Hello Luchezar,
> Sure. Borland's delay() uses timer 0. Why not rely on the referesh toggle
> bit instead?
maybe because that's a *really* undocumented input bit ?
I searched right now, but couldn't find it anywhere.
so let me ask:
what kind of 'refresh' is that ?
does this work on compaq/dell
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote:
void delay(unsigned milliseconds) /* 1 - 1985 */
{
unsigned i;
for (i = 0; i <= milliseconds * 33; i++)
{
while (inp(0x61 & 0x10) /* refresh bit toggles with each
refresh */
; /* so we wait 30 µs but the
first time */
while (inp(0x61 & 0x1
Below is the correct function. I forgot the inversion. Sorry for my
mistake.
void delay(unsigned milliseconds) /* 1 - 1985 */
{
unsigned i;
for (i = 0; i <= milliseconds * 33; i++)
{
while (inp(0x61 & 0x10) /* refresh bit toggles with each refresh
As for FreeCOM, the bug showed up on the PC (P3 650 MHz) trying to use
filename completion. The beep started, then the computer freezed, while
continuing to beep. I had to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut it up.
It's odd that my Celeron/700 doesn't have that problem, so I don't think
it's CPU speed...
Steve Nickolas wrote:
At Fri, 30 Jul 2004 8:55am +0200, Roberto Mariottini wrote:
As for FreeCOM, the bug showed up on the PC (P3 650 MHz) trying to use
filename completion. The beep started, then the computer freezed, while
continuing to beep. I had to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut it up.
Ciao
I
At Fri, 30 Jul 2004 8:55am +0200, Roberto Mariottini wrote:
> As for FreeCOM, the bug showed up on the PC (P3 650 MHz) trying to use
> filename completion. The beep started, then the computer freezed, while
> continuing to beep. I had to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut it up.
>
> Ciao
It's odd that
Hi all,
Yesterday I've tested FORMAT on a 40GB HD, with a one big partition. I
was trying to format it as FAT32 under WinXP, but it refuses to format
such a large partition as FAT, it wants to format it as NTFS.
So I've inserted a floppy with FreeDOS in it (sorry, I had only the
official beta9pr
