Hi all,
I announce version 0.11 of FD-DISPLAY, with several new features:
- It implements a new MODULE for the "CGA" hardware type (CGA adapters), thus making unnecessary the existence of a GRAFTABL tool for the FreeDOS project. This is yet untested (I have no CGA cards handy). Furthermore, any other GRAFTABL is prevented from loading
- It allocates buffers to XMS if available, thus saving 9-10KB of convenctional memory for each buffer (in the most frequent case of a single buffer, resident TPA memory size reduces to about 11KB. The SELECT buffer has now the approrpiate size (and may save even more KBs on CGA and EGA)
- DISPLAY is now DISPLAY.EXE (instead of DISPLAY.COM), with the same resident size, in the hope that it will bypass the kernel UMB allocation bug for COM files (as reported by Bernd). Notice that in few more versions it'll be turned into a SYS
- Better commandline parsing (tab, #10 are now blanks also)
- The maximum number of allocated buffers now depends on buffer size and available memory (and is no longer of 5), with a maximum of 8 (or the available memory)
- FIX: the limit mentioned in the previous item was not observed when you specify the fonts explicitely in the commandline.
Unfortunately, the new version (that has already been tested and seems to work) requires that FD-MODE be modified to admit this new version (it's simply that FD-MODE allows version 0.10, and has to check wether version=0.10 OR version=0.11).
Download links:
executable: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/disp011x.zip
source: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/disp011s.zip
Happy testing... Aitor
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