[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS reads DVD discs

2008-01-03 Thread HCL BA
Hello, I found it in the Australian PC magazine (APC) DVD and modified it in my desktop that works well. I don't know if this feature has been documented but I hope the FreeDOS .iso image file can be burned into a DVD disc and boots in DVD drives as well. The FDCONFIG.SYS: !DOSDATA=UMB!F

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Arkady, > I not seen your edition yet, so I not have any ideas. :) It is on www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/ctmouse21b3.zip Your points about the macros are okay :-) > "is empty or attached mouse in Mouse Systems mode". :) And Genius > mice are long ago based on Logitech protocol. Whic

[Freedos-devel] (OT) I'm back

2008-01-03 Thread Jim Hall
I'm back from my vacation, but as you might guess I'm now swamped with email. If you sent me a note (especially one to tell me about a new software version) please understand that it will take me a few days to go through all my email. -jh --

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
Eric Auer escreveu: >> IMHO the default should be off, but the code should remain >> there. > For Genius? Agreed. Probably would be harder to remove it ;-) Yes. >> it would be logical that *these* programs have instructions >> to activate [the wheel]. > > You mean have docs to instruct the user

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread lyricalnanoha
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > "is empty or attached mouse in Mouse Systems mode". :) And Genius > mice are long ago based on Logitech protocol. ... > Forget "Genius". All (newer) Genius mice, which I seen, was working > in LT protocol. I used to have a Genius serial m

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3-Янв-2008 01:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> have questions about problems with it... Yet I wonder why EA> ctmouse 2.1b3 /O /P works worse than 1.9 for that problematic EA> PC (2.1 with wheel does not see mouse, 2.0 hangs, 2.1 /O is EA> supp

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Alain, > IMHO the default should be off, but the code should remain > there. For Genius? Agreed. Probably would be harder to remove it ;-) > it would be logical that *these* programs have instructions > to activate [the wheel]. You mean have docs to instruct the user how to activate it when

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
Eric Auer escreveu: > Rule 1: Users never read the manual. So they just type ctmouse, > see that it somehow fails to see their ps2 mouse, then grabs their > empty com port (because you never know if it is empty or Genius) > and then file a bug report instead of reading the manual ;-). This > is wh

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: > > EA> I must admit that the CuteMouse source code is ugly but on the > > Let me object this assertion. :) Hi Arkady, wellcome back... I look forward to many new discussions :) Alain PS: this is a joke ... --

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
First thing that come to mind: if you write free software, write it using free compiler. Alain Андрей Влащенко escreveu: > Hello everybody! CuteMouse project is dead; I can develop new mouse driver > for the FreeDOS project. This driver, named "FreeMouse", I started today. > Please reply to me