Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 1.15 release is out

2005-02-20 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:58 PM 2/20/2005 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > Similar to the way Disney's Aladdin program does on >32M of XMS, > causing Aladdin to fail on higher memory machines unless HIMEM's /MAX > option is used or external XMS allocations are made... Leads to a popular problem: Where exactly (I think we use

[Freedos-devel] Segments

2005-02-20 Thread Christopher Evans
Are you sure that the BIOS and DOS DATA segments are in h? I thought they were: :003f vector table 0040: BIOS Data 0050: DOS DATA and Communication area 0070: IO.SYS/MSDOS.SYS 07c0: Boot sector runs from --- SF email is

[Freedos-devel] Fwd: FreeBasic DOS compiler

2005-02-20 Thread Jim Hall
I'm not a BASIC programmer anymore, but I thought I'd fwd this email from tauno70 about FreeBasic. It's GNU GPL, and available from http://www.freebasic.net/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc -jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just wanted to notify that there's a new powerful Basic com

[Freedos-devel] Re: freedos aceesses c:\ ?

2005-02-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Aitor, > I mean is it possible to get an emulation of a 1.4MB writable driver > into memory (not ElTorito or such). there are various solutions for that, but if you boot FreeDOS from a virtual A:, then the SYSLINUX + MEMDISK solution works very well :-). You can install SYSLINUX family loaders

[Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 1.15 release is out

2005-02-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, can you explain what "VDS function 2" (now implemented for FastTracker) does? Int 4b.8102+2 = 4b.8104? Unlock DMA region? What made int 67.53 (EMS func 53, get/set handle name) use the wrong buffer addresss? > EMS function 58h, subfunction 1, did not properly return the number of EMS > mappa

[Freedos-devel] EMM386 1.15 release is out

2005-02-20 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx15.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms15.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. As with the previous release, EMM386 version 1.15 contains a significant number of both fixes and enhancements. It is