Re: [Freedos-user] Good soundcard?

2008-05-17 Thread Florian Xaver
> You have an old mainboard with isa and it`s working good for you? No, I have a SB Live! 5.1 PCI soundcard...I had tried the driver for SB16 emulation, but it wasn't compatible with some drivers so I never used it. With old mainboards I mean more or less 2, 3 years. > Very! If there come up som

Re: [Freedos-user] Realtek ethernet drivers. Please help !

2008-05-17 Thread Florian Xaver
Sometimes some drivers are only available via email... Bye Flo -- Passts auf, seits vuasichtig & losst eich nix gfoin! (Kurt Ostbahn) http://www.drdos.org - http://www.flox.at.tf - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microso

Re: [Freedos-user] Good soundcard?

2008-05-17 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Alain M. schrieb: > What is audio quality as good as something from this year? 7.1 + hda maybe? No idea. > Can you really tell the difference betwen anything better than a sound > blaster? Not sure about this. But the wiki says something about sampling CD with 44 khz to 48 and to 44 back and t

Re: [Freedos-user] Realtek ethernet drivers. Please help !

2008-05-17 Thread Alexandru Fira
I thonk I managed to download one, though, but I am not sure. Alex - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. htt

[Freedos-user] Realtek ethernet drivers. Please help !

2008-05-17 Thread Alexandru Fira
Where can I download from some drivers for DOS for Realtek ethernet cards ? I looked them up on the Internet but the download mirrors have been emptied. Alex --

Re: [Freedos-user] Good soundcard?

2008-05-17 Thread Alain M.
What is audio quality as good as something from this year? Can you really tell the difference betwen anything better than a sound blaster? At least you will need very expensive speakers, in that case you can afford two sound cards :) Michael Reichenbach escreveu: > Florian Xaver schrieb: >> I

Re: [Freedos-user] Good soundcard?

2008-05-17 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Florian Xaver schrieb: > > I am using SBLive here, if you only want to use Mpxplay or QV it works > very good. If you want to use the driver for emulating SB16, I think > that I heard, that an old mainboard has to be used. > One more question. Does SBLive work in Windows XP or Vista or Linux? O

Re: [Freedos-user] Good soundcard?

2008-05-17 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Florian Xaver schrieb: > Yes, I think it is a good idea to ask here and then to buy an old card > (via ebay or others...). Yeah. :) Because informations about this topic are not obvious. > I am using SBLive here, if you only want to use Mpxplay or QV it works > very good. If you want to use the

Re: [Freedos-user] Good soundcard?

2008-05-17 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi, Yes, I think it is a good idea to ask here and then to buy an old card (via ebay or others...). I am using SBLive here, if you only want to use Mpxplay or QV it works very good. If you want to use the driver for emulating SB16, I think that I heard, that an old mainboard has to be used. I t

[Freedos-user] Good soundcard?

2008-05-17 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! For my pci-only computer Eric advised me to get either SBLive or SBPCI. It`s a good time for me to purchase a new soundcard anyway. Anything I should pay attention? The problem is there is no real feature matrix, a full comparison of all soundcards made by creative. I found the article So

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on modern hardware

2008-05-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > It`s a P3 motherboard. My system is not the most hottest (4 GHZ, quad > core, 64 bit...) but still relatively new and incompatible. Quad core is pretty new I would say. > This Fortemedia FM801 chipset is only good if > BIOS offers sb16 emulation? No. It has hardware SB16 emulation and se

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on modern hardware

2008-05-17 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Florian Xaver schrieb: >> Afaik the EFI comes with a full legacy BIOS emulation already. Sure we >> can argue first if EFI is good or bad if we use it our self. In theory >> it sounds like many cool things could be implemented (bootmanager in >> BIOS, sb16/gus emulation, mouse/keyboard ps2 emulatio

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on modern hardware

2008-05-17 Thread Florian Xaver
> Afaik the EFI comes with a full legacy BIOS emulation already. Sure we > can argue first if EFI is good or bad if we use it our self. In theory > it sounds like many cool things could be implemented (bootmanager in > BIOS, sb16/gus emulation, mouse/keyboard ps2 emulation...) - if someone > willin

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on modern hardware

2008-05-17 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: > Hi Michael :-) > >> - classic DOS games > > Yes - but even with a good PCI soundcard such as one with > Fortemedia FM801 chipset (similar to cmedia, low price but > nice compatibility) SB16 compatibility is broken if your > mainboard is too new... It`s a P3 motherboard. My s

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on modern hardware

2008-05-17 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Florian Xaver schrieb: > Hola, > >> What are the reason why someone would use DOS? >> - just some of my first thoughts, perhaps what I planed to do >> - classic DOS games >> - legacy applications >> - nostalgia >> - interesting for programmers >> - easy hardware access >> - very lightweight, start

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS from secondary HDD

2008-05-17 Thread Michael Reichenbach
MegaBrutal schrieb: > 2008/5/15 Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> You need a boot loader to do this. I run Linux on my PC, so my boot >> loader is GNU GRUB. You can try that. > > How can I configure GRUB to load freedos.bss ? I've tried to load it > as a kernel, but it doesn't work. Or should I try

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS from secondary HDD

2008-05-17 Thread MegaBrutal
2008/5/15 Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You need a boot loader to do this. I run Linux on my PC, so my boot > loader is GNU GRUB. You can try that. How can I configure GRUB to load freedos.bss ? I've tried to load it as a kernel, but it doesn't work. Or should I try to load kernel.sys ? ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Allow Windows drivers to work with DOS, and other DOS services

2008-05-17 Thread Florian Xaver
2008/5/17 Clinton Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I understand that "drivers" are operating system-specific; but I was > wondering if somebody could develop an operating system that could act as an > "adaptor" to allow Windows drivers to emulate computer services for DOS, > such as, for example runnin

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on modern hardware

2008-05-17 Thread Florian Xaver
Hola, > What are the reason why someone would use DOS? > - just some of my first thoughts, perhaps what I planed to do > - classic DOS games > - legacy applications > - nostalgia > - interesting for programmers > - easy hardware access > - very lightweight, starts very fast > - special purpose (ba