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Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) (Users)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 27.06.2010, 08:44

> First of all, sorry if this is not the right place to write about that.
This is probably the BEST place to ask!

> I have installed Freedos (kernel 2036) on my netbook (Not without troubles
> i can say).
I would suggest trying 2038 (and not 2039) although it probably doesn't matter for 99% of people.

BTW, honestly, it might be "better" to run under DOSEMU in your favorite Linux distro, IMHO, since you can indeed still multitask and things like ACPI (cpu fan) will work much better. Of course, that's assuming it supports your games, which it may not. (BioMenace never worked there when I tried. DJGPP stuff works good though.)

> Of course, first of all I began to launch my favourite games.
> So Duke3d (thats my favourite) runs without problems,

Even with sound??? I'd be surprised. DOSBox is good for emulating sound stuff, but overall it's fairly slow. Still good to have, though.

> and thats probably it
> is something dos4gw, and doesnt need memory managers. Also some very old
> games like f.e. Tower Toppler ran ok only if i disabled HIMEM driver,
> otherwise it told me smtng like "Invalid executable format".
> The game Tyrian refuse to run at all, giving runtime error :-( . And the
> game is cool.

Most people suggest DOS/32A as a full-time DOS/4GW replacement. And I think? it fixes some weird issues (PIC?) on newer PCs.

http://dos32a.narechk.net

I haven't played Tyrian in a long time, but if what people here say is true, you need a patch or this TSR:

ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilprog/r200fix.zip

> About my comp: HP Compaq Mini 311 (Intel 945 mobo, 1 Gb memory )
> About dos config: nothing except himem driver.
> I use HIMEMX.EXE, and at boot it says "UMB's unavailable" ,
> HIMEM.EXE also works but without that message.
You usually can't use UMBs without EMM386, but you can always try UMBPCI (22 May 2010 !!).

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/umbpci_e.html

> MEM.EXE reports me my 1gb free memory. Without himem loaded, it shows that
> 1Gb is used! Also it doesn't show any video memory, which must be part of
> system memory (I'm not sure it should thou).
>
> Ok, so what about EMS? I tried emm386.exe, Jemm.exe both and my system just
> crashes, so i stopped experimenting with that.
> I remember, in ms-dos i used qemm.exe with a lot of line parameters.
Most likely ACPI conflict, you'll have to weed out the problem UMB area. IIRC, geti15ex.exe from HX was helpful (search this forum).

> Playing Duke is not the reason why i decided to go dos, of course :-D
> I want to refresh my programming knowledge now, So I need some advice on
> how to setup DOS properly to use it with openWatcom and write some
> graphical apps (i don't think i will ever go further 640x480x256 mode).
I'd suggest Allegro (4.2.2) or GRX or DEPUI or similar. At one time at least Allegro supported OpenWatcom, but I'm not sure what version. (DJGPP is nice, so you should get that too.)

http://alleg.sourceforge.net/old.html

(or RAINE's patched version):
http://rainemu.swishparty.co.uk/html/archive/allegro-4.2.2.tar.bz2

http://grx.gnu.de/

http://www.deleveld.dds.nl/depui33/depui.htm

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