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

2005-12-03 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:37 PM 12/3/2005 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Another victim / testcase could be UMBPCI, as it's written in TASM. Either the 1995 version, or Uwe Sieber's current one (sources only available on request) My interests lie in converting sources which could help people without destroying the o

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 migh

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 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 Fre

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, bu

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 ma

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

2005-11-29 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:52 PM 11/29/2005 +1300, Bart Oldeman wrote: 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 Ope

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. Possi

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 wro

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 w

[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 na