Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-04 Thread James Hall
>>And in a few minutes, we'll have a torrent seed, thanks to our friends >>at ibiblio. >>:-) > > That's working fine as well, about 3x as fast as http, with only 1 > peer when I started (myself?, shows 6 peers by the time I was finished). > > But would be surprised if that would work for Marco, tha

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with download Re: FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-04 Thread James Hall
> Correct, known before, unfortunately. > Only solution is to wait for the mirror sites to catch up, as they do > offer HTTP-only along with FTP. If you have a bittorrent client, you can now use the torrent seed listed at www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ Also, a few mirrors have sync'd with the 1.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-04 Thread James Hall
>>I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... > > That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link > presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-) > > That's btw the link I tested the other day... And in a few minutes, we'l

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-03 Thread James Hall
2012/1/3 Aitor Santamaría : > Just as a curiosity. Aas my google searches in Spanish by default, > hours after the release, I have noticed that there are already two > sites having an article covering that already (I don't know either of > them personaly): > > http://www.neoteo.com/freedos-1-1-nuev

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-03 Thread James Hall
> Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many > people around the world is following freedos development... > I'll see what stats we can get from ibiblio. Been a while since I needed stats from them, but they do track it. At worst, I may have to wait until the end of

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-03 Thread James Hall
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Marco Achury wrote: > > I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has colapsed the > servers :-) > > Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many > people around the world is following freedos development... > > I haven

Re: [Freedos-user] Dictionnary program not working

2011-12-27 Thread James Hall
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Shérab wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to use with Linux + dosemu + freedos a french dictionnary > which was published about 20 years ago with a search program running > under MS DOS. > > For the moment, I'm not able to make this program work. > No matter how I

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.

2011-12-27 Thread James Hall
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Tiago O. de Almeida wrote: > Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying this > right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is the Qemu > command line: > > qemu -cdrom ~/.qemu/fdbasecd.iso -hda ~/.qemu/freedos.img -boot > ord

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-22 Thread James Hall
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:11 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, James Hall wrote: > >> It's not an ideal situation for these old drivers, but we need to be >> careful here. And I'll admit that I'm not sufficiently motivated to >> c

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-22 Thread James Hall
>>But according to Wikipedia >>as of early 2011, the dormant AST trademark appears to be being >>relaunched by a new, independent company named DATA ACCESS based in >>France. I don't know if that means they purchased the previous >>copyrights (Beny Alagem

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-22 Thread James Hall
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Michael Robinson > wrote: >> There has been quite a bit of talk about AST hardware needing special >> drivers even under DOS.  Well, if the company won't put the drivers in >> the public domain and there a

Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2011-12-19 Thread James Hall
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jeffrey wrote: > Hi All, > >     About a year and a half ago, the last website offering support for AST > research computers went down. > Because have an AST 80386, I downloaded all the drivers and files before that > happened.  Would it be legal > for you to hos

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos iso file?

2011-11-29 Thread James Hall
x27;ll comment it out from the mirror list if it's not up by then. -jh On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:27 AM, James Hall wrote: > Thanks. If they remain unavailable by the time I'm back from my current > trip, I'll take them out of the autopick list. > > jh > > On Nov 2

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos iso file?

2011-11-28 Thread James Hall
Thanks. If they remain unavailable by the time I'm back from my current trip, I'll take them out of the autopick list. jh On Nov 27, 2011 11:04 PM, "Ralf A. Quint" wrote: At 08:45 PM 11/27/2011, jhall wrote: >Do you know which mirror site you were using at the time? It t... I just did and they

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

2011-11-21 Thread James Hall
Thanks! Looks like Dillo doesn't support background images in CSS, and/or the display:none directive, so it's displaying the word "FreeDOS" in the H1 instead of an image. I can fix that on the web site. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Marco Achury wrote: > > Here is a screenshot of freedos.o

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

2011-11-18 Thread James Hall
Thanks, I posted a news item on the front page. Looking through your library source files, I was happy to see all "Free" licenses: * FLTK: GNU LGPL with exceptions * Freetype: dual-licensed with the Freetype license, or GNU GPL * Microwin: dual-licensed with MPL, or GNU GPL v2 * nxlib: dual-lic