Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDos_install-with linux

2011-12-07 Thread Garry Ricketson
Hello all, Adding the FreeDos partition, to Linux,"grub for dos" turned out to be easier then I imagined,..When started looking for the files,and config menu,"""Find GRUB4DOS configuration file menu.ls. For example C:\menu.lst",..all I found was a grub.cfg,..so anyway I looked for more info

Re: [Freedos-user] re-porting Frotz to DOS

2011-12-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > Rugxulo, > > I could have looked up Z machine - was just pressed for time this > morning. I try not to sound willfully ignorant. ;-0 I only barely know about it myself. And BTW, Gog.com still sells "Zork Anthology" (link redacted to

Re: [Freedos-user] re-porting Frotz to DOS

2011-12-07 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Rugxulo, I could have looked up Z machine - was just pressed for time this morning. I try not to sound willfully ignorant. ;-0 (Which reminds me - I wanted to do a telnet server that used the Zork "virtual machine as a proof of concept. Now I know where to go start when I find the time. Zork

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDos_install-with linux

2011-12-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Georg, Garry, > I had exactly the same setup on one of my PCs. Grub has options to > hide the Windows and Linux partition and tries to make e.g. DOS > believe it boots from the first partiton. When trying that I found FreeDOS should not really care about that, but it will try to load first fd

Re: [Freedos-user] re-porting Frotz to DOS

2011-12-07 Thread David Griffith
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Michael B. Brutman wrote: I can't comment on Frotz specifically - I don't know what it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine " The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in

Re: [Freedos-user] re-porting Frotz to DOS

2011-12-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Michael B. Brutman wrote: >> > I can't comment on Frotz specifically - I don't know what it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine " The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its te

Re: [Freedos-user] re-porting Frotz to DOS

2011-12-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:27 AM, David Griffith wrote: > On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Rugxulo wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:30 AM, David Griffith >> wrote: >>> >>> Recently I've dusted off Frotz and am actively working on it now.  One of >>> the things I'd like to do is incorporate the changes

Re: [Freedos-user] changing caps-lock

2011-12-07 Thread BretJ
FWIW, I've been working with keyboards for a long time, and let me inform you of my experiences. There are several "special" keys on the keyboard, which can require unique handling. These include, but aren't necessarily limited to, the "modifier" keys (Shift/Ctl/Alt), the "lock" keys (CapsLock,

Re: [Freedos-user] re-porting Frotz to DOS

2011-12-07 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 12/7/2011 1:30 AM, David Griffith wrote: > Recently I've dusted off Frotz and am actively working on it now. One of > the things I'd like to do is incorporate the changes I've made to the core > back to DOS Frotz. In particular I want to allow DOS Frotz to open blorb > files and get sound and

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDos_install-with linux

2011-12-07 Thread escape
First of all you'd better NOT mess windows and linux on the same partition. Second, having each OS on it's own partition, you can use almost any bootmanager you coose. But your current setup is atypical and you must correct next snippets according to it. Find GRUB4DOS configuration file menu.ls. F

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Re: [Freedos-user] re-porting Frotz to DOS

2011-12-07 Thread David Griffith
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:30 AM, David Griffith wrote: Recently I've dusted off Frotz and am actively working on it now.  One of the things I'd like to do is incorporate the changes I've made to the core back to DOS Frotz.  In particular I want to allow

Re: [Freedos-user] re-porting Frotz to DOS

2011-12-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:30 AM, David Griffith wrote: > > Recently I've dusted off Frotz and am actively working on it now.  One of > the things I'd like to do is incorporate the changes I've made to the core > back to DOS Frotz.  In particular I want to allow DOS Frotz to open blorb > files