[Freedos-user] emm386, himem.sys, config.sys

2013-10-16 Thread Miguel Garza
Hi, I recently discovered Rufus, the DOS boot disk installer, and installed FreeDOS on my thumbdrive. I think it's pretty neat. Other than occasional command-line use in Windows, the last time I probably messed with DOS was probably about 20 years ago. And I was certainly no programmer then.

Re: [Freedos-user] emm386, himem.sys, config.sys

2013-10-16 Thread Louis Santillan
I don't know how RUFUS is setup, but if it is a FreeDOS distro, it should have Jemm, or HimemX. Set one of those up in config.sys. -L On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Miguel Garza garz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I recently discovered Rufus, the DOS boot disk installer, and installed FreeDOS on

Re: [Freedos-user] emm386, himem.sys, config.sys

2013-10-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Miguel Garza garz...@gmail.com wrote: I recently discovered Rufus, the DOS boot disk installer, and installed FreeDOS on my thumbdrive. I think it's pretty neat. Yeah, it's cool. Anyways, what I am wondering is, I had come across PictView and tried

[Freedos-user] EMM386 and other memory driver safety on mixed hardware - was: ... HP Compaq 6720s

2011-10-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi everybody, I agree that there is some controversy about EMM386 versus JEMM386 and JEMMEX... Basically the former had a focus on careful testing, while the latter has a focus on if it is cool for Japheth, it is also likely to be enjoyed by other users. So the J drivers indeed are more modern

[Freedos-user] emm386 expanded memory

2008-01-05 Thread Charlie Wilkes
Hi, I have set up a freedos partition on my laptop, and I am having a problem with expanded memory. Mi.com says some programs might not recognize expanded memory without a page frame and indeed I cannot load Master of Magic because it says I need at least 2,700k of expanded memory. I have tried

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Norbert Remmel
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386/ are the files emmx220.zip, EMM386 version 2.20 memory manager, mostly executable files; and emms220.zip, source code files. Thank you for the new release. While testing I discovered the following... Do you remember the pentium III

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:18 AM 7/28/2006 +0200, Norbert wrote: Do you have an idea, why the Pentium III machine is o.k. now and the others not? Use X=A000-EFFF NOVDS Remove all device drivers. Then change and add as booting works. - Take

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:34 AM 7/28/2006 -0500, I wrote: Use X=A000-EFFF NOVDS Remove all device drivers. Then change and add as booting works. Also, pure boot failure almost has to be A20-related. Nothing else is related to vanilla-configured boot. Manager, kernel, hardware, driver, application, something

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Japheth
On my machine A20 is always enabled. BIOS int 15h reports kbd and fast PS/2 methods being available, but none works to disable A20. IMO if A20 cannot be disabled in real-mode, emm386 shouldn't try to emulate A20 disable in v86-mode.

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael! Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386/ are the files emmx220.zip, EMM386 version 2.20 memory manager, mostly executable files; and emms220.zip, source code files. Thanks for the update! This release of EMM386 and HIMEM has several changes and fixes, two of a

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:39 AM 7/28/2006 +0200, Japheth wrote: On my machine A20 is always enabled. BIOS int 15h reports kbd and fast PS/2 methods being available, but none works to disable A20. IMO if A20 cannot be disabled in real-mode, emm386 shouldn't try to emulate A20 disable in v86-mode. I thought about

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Norbert Remmel
Use X=A000-EFFF NOVDS Remove all device drivers. Then change and add as booting works. O.K. did it and found out the following... So far no pc crashes with vds disabled (I have not tested all pcs yet, but these having had problems this morning don't crash anymore when running emm386)

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:02 PM 7/28/2006 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Would it be possible to have a test binary where the A20 trick is disabled and another one where the IF trick is disabled? Then those, for whom the update makes things worse, could check which of the changes caused that. A20 might be controlled

