Hi, we got a comment on the FreeDOS spec - "why support only
kernel 3.3 but the tools of MS DOS 6?". I replied that our
kernel is very MS DOS 5ish now, mostly with respect to being
able to use UMBs and HMA. Some other interesting points:
- I think the normal installer does not need to support < 3
Hi, I have finally found the time to solder a printer cable and
some buttons to a 20x4 text LCD display which I bought more than
2 years ago... Works nice with lcdproc / LCDd in Linux, but more
interesting: I wrote a small DOS driver for it, which is similar
user-interface-wise to BrlTTY (a Linux
Hi, as OpenWatcom seems to gain popularity, one of the fans should answer
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=incoming/318
to make OW even more popular ;-). Preferrably the answer should also give
some hints on how to do a MINIMAL install after a MINIMAL download (without
the
Hi!
> No FreeDOS related solution to get an USB drive bootable.
> If using Windows, you might try the WinImage Beta release
> http://www.winimage.com/beta.htm
Could anybody who owns an USB drive try:
Linux fdisk
Linux mkdosfs
Linux Perl to run
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/
Hi Bernd!
> > I just noticed that TigerDirect is advertising a P-4 3.2GHz system ...
> > running FreeDOS!
> nice indeed. 160GB harddisk..I wonder if FreeDOS (kernel) handles
> LBA48-addressing correctly
Not sure about the UDMA driver (might reach only the first 128 GB),
but at least FreeDOS kern
Hi, I just worked with a FAT16 filesystem (Win95 / 133 MHz / 48 MB / 1.2 GB)
on a dying harddisk. No FreeDOS tools involved, but I found some bad
behaviour of MS tools. So here my suggestions:
- add a recovery mode to XCOPY which tries to copy all files, does
twice as many attempts per sector c
Hi Alain,
> > move data around to make clusters A ... B empty
> > - CHKDSK surface scan should try reading sectors N times. If that fails,
> > mark the sector as broken and try copying the data elsewhere,
> FWIK this is what scandisk does, am I wrong?
No. You cannot tell it MANUALLY to make
Hi Robert,
> Only problem is -- Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS doesn't seem
> to work in FreeDOS or Wine.
That would be a bug then. Turbo C is for DOS, so use it in DOSEmu,
not in Wine. If it does not work in plain FreeDOS and does not work
in (properly configured - read the documentation) DOSEmu, then y
Hi Tom, Robert, Bernd,
a collected reply to all mails in the thread so far...
> Tom wrote:
> > > Maintaining is more than just having your
> > > fun writing code.
> > well - I certainly know better then you.
> ...
> One less. I resign as maintainer of the help system.
That would be a pity. Tom c
Hi Tom!
> seriously - would you use AnyDOS for your everyday work ?
Well we both use DOS for some WORK. In my case it is real-time
data processing. DOS is not optimized for that but as it is
single-tasking, as long as you do not wait for the kernel, you
have 100% CPU. So you can place kernel cal
Hi!
> I think it is a waste to invest a lot of energy in
> having _programmers_ write up more than simple bare-bones text
> documentation AT THIS TIME when:
> - FreeDOS hasn't released non-beta version 1.0.
On the other hand, many people are happy with the current version,
which means that
Hi, in order to load MemTest86+ from DOS, int 15 must not be hooked.
It is the only int vector which is (for memory sizing and APM stuff)
used when MemTest86+ returns to real mode for a moment after doing
protected mode initialization. How could we give Memtest86+ the ROM
BIOS int 15 handler? One
Hi, Mitch stary tells in Bugzilla entry 1836 that XCOPYing files
between 2 floppy disks on a system with 1 floppy drive results in
being asked to swap disks (kernel DJ mechanism) far too often.
Can anybody confirm this problem / has an idea about the reasons?
