Hi, On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Knute Myhrvold <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm sorry, Eric... I probably haven't been much help because I'm just too > DOS and PC ignorant to help much with specifics. Generally, I'll make 2 > suggestions: Please make installation easier if at all possible,
A bare bones install of DOS is extremely easy, but it's adding all the extra cruft (and trying not to be too specific to certain setups) that makes it harder. Also, a large dilemma is third-party programs (even with FDNPKG), which all have their own rules and requirements and dependencies. So obviously "installing" something else (Fractint?) depends entirely on where it must go and whether you expect other tools to know about it. Not to toot my own horn too much, but my own MetaDOS .img was meant to be ultra lean (maybe too lean) so that anybody could (in theory) add everything else in later. Obviously it's not super useful by itself, but I hardly see how it could get any simpler. > and second PLEASE fix the Mouse Bug... The few folks at FreeDOS don't maintain VirtualBox and (AFAIK) aren't in close cooperation with them. There are no explicit guest extensions or plugins to make it work better here. > The FreeDOS window says I can click on various > things, but I can't. If I touch the DOS screen it triggers screen Capture > (and the Right Control button does nothing.) I will want to click on the > window in Fractint so I hope the Mouse Bug can be cured. I don't think that's a bug, but presumably just the way the VM works. Granted, I don't use VBox enough to know everything, and usually I avoid the mouse entirely, but a quick check with (textmode) FD Edit and Ctmouse shows everything to work as expected. Check your settings, or at least be more specific about what's happening and what you expect. > Most importantly I must tell you that I'm grateful for the yeoman work > you've done to create this program that many of us need, and please keep up > the fine work!! I agree that FreeDOS has done a marvelous job (and Eric especially). But it isn't very active in development anymore. It's mostly stable, "good enough" for most people. So I wouldn't get my hopes up too high for any major changes (nor bugfixes). > Now I'm off to try to install my DOS Fractint. Presumably from here: http://www.fractint.org/ftp/current/dos/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
