Let me summarize this ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeq-F84Lx4
- Lots of games had CD driver issues in FreeDOS 1.2 and are fine now - Grand Prix Circuit and Test Drive 2 still do not run - most games work best in boot option TWO, which is a sane JEMMEX config. I guess the default is option ONE, insane JEMMEX tuning? ;-) - Wing Commander needs JEMM386 instead, I have no idea why? - some games do not like any EMM386, of course - the video mentions zero games not liking HIMEM, I think? - it sounds like a very bad idea to create a zillion FAT16 partitions and format only one of them, while using FreeDOS FDISK etc. by hand made it easy for the reviewer to just create ONE FAT32 drive :-p - one of the installers took 20 minutes, but the legacy one was fast? - lots of youtube viewers ask whether Windows WfW 3.11 is supported and I bet they mean 386enh mode (in WfW 3.11, non-386enh is just left as a sort of safe mode, while in Windows 3.x, standard mode was still relatively useful for those not supporting 386enh mode) Maybe somebody can tell me what is going on with GP Circuit and with TD2 in FreeDOS? Do we know which compatibility problems they trigger? Have any recent kernel updates made WfW 3.11 work in a less convoluted way in FreeDOS and if yes, which specific tricks are needed to run it? I remember you had to disable windows disk drivers to let it use DOS and/or BIOS instead if your disk is non-tiny? And you had to limit the size of visible RAM if you had too much of it? HIMEM etc. have special options for that and you can also tune various things in Win3 configuration files, such as the swap address space ratio etc. There also was a FreeDOS tech note long ago, I believe. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
