Posts by hanslse

  • Icons in der Taskleiste

    I have noticed that there is no icon in the taskbar if the launcher is made by an icon created by Iconmake. This is pretty evident as there is no tool icon in the icon made by Iconmake. Instead of an icon, there is the name of the launcher in the taskbar. Looks pretty ugly, in my opinion. Would be great to test what happens if the icon also have a tool icon.

  • Pi/GEOS 1.1

    Thanks, for all the input. Okay, then I understand why.it does not work, no problem.

    I happy to run Geos 1.2, thanks again :)

    I have noticed another issue, during the boot I get the message that drive U: is mounted, but there is no U: available in Ensemble 1.2, neither in DOS. What am I doing wrong? I have tried small usb memories, 256 MB, but it does not work. Should the memory be smaller? Or can you give me an hint what to do to mount a drive that will be accessable in DOSBox, or even in 1.2?

  • Pi/GEOS 1.1

    I have tested PiGeos with Pi 3B+ and Zero 2W and they works well with PiGeos. So, I guess these are the lowest entry point hardware wise, to run PiGeos?

    PiGeos does not work with:

    Raspberry Pi B+

    Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3

    Raspberry Pi Zero W v1.1

  • Pi/GEOS 1.1

    Have not found any thread googling the problem. When investigating the problem: There is no dosbox-session.conf created. When I investigated the pigeos-loader script:

    Line 19 is about [autoexec] section.

    Line 21 is about loading the hd-image.

    Line 43 is about loading keyboard driver

    Line 44 is about call autoexec.bat

    Could it be a problem with the Ensemble 1.2 image?

  • Pi/GEOS 1.1

    I was a bit unclear, it is two different rpi, the 3b+ works, well.

    The second one is a B+ and this is the one I planned to use for Ensemble 1.2, due to lesser performance. I have already reinstalled it, twice. I have not touched anything, except installing the 1.2 from the menu. Maybe the problem is that is a B+ and a older hardware with a different OS configuration? My guess is similar as yours, sounds like a permission error, as everything I can think of to check, looks correct.

    Hopeless case, the doctor cried.....

    I will try to google the problem.

  • Pi/GEOS 1.1

    I dont know if you are still developing pigeos? One wish from me would be to add an option to boot to dos prompt in DOSBox directly, if possible?

    I had an issue with the graphics driver in my pi and the 7 inch screen and the 800x480 resolution. It is impossible to edit the geos.ini to resolve the issue as geos.ini is embedded in the hdd-img file. However, I managed to resolve it by adding a monitor that supported the default 1024x768 and the wanted 800x480, so everything works now at viable speed.

    As a sidenote, I prefer to have a folder mapped as a drive, as this folder is accessable in unix (pi os) and as a drive in DOSBox. I understand that there is advantages to have a image file to avoid file corruption. Just my point of view

  • Pi/GEOS 1.1

    Hi Tomas,

    First I need to give you an apology regarding Pi/GEOS. The 1.1 version works well on my Pi3B with CI-latest. I must have been dabbling with one of the previous versions, when I got the performance issues. I will use this version of Pi/GEOS on my Pi, and skip the DOSBox version.

    I also tried to install a Geosworks 1.2 installation, but get an error message in Pi OS. Below is the screen shot.

    I have also noticed when I exit the menu, I need to press ctrl+esc to exit and then ctrl+c multiple times to get to the cli mode (terminal or prompt or whatever one calls it).

  • Infos zum GEOS TTF-Treiber

    Sounds very good. Typographically speaking it should be enough with a mono, roman, sans and symbol font set, but I guess that is considered to be too meager, I support the thought to adapt to the traditional Ensemble font set of 10 font with symbol font set.

    Is it possible to create a tool, like "Font Converter", that adapts the TTF fonts to Geos, or is this a manual craft for every font? My thought is if it is possible, then people can choose the fonts themselves and adapt it to Geos, and the manhours can be spent more wisely, than converting each and every font users ask for. I think I asked this previuosly, but I did not understand the answer.

    Great job, Jirka!

  • Help with Geos resolution in Raspberry pi

    Quote from t.hass

    Pi/GEOS does still supports 800x480 resolution in DOSBox. Just checked it using the latest GEOS CI-release. If you don't like Pi/GEOS you may want to give the version of DOSBox that shipped with it a try: https://thobipix.de/download/rpi/p….74.6_armhf.deb

    Please note that this is for 32bit PiOS (armhf) only and has been build on Debian 10 based legacy release.

    I have installed the DOSBox you directed me to above, in a 32 bit raspberry pi os lite (bullseye). Cant get Geos to work in 800x480, is there special settings in DOSBox and pi os?

  • Help with Geos resolution in Raspberry pi

    Nothing wrong with PiGeos, except that I got some performance problems with my Pi 3B and PiGeos. The problem is the Pi 3B, too weak hardware platform, the performance was sluggish when I tested PiGeos. However, I might have done something wrong?

    The best performance I have got is Pi OS lite (Bookworm 64 bit) and DOSBox 0.74-3. This combo run as expected with good performance. Why am I so pesistant in this, I can just toss away the 3B and by a 4 or even better? The thing is that I have a complete computer, 3B in a shell with a monitor, and the computer is not upgradeable :(

    But I will give it another shot. Thanks for the link to DOSBox, will try it if PiGeos will not work as expected.

  • Help with Geos resolution in Raspberry pi

    The problem is the lack of support for different VESA modes in DOSBox in general, this also applies to Basebox, which Falk have plan to solve in Basebox. Scitech Display Doctor, version 6.53, works in DOSBox and adds more resolutions, however onlyn 4:3 and 5:4 resolutions. The only 16:9 resolution which is available in DOSBox is 848x480. Other more modern like 800x480 and 1024x600 is not available, at least at the moment. 848x480 have been omitted from DOSBox Staging/Basebox.

  • Offer for free: Agfa SnapSan 310

    Quote from Bario

    Yeah, I tend to be more interested in PC when it's not a problem. Locke is welcome to have the scanner. I'd just like to have a look at how scanning works under PC/GEOS. So we can try that out at the next meeting!?

    Great! Yes, we can try it at the next meeting. I will also bring keyboard and mouse. Maybe I have a 17 inch lcd monitor, too. It depends in if I can carry it? Btw, the computer have a SB16 sound card, too.