On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 9:54 PM dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 8:10 PM Vincent Asaro <carrotfi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Dennis - Thank you for all the info! > > You're welcome. > > > I installed Linux Mint via USB on that machine, I just want to be sure > FD will "see" the ports, so to speak, but the FD page sez it's so, so it > must be! > > Seeing USB ports and being able to use them are different things. > Bear in mind that FreeDOS was intended to be a compatible open source > alternative to MSDOS. USB did not *exist* when what FreeDOS was > trying to be compatible with was still being developed and sold. An > assortment of things folks would like in FreeDOS fall into the "It > didn't exist in real DOS, and therefore doesn't in FreeDOS" bucket. > USB is a FreeDOS work in progress. There is some support, but whether > there is support for what you require is another matter. (Assuming > you can install FreeDOS *from* USB, can you then write *to* something > attached to USB, like a thumb drive? How will you get stuff you > create *on* the HP off of it and to something else? And yes, > networking will be another challenge.) > > > I found the code for EP on Archive.org, mimeo of typewritten doc (!) > it's abt 4 pages long and I have every intention of punching in every > character manually LoL It's one of my Holy Grails, just to use that program > :) > > Have fun. EP was originally written for an 8 bit Atari microcomputer > that did not use CP/M or DOS as the OS. It was ported to CP/M by > other hands, and then to TRSDOS on the TRS-80 by yet other hands. Do > not expect the source you found on archive.org in a scan of a > typewritten document to be usable as is, even if you successfully > transcribe it. > > Since you were able to install Linux Mint (and I assume it ran), you > might be better served by installing DOSBox under Mint and using it to > run old DOS apps. You would at least have USB support already extant. > (I'd want more RAM on the HP machine, but 2GB should work. I have > Lubuntu dual-booting on an Acer Aspire1 notebook with WinXP Home. The > Acer has 1.5GB RAM. Lubuntu is not exactly speedy, but *does* run.) > ______ > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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