Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedos-devel] New Release: EMM386 2.10, HIMEM 3.13

2006-07-08 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:18 PM 7/8/2006 -0500, Michael Devore wrote: I used the newest release UPX 2.01d to compress this version of EMM386 and HIMEM. It saved about 400 bytes for EMM386.EXE and 200 bytes for HIMEM.EXE over the old mutant UPX. Yeaaa, the new UPX works with DOS EXE/SYS files. Yeaaa, the UPX de

[Freedos-user] New Release: EMM386 2.10, HIMEM 3.13

2006-07-08 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386/ are the files emmx210.zip, EMM386 version 2.10 and HIMEM version 3.13 memory managers, mostly executables; and emms210.zip, source code files for the new release. The latest revisions (effectively completed in May) contain several compa

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 8-Июл-2006 22:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Hickman) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> GH> Yes, but is it not the case that the startup files are different, plus >> Startup files are same. GH> Can you clarify what you mean here? How do you define "same"? Identical or ne

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-08 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Arkady, > GH> Yes, but is it not the case that the startup files are different, plus > > Startup files are same. Can you clarify what you mean here? How do you define "same"? > Wrong. MS-DOS 6.22 was much newer and it recommended to use > himem/emm386 from it, instead "native" ones

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-07-08 Thread John Hupp
My (pure) FreeDOS installation was as loaded by the 0.9 Beta SR2 CD, except that I updated the kernel and freecom. I was using current *stable*: kernel - 1.1.35 Build 2035b-cvs, 2006-05-21 freecom - 0.84-pre XMS_Swap, 2006-05-21 himem + emm386 - from emmx208 or emm208x ZIP archive (though that wa

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-07-08 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Shane M. Coughlan wrote: > John Hupp wrote: > >>In the course of off-list discussion, I tested this problem much more >>extensively than I reported here. My own conclusion was similar to your >>Situation #3: HIMEM and EMM386 are not at issue, and OpenGEM has one or more >>incompatibilities wi

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 7-Июл-2006 10:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Hickman) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: GH> What is the exact technical reason you can't start WfW 3.11 from GH> FreeDOS? Is it the DPMI thing or something else? Some differences in kernel structure. And some unimplemented in FD AP

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 6-Июл-2006 22:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Hickman) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >>> You mean you booted into MS-DOS 6.22 and then started WfW from within >>> DOS 6.22? If so, I have to ask why?? GH> No one has answered this part yet, especially why. There _was_ answer. S

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-08 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, > > DRDOS has DPMI. I assume FD could if it doesn't. > > What is the exact technical reason you can't start WfW 3.11 from > FreeDOS? Is it the DPMI thing or something else? I haven't looked much into this topic, but it cannot be the DPMI, as when you run "WIN" then Microsoft's nice extender

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-07-08 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
John Hupp wrote: > In the course of off-list discussion, I tested this problem much more > extensively than I reported here. My own conclusion was similar to your > Situation #3: HIMEM and EMM386 are not at issue, and OpenGEM has one or more > incompatibilities with the FreeDOS kernel. > But I

Re: [Freedos-user] Russian by UTF-8 in FreeDOS?

2006-07-08 Thread Mateusz Viste
Dnia środa 05 lipiec 2006 19:52, Henrique Peron napisał: > It should work for you in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: > > DISPLAY CON=(,,3) > MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((858,852) C:\FDOS\BIN\EGA.CPX) > MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((,,808) C:\FDOS\BIN\EGA3.CPX) > > Then, you'll type MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=85

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-07-08 Thread John Hupp
In the course of off-list discussion, I tested this problem much more extensively than I reported here. My own conclusion was similar to your Situation #3: HIMEM and EMM386 are not at issue, and OpenGEM has one or more incompatibilities with the FreeDOS kernel. But I found further that the pro

Re: [Freedos-user] Contributions towards FreeDOS 1.0

2006-07-08 Thread Mateusz Viste
Dnia piątek 07 lipiec 2006 22:56, Blair Campbell napisał: > For those who would like to contribute towards FreeDOS 1.0 but don't > know how to program, you might still be able to help. If you know two > languages sufficiently to help translating, you can check which > programs don't support your l