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Cold boot vs. Warm boot in DOSbox

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First post, by eoredson

Posted on 2019-03-19, 04:28

eoredson Offline

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The following is trapped by DOSbox coldboot:

1  DEF SEG = &HFFFF
2  CALL Absoulte(0)
3  DEF SEG

but the following warmboot is not:

1  OUT &H64, &HF0

why not?

(I am using qb45/qb64)..

Links to my MUD

Dndbbs executables
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2E.ZIP

Dndbbs source
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2S.ZIP

Dndbbs upgrade (10/15/2019)
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2U.ZIP

Reply 1 of 2, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2019-03-19, 09:50

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DOSBox doesn't support actual rebooting (hot or cold) with the usual PC methods; at most they only cause DOSBox to close. In SVN you can use a "config -r" command for an actual restart.

As for the port-based reboot method, since it would only close DOSBox, how would supporting that be useful for playing games?

Reply 2 of 2, by eoredson

Posted on 2019-03-19, 21:57

eoredson Offline

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No reason, I just thought it was interesting to note..

Links to my MUD

Dndbbs executables
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2E.ZIP

Dndbbs source
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2S.ZIP

Dndbbs upgrade (10/15/2019)
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2U.ZIP

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