>> Rugxulo, I REALLY think you should check AGAIN running JEMM386 >> without "NOEMS" -- worked fine for me! > > In the past I always had EMM386 enabled, and it worked fine. In fact, > some apps explicitly needed EMS and/or EMM386. But nowadays, FreeDOS > is so good at keep low RAM free that I don't need UMBs for average > stuff, esp. not DJGPP/DPMI things, so I would only do "JEMM386 LOAD" > and "UNLOAD" at runtime if needed (rarely).
Never HEARD of "loading and unloading" JEMMEX/JEMM386, which in fact never DID work properly with MS-DOS EMM386 (or maybe they found very early that UNLOADING it was DANGEROUS!!). Same as I noted for UIDE and UIDE2, why would you EVER want to unload the "JEMM" drivers, for they take so little memory and are thus "invisible" in normal use?? > My point was that JEMMEX is basically just HIMEMX + JEMM386 bound > together, and you can't just load at runtime (if XMS already enabled) > because it only uses its own XMS manager built-in. So while it saves a > few kb of space by combining them, it's slightly less useful if you > don't want EMS or UMBs (and/or have a very rare app that refuses to > run under V86 mode). Also I very vaguely remember some apps in the old > days not working correctly with NOEMS. Such apps ought to be RETIRED, if they are so "incompatible". And if anyone truly HAS a serious "need" for unloading JEMMEX, they should be using HIMEMX + JEMM386 (or my own XMGR + JEMM386), since in that case, unloading at-least JEMM386 can be done a LOT more easily!ought to use > Long story short: heh, 30+ years of compatibility can be a pain. But > it's much easier to use (for me) than the alternatives. ;-) Actually, only about 15 years of compatibility, since the first EMM386 did not appear until about 1990, and 386MAX was around only from 1988. But, I agree: For most people, JEMMEX is "The Lazy Man's Way" to have "V86 protected mode" on a DOS system -- Only ONE extra driver needed! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
