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DOSBox-X 0.84.2 / 2022.08.0 released! (Announce)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 11.01.2023, 16:48

> If the address must be less than 64k it sounds like you're only using 16
> bits instead of 32?
>
> I could be way off base here, but it sounds almost like you're using 16-bit
> protected mode and confusing it with 32-bit unreal mode.
No, Candyman is not confused. He talks about "32-bit real-mode", that is, the cpu is switched to protected-mode, CS is loaded with a "32-bit" selector ( D-bit = 1 ), and then the cpu is switched back to real-mode ( with the D bit in CS attr still set ).

This is an interesting variant of "unreal-mode", but has limitations. I never tried myself, but I guess that any INT that's executed will clear hiword of EIP.

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