Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 options, was: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-27 Thread Alain
Michael Devore escreveu: So now I have something to wish for. It looks that the most compatible _and_ safe behaviour is to map RAM to X=TEST, which was exactly your first suggestion :) Safest, but very incompatible with MS expected RAM behavior. Not the reverse either, just something quite di

[Freedos-devel] Volunteers wanted: BOCHS for DOS (Dos-Box)

2004-08-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, Tom Brett (tombrett X mailblocks.com, replace the X by @...) writes: Dos Box(not to be confused with DosBox) is an ongoing project to port bochs to MS-DOS (or rather FreeDOS) via the use of wxWindows (wxUniversal), perhaps using the Scitech MGL library.we are looking for volunteers to help

Re: [Freedos-devel] FORMAT problem

2004-08-27 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Johnson Lam wrote: I work for PC hardware since IBM PC was born. I learn too much program incompatible to some kind of hardware (especially Japan PC-9801 series). So being a programmer is tough. Ah yeah... I've heard of them. There's actually, I think, a customized version of FreeDOS for the PC98

Re: [Freedos-devel] FORMAT problem

2004-08-27 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:56:08 +0300, you wrote: Hi Lucho, >So BIOS uses some CHS translation mechanism here. What BIOS >brand/version/date you have? Acer Altos 300B (fade out model, 233MHz) I picked up our customer throw away PC for FreeDOS testing, it's USB totally sucks, almost all drivers fai

Re: [Freedos-devel] FORMAT problem

2004-08-27 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
# of Cylinders__:6296 6296 787 # of Heads__: 1616 128 # of Sectors/Track__: 636363 So BIOS uses some CHS translation mechanism here. What BIOS brand/version/date you have? LBA support Yes 3098.8MB of LBA addressable 3098.8MB in CHS mode What a pity that your BIOS ca