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Jim Hall
Michael Devore wrote: [...] This reply also tests whether SourceForge is only delaying freedos-devel, since SourceForge sent my last freedos-user mail right to the list without delay, while an earlier post to freedos-devel is still out there zipping about the ether. SourceForge's site

[Freedos-user] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-27 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386/ are the files emmx220.zip, EMM386 version 2.20 memory manager, mostly executable files; and emms220.zip, source code files. This release of EMM386 and HIMEM has several changes and fixes, two of a low-level nature, but at a guess,

[Freedos-user] EMM386 causes Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail with some video cards

2006-04-14 Thread John Hupp
Hello, all. Here is another issue arising from my check-out of the new Service Release 2. I find that loading EMM386.EXE can cause Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail. I boot fine, then press Ctrl-Alt-Del from the DOS prompt. Thescreen goes black, but the video and system BIOS boot messages never

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 causes Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail with some video cards

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:15 PM 4/14/2006 -0400, you wrote: Hello, all. Here is another issue arising from my check-out of the new Service Release 2. I find that loading EMM386.EXE can cause Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail. I boot fine, then press Ctrl-Alt-Del from the DOS prompt. The screen goes black, but the video

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 causes Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail with some video cards

2006-04-14 Thread chris evans
It probally general protection fault interaction between the vesa 3.0 video driver and the memory mapped regions that video card wants to access. Have EMM386 exclude the memory area a000-h. --chris http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/ John Hupp wrote: Hello, all. Here is another issue arising

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-12-03 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:02 PM 11/28/2005 -0800, Blair Campbell wrote: I would personally really appreciate the ASM in FreeDOS HELP being a test case, as this assembler won't even compile with Arrow Assembler or the Watcom Assembler (which both use older MASM/TASM syntax, afaik). The only ASM file I found in

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-12-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: At 11:02 PM 11/28/2005 -0800, Blair Campbell wrote: I would personally really appreciate the ASM in FreeDOS HELP being a test case, as this assembler won't even compile with Arrow Assembler or the Watcom Assembler (which both use older MASM/TASM syntax, afaik). Another

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-12-03 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:27 PM 12/3/2005 -0600, I wrote: The three people following to this point might wonder why Nomyso doesn't just eliminate the 'DWord' in the $DEFINE statement and eliminate the problem. Well, you can't automatically do that because the DWORD would be necessary in some cases where you

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-12-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
Blair Campbell wrote: Speaking of bugfixes, a person on FreeDOS IRC has mentioned many times that the latest versions of HIMEM/EMM386 won't work with certain hard drives, but will work with others. AFAIR, he also says that NOVDS does nothing to change this. Sorry, but mentioning it on IRC

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:15 PM 12/1/2005 +, Gerry Hickman wrote: What we do know is this: 2. EMM386 with SCSI controllers and VDS enabled is completely unusable and should never be tried outside the test lab. What? Completely untrue. More like 2. EMM386 with SCSI and VDS works on all tested systems,

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-11-29 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Blair Campbell wrote: PS: If the C is ever to be compiled with Watcom C, as Bernd suggested, the global functions in the asm would need to have a _ in front instead of behind, as this is (for some weird reason) the way OpenWatcom does things. I think you have this the

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-11-29 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:02 PM 11/28/2005 -0800, Blair Campbell wrote: Speaking of bugfixes, a person on FreeDOS IRC has mentioned many times that the latest versions of HIMEM/EMM386 won't work with certain hard drives, but will work with others. AFAIR, he also says that NOVDS does nothing to change this.

[Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx208.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package (EXEs compressed via mutant UPX), and emms208.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. Nomyso version 2.0 was uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/nomyso

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-11-28 Thread Blair Campbell
I anticipate that Version 2.08 of EMM386 is the final non-bugfix release I will create (bugfix versions will continue, as necessary). I've Speaking of bugfixes, a person on FreeDOS IRC has mentioned many times that the latest versions of HIMEM/EMM386 won't work with certain hard drives, but

Re: [Freedos-user] emm386 on 286 (was: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list)

2005-10-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 7-Окт-2005 02:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: DEVICE=HIMEM... DEVICE=FDXMS286... DEVICE=EMM386... MD Seriously, you think that stacking up duplicate drivers and expecting them MD to all fail gracefully in line with the current CPU is a good

Re: [Freedos-user] emm386 on 286 (was: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list)

2005-10-07 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:46 AM 10/7/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: The test already is performed inside the driver, and cannot be performed in an errorlevel-generating tool. Because errorlevels are not used in context of DEVICE=... loading. The autoconfigure would look like this: DEVICE=HIMEM... DEVICE=FDXMS286...

[Freedos-user] emm386 on 286 (was: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list)

2005-10-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, You cannot simultaneously argue that EMM386 may use a 386-level test to help configure loading at boot time, yet a separate program cannot legitimately perform the same test. The nature of EMM386 and HIMEM precludes loading them at a subsequent DOS prompt. Hmmm...

[Freedos-user] EMM386

2005-09-25 Thread Jose Antonio Senna
As everybody probably knows by now, EMM386 works with the 386-optimized freedos kernel. I am currently using it with kwc38616 build of 20 September. Stability with Lynx also improved . It seems that in this respect the classification of EMM386 shall now be useable. A problem that appeared with

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Brolin Empey
Michael Devore wrote: At 04:42 PM 9/21/2005 -0700, Brolin Empey wrote: FastTracker 2.08 runs fine for me under latest HIMEM and EMM386. PKUNZIP failing unless the NOEMS option is specified, now that's a problem I'm working on. EMM386 v2.05 breaks my FDCONFIG.SYS! When booting, I get the

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Сен-2005 02:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BB it sounds like VDS again to me. That has the effect that no more can be BB read from harddisk, BB which would explain the error about the cdromdrive, which seems like BB perfectly fine syntax

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Сен-2005 16:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brolin Empey) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BE CONFIG.SYS* error in line 26** 12?DEVICEhigh=C:\FDOS\bin\vide-cdd.sys /D:vide BE ^ BE * this is wrong: FDCONFIG.SYS is being parsed, *not* CONFIG.SYS! BE ** this too is wrong:

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Brolin Empey
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 22-Сен-2005 02:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BB it sounds like VDS again to me. That has the effect that no more can be BB read from harddisk, BB which would explain the error about the cdromdrive, which seems like

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Сен-2005 09:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brolin Empey) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: No, error message says parsing error, not read error. For me, there looks like broken memory contents. BE The line in question is indeed syntactically correct. Yes, I see. BE The

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-21 Thread Brolin Empey
Michael Devore wrote: At 05:05 PM 9/19/2005 -0700, Brolin wrote: Firstly, I have not tested this new release. That said, what is the status with regards to having FastTracker II working on FreeDOS? FastTracker 2.08 runs fine for me under latest HIMEM and EMM386. PKUNZIP failing unless the

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:42 PM 9/21/2005 -0700, Brolin Empey wrote: FastTracker 2.08 runs fine for me under latest HIMEM and EMM386. PKUNZIP failing unless the NOEMS option is specified, now that's a problem I'm working on. EMM386 v2.05 breaks my FDCONFIG.SYS! When booting, I get the following output:

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: EMM386 isn't involved in parsing CONFIG.SYS at all, but you can try the emmflesh.zip update if you want to see about the latest. it sounds like VDS again to me. That has the effect that no more can be read from harddisk, which would explain the error about the

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:48 PM 9/21/2005 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: it sounds like VDS again to me. That has the effect that no I think that it'd be really nice to have a utility to detect the instances where VDS would fail because then distros like mine can add the NOVDS option in the installed config.sys

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Michael, This version of EMM386 has a number of compatibility changes Cool. While on the topics of VDS, the VDS option is now on by default. Too many environments require this to leave it as optional, plus a default on condition matches Microsoft EMM386. There exist SCSI setups which

