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| Started by | "Geoff Barnard" <geoff@jgb17not.co.uk> |
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| First post | 2012-05-13 22:10 +0000 |
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DOS and DPMI "Geoff Barnard" <geoff@jgb17not.co.uk> - 2012-05-13 22:10 +0000
Re: DOS and DPMI "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailntt.cmm> - 2012-05-13 20:49 -0400
Re: DOS and DPMI "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-05-14 06:23 +0000
Re: DOS and DPMI cg_chas <cg_chas@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-13 22:58 -0400
Re: DOS and DPMI Robert AH Prins <spamtrap@prino.org> - 2012-05-14 07:48 +0000
Re: DOS and DPMI Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com> - 2012-05-14 17:10 -0700
| From | "Geoff Barnard" <geoff@jgb17not.co.uk> |
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| Date | 2012-05-13 22:10 +0000 |
| Subject | DOS and DPMI |
| Message-ID | <20120513213859.9D8A01AA107@smtp.zedz.net> |
Hello, Maybe I'm digging myself a deeper hole each time? I've had to get a new laptop, as the old SONY died. I was fine with that one, it had a built in floppy, and XP did some useful things. The new one has no floppy, although I've got a USB one. It's got W7 mind you. I could do with having W7, as I've got a number of issues I need to check out with that, but the immediate problem is to run DOS progs, and most important to be mobile with my MS C7 compiler setup, Libs etc. On my main desktop PC there's no problem as that's a Pentium booting into DOS, and using 386Max which includes all reqs for the C7 stuff, in fact 386Max was supplied with the compiler. I spent some time playing with DosBox, and this seemed to get me nowhere with the DPMI. I find it appears very slow, OK I understand it's emulating a DOS prompt but it still seems slow. I tried another tack. I can boot DOS on the floppy, and this gives a great DOS prompt. Cannot access the NTFS HD. So I changed the HD setup, and gave myself a 2 Gb FAT partition, but DOS wouldn't see that. Thought it might not. So, I tried DR-DOS, and this copes better with BIG HDs, and this does give me a DOS with the 2 Gb HD, and when I boot up into W7 I can still see the HD so that's more usefull. When I tried to install 386Max, this went through the initial motions OK but when I tried to continue with MAXIMIZE the system locks up. If I try to use add-on DPMI processes, these seem to do something but when I try to compile something CL gives a message to say 'No DPMI'. But supposedly there IS DPMI. I've tried the JEMM process, this seems to work great and does a lot of what 386Max would do and again says I've now got DMPI. I test prog coming with djgpp says there's DPMI. A test prog coming with the HX system says DPMI is OK. But CL will NOT run. BLINKER will run fine, and I think that needs DPMI as well?? Maybe I'm almost there, but CL is looking for something else? Does anyone have any suggestions? I've been looking for any prog that might 'test' DPMI and confirm that it is there, GO32 with djgpp says it IS. Anyone any ideas why 386Max might not work - the manual does refer to a lockup at the same point but is suggesting changing settings but my lockup is immed before anything else is set?? Feeling I'm very nearly there - could be something silly is missing. Maybe I cannot see the wood for a partic tree that's stuck in my face?? Any suggestions gratefully received. Geoff Barnard
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| From | "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailntt.cmm> |
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| Date | 2012-05-13 20:49 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <jopkp5$k0$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
| In reply to | #580 |