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-s
Hi, Mitch tested RXCOPY with various kernels:
> XCOPYEXE16,442 02-06-03 12:00a XCOPY.EXE
> XCOPYTXT 4,082 02-06-03 12:00a XCOPY.TXT
Win9x DOS:
> A:\rxcopy>xcopy xcopy.txt b:
> [Operation completed with 15 or 16 disk swaps. When run from a DOS window
> under Windows 95
Hi, Tyler writes that he is adding an "out 60,ff" (reset keyboard and 8042)
to his GUI, in case the keyboard crashes (which sometimes happens if you
try to set the typematic rate while using 8042-based A20 control and/or PS/2
mouse drivers). Konstantin has 8042 comments, too: He noticed that ALI c
Hi, you asked:
1. Does freeDOS have a ramdisk and if so how do I use it?
Yes. It works as a sector providing driver. When it is loaded,
the FAT drivers can use it as a simulated drive. It has no
"idea" of FAT, it just provides disk space. I personally prefer
using XMSDSK, but you can use TDSK (whi
Hi, for the "maximum number of lines on screen" option, I would
suggest to change the font to 8x8 if EGA or better is detected.
That will give you at least 43 rows and is much better than nothing.
Extra stuff like going to 50 or 60 rows would need number-of-scanlines
changing, but changing to 8x8
Hi all, I browsed my memory with the free and powerful 386SWAT
debugger a bit... (after loading, activate with ctrl alt numpad-5,
leave with ESC, swap screens with alt f7, toggle user screen with f10,
get help with f1... in particular, keyboard quick help is useful...).
Results (no XMS / EMS / HM
Hi Bart, you were exactly right, the PMIDX is in fact PMID as
described by VESA VBE 3.0 specs (I already had it around because
of my experimental VBE3FAST refresh rate set tool)... Sigh. The X
was just there to distract me from the right answer ;-).
Protected Mode entry point info structure:
PMID
> is there some way to make dreedos work under the ntfs file system?
> if not, can you add ntfs support into it?
(HTML-formatted mail in Arial font size 2 on white background, but wtf...)
Joel, you are by no means the first to ask this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=ntfs+site%3Afd-doc.sourcef
Hi Bernd!
I think we need not compress country sys - the FreeDOS version is
already pretty small. Now for some explanation:
COUNTRY=number,codepage,file
tells the kernel which country, hardware codepage, and country file you have.
NLSFUNC
loads central codepage management stuff, and you can give
Hi, the YESCHAR/NOCHAR in config sys of DR DOS is,
as far as I know, ONLY for the "load driver...?" in
trace mode. Later you will have country information
loaded, and then of course you have:
- country unaware programs will just use hardcoded
"are you sure?" and will just expect "y" for that.
-
Hi Tom,
suggestions to shrink FreeCOM code size and improve things:
- replace cmd_cls by something which does not use that stupid
library function which only works for 80x25...
- replace delay() by something which uses 40[6c]. This will affect:
The "panic" delay and the beep_l and beep_n dela
Hi, I think it would be really interesting to have PCMCIA drive,
for example compact flash, support in DOS. Not with hotswapping,
but a nice idea would be a device driver which initializes PCMCIA
to activate the IDE controller to the CF card, and then tweaks
BIOS data (40:xx data segment and maybe
Hi, I had a look at the new
ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads (mirror:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/emm386/ ...)
emm386.zip file. Would it be possible to move the sources from
SOURCE
to
SOURCE\EMM386
and the DOC files from DOC to DOC\EMM386 in the zip?
Then I could j
Hi, great to have yet another happy FreeDOS user :-).
The CD-ROM is only meant for installing FreeDOS, not really for USING it
directly from the CD. There should be, however, a pre-installed copy of
most tools in the ODIN directory there, so you can still use many things
without having to install
Hi Johnson, talking about testing-in-emulation...
> Maybe also explained why there's no DOS client can mount
> a linux or SAMBA client.
There are LTOOLS. Works like MTOOLS: Special programs, which are
like copy, dir, ..., but which can use Linux "drive letters".
For Samba, I guess there is only
Hi, comment on 40:72 ->
MEM 0040h:0072h - POST RESET FLAG
which can be 0, 1234h, and a few other values.
I think this should be 40:7b instead ->
MEM 0040h:007Bh - INT 4Bh FLAGS (PS2 and newer)
5 set if Virtual DMA Spec supported [PS] (see INT 4B)
3 set if INT 4Bh intercepted and must
Hi!
> Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files
> emmx13b.zip, EMM386 mostly executable package, and emms13b.zip, EMM386
> mostly source package.
> These versions follow the latest EMM386 fileset template directory and
> naming conventions.
