Hi all,
Eric Auer wrote:
If HIMEMX is FreeDOS HIMEM plus some bugfixes by Japheth: Yes.
OTHERWISE I recommend to use JEMM386 (also on www.japheth.de)
which is an optimized and improved version of FreeDOS emm386.
I also have doubts about this.
We (many people in this list) espent months
Hi Alain,
If HIMEMX is FreeDOS HIMEM plus some bugfixes by Japheth: Yes.
OTHERWISE I recommend to use JEMM386 (also on www.japheth.de)
which is an optimized and improved version of FreeDOS emm386.
We (many people in this list) espent months testing himem and emm386
from Michael
Alain M. schreef:
We (many people in this list) espent months testing himem and emm386
from Michael Devore. Are those two just a bugfix from *that* well tested
version or is it descendent from somewhere else?
Based on EMM386 from FreeDOS indeed. Japheth is just adding different
stuff
We (many people in this list) espent months testing himem and emm386
from Michael Devore. Are those two just a bugfix from *that* well tested
version or is it descendent from somewhere else?
As for HimemX: there are 12 bugfixes and some optimizations, all described in
the readme.txt.
As
Hi Eric,
I am still in doubt: did he start from Michael's last and well tested
version or is it possible that it has bugs already fixed in Michael's
version?
Alain
Eric Auer escreveu:
Hi Alain,
If HIMEMX is FreeDOS HIMEM plus some bugfixes by Japheth: Yes.
OTHERWISE I recommend to use
Hi Japheth,
Japheth escreveu:
Btw, in the name of how many people are you speaking exactly? And what do you
regard as well tested. Because, as for me, I seriously doubt that a program
is well tested just because some dozens (or some hundreds? I have no idea
how big the FD user base is.)
We (many people in this list) espent months testing himem and emm386
from Michael Devore. Are those two just a bugfix from *that* well tested
version or is it descendent from somewhere else?
As for HimemX: there are 12 bugfixes and some optimizations, all described in
the readme.txt.
After
Hi,
Hi Japheth,
Japheth escreveu:
Btw, in the name of how many people are you speaking exactly? And what do
you
regard as well tested. Because, as for me, I seriously doubt that a
program
is well tested just because some dozens (or some hundreds? I have no idea
how big the FD user
- FDHimem opens an interrupt window in v86-mode only. HimemX opens
an interrupt window in both v86- and real-mode.
that was probably the point where Jack started his own civil war ;)
At least it WAS a bug, because this issue is mentioned in the XMS docs.
- in FDHimem the routine which
I am not woried at all. I just wonder which should be used in a wider
distribution... According to this current discussion, it looks like JEMM
should ;-)
I have an idea. You could have a compatible configuration and a
full feature configuration. Second one should load latest JEMMEX and
maybe
Thanks Eric
I think I will make some menu to let the user decide which manager have to
be loaded, but as I see, there isn't good menu system in FreeDOS. I mean,
there is only option to have one level in menu. I need more than one (for
memory managers, some USB drivers, language etc).. Is there
Hi again,
I updated FDAPM again. Changed since 15jul: IDLEDPMS is
now smaller in RAM ( 1/2 kb) and avoids double-loading.
If you try to load it twice, you get a message. There
is also a tiny change in VBE/PM handling.
Of course there are also the old news from 15jul: Fixed
the stats used for
hi
If I undestand correctly: I will get the same error if I run any other
programme which is placed near the end of the floppy image?? memdisk
is not in the floppy
I understood that you use memdisk to simulate a floppy in ram.
And that some himem / emm386 / japheth-equivalents had a problem
Hi,
BTW: did anyone ever try to run Intel NDIS network drivers with
EMM386/JEMM ?
Yes, I do. EMM386/JEMM works great with all Intel NDIS drivers for the
100, 1000 and 1 Series.
Norbert.
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