Hi,
Dan sent this email to me, looking for help to get his DANCAN3D program to run on FreeDOS. If anyone can be of any help, please email Dan directly at: Dan Hudgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-jh
Dan Hudgins wrote:
I was wondering about what your view is of the issue
that comes up when my programs run under MS-DOS 6.22
and Windows 95 but not under FreeDOS, i.e. under
FreeDOS the program's behavior is not normal it
crashes or does other abnormal things.
Do you have a tracer you can use to see what FreeDOS is doing differently than MS-DOS 6.22?
Are you interested in making FreeDOS run (all?/my?) programs that work under MS-DOS 6.22?
Are you interested in beta test using my programs to look for faults in FreeDOS?
Another area where my programs may be useful is in performance bench marking FreeDOS against other operating systems, such as MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 95 DOS window. In particular, the harddisk performance of FreeDOS seems to be a particular issue when generating renderings with my CAD programs using the Z-Buffer since the Z-Buffer is kept on disk in the current v3.7K revision so that is can be up to 2.1GB in size regardless of the RAM in the computer. If you beta test run the macros DEMO1.MAC or ZBUFFER1.MAC in my CAD programs and time the time to finish you can use that time as a bench mark for different revisions of FreeDOS and to compare the performance of FreeDOS to other OS so as to see how much improvement is needed to get performance up to or better than what users experience under other OS. There are several macro programs in the distribution zip file, and extra macros in the downloads section at my web site. If you have problems getting any of them to run under MS-DOS 6.22 be sure to let me know since changes to the programs sometimes show up when older macros are run under newer versions. Once you see the macro beta test running under MS-DOS 6.22, you might compare the results under FreeDOS.
Please let me know if there is something that I might help with getting FreeDOS to work better with my programs, and thereby probably with some other programs as well. Or if you need some help or suggestions on the use of my programs, e.g. writing a macro program for bench marking and such.
I think there might be a place for FreeDOS in machine control using junk computers. My CAM programs have a built in serial port computer "network" that allows transferring files from the computers used with the CAD programs for making/drawing the tool path files to the shop computers running the CAM programs to operate the machine tools. FreeDOS might also be useful for running the CAM programs on a computer to make it into a file server. But for all of this to become practical FreeDOS must not make my programs crash and do other odd things, and hopefully the file access speed would need to be improved somehow.
Please let me know your views on the best way to resolve such issues.
Thank you for your help in these matters.
Dan
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