> I think that's a very narrow view. The reality is that a lot of the > "classic" (say, '486 or earlier) hardware is hard to find - at least > in working condition. And dedicating an entire machine to FreeDOS . > So most people run FreeDOS on modern hardware (if they dedicate > hardware to it at all) or in a virtual machine (more common).
FreeDOS (and MSDOS) kernel and command are in no way hardware dependent; exclude them from bug searching if just every game fails. single failure might be possible, but not *every* game. there are 2, more or less, 'hardware' dependencies: HIMEM tries to find out how much and where memory exists. (J)EMM386 tries to find where are regions in A0000-F0000 occupied by hardware; and often enough got this wrong (not counting the bazillions of times where it got it right as these cases are not reported on the internet;). it might be the BIOS reporting available memory above 1MB in a strange way, misunderstood by HIMEM/EMM386, leading to trouble. or it might be EMM386 misunderstanding some adapter memory requirements in the a000-f000 region. just my 5 cents. crossposting this to bttr-software. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