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Gerry Hickman schreef: A better option would be to get to the bottom of why SCSI and VDS do not like each other. SCSI is a drive interface - I don't see how it can be affected by VDS unless there's something bigger going on. It may he SCSI is merely showing up the problem, as opposed to BEING

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:21 PM 9/19/2005 +0100, you wrote: A better option would be to get to the bottom of why SCSI and VDS do not like each other. SCSI is a drive interface - I don't see how it can be affected by VDS unless there's something bigger going on. It may he SCSI is merely showing up the problem, as

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update Bug Report

2005-09-19 Thread Daniel Quintiliani
Michael Devore wrote: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx205.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms205.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. This version of EMM386 has a number of compatibility changes to enhance operability with a

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update Bug Report

2005-09-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Daniel Quintiliani schreef: This update breaks MEM. While it finally allows OpenGEM to work at the same time as my plug-n-play SoundBlaster AWE64, upon running the latest stable version of MEM, I get MEM: UMB Corruption. -Dan MEM (1.6) itself is broken, get 1.7beta or 1.8alpha both

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Brolin
Michael Devore wrote: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx205.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms205.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. Firstly, I have not tested this new release. That said, what is the status with regards to

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:05 PM 9/19/2005 -0700, Brolin wrote: Firstly, I have not tested this new release. That said, what is the status with regards to having FastTracker II working on FreeDOS? My FreeDOS installation consists mainly of what was distributed with the Beta9 SR1 CD, so some of the components may

[Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx205.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms205.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. This version of EMM386 has a number of compatibility changes to enhance operability with a variety of DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 VDS test fix, works with HP Pavilion

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:46 PM 8/7/2005 +0100, Gerry Hickman wrote: I then rebooted without VDS and everything worked correctly. I then rebooted with VDS again, and everything was messed up. Thing is, I have no idea what VDS is for, and don't know if I'd ever need it! When VDS becomes a default option, either

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 VDS test fix, works with HP Pavilion

2005-08-07 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Michael, Okay, if you've been following the VDS bouncing ball, be aware there is now a new EMM386 test release, called emmchimp.zip at ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 which does fix the problem using the VDS option of EMM386 on the original problematic HP Pavilion laptop. The

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 VDS test fix, works with HP Pavilion

2005-08-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: I would like anyone who has had a problem with VDS -- judging by feedback that being Gerry Hickman, Bernd, and untold legions of lurkers -- to try this version of EMM386 and see if VDS works for them. If we're all astoundingly lucky, this test release fixes

[Freedos-user] EMM386 VDS test fix, works with HP Pavilion

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Devore
Okay, if you've been following the VDS bouncing ball, be aware there is now a new EMM386 test release, called emmchimp.zip at ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 which does fix the problem using the VDS option of EMM386 on the original problematic HP Pavilion laptop. How do I know?

[Freedos-user] EMM386 'horse' went wild

2005-08-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, I tested EMM386 horse with VDS option, and on this system it's still total meltdown. All hard drive info misreported. Too scared to continue in case can't boot anymore. Asus A7V333 latest BIOS Adaptec 29160N SCSI host adapter with 2 x 36Gb drives FreeDOS Beta9sr1 except HIMEM64 3.10a and

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 'horse' went wild

2005-08-01 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:02:59 +0100, you wrote: Hi, My painfully research result, may help you to optimize the CONFIG.SYS: rem Why do some people run non-SCSI drives? ;DEVICE=DRIVER\UDMA2.SYS Because SCSI means expensive!! rem This is not open source! DEVICEhigh=OTHER\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:FDCD

[Freedos-user] EMM386 2.04/HIMEM 3.11 update, recommended

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx204.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms204.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. EMM386 2.04 and HIMEM 3.11 are bugfix updates. HIMEM 3.11 is a recommended update for all FreeDOS users. EMM386

