Re: [Freedos-user] state of play

2022-01-04 Thread Joao Silva
Hello. The extender didn't work for me EEE PC using freedos, the sound was too fast with outrun and the game was slow. Dosbox handles the speaker ans soundblaster. On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 12:37 AM Rober To via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I meant: "running DOSBOX w

Re: [Freedos-user] state of play

2022-01-03 Thread Rober To via Freedos-user
I meant: "running DOSBOX with this version of the HX EXTENDER with modern sound support..." En martes, 4 de enero de 2022 01:14:25 CET, Rober To escribió: Well. I am not a programmer. Summarizing, modern audio support in DOS is quite difficult. There aren't modern drivers; but some

Re: [Freedos-user] state of play

2022-01-03 Thread Rober To via Freedos-user
Well. I am not a programmer. Summarizing, modern audio support in DOS is quite difficult. There aren't modern drivers; but some programs have inside support for a wide range of modern soundcards (Mpxplay is the best example). Mpxplay works perfectly in my computer. Have you tried this version

[Freedos-user] State of play

2022-01-03 Thread Jose Senna
Paul Edwards asked: | I'd like to ask a more fundamental question - why does | video not require a driver to be installed, but audio does? | Is audio more complicated than video or something? Or | was it never properly standardized by IBM or someone? | I think it is because the PC always had vid

Re: [Freedos-user] state of play

2022-01-03 Thread Paul Edwards
Thankyou everyone for your answers. I've made a lot of progress and Freedos is looking fantastic. The first problem I would like to address is that I have installed the DOS version of mplayer and the video is working fine, but there is no audio. Some research said that I need to use jemm with /s

Re: [Freedos-user] state of play

2022-01-03 Thread Rober To via Freedos-user
Hi Paul Something to play MP3:- The best option by far is MPXPLAY:http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/ Something to play movies:- Although the complete version is not free, QuickView is the best option: http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/ If I don't remember badly, there is a DOS port of Mplayer; mayb

Re: [Freedos-user] state of play

2022-01-02 Thread Louis Santillan
Advice about win32 apps is fairly off-topic here. win32 apps that work on HX that work on FreeDOS doesn't really make this request more on-topic. You can find a bit of info apps that work at https://www.japheth.de/HX.html https://pmwiki.xaver.me/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.HX-DOS#toc24 On Sun,

[Freedos-user] State of play

2022-01-02 Thread Jose Senna
Paul Edwards said | In particular I want: | | 1. Something to display JPEGs | | ... | | 4. Something to read and write text email | | 5. Something to send/receive email to gmail. I am expecting this to be DOS-specific For 1) above, I recommend LXPic: http://hplx.pgdn.de It is small, fast even on

[Freedos-user] state of play

2022-01-02 Thread Paul Edwards
Hi folks. Freedos 1.3 RC5 is now good enough for my main need which is to do development work using gccwin (similar to mingw) to build Win32 executables. (making use of HX too). I am now looking for Freedos to be a viable alternative to Windows for the rest of the things I would like to do. What