On Tue, 18-Aug-2009, Christian Masloch <c...@bttr-software.de> wrote:
>>>> so it is good that HIMEMX and JEMM386 are still separately available. >>> >>> Separately from what? >> >> Separately from MS-DOS, FreeDOS, or other DOS variants, since few if-any >> of their EMM drivers are still under maintenance, and as some have never >> corrected BUGS! > > I support your intention (i.e. JEMM being the best available PM memory > manager) but the answer doesn't fit what Eric said: > >> At the moment, JEMMEX already is too fancy for many ancient DOS games >> which use pre-VCPI DOS extenders, so it is good that HIMEMX and JEMM386 >> are still separately available. I will have to let others reply to JEMMEX being too-fancy or not for games use, as I have no DOS "games" and cannot comment on this. However, QEMM and maybe other drivers offer "integrated" XMS and PM support, without any gripes I ever read about them being too-fancy, so the idea of JEMMEX seems good to me! "Integration" sometimes does simplify things -- I integrated the old QCACHE, QDMA, and QDVD into what has now become UIDE, and thus far everyone seems happy with having to load only one driver, not three! > Also, isn't JEMM actually FreeDOS's memory manager of choice? I suppose > there was such a thing as "FreeDOS EMM" (that from which JEMM was > created) > but is it still maintained? I am an MS-DOS user, and maybe I should not comment here. But as far as I know, FD-EMM386 is no-longer maintained. Also, if you look at the BIG list of changes made by Japheth, in going from FD-EMM386 to JEMM386, then you may not want FD-EMM386, until it gets MANY of those changes! As for a "memory manager of choice", I have seen no posted comments on this, and users must make their own decision re: which EMM driver to use. Jack R. Ellis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
