- #Windows 3.11 dosbox memory how to#
- #Windows 3.11 dosbox memory code#
- #Windows 3.11 dosbox memory windows#
The biggest problem was not allocating between systems, it was literally deciding how much to give to important things like disk cache.
It was able to be emulated in V86 mode on 386, but was completely irrelevant to most games (DOS 8086 games never really used EMS, DOS 386 games didn't need it) XMS was to allocate memory >1M mark, and VCPI or DPMI were 386 extender options to allow you to run 386 protected mode (so a 32-bit non-segmented memory model) in DOS they used XMS to allocate memory to themselves.Ī few EMSulators (including early EMM386.EXE) allocated a chunk of XMS, then used that chunk to provide EMS, so you ended up with a split of "this is my EMS, what's left is XMS", but QEMM and later versions of EMM386 just allocated XMS as required, returned it as required. Was a bit like a black art sometimes.ĮMS was bank switched memory. I think my brain just seized from the 30 yo memories you just brought back.Īh, yes, the virtues of allocating just the right amount of XMS memory, VCPI, or EMS on a memory constrained system. So I think Jim Salter is perfectly justified in calling it out for the user-unfriendliness that's a core to the experience.Īh HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE brings back memories
#Windows 3.11 dosbox memory how to#
I don't know of many other software titles where there is just such a sheer breadth of "for Dummies" online content on how to simply install it.
Entire YouTube careers have been launched about demonstrating how to install it and getting the damned thing to run on various consumer hardware. RetroArch AND its community is notoriously beginner-unfriendly. I'm hopeful one day the RetroArch project will finally get a re-design with some decent UX, but even in the absence of that you do your readers a disservice by trashing the project without even attempting to understand why its so popular. Rather than 15 different emulators with different menus, keybindings, and configuration, you learn one application, RetroArch, and use that to emulate any system on any host platform that you could possibly imagine. Beneath all the whining in this article about it though you seem to have missed the point of it all- that it is a single application with a consistent UI for emulating any system.
#Windows 3.11 dosbox memory windows#
(NT 3.50, MS B!ob and Windows 95 are the first mscf files).Yes, RetroArch's UI and UX sucks and always has.
Microsoft waits a while until the IBM agreement rolls out before releasing stuff on MSCF format.
#Windows 3.11 dosbox memory code#
3.11 comes on six diskettes packaged in the same ancient KWAJ code used on all DOS versions. v3.11 diskettes are common enough to avoid doing this, though. Without opening the box, it's hard to tell, but i imagine if there is a sticker on the box, then it probably is indeed Win 3.11. MSFT then hacked a number of files from 3.11 into 3.10, updated the drivers, and bundled the whole lot out. However, there was considerable antitrust rumbling, in that wfw contains networking code, which intrudes on the network market of people like Baynan, Novell, etc. This is the Blue Spine vs Red Spine in OS/2 parlance. Other changes reduced the functionality of Windows against the "OS/2 for Windows" product [where WinOS2 was replaced by running the DOS code. The new Wfw ran a lot faster than either Win310 or 311, and was positioned as the next OEM version (ie computers would ship with Dos 6.22 / Wfw 3.11, usually with a cutdown manual.Ĭonsider, eg the references to OS/2 server in 3.10, against the NT servers in 3.11. Microsoft did some work on it and got it to run somewhat faster.īy the end of 1994, the IBM/Microsoft partnership expired, and Microsoft released DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 accordingly. What essentially happened was Wfw 3.10 was started as a research project, it ran slower than regular win 3.10, that it was referred to as "Windows for Warehouses" (part of "Windows Everywhere"). In fact, all four variations of Windows exits. There is indeed a 'Windows 3.11', along with things like 'Windows for Workgroups 3.10'.