From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP program on 286/386 Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: <4h7csso764jeefliap4jikhq5sn5fm467e@4ax.com> References: <8q560a$8j4$1 AT info DOT cyf-kr DOT edu DOT pl> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 52 X-Trace: +4AzTctufaQOdI6mnQuBPjV5qrkuvkVHgiNzdBTjjFl6NDoM3Fo8Df9HLCQXMVqkwrWEydwogAlb!q5xA6ty6lsQFqrBoOuJ+yFZs2ZKOtVXJSESBVCI1gPjCXtikFc7qs1z+i3HX9jmGwqdYJo7yTiNl!lA== X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:57:44 GMT Distribution: world Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:57:45 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:41:40 +0200, "Rafał Maj" wrote: >Hi, >I want to use (not compile) my programs written in DJGPP (+Allegro) on "old" >computers like 286 / 386... 286 no. 386 yes. >1) Is this possible (if there is only 4 MB RAM) ? freepuzzlearena (except for Hampsterdeath and Vitamins) runs beautifully on a 4 MB 386 laptop. http://pineight.8m.com/fpa.htm >2) I don't have installed DJGPP on this computers & I'm using only pure DOS. Same here. All I brought with me to run freepuzzlearena was the freepuzzlearena package and cwsdpmi.exe >On many computers I was getting error messages like "No DPMI memory(...)" This may be true, on a 1 MB machine or a 4 MB machine where Windows 3.x is running. >What I have to install on computer without Windows, to run >DJGPP programs on it ? cwsdpmi.exe and emu387.dxe (the latter for 386 without 387) >Where to get this files ? simtel.net >3) If computer will have only 4MB RAM, my DJGPP program using free/new will >automatic get more memory from disk (under pure DOS) ? CWSDPMI provides virtual memory if you have enough disk space. >4) On computer with 8MB & Win95 - will my program allocate memory on disk >when needed ? WinDPMI provides virtual memory if you have enough disk space. --