Thanks for the template dire
Hi, excuse the continued nitpicking, but how about...
ftp:///downloads/emm386/emmx13b.zip which would have both
the name of the package and the version number in the URL?
Just an idea ;-).
Eric
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Hi, adding to Bart's / Arkady's answers...
> Do FreeDOS disk accesses via INT 21h, INT 13h, INT whatever, read and write
> directly from/to a passed address or do they always buffer the disk
> access? Never? Sometimes?
While this ought to take place at int 13 level (to give programs like
dis
Hi!
> Does anything use those two interrupts in an unbuffered state for UMB space?
NOT LBAcache, but TICKLE. The point is, only TICKLE has local buffers.
So you should not load TICKLE to UMB if you have UMB DMA problems.
LBAcache itself does not alter the buffer pointers - it just uses the
buffe
Hi, for French chars typed on German keyboard, you would usually
use composing, e.g. press ` and then e to type รจ...
Aitor supports that in KEYB, but as German is one of the widespread
layouts, MKEYB supports it as well (MKEYB is one small program
with something like 10-30 built-in layouts, as opp
Hi all, short comment:
I think OpenWatcom is indeed pretty nice for C / C++. If you only
need simpler stuff, Turbo C 2 still does the trick for me, and it
is free by now. Creates small binaries. For C++, somebody told us
about DigitalMars.com C++, which can create DOS binaries but is
a Windows pro
Hi, I am looking for somebody who has the PC87317 super I/O chip
(or newer version) on board. The chip contains 2 serial ports, 1
parallel port, 24 general purpose pins, floppy controller, keyboard
and mouse controller, RTC, 128 bytes of extra CMOS RAM, power
management and other stuff. It can be
Hi, I am trying to figure out how FDAPM could save energy
on non-APM (e.g. ACPI only) systems. Apart from the
obvious "try to use ACPI", I am thinking about PCI Power
Mgmt. tricks. You have the power states 0..3, where 0 and 3 are
on and off, 1 is idle and 2 is stopped. 66 MHz devices (e.g. AGP)
c
Hi all,
> Of course, I remember discussions about handling A20 behavior. Only
> main reason to support switching A20 off is bugs in MS exepacker (which was
> used by MS link in many programs) and old PKLITE - they both behave
> wrongly, when runs in first 64k of memory and there is HMA enabl
Hi Alain,
> 1) You say something about restoring the dos time.
This only applies to SUSPEND, for which many APM BIOSes stop the CPU.
> Am I safe if I use only APMDOS?
APMDOS - which is the only TSR mode of FDAPM - uses both HLT and the
int 15.5305 CPU idle call (you can configure which to use,
Hi, at
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/parkdisk.zip
you can find a small tool which tries various int 13 calls to
spin down your first two harddisks. No problem if you have only
one disk...
Please report if this could spin down your disk (instead of
only parking it) - you notice that by listening
Hi Michael, thanks for the update!
> It corrects errors when using the
> NOEMS option with the EMM= option
> it adds support for EMS function 53h
> for the Master of Orion game
> it fixes a bug in INT 15h, function 87
> it supports emulation of the INVD instruction...
I will try to writ
Hi Bernd,
> For the FreeDOS bootdisk, the only thing I use config.sys for is
> deciding if the user wants to load XMS (and disk caches) or not.
I wish you were using the config sys menu for many things, and I wish
you would do something like "read hints.txt, load or devload cdrom
drivers yoursel
Hi Bernd, Michael,
> MS manages to pull it off (loading XMSMMGR.EXE), in order to load
> Smartdrv on a clean booted system...
That is their problem - DR DOS NWCACHE can use int 15 memory, it does
not need XMS at all :-P.
> Only XMS access, HMA access is not necessary, as hardly any software
>
Hi Bernd,
> The bootdisk itself no longer does anything special. No harddisk
> touching (SYS, dualboot) except for FORMAT when necessary ('no AA55',
> OSCHECK).
Nice to hear! Now you can move the FORMAT from the memdisk image to
the install directory on the CD, too... ;-).
> With a bit of luc
Hi,
> >The problem is that my notebook doesnt have floppy drive,
> >and all the boot cds i know dont give access to the c:\
> >so i need to know how can i do to install the bios through
> >dos without floppy drive.
