Hi all, thanks to Blair for telling me about HXRT and big cheers to
Japheth for his HXRT DOSX variant :-). So yes, DOS boxes work in
WIN /S (only full screen DOS boxes, which are suspended while they
are not the foreground task - classical WIN /S style imho) with his
DOSX in FreeDOS :-). Note that
Hi,
Well, there IS CHCP for FreeDOS, but you would also need to have NLSFUNC loaded
to catch the call.
But in any case, nor DISPLAY is a device driver yet, neither can NLSFUNC change
yet codepages of devices (only of kernel), so we would continue to use
MODE CON CP SEL=
for a while.
Aitor
Thank you all for the answers I solved the problem (not completly) using
a .dosemurc file and setting keyboard as "us" at least I have "\" working
now.
I also started to use qemu to test some games, installed Blair cd and
everything seems to go smooth now. I also got my keyboard working a littl
Carlos,
if you tell me that you were not able to access the <\> key when you tried
FreeDOS "KEYB BR", then I can tell you that you do NOT have an ABNT2
keyboard, that's why "US" works for you.
Therefore, you should use this FreeDOS solution:
KEYB BR /ID:274
Then you will have your US keyboard
Hi Henrique,
I don't know , maybe your right. The thing is I think I found a bug.
Whem autoexec.bat get called by config.sys and executed, this happens:
osdir=c:\fdos
bad command or filename "OSDIR"
And then keyb br (plus something) don't get executed.
That is the real problem.
I had to stop
Hi Carlos,
"osdir=c:\fdos" was interpreted as a command.
You forgot to type SET before that.
try typing this on AUTOEXEC.BAT:
SET OSDIR=C:\FDOS
DISPLAY CON=(EGA,999,2)
MODE CON CP PREP=((858,437) EGA.CPX)
MODE CON CP SEL=858
KEYB BR /ID:274
Again: It's important that you be sure that you have d
