Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hard drive detection...

2010-06-20 Thread Michael C. Robinson
Battletech 2 knows that a ramdisk isn't a hard disk and refuses to work from one. On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 13:25 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: > Hi, > > I suggest you code a simple batch to copy the game to a RAMdisk, after > quit copy the save game back to ZIP. > > Play it on the ZIP is slow and wea

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hard drive detection...

2010-06-20 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, I suggest you code a simple batch to copy the game to a RAMdisk, after quit copy the save game back to ZIP. Play it on the ZIP is slow and wear out the disk. Sent from Johnson's iPhone On 21 Jun 2010, at 12:54 PM, "Michael C. Robinson" wrote: > I have a zip 250 atapi drive where I am wo

[Freedos-user] Freedos hard drive detection...

2010-06-20 Thread Michael C. Robinson
I have a zip 250 atapi drive where I am wondering why Battletech 2 the Crescent Hawk's Revenge knows that this isn't a harddrive? Does anyone know a simple way around this issue? -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up

[Freedos-user] Emulate floppy drive for laptop without floppy

2010-06-20 Thread Bonnie Dalzell
I have a program which requires itself to be installed from a floppy after the OS has booted. It has a special floppy which I have been able to make a disk image of. However the floppy has to be mounted after dosemu/freedos boots and it has to be in drive a: or b: Is there any way for Freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] Zorland/Zortech C compiler?

2010-06-20 Thread Jim Lemon
On 05/28/2010 11:49 PM, Alain Mouette wrote: > > I use Borland C 3.1 regularly on FreeDOS... have you tryed to configure > the the lib directories in the IDE? > Hi Alain, Yes, I set the directories and for some reason when I try to compile, the IDE reports that it "can't open XXX.lib" when I know