Re: dosemu and paradox 4.5

[Enrique Baraibar <enribar@hotpop.com>]

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:31:31 +0300
Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Enrique Baraibar wrote:
> > Paradox memory problems and not
> > DOSemu's.  Try paradox -extk 8000.
> In this case you may want to increase one of the
> $_xms, $_ems or $_dpmi values in your dosemu.conf,
> if the default ones are not enough for paradox.
> "-extk" suggests that it should be $_xms.
> If you find the value that suits, we may consider changing
> the defaults, so that paradox can work without any extra options
> with the future dosemu releases. Actually, the current defaults
> look very small indeed.
> 

Stas, I don't know why, but Paradox "sees" more than 16MB extended memory
when running over DOSemu. And that is why it crashes with a GP 0000 error.
Using -extk 8000 (or anything equal or lesser than 16000) forces it to use
only the amount specified.
IIRC this happens no matter which settings you choose in dosemu.conf, so
you must always use -extk xxxx.
For what is worth, though, Paradox shines with 8MB extended memory.
More is better, of course, but not that much better.
And 16MB is the absolute max.

> > Paradox 4.02 has run fine for me on DOSemu 1.2.1.  since it appeared.
> 1.2.1 is too old and is usually problematic to run on the modern
> systems like FC3.

Well, I am eagerly waiting for 1.4.0 :o). (I am not at all fluent with
linux and keep myself confined to binary versions :o( )

-- 
Enrique Baráibar


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