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Re: 386MAX source code released

Posted on 2023-01-04, 05:24

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

So, it appears that 86Box doesn't suffer from the memory check problems when using 386MAX like VirtualBox does. The bigger disk geometry still needs to be tested. But at this stage it appears that 86Box sticks faithfully to the older low-level BIOS calls. EDIT: Yep a 2Gb drive in 86Box with 386Max …

Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.

Posted on 2023-01-01, 13:04

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I feel your disappointment. Yeah, I guess QEMM is less stable than MemMaker/EMM386. But I assume that's because QEMM was made with 90s hardware in mind - 386, 486 and early Pentium. All that dark magic that QEMM did use was very low-level and specific to the technology of the day. AT BIOS, …

Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.

Posted on 2023-01-01, 10:39

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I'm using an MS-DOS 6.22 VM with QEMM 9 in Virtual Box 4.1.12.. I've created it a few years ago when I was testing DESQView/X, I believe. Yea, I don't know mate. I have been using that Dos 6.2, Win 3.11 for about 12 months now and it ran as expected. Install Qemm and strange crashes started. Qemm …

Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.

Posted on 2023-01-01, 03:28

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Yea, I don't think Qemm 8 or 8.03, likes VirtualBox 7.0.4r154605. I was getting exceptions when exiting Norton Commander 5.5. It seemed to go away in NC 5.51 but every now and then something would flash up. Then in Win 3.11 I would get GPF's and when exiting Windows back to DOS it would just become …

Re: Can Windows SMS 2.0 update Windows 3.11 Clients?

Posted on 2023-01-01, 00:18

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

DosFreak wrote on 2022-12-31, 12:58: For windows os below 2000 you'll need to manually apply patches except of course autopatcher for 98. That's annoying. Thanks for the response.

Is there a EMS board Project?

Posted on 2022-12-31, 07:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, I was wondering if some smart person had created a project to build an EMS card from scratch. Regards, Craig

Re: Can Windows SMS 2.0 update Windows 3.11 Clients?

Posted on 2022-12-31, 06:52

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

doogie wrote on 2022-12-31, 06:19: I'm...not sure there were any updates, per se, to Windows 3.11. Do you mean automating installs of, say, WinG, Win32s, TCP/IP and the like? Not the install, just the selected updates. Like the Tcp, Y2k, Comm etc and maybe apps.

Can Windows SMS 2.0 update Windows 3.11 Clients?

Posted on 2022-12-31, 06:01

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hi, I was wondering how to automate the updating of Win 3.11. It appears that WSUS starts at Win XP, and there is an automated patcher for Win 98, I think, but is there a way to automate Win 3.11 updates? Can Windows System Management Server 2.0 perform that function? Regards, Craig

Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.

Posted on 2022-12-30, 22:25

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

There is a manual for version 7 on archive.org . It requires an account to "borrow" it and get access to all pages. Apart from this, a boxed copy of QEMM comes with technotes and the manual in physical form. Thanks for that mate. I luckily discovered that site some time ago. I usually find the book …

Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.

Posted on 2022-12-30, 11:08

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

At least QEMM has major differences over EMM386 when it comes to getting a lot of conventional memory available. The most notable one is the "stealth" mode feature which relocates ROMs away from upper memory to provide more UMB for loading more TSRs, it can introduce incompatibilities depending on …

Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.

Posted on 2022-12-30, 04:50

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I was wondering this same question recently and why it used to be a pain-in-the.... Then I remembered that the DOS menu wasn't available until DOS 6. Now that I am a bit more aware of how to move things around into different memory and cut down to exactly what I want the configuration to do, it …

Re: Replace 1GB HD with 1GB SD for general use?

Posted on 2022-11-13, 21:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks, guys. I will use the CF card until the 1Gb DOM comes from China. I think I'll have to remove the plastic case from the DOM so that it will fit in the hard disk caddy of the Dell 800.

Re: Replace 1GB HD with 1GB SD for general use?

Posted on 2022-11-02, 05:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

douglar wrote on 2022-11-02, 02:33: What OS are you using? Thanks for that. I'll look in to that. MSDOS 5, 6.x, Win 3.11, Win NT 3.51 Workstation.

Replace 1GB HD with 1GB SD for general use?

Posted on 2022-11-01, 23:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has used, on a consistent basis, an adapter SD to IDE (https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/133931099824) to replace a IDE HD in a laptop? 1 gb laptop hard drives seem to be quite rare these days. There are some projects I want to do and I prefer to be on hardware rather than …

Windows 3 BlowUp.exe??

Posted on 2022-08-27, 10:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, I was watching this video https://youtu.be/eenDjMXfVBQ?t=59 and Gates is talking with a support person about how Win 3 app will only crash the app and not the system. And they use an app called "BlowUp.exe" Has anybody heard of it or have it? Kind of reminds me of an early version of …

Re: Is there a WINS server for Win 10?

Posted on 2022-07-22, 06:57

in Milliways

in Milliways

Cheers mate. Yea, I can run up a box for it, I wanted a simpler way of doing it.

Is there a WINS server for Win 10?

Posted on 2022-07-21, 06:23

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hi, I was wondering if there was a portable (exe file) or installer WINS server for windows 10? Rather than me running up a server. Regards, Craig

Which Boot manager are you using on your main computer?

Posted on 2022-07-07, 02:20

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hi guys, I used to use the boot manager that comes with Arch Linux to dual boot between Win 10 and Linux, but I was wondering if there was anything better to use? If you are dual booting a machine, what boot manager are you using to boot between Win 10 and Linux? I would much prefer to use Windows …

Re: 386MAX source code released

Posted on 2022-07-03, 08:42

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Ha, the last couple of days I have been messing around with 386MAX. It appears to use low-level calls to the RAM and to get the disk geometry. 386MAX.sys will sometimes crash the VM on Arch Linux host (Virtualbox "Guru meditation", VMware hangs, QEMU/KVM seems to pause?) and QCache will complain if …

Re: Anybody still coding for DOS/Win16/Win32?

Posted on 2022-07-02, 10:16

in Milliways

in Milliways

Some documents about memory management I found can be found here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=652102#p652102 And here's some description of Windows 2.x compatibility bits. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=517951#p517951 Of course, there's much much more. The books of Charles …

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