Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS on a HP Model nx7400 Vista Business.

2007-07-05 Thread Alain M.
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > I sell an expensive DOS based engineering program I also sell (rent) programs that run in DOS :) :) moving to FreeDOS... You should first try VMware. It has everything that you need, even the dongle should work. The only problem that I foresee is screen speed.

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS on a HP Model nx7400 Vista Business.

2007-07-05 Thread Jack Kelly
>> I have heard of DosBox, but I understand it is not free. I could purchase >> multiple copies for distribution with my software. The cost is no problem, >> but I >> prefer to make things simple, if possible. I haven’t tried it yet. If you mean the DosBox of http://dosbox.sf.net/, it is free un

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-05 Thread Giorgos
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Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS on a HP Model nx7400 Vista Business.

2007-07-05 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi, why don't you hire an expert for advice ? seeing http://probelt.com/price.htm, this should be possible Tom am 5. Juli 2007 um 19:17 schrieben Sie: > I sell an expensive DOS based engineering program that runs great full > screen on Windows XP, 2000, Me and 98. The mouse works very well i

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS on a HP Model nx7400 Vista Business.

2007-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Kent, (please switch off HTML mail and use plain text on the list) as far as I remember, Microsoft is making the virtual graphics card in DOS boxes worse in newer Windows versions: Win98 maybe did VESA 2.0 with framebuffer, WinXP maybe did VGA, Vista only does plain text mode, something like

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS on a HP Model nx7400 Vista Business.

2007-07-05 Thread Jim Hall
If I understand you correctly, you prefer to leave the laptop installed with Windows Vista, and boot FreeDOS just to run the engineering program. Sounds like a virtual machine would be the solution here. You should be able to boot a copy of FreeDOS using Microsoft Virtual PC, and run your program

[Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS on a HP Model nx7400 Vista Business.

2007-07-05 Thread RieskeKR
I sell an expensive DOS based engineering program that runs great full screen on Windows XP, 2000, Me and 98. The mouse works very well in my menu system. I use the NET USE command in the batch file to launch the program for setting up printing on networks, USB and wireless printers. A deskto

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2

2007-07-05 Thread Jim Hall
On 7/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yo whom it may concern: > > Can I get this newsletter in and individual email instead of the digest?? > > Allan Hoppel > Hi. At the bottom of each email is this message: > ___ > Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Franzini
On 7/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > PS What is the easiset way to learn basic? Is Visual Basic and good place > to start? > in FreeDOS i think that FreeBASIC (www.freebasic.net) is a good place to start... > I am eager to learn Basic so that I can get FreeDos and be a

Re: [Freedos-user] How to make a cd which can boot from the cdrom with freedos and ghost

2007-07-05 Thread 勇顺张
I am download the image from http://odin.fdos.org/odin2005/odin2880.img. make the ISO with the http://k1ea.com/hints/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_CD_V%201.5.pdf step by step. I had got a error 'page fault' which i run ghost with virtul machine(qemu).

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2

2007-07-05 Thread booboobear_1
Yo whom it may concern: Can I get this newsletter in and individual email instead of the digest?? Allan Hoppel Have a great day PS What is the easiset way to learn basic? Is Visual Basic and good place to start? I am eager to learn Basic so that I can get FreeDos and be able to program in

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-05 Thread Norbert Remmel
> One should keep in mind, that Microsoft indeed has changed the VirtualPC >>from their first version (2004) on - we used the pre-Microsoft version > of that tool for a DOS based software and Novell Netware connector. > Starting with VirtualPC (from Microsoft) the network speed reduces > dramat

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-05 Thread Norbert Remmel
> does 2004's extensions work on virtual PC 2007? Yes, it does. Keep in mind, that you load these shared folder drivers included in VPC 2004 before any emm386 in config.sys. Otherwise you will get an exception error. - This

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Franzini
does 2004's extensions work on virtual PC 2007? sounds interesting.altough writing a driver would be quite fun, i have some other DOS-related projects i'm involved in and it is really painfull to work on these without shared folders... WOW, i've found that i have a installer for the 2004 vers