Recent content by TomGriffinII

Hello, I have an interesting problem (this is rather bizarre so bear with me). My fingers do not work well with touch screens. No, it is not a dexterity problem; but more to the point is like clicking on a number to dial. They do not seem to activate the feature and at times it takes four...

You might want to look at Free PASCAL over at http://www.freepascal.org/ The current version can compile to: "The following operating systems are supported: Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku, Mac OS X/Darwin, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, Netware (libc and classic) and MorphOS." "Free Pascal...

you might try DIM xVar as Variant IF ISNULL(xVar) or ISEMPTY(xVAR) THEN 'Do your thing here for empty or null array ELSE 'Do retro programming here END IF I think that is the correct syntax; examples are available with the MSDN reference materials included with Visual Studio 97 (vb 6, vc...

It's the problem with the HAL in Windows (Hardware Abstraction Layer) and also with VMware why the following will NOT toggle the numlock key in DOS, Windows 95/98/SE/Bloat Code edition. C:>debug -a100 xxxx:0100 pop DS ;pop the data segment on from the stack (remember CP/M?) xxxx:0103...

Get Ralf Browns interrupt list and write directly to the 8255's using assembly and interrupts.

Make a text file in notepad; play with some fonts and what not then inside task scheduler issue the following "cmd.exe /s: copy whatever.txt >prn:" In essence what this does is start a command prompt and copy the text file to the default printer and exits when complete.

If they are global variables or some such stuff could you not make a resource Satellite DLL (used for software in multiple languages for all the global text/numbers what not)?

Silly answer here; but in ATAPI devices (ATA-whatever) will only run as the slowest device in the chain. So if you have a slower device on the same channel it will only run at that specified speed. That is the inherent flaw using parallel ATA devices. I didn't see if you had any of that...

Couldn't you simply boot with a DOS disk and run debug, slap together a small assembly program to zero out the MBR and partition tables? I mean BIOS understands one thing int 19h boot. If I remember correctly from my engineering days try this. Boot from a MS-DOS diskette that has debug.exe on...