On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > At 02:06 PM 4/21/2004 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: > > >Also another application call BLASTER MASTER (Sound editor) also said > >"EMS Corrupt", I've asked the author, it become free now. I can email > >or upload to your FTP if you want. > > I grabbed Blaster Master off the web. Turns out that for it to run > under NOEMS, the application needs the EMS ID changed (to EMMQXXX0)
FD MEM checks for EMMXXXX0 at this place -- so it will now plainly say that no EMS driver is installed for NOEMS (which kinda makes sense if you take "NOEMS" literally), before it said (mem 1.5, 1.6): EMS driver installed, 16K free, no frame. Is this documented anywhere? A google search: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/118.html To further check the system I also used this routine. REM * The following checks for the device drivers HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE REM * in memory. if exist XMSXXXX0 echo HIMEM.SYS is managing extended memory. REM ## This the string for DOS 7.0 & 7.1 if exist EMMQXXX0 echo EMM386 for DOS 7.1 is managing upper memory blocks. REM ## While this is the string for WIN98 if exist $MMXXXX0 echo EMM386 for WIN 98 is managing upper memory blocks. REM ## This is the string for IFSHLP.SYS, the file system driver if exist IFS$HLP$ echo IFSHLP.SYS is loaded. REM ## This checks for the MS CD Extensions. if exist MSCD001 echo MSCDEX is managing the first CD-ROM. Hmmm.... I can only find in RBIL (-W-2F1605) Microsoft's EMM386.EXE for DOS 5+ when installed with the NOEMS option changes its driver name from EMMQXXX0 to EMMXXXX0 while Windows is active loadlin changelog: http://ftp.belnet.be/linux/SuSE/i386/9.0/dosutils/loadlin/doc/changes Using VCPI with NOEMS: As told by Jon Peatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> there is VCPI available even if using NOEMS in EMM386. The signature is not EMMXXXX0, but EMMQXXX0, which is a violation of the VCPI specification. Reminds me -- we should probably check if loadlin works with FD EMM386, it might give some other incompatibility and the source is available. Bart ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
