Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

2011-07-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Virii wrote: > > It complained about a few missing packages like doslfn, wattcp, wget, ..., > but it installed. Can I just copy over the 'doslfn' from an older version's > disc, or is that feature compiled into kernel now? No LFNs in kernel (and still patent

Re: [Freedos-user] [Spam] Re: DOS and Right-to-left support

2011-07-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Henrique Peron wrote: > > I just tried it! Thanks for the info! :) > > However... It works with keyboard layout and codepage - both hardcoded. (quoting from the webpage): "UPDATE: July/17/2011 (QE Version 1.2.0)" "My current wishes: The next version

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

2011-07-19 Thread Virii
> What exactly goes wrong when you do what? > At which step? Which error messages do you > get, or do things hang? Crash? What sorts > of everything did you try, what happened? It hangs at the language selection screen. The very bottom selection of the main menu looks for a non-existent FDBOOTC

Re: [Freedos-user] [Spam] Re: DOS and Right-to-left support

2011-07-19 Thread Henrique Peron
Hi Ruĝulo, I just tried it! Thanks for the info! :) However... It works with keyboard layout and codepage - both hardcoded. There are (at least) 5 arabic layouts, of which I prepared two (arabic/french and arabic/US) for FreeDOS, according (as much as possible) to industry's specifications. QE

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS driver issues

2011-07-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Virii wrote: >> >>> I don't think it would know the difference!! >> >> Does that mean I can use multiple cards somehow? Is there a way I can select >> which card to use in apps like Mpxplay? > > Dunno, but I

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

2011-07-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > > Slightly offtopic: is there any foolproof way to automatically switch to > the location a batchfile is in? a kind of "CDD %0" except that %0 is > whatever you call it, instead of a full pathname. Same for TRUENAME %0 You might ne

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS driver issues

2011-07-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Virii wrote: > >> I don't think it would know the difference!! > Does that mean I can use multiple cards somehow? Is there a way I can select > which card to use in apps like Mpxplay? Dunno, but I doubt it. Ask the author (Atilla) on his SourceForge forum: h

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS and Right-to-left support

2011-07-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi guys, I recently discovered another (new!) DOS text editor called "QE", which has (among other features) optional Arabic support. It's written specifically for DOS in ("old") Euphoria 3.1, and it's available at the URL below (with screenshots). Please take a look (as I don't know Arabic!), bu

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

2011-07-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 20-7-2011 1:12, Eric Auer schreef: > What exactly goes wrong when you do what? > At which step? Which error messages do you > get, or do things hang? Crash? What sorts > of everything did you try, what happened? Lot's of stuff isn't functioning in the 2nd release, debugging that at the moment.

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

2011-07-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Has anyone had any luck installing this latest test release? > http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=5109&id=302138 > > I've tried everything from burning it to a disc, to mounting the boot > floppy/iso through Grub4Dos, and even rebuilding the iso. > > I read the readme.txt for the rele

[Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

2011-07-19 Thread Virii
Hi. Has anyone had any luck installing this latest test release? http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=5109&id=302138 I've tried everything from burning it to a disc, to mounting the boot floppy/iso through Grub4Dos, and even rebuilding the iso. I read the readme.txt for the release, but follo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS driver issues

2011-07-19 Thread Virii
>> Well in Linux, I'm already using 2 sound outputs. The card, and the onboard >> audio AC97. In Linux I just switch to the AC97 when I want to use the >> headphones. What about DOS though? Can it handle having two >> sound cards, plus onboard audio? > I don't think it would know the difference!!

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 19-7-2011 5:40, Juan Castro schreef: > 1) Adding /N1 to the UIDE commandline (at the end) to disable the > handling and caching of harddisks, might speed things up a bit. > > That had no effect. Unfortunate. Ah well, was worth a shot. > Worked! Takes under one second to load. I got it

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 19-7-2011 6:05, Rugxulo schreef: > Have you tried UIDEJR instead? That won't help. Jack, author of UIDE, reminded me that UIDE is written for hardware with perfect (thus no bugs) PCI capabilities. Some real systems might have expose hardware/firmware bugs with respect to UIDE querying it. Em