[Freedos-user] Accessing custom ISA cards
Hi, I'm using an old legacy system in DOS that uses three custom built ISA cards. Will it be possible for me to install FreeDOS on a newer PC (with ISA slots) and still access those cards correctly? Thanks, Franz - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...
Nick Warren wrote: Another thing that would be really great woudl be an equivalent of QBASIC. QBASIUC is a great old language, but I don't think there's an open source equivalent and if there was, it should be part of FreeDOS. I guess there's FreeBASIC, but it's a compielr, QBASIC was an interpreter. There are already the bwBASIC or Regina Rexx interpreters included with `fdfullcd.iso'. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FoxCalc: New version on-line.
On 5/15/07, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think FreeDOS needs such a calc application? I know there is already FDRC, which is a resident calculator, but haven't a nice TUI like FoxCalc ;-P Well, FDRC uses Reverse Polish notation, it seems to be a rather developer oriented tool. As for Foxcalc I can say that in my view, a calculator application (I mean, for human beings) is always good. I use the calc utility of Windows fairly often so I see no reason why FreeDOS wouldn't have such a tool included. If possible, adding a scientific mode would be nice (sin, cos, tan, displaying say 100 as 1E06, brackets, basic stats (ie enter your data and see characteristic values like standard deviation, mean etc. when finished). I don't use these functions anymore, but there was a time when I really needed them. A backspace key to erase the most recently entered character might be useful, too. Also note that FoxCalc doesn't return any error message when you divide a number by zero or when you try to get the square root of a negative number. Another possible bug: try 9 999 999 999 999 999 * 9 999 999 999 999. Note the content of the calculator's screen. And then press x^2 until FoxCalc returns an error: it doesn't seem to check overflow. I got this error message on Windows Millennium's DOS window : ++ ¦¦ ¦ +--+ ¦ ¦ ¦Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV000 000 000 000 000 000 00 General Protection Fault at eip=00017e9a0 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 00 eax=0101 ebx=674ec804 ecx=0101 edx=01793d97 esi=01793e70 edi=30303030 ebp=01793d9c esp=01793b14 program=C:\WINDOWS\BUREAU\FOXCALC\FOXCALC.EXE cs: sel=00af base=86452000 limit=03fd9fff ¦ ds: sel=00b7 base=86452000 limit=03fd9fff M- AC ¦ es: sel=00b7 base=86452000 limit=03fd9fff ¦ fs: sel=00bf base= limit=0010 MR C¦ gs: sel=00bf base= limit=0010 ¦ ss: sel=00b7 base=86452000 limit=03fd9fff MC ¦ App stack: [01794000..01714000] Exceptn stack: [0002583c..000238fc] ¦ MOD0 . +/- ?¦ Call frame traceback EIPs:¦ 0x00017e9a ++ 0x30303030 Please give your opinions! Done :) FDCalc sounds nice and has less than 8 letters. PS: If the author of FDRC reads this message, please note that I didn't forgot the translation. You'll receive the file soon. Sorry for the delay. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FoxCalc: New version on-line.
