First post, by Guest
Hi,
I have a directory reading program called HotDIR, which while using DOS I got into the habit of using. It used to make a colourful version of dir, and I would have liked it to work again on DOSBox. I think that however your implementation of directories is not compatible with some old way of doing it. Because it's free, I have no trouble sending it over the internet. I have included it at the bottom of this post as a UUEncoded file. (WinZip can open it on Windows, other OS users should be smart enough to know how to open it) Put it in a file called D.UUE, and add a blank line at the beginning and end of the file.
Additionally, I have a game called Lamers, which complains that there is "Not Enough Memory", which is impossible, because it used to run on 286s. I think that the way memory is "counted" by programs is not the same as how you have implemented it. For example, Commander Keen 4 says there is 64KB of Expanded memory, but no Extended, even when some 16MB of memory is available according to mem in DOSBox. If you would like to see this further, it is a free game, and I have found it is available here.
Thanks.
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