Well, this could mean that you have a buggy BIOS - some BIOSes
mess up drive geom
Hi Arkady,
space in URL: it is bad style to have an exe without source code around,
so I tried to keep web crawlers away from my memtest-1.27 file. The zip
only contains mtloader.asm and the final exe, not the rest of the source.
About int 15 vs memtest / mkeyb / himem: Memtest will overwrite all
Hi, trying to be an EMM386 groupie, I created
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/emm386.asm.diff.gz
which is a diff to the 7 Feb EMM386 1.14 emm386.asm,
supposed to implement some new features. Note that I
do NOT have a compile environment for EMM386. However,
the patches are pretty tame, so please t
Hi Michael,
> >which is a diff to the 7 Feb EMM386 1.14 emm386.asm,
> >supposed to implement some new features.
> Do you have or know of any application which uses these functions so we --
> I'm sorry, so I -- can test them in actual operation before release?
You are right, some of the improve
Hi Tom,
> > UMB as (mode) is already used". The only test which you cannot do is the
> > one for mono and pre-EGA graphics cards being present. I think I can find
> > a test PC for that as soon as EMM386 has MONOUMB and VGAUMB ;-).
> what would be the difference between
> MONOUMB and /I=b000-
Hi Tom, Michael, not giving up on that one yet...
Michael wrote:
> On another front, it appears that Tom Ehlert has rejected the idea of
> MONOUMB and VGAUMB options. As you may know, he has the overriding vote in
> what gets added to EMM386...
Tom wrote:
> I have seen VGA/EGA BIOS's that wi
Hi, simple answer:
> I use linux, but i also have a NTFS partition with winXP installed.
> after i save the iso image of freedos in a cd, and then boot my notebook is
> impossible to acess c:\, why?
Because there is no C: ... You can only access NTFS partitions with
Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 200
Hi Michael, sorry for getting Arkady-ish in my patches.
Here the most useful ones of them:
+ ; All calls can destroy esi, edi, ecx: saved at @@makecall
+ ; None of the calls RETURNS anything in esi, edi, ecx, except
+ ; 58xx and VCPI de0a, which write [esp+2] to return (E)CX.
Hi Michael,
thanks for accepting a good part of my patch :-).
> 2. After one validates a
> handle, one does not need to check that a handle index will later
> overflow...
Uhm, yes. True. The movzx e?x,?l does not really improve things
compared to movzx e?x,?x, but it is not bigger in RAM either,
Hi, can you explain what "VDS function 2" (now implemented for FastTracker)
does? Int 4b.8102+2 = 4b.8104? Unlock DMA region?
What made int 67.53 (EMS func 53, get/set handle name) use the wrong buffer
addresss?
> EMS function 58h, subfunction 1, did not properly return the number of EMS
> mappa
Hi Aitor,
> I mean is it possible to get an emulation of a 1.4MB writable driver
> into memory (not ElTorito or such).
there are various solutions for that, but if you boot FreeDOS from a
virtual A:, then the SYSLINUX + MEMDISK solution works very well :-).
You can install SYSLINUX family loaders
Hi Arkady,
> device? = c:\temp\emm386.exe ram i=b000-b7ff
> smartdrv 8192 64
Microsoft would tell you that you have to try with x=a000- or
other "no UMB at all" style options. You should at least avoid
shaky things like i=b000-b7fff ram for the test. Smartdrv also has
options to force LOW me
Hi Michael,
> > > Forget to mention: your EMM386 outputs help screen to stderr (very
> > > bad) and complains for /? option.
one of the problems is simply a cut and paste bug:
put_console(COUNT c)
... #ifndef FORSYS
... #else /* use DOS write char to make output redirectable */
Hi Johnson, I agree that there are problems with help
screens which are more than 1 page long. However, I do
not suggest to call MORE or other tools. The better
solution is to keep the help screen limited to 1 page
and do something like
program /? > program.txt
edit program.txt
to create a more ve
Hi all... some mixed replies on this thread:
> http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/spec/
> (2) I don't think MS-DOS 5.0 is an improvement over 3.3...
