[Freedos-user] ctmouse mouse driver 2.1 problem

2008-07-30 Thread HCL BA
Hello, I cannot config the ctmouse 2.1 series driver to work with a genius mouse, the system freezes or the mouse does not work at all. A previous alpha version 2.0 works fine, with wheel api. BAHCL _ Connect to the next

Re: [Freedos-user] Firefox systems (was: Mpxplay...)

2008-07-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, Windows 98 is NOT Windows NT. It is a version of Windows that runs on top of dos. Linux uses more memory because it is a multi user system with an overkill gui. According to various Wikipedia articles about this, the system requirements for minimum RAM and disk space are:

Re: [Freedos-user] ctmouse mouse driver 2.1 problem

2008-07-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi BAHCL, I cannot config the ctmouse 2.1 series driver to work with a genius mouse, the system freezes or the mouse does not work at all. A previous alpha version 2.0 works fine, with wheel api. Please try with the ctmdebug binary. Is your mouse PS/2, is it USB or is it RS232? Please try

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
someone schrieb: Open source software is not as author dependent as traditional commercial software, but a lot of people fail to understand this and they give up on an OSS project when it's author quits. It's very hard to learn programming for hobbyists and professionals can rather earn

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Robert Riebisch
Michael Reichenbach wrote: ... 95/98 on top. Why? Windows 9x always comes with underlying MS-DOS 7.x. There's just no need for FreeDOS here. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ - This SF.Net

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2008-07-30 Thread pcdos2k
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:06:44 +0200 (MEST) From: Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed Note: The drivers are inside MPXPLAY, but as it is open source, you can use the MPXPLAY sources to make VSB (virtual

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: Michael Reichenbach wrote: ... 95/98 on top. Why? Windows 9x always comes with underlying MS-DOS 7.x. There's just no need for FreeDOS here. - It's cool. - You can start and exit Windows and back to FreeDOS and back to other Windows version, pretty practical. - A

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay... -- vsb

2008-07-30 Thread pcdos2k
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:06:44 +0200 (MEST) From: Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed Note: The drivers are inside MPXPLAY, but as it is open source, you can use the MPXPLAY sources to make VSB (virtual sound blaster) able to output sound

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay... -- vsb

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
pcdos2k schrieb: Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:06:44 +0200 (MEST) From: Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed Note: The drivers are inside MPXPLAY, but as it is open source, you can use the MPXPLAY sources to make VSB (virtual sound blaster) able

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! ... 95/98 on top. Why? Windows 9x always comes with underlying MS-DOS 7.x. There's just no need for FreeDOS here. Note that this is how MS pushed DR DOS and PC DOS (etc) out of the market - they made it alternatives obsolete by bundling their own stuff. Now if you look at web

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! ... 95/98 on top. Why? Windows 9x always comes with underlying MS-DOS 7.x. There's just no need for FreeDOS here. Note that this is how MS pushed DR DOS and PC DOS (etc) out of the market - they made it alternatives obsolete by bundling their own stuff. Now if

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! By the way which features are missing in FreeDOS a) for 100 % MS-DOS compatibility Missing features in the stable kernel are: - country sys / nlsfunc support: present in unstable branch, would be nice if that could be ported to stable but WITHOUT breaking the compiled-in support for

[Freedos-user] Fwd: BGFAX for DOS

2008-07-30 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
-- Forwarded message -- From: B.J. Guillot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/7/30 Subject: RE: BGFAX for DOS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Marco. This is OK by me to include the BGFAX binaries and documentation in the freedos distribution. We would probably want

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Thanks for detailed answer. So... If I understand right. Most things are in but some cool addons are still missing. Any non Windows applications, better said any pure DOS legacy application should work on FreeDOS the same way it would work on MS-DOS? (this test on same hardware of course)

[Freedos-user] harddisk compatibility question

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
This two questions are completely separate. 1) If FreeDOS can boot from some 'unusual' device such as USB harddisk or SATA hardisk then FreeDOS will access the disk with BIOS calls anyway. No extra drivers needed. For any application there is NO difference compared to boot from internal IDE?

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-30 Thread Tom Ehlert
Any non Windows applications, better said any pure DOS legacy application should work on FreeDOS the same way it would work on MS-DOS? (this test on same hardware of course) right. we (the kernel and emm386/himem developers) put a lot of effort into exactly this. after that, we declared the

[Freedos-user] Uses for BGFAX

2008-07-30 Thread Marco Achury
I have found BGFAX very interesting. Is a simple a ligth fax program you can control from command line and return %errorlevel% that inform you if the fax transmission was successfull or not. If the author decides to release the source will be great, but even if he never does it, you can use

Re: [Freedos-user] harddisk compatibility question

2008-07-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, 1) If FreeDOS can boot from some 'unusual' device such as USB harddisk or SATA hardisk then FreeDOS will access the disk with BIOS calls anyway. No extra drivers needed. Correct. The BIOS drivers for USB can be slow, in particular for writing, and they might conflict with other,