Hi, On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 8:43 PM Michael Christopher Robinson <mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > > I found a site by George Potthast and unfortunately though I got his > USB2 driver to work for a while, it stopped working. Another concern, > he wants an atrocious amount of money for a copy that doesn't stop > working.
I'm not really familiar with this particular piece of software of his, but .... I assume you mean the demo / trial version "stopped working" as expected rather than just randomly or accidentally failing due to bugs or incompatibilities. * http://georgpotthast.de/computer/cindex.htm > I'd much rather donate $600 to the freedos maintainers to advance the support > of USB beyond 1.1. Unlikely that much would be enough to encourage anyone. I hate to say it, but that's chump change for experienced developers (who are relatively rare, to be honest). And certainly USB support is a huge undertaking. You know, the kind of person who could do *real* damage would cost tens of thousands. (I assume most people here know what I'm trying to say. Most of us are just lowly hobbyists. I'm not denying anyone's skill [except my own!], but certainly some skills are more expensive than others.) BTW, a quick glance seems to imply that $600 is a "site license", not a single-user license. Are you sure you need that for your whole group? Because a single-user seems much lower priced. (But I didn't look too closely, so maybe I misunderstood.) > I would like to use grub4dos or plop, but they don't work on the > Agilent because of the nonstandard bios and nonstandard video card. Try contacting the PLoP dude directly (Elmar Hanlhofer), especially if you're willing to hire him part-time. Certainly he's smart enough to whip something up for you that might help. * https://www.plop.at/en/contact.html > Another concern about freedos, how do I get long filename support > as Windows 2000 is installed to a FAT32 partition? LFNs don't absolutely need FAT32, nor does FAT32 always imply LFNs. But the suggested tool is probably (Jason Hood's modified) DOSLFN: * http://adoxa.altervista.org/doslfn/ * https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/doslfn/0.41/ (Jerome, Mateusz ... are we shipping an older version in the package? EDIT: Apparently yes, ugh!) * https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/doslfn.html _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
