Hi Paul, thanks for all the tests of various apps on your hardware!
> I'd like to report that the livecd.iso works for me on my hardware: > Prime H310M-C R2.0, with I3-8100 CPU. > I am impress and surprise, because it have a SATA chip that does not emulate > IDE. > It does fail on first cdrom driver: UDVD2?, but works with fallback: > El-Torito. > I guess it use Int 13h... > pretty much the only way I can explain that it works. The ELTORITO driver indeed uses int 13 to access CD/DVD with help of the BIOS, which allows it to work even if your SATA chip can only do AHCI and cannot be switched to a more "IDE style" SATA mode. However, ELTORITO often only works after you boot from the CD/DVD drive, not if you boot from harddisk. I guess the same happens on your computer? Or can you access CD/DVD even after booting the installed FreeDOS from harddisk? Very suspicious that you get so many harddisk I/O errors! > reboot: > > JemmEx exception 0d at CS:EIP=E800:6DA, ErrC=0 > > Esc to abort, worked You mean when the installer tried to reboot for you, it got stuck with the EMM386 variant JEMMEX reporting one of the famous general protection errors (exception 0d)? In your case, that happened in your UMB area or one of your BIOS extensions (e800:6da). Please check with MEM whether the area is used as UMB or by BIOS. If it is used as UMB, you can tell JEMMEX to avoid that. One method could be removing the I=TEST option from the JEMMEX line. You can also add X=E800-EFFF there. Note that problematic UMB regions can also lead to crashes for various apps - maybe some of those below. > Boom: Division by Zero at eip=ba4e5 flags=3246 The clone of the Doom game, I assume. The address is inside the text screen memory, which is strange because there should be no program code there. > Bolitary: Sound init succeeded, then hang Which type of sound hardware do you have? Would Bolitary work if you disable sound in the game? > BTitanic: Ok > DosDef: with mouse, seems Ok > Eliza: Ok > EMPONG: : can`t open Sounds like a question for Mateusz Viste ;-) > EV4DE: Ok > EWSNAKE: Return then hang Return? > FlpyBird: Ok > FMINES: return then hang Return? > FreeDOOM: Can't open What do you mean by cannot open? > JemmEX: exception 6 at CS:EIP=08EC:DCC2 Errc=0 https://sandpile.org/x86/except.htm says this means undefined opcode. It could be something like trying to LOCK an instruction not meant to be LOCK-ed: Some EMM386 versions automatically ignore such problems. It could also mean trying to use some CPU feature which is not present on your CPU, or trying to do something not allowed in protected mode? > GnuChess:(left-arrow)[2J(left-arrow)[23,20H0:00 > > need ANSI.SYS? That sounds very plausible :-) Try loading our NANSI. Jerome: Please add NANSI to some boot option of the installer (and of the installed DOS, of course). It uses little RAM and helps with compatibility & speed. > Hangman: Ok, say there is sound, no sound, never > had sound anywhere is FDOS You will find out that the same happens with MS DOS. Sound is not the job of DOS, but has to be done by the apps. And most old games are unable to produce sound on new hardware. Let me know whether MPXPLAY (newer media player) can use sound on your hardware. > IVAN: JemmEX: exc 0D at CS:EIP=0700:10000, errc=0 That again is a general protection fault. In this case, the unusual problem happened that IVAN tried to proceed from 700:ffff to 700:10000 which is an overflow for 16-bit software. Maybe something else had failed before to trigger this. > KRAPTOR: Returns then hang Returns? > Liquiwar: JemmEx: exc 6 at CS:EIP=D8:1F Errc=0 Illegal opcode again. The address is suspiciously low, probably the actual error was trying to jump to some address which was not set at all, maybe in context of some driver or BIOS access? > Magnetic: probably ok, I have no file to play Hmmm? > Mirmagic (mirror.exe): black screen, hang Given that https://www.artsoft.org/mirrormagic/ also has versions for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, I checked the download: It is supposed to use SDL, Allegro library and protected mode, with sound. You could try without JEMMEX. Maybe the CWSDPMI version used in your context was not configured properly? > emacs: Ok > pgme: ok > rcal: ok Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
