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DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 12.02.2026, 04:32
(edited by RayeR on 12.02.2026, 06:06)

No luck...
With newly compiled hdpmi32 -r
it still hangs at Doom start on textmode screen just after
"HU_Init: Setting up heads up display." message
http://rayer.g6.cz/1tmp/doom_under_hdmpi32.jpg
After a minute it ends with disk read error (messed up some INT13h services? Disk is std. IDE on PIIX3 primary channel).
I found it's some incompatability of HDPMI32 and my system, it behaves the same when I don't load aweutil and even when I skipped entire config.sys & autoexec.bat. Also with older HDPMI32 without NMI handling enabled. Do you use some special instruction o hack that may not work on a Pentium Pro system (i440FX chipset, 192MB RAM)? As I mentioned before running doom under cwsdpmi -r don't cause such problem.

So awemidi didn't change anything with it.
BTW here's a bit newer AWEUTIL 1.36
http://rayer.g6.cz/1tmp/AWEUTIL.COM

I didn't test with new JEMM coz I have some problem with compiling (older sources compiled OK, nmake same as wmake -ms)

Y:\JEMMSRC>wmake -ms
Open Watcom Make Version 2.0 beta Dec  2 2024 02:29:45 (32-bit)
Copyright (c) 2002-2024 The Open Watcom Contributors. All Rights Reserved.
Portions Copyright (c) 1988-2002 Sybase, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Source code is available under the Sybase Open Watcom Public License.
See https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2#readme for details.
src\JEMM32.ASM(504) : Error A2172: Initializer magnitude too large:
src\JEMM32.ASM(505) : Error A2172: Initializer magnitude too large:
src\JEMM32.ASM(508) : Error A2172: Initializer magnitude too large:
src\JEMM32.ASM(510) : Error A2172: Initializer magnitude too large:
src\JEMM32.ASM(519) : Error A2172: Initializer magnitude too large:
src\JEMM32.ASM(520) : Error A2172: Initializer magnitude too large:
src\JEMM32.ASM(521) : Error A2172: Initializer magnitude too large:
src\JEMM32.ASM(522) : Error A2172: Initializer magnitude too large:
src\JEMM32.ASM: 2812 lines, 1 passes, 16 ms, 0 warnings, 8 errors
Error(E42): Last command making (build\JEMM386\jemm32.obj) returned a bad status


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Complete thread:

• DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 13.01.2026, 16:43
  • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 13.01.2026, 19:33
    • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 13.01.2026, 22:53
      • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 14.01.2026, 08:49
        • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 14.01.2026, 16:26
          • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 14.01.2026, 20:12
            • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 15.01.2026, 08:17
              • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 16.01.2026, 04:19
                • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 17.01.2026, 02:09
                  • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Khusraw, 17.01.2026, 07:52
                    • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 17.01.2026, 15:54
                  • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 19.01.2026, 12:04
                    • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 20.01.2026, 01:19
                      • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 20.01.2026, 08:03
                        • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 20.01.2026, 13:14
                          • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 21.01.2026, 21:54
                            • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 23.01.2026, 18:59
                              • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 24.01.2026, 09:17
                                • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 25.01.2026, 07:51
                                  • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 25.01.2026, 08:47
                                    • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 26.01.2026, 00:17
                                      • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 26.01.2026, 03:29
                                        • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 27.01.2026, 08:47
                                          • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 27.01.2026, 18:25
                                            • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 29.01.2026, 19:23
                                              • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 05.02.2026, 11:30
                                                • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 12.02.2026, 04:32
                                                  • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 12.02.2026, 09:59
                                                    • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - RayeR, 14.02.2026, 05:05
                                                      • DOS32AWE - RAM wavetable MIDI possible for PM games under DOS - Japheth, 17.02.2026, 16:08