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NOEMS NOVCPI NOVME Magic (Users)

posted by DOS386, 14.06.2008, 15:26

> 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.
:-|

+ FreeDOS is mentioned as supported (but not preferred)
+ Works to some degree in DOS
+ Faking EMS via XMS indeed seems to be a less bad hack than EMM386
+ Text manual included
+ DESI-III starts with it (but still buggy, as with JEMM :-( )

EMS Magic 1.1 (Windows installer) 360 kb emsmagic11.exe
EMS Magic 1.1 (Manual install)    51 kb  emsmagic11.zip

-- Adding a 360 KiB non-DOS bloat "professional" installer ... :clap:
- Designed mostly (?) for XP
- XMS hack not needed, DOS doesn't suffer from crappy XMS 2.0 (thanks HIMEMX & Japheth & M.D. :-) )
- Manual is full of XP
- Included PHATCODE.EXE raises a hard freezer when ran on DOS
- The argument about loading and unloading MAGIC from commandline is no longer relevant since JEMM can also ;-)

> http://sourceforge.net/projects/voidmsound/
> VDMSound emulates a sound blaster.
Exactly 0.00000000000000000000000000000000 relevance for DOS ;-)

> because it's actually a legit DOS app.

YES :-|

The problem is that many poorly designed apps and games not only require EMS, but at same time are very low memory hoggy, so this hack might not work with them. Anyone tested some more on DOS ? :hungry:

Laaca wrote:

> the second one is FreeDOS only. So I don't need to "hack" some WinXP issues.
:-)

> But I personaly prefer to have EMS installed all the time.
I prefer real mode and DPMI ;-)

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