At 01:10 PM 4/21/2004 +0100, Bart Oldeman wrote: >On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > >> At 02:06 PM 4/21/2004 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: >> >> >Also another application call BLASTER MASTER (Sound editor) also said >> >"EMS Corrupt", I've asked the author, it become free now. I can email >> >or upload to your FTP if you want. >> >> I grabbed Blaster Master off the web. Turns out that for it to run >> under NOEMS, the application needs the EMS ID changed (to EMMQXXX0) > >FD MEM checks for EMMXXXX0 at this place -- so it will now plainly say >that no EMS driver is installed for NOEMS (which kinda makes sense if you >take "NOEMS" literally), before it said (mem 1.5, 1.6): EMS driver >installed, 16K free, no frame. Is this documented anywhere?
Yeah, if you worked with Clipper, you might still remember the big stink when the new Microsoft EMM386 version made the change for NOEMS. Clipper only checked for the first three letters 'EMM' and failed when it tried to use EMS since it missed the 'Q'. Lots of finger-pointing, confusion, wailing, gnashing of teeth, and tearing of hair over that one. Search for EMMQXXX0 for a representative sample. Google groups has a taste of it, there was a lot more on CompuServe back in the days. Claims to have happened with MS EMM386 version 4.45. Definitely underdocumented, MS site mentions that name only once, but appears to show it as valid in an example. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
