Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386-Fix time-effort. (Michael Devore)

2004-07-05 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:45 PM 7/5/2004 -0700, you wrote: > From: Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / > "I'd probably need a card and a driver to duplicate the problem since I > don't have a DOS compatible sound card". Not a problem. How & where would you like me to send the card & driv

[Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386-Fix time-effort. (Michael Devore)

2004-07-05 Thread
Michael, > From: Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / > Question 20004-07-05 14:03 > "I'd probably need a card and a driver to duplicate the problem since I > don't have a DOS compatible sound card". Not a problem. How & where would you like me to send the card & dr

Re: [Freedos-devel] FORMAT 0.91p released

2004-07-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: Please test if FORMAT now finally survives being run under MS kernel without triggering incompatibilities with MS kernel for FAT32. The Win9x DOS kernel provides "sketchy" default BPB but is on the other hand very picky with all sorts of boot sector BPB content details :-(. Pleas

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:06 AM 7/6/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: It necessary, RAM can be completely emulated within the command line parser via internal mapping to I= and X= options. It wouldn't take a lot of time to implement. hello Michael, please do so if you are willing to do that. I'll see about time on it

[Freedos-devel] FORMAT 0.91p released

2004-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I have improved FreeDOS FORMAT again: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/ format-0.91p.zip (134k, and I think that < 50% "by-others" is left in there after my changes...) >From news.txt: Version 0.91p Changes by Eric Auer: - "Format complete" no

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: It necessary, RAM can be completely emulated within the command line parser via internal mapping to I= and X= options. It wouldn't take a lot of time to implement. hello Michael, please do so if you are willing to do that. and your comment about it is correct: it's bette

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:03 AM 7/6/2004 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 5-éÀÌ-2004 01:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MD> DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEMORY\EMM386 FRAME=NONE EMM=1024 Michael, what about testing edition of EMM386 (which fills last para of included area by specific

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 5-Июл-2004 01:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MD> DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEMORY\EMM386 FRAME=NONE EMM=1024 Michael, what about testing edition of EMM386 (which fills last para of included area by specific values)? Also, now you may not replace A000

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Eric Auer escribió: Hi Brian! Interesting program that SBINIT.COM - needs protected mode but can only get there with help of VCPI or DPMI. It wouldn't be the first time that I hear of soundcard drivers that require to be in protected mode to do some init stuff. Not many people use (sound in) DO

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:26 PM 7/5/2004 -0700, you wrote: Hi Guys, Thanks for the quick response! If I try to load SBINIT.COM before EMM386 I get the following error: "pci aduio driver requires emm386 or similar". Note: devload will not load SBINIT.COM in config.sys. "I think this means that the driver wants to get s

[Freedos-devel] Re: Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Brian! Interesting program that SBINIT.COM - needs protected mode but can only get there with help of VCPI or DPMI. You can try to load CWSDPMI in resident mode (read the help, should be available at the DJGPP homepage at DJ Delorie), maybe DPMI works better than VCPI here. > "DEVICE=C:\FDOS\B

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: I have tried other memory managers like UMBPCI, but sbinit.com will not work with ones not having VCPI/DPMI. I get a error message indicating so when tring to load sbinit.com. Do you have legal access to MS-DOS 6 or Windows 9x ? in that case you could try MS's EMM386 (

[Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread
Hi Guys, Thanks for the quick response! If I try to load SBINIT.COM before EMM386 I get the following error: "pci aduio driver requires emm386 or similar". Note: devload will not load SBINIT.COM in config.sys. "I think this means that the driver wants to get some RAM pages in the first page ta

[Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > >I just downloaded EMM386.EXE & HIMEM64.EXE from ftp.devoresoftware.com > >7/4/04, but I can't seem to get them to work with the soundblaster > >SBINIT.COM driver which initializes my new soundblaster 16 PCI card. > > >"Could not allocate code/patch ram below 4mb boundary. > > DEVICE=C

Re: [Freedos-devel] updates: SORT, translations of FIND / others

2004-07-05 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Eric, Monday, July 5, 2004, 4:23:00 AM, you wrote: > Hi, translation time! > http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ sort-04jul2004.zip I'd prefer programming time as SORT can't sort anything greater then ~15000 byte. In this case I'd prefer functionality over 'smallest executable at

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:15 AM 7/5/2004 -0500, I wrote: DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEMORY\EMM386 FRAME=NONE EMM=1024 Alternatively, a more flexible and graceful approach, but depends on the driver being not totally stupid: DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEMORY\EMM386 NOEMS --- T

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-05 Thread Michael Devore
DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEMORY\EMM386 FRAME=NONE EMM=1024 At 09:33 PM 7/4/2004 -0700, you wrote: Hello to all, I just downloaded EMM386.EXE & HIMEM64.EXE from ftp.devoresoftware.com 7/4/04, but I can't seem to get them to work with the soundblaster SBINIT.COM driver which initializes my new soundbla