Re: [Freedos-devel] APPEND

2004-03-26 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:58:56 +0100, Aitor SantamarÃa Merino wrote: As far as I know, APPEND is considered dangerous and incompatible. It had better stay missing. Well, it is not aware of task switchers, it may have problems with executing nested SHELLs, true. Many reasons why MS does NOT support

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS EMM386 praise

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:14 PM 3/26/2004 -0500, Adam Peart wrote: >Now that I think about it, there is one slight bug with Descent 1, but I'm not sure >if it's to due with emm386. I know with ms-dos 6.22 we never had this problem, but >when you're playing, then switch to the map, then back to the game, the playin

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS EMM386 praise

2004-03-26 Thread Adam Peart
At 08:56 PM 03/26/2004, you wrote: Anyway, just an ACK that all problems I reported were solved in the RC, inc. hello.exe (and Quake, FreePascal, same problem), and Duke3d 800x600. Thanks Bart Now that I think about it, there is one slight bug with Descent 1, but I'm not sure if it's to due with

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS EMM386 praise

2004-03-26 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > There was a bug in EMM386. Map multiple pages, EMS 4.0 function 50h, > was broken. I fixed that and Lemmings runs for me. Cute game, although > I cannot play well enough to save any of them. Those poor lemmings :-( Anyway, just an ACK that all prob

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 release candidate #1

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:06 AM 3/26/2004 -0500, Adam Peart wrote: >Also, I ran slowdown and it still crashes. >SLOWDOWN 3.10, (C) 1993-2002, Bret Johnson. I added support for emulation of the WBINVD CPU instruction in EMM386. That appears to be the last of what it needs, as SLOWDOWN was running on my system. Judg

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS EMM386 praise

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:32 PM 3/26/2004 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, I installed the 24 March 2004 version of EMM386 and the test results >are very promising, although I still do not know why you have to use HIMEM >instead of FDXXMS (did not test HIMEM64. EMM386 binary is 30706 bytes). If >you use FDXXMS, system crashes

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 release candidate #1

2004-03-26 Thread Paul Berger
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 05:15, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:45:13 -0600, Michael Devore wrote: > > > Second problem report: UDMA. Unfortunately UDMA 7.0 fails on my system > > across the board, although it finds the controller and identifies it > > plus the two drives. Unde

Re: [Freedos-devel] SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-26 Thread Aitor Santamari'a Merino
Luchezar Georgiev escribio': On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:08:32 -0300, Alain wrote: about fat32 testing: I believe a working DOSFSCK 2.10 just what is needed (not what is whished for). Actually, I agree! If Eric can say "FreeDOS SMARTDRV is LBACACHE", why not say "FreeDOS SCANDISK is DOSFSCK"? ;-)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Latest TASM and MASM

2004-03-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Мар-2004 21:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luchezar Georgiev) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> AFAIK, latest DOS version of TASM was 4.1. 5.x is version of TASM for >> Win32. LG> TASM 5.3 was released as a PE executable but then was converted to DOS LG> using WDOSX, so it now works under DOS! U

Re: [Freedos-devel] SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-26 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:08:32 -0300, Alain wrote: about fat32 testing: I believe a working DOSFSCK 2.10 just what is needed (not what is whished for). Actually, I agree! If Eric can say "FreeDOS SMARTDRV is LBACACHE", why not say "FreeDOS SCANDISK is DOSFSCK"? ;-) DOSFSCK is not a SCANDISK, but

Re: [Freedos-devel] Latest TASM and MASM

2004-03-26 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
What version of TASM do you use? I haven't had LGDT problems with TASM 5.3 dated 30.V.2000. AFAIK, latest DOS version of TASM was 4.1. 5.x is version of TASM for Win32. TASM 5.3 was released as a PE executable but then was converted to DOS using WDOSX, so it now works under DOS! Undertunately, M

[Freedos-devel] FD DEBUG issues

2004-03-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Don't know how to easy (or not) to implement this feature, but MS-DEBUG allows to write numeric argument without spaces before: "int3", "int21". This may make harder to implement CMPXCHG8B instruction, but, if search will be through alpha-tree (trie), then this shouldn't cause troubles (j

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 release candidate #1

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:15 PM 3/26/2004 +0200, you wrote: >On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:45:13 -0600, Michael Devore wrote: > >>Second problem report: UDMA. Unfortunately UDMA 7.0 fails on my system across the >>board, although it finds the controller and identifies it plus the two drives. >>Under both HIMEM with and

