Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007 (4 of 4)

Hi Shane, summary of your mails... C000: Video ROM. At C900 are strings "S3 Corp." and "Trio64". CC00: PXE ROM by Argon Technologies CD00 to EFFF apparently FF JEMM386 with NOEMS X=CC00-CFFF NOINVLPG DOS uses d008 to db99, xcdrom doslfn etc high nothing in MEM /E, largest exe 623k, low 639k

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007 (4 of 4)

01:57:59 +0100 > From: e.a...@jpberlin.de > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007 > > > Hi Robert, Shane, > > > Ben Armstrong ("a Program manager on the core virtualization team > > at Microsoft

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007 (3 of 4)

== DEVICE=JEMM386.EXE X=CC00-CFFF NOINVLPG MEM /D Conventional Memory Detail: Segment TotalName Type --- - 1,024(1K)interrupt vector table 0040768(1K)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007 (2 of 4)

== DEVICE=JEMM386.EXE NOEMS NOINVLPG MEM /D Conventional Memory Detail: Segment TotalName Type --- - 1,024(1K)interrupt vector table 0040768(1K)BI

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007 (1 of 4)

Below is the data you requested: MEM /D and MEM /E run with the JEMM386 line variously containing and not containing X=CC00-CFFF and NOEMS. Here are some observations I've made about the upper memory area on my Virtual PC 2009. Note the PXE ROM A000-BFFF: Things entered in this range tend to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Japheth wrote: > You can use the GETSB.EXE tool which is contained in HXGUI > (http://www.japheth.de/hx.html). It reads the SB16 mixer status directly, > thus > it's able to tell the true values for IRQ and DMA. > > A PnP card usually has to be enabled - for SB16, there was a tool > DIAGNOSE.E

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Mateusz Viste wrote: > Setting the BLASTER environment variable > > This section may be useful if you are having problems with sound or music in > a DOS-based Apogee game. If you're trying to run a Windows-based game, this > section does not apply to you. > > Apogee's DOS games that use Soundbla

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

On Monday 23 March 2009 03:40, Michael Horvath wrote: > Are the BLASTER settings described anywhere in detail? VPC says it > emulates the Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 ISA Plug and Play. Maybe my > settings are wrong. Hi! I am using the description below from years, I've found it attached to o

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

> Are the BLASTER settings described anywhere in detail? VPC says it > emulates the Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 ISA Plug and Play. Maybe my > settings are wrong. You can use the GETSB.EXE tool which is contained in HXGUI (http://www.japheth.de/hx.html). It reads the SB16 mixer status direct

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Robert Riebisch wrote: > FreeDOS' BLASTER settings are misleading, because many cards also need > some kind of driver, setup tool, or enabler. > > So you need . Are the BLASTER settings described anywhere in detail? VPC says it emulates the Creative La

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Michael Horvath wrote: > ways as a form of copy-protection. I still have my Windows 3.11 disks, > and remember that they were formatted to store more than 1.44MB. IIRC, > simply copying from one disk to another didn't work last time I tried. You're wrong. ;-) Windows 3.x is OK, but Windows 95 u

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

k...@comcast.net wrote: > Hi Mike: > > I use "VFD" to do this under Windows. (It's easy under Linux). See > http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html. You can mount the > image as a floppy drive and copy files to/from it, format it, etc.. > > The other programs I know about cost money.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

I'd give pretty long odds that it's unicode. > -Original Message- > From: Eric Auer [mailto:e.a...@jpberlin.de] > Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:52 AM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007 >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Eric Auer wrote: > Very strange. Maybe you saved it in Unicode / UTF-8? > Or in Word or something ;-) You could try other free > or shareware editors like TextPad to make sure that > your file is really text. Of course it could also be > the case that something on your filesystem confuses > DOS and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

. Mark Bailey - Original Message - From: "Michael Horvath" To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 12:31:51 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007 [...] If so, can anyone recommend software to crea

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Hi! >>> "Line #1 in batchfile 'A:\INSTALL.BAT' too long" >> Please post the first line of "A:\INSTALL.BAT". > Good catch! When I read the batch file in FreeDOS the file is full of > gibberish. In Notepad on my WinXP machine, however, it is a properly > formatted text file. Very strange. Maybe

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Robert Riebisch wrote: >> "Line #1 in batchfile 'A:\INSTALL.BAT' too long" > > Please post the first line of "A:\INSTALL.BAT". > > Robert Riebisch Good catch! When I read the batch file in FreeDOS the file is full of gibberish. In Notepad on my WinXP machine, however, it is a properly formatte

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Hi Robert, Shane, > Ben Armstrong ("a Program manager on the core virtualization team > at Microsoft") recommends the following for MS-DOS on > http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/10/21/246136.aspx Note that this is from 2004 so it cannot be about Virtual PC 2007 ;-) > device=C:\D

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Michael Horvath wrote: > Option #2 (the default, and the one that doesn't work) results in the > following error: > > "Illegal instruction occured. > CS= IP=EEC3 SS=D0B4 SP=0004 ES=0070 > ...etc... > ...etc... > Aborting program > EMM386 - unable to continue - Please reboot=" Ben Armstr

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 02:12 -0400, Michael Horvath wrote: > I am able to boot after selecting option #3 ("Load FreeDOS with HIMEM > XMS-memory driver"), but installing the game still fails. Option #4 > ("Load FreeDOS without drivers") is unselectable. > > -Mike That's a bug, the 4th option not

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

I am able to boot after selecting option #3 ("Load FreeDOS with HIMEM XMS-memory driver"), but installing the game still fails. Option #4 ("Load FreeDOS without drivers") is unselectable. -Mike Michael Reichenbach wrote: > Booting without emm386 will work, to make emm386 to work you need the >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

Booting without emm386 will work, to make emm386 to work you need the correct excludes X= or I= but don't ask me further. After you got it running tell us how well Virtual PC works for your DOS apps / DOS games, how good is the soundblaster / vga / vesa implementation? Perhaps I've tested it in pa