Hello Keith!
You can emulate EMS functionnalities in Win98 if you add one of this lines in the system.ini:
[386Enh]
EMMPageFrame=C800
; provide EMS/XMS, but i can't use it because of a big problem with my Ms-Dos programs which use the Maxlib libraries:
;$link "MAXLIB.PBL"
;$include "MAXLIB.BI"
;InitXMSArray
EMMInclude=D400-E3FF
;no problem for me and the Maxlib lib.! All my programs run fine !
;following adresses work also on my PC
;EMMInclude=D800-E7FF
;EMMInclude=DC00-EBFF
;EMMInclude=E000-EFFF
;EMMInclude=D000-DFFF
I have also no need of Himem.sys and EMM386.exe in my config.sys
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Sorry for my poor english ! I am a Frenchman
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I have EMS back. But I don’t quite understand how. I edited the config.sys to
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe NOEMS
and rebooted. The pif properties, correctly, said EMS is disabled with this. Then I edited the config.sys back to
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe 1024 RAM
and now everything works ok. Perhaps it was a bit like you said Mike – give it a kick and it works.
Keith
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No Mike – just tried that and it doesn’t work – still the EMS is disabled.
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Have had this happen and corrected by creating a new shortcut.
Went through every option in the pif without seeing any
differences. The new shortcut has fixed it everytime.
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No EMS under Win98
I have a PbDos3.5 program that I’m trying to run on a Win98 machine. The program uses DIM VIRTUAL and so requires EMS support. The program checks for the availability of EMS with the following code and when I run it on the Win98 box it issues the error message.
Code:IF NOT FRE(-11) > 500 * %Kbyte THEN 'Currently we need 384 Kbyte EMS CALL SoundAlert PRINT "ERROR. EMS memory not available." END END IF
In my config.sys I have the following.
dos=high,umb
device=c:windows\himem.sys
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe 1024 RAM
It’s been some time since I’ve played with DOS/PbDos so I’m very rusty on these things. I can’t remember running across this problem before and have had no trouble running the program on XP and other Win98 machines.
Keith
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