> On 22/07/2016 10:34, Tom Ehlert wrote:
>>> (Honestly, FreeCOM needs to be better optimized for size and then we
>>> wouldn't have to worry at all. That is one of our weakest links.)
>>
>> seriously: command.com has ~3 K resident size. what are you
>> complaining about?
> This implies swapping ca
Hi again, here is an improved version of Jack's trick:
By using UHDD /B instead of UIDE, to squeeze out a bit
more free low DOS RAM in the first 640k without getting
risks of "protected mode DMA service troubles" with too
cheap new BIOS versions: UIDE can be loaded safely into
UMB after loading U
On 22/07/2016 10:34, Tom Ehlert wrote:
>> (Honestly, FreeCOM needs to be better optimized for size and then we
>> wouldn't have to worry at all. That is one of our weakest links.)
>
> seriously: command.com has ~3 K resident size. what are you
> complaining about?
This implies swapping capability,
>> Has anyone tried "Installhigh=C:\FDOS\COMMAND.COM"
>> I have that working for a few apps (including DP and so far no issues, also
>> am loading CDROM drivers earlier in autoexec.bat and I can cram nealy
>> everything into upper memory.
> No, I never use INSTALL, though I'm vaguely aware of it.
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> Has anyone tried "Installhigh=C:\FDOS\COMMAND.COM"
> I have that working for a few apps (including DP and so far no issues, also
> am loading CDROM drivers earlier in autoexec.bat and I can cram nealy
> everything into upper memory.
No,
Has anyone tried "Installhigh=C:\FDOS\COMMAND.COM"
I have that working for a few apps (including DP and so far no issues, also
am loading CDROM drivers earlier in autoexec.bat and I can cram nealy
everything into upper memory.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi, here is an
Hi, here is an interesting suggestion from Jack: In spite of the
limitation of FreeDOS to support only one UMB provider, it seems
to be possible to do the following to mix different UMB sources:
> [...] It is NOT necessary to modify your kernel to get more UMBs
> in the monochrome-video area. A "
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:17 -0800, Caleb9849 (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
> ARG! Can someone please help me with this? I'm trying to run an old
> DOS Star Trek Game of mine. By DOS standards, it's pretty
> resource-heavy and requires upper memory. So I added the lines into
In old msdos there w
At 09:17 PM 1/18/2006 -0800, Caleb9849 wrote:
ARG! Can someone please help me with this? I'm trying to run an old DOS
Star Trek Game of mine. By DOS standards, it's pretty resource-heavy and
requires upper memory. So I added the lines into my fdconfig.sys to load
up emm386.exe (with the "n
Caleb9849 (sent by Nabble.com) schreef:
ARG! Can someone please help me with this? I'm trying to run an old
DOS Star Trek Game of mine. By DOS standards, it's pretty
resource-heavy and requires upper memory. So I added the lines into
my fdconfig.sys to load up emm386.exe (with the "noems" o
ARG! Can someone please help me with this? I'm trying to run an old DOS Star Trek Game of mine. By DOS standards, it's pretty resource-heavy and requires upper memory. So I added the lines into my fdconfig.sys to load up emm386.exe (with the "noems" option) and himem.exe . Then, after I boot
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