Thanks guys. Sometimes Gentoo seems like a game of Zork or whatever. Get a hint, and eventually find the treasure. Both aconnect and pmidi showed no midi clients at all. Some googling indicated that I had to build the snd-virmidi module. After the build and reboot, I found out after some trial and …

And it's way out in left field. There's been an upgrade to bash 3 recently. I have a customized prompt that is supposed to show up in shells and subshells (e.g. an xterm). It's no longer showing up the way I like it. Something has changed the way environmental variables like "PS" are passed. "PS" …

I have the YMF-724F onboard sound chip. Regular sound under dosbox is OK, but not midi. Here's the error message when starting dosbox... waltdnes@m450 ~ $ dosbox CONFIG:Loading settings from config file /home/waltdnes/.dosboxrc MIDI:Can't find device:/dev/snd/seq, finding default handler. ALSA:Can't …

Hi! I'm trying to use a program to record 3.5" HD diskette images with teledisk, a DOS floppy image reader-writer. [...deletia...] Any idea to mount the drive as a 3.5" HD drive? Disk-image copying is something you should be doing in your native OS. In DOS/Windows the command is "diskcopy". In unix …

Going through some old stuff/backups, I discovered that years ago I'd backed up Chessmaster 3000 and some obscure DOS games to CD. I even found my Chessmaster 3000 floppies! I haven't had any luck getting Dosbox going on my linux machine, 1999 Dell Dimension, 450 mhz PIII, 128 megs of ram, ATI Rage …