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

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 27.06.2010, 01:13

Hello!
At the first point - kernel 2036 is obsolete and you should definitely upgrade to 2038 or 2039:
Go into Ibibio choose one from them, unpack it anywhere, go where unpacked the binaries and run "sys C:"

Now when you have the kernel updated you should ensure tht you are using the latest HIMEMX or JEMMX driver. Generaly I prefer to use EMS because it gives you several nice features although some very "nonstandard" software can refuse to run. Most of crashes of EMS can be solved by specifying the "X" parameter in JEMMX command line.
On one of my computers I have "X=test" and on other one something else (I can't remember now), you should look into docs.
Game Tyrian is written in Borland pascal v.7.0 for 16-bit protect mode and for some reason it most probably will not run if you have more than 32MB of EMS memory. So in command line to Jemmx you should also add parameter "max=32" (or maybe max=32000 (not sure now)). Except this, I am not sure whether Tyrian suffers by famous RTE 200 bug. If yes, it must be patched by utility TPpatch

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DOS-u-akbar!

Complete thread:

• Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Misha, 27.06.2010, 00:36 (Users)
  • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Arjay, 27.06.2010, 01:04
    • Direct download link to TPPATCH in common ZIP file format - Arjay, 27.06.2010, 01:21
    • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Misha, 28.06.2010, 03:01
      • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Rugxulo, 28.06.2010, 07:07
  • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Laaca, 27.06.2010, 01:13
  • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Rugxulo, 27.06.2010, 08:44
    • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Laaca, 27.06.2010, 10:44
    • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Misha, 28.06.2010, 03:52
      • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Rugxulo, 28.06.2010, 07:26
        • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - DOS386, 28.06.2010, 11:27
          • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Misha, 29.06.2010, 03:28
            • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Laaca, 29.06.2010, 05:19
            • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Rugxulo, 29.06.2010, 14:07
          • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Arjay, 29.06.2010, 08:46
          • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Rugxulo, 29.06.2010, 14:02
            • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - DOS386, 29.06.2010, 15:25
              • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VGA modes) - Misha, 29.06.2010, 23:42
                • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) - DOS386, 30.06.2010, 16:34
                  • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) - RayeR, 11.07.2010, 02:28
                    • Modding the VESA BIOS - Laaca, 13.07.2010, 01:17
                    • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) - Misha, 13.07.2010, 14:21
                      • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) - Rugxulo, 13.07.2010, 17:26
                        • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) - Misha, 14.07.2010, 13:55
                          • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) INTEL - DOS386, 14.07.2010, 14:34
                            • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) INTEL - Rugxulo, 14.07.2010, 18:57
                              • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) INTEL - Misha, 18.07.2010, 02:07
                                • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) INTEL - Zyzzle, 18.07.2010, 08:42
                                  • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) INTEL - Misha, 18.07.2010, 16:53
                                • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) INTEL - Arjay, 18.07.2010, 18:15
                        • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) - RayeR, 17.07.2010, 01:40
                          • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) - Laaca, 17.07.2010, 11:54
                            • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) - RayeR, 17.07.2010, 15:06
                              • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VESA modes) - Laaca, 17.07.2010, 22:36
  • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - DOS386, 27.06.2010, 14:49
    • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Misha, 28.06.2010, 05:11
      • Bunch of questions on FreeDos (memory managers) - Rugxulo, 28.06.2010, 07:13