Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos4Kids (and Kids-at-heart)

2011-11-01 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Andrew, You should look for a product called "Disk On Module". They are composed of FLASH chips and are designed to be direct replacements for IDE hard drives. Unlike a lot of CF cards that can be used with an CF to IDE adapter but might not support CHS addressing, DOMs are designed as IDE

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos4Kids (and Kids-at-heart)

2011-11-01 Thread Jack
Andrew, > I anticipate replacing the dying and clunky old hard-drives for SD > cards on a 44-pin IDE adapter for better performance and improved > efficiency. I imagine that the recent improvements with FreeDOS' > EIDE would facilitate a hardware upgrade like that - am I > understanding that co

[Freedos-user] FreeDos4Kids (and Kids-at-heart)

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Robins
My primary interest in FreeDOS was both in sustainable computing and "edutainment" for primary-shool age children. That is, using classic, award-winning DOS games freely available from the Web on ancient laptops (e.g., 48mb max RAM, pre-USB vintage) to provide a living example of Reduce, Reuse, Rec

Re: [Freedos-user] Failure of Print-Screen (Screenshot) in Freedos Depending on How Full Screen was Entered

2011-11-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Robert, > Eric, you said dosemu does not need sudo. This is one of things that > happen when I don't - Bob T. > > "robert@robert-desktop:~$ dosemu > can't open "/home/robert/.dosemu/boot.log" for writing > robert@robert-desktop:~$ " Apparently your first / previous run was with sudo. You can