On 01/06/2021 23:55, Lukas Satin wrote:
The driver VIDECDD is not working at all. It will not find my CD-ROM drive. Perhaps because 486 bios cannot find the CDROM. But driver such as MSCDEX or SHSUCDX will find the drive.
Hi Lukas, MSCDEX/SHSUCDX are not really drivers, they are only a subsystem that talks to the actual driver and presents a "network-like" filesystem to the DOS kernel. Back in the day, each CDROM drive came with a floppy that contained a DOS driver. This DOS driver had to be loaded (via config.sys), and only then MSCDEX (or SHSUCDX) could find it. I think you said earlier that your setup works fine with MSDOS - then perhaps you could use the same driver on FreeDOS, instead of the universal UDVD? MS-DOS does not come with a CDROM driver at all, so I do not know where you obtained your driver from.
As for EMM386/JEMM386 - simply do not use it. It is always cleaner to run in real mode anyway. The only difference is that you won't be able to run games that require EMS memory, but I am not sure there are really many games that require EMS memory, usually games are able to use either EMS or XMS, depending on what's available.
Finally, if you look for a more basic FreeDOS system, you might want to test SvarDOS. It is a FreeDOS distribution that aims for minimalism and 8086 compatibility, I'd be curious to know how it runs on your "difficult" setup.
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