[Freedos-devel] FD vs. MS incompatibility (undocumented) breaks BRUN45

2004-08-29 Thread Michael Devore
I was looking at why Solitaire Suite doesn't work with FreeDOS per a recent Bugzilla entry. It instead fails with a QuickBASIC BRUN45 or invalid opcode error. Turns out that BRUN45 expects int 21h, function 4Ah, to return the resized segment (the entry ES value) in AX on successful return. Fr

Re: [Freedos-devel] FORMAT problem

2004-08-29 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:32:03 -0400, you wrote: Hi Uso, >Ah yeah... I've heard of them. There's actually, I think, a customized >version of FreeDOS for the PC98 series, called FreeDOS(98). I've used >it a little in emulation. Where you find the source of FreeDOS(98)? I want to take a look. T

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

2004-08-29 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 29-Авг-2004 14:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: nothing - No UMB available, smaller lower memory, only for problematic cases >>>Nothing is the same as RAM with FreeDOS EMM386. UMB's are available and >>I like this. Does MSDOS have UMB in this case? I allw

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

2004-08-29 Thread Jim Hall
May I suggest a table similar to this in the docs or even help? FreeDOS eventually needs an official documentation template and process with a more active documentation project, I'll grant you that. FD-DOC has been up for grabs for a while now ... I haven't had time to commit to the project, w

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

2004-08-29 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:49 PM 8/27/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: nothing - No UMB available, smaller lower memory, only for problematic cases Nothing is the same as RAM with FreeDOS EMM386. UMB's are available and auto- I like this. Does MSDOS have UMB in this case? I allways understood that it didn't... In any case,

[Freedos-devel] offline during the week

2004-08-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Hi people, I have some good news and some bad news for you guys: good: I've started updating packages and improving the FreeDOS distribution again after a summer break. bad: I have no internet during the week (only weekends at my parents) and no computer this week. Bernd