"Geoff Barnard" <geoff@jgb17not.co.uk> wrote in message news:20120513213859.9D8A01AA107@smtp.zedz.net... > Hello, > [...] Yeah, I'm not familiar with those problems. > If I try to use add-on DPMI processes, these seem to do something but > when I try to compile something CL gives a message to say 'No DPMI'. But > supposedly there IS DPMI. > By CL, do you mean "command-line"? (yes...) For DosBox, *supposedly*, they've disabled all or most DPMI service calls. I.e., you'll probably have to set up DPMI as needed for a real mode (RM) x86 DOS. For a Windows 98 console window (i.e., "dosbox") , Windows provides the DPMI. If a DPMI executable detects that DPMI is already installed, then it won't load it's preferred DOS DPMI host but will use Windows DPMI instead. For a RM x86 DOS, most of the time the DPMI host is not bound to the executable. Sometimes it is bound to the executable. When it is, you don't need a DPMI host. It's built in. When it isn't, you need the specific DPMI host that the executable requires. The DPMI stub on the executable will check for the DPMI host to be loaded/installed in memory as a TSR, or if not loaded that it is available on the drive in the one of the path's specified by the PATH variable. Which host depends on who coded it (assembly) or what compiler compiled it. The exception is when you're executing in a Win98/SE/ME console window when Windows provides DPMI services. E.g., DJGPP (GCC C compiler) needs CWSDPMI, or an alternate like PMODETSR (aka PMODEDJ) or CWSDPR0. OpenWatcom C compiler uses PMODEW or DOS4GW and maybe Causeway. While both PMODEW and PMODETSR (aka PMODEDJ) are derived from PMODE, PMODEW can't be used with DJGPP and PMODETSR can't be used with OpenWatcom. DOS4G cannot be used with OpenWatcom, but it's derivative DOS4GW is specifically for OpenWatcom. So, there are different DPMI hosts and they *usually*, almost always, match the executable. However, there are some tools that will allow you to unstub the executable and restub it with a stub for a different DPMI host. This can be useful for using a faster DPMI host, better DPMI host, or eliminating a DPMI host you can't find, etc. E.g., you'll find stub/unstub tools with various DPMI hosts: WDOSX DPMI host has STUBIT, D3X has STUBX, DOS32A has SB. When you restub, you still have to make sure the new DPMI host supports that type of executable. DJGPP provides an executable to change DPMI compatible hosts within a DJGPP executable's stub, called STUBEDIT. COFF2EXE or STUBIFY adds the executable's DPMI stub for raw DJGPP COFF files. EXE2COFF removes the stub for DJGPP COFF. There are numerous DPMI hosts for DOS. My last count was like 33 or so ... CWSDPMI CWSDPR0 PMODETSR DOS4GW DOS4G PMODEW Causeway DOS32 DOS32A WDOSX DPMIONE QDPMI PRO32 D3X HDPMI Pharlap386 Pharlap286 PharlapTNT DPMS 386MAX START32 PMODE ZRDX 386Power DosWin32 X32 X32VM Raw32 DOSXNT 32RTM U7WIN9x TinyDPMI EOS > BLINKER will run fine, and I think that needs DPMI as well?? > You said this is a DJGPP executable? Anything compiled with DJGPP needs a DJGPP-compatible DPMI host: CWSDPMI, PMODETSR, CWSDPR0. Make sure your PATH variable has the directory that they are in on the path. The stub for DJGPP defaults to loading CWSDPMI, but can be changed with STUBEDIT to one of the other two. Changing to another DPMI host requires un-stubbing, re-stubing with the other hosts tools, if available. > I've been looking for any prog that might 'test' DPMI and confirm > that it is there, GO32 with djgpp says it IS. If this is for RM x86 DOS, the presence of a DPMI host depends on the executable being run, or *sometimes* you running the DPMI host first. E.g., DJGPP's DPMI hosts can be run by themselves and will provide DPMI to whatever runs next, typically for a single execution. I.e., you have to keep reloading it. OpenWatcom compatible DPMI hosts cannot be run from the command line. Only the executable can load them. > Anyone any ideas why 386Max might not work Sorry, no, I learned about DPMI much later ... Rod Pemberton
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| From | "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> |
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| Date | 2012-05-14 06:23 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <XnsA052EE0AEBAA0auricauricauricauric@88.198.244.100> |
| In reply to | #581 |
Rod Pemberton wrote: > By CL, do you mean "command-line"? (yes...) cl.exe is Microsoft's C compiler: C:\DOStools\MSCC\bin>cl Microsoft (R) C Optimizing Compiler Version 5.10 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988. All rights reserved. usage: cl [ option... ] filename... [ -link linkoption... ] -- It's like dealing with children.
