From: MORRIS JP Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:52:36 GMT Message-Id: <199701291052.KAA14166@milly> To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net, jamesl AT albany DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk > From owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Tue Jan 28 23:12:08 1997 > Comments: Authenticated sender is > From: "Jim Lefavour" > To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:12:33 +0000 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT > Subject: [opendos] "Things to be fixed" > > Well, here is the first (?) on the list of "things to be fixed" > > I have tried everything that I can think of, and I can't get the > OpenDOS memory manager to be compatible with certain protected > mode programs. These include games, such as DOOM2, and programs > compiled with DJGPP 2.01, that use timer routines. > I tried more things than I could think of... EMM386 PIC=ON should fix it. 1.) EMM386 bugs should be investigated/fixed. > I have set up a "Multi config" menu, which loads my OLD (6.22) memory > manager (HIMEM/EMM386) when I wish to play games, until such time as > this is fixed. Of course, Caldera has to get the source code cleaned > up first, and that may take some time, from what I'm hearing. > 2.) A boot manager would be nice... lessons could be learned from OS/2 bootmgr. 3.) For some reason key 7 on the numeric keypad is NOT sending out a 7. This may just be me, and I have not checked thoroughly. (UK keymap) I just noticed my characters weren't going the right way in Ultima 6... 4.) The behaviour of TAB on the dos prompt is just a TAB. I (and many others) would prefer the TAB key to do a file search like it does on UNIX. I was planning to recomile the command.com to do this, but obviously I can't do that yet... That's all for now.. can anyone else add to this list?