It *is* an improvement - it adds HMA and UMB support. And DOS 6.xx
used more or less the same kernel as DOS 5.00, while 5.00 is quite
different from ear
Hi Arkady,
> As temporary/partial solution, may be used warning in himem about
> "non-386" CPU and immediate exiting.
Good idea. Then you can simply do:
device=...himem...
device=...fdxms286...
On a 286, the first will fail and the second should work. On a 386,
the first will work and ther
Hi Bernd,
> Isn't XMS 3.0 used if available anyway? Or only if detected by a certain
> program (which might lack a detection method for XMS 3.0 but not for 2.0).
> A 'fast' 32bit register using XMS 3.0 implementation and slower 16bit
> register using XMS 2.0 implementation is feasable?
To impl
Hi, I had a stupid bug in my test setup in Bochs...
Now things look better: With the MEMCHECK option for EMM386,
an early PAGE FAULT is avoided (EMM386 has a bug in the handling
of protected mode exceptions, which makes the stack melt by 2+2
bytes per iteration in a recursion, and not much is left
Hi Michael,
> Or a sweet-talking
> diplomatic type might convince the original FDXMS developer to make the
> changes/fixes. Or bribes. Money, flattery, chocolate, cheese, beer,
> liquor, young female, choice World of Warcraft items,...
Which of those would it take to make you write some nic
Hi...
> I'm 684 lines of new code into a EMM386 revision to support dynamic
> EMS/VCPI pool-sharing with XMS, with probably more than that many new lines
> of code left, plus at least several hours debugging. I'm not too
> interested in coding up much of anything else in EMM386 right now...
Hi, I think I found the *bug in EMM386* which makes it FDXXMS
incompatible...
EMM_ENTRY PROC NEAR
...
cmp ah,087h
jne normal_emm_functions
pop ecx
CALLSIMULATE_INT1587
jmp @@BYECX
...
There must b
Hi Arkady, Tom,
> > Isn't sy2pac open/free source?
> NO.
> > ... if no, then sy2pac usage may violate rules,
> > when this program used together with GPLed software.
> that's why HIMEM/EMM386 aren't GPL any longer.
I would like to add that this is perfectly okay for me...
FreeDOS software c
Hi, if your mail can be read "I have an EMM386 with working
int 15.87", then yes, please tell me where I can download it.
Then I will test FD*XMS* with it.
I am actually surprised that nobody seems to care about the
buggy int 15.87 simply because HIMEM accidentally hides that
bug. Would be very s
Hi Tom, good point - after HIMEM / EMM386 are loaded, there
is *usually* (unless you use some "keep N kilobytes of int 15
memory free" switch!) no int 15 memory left visible to other
programs. However:
> EMM386 won't even load without HIMEM present.
> thus noone is allowed to call int 15.87 when
Hi, I found that the RTM (DPMI16BI) DOS-extender insists on
staying in RAM as a TSR when you run programs like Jazz Jackrabbit
or other Borland-compiled protected mode programs. Does anybody
know a workaround for that? For example DOS4GW and DOS32A stay in
RAM as a SHELL for the protected mode pro
Hi,
> > I thought of way to set master environment, you can just call int 2e
> > with ds:si point to lstring "set user=somename0" does this interrupt
> > work like msdos does?
Alas the "int 2e backdoor" (int 2e is a function to call the master shell,
so you do not have to start a new shell instan
Hi, as suggested, I did some extra DOS extender testing. First a
few replies to the EMM386 2.01 thread: Fox, why is the name of
your Pascal Kitten "cubs"? Michael: Borland Museum has Turbo Pascal 5.5,
Turbo C 2.01, Turbo C++ 1.02 and the FRENCH version has Borland Pascal 7
(French). Or had. As far
Hi, updates: The Lemmings 3d "hang at exit" went away. Must have done
something else wrong in my previous tests. Hit the mouse or spacebar to
return to DOS if the last display does not go away automatically...
The Descent DPMIONE thing is confirmed: No matter whether I use the
default DOS4GW or u
Hi Michael, sure, my RAM is Memtest86+ tested okay...
> I'd memtest were I you, in case of iffy RAM. Other than that, well, we
> know RTM already has at least one stupid bug that FreeDOS kernel had to
> work around.
