Hi! > Known problem, the 1.0 distro is obsolete and buggy ...
Feel free to make a list of bugs that should be fixed in 1.1 :-) In the meantime, try http://rugxulog.googlepages.com/ - for example most CD/DVD burning tools should let you use the 2.88MB diskette image to make a bootable CD/DVD... > Make sure to update the kernel, HIMEM to HIMEMX, EMM386 to > nothing or JEMM, CTMOUSE, ... http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/fdupdate/ and http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/fdupdate/wip/ has a big pile of other things you can update, and a tool for it :-) Notable things: 4dos shell clam antivirus ctmouse devload (needs further update) chkdsk / defrag / fdisk (needs further update) edit fdapm gcdrom jemm386 himem kernel perl undelete (further update needed?) I sort of miss UIDE there and some highlighting which tells which of the updates are newer than FreeDOS 1.0, Mateusz? :-) (PS: Can you also recommend Realtek RTL8139 on your DOS page?) >> Forget to check if there was a wave file player that came installed >> with FreeDOS. What do others use to play those files? > MPXPLAY. Georg Potthast is also doing experiments with a player for new hardware. >> Also, could not play MOD files. My favorite program sound2 (based on >> SoundTracker), just hangs. Any recommendations on a good mod file player? Inertia Player might be an idea, it can play in the background and I believe you can even tell it to use the internal speaker? WOW by Jan Ole Suhr can use the internal speaker, too :-) >> I couldn't help thinking Timidity++ would be great for playing >> midi and mod files. It works even without a sound card Timidity renders Midi plus instrument definitions into wave data, but you still need a soundcard to play the wave in the end. You only do not need something that understands midi in hardware on your soundcard if you have timidity. No wavetable or fm, adlib, opl3 chip needed, in other words. I also think that timidity needs too much infrastructure to run in DOS as a driver, but it could be easier to make it work as command line converter from midi file to wav file or similar... >> I have a ton of old BASIC programs. Any recommendations on a good BASIC >> interpreter? > > No, get FreeBASIC compiler. There are some interpreters but... FreeBASIC usually works very well and it has a QBASIC compat mode :-) >> Is there a good way to slow down old DOS games like pinball? > * "SLOWDOWN" (at your risk, I don't use it) You can also try the FDAPM SPEEDn options for ACPI throttle. If your PC gets stuck, you can always use the keep power button pressed trick to get a forced power cycle :-). > * BOCHS emulator (host OS = emulated OS = DOS) Or any other emulator, of course :-) >> My favorite DOS programming editor >> (ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/editor/edwin15c.zip) >> fails and won't run. Has anyone been able to get edwin working on FreeDOS? Please describe the failure in more detail. Tried with minimal drivers, HIMEM or HIMEMX and nothing else? >> Is there a PNG viewer for FreeDOS? I guess you could use DISPLAY from our ImageMagick port, but did not try that myself. Please report :-) > YES: > www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.GraphPaintCAD >> I tried an old copy of Pictview and it seems to work well on most >> graphics types but lacked PNG support. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
