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Quick question about hxdos (DOSX)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 06.07.2010, 15:53

> Unfortunatly I'm experiencing a couple of problems however. I've tried my
> current setup (freedos and hxdos) on 3 systems now. The first problem which
> seems to affect all machines is the mouse seems to be very stuttery or
> jerky. Is there any way I can make the mouse pointer move more smoothly?

I don't know. Qemu has some problems with correct emulation of legacy devices - emulation of enhanced keys on the keyboard is one the most annoying issues. However, it may also be a problem with HX's Win32 timer emulation.

> The problem concerns hxdos and the "-full-screen" option. I can get qemu to
> run, but if I try to use the "-full-screen" option on either of the desktop
> PCs (the EEE PC works fine) I get this error message;
>
> wsock32: no packet driver found.
>
> dkrnl32: exception C0000005, flags=0 occured at BF:32E901
> ax=ADD8ADD8 bx=61D0000 cx=ADD8ADD8 dx=620EC34
> si=50D00000 di=2244FB0 bp=322B38 sp=322B24
> exception caused by access to memory address ADD8ADDC
> ip=Module 'kernel32.dll'+2901
> [eip]=8b 40 04 23 c0 75 f1 23 c0 74 21 8b
> [esp]=00330a27 00000bf 00003246 00000005 00322928 0032f69e
> dkrnl32: fatal exit!

I'll try to reproduce that.

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Complete thread:

• Quick question about hxdos - ljones, 05.07.2010, 00:13
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  • Quick question about hxdos - Japheth, 06.07.2010, 15:53