Cool, thanks for the info!
Not that I'm promising anything given my schedule, but maybe I'll be able to
throw something together in my limited spare time. Shouldn't be too hard to get
the others together since I already built HIMEMX from Japheth's new sources.
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On Monday, March 23, 2020 2:33 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
> Hi Mercury,
>
>> "Creating packages for FreeDOS software that are not packaged yet."
>> ... any "top requests" as it were?
>
> If you ask me: UHDD (only UIDE and UDVD2 listed yet?) and the
> new HIMEMX version by Japheth, as discussed here recently :-)
> HIMEMX should get some tests in particular by users of either
> ancient or very modern computers and that would get easier if
> a package would be available :-) Background: Japheth has added
> his own advanced parsing for int 15.e820 results (different
> from the old Pemberton fork) and uses a special sequence of
> "mov cr0,eax; jz $ + 2", maybe for CPU compatibility reasons.
> Japheth drops int 15.8a calls: Very few old computers worked
> better with those calls, but the Pemberton fork failed to do
> sufficient checks whether the call actually is supported, so
> that forked version was worse for various modern computers.
> Thank you :-) Eric
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