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New Necromancer's Dos Navigator (NDN) versions (Announce)

posted by CandyMan, 06.07.2023, 12:42

> DOS64 version - it works great for me from DOS with JEMM, I have currently
> 8GB RAM installed. It wouldn't work with 4GB or less? (even with 4GB RAM
> installed there is some RAM beyond 4GB remapped from PCI MMIO, so I had
> about 4,5GB before when used 2*2GB modules)
>
> I noticed there appeared a "NDN" bottom line below F-bar, why is this for
> (it just displays info about NDN)? It just waste one line that could
> display files in panel, how can I hide it? (was not present in previous
> version)
>
> BTW what are advantages of NDN64 over 32? Where it can use more memory?
> Maybe editing extra large files but I'm already limited by FAT16/32...
The Dos64 version will (should) work if you have any memory beyond 4GB.

The line you wrote about is the hints bar. The fact is that one line is wasted, but only when you have a video mode with a small number of lines. In Windows, for example, I have the mode set to 237x62 (columns x rows) and then it doesn't matter much. To get rid of it select in Menu->Options->Configuration->Interface...->Others->[x]Hide hints bar

The advantages of the NDN64 version are a 256-bit big calculator (to check the bitness of any calculator type "bsr (-1)"), the ability to view and "decode" (see Menu->File->Decoder) large files (>2GB - mainly Windows),
more memory (uses a lot of editor with syntax highlighting turned on - see ndn.hgl file).
In 64-bit mode, CPU registers are twice as long in bits and there are more of them, so NDN should theoretically run faster.

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