On Mon, 21 May 2018 00:41:47 +0200, Davide Santachiara via Ql-Users wrote: > While it seems with my old SMSQ 2.90 I managed to run SMSQ under the Windows > 98 DOS (i.e. starting DOS inside W98, which allowed with ALT TAB to move to > Windows back and forth),
Bad idea... I never ran my QXL from within Windoze, only DOS: memory management under DOS (and Windows) are bad enough as they are already. What you might be experiencing is a lack of sufficient "low mem" (that 640Kb first block of addresses that the totally retard x86 16 bits CPUs can only address via one 64Kb segment at any given time and that all DOS executables must fit). > with the last SMSQE.EXE version 3.33 I had to force to run in as pure DOS > program following a W98 reboot to have a proper QL boot. Since newer SMSQ/E executables are much larger, and since W98 is already using the low memory in part, it is not a big surprise that it cannot work under W98. You *might* be successful if using DOS memory optimizers (such as QEMM) before launching W98, depending on the amount of DOS drivers you load on boot. > Linked to #1 after instructing W98 to restart in DOS mode there is a > drawback: I did not find a way to kill SMSQE.EXE (like e.g. QPC_EXIT in QPC2 > in Windows mode of course). You don't "kill" SMSQ/E in the QXL, you kill (or rather exit) the DOS process that communicates with it, and this is done by hitting CTRL ScrollLock under SMSQ/E. You can return back to SMSQ/E by relaunching the SMSQE.EXE executable (i.e. SMSQ/E keeps running on the QXL even while you are doing other stuff under DOS). Thierry. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
