Let's start with 2 quick questions: *what version (what distribution) of FreeDOS did you install*, and *what do you see first when FreeDOS starts up on the computer? *
I hope you're running FreeDOS 1.3 .. or maybe the release candidate for FreeDOS 1.4. Both of these are available from the www.freedos.org website. Both of these versions show a menu when FreeDOS starts up. It's important to know what option you're selecting in that menu, because XMS support will be provided by one of those options. There should be a FDCONFIG.SYS file that comes with FreeDOS. Can you look in this file? Is ita long file, or a short one, or is it empty? Did you edit this file since installing FreeDOS? On Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 11:59 PM david--- via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I am new to FreeDOS and have run into a problem whereby some traditional > MSDOS programs will not run, complaining about "XMS allocation error". > > In MSDOS the solution is an additional line in config.sys reading > "device=emm386.exe ram", but there does not appear to be a emm386.exe > equivalent in FreeDOS. I would very much appreciate an explanation, > please, about how to get around this problem. > > Thank you > >
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