DOS ain't dead

no more EMS support in XP (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 11.10.2012, 21:51

Is anybody really surprised? MS hasn't fixed even obvious NTVDM bugs in years, esp. with Vista and 7, and their priorities these days are with Win8, Metro, tablets, phones, C++, HTML5, XBox360, etc. They long ago gave up DOS support. Rumor already says that Win9 Home editions will be 64-bit only, and I have no idea how well Hyper-V 64-bit will work, even in Win8 (only two weeks away).

Anyways, I read a while back that some machines made these days were incapable of EMS under NTVDM anyways, which is probably why it's disabled by default. For sure, NTVDM is "ancient" code to them, basically unmaintained. I think DPMI has been heavily preferred over EMS for years, which makes such DPMI bugs all the more painful as it was the only reliable way.

Anyways, nidud, have you tried the http://www.emsmagic.com/ TSR? It should still work, so that's probably your best bet.

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