DecTalk and DosEmu

[Gregory Nowak]

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Why don't you try using freedos, and boot into it directly? That way,
you'll be able to do whatever you want, all under native dos, on your
physical box, not an emulated box. Also, you can run freedos as a
livecd, meaning you don't need to install on to your hd in order to
use it.

Also, the fact that you can't use your dectalk isa card under dosemu
isn't because linux is protective of the hardware. It is simply
because dosemu as far as I know, never has, doesn't, and probably
never will have the support necessary to address isa/pci cards and the
like directly.

Finally, the fact that you see different files when running dosemu as
a normal user and as root is no surprise, since in all likelihood,
you're running separate machines as each user. Think of it this
way, you have 2 physical computers, pc-a, and pc-b, which both have
dos installed. When you're running dosemu as a normal user, you're
using pc-a. When you're running it as root, you're using it as pc-b, a
separate machine from pc-a. Hth.

Greg


On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:53:24AM -0700, Radical NetSurfer wrote:
> One thing we learn about Richard (RadSurfer) is that
> he 
> is no quitter.... trying yet another angle on this
> DecTalk business he installs the very latest Dos
> Emulator 
> 1.40 package.
> Seems to run aok, more or less.
> Problem is, the way linux is protective of hardware
> access, the dt_driv.exe program never gets to actually
> probe for the presence of the ISA card...
> 
> I just moved all of the actual DecTalk PC 4.2C dos
> files into the DosEmu folder and gave it a try.
> There has to be some tweaking that would allow the
> ISA/DMA addresses used specifically by the DecTalk
> card to be made available to DosEmu, and presto!
> 
> So far no luck.
> 
> If I log into DosEmu as root, I get entirely different
> folders that if I'm regular user, natually.
> and I haven't been able to get lredir command to let
> me access a location of the dectalk files to copy into
> a dosemu folder as root anyways. very nasty business,
> but 
> what the heck it if worked.
> 
> ....still plugging away at it.
> 
> Lets vote on a 2.6xx upgrade to the DecTalkPC ISA
> support!  There really are quite a few very decent
> highend P3's still in use out there!
> 
> //Rich//
> 
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