[Freedos-user] Gaming Controller

2025-06-25 Thread david--- via Freedos-user
Does FreeDOS14 have a driver for USB connected gaming controllers? Apologies if this is a stupid question - but some DOS games can use a joystick. I no longer have a working game port connected joystick, so a USB connected gaming controller is the only possibility._

Re: [Freedos-user] dos text editor for canadian spellings?

2025-03-03 Thread david--- via Freedos-user
Or try archive.org - all sorts of antique software there. David On 2025-03-03 18:53, G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user wrote: Hi there, On Sat, 1 Mar 2025, Karen Lewellen wrote: If you find that UK wordperfect disk sing out..will pay to get it shipped to Canada. IIRC it was a set of six discs

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat

2025-03-03 Thread david--- via Freedos-user
o issues running those programs. It's not a complicated process. There's been multiple messages in this thread already showing different memory managers that can work, but if you don't install one of them, then you won't get the kind of memory you need. On 2/28/2

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat

2025-03-02 Thread david--- via Freedos-user
hen you'll have no issues running those programs. It's not a complicated process. There's been multiple messages in this thread already showing different memory managers that can work, but if you don't install one of them, then you won't get the kind of memory you need. O

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat

2025-03-02 Thread david--- via Freedos-user
27;s not a complicated process. There's been multiple messages in this thread already showing different memory managers that can work, but if you don't install one of them, then you won't get the kind of memory you need. On 2/28/2025 12:46 AM, david--- via Freedos-user wrote: Hi

Re: [Freedos-user] dos text editor for canadian spellings?

2025-02-27 Thread david--- via Freedos-user
Hi Karen, For quite a number of years, (before I even had Windows 3.1), I used Wordstar 2000 r3.00; 1988 version. Being pure DOS, you could only interact by keyboard - no mouse function. I am British, so did not need Canadian English, hence I have no idea whether Wordstar 2000 could provide

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat

2025-02-27 Thread david--- via Freedos-user
100's of megabytes on the USB Stick for the installation of other software. :-) Jerome On Feb 27, 2025, at 8:33 AM, david--- via Freedos-user wrote: Hi, I am using FreeDOS 1.3 on a USB stick. On booting up, it ask for language selection, (English), and then asks whether to insta

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: Setting up fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat

2025-02-27 Thread david--- via Freedos-user
e options. There should be a FDCONFIG.SYS file that comes with FreeDOS. Can you look in this file? Is it a long file, or a short one, or is it empty? Did you edit this file since installing FreeDOS? On Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 11:59 PM david--- via Freedos-user wrote: I am new to FreeDOS and h

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: Setting up fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat

2025-02-27 Thread david--- via Freedos-user
command will allocate 2 kB of extended memory, which will be released when you reboot the computer. Ensure you have the following of your `config.sys` file: DEVICE=HIMEMX.EXE DOS=HIGH,UMB Hope this helps On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, 05:59 david--- via Freedos-user, wrote: I am new to FreeDOS and

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat

2025-02-27 Thread david--- via Freedos-user
CONFIG.SYS file that comes with FreeDOS. Can you look in this file? Is it a long file, or a short one, or is it empty? Did you edit this file since installing FreeDOS? On Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 11:59 PM david--- via Freedos-user wrote: I am new to FreeDOS and have run into a problem whereby som

[Freedos-user] Setting up fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat

2025-02-26 Thread david--- via Freedos-user
I am new to FreeDOS and have run into a problem whereby some traditional MSDOS programs will not run, complaining about "XMS allocation error". In MSDOS the solution is an additional line in config.sys reading "device=emm386.exe ram", but there does not appear to be a emm386.exe equivalent in