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more EMS support in XP (Announce)

posted by nidud , Norway, 23.12.2012, 13:50

A new Expanded Memory Manager (EMM) for XP.
Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/doszip/files/dzemm

Some differences in behaviour on this compare too the NTVDM's EMM:
Instead of the usual 16M of memory, this will give 256M. However, you may allocate FFFF pages to each handle, and there are 255 handles. There is no 1M-limit on copy, so you could copy 500M from one handle to another in one go.

The update KB2724197 prohibits EMS in XP, and this program works best if this is installed (no EMS). If you already have removed the update, and install this one, it will still work, but the MS version will eat a lot of (all) memory. The manager will then "steal" some of this for its usage. You may right-click the shortcut for the DOS program, select Memory, and in the "Use EMS Memory" box, select none. This will prohibit the MS-EMM manager to install.

This is "work in progress"; so don?t expect everything to work smoothly

Complete thread:

• more EMS support in XP - nidud, 23.12.2012, 13:50 (Announce)
  • more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 23.12.2012, 18:41
    • more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 24.12.2012, 00:08
      • more EMS support in XP - nidud, 24.12.2012, 10:17
        • more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 25.12.2012, 02:48
          • more EMS support in XP - nidud, 28.12.2012, 21:29
            • more EMS support in XP - RayeR, 29.12.2012, 01:34