Re: [Freedos-user] JEMM troubles - with VESA LFB

2008-01-06 Thread Japheth
>> I'm happy that this thing - which is old and hard to maintain... > > But I was talking about hdpmi32...!? Yes, me too. hdpmi32 v1.0 (10/1993) is older than FreeDOS v0.001 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft De

Re: [Freedos-user] JEMM troubles - with VESA LFB

2008-01-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Japheth, > I'm happy that this thing - which is old and hard to maintain... But I was talking about hdpmi32...!? > It's cool ... and it runs with Himem only. > I tried Jemm, MS Emm386, DR Emm386, Win98 DOS Box, > CWSDPMI, HDPMI (with/without Jemm's NOVCPI option) > ... nothing worked. Anywa

Re: [Freedos-user] JEMM troubles - with VESA LFB

2008-01-06 Thread Japheth
> Actually: Why does hdpmi use a non-1:1 mapping linear/physical? > I mean it has every right to do so, but it turned out that this > can make DPMI usage a bit more foolproof ;-). I assume it saves > a bit of page table space? Being NOT foolproof can be good as > it can help to detect bugs, but oto

Re: [Freedos-user] JEMM troubles - with VESA LFB

2008-01-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Japheth, > > PS: The CTS Toasted 1996 ctstoast demo runs okay in LFB > > mode if CWSDPMI is resident or if you use DOSEMU, but I > > promise you that I did not write CTS Toasted and did not > > ask the authors to give it the same bug as PCXTEXT ;-). > I don't understand what you are talking a

[Freedos-user] old hardware for free

2008-01-06 Thread Norbert Remmel
Hi, is anybody interested in old computer hardware. Since I bought a new pc on yesterdays I would like to get rid of one of my old ones with the following configuration: > ATX Big Tower > > Gigabyte BX2000+ DualBios Motherboard > Intel Pentium III 600 FSB 133 > Intel i440BX Chipset > 256 MB SDR