[Freedos-user] EMM386 2.03 (minor, for WDOSX)

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx203.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms203.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. EMM386 Version 2.03 is a minor update, recommended for those using programs which are bound to the WDOSX DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2--2005 21:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamara Merino) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ASM - what EMX is exactly ASM - how does it relate to RSX.EXE? copying.rsx: RSX : DPMI-DOS 0.9/1.0 extender for 80386+ processors rsx.exe: RSX (32-bit 5.21) DPMI DOS extender for emx and

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-06-04 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:13 PM 6/2/2005 +0200, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Michael Devore escribió: At 03:07 PM 5/3/2005 -0500, I wrote: Ha! What is up with these goofball extender limitations? RAR32 uses RSX extender. I can't decide if there is a weird bug in EMM386 that makes DOS/32A unhappy with

[Freedos-user] EMM386 2.02 Stable (should be)

2005-05-16 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx202.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms202.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. EMM386 Version 2.02 is a stable release with small bug fixes over version 2.01 and compatibility enhancements. It

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 v2.01 bug

2005-05-06 Thread Fox
On Thursday 05 May 2005 23:19, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 5--2005 08:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fox) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: F No, my system is just fine. It's a Cel 850 with 384 MB RAM (by the way, if I F don't specify the /MAX=129000 parameter on HIMEM, then at boot all

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 v2.01 bug

2005-05-06 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:38 AM 5/6/2005 +0200, Fox wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 23:19, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: What program reports occupied? The FreeDOS MEM (it's the only program I know which i able to play with memory bigger than 64MB) You'll need to post a MEM /X report and CONFIG.SYS. I don't know

Re: [Freedos-user] emm386 2.01 question

2005-05-06 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:52 PM 5/6/2005 +0200, Florian Xaver wrote: As i understand, emm386 switches the pc into protected mode (so it needs VCPI).Then... is it in V86 mode? So wouldn't it be possible to make a better error handling. I mean, if a program hangs or so, that not the computer hangs and that you can

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 v2.01 bug

2005-05-05 Thread Fox
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 20:09, Michael Devore wrote: Is the sound garbled because your CPU is maxed out, the CD transfer is too slow, or because something is causing corruption? If your CPU is maxed out No, my system is just fine. It's a Cel 850 with 384 MB RAM (by the way, if I don't specify

[Freedos-user] EMM386 v2.01 bug

2005-05-04 Thread Fox
Hi, When I load EMM386 with the VDS option and I want to listen to music (MP3) with MPXPLAY (the DOS32 version) from CD-ROM, the sound is garbled. When I listen from hard disk, it's ok. If I load EMM386 without the VDS option, the music is ok on the disk and on CD. By the way, when the sound

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 v2.01 bug

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:16 PM 5/4/2005 +0200, Fox wrote: When I load EMM386 with the VDS option and I want to listen to music (MP3) with MPXPLAY (the DOS32 version) from CD-ROM, the sound is garbled. When I listen from hard disk, it's ok. The thing to remember about the VDS option is that it doesn't change

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:38 AM 5/4/2005 +0200, Roberto Mariottini wrote: I don't think it's still available, because today the french site links to Borland USA for downloads. So no more free french beer :-( Still I have that copy of BP 7 downloaded legally, I can send it to you to test it with your environment,

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-05-04 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:31 AM 5/4/2005 +0200, Fox wrote: My CPU is a Celeron 766 MHz FC-PGA Maybe it's ok because I gave you a link to the shareware version... (I have the full one). I will pack my copy of the game and will send it to your ftp (devoresoftware/incoming), so you will have exactly the same program as

[Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-05-03 Thread Fox
Hi, My today's FreeDOS session looked like that: RAR 3.2 (RAR32.EXE) ATOMINO LAME MPXPLAY (The DOS32 version) Jazz - don't ran. Just showed Unhandled exception 000E at 0020 1BEF ErrCode 0002, but not hanged. Then I wanted to run RAR32 but it frozed up :( The good news is that RAR32 is working

