Hallo Herr tom ehlert, am Montag, 6. März 2023 um 10:14 schrieben Sie:
> Hallo Herr jer...@shidel.net, >> Any volunteers? > to start first: what would be the point to have 386MAX in freedos > distribution (after 20 years without it)? > I know that it was somewhat important in the middle ages, but now? answering my own question, Volkert via Freedos-devel, am Samstag, 2. Juli 2022 um 00:02 schrieben Sie: > Hello FreeDOS developer community! > Bob Smith of Sudley Place Software has released the source code of > 386MAX and related tools under the GPLv3 license! > He'd like this news to be passed on to whomever would be interested > in this source code, but he does add that the project has little to > no documentation available. See his comment at > https://github.com/sudleyplace/DPMIONE/issues/3#issuecomment-1172710414 > The reason why this is of particular importance to the FreeDOS > project, is because it provides the following two features that JEMM currenty > lacks: > 386MAX supports the Global EMM Import Specification (GEMMIS), which > allows Windows 3.x to start in 386 Enhanced mode, even when the EMM > manager is loaded. (The documentation in the 386MAX source code > seems to refer to it as the "Global Paging Import Spec".)386MAX > supports the same I/O port trapping API through INT 2fh that EMM386 > provides. This (at least in theory) should make it compatible with > certain emulation TSRs such as SoftMPU and VSB, which currently > don't support JEMM, and would require separate non-trivial ports to work with > JEMM's JLOAD feature. so there would be indeed some point to have 386MAX running. unfortunately it seems not not work on current real hardware. not sure if it's worth the trouble to debug this. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