Kernel? You mean the "XMS 2.0 clip to 0xfbc0 kbytes reported" thing? That
wou
Hi Arkady, Michael, just quoting the emm386 2.01 code from
SIMULATE_INT1587 for reference here:
...
shr ecx,1
REP MOVS DWORD PTR [ESI],DWORD PTR [EDI];
BIG_NOP;
adc ecx,ecx
REP MOVS WORD PTR [ESI],WORD PTR [EDI];
BIG_NOP;
...
Where BIG_NOP is a NOP
Hi Arkady ;-)
* about memory move optimizations (int 15.87 handler of EMM386,
memory copy code of HIMEM and EMS move/exchange of EMM386 all
have their own separate implementations)...:
> - range of sizes and multiplicity for copied areas,
The int 67.57 move/exchange memory region (EMS 4.0+
Hi Michael,
>
> Is there a question in all that?
No. This is why I conclude my mail with:
> maybe we better move the EMM386 optimization stuff to off-list?
(directed to Arkady)
> You have missed the point of proper optimization. Algorithms optimized
> first, only where they matter.
Yes. Su
Hi, I spent the better part of the night writing a sophisticated
benchmark tool for XMS 2 and VCPI allocation and XMS block move:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/
rambench-xms-vcpi-benchmark.zip
To use this tool, you need a Pentium compatible CPU (one with
a TimeStampCounte
Hi, thanks for figuring out the problem :-).
> Good for you, you win a chocolate chip cookie. IF there is a free XMS
> block less than 4K in size, and IF that XMS block is listed first in the
> free handles, and IF that XMS block has a non-4K alignment such that (4 -
> alignment modulo 4 ) >
Hi,
> I try to compile Bywater BASIC using Turbo C(++) from the Borland
> museum, but I always fail.
> Can anyone help?
You should try our modified version, which can be compiled with Turbo C.
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/bwb220ea.zip (3/2003)
Note: We have started to wri
Hi,
> >Thanks. Could you, instead of sending a cookie, include RDTSC emulation
> >in that version?
> RDTSC isn't flagged a privileged instruction at boot-up. If it is
> explicitly set privileged later, then EMM386 shouldn't bypass that.
Not really. RDTSC is allowed from ring 0 and from real m
Hi...
> >Do not ask me why CR4 TSD does not work for v86 tasks on some CPUs.
> Because Intel made a mistake with it that wasn't fixed until the Pentium
> Pro, and AMD slavishly followed the error?
No idea, sorry. Maybe some misunderstanding about IOPL sensitivity
versus RDTSC? I would like to a
Hi - please send mail in plain text without html! - your problem is known:
SB Live! drivers are pretty badly written, so they need to allocate their
memory in a special place in RAM. Sometimes they show a message if they
cannot. According to your report, sometimes they just get unstable instead?
Hi guys, as I have received over 100 bounces of mails
which pretended to be sent from me to various unc.edu
adresses and some more which bounced because [name of
DOS [EMAIL PROTECTED] did not exist at that somedomain
(e.g. orudge, erwin.waterlander, ondrej, atari, dosius,
fd-dev, jeremyd, ciri, r
Hi all, SANS Internet Storm Center has some updates about
the current virus spam. Seems to be caused by Sober (it
is really interesting how monopolized viruses are today,
sure the top 10 virus families account for 95% of virus
mail traffic?). Some useful resources:
http://isc.sans.org/
(updated
Hi Tom / Jason / Johnson,
> > I got a message from Jack Ellis (UDMA2 author) warning me a potential
> > problem in SHSUCDX 3.02.
> like: only 3.02 or other versions as well ?
> > And UPX a device driver may cause more problem.
> it's not a driver, and drivers can't be UPX'ed anyway.
The 3.00
Hi Michael!
> Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files
> emmx202.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms202.zip,
> EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package.
> It fixes a more serious bug where -- under rare circumstance --
> EMM386 incorrectly believed it w
Hi, some test results for EMM386 2.02... Works at least as good
as the previous version, but...
You need the MEMCHECK option if you want to access the ACPI tables
through int 15 (e.g. using FDAPM SPEED4 and similar commands) while
using any HIMEM version which is not aware of the RAM where the
AC
Hi, I think Jack is right, SHSUCDX 3.02 features MANY macros.