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-05-03 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:57 PM 5/3/2005 +0200, Fox wrote: Jazz - don't ran. Just showed Unhandled exception 000E at 0020 1BEF ErrCode 0002, but not hanged. Is this that Jazz Jackrabbit thing? You would be the second person reporting a problem there. Any link to get the DOS version for me to test? I Googled for

[Freedos-user] emm386 2.01 tested

2005-05-03 Thread Florian Xaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Now MPXPLAY doesn't shut down at start up, but randomly if i change directory. I am using the PMODE/W driver. It seems, that PMODE/W has this problem... (I am also using it under WinXP and there isn't any problem. Also without EMM386, there is no

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-05-03 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3--2005 12:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MD I'm pretty sure I have/had RAR32, somewhere, but it wasn't in the test http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarx341.exe --- This SF.Net email is

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-05-03 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:22 PM 5/3/2005 +0200, Fox wrote: You found the Jazz 2 game, which is indeed for Windows. Jazz 1 can be downloaded from http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/111 Jazz runs okay for me, at least as far as running the green rodent around and shooting things. Only problem I have with

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-05-03 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:57 PM 5/3/2005 +0200, you wrote: 0002, but not hanged. Then I wanted to run RAR32 but it frozed up :( The good news is that RAR32 is working at all (don't worked with the EMM386 1.5) :-) RAR32 also runs okay for me IF I limit free XMS to 429M. If I have more than 429M available, RAR32 say

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-05-03 Thread Fox
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:36, Michael Devore wrote: Jazz runs okay for me, at least as far as running the green rodent around and shooting things. Only problem I have with Jazz is the need to run SLOWDOWN to get my computer to 20% speed to avoid the Turbo Pascal runtime error 200 problem. Do

[Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01 Bugfix Released

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx201.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms201.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. EMM386 Version 2.01 is a bugfix release for Version 2.0. It is required for everyone who has version 2.0, and is a

[Freedos-user] EMM386 gun-smoking with HIMEM /max

2005-05-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I did extensive testing with HIMEM /max=... to limit the amount of available XMS memory. The biggest value for /max which works for me is 84992, one kilobyte more and ZIP starts to crash (emm386 illegal instruction message, cs:ip at 0:b, ds=f, es=0...). Interesting enough, you can add a bit

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 gun-smoking with HIMEM /max

2005-05-01 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:17 AM 5/1/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Hi, I did extensive testing with HIMEM /max=... to limit the amount of available XMS memory. The biggest value for /max which works for me is 84992, one kilobyte more and ZIP starts to crash (emm386 illegal instruction message, cs:ip at 0:b, ds=f,

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 gun-smoking with HIMEM /max

2005-05-01 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:07 AM 5/1/2005 -0500, I wrote: Could be the sideways nibble that EMM386 does if it doesn't have a full (1.5M * n) pool allocation block from a previous allocation. It tries to eat 32K off an adjacent address free XMS handle and pass it over to the currently used handle to fill out the

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 v2.0

2005-04-30 Thread Fox
On Friday 29 April 2005 17:58, Michael Devore wrote: At 03:51 PM 4/29/2005 +0200, you wrote: (...) Aladdin is still not working with EMM386 2.0 (...) You need to use /X2MAX32 option with HIMEM, on the HIMEM line in CONFIG.SYS. I tested Aladdin right before release with it. Nothing to do

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.0 Released

2005-04-29 Thread Jim Hall
Thanks! I've updated the LSM, mirrored the release, and posted a news item on FreeDOS.org. Should show up in a few minutes. -jh Michael Devore wrote: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx20.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms20.zip,

[Freedos-user] EMM386 v2.0

2005-04-29 Thread Fox
Hi, I'm just reporting, that Aladdin is still not working with EMM386 2.0 - still the same error message: XMS memory allocating error. When I waste some XMS with EATXMS, the game launch ok. Fox --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your

