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

posted by Misha E-mail, RU, 28.06.2010, 03:52

> BTW, honestly, it might be "better" to run under DOSEMU in your favorite
> Linux distro, IMHO, since you can indeed still multitask and things like
> ACPI (cpu fan) will work much better. Of course, that's assuming it
> supports your games, which it may not. (BioMenace never worked there when I
> tried. DJGPP stuff works good though.)
My favourite linux distro? To tell the truth i never even worked on a pc with linux. All systems i used begin with MS letters. But wait, now i use FreeDOS!

> > Of course, first of all I began to launch my favourite games.
> > So Duke3d (thats my favourite) runs without problems,
>
> Even with sound??? I'd be surprised. DOSBox is good for emulating sound
> stuff, but overall it's fairly slow. Still good to have, though.
 No, there are no any sounds:-( . My netbook doesnt even have a "PC-speaker" which was my hope when i launched games from late 80s.
Dosbox can run a lot of old stuff, even copy protected, but duke3d, f.e., in it is just unplayable. And thats on a hi-end machine (i dont mean my netbook:-) ).


> > MEM.EXE reports me my 1gb free memory. Without himem loaded, it shows
> that
> > 1Gb is used! Also it doesn't show any video memory, which must be part
> of
> > system memory (I'm not sure it should thou).
> >
> > Ok, so what about EMS? I tried emm386.exe, Jemm.exe both and my system
> just
> > crashes, so i stopped experimenting with that.
> > I remember, in ms-dos i used qemm.exe with a lot of line parameters.
>
> Most likely ACPI conflict, you'll have to weed out the problem UMB area.
> IIRC, geti15ex.exe from HX was helpful (search this forum).
Sounds not good. I hope sometime i will know whats these acpi, dpmi and similar animals are. UMB is memory between 640 k and 1 mb, (I think i studied that in school) and it was used to load TSR programs like hardware drivers?

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