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Japheth has updated HimemX (XMSv3, 386+) to version 3.35. "Currently there are 2 versions of HimemX supplied, HimemX and HimemX2. HimemX2 uses a different strategy when it comes to extended memory block allocations. This difference is only relevant if extended memory is scattered in multiple blocks, as it is the case on newer machines." Grab the binaries and sources at iBiblio or on his Github. Testers across various hardware welcome!
Gregory Pietsch has updated FreeDOS Edlin to fix a bug in internationalization (multi-language support). You can find FreeDOS Edlin 2.18 at the Edlin project site at SourceForge. We've also mirrored it to ibiblio. Thanks!
mTCP is a set of TCP/IP applications for personal computers running PC-DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, and other flavors of DOS. mTCP version 2020-03-07 is a tiny release but there were some bug fixes, including: + Check the malloc return codes in UDP.CPP; this was missed twice. (Thanks to Simon Howard) + Pkttool needs to check before calling extended packet driver functions. (Thanks to Seth Simon) + Spdtest crashes if MTU is less than 1500 bytes. (Also thanks to Seth). Other changes include: + Ping return codes are now more expressive. (Also thanks to Simon) + Pkttool return codes are now documented. + Spdtest dumps more statistics to help with performance debugging. You can find the new version (binaries, source code, and PDF manual) at the mTCP website. Also mirrored on ibiblo.
Robert writes: "IDLE works by hooking the DOS idle interrupt 28h and executing a HLT instruction every time. At the end I put together a tool, that does the same. I named it EIDL, but you pronounce it "idle". (A little play with the German language.) It's 80 bytes only, but comes with source code for NASM. See it as little ASM example, because it is not as advanced as all the other DOS idlers including Eric Auer's FreeDOS APM (FDAPM)." You can find EIDL at: EIDL website.
Japheth writes: "At last a bug was fixed in JemmEx that caused shrinking EMBs not to work correctly. It happens with Volkov Commander, for example - I always thought this a bug in VC, but finally realized it was a bug in JemmEx." Changes include: - if physical address of DMA buffer was beyond 16M, its size was reset to zero; this is no longer done. - default linker is now JWlink. - debug displays added for mode switch calls. - Jemm will now use info returned by Int 15h, ax=E820h to mark regions in the upper memory area as reserved. - virtual mode extensions (VME) is now off by default; there exist CPUs that claim to support VME but actually don't. - JemmEx's built-in XMS host will now use up to 8 memory blocks listed by ACPI. You can download it from the JEMM Github, or from the FreeDOS files archive at Ibiblio.