Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-19 Thread bwspos
Fabrício Ceolin wrote: > Hi, > > I want free some freedos memory after using a packet driver and others > sys (under fdconfig.sys) and exe (like doskey). > There are any way to unload programs without reboot? > > I use TERMIN.COM on 24/7 POS systems with no recourse to rebooting. Not sure where

Re: [Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-19 Thread Blair Campbell
> Thanks for the pointers.  The 4th step is to get it working with > ncurses and djgpp.  Where do I get the 32 bit dos compatible DJGPP > compiler from???  A gem interface is clearly a stage 2 problem. GCC is available for DJGPP. I recommend getting DJGPP with GCC/G++ and various other packages a

Re: [Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
> O.K. It looks like it depends at least on pthreads, curses, termios, > and linux-specific tty devices. > Often (as is the case with curses), linux C libraries are available > under FreeDOS with DJGPP; they are the same libraries, just > re-compiled (DJGPP has a fairly POSIX-compatible c-library,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 02:12 -0400, Michael Horvath wrote: > I am able to boot after selecting option #3 ("Load FreeDOS with HIMEM > XMS-memory driver"), but installing the game still fails. Option #4 > ("Load FreeDOS without drivers") is unselectable. > > -Mike That's a bug, the 4th option not

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Horvath
I am able to boot after selecting option #3 ("Load FreeDOS with HIMEM XMS-memory driver"), but installing the game still fails. Option #4 ("Load FreeDOS without drivers") is unselectable. -Mike Michael Reichenbach wrote: > Booting without emm386 will work, to make emm386 to work you need the >

Re: [Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-19 Thread Blair Campbell
> Now then, the Linux version depends on specific Linux only C > libraries.  I need to know what the equivalent libraries are > under Freedos and as necessary I will need to recode if the > dos equivalent library is different. O.K. It looks like it depends at least on pthreads, curses, termios, a

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:25 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > > > Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing > > fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find > > out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something > > that detects resource

[Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
I have the C source code for the 1.7 release that is meant for Linux. I want to port this code to freedos and build a gem compatible interface for it. Drivewire, for those who don't know, is a piece of software that allows a color computer 1/2/3 to access via serial port a modern computer and t

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, > Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, > and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I On modern PC, your BIOS already does USB disk support for you and DOS. For the others, you can try the USB drivers made by Georg Potthast

[Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-19 Thread John Ames
Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I want to install it on (a 3Com 3C595-TX) does not appear to be recognized by either the default packet driver or the manufacturer's DOS driver, unles

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Booting without emm386 will work, to make emm386 to work you need the correct excludes X= or I= but don't ask me further. After you got it running tell us how well Virtual PC works for your DOS apps / DOS games, how good is the soundblaster / vga / vesa implementation? Perhaps I've tested it in pa

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problems

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Usul, > Hello I am having problems installing the current version. > I get everything completed and it seems to be ok, > fdisked and set 2g to the os as primary partition, active You can easily use more with FAT32 and LBA... > and after booting from the CD Rom I can go to the c: > and see al

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Horvath
Hi! I am having trouble with FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007. I am able to install it OK, and two of the three (four?) boot options work. Option #2 (the default, and the one that doesn't work) results in the following error: "Illegal instruction occured. CS= IP=EEC3 SS=D0B4 SP=0004 ES=0070 ..

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, > I want free some freedos memory after using a packet driver > and others sys (under fdconfig.sys) and exe (like doskey). I recommend to have 2 different config sys menu items: With and without internet :-). Doskey should not be necessary, FreeCOM and 4DOS have built-in history... > There

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-19 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi, > I want free some freedos memory after using a packet driver and others > sys > (under fdconfig.sys) and exe (like doskey). > There are any way to unload programs without reboot? The best method is to use programs that provide unloading as option so that they can properly unload themself

[Freedos-user] Installation Problems

2009-03-19 Thread usul
Hello I am having problems installing the current version. I get everything completed and it seems to be ok, fdisked and set 2g to the os as primary partition, active and after booting from the CD Rom I can go to the c: and see all the files including the system ones. but when I try and boot from

[Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-19 Thread Fabrício Ceolin
Hi, I want free some freedos memory after using a packet driver and others sys (under fdconfig.sys) and exe (like doskey). There are any way to unload programs without reboot? Thanks! -- Fabrício Ceolin ulevel.com Diretor Executivo

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing > fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find > out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something > that detects resource conflicts, flaky memory, etcetera. First try to boot without l

[Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something that detects resource conflicts, flaky memory, etcetera.