On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 15:29, Steve Nickolas <usots...@buric.co> wrote: > > For what it's worth, Windows 3.x comes with its own versions of HIMEM and > SMARTDRV. I *think* it also comes with EMM386, but I'm not so sure about > that one.
It did, yes, and IIRC there were problems and/or warnings if you used older DOS versions of these tools that predated $WindowsVersion. But _later_ DOS versions were fine -- e.g. from MS-DOS 5. > I think Windows' 386 mode is pretty heavily tied into undocumented > features of EMM386 when it is active, so it wouldn't surprise me if a free > version of EMM386 made it go down in flames. I don't know that for a fact, but it's possible. However it *did* work fine on DR-DOS' EMM386, and on Quarterdeck's QEMM386 and some other memory managers, so on the whole I do not think so, no. I routinely used 3rd party memory managers with Win 3.0, 3.1, WfWg 3.1 and 3.11 because they enabled more free RAM for DOS apps. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
