mateusz.viste wrote on Yesterday, 14:33:

Pickle wrote on Yesterday, 14:23:

Your tool does sound appealing to use some of the EMS for 32kb/64kb UMB. Is the remaining EMS memory still available in that use case?

An interesting question could be: do you use any software that supports EMS but not XMS? If not, then loosing EMS in favor of XMS + 32/64K of UMBs is probably worth it.

What other memory schemes does you mainboard propose instead of the 512 conv +512 XMS setup? Can you, for example, assigne the entire 1M to conventional RAM? That would make you able to use plenty of conventional RAM + UMBs, take out the six pak board and still get EMS+XMS from the lotech clone.

ive been trying to run wing commander 1, but it appears to hang. Ive run the memory test in checkit on the EMS section. Ive also run commander keen and wolf3d. Ive had windows 286 on it at one time but i dont think i had the EMS used by it.
the other useful memory setup is 640 kb + 0 XMS, so as far i know that 384 kb is basically lost.
but i am going to try your tool and see how much i can maximize of that 640 kb. And if i need the EMS i will setup boot menu.