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| From | cg_chas <cg_chas@hotmail.com> |
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| Date | 2012-05-13 22:58 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <n9r0r7t37jo9mo2b5sovjst8b4921dr26q@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #580 |
On Sun, 13 May 2012 22:10:22 +0000, "Geoff Barnard" <geoff@jgb17not.co.uk> wrote: >I spent some time playing with DosBox, and this seemed to get me nowhere >with the DPMI. I find it appears very slow, OK I understand it's emulating >a DOS prompt but it still seems slow. I'll go ahead and put some ideas out there. You can decide if any are helpful or not. I've been using DOSBox on and off for about 2 years and it has served me quite well for DOS development and for running DOS programs. First off, I only use DOSBox with small flat disk images created with bximage and I do not attempt to run DOS apps directly under DOSBox, I run them under MS-DOS under DOSBox. For example, MS-DOS 6.22 under DOSBox. Doing this gives you the best possible compatibility with older DOS applications. As far as performance, I did experience an issue with when I added a 2GB second drive image, but I am not sure if it was because the drive was 2GB or because I added a D drive, but there was a delay in processing that was not pleasing. With a single 512MB C drive image created with bximage, DOS performance is great. > >I tried another tack. I can boot DOS on the floppy, and this gives a great >DOS prompt. Cannot access the NTFS HD. So I changed the HD setup, and gave >myself a 2 Gb FAT partition, but DOS wouldn't see that. Thought it might not. >So, I tried DR-DOS, and this copes better with BIG HDs, and this does give >me a DOS with the 2 Gb HD, and when I boot up into W7 I can still see the >HD so that's more usefull. If MS-DOS didn't see it, it was likely because the first partition was not a primary created by MS-DOS's fdisk. If you start with a fresh drive, create a DOS partition <=2GB as the primary, install DOS and then install an operating system using the free space on the drive, you can multi-boot DOS with any operating sytem. You just need a boot loader. I use LILO for this and when I need to manage the boot sector of the drive, I use a linux live CD/DVD. LILO uses configuration files that have documented syntax and even supports graphical menus. If you have an existing operating system and are looking to adding a real bootable DOS to it, the easiest way I have done this is by adding another physical drive, installing DOS onto it, making the drive bootable, and using LILO menu to point to both operating sytems. The LILO created boot sector still has to be on the BIOS boot drive. That is, unless you dont mind switching the bootable drive in the BIOS, which I don't like to do personally. The most perferrable for me has been to use MS-DOS under DOSBox or VirtualBox and then run an MS-DOS server drive share and connect to that share from Windows 7 or Vista. To get networking under DOSBox, you'll need a revision of it with NE2000 support and WinPcap, or VirtualBox bridged network setup. > >When I tried to install 386Max, this went through the initial motions OK >but when I tried to continue with MAXIMIZE the system locks up. Just to be clear, 386Max with MAXIMIZE locks the system with DR-DOS, but not with MS-DOS? I know that when running QEMM under MS-DOS 6.22 under DOSBox that stealth mode didn't work because there was an INT that wasn't supported under DOSBox, but it was able to complete, just without the stealth switch and it did optimize memory nicely. Charles
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| From | Robert AH Prins <spamtrap@prino.org> |
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| Date | 2012-05-14 07:48 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <a1brlqFqhkU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #580 |
On 2012-05-13 22:10, Geoff Barnard wrote: > Hello, > > Maybe I'm digging myself a deeper hole each time? > > I've had to get a new laptop, as the old SONY died. I was fine with that > one, it had a built in floppy, and XP did some useful things. > > The new one has no floppy, although I've got a USB one. It's got W7 mind > you. > > I could do with having W7, as I've got a number of issues I need to check > out with that, but the immediate problem is to run DOS progs, and most > important to be mobile with my MS C7 compiler setup, Libs etc. > > On my main desktop PC there's no problem as that's a Pentium booting into > DOS, and using 386Max which includes all reqs for the C7 stuff, in fact > 386Max was supplied