At 11:38 AM 6/5/2006 -0400, John Hupp wrote: > I could also have added that all my DOS games (Doom, Quake, Duke, > Spacequest, Beneath A Steel Sky) run fine on this computer and configuration. > >On the chance that there was a physical memory problem I dropped from 16 >to 8 MB (no difference), and then also swapped in the extra 8 MB (no >difference). > >One thing I noticed in further testing was that Draw, Paint and Doodle >have the most problems. All freehand programs. And if they load >successfully, then they work until you try to close them. Artline is >rather stable by comparison, though it does not seem to offer a freehand >tool, at least that I could find quickly. > >If I drop all the way to no HIMEM and no EMM386, there is insufficient >memory to run Artline or Paint. Draw, Write, Tetris, Scgem, and Fanwor >all seemed to work. But Doodle locks the machine when it closes. > >If I add back HIMEM but not EMM386, Doodle causes a reboot while it is >loading. And Write and Draw lock up the machine while loading. > >If I add back HIMEM and EMM386, Doodle, Draw and Paint all lock up the >machine while closing.
I'm in the middle of working full-time on two different projects, but I might be able to take a look at this in a week or two. Probably not sooner and possibly later. I'll need a download link for the problematic GEM, though. If it's kernel, I likely won't be able to help further. You might also try EMM386 NOALTBOOT option. I know GEOS needs that option, not that it has anything to do with GEM. Except for starting with a "GE", so maybe that's it. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
