Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Thursday 08 April 2010 04:11 (CEST), Alain Mouette wrote: > It probably accepts VESA, but I don't remember if w3.1 accepts that... Yes, VirtualBox graphic card indeed is VESA compliant. The whole problem is about Windows 3.11 not supporting VESA :) If there was somewhere a Win 3.11 graphic dri

Re: [Freedos-user] Multitiasking under DOS ?

2010-04-07 Thread Geraldo Netto
Hi All/Auer-San! Oh, i got it! ehehehe, Sheldon Cooper would say "what a newbie..." and then "bazinga!" ehehehe :) jokes a part, besides win3x support for multitask, is there any other way to multitask (Free)DOS without breaking legacy software or using obscure techniques? just philosophising/out

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 07-04-2010 13:17, Mateusz Viste escreveu: > > Not that easy :) > VirtualBox is emulating a "VirtualBox graphic card", not a card from the real > world... It probably accepts VESA, but I don't remember if w3.1 accepts that... Alain

Re: [Freedos-user] Multitiasking under DOS ?

2010-04-07 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Euphoria interpreter support multiple threads in the same program. On MS-DOS 5.0 had a task switch utility DOSSHELL. Was not very popular but offered a simple multitasking. Something like win31 on standar mode with all the programs on full screen mode. 2010/4/7, Eric Auer : > > Hi Geraldo, > >

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: cd burning?]

2010-04-07 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Eric, > > >> it can take say two or three screen readers to equal the >> functionality of one Dos based one. > > Interesting, what makes the DOS ones so user friendly? A combination of things, ranging from the commercial companies working together, to individuals involved with dos programming

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: cd burning?]

2010-04-07 Thread Marti van Lin
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Karen, > > >> it can take say two or three screen readers to equal the >> functionality of one Dos based one. > > Interesting, what makes the DOS ones so user friendly? > >> screen readers for windows >> are in the dictionary for richly problematical. > > In what way? I

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: cd burning?]

2010-04-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Karen, > it can take say two or three screen readers to equal the > functionality of one Dos based one. Interesting, what makes the DOS ones so user friendly? > screen readers for windows > are in the dictionary for richly problematical. In what way? I remember them often being commercia

Re: [Freedos-user] Multitiasking under DOS ?

2010-04-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Geraldo, > while we can't push any much modern idea would > be possible to implement a thread facility in FD > kernel using protothread http://www.sics.se/~adam/pt/ ? > it would allow many interesting things > or at least, we could use on FD install to > unzip packages in parallel? For unzipp

Re: [Freedos-user] USB support/IPod

2010-04-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mark, > Do any of the FreeDOS iso images contain enough USB All ISOs are several years old as far as I remember. The newest drivers are from Bret Johnson, 1/2010: http://bretjohnson.us/ You can use a floppy distro such as the Rugxulo one: http://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ You can eith

[Freedos-user] USB support/IPod

2010-04-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Do any of the FreeDOS iso images contain enough USB support that they might find an IPod hooked to a modern computer via motherboard/chipset-based USB controllers? If so which one? If not what sort of USB host controller is required to find an IPod with FreeDOS. Thanks, Mark --

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 18:30 (CEST), Liam Proven wrote: > In that case, you might try something like SciTech Display Doctor... > Older releases had support for DOS so it might work with Windows 3. I already tried SDD v5.3 and v6. In both cases, it just outputs the message "unknown SVGA chipse

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Wednesday 07 April 2010 18:09 (CEST), Liam Proven wrote: >> Identify what graphics card VBox is emulating & look for a Windows 3 >> driver for it. > > Not that easy :) > VirtualBox is emulating a "VirtualBox graphic card", not a card from t

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 18:09 (CEST), Liam Proven wrote: > Identify what graphics card VBox is emulating & look for a Windows 3 > driver for it. Not that easy :) VirtualBox is emulating a "VirtualBox graphic card", not a card from the real world... bye, Mateusz Viste -- You'll find my public

Re: [Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > So, do anybody knows if there is any way I could make Windows 3.11 working > with nice (non-VGA) graphic in VirtualBox *and* network? (the problem with > Japheth's patch seems to be some related to the inability of the driver to > recover t

[Freedos-user] Any chance to use 1280x1024 on Win 3.11 in Virtualbox?

2010-04-07 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi! I'm sorry for this offtopic question, I just think there might be people who knows the answer I'm looking for several days now :) I am trying to run a Windows 3.11 installation in Virtualbox. Unfortunately, Win 3.11 comes "natively" with a driver for VGA (640x480) only, and the so-called "