Hi! >> Notable things: edit > > buggy (some PC's)
Who what where? >> perl > > NOMYSO ??? There is Perl for DOS. I think even version 5.6 or newer... > QEMU or BOCHS only (BOCHS is slower and better) The Bochs emulator also has a nicer debugger built-in :-) >>>> Is there a PNG viewer for FreeDOS? >> I guess you could use DISPLAY from our ImageMagick port > "DISPLAY" works for 95% of PNG's ... NOT from "ImageMagick port" But there is a tool which has the name DISPLAY and which is part of the ImageMagick suite. If there is no DOS version of it, it would be nice to add. >> I also tried mplayer. > For video, not sound. Mplayer can also play pure audio files. >> Seemed to work without crashing, although the display jittered and >> there was a lot of text in the background. > RTFM: "--really-quiet" Interesting problem! Of course mplayer in X / Linux uses separate windows for text and graphics, but in DOS it is important to know that the text will most likely end up in the same screen area as the video. Maybe there is a more general solution to this? Let the text scroll at the bottom of the screen or sth? >> Is there a version of vlc or xine that works on DOS? > VLC is very buggy ... and the GUI is horrible. Dunno, it does DVD menu better than mplayer and somehow since I updated my Linux mplayer has problems to play some movies at correct speed while VLC still works. But in general, I also like mplayer better :-)). >> Don't need Qbasic, just basic. > ??? I am not aware of GWBasic clones for DOS beyond BWBasic which we once tried to improve by adding graphics/sound. But as said, FreeBASIC is very nice :-). >> Is there a web site or a how to with instructions JEMM386 and JEMMEX come with nice text files about how to use them, just read the manual :-). > Update DOSUHCI to DOSUSB. > >> It crashed or hung a lot. > > Confirm. > >> did finally manage to get a directory of my e: drive (USB flash >> drive). The first time I try dir e: on a drive it takes an >> incredibly long time to run, like 5 minutes DOSUSB does not use USB 2 speed. It also is slower than some BIOSes even in USB 1 mode but has similar speed compared to other BIOSes... :-). >> Was wondering if I should stay with the smaller drives >> so it might display the directory faster? > YES. < 1 GiB FAT16 You can also partition your USB stick to make the first partition FAT16 and smaller than 1 GB, but I do not think that FAT32 will be extremely bad for performance. However, DOSUSB driven partitions are not cached because they are DOS block devices without int 13 background... Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
