Hey Paul,

I started a discussion going on the FreeDOS user mail list concerning
usability of USB ports with FreeDOS.  I've attached the email chain
for your perusal.

I'm not sure exactly what use you envisioned with USB ports on DOS so
maybe you could give FreeDOS a try with your intended USB application
to see if it works.

FreeDOS is free as in speach and as in beer so the cost of
experimenting should be low.

Mark LaPierre

That is good news Mark. Does QB run on it. If so I will give it a
try.

Paul Lamar


Well, it's supposed to be MS-DOS compatible so QB should run on it.
Testing it will confirm if it works or not.  As I pointed out, it's
free as in beer, so it shouldn't cost you much more than a bit of
time to install it and test it on some old beater hardware that you
have on hand.


Mark LaPierre


I( have the answer.  FreeDOS does support QB.  See below.



Yes it will, it's nothing more than a standard 16bit application after
all. In my experience both QBasic (interpreter) and QBX (full-blown
compiler) work without any troubles.

If you are a BASIC person, you might find the FreeBASIC project very
interesting as well. Works perfectly with FreeDOS, provides a very
similar syntax to QuickBASIC, and allows for plenty of interesting
things that are either impossible of hard to achieve in QB (32bit,
high-res graphics modes, compatibility with many DJGPP libraries...). It
is available in FDNPKG repositories: FDNPKG INSTALL FBC

Mateusz
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