Re: [Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 2.0 Released

2005-04-29 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:52 PM 4/29/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Same for Jazz Jackrabbit (RTM/DPMI16BI) game and the Jazz Jackrabbit "DOS link" goes to a Win32 version of the game. So much for that guy. GCUBE is one of those tarball atrocities. No thanks, unless you have an already compiled and readily extract

[Freedos-user] Update: EDIT 0.7b TO-DO list (from Fox), comments?

2005-04-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, some new answer: > - all windows are inside the outmost window, and the top / side > borders of that waste space. if you resize it, you see the DOS screen. I noticed that you CAN remove the border and the title! There are options for that in the display option menu. If you remove the border

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 2.0 Released

2005-04-29 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:52 PM 4/29/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Quarterdeck Manifest / MFT: I mean: It hangs even if I have no caches on and run it from harddisk. GCUBE intro crashes on second call with EMM386 2.0: DOS tells that the MCB at d0cf:0 has been zeroed out. Does not happen with EMM386 1.15... If I enable

[Freedos-user] A weird calculator for EDIT...?

2005-04-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I wrote an evil fixed point expression evaluator in C: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/calc-fixpoint-expressions.zip This program uses GPLed prf.c and is released under the Artistic License, I hope those two mix reasonably well... prf.c is a smaller printf (compared to d

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS issue?

2005-04-29 Thread Vince LaMonica
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Bernd Blaauw wrote: } Microsoft will without doubt have tested their fshare program with MSDOS, so } could you try that? } No idea if they found it interesting to make VirtualPC cripple non-microsoft } flavours of DOS. Well, I thought it was a good sign that one of the engine

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: re: NTFS issue?

2005-04-29 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 29-Апр-2005 15:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vince LaMonica) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: VL> I don't need CD-ROM support at all. In fact the main reason I am doing VL> this is so I can get DOS to use more than 640kb of memory. Our windows VL> 2000 workstations run a legacy DOS progra

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS issue?

2005-04-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Vince LaMonica schreef: I've talked with one of the Virtual Computing engineers at Microsoft and he's told me that fshare does work in FreeDOS [which is why i gave up trying it in PC DOS 2000], so I am hoping someone on this list has done this before and can clue me into what I am missing. :)

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS issue?

2005-04-29 Thread Vince LaMonica
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Bernd Blaauw wrote: } I don't know how a Mac's shared folders work. Mac OS X's shared folders work just like Linux: it uses SMB [samba]. } You might try to download a bootdisk from } http://www.veder.com/nwdsk/index.html } and see if it properly enables you to access the Mac

[Freedos-user] Re: re: NTFS issue?

2005-04-29 Thread Vince LaMonica
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Eric Auer wrote: } Hi, indeed, looks like a network drive with a problem. Well, this is happening when I mount a local Mac drive [S: in my previous post]. And since the real NTFS network drive is in use by 20+ people I don't think there is a problem with it. } As you tell

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS issue?

2005-04-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Vince LaMonica schreef: I'm running FreeDOS beta9 [service release #1] with the HIMEM XMS memory driver under Virtual PC 7.01 on a Mac mini. I'm not using EMM386, since I need to use VPC's shared folders feature. I am sharing a Mac network shared folder which is an NTFS volume on an NT 4.0 serve

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 2.0 Released

2005-04-29 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 29-Апр-2005 19:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> initialization code of the driver. Arkady also clarified that FORSYS EA> means "for the SYS.COM tool". ...as opposite "for kernel itself" - thus, prf.c may be used in kernel and in external

[Freedos-user] re: NTFS issue?

2005-04-29 Thread Vince LaMonica
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Eric Auer wrote: } Hi, you did not explain why "shared folders" is related to EMM386. Sorry - I thought it was common knowledge that Virtual PC's fshare.exe [the program that allows a PC in VPC to see the hosts's shares/network shares] will not run when EMM386 is running. I

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 2.0 Released

2005-04-29 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:52 PM 4/29/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Quite a while ago, when we had the same discussion, I showed you some documentation (PC DOS stuff afair?) which explicitly states that you can use int 21.01 ... int 21.0c at almost any time. That includes that you can use them from within SYS files and

[Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 2.0 Released

2005-04-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, some test results and stuff... Generally bad news, sorry. > >Yes, BUT: You still forgot to compile with FORSYS defined, so prf.c still > >outputs to BIOS instead of to (redirectable) DOS. Quite a while ago, when we had the same discussion, I showed you some documentation (PC DOS stuf

[Freedos-user] NTFS issue?

2005-04-29 Thread Vince LaMonica
Hi all, I'm running FreeDOS beta9 [service release #1] with the HIMEM XMS memory driver under Virtual PC 7.01 on a Mac mini. I'm not using EMM386, since I need to use VPC's shared folders feature. I am sharing a Mac network shared folder which is an NTFS volume on an NT 4.0 server. I downloaded

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 2.0 Released

2005-04-29 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:56 PM 4/29/2005 +0200, you wrote: Yes, BUT: You still forgot to compile with FORSYS defined, so prf.c still outputs to BIOS instead of to (redirectable) DOS. I didn't forget and I did look at the code. The #define explicitly indicated for SYS files, use it the way it is set up. One of the

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 v2.0

2005-04-29 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:51 PM 4/29/2005 +0200, you wrote: Hi, I'm just reporting, that Aladdin is still not working with EMM386 2.0 - still the same error message: XMS memory allocating error. When I waste some XMS with EATXMS, the game launch ok. You need to use /X2MAX32 option with HIMEM, on the HIMEM line in CON

[Freedos-user] EMM386 v2.0

2005-04-29 Thread Fox
Hi, I'm just reporting, that Aladdin is still not working with EMM386 2.0 - still the same error message: XMS memory allocating error. When I waste some XMS with EATXMS, the game launch ok. Fox --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.0 Released

2005-04-29 Thread Jim Hall
Thanks! I've updated the LSM, mirrored the release, and posted a news item on FreeDOS.org. Should show up in a few minutes. -jh Michael Devore wrote: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx20.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms20.zip, EMM

[Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 2.0 Released

2005-04-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, good news :-). > Version 2.0 of EMM386 supports sharing of extended memory between EMS, XMS, > and VCPI from a common pool... > Be aware that some 1500 lines of assembly language code were added in this > version of EMM386, with another few hundred lines replaced or deleted. The