On Monday 21 May 2007 10:46, Stegozor wrote: Well, FDRC uses Reverse Polish notation, it seems to be a rather developer oriented tool. That's what I think too :) As for Foxcalc I can say that in my view, a calculator application (I mean, for human beings) is always good. I use the calc utility of Windows fairly often so I see no reason why FreeDOS wouldn't have such a tool included. I am using a calc tool too - not the win's calc, but KCalc under Suse. Anyway, the point is the same - it's always good to have a simple calc tool, no matter under which OS. If possible, adding a scientific mode would be nice (sin, cos, tan, displaying say 100 as 1E06, brackets, basic stats (ie enter your data and see characteristic values like standard deviation, mean etc. when finished). I don't use these functions anymore, I tried to keep FoxCalc as simle as I could, without such expert things (I added MOD just because it was trivial to do so). Personally, I never use functions like sin/cos/tan etc, so I don't feel such need... the 1E06 notation is automatic when when the display number gets to high. Brackets are pretty hard to implement now, as I designed FoxCalc from the begin as a replacement for all those cheap hand calculator, so it have the memory for only 2 numbers (the result + currentWorkNumber)... In fact, the only time in my life when I needed such scientific calculations was when I was at the university... I think that if someone needs an advanced calculator, he should rather look after CALC387 or FDRC... A backspace key to erase the most recently entered character might be useful, too. Right, that could be okay... I should implement that before the 1.0 version. Also note that FoxCalc doesn't return any error message when you divide a number by zero or when you try to get the square root of a negative number. You're wrong. FoxCalc checks those conditions, and if division by zero or square negative, it returns Inf. Another possible bug: try 9 999 999 999 999 999 * 9 999 999 999 999. Note the content of the calculator's screen. And then press x^2 until FoxCalc returns an error: it doesn't seem to check overflow. I didn't checked that before... :( I will have to fix that soon. FDCalc sounds nice and has less than 8 letters. Right :) I'm waiting to see if I got some similar answers (so far, I got only two answers, including yours...). If no interest from other FreeDOS user's, I will just stay with FoxCalc... Bye, Mateusz Viste - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Accessing custom ISA cards
Hi Franz, I'm using an old legacy system in DOS that uses three custom built ISA cards. Will it be possible for me to install FreeDOS on a newer PC (with ISA slots) and still access those cards correctly? As long as your PC has ISA slots, they should work as usual. It might be the case that you have some special bridge to ISA, but you should just try if your software works on the new PC. Please let us know if you experience any problems. Eric PS: Another nice way to connect custom made hardware is to use the printer port. Luckily that stays available longer than the USB lobby wants ;-). - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...
Hi Nick, Robert, Another thing that would be really great woudl be an equivalent of QBASIC... I guess there's FreeBASIC, but it's a compiler, QBASIC was an interpreter. There are already the bwBASIC or Regina Rexx interpreters included with `fdfullcd.iso'. We once made an attempt to add sound/graphics/... support to bwbasic, but there was not enough interest to keep that project going. I think FreeBasic.net is way better than bwbasic. The only good thing of the latter is that it runs on 8086. Maybe you could motivate the freebasic people to add an interpreter mode. Actually it might be possible to write a BASIC program that uses some eval(string) like calls for that? For now, what FreeBasic needs are DOS-experienced testers. Please grab your old collection of Basic sources and try how well they run in FreeBasic. I think it even has a behave more like qbasic compatibility mode. But you often need only few changes to port Qbasic sources to FreeBasic anyway :-). Please get FreeBasic 0.17b testing for DOS from http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/download and then unzip the daily updates from http://drv.nu/freebasic/dev/ on top of them. Much better than 0.16b stable but needs feedback before the daily builds can lead to a new stable version :-). Thanks for testing! Enjoy FreeBASIC :-). Eric - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] JPC Java Virtual PC is now Open Source
Hi everybody, forwarding a mail about the JPC virtual PC from Oxford. JPC is written in Java and running FreeDOS in JPC in a web browser is used as example on their homepage :-). Eric Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:35:55 +0100 Subject: JPC is now Open Source Hi, Further to your interest in JPC (pure java x86 PC emulator) we are pleased to announce that, with permission of Oxford University, the source code to JPC is now available via the GPL version 2 open source licence. To download the source code visit the project website at: http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/ Kind regards JPC Development Team. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FoxCalc: New version on-line.
On Monday 21 May 2007 19:41, Oleg O. Chukaev wrote: Small suggestion to Mateusz Viste: make a configuration file for FoxCalc to change default colors. Good idea. I added it to the to-do list ;-) Regards, Mateusz V. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] How to get colorized directory in a dosemu prompt?
I use 4dos a free command.com emulator which has many more functions than command.com. It has the ability to display a directory listing in color, similar to what happen with --color=auto in an xterm. Can anyone help me to get color in an xdosemu terminal? Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Linux - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