with the compiler. > > I spent some time playing with DosBox, and this seemed to get me nowhere > with the DPMI. I find it appears very slow, OK I understand it's emulating > a DOS prompt but it still seems slow. > > I tried another tack. I can boot DOS on the floppy, and this gives a great > DOS prompt. Cannot access the NTFS HD. So I changed the HD setup, and gave > myself a 2 Gb FAT partition, but DOS wouldn't see that. Thought it might not. > So, I tried DR-DOS, and this copes better with BIG HDs, and this does give > me a DOS with the 2 Gb HD, and when I boot up into W7 I can still see the > HD so that's more usefull. > > When I tried to install 386Max, this went through the initial motions OK > but when I tried to continue with MAXIMIZE the system locks up. > > If I try to use add-on DPMI processes, these seem to do something but > when I try to compile something CL gives a message to say 'No DPMI'. But > supposedly there IS DPMI. > > I've tried the JEMM process, this seems to work great and does a lot of > what 386Max would do and again says I've now got DMPI. I test prog coming > with djgpp says there's DPMI. A test prog coming with the HX system says > DPMI is OK. But CL will NOT run. BLINKER will run fine, and I think that > needs DPMI as well?? > > Maybe I'm almost there, but CL is looking for something else? > > Does anyone have any suggestions? I've been looking for any prog that > might 'test' DPMI and confirm that it is there, GO32 with djgpp says it IS. > Anyone any ideas why 386Max might not work - the manual does refer to a > lockup at the same point but is suggesting changing settings but my lockup > is immed before anything else is set?? > > Feeling I'm very nearly there - could be something silly is missing. Maybe > I cannot see the wood for a partic tree that's stuck in my face?? > > Any suggestions gratefully received. If you're laptop is anywhere above the minimum specs for W7, why not download Oracle's Virtalbox and use that to run DOS in a pure virtual environment. There are many flavours of DOS around on the internet, although some might be a bit of work to install them. I'm using a legal version of IBM's PC DOS 2000, and that works flawlessly, once you manage to install it by tweaking the images that are included on the CD ROM, VB requires them to be exactly 1,474,560 bytes, which means you need a hex editor (I used HxD) to add a load of x'00's to the end of each image file. Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org
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| From | Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2012-05-14 17:10 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <52d63e4a-1d16-4a03-8c93-0bc418833f19@b21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #580 |
Hi, On May 13, 5:10 pm, "Geoff Barnard" <ge...@jgb17not.co.uk> wrote: > > Maybe I'm digging myself a deeper hole each time? How so? I doubt it, compatibility is hard on anything, esp. across machines as things just change too fast. > I've had to get a new laptop, as the old SONY died. I was fine with that > one, it had a built in floppy, and XP did some useful things. A lot of XP machines seem to be "dying". I hate that. Yes, XP worked better for DOS stuff than any Windows since then. > The new one has no floppy, although I've got a USB one. It's got W7 mind > you. Ditto, I also have a USB floppy drive that works on my Win7 machine(s). > I could do with having W7, as I've got a number of issues I need to check > out with that, but the immediate problem is to run DOS progs, and most > important to be mobile with my MS C7 compiler setup, Libs etc. I take it that you aren't using the 32-bit version of Win7? The NTVDM is buggy, but it's still there (mine are only 64-bit, blech, so I don't have even that). The 32 MB DPMI limit is still there, but you can "fix" that via a registry setting. > On my main desktop PC there's no problem as that's a Pentium booting into > DOS, and using 386Max which includes all reqs for the C7 stuff, in fact > 386Max was supplied with the compiler. What exact version of 386Max and compiler are we talking about? Note that I'm just trying to iron out the details as I don't know anything about those two products and have never used them. > I spent some time playing with DosBox, and this seemed to get me nowhere > with the DPMI. I find it appears very slow, OK I understand it's emulating > a DOS prompt but it still seems slow. DOSBox is a nice emulator, but it's (officially) "only for games", and it requires a 1+ Ghz host machine just for fast 486 speeds. And yes, it has bugs, I noticed one old 286 pmode