Hi, as we are talking about the Descent game at the
moment... I just played it a bit in DOSEMU and found
that you have to use the -NoMusic option unless you
have those experimental Adlib simulation patches.
Sound effects work okay with the DOSEMU SoundBlaster
emulation, but the music thing of Desc
At 04:52 AM 5/5/2006 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
of course this is unrelated to the problem that
Descent and some other games with DOS4GW DOS extender
do not run well in plain FreeDOS. The problem does
not seem to occur in DOSEMU. This can mean that either
emm386 / himem have a compatibility problem
Hi Michael,
you are right - I had mailed too early. As I already said
off-list, I found an old mail which said that both with
neither XMS nor UMB drivers and with FDXXMS and UMBPCI,
the game crashed as well. In another old mail, I found
that loading EMM386 actually FIXES the game (?). For
the al
More on the XCOPY problem. The version installed by the current bootable CD
distro is XCOPY v1.2, and I cannot get that to do anything. For example:
XCOPY D:\WANTED C:\WANTED
will generate the error message: "Invalid destination drive specification."
It does not help if you first create the
On Fri, 05 May 2006 04:02:18 -0500, you wrote:
Mister,
>I also don't like this sort of extremely early speculation coming on the
>heels of Mr. Lam's recent spate of ridiculous posts, because it just feeds
Thank you for your "praise".
>into him posting more irrelevant advice about trying alter
Hi Johnson,
But Jack did give his "true heart" advise to some people, to avoid
using FDXMS and HIMEM, not because of the author, just because of
they both have programming flaw!
Ah, so throw away MANY hours of work, as FDXMS and HIMEM are
too "bad" for Jack to even touch them? Why does he hav
Thanks, Eric and John. Version 1.3 works like charm. I think the first
link listed below is the best to look for program updates (just look for
the latest date) and the second one is optional:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/
http://freedos.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fre
Command? I have a system with only a HDD and a 256MB
CF card, plus USB ports. I had tried everything to
boot this system, from USB CD-ROM with bootable Win2k
CD, to USB flash drive, but nothing works. Even
plugging in the HDD to another PC and install doesn't
work (after replugging back to the sys
Hello Alan:
It is difficult to load the boot sector to hard
disk drives under WindowsXP. There is an HP utility
which may allow you to partition and format your
compact flash device and install FreeDOS. Look for
SP27213.exe at ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp27001-27500.
There is another ver
Thanks, Mark. I got FreeDos booting properly now after taking the following three steps (I
can't tell which of them was critical to resolve the problem):
1) Installing the latest 8632 kernel from here: http://fdos.org/kernel/kwc8632.dev.zip
2) Installing FreeCom's command.com:
http://fdos
On Fri, 5 May 2006 18:45:54 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Eric,
Your style, long paragraph, I'd rather prefer K.I.S.S.
>Ah, so throw away MANY hours of work, as FDXMS and HIMEM are
>too "bad" for Jack to even touch them? Why does he have to
>write a completely "new" QHIMEM based on somebody else's
>c
On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:44:24 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
Hi Alan
>Command? I have a system with only a HDD and a 256MB
>CF card, plus USB ports. I had tried everything to
>boot this system, from USB CD-ROM with bootable Win2k
>CD, to USB flash drive, but nothing works. Even
>plugging in the HDD to ano
Hi Johnson...
1) FDXMS - Strange coding type, Jack don't want to touch...
2) HIMEM - Too big, too complex to touch...
No problem, it is enough to tell the maintainers about the
bugs, it is not necessary to give patches to the maintainers.
Of course some maintainers are happy to get patches in
At 11:28 PM 5/5/2006 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote:
Mister,
>I also don't like this sort of extremely early speculation coming on the
>heels of Mr. Lam's recent spate of ridiculous posts, because it just feeds
Thank you for your "praise".
>into him posting more irrelevant advice about trying alter
Almighty Eric,
I can't sleep without replying the message, it's so disturbing ...
I missed a detailed reply, sorry! You asked again and again
annoyingly. We Cantonese invented a new term call "Tape Rewind", I
remember you know a lot of language, so you may read Chinese. It's on
our Wiki, referenc
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Eric Auer wrote:
> you wrote that your game "x-com apocalypse" crashed
> DOS/4GW Professional error (2001): exception 0Dh (general protection fault)
> at 3E58:24D7 TSF32: prev_tsf32 6AEC
> I do have experience with the same error, I think:
> The game "descent" (where you
At 12:09 AM 5/6/2006 +0300, dima wrote:
Game won't to run without himem and emm386 or fdxxms and umbpic, cause not
enough memory.
> I found that it also helped to run the game with DOS32A
> instead of the built-in DOS4GW. You can get it here:
Yes, sometimes it helps. But in this case I have su
At 12:09 AM 5/6/2006 +0300, dima wrote:
Game won't to run without himem and emm386 or fdxxms and umbpic, cause not
enough memory.
Okay, I stole a 48M Pentium 133Mhz laptop from the clutches of a Cro-Magnon
in a passing time-rift and tried the game out on that. Under FreeDOS
SETUP.EXE still d
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