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

posted by DOS386, 27.06.2010, 14:49
(edited by DOS386 on 27.06.2010, 14:59)

> If was the C programmed I would use at the first point DUGL. http://dugl.50webs.com/
Right. Use DUGL for DGJPP GUI programing. For FreeBASIC you can use DUGL or FreeBASIC lib or whatever.

> There are many options: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_x86_DOS_operating_systems
This article really sucks (NO, I'm not going to edit it :crying:).

Rugxulo wrote:

> BTW, honestly, it might be "better" to run under DOSEMU in your favorite Linux distro
Hmm "better" :confused: ... if you deprecate DOS (FYI, I really deprecate Linux instead)

Misha wrote:

> sorry if this is not the right place to write about that.
It is (there is also FreeDOS mailing list).

> I have installed Freedos (kernel 2036) on my netbook (Not without troubles
Get 2038 kernel, distros are bugged :-(

> So Duke3d (thats my favourite) runs without problems, and thats probably it
> is something dos4gw, and doesnt need memory managers.
Try DOS/32A ... if some game fails :hungry:

> Also some very old games like f.e. Tower Toppler ran ok only if i disabled HIMEM driver
Get HIMEMX 3.32 (or 3.33 for 80386 ...)

> The game Tyrian refuse to run at all, giving runtime error :-( . And the game is cool.

Where does it work ??? The "Error 200" is a problem of TP vs CPU, not FreeDOS ;-)

> MEM.EXE reports me my 1gb free memory. Without himem loaded, it shows that
> 1Gb is used!

MEM.EXE is primarily for the 640 KiB of low memory.

> Also it doesn't show any video memory, which must be part of system memory
NO. Get RayeR's VESATEST ;-) (some video cards and chips lie about their memory, however).

> Ok, so what about EMS? I tried emm386.exe, Jemm.exe both and my
> system just crashes, so i stopped experimenting with that.
Try to load JEMMEX from commandline (no HIMEM whatever loaded).

> I want to refresh my programming knowledge now
Check out FASM :-)

> So I need some advice on how to setup DOS properly to use it with openWatcom
Use DOS/32A. (HIMEM or EMM stuff not needed) instead of DOG4/SW.

> and write some graphical apps (i don't think i will ever go further 640x480x256
Why ???

> Can someone recommend other DOSes?

EDR-DOS

Also, when reporting further trouble please supply bugshots (showing full error messages and version numbers of stuff used).

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