Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24-Авг-2006 14:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >> What about case, when drivers used in common config.sys, which used in >>any environment? Then this message in help screen useless in this case. MD> Assuming there isn't a sub-80386 inst

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-24 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:27 PM 8/24/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > >>Both executables now run and produce a help screen when run as EXE; > >>they used to crash right away, so this is already an improvement. >MD> That's good enough for me. I'll stick a "Requires 80386" message in the >MD> help screen feedback

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24--2006 14:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >>Both executables now run and produce a help screen when run as EXE; >>they used to crash right away, so this is already an improvement. MD> That's good enough for me. I'll stick a "Requires 8038

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-24 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:31 PM 8/24/2006 +0200, Joris wrote: > > Welp, anyone who has an 8088 or 8086, or 80186 or 80188, or 80286, can try > > test EXE's at ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/download/emm386 called > > HIMKIK86.EXE and EMMKIK86.EXE for --8086 compressed HIMEM and EMM386, > > respectively, and report their

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-24 Thread Joris van Rantwijk
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:33:12PM -0500, Michael Devore wrote: > Welp, anyone who has an 8088 or 8086, or 80186 or 80188, or 80286, can try > test EXE's at ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/download/emm386 called > HIMKIK86.EXE and EMMKIK86.EXE for --8086 compressed HIMEM and EMM386, > respectively,

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 23--2006 23:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joris van Rantwijk) wrote to Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: JvR> I just tested MEM.EXE 1.9a3 and it has the same issue as MEM 1.9a2. Of course, becuase this algorith was not changed from Bart's one, which was wrong. JvR> In fact I do not have a real XT

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 23--2006 19:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >>first task pushes a lot of 32bit registers. ...and this was long ago >>reported by Eric. MD> No, Eric reported, multiple times, about SY3PACK which is no longer MD> used. I do search o

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Blair Campbell
Hehe, I had a card for our 8088 that accelerated it to faster-than-286 speed according to the manual. I think it helped to accept the 286 instruction set as well. You could turn it on and off via a switch. On 8/23/06, Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 05:25 PM 8/23/2006 -0500, I wro

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Michael Devore wrote: > At 06:22 PM 8/23/2006 -0400, Lyrical Nanoha wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Michael Devore wrote: >> >>> Not good enough? Probably not. I'll compress EMM386 with the option next >>> time, but unless a person with an 8086 is available for pre-testing, i

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:23 AM 8/24/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: >Hi! 24-á×Ç-2006 01:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to >freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >> Welp, anyone who has an 8088 or >8086, or 80186 or 80188, EMM386, >> respectively, and report their >results. It should kick out a message f

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24-Авг-2006 01:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >> Welp, anyone who has an 8088 or 8086, or 80186 or 80188, or 80286, can try >> test EXE's at ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/download/emm386 called >> HIMKIK86.EXE and EMMKIK86.EXE for --8086 compressed

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Japheth
> > Welp, anyone who has an 8088 or 8086, or 80186 or 80188, or 80286, can try > test EXE's at ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/download/emm386 called > HIMKIK86.EXE and EMMKIK86.EXE for --8086 compressed HIMEM and EMM386, > respectively, and report their results. It should kick out a message for

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:25 PM 8/23/2006 -0500, I wrote: > >MD> not make a difference. Does anybody here have an 8086 and can act as a > >MD> test subject in a reasonable turn-around time frame? > > > > You yourself? > >Nope, I haven't had an 8086 in over a decade. Maybe two. Come to think of it, it wasn't a

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:22 PM 8/23/2006 -0400, Lyrical Nanoha wrote: >On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Michael Devore wrote: > > > Not good enough? Probably not. I'll compress EMM386 with the option next > > time, but unless a person with an 8086 is available for pre-testing, it may > > not make a difference. Does anybody he

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:21 AM 8/24/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: >MD> but unless a person with an 8086 is available for pre-testing, it may > > Isn't your emulators allow to emulate 8086? Isn't anything in VPC or Qemu, unless it's a hidden advanced option like UPX does. Somebody could develop a singl

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Michael Devore wrote: > Not good enough? Probably not. I'll compress EMM386 with the option next > time, but unless a person with an 8086 is available for pre-testing, it may > not make a difference. Does anybody here have an 8086 and can act as a > test subject in a reason

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 23--2006 16:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >>UPX. Why you don't use "--8086" option when packing? MD> option? Because I don't have an 8086 to test and until just now, nobody MD> else on the list had one available, so it didn't matter?

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Michael Devore wrote: > At 11:02 PM 8/23/2006 +0200, Joris van Rantwijk wrote: > >>> And how about emm386 and himem? >> >> HIMEM.EXE (HIMEM64 3.12) crashes on "shl cx,4" even when invoked >> as "himem /?". >> Same problem with HIMEM64 3.23. >> Same problem with EMM386.EXE 2.08

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:48 AM 8/24/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: >Hi! 23-á×Ç-2006 16:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) >wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >>HIMEM.EXE (HIMEM64 3.12) >crashes on "shl cx,4" even when invoked >>as "himem /?". MD> That's from >UPX. Why you don't use "--8086

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 23-Авг-2006 16:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >>HIMEM.EXE (HIMEM64 3.12) crashes on "shl cx,4" even when invoked >>as "himem /?". MD> That's from UPX. Why you don't use "--8086" option when packing? --

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:02 PM 8/23/2006 +0200, Joris van Rantwijk wrote: > > And how about emm386 and himem? > >HIMEM.EXE (HIMEM64 3.12) crashes on "shl cx,4" even when invoked >as "himem /?". >Same problem with HIMEM64 3.23. >Same problem with EMM386.EXE 2.08. >Same problem with EMM386.EXE 2.23. That's from UPX.

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Joris van Rantwijk
Hello Eric, On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:48:38PM +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > Hoi, mem 1.9a2 is not current - Blair should have 1.9a3 somewhere. MEM.EXE 1.9a2 is part of the Beta9sr2 ISO. Strangely, the 1.0-Testing ISO does not contain MEM 1.9a3 but MEM 1.7 (which also crashes). Oh wait, some confusi