Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread Blair Campbell
> I used to organize all the "system" files in a system directory. and > the apps in an app directory under C: instead of under the system > directory. > C:\FDOS "all the command programs here > C:\Apps "all the applications under here grouped in directories like > "games", develop, utility etc. I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread usul
> You could put toghether FreeDOS 1.1... > most programs have new versions that are ok, but what is mostly needed > is put all of it toghether, test new versions, fix a few things and This sounds like a good task for me to start. And I am most certainly willing. Would this be pulling together the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread usul
> I agree, the FreeDOS installer is currently a bit annoying, you must > click and wait a dozens of time. Would be better first to choose all > packets or to click just go ahead and install everything without bugging > around. > > -mr Part that I hated most was that I had to keep clicking. Yes I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread usul
Thanks everyone. Very helpful! I have ordered Some books :) "FreeDOS Kernel; An MS-DOS Emulator for Platform Independence and Embedded Systems Development" "Undocumented DOS: A Programmer's Guide to Reserved MS-DOS Functions and Data Structures/Book and Disk (Andrew Schulman Programming)" "Diss

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Reichenbach
lyricalnanoha schrieb: > > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Michael Reichenbach wrote: > >> lyricalnanoha schrieb: >>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Michael Reichenbach wrote: >>> Christian Masloch schrieb: > If you want to learn about (16-bit) DOS kernel stuff, first get the RBIL > (Ralf Brown's Interru

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread lyricalnanoha
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Michael Reichenbach wrote: > lyricalnanoha schrieb: >> >> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Michael Reichenbach wrote: >> >>> Christian Masloch schrieb: If you want to learn about (16-bit) DOS kernel stuff, first get the RBIL (Ralf Brown's Interrupt List) and the source of DOS-

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Reichenbach
lyricalnanoha schrieb: > > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Michael Reichenbach wrote: > >> Christian Masloch schrieb: >>> If you want to learn about (16-bit) DOS kernel stuff, first get the RBIL >>> (Ralf Brown's Interrupt List) and the source of DOS-C (mostly C) and Udo's >>> Enhanced DR-DOS kernel (Assemb

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread lyricalnanoha
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Michael Reichenbach wrote: > Christian Masloch schrieb: >> If you want to learn about (16-bit) DOS kernel stuff, first get the RBIL >> (Ralf Brown's Interrupt List) and the source of DOS-C (mostly C) and Udo's >> Enhanced DR-DOS kernel (Assembly). (You might as well get the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: > If you want to learn about (16-bit) DOS kernel stuff, first get the RBIL > (Ralf Brown's Interrupt List) and the source of DOS-C (mostly C) and Udo's > Enhanced DR-DOS kernel (Assembly). (You might as well get the old RxDOS > 7.1.5 Assembly sources but oh well.)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Reichenbach
You can look at drdos.org, see http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Development for a nice overview about DOS development in general with many links. There are some pretty cool gui toolskits for DOS. http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Alain M. schrieb: > most programs have new versions that are ok, but what is mostly needed > is put all of it toghether, test new versions, fix a few things and > probably modify a little the installer. I agree, the FreeDOS installer is currently a bit annoying, you must click and wait a dozens

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi Adam, > My main interest is programming and a challenge. Occasionally play some > old > games > that I miss. Bards Tale etc. Check out Commander Keen ;-) > Interested in the Kernel and Assembly programming. If you want to learn something about the DOS kernel and Assembly language I could

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread Alain M.
Hi theMouse, if you are willing to help, I have one suggestion that will make you very knowledgeable of FreeDOS: You could put toghether FreeDOS 1.1... most programs have new versions that are ok, but what is mostly needed is put all of it toghether, test new versions, fix a few things and pr

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread usul
> > Hi, > > It would help if you tell us what is your interest in DOS and/or what > > you are using it most for. (recovery, backup, hardware testing, > > benchmark, web browsing, gaming, music player, server or whatever) > My main interest is programming and a challenge. Occasionally play some ol

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi, I am not a part of the dev team but a pretty active user and I have dozens of ideas to implement in C(++) for DOS... To awake your continued interest on what you might work in the future it might help to let you do things you are personally interested in. It would help if you tell us what is

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updated country.sys file

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Eduardo, >> Rugxulo wondered whether you have plans to add support for >> Esperanto... You can contact him at rugxulo at gmail :-). > You're kidding, aren't you? No, Rugxulo uses Esperanto as example to show which DOS apps support multilingual messages :-). He seems to be a fan :-). And of c

[Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread usul
Dev Team, I am very nearly completed on the setup of freedos. all I need now is the network card, its in the mail. :) But I can copy floppy by floppy if I have to :) I am very interested in helping. If you have any tasks that you need done, even if it is unglamorous. I'll take it. :) Not sure ho

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updated country.sys file

2009-03-27 Thread Eduardo Casino Almao
Eric Auer escribió: > Rugxulo wondered whether you have plans to add support for > Esperanto... You can contact him at rugxulo at gmail :-). > You're kidding, aren't you? > Another interesting point is, of course: Would you want to > help porting the country sys handling code of freedos 2037 > t

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updated country.sys file

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Eduardo, >> Archive: country.zip >>126689 10-06-07 07:20 country.asm >> 30250 10-06-07 07:20 country.sys > Yes, they are over a year old now, but I did not announce them back then > because changes were small and almost nobody seemed to be using > country.sys anyway. I recent

[Freedos-devel] Kernel incompatibility introduced in 2038? (Ctrl C handling versus HX)

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi everybody, there were no answers to Japheth's mail from 21 Dec yet... In my own experience, 2036 and 2038 behave the SAME, so it would be interesting to know whether there really is something that BROKE in 2038 or whether the Ctrl-C stuff of HX and FreeDOS have some general incompatibility...