Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-17 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:16 PM 3/17/2004 +, Bart Oldeman wrote: >> >Duke Nukem 3D reboots the machine as soon as it enters graphics mode. Its >> >setup program (which also uses dos4gw 1.97) works correctly though. DOOM >> >on the other hand works. Will try to run with Causeway and DOS32A later. >> >> I downloaded

Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-17 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:53 PM 3/17/2004 -0500, you wrote: >>What is your physical memory on the machine you are using (e.g. 32M, 256M, 512M)? >256M, but 32 of it is shared with the video card. (can go from 8 - 64 m) Okay, I figured out a problem with higher memory machines (>= 256M) not reserving enough memory wi

Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-17 Thread Adam Peart
What is your physical memory on the machine you are using (e.g. 32M, 256M, 512M)? 256M, but 32 of it is shared with the video card. (can go from 8 - 64 m) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presente

Re: [Freedos-devel] NRV secret revealed. It went to Mars but not to Earth

2004-03-17 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:28:01 +0200, you wrote: Hi Lucho, >Here is the explanation why NRV isn't included in UPX. This was an old >hypothesis of mine, but it's now over-confirmed. He just had signed NDAs >with NA$A (the big liars - their moon landing 35 years ago was hoax!), and Really? But al

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

2004-03-17 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:33:15 + (GMT), you wrote: Hi Bart, >> Great! But when I downloaded it, it turned out to be... the old version >> (0.39)! :-( > >I wonder why you'd want to save 200 bytes anyway, when the disk space used >is exactly the same (8002 -> 7802, both 16 sectors)? Lucho may wa

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 et al posting announcements

2004-03-17 Thread Jim Hall
Michael Devore wrote: At 09:04 AM 3/13/2004 -0600, Jim Hall wrote: That's great! I assume it would be okay for me to post a news item on FreeDOS.org so that more users could have a chance to test this for you. If that's not okay, let me know and I'll take it down. Well, it's an interesting way

Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > > > >Duke Nukem 3D reboots the machine as soon as it enters graphics mode. Its > >setup program (which also uses dos4gw 1.97) works correctly though. DOOM > >on the other hand works. Will try to run with Causeway and DOS32A later. > > I downloaded Duke

Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-17 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:35 PM 3/17/2004 +, you wrote: >On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > >> I suppose I could break up the ZIP to floppy sized units, but I'm not >> real thrilled about trying it. I'd very much rather get the CD problem >> fixed. > >don't you have an old ISA network card you can put i

Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > I suppose I could break up the ZIP to floppy sized units, but I'm not > real thrilled about trying it. I'd very much rather get the CD problem > fixed. don't you have an old ISA network card you can put in the DOS machine? Then you could copy via a sm

Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-17 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:00 AM 3/17/2004 -0500, Adam Peart wrote: >I just tried out the new version, and I had the same problem as the previous version. > If I go emm38664.exe /noems, I get the message "func 43, out 8800 0006 ". >But if I use ems, then I get >mapping UBM's (16k each) at: d800 dc00 >umb bl

Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-17 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:30 PM 3/17/2004 +, Bart Oldeman wrote: >> Latest test version of EMM386 is at >> ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads in the files EMM386.ZIP and >> EMMSRC.ZIP, as executable and source. >> >> These version corrects a problem with memory corruption in UMB's using >> VCPI, particularly n

Re: [Freedos-devel] NRV secret revealed. It went to Mars but not to Earth

2004-03-17 Thread Erwin Veermans
> Today, Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer > launched his new site at last (after NRV marsed)! Lucho, You always make my day when you quote Herr Oberhumer's full name. Someway somehow it evaporates some of the 'heaviness' associated with the compression & GPL discussion. But not for long so k

[Freedos-devel] EMM386 et al posting announcements

2004-03-17 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:04 AM 3/13/2004 -0600, Jim Hall wrote: >That's great! I assume it would be okay for me to post a news item on FreeDOS.org so >that more users could have a chance to test this for you. If that's not okay, let me >know and I'll take it down. Well, it's an interesting way to make my daily f

Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > Latest test version of EMM386 is at > ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads in the files EMM386.ZIP and > EMMSRC.ZIP, as executable and source. > > These version corrects a problem with memory corruption in UMB's using > VCPI, particularly notable with

[Freedos-devel] Re: We're criminals (or at least GPL violators)

2004-03-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Lucho, luckily both the non-NRV versions of UPX (i.e. the compile yourself ones, which I have to use in Linux anyway because there are no precompiled UPX binaries for my ooold libc) and Info-ZIP are find in combination with GPL license-wise. So if it really bothers you, replace UPX-nrv and RAR

[Freedos-devel] NRV secret revealed. It went to Mars but not to Earth

2004-03-17 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Today, Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer launched his new site at last (after NRV marsed)! http://www.oberhumer.com/company/partners.php Here is the explanation why NRV isn't included in UPX. This was an old hypothesis of mine, but it's now over-confirmed. He just had signed NDAs with NA$A

Re: [Freedos-devel] We're criminals (or at least GPL violators)

2004-03-17 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:54:38 +0300 (MSK), Arkady V.Belousov wrote: I think there's a problem here. If you recall the discussion with Dave Turner (FSF), he said: I heard that you were considering a proprietary executable compression scheme for FreeDOS. I'm just writing to let you know the licensin

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

2004-03-17 Thread tom ehlert
>> MKEYB 0.40 released >> ... LG> Great! But when I downloaded it, it turned out to be... the old version LG> (0.39)! :-( Don't know why it wasn't uploaded, but now it is. You may have to refresh your browsers cache, otherwise you might still get the old version. BO> I wonder why you'd want to s

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

2004-03-17 Thread tom ehlert
>> MKEYB 0.40 released >> changes: >> now uses APACK for 200 byte smaller executable >> licensing changed to allow distribution of APACK'ed executables JH> What you have indicated in your release is that you modified the license JH> to allow distribution of the aPack'ed binary. However, you need

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

2004-03-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Мар-2004 08:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hall) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> MKEYB 0.40 released As sayed Lucho there is 0.39. JH> I think there's a problem here. If you recall the discussion with Dave JH> Turner (FSF), he said: >> I heard that you were considering a proprietary exec

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

2004-03-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:54:16 +0100, tom ehlert wrote: > > > MKEYB 0.40 released > > website http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.htm > > download http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.zip > > > > changes: > > now uses APACK for 200 byte sma

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

2004-03-17 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:54:16 +0100, tom ehlert wrote: MKEYB 0.40 released website http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.htm download http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.zip changes: now uses APACK for 200 byte smaller executable licensing changed to allow distribution of APACK'ed execut

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

2004-03-17 Thread Jim Hall
tom ehlert wrote: Hi all, MKEYB 0.40 released website http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.htm download http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.zip changes: now uses APACK for 200 byte smaller executable licensing changed to allow distribution of APACK'ed executables Tom, I think there'

Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-17 Thread Adam Peart
I just tried out the new version, and I had the same problem as the previous version. If I go emm38664.exe /noems, I get the message "func 43, out 8800 0006 ". But if I use ems, then I get mapping UBM's (16k each) at: d800 dc00 umb block 0 at d800:000, size = 0x800 paragraphs (32kb)

[Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

2004-03-17 Thread tom ehlert
Hi all, MKEYB 0.40 released website http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.htm download http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.zip changes: now uses APACK for 200 byte smaller executable licensing changed to allow distribution of APACK'ed executables tom -