Hello, I have been testing some parts of FreeDOS on an original IBM PC/XT and on a 8086 emulator as well. Many things seem to work, but some things crash.
Below is a short list of problems I encountered. Things like himem.exe and CD-ROM drivers do not work for obvious reasons, so those are not listed here. 8086/XT compatibility issues with FreeDOS 1.0: mkeyb.exe: crash due to apack compression of the binary exe2bin.com: crash on ENTER instruction swsubst.exe: crash on ENTER instruction l.exe: crash on PUSH imm mvalues.exe: crash on ENTER instruction doslfn.com: crash, source is full of hand coded 386 instructions share.com: crash on ENTER, a different binary with the same release date works correctly: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/share/share-24aug2004.zip Crashes on ENTER usually happen when the compiler generates 286+ code. Perhaps these could be easily fixed by recompiling with more conservative settings. Bye, Joris. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
