Re: [Freedos-user] Questions to memory management, DEVICEHIGH, LOADHIGH

2007-02-19 Thread Robert Riebisch
Aitor Santamaría wrote: > I am impressed, does your BIOS have codepage 850?? I assumed that 437 I doubt. > was NOT enough for German (nor in my understanding for any European > language, not even for British English), but I may be wrong. > For example, eszet, capitals Ö Ä... See http://en.wikip

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions to memory management, DEVICEHIGH, LOADHIGH

2007-02-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2007/2/9, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Only load DISPLAY when you really need a font with characters > which are not in your VGA BIOS font. For me myself, being able > to show the Euro currency sign on the DOS screen is not worth > 10 or more kilobytes of RAM ;-). I am impressed, doe

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions to memory management, DEVICEHIGH, LOADHIGH

2007-02-09 Thread tom ehlert
>> When calling "mem.exe /all", I get told, that FreeDOS is using HMA, >> but that there is still 11Kbytes (11359 bytes) free within HMA. >> Is it possible to load some drivers into this free area of HMA or >> to use it in some way? you can't load anything there (but some smart software could use i

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions to memory management, DEVICEHIGH, LOADHIGH

2007-02-09 Thread Eric Auer
Gunaydin Deniz ;-) Thanks for the compliments about FreeDOS. Of course it should not only make you feel like 15 years in the past but also like a more modern variant of DOS than the one you knew in MS DOS 6. Usually, FreeDOS memory consumption is quite low. Some ideas: Only load DOSLFN when you

[Freedos-user] Questions to memory management, DEVICEHIGH, LOADHIGH

2007-02-08 Thread Deniz Bahadir
Hello and thanks for your wonderfull operating system. I am using FreeDOS 1.0 an it really makes me feel being 15 years past in time with my first PC. :-) The negative point of this is of course the same issue, I had 15 years ago: How do I get most conventional memory for my programs and still