Re: [Freedos-devel] A20 handling competition, was Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-10 Thread tom ehlert
But, now there are rumors of applications which leave A20 hanging off, to spite and annoy us all. that's at least unlikely. the FreeDOS kernel (and AFAIR the MSDOS kernel as well) enable A20 on each invocation, and leave it on. so in real life, I'd expect that A20 is disabled from the moment a

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos 1.0 preview 2 installer testing

2006-08-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Июл-2006 04:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: EA data. So echo hello foo,bat will write something EA like to foo,bat like: EA echo hello foo.bat [YES=Enter No=Esc] ? ---^ EA hello (also note the space after hello). This

[Freedos-devel] DISPLAY 0.13b (small patch) ready

2006-08-10 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi all, I thereby announce DISPLAY 0.13b, a small patch over DISPLAY 0.13. Changes: - The DR-FONT bug notified by John Elliot - There was a bug with the CGA specific code - The double-SELECT bug found by John Elliot is fixed too (it was a variable announcing to hold words were they were bytes,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Авг-2006 13:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD GDB remoted to Qemu shows Stargunner in an infinite loop reading from port MD 3DAh, Just interesting, what it expects there? I suggest, bits 3 and 0 (vertical and horizontal retrace)?

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:55 PM 8/10/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 10-á×Ç-2006 13:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD GDB remoted to Qemu shows Stargunner in an infinite loop reading from port MD 3DAh, Just interesting, what it expects there? I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10--2006 14:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD The loop routine is ANDing the IN DX value with 9 and then looking for bit MD 0 (1) match, or reloop. Guess that's an out of vertical, out of horizontal MD status check. No - this is

Re: [Freedos-devel] A20 handling competition, was Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:57 PM 8/9/2006 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: If I qualify, I updated the htmlhelp documentation for HIMEM and EMM386, which will find its way into 1.0 :-). Well, as to that updated documentation prize...much to my mortification, I am informed by an interested party in completely unambiguous

Re: [Freedos-devel] A20 handling competition, was Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-10 Thread Jim Hall
... http://www.devoresoftware.com/goof/beanfront.jpg http://www.devoresoftware.com/goof/beanback.jpg Dude, you are having waay too much with your label maker. :-) -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him.

Re: [Freedos-devel] A20 handling competition, was Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Авг-2006 16:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD But I have do good news. It appears that Arkady is waiving his winner's MD right to receive the FreeDOS-branded box of tissues. So, you could get MD that, unless he objects. I not

[Freedos-devel] Version 2.23 EMM386/HIMEM New Release

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386/ are the files emmx223.zip, EMM386 and HIMEM version 2.23 memory manager, mostly executable files; and emms223.zip, source code files. This release of EMM386 and HIMEM should improve compatibility with some DOS-extender applications,