Re: [Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 2.01 Bugfix Released
At 02:59 PM 5/3/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: todo.txt emm386.txt and emm386.lsm are all outdated Not my file, not my file, and fully up to date. Sorry. Did not mean to annoy you. So: Tom, could you update those files? Thanks. I don't know what you're talking about, actually. The first two aren't in EMM386 distribution, so I don't know how they would be official files that need to be updated. And I updated the LSM file. If they aren't in official distribution, you are probably out of luck. amount of allocateable EMS, namely 256 MB? I mean, would all DOS extenders be able to allocate extra RAM from XMS when they find out that VCPI only offers them 256 MB? So why should I cripple VCPI to make your favorite DOS extender happy? There probably exist bare applications -- and possibly a DOS extender though I don't know of any -- which allocate entirely through VCPI if it's flagged as available. Anyway, the DOS/32A version with problems is 7.2. I re-checked SourceForge and noticed that there is a 7.33, which was not mentioned in their announcements. Another public BB stated that there is a 7.4x, but I don't know what/where it is, if so. If you track down a change list, maybe the answer is there. Would of course only affect the non-outdated DOS extenders. Things like Jazz Jackrabbit (RTM) would not gain anything from having more than 256 MB RAM available anyway... As far as RTM. I figured out the problem with AUGOS. If I slowdown my computer to 20% normal, the failure (in the Turbo Pascal compiled code) is avoided, apparently the infamous runtime error 200 related to machine speed is widely suffered. At 20% speed AUGOS runs OK under both EMM386 2.01 and pure HIMEM with 448M extended memory free. Both TD and TLINK used an updated version of RTM which runs okay in either circumstance, as well. That Raptor (DOS/16M) not enough memory (XMIN) error showed up again, and yet again using RAP /? made it go away. No idea why, but as long as it works... :-). I'll look at Raptor if you tell me where to get it. Otherwise, I'm still not seeing the problems you are reporting with bare HIMEM and RTM and nothing new with EMM386 2.01. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 2.01 Bugfix Released
Michael Devore wrote: At 02:59 PM 5/3/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: todo.txt emm386.txt and emm386.lsm are all outdated Not my file, not my file, and fully up to date. Sorry. Did not mean to annoy you. So: Tom, could you update those files? Thanks. I don't know what you're talking about, actually. The first two aren't in EMM386 distribution, so I don't know how they would be official files that need to be updated. And I updated the LSM file. If they aren't in official distribution, you are probably out of luck. BTW, I really appreciate it when contributors include an up-to-date LSM file in their releases (like Michael has) so I can post it on the FreeDOS.org site. Makes updates a lot easier. :-) -jh -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 2.01 Bugfix Released
Hi Michael, big cheers for those bugfixes! Things work a lot better now :-)). Still not perfect, though... All my testings below were done without /max=... in HIMEM, so roughly 192 - (56+1) = 135 MB of XMS were free when I reached the prompt, less if EMM386 loaded but pool sharing disabled, of course. 1. EMM386 X=TEST VDS EMM=32640 gcube, mft, zip, jazz jackrabbit, raptor, ctstoast, lemmings 3d demo all work. In other words: PMODE/W, general EMS stress test (bench), CWSDPMI, RTM/DPMI16BI, DOS/16M, DOS32A, DOS/4GW are all happy. Did not test Descent (dos4gw/dos32a) and AuGoS (rtm) explicitly now. Remaining PROBLEM: Lemmings 3d hangs right before returning to DOS. 2. EMM386 X=TEST VDS Still everything as above :-). Pool sharing now on, though. I got an unreproduceable not enough XMIN from Raptor which went away when I did rap /? to figure out how to avoid it, even though /? officially has no effect in Raptor. The L3d hang was still there. Notice: DOS32A uses 50 MB, DOS4GW uses 32276 kB in Descent -verbose. 3. No EMM386 at all The RTM / DPMI16BI programs RTM and AuGoS spontaneously reboot at init. As checked earlier, it only seems to help to use HIMEM /max=? with ? being something like 31744, something about 32 MB addres space. Different to Aladdin, /X2MAX32 alone does not seem to help... Lemmings 3d does not work without EMS, by the way. Apart from the RTM problem, I notice a typical DOS4GW crash (which I remember to have happened long ago, maybe DOS4GW gets confused above 64 MB of XMS free when no VCPI is present)... Loading with DOS32A is okay (168 MB RAM used and still okay, when testing with less RAMDISK size...! I mean 168 MB used by DOS32A.). The DOS4GW crash log tells: GPF at 3e58:24d7 (typical offset), esi=5b30 (1 above ES limit), edi=56cc, eax=ecx=c000, ebx=edx=16c, es=198 etc. etc. Apart from the above test results, there are documentation issues: todo.txt emm386.txt and emm386.lsm are all outdated, some even telling (still) that there is no VCPI yet and a 64 MB limit and that FDXMS would be unsupported because it would have a bug, and so on... :-P :-). Eric --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user