c60b-1eq@e260-1a.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) (04/26/91)
In article <1991Apr25.205919.3812@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger) writes: >In article <1991Apr22.113002.4147@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) writes: >>I have 645k free conventional memory with Dos 3.3 and Qemm 5.11 with >>several devices and TSR's installed. >This must be because you have a system, that allows you to map unused lower >memory addresses as useable conventional memory, so that total base memory >is something like 704K. This is kind of cheating since many people can't do >this. (VGA, don't have the chipsets that allow it, etc). ^^^ You can remap up to 96K of your VGA or 256K EGA's memory as conventional memory (I know of at least one shareware program which does this). -- +==========================================================================+ | Noam Mendelson ..!ucbvax!web!c60b-1eq | "I haven't lost my mind, | | c60b-1eq@web.Berkeley.EDU | it's backed up on tape | | University of California at Berkeley | somewhere." |
conner@buster.cps.msu.edu (Conner Christopher) (04/26/91)
In article <1991Apr25.235234.27452@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1eq@e260-1a.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes: >In article <1991Apr25.205919.3812@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger) writes: ... stuff disintegrated ... >You can remap up to 96K of your VGA or 256K EGA's memory as conventional >memory (I know of at least one shareware program which does this). > >-- >+==========================================================================+ >| Noam Mendelson ..!ucbvax!web!c60b-1eq | "I haven't lost my mind, | >| c60b-1eq@web.Berkeley.EDU | it's backed up on tape | >| University of California at Berkeley | somewhere." | I, for one, would be extremely gracious to anyone who could provide me with the name of a shareware package that would do this on my system. I've tried most of the programs in the <MSDOS.SYSUTL> directory of SIMTEL. My system is about three years old, a 286, and I don't have NEAT Chips (nothing to do with how nice they are) Please write to me, or if there's enough interest post it. I have 1 MEG of memory and can't use it all... AAARRRGGGGGGHHHH! Chris Conner P.S. I have an EGA card and monitor... -- : conner@buster.egr.msu.edu : : ccubed@dcssparc.cl.msu.edu : : CCC : : "no god slayers aloud" - ME :
conner@buster.cps.msu.edu (Conner Christopher) (04/26/91)
In article <1991Apr26.150200.15457@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> conner@buster.cps.msu.edu (Conner Christopher) writes: >In article <1991Apr25.235234.27452@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1eq@e260-1a.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes: > ... more stuff disintegrated ... >I, for one, would be extremely gracious to anyone who could provide me >with the name of a shareware package that would do this on my system. >I've tried most of the programs in the <MSDOS.SYSUTL> directory of >SIMTEL. My system is about three years old, a 286, and I don't have >NEAT Chips (nothing to do with how nice they are) Please write to me, >or if there's enough interest post it. I have 1 MEG of memory and >can't use it all... AAARRRGGGGGGHHHH! > > Chris Conner > > >P.S. I have an EGA card and monitor... >-- > : conner@buster.egr.msu.edu : > : ccubed@dcssparc.cl.msu.edu : > : CCC : > : "no god slayers aloud" - ME : If everyone mails to me, I'll compile the info and post it later... Thanks Chris Conner (again) -- : conner@buster.egr.msu.edu : : ccubed@dcssparc.cl.msu.edu : : CCC : : "no god slayers aloud" - ME :
hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) (04/27/91)
In article <1991Apr25.235234.27452@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1eq@e260-1a.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes: <In article <1991Apr25.205919.3812@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger) writes: <>In article <1991Apr22.113002.4147@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) writes: <>>I have 645k free conventional memory with Dos 3.3 and Qemm 5.11 with <>>several devices and TSR's installed. <>This must be because you have a system, that allows you to map unused lower <>memory addresses as useable conventional memory, so that total base memory <>is something like 704K. This is kind of cheating since many people can't do <>this. (VGA, don't have the chipsets that allow it, etc). < ^^^ <You can remap up to 96K of your VGA or 256K EGA's memory as conventional <memory (I know of at least one shareware program which does this). This only works until your VGA attempts to put itself into a graphics mode. If you're using any video RAM as conventional RAM at this time and your program can't trap the attempt to use a graphics mode, your system (or at least your program) will probably come to an abrupt halt. -- --Jeff Hartung-- Disclaimer: My opinions only, etc., etc., BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!... InterNet - hartung@crl.ucsd.edu or ps299bx@igrad1.ucsd.edu UUCP - ucsd!crl.ucsd.edu!hartung BITNET - hartung@ucsd
c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) (04/27/91)
In article <18691@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) writes: >In article <1991Apr25.235234.27452@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1eq@e260-1a.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes: ><You can remap up to 96K of your VGA or 256K EGA's memory as conventional ><memory (I know of at least one shareware program which does this). >This only works until your VGA attempts to put itself into a graphics mode. >If you're using any video RAM as conventional RAM at this time and your >program can't trap the attempt to use a graphics mode, your system (or at >least your program) will probably come to an abrupt halt. Well of course; I thought that was rather obvious. You can't use the same memory for two purposes. However, the program I'm referring to will make your system think that you only have a CGA installed. It actually works quite intelligently. -- +==========================================================================+ | Noam Mendelson ..!ucbvax!web!c60b-1eq | "I haven't lost my mind, | | c60b-1eq@web.Berkeley.EDU | it's backed up on tape | | University of California at Berkeley | somewhere." |