I don't know why we're still arguing about this. It's been established
fact for *ages* that cooperation with RMS is impossible:
http://www.jwz.org/hacks/why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossible.mp3
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>> The problem with this line of argument is that FM is quite capable of
>> providing a wide variety of sounds, including passable mimicries of
>> many traditional instruments. (The simplified two-operator FM in PC
>> sound cards significantly less so than, say, the DX7, but still.)
>
> Indeed you'
> Let's replace things in the context: we were talking about playing MIDI
> files. MIDI is inherently about using 'traditional' instruments, and
> designed on synth hardware (most of the time from Roland) that provides
> a full-blown orchestra on a chip. Therefore playing MIDI on anything
> that do
The FreeDOS EDIT clone is perfectly sufficient for basic editing
purposes. The one thing it could really use is optimization - partly
for performance (it's rather balky on my 10MHz 286, where EDIT is
perfectly fine,) but mostly for memory usage (it's about the same size
as the whole QBASIC package
> From: Rugxulo
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Sound Blaster 16 issues...
>
> Hi,
>Are you running latest FreeDOS kernel and HIMEMX + JEMM386?
> (Somehow I doubt it.) Try upgrading a few of your system files and try
> again. Else try booting a somewhat cleaner config without a lot of
> extra TS
I've got an ISA SB16 on a 486 box I've installed FreeDOS on. I had
trouble installing the driver software to begin with, as the installer
didn't want to run until I booted into MS-DOS 6.22. Now it's
installed, enough that games can recognize and use the hardware.
However, I'm still running into som
Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD,
and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I
want to install it on (a 3Com 3C595-TX) does not appear to be recognized by
either the default packet driver or the manufacturer's DOS driver, unles
