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First post, by lemm

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Hello, I am trying to load a TSR into upper memory by typing "loadhigh tsrmusic.com" on dosbox 0.74 compiled with --enable-debug option on linux.

I have set ems=false in my config file, and z:\mem reports 127kb free upper memory in 1 block, and 632 free conventional memory.

However, when I load the tsr using loadhigh, mem reports 127kb free in upper memory, and 620kb free in conventional memory, although I wanted the TSR in upper memory.

What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.

Reply 1 of 1, by ripsaw8080

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It doesn't work except in a specific case where the TSR is an .EXE file and its header indicates a memory requirement that fits into upper memory. Many .EXE files, and all .COM files, try to take all available memory, and therefore don't load high.

I reported the problem to the devs, but I'm sure it has low priority considering that games don't need the feature.

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