Sneakernets wrote on 2025-05-09, 22:01:

EMS can be emulated on later CPUs, but it's never the other way around...

I understand you have some kind of a hardware EMS card in your XT clone. Maybe providing XMS would be a solution? I have spent an evening writing an XMS 2.0 driver that uses EMS memory as a backend. I named it "EXMS86". It is attached to this post.

Since I do not have any EMS card I cannot really test it. I did run it under 86box with an emulated "Bocaram XT" memory card and was able to play large MIDI files with DOSMid. I do not know if it will cooperate as seamlessly with the real thing. Let me know if this is helpful.

mateusz.viste wrote on 2025-07-16, 14:57:

Sneakernets wrote on 2025-05-09, 22:01:

EMS can be emulated on later CPUs, but it's never the other way around...

I understand you have some kind of a hardware EMS card in your XT clone. Maybe providing XMS would be a solution? I have spent an evening writing an XMS 2.0 driver that uses EMS memory as a backend. I named it "EXMS86". It is attached to this post.

Since I do not have any EMS card I cannot really test it. I did run it under 86box with an emulated "Bocaram XT" memory card and was able to play large MIDI files with DOSMid. I do not know if it will cooperate as seamlessly with the real thing. Let me know if this is helpful.

You are correct that I have a 2 MB EMS board installed, and, Holy crap, this program works!

It doesn't work while USE!UMBS v2.2 is running, but I guess that comes with the territory!

But, nothing a boot disk can't fix, I suppose.

mateusz.viste wrote on 2025-07-16, 14:57:

Sneakernets wrote on 2025-05-09, 22:01:

EMS can be emulated on later CPUs, but it's never the other way around...

I understand you have some kind of a hardware EMS card in your XT clone. Maybe providing XMS would be a solution? I have spent an evening writing an XMS 2.0 driver that uses EMS memory as a backend. I named it "EXMS86". It is attached to this post.

Since I do not have any EMS card I cannot really test it. I did run it under 86box with an emulated "Bocaram XT" memory card and was able to play large MIDI files with DOSMid. I do not know if it will cooperate as seamlessly with the real thing. Let me know if this is helpful.

uhhh holy crap? could we get this as a package for freedos? this is amazing

Sneakernets wrote on 2025-07-16, 16:18:

It doesn't work while USE!UMBS v2.2 is running, but I guess that comes with the territory!

Could you provide more information about the not-working symptoms when USE!UMBS is used?
I have created a separate thread for EXMS86 to avoid polluting the DOSMid board. -> EXMS86 (XMS for your 8086)

megatog615 wrote:

uhhh holy crap? could we get this as a package for freedos? this is amazing

That's no big deal really, just a couple of hours playing with nasm. But I like your enthusiasm. :-)
I'm not a huge fan of FreeDOS, but EXMS is distributed on its own website now and a SvarDOS package will be published later today.

mateusz.viste wrote on 2025-07-16, 20:22:

Could you provide more information about the not-working symptoms when USE!UMBS is used? I have created a separate thread for EX […]
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Sneakernets wrote on 2025-07-16, 16:18:

It doesn't work while USE!UMBS v2.2 is running, but I guess that comes with the territory!

Could you provide more information about the not-working symptoms when USE!UMBS is used?
I have created a separate thread for EXMS86 to avoid polluting the DOSMid board. -> EXMS86 (XMS for your 8086)

megatog615 wrote:

uhhh holy crap? could we get this as a package for freedos? this is amazing

That's no big deal really, just a couple of hours playing with nasm. But I like your enthusiasm. 😀
I'm not a huge fan of FreeDOS, but EXMS is distributed on its own website now and a SvarDOS package will be published later today.

I posted what I found in the other thread. It does work when I make a boot disk and turn DOSMAX and USE!UMBs off (they kinda go together, so no sense having one without the other).

hi

i have 3 small questions 😀

i tried dosmid with 86box and awe32 (emu8k sounds not bad compared to gus)
I noticed that there are some problems with the gui and the german msdos version due to the code page.
german dos version uses codepage 850 instead of 437. so instead of the yellow blocks u see some other yellow symbols
+ the lines in the gui have some bugs too.
i changed the codepage to 437 but would be cool if dosmid would also be codepage 850 compatible.

2nd
atm i use doszip commander to assign mid and kar files to dosmid.
an option to open midi files directly in dosmid would be nice.
(I have heard that there are standard specifications for the open file dialog in c)

and 3rd
when a midi file is played, dosmid displays comments from the midi file at the bottom.
It would be nice if this could be turned off or if the karaoke lyrics for the song could be displayed there instead.

may be some ideas for future versions 😀

(btw the wrong speed with gus playback seems to be fixed in 0.9.8 😀)