Hi, I'm afraid most of us here can't help with the Japanese stuff since we don't understand the language. But ....
On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 6:31 PM, Leroy Vargas <lvargas7...@gmail.com> wrote: > I set up a VirtualBox virtual machine and installed the latest version of > FreeDOS there, complete with mouse and CD support. > > Then I installed on top of it the version of FreeDOS/V found in > http://dos.minashiro.net/freedosvd.html This is probably an end-user modification, hence unsupported by most developers here. So it's "caveat emptor", let the buyer beware. I'm also not sure if VBox is an ideal place to try to run such obscure things either. The resident language expert is Henrique Peron, so you could try emailing him directly, but I haven't heard from him lately. There were maybe one or two others vaguely interested in DOS/V (sparky? TJ?), but I don't recall how much experience they had. > Now it appears that such FreeDOS/V uses CONFIG.SYS rather than FDCONFIG.SYS, > because when I restarted the VM, it read from FDCONFIG rather than CONFIG, > so it didn't load Japanese support. I modified FDCONFIG.SYS (and restored > the original AUTOEXEC.BAT from FreeDOS because the FreeDOS/V installer > replaced it with a version that didn't load mouse or CD support, then > modified it to load JIS_A01 as required by FreeDOS/V). To facilitate multi-boot between DOS versions, sometimes OEMs try to support loading a different config filename (e.g. DCONFIG.SYS for DR-DOS 7.03) first while the "other" DOS (usually MS) loads the vanilla CONFIG.SYS. Also, they usually all have different menu syntax. > Now I have some issues: > > 1. My FreeDOS/V interprets my 101-key keyboard as if it were a 106-key > keyboard, so I am unable to type: _ \ | ~ You can try to file a bug about this for VBox, but don't get your hopes up. I have no idea if they're sympathetic. (Probably, but then again, I think a vanilla PC emulator isn't trying to also support DOS/V fully. And I don't think DOS is their top priority anyways.) > 2. Also, when I press ALT + ` to change input from half-width romaji to > hiragana, I then become able to type hiragana but cannot convert it to > katakana or kanji when pressing SPACE (instead, JEMM386 crashes). JEMM386 is always problematic. Just comment it out of your config file entirely, don't run it at all (unless direly needed). If you really need UMBs, try (third-party) UMBPCI. If you really need EMS, try "JEMM386 LOAD" (and "UNLOAD") when needed. Or try (third-party only) EMS Magic. > 3. Finally, when I try to run EDIT.EXE, the display becomes blind (maybe it > crashed?) and thus cannot run EDIT (thus forcing me to run instead EDLIN). There are many editors, but I don't know which would be ideal for Japanese. Mined, perhaps? Or (DJGPP) GNU Emacs? Blocek? http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/group-edit.html > So these are the things I want to be done: > > 1. What do I need to do to make FreeDOS/V interpret my keyboard as a 101-key > keyboard (rather than the cumbersome 106-key keyboard used by real Japanese > computers)? I don't know. If FD KEYB doesn't work, you could try some others, but I'm not aware of how well that would work. https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
