[Freedos-user] EVOC 1714VNA does not support a real floppy controller...

2020-03-20 Thread michael
I'm talking about the ISA variety via a digital research multi I/O card It does however support USB floppy drives, but I doubt that they work in freedos. I think the problem is the bios, it has to show the correct geometry, etcetera. As this is an industrial single board computer that's 20 year

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is slow in Raspberry 4

2020-03-20 Thread Swap Jim via Freedos-user
Tried it. Didn't change anything. But thanks for the suggestion. On 2020-03-19 05:48, Louis Santillan wrote: Something to note in the original bug report is that CFLAGS chosen are not optimal for performance (`make 'CFLAGS=-Wall -g -O2 -w'`). Specifically, the `-g` and `-O2` flags should probab

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

2020-03-20 Thread Felix G.
Hello everyone! I am blown away, in the most positive sense of the word, by the fruitful discussion my original post seems to have sparked, or rekindled. For this discussion to have its heated moments is only natural as emotions, passions and frustrations are involved. If there is one point of cons

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

2020-03-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 20/03/2020 11:00, Eric Auer wrote: So I would say if you only need real-time at moments without DOS kernel (or BIOS) interaction and if you need much RAM directly available without the hassles of EMS or XMS, then DJGPP is nice! DJGPP is nice, without question. But here we are talking about a

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

2020-03-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mateusz, hi speech experts, >> DJGPP is a complete 32-bit C/C++ development system for Intel >> 80386 (and higher) PCs running DOS. > I am saying that DOS is a 16-bit, real-time operating system. You say > that DJGPP is more powerful. Yes, but DJGPP is not DOS. Then of course, > one could im

Re: [Freedos-user] Talking FreeDOS (through QEMU + emubns)

2020-03-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 19/03/2020 23:59, joseph.nor...@gmail.com wrote: I always wanted to try QEMU, but, never could figure out the serial stuff. Yes, serial emulation is somewhat tricky to setup. But once one finds the correct QEMU invocation, it works very well. I described the exact QEMU command line argumen

Re: [Freedos-user] Introducing myself, and inquiring about using FreeD OS as a blind user

2020-03-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hello Karen, I will try to keep it on topic. On 20/03/2020 06:03, Karen Lewellen wrote: DJGPP is a complete 32-bit C/C++ development system for Intel 80386 (and higher) PCs running DOS. I am saying that DOS is a 16-bit, real-time operating system. You say that DJGPP is more powerful. Yes, bu