Re: [Freedos-user] New to DOS - 486

2020-09-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > - the newer the mobo, the more likely it can use some part of "conventional > memory" (first 640 KB) for its own purposes, like my ASRock mentioned in > that other thread For example for SATA controllers or USB. > - the newer the motherboard, the more likely it'll offer less and less

Re: [Freedos-user] New to DOS - 486

2020-09-25 Thread ZB
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:11:33AM +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > Is that with EMM386 NOEMS option? I expect EMS 3.2 to > be rarely necessary and with NOEMS you can still use > EMS 4.0 which people often forget. With 64k extra UMB. I didn't write down the particular results and conditions - just noted

Re: [Freedos-user] New to DOS - 486

2020-09-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Of course PCI bus is much faster, still even 16-bit ISA cards, if one uses > good quality graphics adaptor, is "fast enough" for DOS applications. Not really. DOS does not normally use the acceleration of "good quality". For example I once tried fractals on a 75 MHz computer and found out

Re: [Freedos-user] New to DOS - 486

2020-09-25 Thread ZB
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 04:28:45PM +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > Of course there might be a few games which do use > acceleration features of the card, but for my first > PCI card, it was only the game which came bundled > with it :-) It actually depends on requirements; to me for most cases that (lo