DOS program (UCB Logo) didn't work there. DJGPP (386+) stuff should run fine, though, but still needs CWSDPMI or similar. > I tried another tack. I can boot DOS on the floppy, and this gives a great > DOS prompt. Cannot access the NTFS HD. There are (were?) some third-party NTFS tools atop DOS, but they were slow, SFN only, read-only, buggy, etc. Not reliable, IMO, but I didn't test too hard as it was unimportant to me. To be honest, NTFS is hidden behind proprietary walls, moreso because they want security to be important, and accessing that via DOS would almost defeat the purpose, I suppose. > So I changed the HD setup, and gave > myself a 2 Gb FAT partition, but DOS wouldn't see that. As mentioned, make sure it was a primary, active FAT partition. I think MS-DOS only allows it to be on the very first part of the drive *and* first partition. Whether LBA is supported or not depends on your version (MS-DOS 7+). DR-DOS 7.03 is vaguely more flexible in where you install it, but it doesn't support LBA nor FAT32. The best most flexible (that I've tried) is FreeDOS, both FAT32 and LBA are supported there. (There are some server scripting bullcraps that have IBM PC-DOS with alleged FAT32 support, but I've not bothered trying). > Thought it might not. > So, I tried DR-DOS, and this copes better with BIG HDs, and this does give > me a DOS with the 2 Gb HD, and when I boot up into W7 I can still see the > HD so that's more usefull. FreeDOS supports FAT32 partitions (theoretically) up to 2 TB, but your BIOS may or may not support that. I have a 4 GB FAT32 partition here, but the individual file size is still (for FreeDOS) limited to 2 GB. > When I tried to install 386Max, this went through the initial motions OK > but when I tried to continue with MAXIMIZE the system locks up. 386Max is something like combination memory manager / EMM386 / DPMI? I don't know. I think DPMIONE is loosely based upon it. And the important point to mention here is that DPMIONE is GPLv3 nowadays (though not actively developed, IIRC). So you could?? try updating to it, but I personally doubt that will (directly) fix your problems. It might?? be better to try simpler things first. " DPMIONE is, to my knowledge, the first publicly available standalone DPMI 1.0 host. This program is an outgrowth of the DPMI 1.0 host which first appeared in 386MAX from Qualitas, Inc. in 1992. As such, it has undergone extensive testing in that commercial product before being ported to this standalone program. " http://www.sudleyplace.com/dpmione/ How much RAM does your host computer have? I've noticed (in native FreeDOS) that a lot of memory managers, extenders, DPMI hosts, etc. don't exactly work perfectly with so much RAM. They all get confused in one way or another in rare corner cases (though everything "more or less" can be made to work well). There's a bunch of different DOS extenders and DPMI hosts. > If I try to use add-on DPMI processes, these seem to do something but > when I try to compile something CL gives a message to say 'No DPMI'. But > supposedly there IS DPMI. DPMI 0.9 is the popular (286) variant used by Windows 3.0 on up. There was DPMI 1.0 (386 variant), but it was more complicated and "mostly" ignored (esp. since Windows didn't support it except for like one or two calls, e.g. FPU or whatever). OS/2 supposedly supports 0.95 (not a real version but their own way of doing halfway between the two standards). DPMI is awesome and extended the life of DOS by many years. But keep in mind that they are "old" standards, hence they haven't exacty been well-supported or updated lately (to say the least). FYI, "DPMI" is not the same as a DOS extender. OpenWatcom uses "extenders" to implement easier access to DOS calls behind the scenes. DJGPP uses "pure" DPMI, i.e. only what is available from the standard, no "extended int 21h API", and CWSDPMI only supports the 32-bit 0.9 part (plus one or two extras from 1.0), hence no 16-bit stuff (a la BP7) nor extras are available. That may or may not be enough for your app, it depends on what it wants. (E.g. The original DOS/4GW version of Doom won't run under CWSDPMI verbatim, last I checked.) > I've tried the JEMM process, this seems to work great and does a lot of > what 386Max would do and again says I've now got DMPI. I test prog coming > with djgpp says there's DPMI. A test prog coming with the HX system says > DPMI is OK. But CL will NOT run. BLINKER will run fine, and I think that > needs DPMI as well?? DJGPP v2 comes with GO32-V2.EXE, so you can run that to tell you how much DPMI is (allegedly) available. Of course, that totally depends on the DPMI host (CWSDPMI or PMODETSR or whatever), usually CWSDPMI auto- loaded. HX also has ..