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posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 13.06.2008, 20:25

> I thought I'd bring EMSMagic up, since it's probably one of the coolest
> pieces of software I've seen in a long time.
It was mentioned just one month ago: EMS magic 1.1

> I was setting Ultima Underworld up under Windows XP on my brothers laptop,
> but the EMS emulation feature wasn't working at all. It kept whining about
> no EMS being found. Some googling revealed that EMS emulation doesn't work
> on some systems under XP, and EMSMagic was linked.
>
> As was this project:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/
>
> VDMSound emulates a sound blaster.
>
> These options turned out to be a lot better than DOSBox, which couldn't
> run the game at a decent speed.
I cannot confirm this. VDMSound works very bad on my PC, it's virtually unusable. And for Ultima Underworld DosBox should be fast enough on a P4.

> Now, why I say EMSMagic is one of the coolest pieces of software I've seen
> in a long time is because it's actually a legit DOS app. It takes XMS and
> emulates EMS with it, and can be run after bootup, even obviously under
> Windows. Great if you almost never need EMS - you can just run your games
> that require it in a batch, and unload after they quit.
Yes, but it needs 64 kB low DOS memory for the EMS window, which will make many games complain because they run out of conventional memory.

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