Re: Fwd: paradox 4.5 UNEXPECTED CONDITION

Re: Fwd: paradox 4.5 UNEXPECTED CONDITION

[Peter B. Steiger]

Bill Mitchell sez:
> When I ran Paradox 4.5 I received the message:
> 
> UNEXPECTED CONDITION: GP 0000 AT PARADOX: 28:1323
> 
> and then Paradox would exit.
> 
> In /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf I made the following change:
> 
> from
> $_dpmi=(0x5000)
> 
> to
> $_dpmi=(0x500)
> 
> and now all is well.

Wait... you're saying Paradox works if you REDUCE memory from 5MB to
5KB?  Or am I misreading the (0x500) entry?  That doesn't make sense! 
Nothing runs in 500K any more... maybe Paradox is happier with XMS or
EMS, and just doesn't like DPMI?

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Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY

Re: Fwd: paradox 4.5 UNEXPECTED CONDITION

[William Mitchell Jr]

Peter B. Steiger wrote:

> Wait... you're saying Paradox works if you REDUCE memory from 5MB to
> 5KB?  Or am I misreading the (0x500) entry?  That doesn't make sense!
> Nothing runs in 500K any more... maybe Paradox is happier with XMS or
> EMS, and just doesn't like DPMI?

Yes, that's right.  You are not misreading it.

I first did everything that made sense, then out of frustration I
began doing things that made no sense.

This is what happend to work. 

Bill

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Re: Fwd: paradox 4.5 UNEXPECTED CONDITION

[William Mitchell Jr]

Pete Cervasio wrote:
> Actually, there is a mis-read there.  0x5000 is actually 20480 when converted 
> from hex to decimal, and 0x500 is 1280.  So the change was actually from 20 
> megs to 1.2 megs.
 
Ah.  Now it makes sense.

By trial and error I have found Paradox 4.5 only runs with $_dpmi values from
0x300 to 0x4040 which (if my hex math is correct) is from 768KB to 16,448KB.
That is with all of the other default values for memory unchanged in dosemu.conf
(at least on Debain Sid).


Bill

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