Re: [Freedos-devel] Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21--2004 18:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Pavel Novy, author of some tiny tool which Tyler found useful, writes me some explanation for if you want to keep it tiny, then why does it start with mov ah,30h / int 21h (but does not do any- thing

Re: [Freedos-devel] Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Arkady, LOADFIX (should be part of every FreeDOS distro! Do we have one? te In what part of the universe did you spend the last few years ? tom, please, be slightly more polite. this WAS the polite version. tom --- SF.Net

Re: [Freedos-devel] Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
tom ehlert schreef: tom, please, be slightly more polite. this WAS the polite version. tom LOL! original author meant: 'if (programmer) concerned about size of program, then why add an instruction which you don't use result of afterwards? Bernd

Re: [Freedos-devel] Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Bernd, LOL! original author meant: 'if (programmer) concerned about size of program, then why add an instruction which you don't use result of afterwards? That's how I understood the original author as well. But then I didn't understand why our deasr Eric broadcasts this very original

[Freedos-devel] Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, Pavel Novy, author of some tiny tool which Tyler found useful, writes me some explanation for if you want to keep it tiny, then why does it start with mov ah,30h / int 21h (but does not do any- thing with the returned DOS version information)?. He found that the following code sequence would

Re: [Freedos-devel] Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-20 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a Merino
Hi, LOADFIX (should be part of every FreeDOS distro! Do we have one? LOADFIX is internal, and IIRC it is already implemented in FreeCOM. Aitor --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for