From: "John S. Fine" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: FREEBB12.ZIP Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 14:11:53 -0400 Lines: 43 Message-ID: <37CD6C69.424C@erols.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: W8T5YZEqpUYH+E4hxNoMUrfjQzplFIWKQ3RMR9algEM= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rcn DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Sep 1999 18:14:09 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; U) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Should I be using a different version of something (DJGPP, or > > CWSDPMI, or Allegro, or FREEBB, or QEMM)? All these things have > > other versions and it isn't clear which can go together. > > DJGPP supports all of these packages, and all their combinations. Unless > you have a *really* ancient version of QEMM (like 5.x or something; > current one is 8.03, I think), it should work just fine. Anything else > is a bug or an installation snafu. "all their combinations" ??? I started from scratch from the zip picker, because I wanted to minimize version incompatibilities left over from my previous use of DJGPP. The zip picker picked alleg312.zip, but I tried several of the indicated ftp sites and none of them had it (a few days ago). So I used alleg311, which has the spilled register problems (and fixed them by hand). *That* isn't supporting all (version) combinations. I wouldn't expect such combination to be supported. As I mentioned, FREEBS12 has even more spilled register problems. I guess I can try rebuilding it on an older DJGPP install on one of my other computers. But I hate that sort of stab-in-the-dark approach to problem solving. My QEMM is 7.02. Aside from the spilled register problems, I have no way of knowing which other problems are version incompatibilities. I assume other people are successfully using FREEBB12. Having tried a few computers and OS's etc., I don't think I have a specific hardware or software problem in my own computers that is causing all the trouble. I'm just guessing a version incompatibility (CWSDPMI vs FREEB, or something) because I don't know what else to guess. -- http://www.erols.com/johnfine/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/8600/