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Re: Expanded memory managers and DOS

UPDATE: I got it to work! I tested another descendant of the LoTech 1MB EMS card (produced and sold by a great guy with the nick name wizard.amras.83 at ebay). This card had one of the 512k RAM chips permanently soldered, while the other one was on a socket. I pulled out the second 512k chip - and …

Re: Expanded memory managers and DOS

The LTEMM driver can be loaded with "/3" to disable EMS 4.0 extensions. While EMS 4.0 was meant to improve performance by pushing some high-level tasks like "switch EMS pages to different code and call a function there", which can be useful on the Lo-Tech card, too, mostly EMS 4.0 is meant to make …

Re: Expanded memory managers and DOS

If I remember correctly, the Lo-Tech card uses the most common interface to provide EMS, so hardware drivers from other 2MB EMS cards might work, too. If you find a driver that allows you to specify base addresses for multiple 2MB cards, chances are high that the driver supports the LTEMM board too …

Re: Expanded memory managers and DOS

Hello, does anyone know what I could use as an EMM on an XT compatible? I have added to my beloved Amstrad 1640 (I run it with a NEC V30) an 1 MB EMS expansion card, and use lo-tech's LTEMM as the memory manager. However, the main software I want to use it for is Word Perfect 5.1, and it crashes …

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