Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-12 Thread Tom Ehlert
11. April 2012 um 21:23, dmccunney wrote > Current machines won't *boot* DOS, but will *run* it in a > compatibility box, emulator or virtual machine. I wonder what you are talking about. current machines *do* boot DOS, and mosty likely will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. > If

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-12 Thread Jim Lemon
On 04/12/2012 06:54 AM, dmccunney wrote: > ... > the question becomes "Why do you *need* to do this?" > > The answer is that generally, you *don't*. Current hardware is > increasingly faster and more powerful. In the old days you talked > directly to the hardware to squeeze the maximum performanc

Re: [Freedos-user] Programming languages in FreeDOS

2012-04-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > On 4/11/2012 9:17 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > I don't understand the "changing OSes and compilers due to arbitrary > limitations comment".  Are you saying that people are being forced to > move away from OW because there is no 64 bit su

Re: [Freedos-user] Porting DOS to new processors

2012-04-12 Thread Jeffrey
Hello, > For example www.raspberrypi.org is working on a very interesting low > priced ARM computer. > As our FreeDOS kernel is based mainly on C code, at least in the > theory, is possible adapt it to compile it on a diferent very > processor-architechture. I thought the kernel was written in a

Re: [Freedos-user] Porting DOS to new processors

2012-04-12 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Marco Achury wrote: > At this point the options are to use emulators or to port DOS to new > processors (new x86 based or totally different processor family as ARM) > > For example www.raspberrypi.org is working on a very interesting low priced > ARM computer. > A

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-12 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > 11. April 2012 um 21:23, dmccunney wrote > >> Current machines won't *boot* DOS, but will *run* it in a >> compatibility box,  emulator or virtual machine. > > I wonder what you are talking about. > > current machines *do* boot DOS, and mosty

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-12 Thread escape
On 11.04.12 22:23, dmccunney wrote: > Current machines won't *boot* DOS, but will *run* it in a > compatibility box, emulator or virtual machine. I'm think you're making a bit misleading statement. While there *are* current machines that won't boot DOS, 99% of the *current* machines can boot it.

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-12 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:23 PM, escape wrote: > On 11.04.12 22:23, dmccunney wrote: >> Current machines won't *boot* DOS, but will *run* it in a >> compatibility box,  emulator or virtual machine. > > I'm think you're making a bit misleading statement. While there *are* > current machines that w

[Freedos-user] Sound Card Drivers and others...

2012-04-12 Thread Kenny Emond
Hey, I was wondering how you get the drivers for the other cards in a comp that used to run something else, but now runs FreeDOS. For example: how do you find the sound card manufacturer to get a driver? Or for any other drivers? Is there an easy program like NICSCAN ( http://www.georgpotthast.

[Freedos-user] Sound card drivers...

2012-04-12 Thread Michael Robinson
I have a dos driver for the Sound Blaster 16 PCI card, but not a Windows 3.1 driver. The patch for the SVGA256 driver to make it VESA compliant worked beautifully, thanks for the tip. I've been trying to play LodeRunner where it crashes on the bomb scene. Why does Jemmex give an error when I exi