Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1,2 runs very slow

2017-01-20 Thread Eric Auer
> The version of FDAPM is dated 11 Sep 2009 and does not have an ADV option. Yes it does. Even the 2005 version has it, but it is not shown in the /? help screen. Only the longer explanations included as separate text document mention ADV options ;-) Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1,2 runs very slow

2017-01-20 Thread Ira Minor
The version of FDAPM is dated 11 Sep 2009 and does not have an ADV option. I installed using the legacy CD. Ira irami...@gmail.com 805-212-0588 On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Ira, > > if FDAPM APMDOS slows down your FreeDOS (on which hardware? >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1,2 runs very slow

2017-01-20 Thread Ralf Quint
On 1/20/2017 1:24 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Ira, > > if FDAPM APMDOS slows down your FreeDOS (on which hardware? > or in which environment, if not on bare physical hardware?) > then you can try FDAPM ADV:REG instead, as APMDOS defaults > to ADV:MAX which might be "overdoing" the energy savings in

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1,2 runs very slow

2017-01-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ira, if FDAPM APMDOS slows down your FreeDOS (on which hardware? or in which environment, if not on bare physical hardware?) then you can try FDAPM ADV:REG instead, as APMDOS defaults to ADV:MAX which might be "overdoing" the energy savings in certain situations. Note that the SPEED settings

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1,2 runs very slow

2017-01-20 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Ira Minor wrote: > My guess is that the default in FreeDOS is to run slow so games will run > correctly. I don't believe so. DOS is a single user, single tasking OS. When you ran a game, DOS was involved in loading it, but the game then

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1,2 runs very slow

2017-01-20 Thread Louis Santillan
What is your EMS/XMS configuration? Do you have a drive cache in installed? Do you have a RAM Disk Driver installed? Providing the autoexec.bat and config.sys for both installs would be helpful. On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Ira Minor wrote: > I recently installed