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 release candidate #1

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:06 AM 3/26/2004 -0500, Adam Peart wrote: >Interesting results between noems & ems. Before, noems wasn't working, but with this >version it does. With noems: >C:\>mem > >MEM: error: EMM call 41h That's right. NOEMS turns off the page frame. Rest of the mem info looks reasonable. >Also,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Мар-2004 11:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to Aitor Santamarэa Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>emm386 RAM=m-n range for UMBs + EMS >>>emm386 ROM=m-n range of RAM to be used to shadow ROM >>> as soon as someone finds out what that's supposed to do _exactly_ ASM>> My guesses: te>

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 release candidate #1

2004-03-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Мар-2004 13:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luchezar Georgiev) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LG> What version of TASM do you use? I haven't had LGDT problems with TASM 5.3 LG> dated 30.V.2000. AFAIK, latest DOS version of TASM was 4.1. 5.x is version of TASM for Win32. --

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 release candidate #1

2004-03-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Мар-2004 11:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Peart) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: AP> Interesting results between noems & ems. Before, noems wasn't working, but AP> with this version it does. With noems: C:\>>mem AP> MEM: error: EMM call 41h In current MEMA this already changed (though, no

[Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: KC 1.0 ready

2004-03-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi all, I want to announce the availability of the KC (Key Compiler) tool, which is a tool for compiling text source keyboard descriptors into binary-type KeybCBs that will be used by KEYB2. In the binary pack, you have - the compiler, - documentation about the KEY language, that is used to desc

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 release candidate #1

2004-03-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 25-Мар-2004 20:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MD> 4M linear addresses. Apparently, TASM uses 24-bit mode for LGDT and LIDT MD> even if it there is a 32-bit force attempt with PWORD PTR. Bah. I added an MD> explicit DB 66h override to make the descriptor t

[Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 release candidate #1

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Auer
> echo 00: 0F 09 90 9D 66 58 C3 | xxd -r | ndisasm - 0F09 wbinvd 0002 90nop 0003 9Dpopf 0004 6658 pop eax 0006 C3ret So your SLOWDOWN crash happens because SLOWDOWN tries to disable the CPU cac

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 release candidate #1

2004-03-26 Thread Adam Peart
Interesting results between noems & ems. Before, noems wasn't working, but with this version it does. With noems: C:\>mem MEM: error: EMM call 41h Memory type Total - Used = Free (largest) - - --- Conventional640k 20.9k619k (

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, tom ehlert escribió: emm386 RAM=m-n range for UMBs + EMS emm386 ROM=m-n range of RAM to be used to shadow ROM as soon as someone finds out what that's supposed to do _exactly_ ASM> My guesses: ASM> RAM wrong guess why? I mean, you don't know how to implement this... (see below) AS

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS HELP errors

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I found some points where newest HHSTNDRD (FreeDOS HELP command) is outdated. First of all, it tells that it is "2003 by Rob..." instead of 2003-2004... Oh, and sometimes you have to press ESC instead of <- to go back to the previous page. And APROPOS/WHATIS often displays strings twice (in a

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS EMM386 praise

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I installed the 24 March 2004 version of EMM386 and the test results are very promising, although I still do not know why you have to use HIMEM instead of FDXXMS (did not test HIMEM64. EMM386 binary is 30706 bytes). If you use FDXXMS, system crashes as soon as UMB/XMS is used because IP wraps

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 release candidate #1

2004-03-26 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:45:13 -0600, Michael Devore wrote: Second problem report: UDMA. Unfortunately UDMA 7.0 fails on my system across the board, although it finds the controller and identifies it plus the two drives. Under both HIMEM with and without EMM386, all four DMA tests fail and the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-26 Thread tom ehlert
>>HIMEM /INT15H=... should not be extremely hard to do, so I vote for it. >> ASM> That's another argument that I like: low cost to implement it. A third ASM> opinion (or more) for the untie? a nice argument indeed: Eric thinks that it won't cost *me* a lot of time. LOL. tom --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-26 Thread tom ehlert
>>> some others like Win 3.11 compat >>> should probably be fixed before we call it FreeDOS 1.0 ... >> >> There is probably a patent to prevent us of it anyway :( ASM> I don't think so... Did it prevent DR-DOS from doing that anyway? I ASM> think it's just a question of misscompatibilities here o

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-26 Thread tom ehlert
>>emm386 RAM=m-n range for UMBs + EMS >>emm386 ROM=m-n range of RAM to be used to shadow ROM >> >> as soon as someone finds out what that's supposed to do _exactly_ >> ASM> My guesses: ASM> RAM wrong guess ASM> My suspicion is ... ASM> ROM, my guessing is (only a guessing), ... e.g. Eric impl

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