Actually I am unable to compile it with NASM 0.98-71 for 2 reasons:
1. [list -] and [list +] (probably to suppress listing with -l option)
are not supported and "cpu 386" / "cpu 8086" are not supported, but
I can comment those ou
Hi Eric :-).
Please use TEXT mail, not HTML, in particular when mailing to the list...
> a) iso to fat16 with win98 plus boot diskette
> b) copied to c:\fsbootcd ...
>can boot but win98 cannot open the cd
> have to use chain-to-kernel to avoid invalid opcode
You mean: You copied the CD conte
Hi, Jim would like to let you know that there are problems
with the domain transfer to the new provider at the moment.
This means that mail to anywhere at freedos.org can fail
(e.g. mail to Jim) and that www.freedos.org does not work
properly. You can either use the old http://66.43.248.197/
or th
Hi Johnson...
> Thanks to Jack Ellis, he did help me to test HIMEM 3.10 and FDXMS
> 0.94. Even under MS-DOS the memory manager DO affect hard disk speed...
> I ran 4 tests unzipping my 2.2-GB "zeros" file onto my C:...
> A) FDXMS, no XDMA overlap: 54.0 seconds.
> C) HIMEM, no XDMA
Hi all...
> I could run tests with freedos-emm and umbpci. I tried some cross-use of
> drivers but those that I tested did not run at all :(
DR DOS EMM386 once worked for me, but later, when FreeDOS EMM386 had
all needed features, I stopped using it. I do have a config with MS
HIMEM and EMM386,
Hi all...
> >>All tests got down to ONLY this umb+udma is very slow (almost the same
> >>as no udma)...
This is what made me think that the UDMA driver could have decided that
UDMA is not possible for some reason caused by enabling UMBs...
> Uhmm..., Does FreeDOS read/write to an extra buffer
Hi!
> I'm using FreeDOS in dosemu running under Linux.
> I haven't installed any mouse drivers; I can use the Linux mouse with edit
> ... But those are the only apps I can use the mouse in.
So with which apps does the mouse FAIL? Maybe they just have no mouse support?
> FreeDOS kernel version 1
Hi, combined answer...
> EMM386 doesn't support VDS double-buffering, and reports that when
> queried. There is address translation and boundary report function support
> only. VDS implementation is not a part of the equation on transfer speed
> and slow/fast VDS is not an issue.
> I know t
Hi Alain, Johnson,
> > Sorry but Jack have no interest in LBAcache because he use Norton
> > Cache, so he just care about the integrity of his own program.
> As of my tests (I have one user doing a hot test) FreeDOS+LBACache is
> reliable. The other advantage is that it is distributable.
I thi
Jeremy, how about this summary?
- DIR now supports DESCRIPT.ION (4DOS style) and LFN (/lfn option)
- SET, when used to prompt the user, can now do upcase/downcase tricks?
- IF now can either ignore or not ignore the case (upcase/downcase)
- there were several bugfixes for FreeCOM
- there were sev
Hi Bernd, nice to get some info about your progress...
Not much news here, busy with university...
> *provide translated interface for batchfile messages/menus (done)
I hope you use the in-line default message syntax, makes the batch
files much easier to read and maintain. Only OTHER language
Hi...
> This time I am starting wit Tom's RAWREAD
> and making only minor modifications as needed.
> Himem.exe+emm386 v20.3 + Udma, No cache loaded, DOS=HIGH
> 2.26GHz Sempron (1.5Ghz) mem is 333MHz, disk is 40Gb with 2MB cache...
> RAWREAD *without* UDMA: 2.2Mb/s to 2.3Mb/s all options in rawt
now that beta 9 sr 1 is getting old (40 downloads
of the bootablecd distro per month, that is).
> Jim Hall or Eric Auer usually handles this.
Indeed. I am kind of "visible" as a DOS developer ;-). But Jim already said:
> Thanks. I'll reply to them.
About Bernd's reply
Hi...
> >emm=1520 (0x660k EMS) / emm=1536 / emm=2048: all crash while playing Go
>
> I found the problem with EMS page count rounding errors of actual
> versus calculated, causing a problem with typically low EMM= option values
> under EMS.
For me it was usually hang / illegal instruction
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