Re: [Freedos-user] OT: Howto debug DOS programs

2009-08-17 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi, maybe the music player MPXPLAY could be a good resource. Bye Flo 2009/8/18 the bcpino : > I've been using FreeDOS for a while and it works great. > > I'd like to write an Intel HDA driver for SCI games (Sierra quests). Ok, > they work great under Dosbox, but I stil

Re: [Freedos-user] Over 4-GB for FreeDOS, Etc.

2009-08-17 Thread Jack
Eric, My Thanks for your "support" of what you all call "pipelining" (I call it simultaneous I-O) in our discussions with Bernd, in your earlier post today. >> No one is suggesting an API only for MEM! Also, my ideas about new >> XMS commands are only for 64-GB memory, NOT for current XMS comm

[Freedos-user] OT: Howto debug DOS programs

2009-08-17 Thread the bcpino
I've been using FreeDOS for a while and it works great. I'd like to write an Intel HDA driver for SCI games (Sierra quests). Ok, they work great under Dosbox, but I still prefer using plain DOS. I consider myself a good programmer, but I've never made any low-level programming or debug DOS progra

[Freedos-user] R ibm thinkpad 560 and freedos?

2009-08-17 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi all, Sent this Saturday when I joined, but it failed to reach the list. trying again. > Greetings all, > Before shouting yes, let me share my goals. I do have this laptop, and I > desire outfitting it with freedos only, presently it has no operating system > at all. I want to use a wire

Re: [Freedos-user] Over 4-GB for FreeDOS, Etc.

2009-08-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jack, > No one is suggesting an API only for MEM! Also, my ideas about new > XMS commands are only for 64-GB memory, NOT for current XMS commands Ah okay... So there would be a separate API, and separate memory areas for XMS 2/3 and the new API then? >> It is only necessary if you have too

Re: [Freedos-user] Over 4-GB for FreeDOS, Etc.

2009-08-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, Jack is right, "pipeline" based DVD burning saves a lot of space for temp files. Of course you are also right - you cannot easily put temp files on harddisk if the harddisk only has NTFS etc and it would be asking a bit much to add another harddisk. Well, of course DOS USB (storage) dri

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting sound to work in FreeDOS on Modern systems.

2009-08-17 Thread D Z
It's been a while since I got back to this. I just got a spare sound card from my friend. It's a Diamond Monster Sound MX400, which uses a ESSCanyon3D chipset. I'll let everyone know how this turns out once I have the time to test it in FreeDOS. On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:07 PM, D Z wrote: >