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

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, does your

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

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 it) That

[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