On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 16:35 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Has anyone gotten fdupdate to work with a 486?  I lost the link to
> > fdupdate v0.55 and the instructions on how to use it in fdupdate
> > v0.54.  If using a 486 is the problem because of a bug in the math
> > coprocessor or something similar, that would be nice to know.
> > 
> > I've noticed that I get a C prompt back after the crash if I say
> > 387=no in autoexec.bat.  I haven't confirmed this, I should test
> > with and without it to confirm.  It seems to be true though.
> 
> Please check if this is the case. Another thing is that you
> can put em387.dxe or wemu387.dxe or emu387.dxe or so...? The
> file seems to be emu387.dxe in djdev203.zip ...
> 
> Somebody in the freebasic forum said:
> 
> > Anyways, in pure DOS (not Windows) I think you can disable
> > the FPU detection for DJGPP by doing "set 387=n" and "set
> > EMU387=c:\mydir\wmemu387.dxe". It should work.
> 
> I guess other options are putting the dxe in your PATH or in
> the current directory or the directory where FDUPDATE is etc.
> 
> Eric

I fried all my 486 processors and it makes more sense to fix a Pentium
III up then it does to try and cobble together another 486.  I'm getting
out of the 486 business, so I may never find out if fdupdate will work
on one.


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