Re: Serial port set up
Posted on 2011-09-08, 19:31
How do I view the console output?
Serial port set up
Posted on 2011-09-08, 16:11
Hello, I have a MacBook pro laptop running mac os x 10.7 lion. I have been fooling around with a speech synthesizer on my mac. I have tested the synthesizer on my mac. I have a serial2usb adaptor and I have installed it's driver. I have been able to use the synthesizer with my mac. I sent text via …
Installing freedos from an .iso file
Posted on 2010-12-17, 04:08
Hello, I have been trying to install freedos with dosbox. I had an old version it was like beta 4. And I ran into problems with formatting a partitioned drive. So I downloaded like a 150mb version of freedos I think it is 1.0. The file I downloaded was called fdfullcd.iso. My question is, do I treat …
Re: Partitioning a hd
Posted on 2010-12-16, 20:41
I finally got fdisk to work, when I booted to a.img b.img c.img I did a dir at the a:\>prompt and then ran fdisk and it worked! I think it worked I got to press esc, and my computer said it had created a dos partition but esc didn't do anything, having read the guide I think it said for fdisk to …
Re: Partitioning a hd
Posted on 2010-12-16, 17:51
When I said boot I meant I booted in dosbox using the boot command, and it boots. I used Boot a.img b.img c.img After I mounted the .img file I created, I thought I could use cntrl-f4 to switch between floppies I will look into getting a version of free dos with fdisk
Re: Partitioning a hd
Posted on 2010-12-16, 16:49
I think I have a bootable floppy image of freedos, I downloaded it the other day. I have a folder on my hd with a.img b.img c.img a text file called bochsrc. And freedos.img which I created with bximage. I have been following the guide and was able to mount my .img file (freedos.img) with -fs none. …
Partitioning a hd
Posted on 2010-12-16, 15:52
Hello, When using imgmount is it true I cant mount a non formatted/partitioned .img file with dosbox's imgmount command? I just mounted an img file with the following z:\>mount c~/dos/freedos.img z:\>c z:>imgmount 2 freedos.img -size 512,63,16,65 -t hdd -fs none And it mounts, I can then boot to my …
Re: Imgmount problems
Posted on 2010-12-16, 08:45
That should say I tried imgmounting in above post
Re: Imgmount problems
Posted on 2010-12-16, 08:43
I tried unflinching as a cd and as a floppy the cd I got back mscdex: failure invalid file or unable to open And the floppy I got back can't create drive from file I am wondering why imgmount won't let me mount this image. I was reading in another thread where people were talking about installing …
Re: Imgmount problems
Posted on 2010-12-16, 07:53
Ok I have freedos.img in my home folder on my Mac which is ~ then I start dosbox and z:\>mount c ~ And dosbox says "drive c is mounted as local directory /users/myname I just tried at the prompt z:\>imgmount d c:/freedos.img My computer says could extract drive geometry from image, and then to use …
Imgmount problems
Posted on 2010-12-16, 07:11
Hello, I have spent awhile trying to mount a . img file. I created the file with bochs 2.2.1 bximage application on my Mac. I then put the file in a folder with some .img files for freedos. I have been reading a couple tutorials, but can't seem to mount the .img file I thought I should start dosbox …
Re: Installing freedos
Posted on 2010-12-16, 02:04
Hello I have some freedos .img files I was going to boot to. When I went to boot to a.img(there is also b.img c.img and bochsrc in the directory where I have my .img files. It booted and said type install to install freedos, but it asked me if I wanted to partition my drive for freedos. I am …
Re: Installing freedos
Posted on 2010-12-16, 00:23
One reason I got freedos was for debug. Which I can use now. I initially got dosbox for games. Then I installed some software like word perfect. I had an old Mac and I was running an ms-dos emulator. I have found dosbox great so far. But I guess I was thinking of all the dos programs and commands …
Installing freedos
Posted on 2010-12-15, 22:58
Hello, I have dosbox installed. I downloaded a version of freedos. My question is how do I install freedos. I want to have freedos bootable, I made a bootable floppy using the unix dd command. I then just copied the contents of the floppy to a directory on my computer, I am running Mac os x. My …
Re: Debug in dosbox
Posted on 2010-12-15, 01:21
Hello, I downloaded a version of freedos, it has a debug program. But I don't know if it is bootable the way I installed it. If I change to the directory where I hot freedos, it has an autexec.bat file, but I don't know if the way I installed it makes it bootable. Does bootable mean, within dosbox …
Editing autoexec.bat
Posted on 2010-12-14, 17:36
Hello, I am trying to edit the path in my autoexec.bat file. But when I open it in an editor and change it when I get back to a prompt it doesn't change? Any help?
Re: For Testers: CGA/Tandy/PCJr palette patch
Posted on 2010-12-14, 16:44
Hello, I am going through a book, written for Tandy computers. It is a gw-basic book, I have gw-basic 3.22 on my macbookpro laptop. I use it with dosbox. Would this patch help me, some of the examples in the book don't match my computer, screens, color, palettes etc. How do I install the patch?
Re: DOSBox debugger
Posted on 2010-12-14, 01:06
Hello, I wondered if I could get some advice on dosbox debugger? Can I install a debugger if I already have dosbox installed? Or do I have to reinstall dosbox somehow with debugger support? I used a version of ms-dos where at the command prompt I could write debug and enter a environment on my …
Debug in dosbox
Posted on 2010-12-13, 22:04
Hello, I have used other dos versions. At the command prompt I use to be able to type debug and enter a debug environment. I am wondering how to get this for dosbox. I wondered can I get just the debug software and install it in my current version of dosbox? Or do I have to reinstall dosbox? I would …
Re: Joystick support
Posted on 2010-12-13, 01:13
Is sdl something I have to install, additionally. Or was that installed when I installed dosbox?
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