Rugxulo, Ralph,
Thank you both for your inputs! Here's the endgame :)
I already tried to test the RAM on this machine using both "AleGr
MEMTEST 2.00" and "MEMTEST86+ 4.20" (from a boot floppy), but both fail
miserably - AleGr MEMTEST imemdiately freezes, while MEMTEST86+
immediately reboots th
Hi again,
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> Yes, I have considered the possibility that it might be a hardware
> problem. Wouldn't be that surprising given that's a 25 years old
> machine. I also resoldered lots of stuff fixing PCB traces and replacing
> a few passive com
On 8/24/2015 8:48 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>> I am confident there are many 386 owners here - what do you use for XMS
>> management on your systems?
> Sadly, I don't share your optimism. I hope I'm wrong, but most people
> with legacy mach
Hi Rugxulo,
Yes, I have considered the possibility that it might be a hardware
problem. Wouldn't be that surprising given that's a 25 years old
machine. I also resoldered lots of stuff fixing PCB traces and replacing
a few passive components because the mainboard was in a very poor state
when
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> I am confident there are many 386 owners here - what do you use for XMS
> management on your systems?
Sadly, I don't share your optimism. I hope I'm wrong, but most people
with legacy machines just aren't active anymore. (Even I don'
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Carl spitzer wrote:
> Afterall most appliances are in technical terms rather simple and though
> some like model trains get by with TinyOS others might get by with DOS and
> more complex things can be left to Linux.
I rather doubt it.
One thing that gets a *lot*
On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 09:19 -0700, Steve Andy De George wrote:
> That is cool, however DOSBox doesn't run everything. If it's not a
> game, they don't care if it fails to run. The DOSBox project was
> created strictly for games, though other people do happen to use it
> for other things now and aga
Hi folks,
I am working on a 1990 386SX with 4M of RAM these days, and I have some
troubles setting up XMS management on it.
Here's what happens:
* HIMEMX v3.32: freezes the PC at boot time (I tried all possible A20
management policies, doesn't change anything)
* XMGR 4-aug-2012: freezes the P
