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Hi,

Seems like my MS-DOS with QEMM stopped working with the version released today.

On my MS-DOS boot menu, when I select my QEMM config it does like a soft boot (?) and if I select it again it says "Configuration too large for memory".

If I select QEMM on my first run and then EMM on the second run, my available memory is showing 120Kb (!!!)

Not sure if it's just me, but I'm leaving it here just in case other people are having problems.

P.S.: And yes, I have updated to the latest "Main" and "boot0.rom"

Sorgelig wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:06 am i use QEMM and don't have problems. May be it's some specific config.

@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $E[s$E[1;1H$E[0;1;37;44m$E[K$E[1;29H NightShadow's Magic DOS$E[37;40m$E[u$P$G$E[37m
C:\TOOLS\QEMM\LOADHI /RF C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE 2048 /L /X
C:\TOOLS\QEMM\LOADHI /RF C:\DOS\DOSKEY.COM
C:\TOOLS\QEMM\LOADHI /RF C:\DRIVERS\CTMOUSE.EXE /R2
rem C:\TOOLS\QEMM\LOADHI /RF C:\TOOLS\SOFTMPU\SOFTMPU.EXE /MPU:330 /OUTPUT:COM1
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
SET SOUND=C:\SBPRO
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1
SET DIRCMD=/A
C:\SBPRO\SBP-SET /M:12 /VOC:12 /CD:12 /FM:12 /LINE:12
PATH C:\TOOLS\SOFTMPU;C:\TOOLS\QEMM;C:\DOS;C:\Tools;C:\Tools\XTG;C:\Tools\ARJ;C:\Tools\PKZIP;C:\Tools\RAR;C:\Tools\Shortcts

device=c:\tools\qemm\dosdata.sys
SET LOADHIDATA=C:\TOOLS\QEMM\LOADHI.RF
device=c:\tools\qemm\qemm386.sys aram=b000-b7ff st:f ram aram=d000-dfff rf
device=c:\tools\qemm\dos-up.sys @c:\tools\qemm\dos-up.dat
DEVICE=C:\TOOLS\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /RF C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
DEVICE=C:\TOOLS\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /RF C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILES=40
FCBS=1,0
BUFFERS=10,0
LASTDRIVE=E
SHELL=C:\TOOLS\QEMM\LOADHI.COM /RF C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\  /p

Sorgelig wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:06 am i use QEMM and don't have problems. May be it's some specific config.

Sorgelig wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:08 am config.sys:

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device=c:\qemm\dosdata.sys
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM BE:N X=CE00-CFFF ARAM=D000-DFFF R:2 ARAM=B000-B7FF
device=c:\qemm\dos-up.sys @c:\qemm\dos7-up.dat
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QDPMI.SYS SWAPFILE=DPMI.SWP SWAPSIZE=1024
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 /RES=864 /SQT=FC00-FDFF /SIZE=19248 C:\DOS71\SETVER.EXE
COUNTRY=007,866,C:\DOS71\COUNTRY.SYS
SHELL=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.COM /R:0 /LO COMMAND.COM /P /E:640
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FCBS=4,0
FILES=30
BUFFERS=20,0
LASTDRIVE=26
STACKS=10,256
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 /SIZE=4000 .\IFSHLP.SYS

Sorgelig wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:24 pm line:

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STACKS=10,256

Is very important. Without it many apps including QEMM will crash.

flynnsbit wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:50 pm If you want someone to look at it, would be helpful to know which release this started with. I gave a simple link above to the version before Sorg's recent changes that has just the self-modifying code. Or people can just keep checking in that DOS 6.22 and QEMM aren't working...

flynnsbit wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 4:07 pm I did a full fresh install of DOS 7.1 and then installed QEM 8.3 with Sorg's Config. The only thing I had to do is re-run optimize once I got everything in. It seems to be working.

Sorgelig wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:29 am I know why QEMM may stop working. While creating config QEMM search for holes (large array of 00 or all FF) in ROM areas to insert RAM/page there. And once BIOS or VGA ROM are updated, these areas will be changed and then it will hang or crash.
So basically you have to run optimize utility after each BIOS/VGA ROM update.

Sorgelig wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:29 am I know why QEMM may stop working. While creating config QEMM search for holes (large array of 00 or all FF) in ROM areas to insert RAM/page there. And once BIOS or VGA ROM are updated, these areas will be changed and then it will hang or crash.
So basically you have to run optimize utility after each BIOS/VGA ROM update.