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no more EMS support in XP (Announce)

posted by nidud , Norway, 11.10.2012, 15:29

> I also don't care much, as I just looked in my CONFIG.NT I even didn't
> enabled the EMM and can live without it for long years...

My config.nt:
dos=high, umb
device=D:\windows\system32\himem.sys
files=40
I think it's in the .PIF file you define EMM?

> Can somebody suggest some program using EMS that worked under XP before
> patch to test?

Most applications will use EMS if available, but I think few of them depend on this to work.

The test to see if EMS is avilable is to look for the string 'EMMXXXX0' at adress [67h*4+2]. A search for the string 'EMMX' (*.com *.exe) gives this result:

EMSTEST.COM
PERUSE.COM
THELP.COM
VC.COM
123VIEW.EXE
7ZDEC.EXE
ARCVIEW.EXE
ASMEDIT.EXE
BSCMAKE.EXE
BSCMAKEV.EXE
COMPDIR.EXE
CONNECT.EXE
CSXHFS.EXE
CV.EXE
CVPACK.EXE
CWSDPMI.EXE
CWSDSTUB.EXE
DBVIEW.EXE
DCC.EXE
DEBUG.EXE
DOSBOX.EXE
DOSLYNX.EXE
DOSLYNXP.EXE
DOSLYNXS.EXE
DOSX.EXE
DOSXNT.EXE
DPMIINST.EXE
DXSTRESS.EXE
EDITSCR.EXE
EMM386.EXE
EMSSTAT.EXE
FW110.EXE
FWIZARD.EXE
GZIP386.EXE
H2ASH.EXE
INSTALLD.EXE
JEMM386.EXE
JEMMEX.EXE
JLOAD.EXE
LINK.EXE
LOADLIN.EXE
MEM.EXE
NCCLEAN.EXE
NCDD.EXE
NCEDIT.EXE
NCFF.EXE
NCLABEL.EXE
NCMAIN.EXE
NCNET.EXE
NCSF.EXE
NCSI.EXE
NCZIP.EXE
NDD.EXE
NMAIL.EXE
NMAKER.EXE
PACKER.EXE
PARAVIEW.EXE
PMINFO.EXE
PVCS_SS.EXE
PWB.EXE
Q&AVIEW.EXE
Q.EXE
RAR32.EXE
RBVIEW.EXE
RECOVER.EXE
REFVIEW.EXE
RMINFO.EXE
SAVER.EXE
SBTALKER.EXE
SCMAIN.EXE
SETUP.EXE
SI.EXE
TC.EXE
TD.EXE
TD286.EXE
TD286INS.EXE
TDMEM.EXE
TDREMOTE.EXE
TDW.EXE
TDX.EXE
TFREMOTE.EXE
TPROF.EXE
TPROFW.EXE
TURBO.EXE
TXT2HTM.EXE
UNRAR.EXE
UPX.EXE
WGET.EXE
WPVIEW.EXE


Complete thread:

• no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 10.10.2012, 14:53 (Announce)
  • no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 10.10.2012, 19:21
    • no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 10.10.2012, 19:48
      • no more EMS support in XP - Arjay, 10.10.2012, 20:47
        • no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 10.10.2012, 22:35
          • no more EMS support in XP - marcov, 11.10.2012, 13:46
            • no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 11.10.2012, 15:17
        • no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 11.10.2012, 00:46
          • no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 11.10.2012, 15:29
            • no more EMS support in XP - Arjay, 11.10.2012, 17:36
              • no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 11.10.2012, 19:05
                • no more EMS support in XP - Rugxulo, 11.10.2012, 21:51
                  • no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 11.10.2012, 23:26
                • no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 12.10.2012, 00:51
  • no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 13.10.2012, 15:03
    • no more EMS support in XP - mvojvodic, 14.10.2012, 12:49
      • no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 14.10.2012, 18:17
    • no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 16.10.2012, 02:07
      • no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 17.10.2012, 14:25
        • no more EMS support in XP - Tito, 13.12.2012, 20:26
          • no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 14.12.2012, 01:19
            • no more EMS support in XP - Tito, 14.12.2012, 19:18
              • no more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 15.12.2012, 17:37
              • no more EMS support in XP - nidud, 16.12.2012, 01:04