Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM 0.84-pre5 prerelease

2018-08-22 Thread Pär Moberg
In DOSbox info-zips zip16 and unzip runs fairly well (with cycles = max 95%) if I remember correctly Den ons 22 aug. 2018 22:04Rugxulo skrev: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:07 AM Tom Ehlert wrote: > >> >> as a side note: I have no experience with UNZIP.EXE in DOS, but I think >> it's

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM 0.84-pre5 prerelease

2018-08-22 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
AFAIK, VT-X is basically hardware-level support for virtualization and it does help noticeably. Without it, the VM hypervisor must do all that work in software. It kinda works like hardware acceleration for graphics in a video card. There's my two cents lol Sent with

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM 0.84-pre5 prerelease

2018-08-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:07 AM Tom Ehlert wrote: > > as a side note: I have no experience with UNZIP.EXE in DOS, but I think > it's performance pathetically slow. is this normal? > Under VM? Yes, "unzip" is specifically known to be much slower than normal. I'm not exactly sure why. Like I

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM 0.84-pre5 prerelease

2018-08-22 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi Rugxulo, > I know this was not a great bug report. Yes indeed. > In fact, I wasn't trying to be > too specific, just mentioning that some random and confusing stuff was > happening. to start with, you didn't mention even METADOS, or even what version of it, or even where to download it. so

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM 0.84-pre5 prerelease

2018-08-22 Thread Ladislav Lacina
BAT language is indeed very weak but is has few hacks. One of them is the possibility of carrying the tiny COM binaries inside. You can call command ECHO [ascii-compatible-Binary-code] > HELPER.COM The question is how often is possible to carry such COM files but generaly it should be possible.