Hi! > control screen resolution. FREEDOS runs as a tiny screen in > the center - very annoying. I haven't found any dos sound driver
Your screen may have a hotkey to zoom to full screen. It probably defaults to show 1 pixel as 1 pixel, with the default DOS resolution much lower than what your screen can do, so DOS shows only on a small area. You can use the DOS "mode" command and similar tools to switch to higher resolution text modes (eg 132x50) or to a VESA graphics mode (eg 1280x1024 pixels). It can have some side-effects to use a graphics mode in DOS, but in general, your BIOS should have no problems to "draw" text on a graphical canvas for DOS. Sometimes this is slower than hardware text modes and some DOS programs ignore the BIOS and only work in text modes. For the sound, most games have built-in drivers, which usually work only with old ISA soundblaster compatible cards. A few modern tools (such as media players) do already support AC97 and HDA compatible modern sound hardware. For your old games, the "easiest" way today is to run DOS in a window in Windows or Linux, with a tool such as DOSEMU or DOSBOX. Those create a virtual (simulated) soundblaster to make your old games happy. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
