date: $ Last configured at Fri Jan 4 16:22:05 PST 2002 on linux DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed Starting MS-DOS... [dosemu cdrom driver instsalled (V0.2)] C:\path

Re: dosemu on debian

2002-02-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
. Any other suggestions? On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 12:32, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: you may want to try dosemu from the dosemu site instead of using the debian package -- it's packaged kind of funky. and in setting it up, you'll learn alot about how dosemu works. begin Carl D. Blake [EMAIL

Re: Wabi for Linux -- WAS: MSDOS 6.22 running with/in Dosemu.

2002-01-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin Matthew Nuzum [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 12:27, Bryan J. Smith wrote: Wabi was created by SCO unix in Santa Cruz, CA. They used to be the primary commercial Unix on x86 hardware vendor. That was back in the days when MS acutally worked with competitors such as Novel

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

a question about sound cards

2002-01-05 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi all, in dosemu.conf, the soundcard section appears to imply that ISA soundblaster compatible cards are the only ones supported under dosemu, since pci users don't have to normally worry about system resources. do PCI cards like the pci 128 (es1371), ensoniq pci (es1370) and sound blaster

Re: PCI sound cards that work in dosemu?

2002-01-05 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
john, if i understand bart's reply, ALL soundcards that work with linux will work with dosemu. (makes sense since app writers like bart don't handcode soundcard drivers. they use things OSS or alsa. the handcode stuff comes in when you want to *emulate* a different soundcard). the fly in the

how to get a scsi cdrom working

2002-01-04 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi there, i have a plextor scsi cdrom, /dev/sr0. how do i get it to work under dosemu? there appears to be no mscdex.exe on my system (i'm using freedos). would i really refer to the drive as sg0 (as dosemu.conf says) as opposed to sr0? thanks! pete -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8

making progress with the cdrom

2002-01-04 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
in /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf: $_aspi = sr0:CD-ROM in /usr/lib/freedos/config.sys: devicehigh=c:\dosemu\cdrom.sys in /usr/lib/freedos/autoexec.bat: mscdex /d:mscd0001 /l:E here's the problem. freedos doesn't provide mscdex. i saw a reference to something called fdcdex, but

Re: Permission Problem with DOSEMU

2002-01-04 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i'm a newbie myself. but i'll try to help. first, the group of gopher is certainly wrong. the user of 500 means that there's no user with a uid of 500. you probably just want to change everything to root.root. about the permission problem. it happens really early on. what is the contents