\TEST\DPMI.EXE to show some stats. A blind guess would be for you to run "HDPMI16.EXE -r", then "HDPMI32.EXE -r", then try your app. Hopefully then it will work no matter what (but dunno without more info). > Maybe I'm almost there, but CL is looking for something else? Maybe. Depends on how much raw DPMI it needs or what specific standard or if it relies on non-standard int 21h extensions. > Does anyone have any suggestions? I've been looking for any prog that > might 'test' DPMI and confirm that it is there, GO32 with djgpp says it IS. But that probably runs CWSDPMI via the stub. You'll have to manually run something else resident first to not rely on CWSDPMI. > Anyone any ideas why 386Max might not work - the manual does refer to a > lockup at the same point but is suggesting changing settings but my lockup > is immed before anything else is set?? Old software and new machines don't always play nice. Lots of little bugs and corner cases with big RAM machines. > Feeling I'm very nearly there - could be something silly is missing. Maybe > I cannot see the wood for a partic tree that's stuck in my face?? It's not as easy as other OSes that only have "one" (built-in) memory management system. > Any suggestions gratefully received. > > Geoff Barnard ... On to the next message (combined for simplicity)! :-) On May 14, 9:47 am, "Geoff Barnard" <ge...@jgb17.co.uk> wrote: > Further to messages, thanks for comments. > > Just to clarify, yes the CL I mentioned should be CL.EXE which is the name > MS seem to give all their C compiler variants. It's the main prog for > the compiler, and I suspect that it may well call itself (at least once) > which may cause problems for stub loaders? Make sure \HX\BIN is in your %PATH%. Also try this first: set HDPMI=32 set DPMILDR=8 > I understood that there were other DPMI progs, but I was thinking that DPMI > was a standard and that DPMI was DPMI. DPMI can run atop 286 pmode or 386 pmode. And that's just for 0.9 (most popular). Anything using 1.0 is rarer but still possible (and some people often implemented tiny bits from that too). OpenWatcom is not a "pure" DPMI environment, hence it still needs an extender for its apps (unlike DJGPPv2 which is 32-bit DPMI only, hence you don't need or use CWSDPMI.EXE at all when under NTVDM or DOSEMU). > Maybe that is not so, and different > DPMI may work slightly differently, and as someone suggested different > processes might need the 'correct' DPMI interface. There is a test if the DPMI host supports 32-bit or not. Usually apps check that and fail if not supported. Similarly for 16-bit apps, since most DPMI hosts usually don't support 16-bit, they will just bomb out. Hence you'll need BP7's RTM+DPMI16BI (or HDPMI16 or 386Max or DPMIONE or whatever) if you want to run those, esp. in pure DOS. > Certainly 386Max does > the job, and the compiler worked fine without 386Max at the DOS prompt of > Windows XP, so that is OK. WinXP only supports DPMI 0.9, but they've deprecated it, and they don't seem to fix any bugs anymore. It's very ancient code for them, and Win64 lacks NTVDM at all. Back in the day, Win 3.0 was the first to support DPMI 0.9 in 1990, and they never changed much since then. The 16-bit pmode Windows .EXEs back then actually used DPMI behind the scenes, I think! > The DPMI systems I've been trying just now say > on the screen that they are providing DMPI, with more DPMI memory than I know > what to do with, but CL.EXE complains 'DPMI not available'!! XP lies. Vista and Win7 really badly lie. The total amount is almost useless as many don't report accurate numbers (or host cpu or ...). If it can't find what it's looking for, it won't work. Even *if* you have everything properly set up, it may not work due to bugs or incompatibilities. Sorry. Though I'm not saying give up, it can probably be worked around or patched, but it will just take a bit of investigating (as my minimal experience has shown). > I'll look into Oracle's VirtualBox and see what that does. VirtualBox works, more or less, but without VT-X it's buggy and very very slow. If at all possible, if your computer supports VT-X, you'll be fine. Otherwise, I dunno. I multi-boot between FreeDOS, Linux (DOSEMU) and Win64 + VirtualBox + VT-X and sometimes use DOSBox. But there is no perfect answer. Perhaps QEMU or BOCHS would work better, sometimes they have (different) bugs and successes. > Thanks again, but questions still running! > > Geoff Good luck! And feel free to keep us updated on your status.
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