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Messages - Dave Yeo

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- Run commands feature on X Button.


We already have this one. Click the X button and just above Shut down... is Run...

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Hi Lars. Dosbox is an emulator, uses SDL or SDL2 for video, sound etc to emulate a DOS environment, so nothing to do with a DOS VDM.

That is really odd. I helped Jochen to implement correct default device selection and also recording capability in SDL2. And I used the SDL2 test programs and they worked ok. Maybe that did not make it into the SDL2 provided by BWW?

From SDL2 I know that it uses DART. But that should work just fine with the USB audio drivers. At least it does here.

Looking at http://hobbesarchive.com/?submit=Search&search=dosbox&stype=any&sort=type_name&dir=%2F Dosbox is using SDL. Likely a newer version would use SDL2.

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@Dave
Still have my last ISA soundcard boxed somewhere: AWE32 P'n'P which I seem to recall had drivers/software for DOS, Win16/95 and OS/2 - including midi - and worked very well.
The end of ISA was when I stopped bothering installing DOS/Win16 support - only needed it to play a few games which play better with sound support - dosbox and uniaud to the rescue  :-)


Yes I still have my ProAudio Spectrum card laying around, which worked very well under OS/2 and DOS, it included a Sound Blaster clone so it was like having 2 sound cards, one for WinOS2 and one for OS/2. Also the odd game like Simcity2000 (DOS version) could use both.
Like you, once ISA went away I didn't play many DOS games though I did have a MB (Athlon) where the BIOS emulated a sound driver along with the included OS/2 sound driver. That was the last MB I had that had any OS/2 drivers.
Wish there was a cheap simple adapter so could still use an ISA card.

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Hi Lars. Dosbox is an emulator, uses SDL or SDL2 for video, sound etc to emulate a DOS environment, so nothing to do with a DOS VDM.

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Hi Pete, as far as I know, no sound in DOS now a days, hasn't been since basically ISA days.
Does DosBox give you any other sound driver choices? If so, try them.
At least sound is now working for you, shame only on USB2, which is getting rare in computers. I know I only have USB3 on this box.
You could consider opening an issue with Arca Noae, sounds like their USB sound could be updated and who knows, perhaps USB3 could be fixed.

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Utilities / Re: YUM Issue - Error: database disk image is malformed
« on: October 08, 2024, 01:16:11 am »
Adrian has fixed netlabs-release problems and seems to work fine here. Louis has gone back to simply mirroring netlabs-release.

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Is that the latest official additions? If so sounds like an issue should be raised

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: October 02, 2024, 04:34:37 pm »
Qt6.2.9 + Dooble not able to display svg images !
https://www.maxicoffee.com/fstrz/r/s/www.maxicoffee.com/img/logo/maxicoffee.svg

It's a known issue with all versions of Qtwebengine.

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Internet / Re: firefox question
« on: September 28, 2024, 05:29:17 pm »
Thanks again.  Your thought of using a ram disk won't work because my computer is on 24/7/360, it gets shut down twice a year to allow for dust removal and physical checking.

Having a small cache on the ram disk shouldn't hurt, or if really worried just reduce the cache to zero

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Internet / Re: firefox question
« on: September 26, 2024, 04:37:18 pm »
I have my cache on the ram disk. For Firefox, you have to set up things in about:config.
Interesting entries include,
browser.cache.disk.capacity, you can shrink the cache here,
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory, point to somewhere you don't mind filling up, ram disk, etc.
browser.cache.disk.filesystem_reported, I seem to have set this previously.

Search for cache for other preferences while wondering why this stuff is no longer in the options.

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Programming / Re: [GCC] Unable to define getMemorySize()
« on: September 25, 2024, 06:31:10 pm »
Looks like you will have to write an OS/2 get_avail_mem_size.

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: September 21, 2024, 07:03:58 pm »
May it possible to get a webengine build with -no-webengine-jumbo-build ?
Jumbo seems no more been supported by google if found information are good ones
(Due I see a lot of jumbo ref into the trp)

Looking, if I understand correctly, jumbo-build is simply concatenating source files together before compiling them. Not using it would more then double build time, probably use less memory during compile but more during linking. It's linking where we have to be careful not to need more then 3.5GB's of ram to link.
The only benefit to users would be slightly more readable trp files, source file names instead of jumbo names.
Mozilla has a similar thing, unified builds, 4-8 source files concatenated together, sped up compiling and especially linking. Harder to read trp files.
It also seems that the QT Webengine did not remove the option in the interests of faster builds. Google itself has a pretty powerful build farm and is trying to introduce other build speedups.

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Internet / Re: otter-browser, Qt5 build
« on: September 16, 2024, 05:21:25 pm »
Hi Martin. The Otter browser is definitely alpha quality at best, then our Qt port is also needing work. So crashes are expected and it sounds like even on supported platforms Otter is not the most stable.
I wouldn't bother uploading these trp reports, especially when there are no debug packages installed. I have lots generated here and don't have much skills at fixing them.

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: September 16, 2024, 02:31:25 am »
Is there ad blocking for Otter? I wonder if ads are killing it...
Regards,

Lower right corner beside the download icon is an arrow pointing down, click it and there's active profiles. Mouse over and a menu comes up. Enable content Blocking and pick your filters.
Or better, under Tools, there's content blocking where you can set up your filters, how often they download and such. Also can import.
I haven't used them much so not sure if they work. I tried importing a dictionary and that seemed to fail.

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Internet / Re: otter-browser, Qt5 build
« on: September 15, 2024, 10:36:51 pm »
Here's the contents of the icons directory plus an attempt at converting the Win icon to an OS/2 icon. Doesn't seem to display here.

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