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Offline basman74

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Re: Nice dos desktop gui program launcher...
« on: July 27, 2010, 02:32:12 PM »
Nice one!

Just curious, but can it support 320x200 (VGA Mode 13h) screenmode? :D

Cheers Valentin
 

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Re: Nice dos desktop gui program launcher...
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2010, 01:39:28 PM »
Quote from: haywirepc;572394
It will do 640x400 x256 colors. I am trying to locate the source code...


I see. Whilst I can theoretically emulate that through VESA, I think I'll save it for my next hardware revision :)

Quote from: haywirepc;572394
Many dos programs won't start due to some dos programs memory requirements. I'm going to see if I can't make the shell dump out of memory completely when a program starts, it would then restart like a dos batch file after the program ends.


Are you referring to the conventional memory limitations within DOS? If so you can also try loading the launcher itself into extended/expanded memory upon DOS boot-up. Please ignore if you've already tried this..


Cheers Valentin