[Freedos-user] EMM386 2.0 Released

2005-04-28 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx20.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms20.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. Version 2.0 of EMM386 supports sharing of extended memory between EMS, XMS, and VCPI from a common pool. For most

[Freedos-user] EMM386 problem

2005-04-24 Thread Fox
Hi, I've installed recently FreeDOS on an friend's PC (Cel 850 / 384 MB SDRAM). That PC have a Sound Blaster 64 PCI sound card and I have a big problem to install its driver. The driver must be launched when HIMEM EMM386 are installed, and it needs to have at least 2MB of the first 4MB XMS

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 problem

2005-04-24 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:03 PM 4/24/2005 +0200, Fox wrote: Hi, I've installed recently FreeDOS on an friend's PC (Cel 850 / 384 MB SDRAM). That PC have a Sound Blaster 64 PCI sound card and I have a big problem to install its driver. The driver must be launched when HIMEM EMM386 are installed, and it needs to have

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 1.15 release is out

2005-02-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:05 AM 2/21/2005 -0800, Charlie Wilkes wrote: Far out man! I just played Master of Orion for about an hour and it worked great with this version. Not good with mi.com, however... weird characters and a manic counter spinning away at the very bottom of the screen... BONG HIT! Gotta reboot.

[Freedos-user] EMM386 bugs update

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files emmx13b.zip, EMM386 mostly executable package, and emms13b.zip, EMM386 mostly source package. These versions follow the latest EMM386 fileset template directory and naming conventions. EMM386 supports [in|ex]clusion ranges to

[Freedos-user] EMM386 enhancement, plus cosmetic HIMEM change

2004-08-30 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files emm386.zip and himem.zip containing uncompressed executables of, respectively, EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.EXE, plus the source files modified in this latest version. EMM386 adds support for EMS function 51h, reallocate pages. This

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17--2004 16:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: as always, your message appears as 1 long line. Very wide. Manually quoting now.. MD wins and I'll change or not, accordingly. What I won't do is change away MD from using the world-standard multi-platform Eudora

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18--2004 12:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: no big problem. MD Alright, I changed to hard CR's, I look at source of your letter (which I answer) - no, there are no hard CRs inside paragraphs. :) :(

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:47 AM 5/19/2004 +0400, you wrote: Hi! 18-íÁÊ-2004 12:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: no big problem. MD Alright, I changed to hard CR's, I look at source of your letter (which I answer) - no, there are no hard CRs inside paragraphs. :) :( That's because

[Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Antonio Zampino
Hi I am testing the latest Beta of FreeDos9 on my PC: ASUS P4C800E Deluxe with 1024 MB ram with following Config.sys Menu Item 2: !SET dosdir=C:\FDOS !SET lang=EN ;for help on commands, see file config.sys in your FreeDOS directory

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Michael Devore
Looks like you might have something loaded high in a UMB that is conflicting with your machine environment. Take out the I=C800-C8FF to see if the problem goes away. In fact, you could try full exclusion via X=A000-EFFF (temporarily) to see if there are any UMB conflicts, then bring the

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:50 AM 5/18/2004 +0400, you wrote: Hi! 17-íÁÊ-2004 14:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: as always, your message appears as 1 long line. Very wide. Manually quoting now.. MD wins and I'll change or not, accordingly. What I won't do is change away MD from

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: I have no idea what Eudora is doing, the e-mails look okay to me going out with plain style. By the way, your original quote-back was not wrapped and indented, and Bernd's was, so what does that mean? When replying with your text quoted, I see it as 1 single long line.

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Bart Oldeman schreef: p.s. to others, please don't ask me when I'm going to do this or that -- as I said I'm not even sure if there'll be a new FD kernel release or even basic CVS updates before July -- most of the components of my freedos test box are on their way to a container ship due to