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Operating System Specific Discussions => Amiga OS => Amiga OS -- Development => Topic started by: fatman2021 on May 29, 2003, 03:45:45 AM

Title: DPMI for AmigaOS 4.0?
Post by: fatman2021 on May 29, 2003, 03:45:45 AM

Will AmigaOS 4.0 support DPMI? If not what would it take to add support for DPMI...? :pint:

Title: Re: DPMI for AmigaOS 4.0?
Post by: hagar on May 29, 2003, 08:44:37 AM

DPMI? Dos Protected Mode Interface?

Isn't that for ix86?

Title: Re: DPMI for AmigaOS 4.0?
Post by: xeron on May 29, 2003, 09:19:30 AM

Neither classic Amigas or the AmigaONE will require a protected mode interface, since they don't have processors based on a half-arsed braindead original architecture.

Title: Re: DPMI for AmigaOS 4.0?
Post by: Floid on May 29, 2003, 10:44:53 AM

Perhaps he meant the VESA DPMS (http://www.vesa.org/summary/sumdpms.htm)?

Or not.

Title: Re: DPMI for AmigaOS 4.0?
Post by: xeron on May 29, 2003, 10:50:36 AM

I doubt it, but AFAIK there are screenblankers out there that use DPMS on the Amiga.

Title: Re: DPMI for AmigaOS 4.0?
Post by: fatman2021 on May 30, 2003, 05:14:10 AM

When I was talking about DPMI, I ment support for dpmi apps using a x86 runtime lib.....

Title: Re: DPMI for AmigaOS 4.0?
Post by: SamuraiCrow on May 31, 2003, 01:49:49 AM

There are several DOS emulators available for Amiga but I don't think they are much good.  AmigaOS 4 will support memory paging using the MMU on the PPC.