[Freedos-user] Files to make cd bootable.

2009-05-03 Thread kurt godel
This might seem a bit off topic, but it's of general interest: In XP, you can make an ISO image of a folder; if you then burn that ISO image to the cd, using a true ISO burner, it is not bootable, it is lacking the files that would make it so. There are schemes to combine a floppy .img file with d

[Freedos-user] FATS don't match...

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Robinson
Has anyone else run chkdsk on their Freedos C drive and gotten this error? I have a 500 meg partition which is probably FAT16. I have used Windows 98 to defrag another partition that I allow freedos to access. Is the implementation of FAT in 98 and Freedos compatible? Using chkdsk, I tried a fl

Re: [Freedos-user] Improve sound card support...

2009-05-03 Thread 4625
On Sun, 3 May 2009, Michael Robinson wrote: Buy old PC for $10, he will make you happy. :) > I have Warcraft I where I'd like to be able to play the sound. > The game itself does not support my sound card. Surely, dos > games aren't limited to the sound cards they were written for. > Couldn't so

Re: [Freedos-user] Improve sound card support...

2009-05-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, > I have Warcraft I where I'd like to be able to play the sound. > The game itself does not support my sound card. Surely, dos > games aren't limited to the sound cards they were written for. Does anybody have experience with the driver interface used by that game? Maybe it does sup

Re: [Freedos-user] Improve sound card support...

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Robinson
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 22:29 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > > > It seems that the sound blaster ISA and sound blaster 16 PCI > > cards are the only ones that will work with freedos. Well, > > This is not freedos specific. It depends on your games or > other software that you use for sound out

Re: [Freedos-user] Improve sound card support...

2009-05-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > It seems that the sound blaster ISA and sound blaster 16 PCI > cards are the only ones that will work with freedos. Well, This is not freedos specific. It depends on your games or other software that you use for sound output, exclusively. > I have a soundmaker cadenza on my D845PEBT2 I

[Freedos-user] Improve sound card support...

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Robinson
It seems that the sound blaster ISA and sound blaster 16 PCI cards are the only ones that will work with freedos. Well, I have a soundmaker cadenza on my D845PEBT2 Intel mobo with a P4. It would be nice if there was a dos driver for this sound card, but as far as I know there is only a Window

[Freedos-user] New XMGR (2009-05-01)

2009-05-03 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi Everyone, 1-May-09 -- Fixed XMGR "Port 92h" logic error. Added XMGR /PA and /PN switches to control use of "Port 92h" logic. Rgds, Johnson. -- Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conf