Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

Thanks for figuring out how to build this at least in some way, and sharing the results of that work, Rodrigo! It's unfortunate to read that you discovered binary blobs in the code base that are apparently needed to build 386MAX. Could anybody here maybe shed some light on the feasibility of repl

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

Hey all, I have been playing around with these sources, a minimal "working" build is possible with 386MAX.SYS and 386MAX.VXD. But there is a problem who inviabilizes an OSS build: 386MAX.VXD statically link 3 proprietary objects who seems to be from a development kit made by Microsoft: LOADHI.OBJ

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 7:45 PM Bret Johnson wrote: > > Or just take some of the important stuff that Bob Smith and Qualitas > discovered about Windows/GEMMIS/EMM386 and import it into something like > JEMM. There's some knowledge embedded in 386MAX about what MS did that you > will never directl

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023, Bret Johnson wrote: Or just take some of the important stuff that Bob Smith and Qualitas discovered about Windows/GEMMIS/EMM386 and import it into something like JEMM. There's some knowledge embedded in 386MAX about what MS did that you will never directly get out of MS.

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

Hallo Herr Bret Johnson, am Montag, 6. März 2023 um 19:43 schrieben Sie: >>> 386MAX supports the Global EMM Import Specification (GEMMIS), which >>> allows Windows 3.x to start in 386 Enhanced mode, even when the EMM >>> manager is loaded. (The documentation in the 386MAX source code >>> seems to

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

>> 386MAX supports the Global EMM Import Specification (GEMMIS), which >> allows Windows 3.x to start in 386 Enhanced mode, even when the EMM >> manager is loaded. (The documentation in the 386MAX source code >> seems to refer to it as the "Global Paging Import Spec".)386MAX >> supports the same I/

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

Hallo Herr tom ehlert, am Montag, 6. März 2023 um 10:14 schrieben Sie: > Hallo Herr jer...@shidel.net, >> Any volunteers? > to start first: what would be the point to have 386MAX in freedos > distribution (after 20 years without it)? > I know that it was somewhat important in the middle ages,

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

Hi Tom, > On Mar 6, 2023, at 4:14 AM, tom ehlert wrote: > > Hallo Herr jer...@shidel.net , > > am Sonntag, 5. März 2023 um 22:43 schrieben Sie: > >> Hi all, > >> I spent a few minutes looking at 386MAX. > >> Unfortunately, it is going to take at least a some work

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386MAX

Hallo Herr jer...@shidel.net, am Sonntag, 5. März 2023 um 22:43 schrieben Sie: > Hi all, > I spent a few minutes looking at 386MAX. > Unfortunately, it is going to take at least a some work by someone > (not me) before it could even be considered for inclusion. > First, it cannot even be run