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WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.12
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- Added two new distributors: one in the United Kingdom, and another
in the U.S. (for credit card orders).
- Changed the HIGHGFX options from /ON and /OFF to simply ON and OFF.
- Modified HIGHBFRS to work around a hardware limitation. (See the
discussion in LASTBYTE.DOC.)
- Changed the allocation strategy of HIGHUMM.SYS to "best fit"
instead of largest fit.
- Modified LASTBYTE and HIGHGFX so that systems no longer report EGA
or VGA in response to attempts to identify the display adapter when
graphics have been disabled in favor of more conventional memory.
- Added HIGHGFX.SYS (a device driver version of HIGHGFX.EXE) so that
you can switch between extra conventional memory and EGA/VGA
hi-resolution graphics during CONFIG.SYS processing. (E.g., This
is required in order to properly install EGA.SYS and MOUSE.SYS.)
- Modified the cold boot code (used with DOS=F000:32) so that it
gives caching software (such as HyperWare's HyperDisk) a chance to
flush any pending/staged writes before proceeding with the boot.
- Improved the "/SIZE" reporting feature in HIGHTSR and HIGHINST so
that it now computes the stack space actually used by .COM files.
Also corrected a bug in the computation that failed to account for
memory blocks temporarily allocated by the TSR during installation
(e.g., PC Magazine's ALIAS program.)
- Modified HIGHDRVR.SYS so that the drive and directory information
no longer has to be repeated for the driver to be loaded high if it
is in the same drive and directory as HIGHDRVR.SYS. I.e.,
DEVICE=C:\DRIVERS\HIGHDRVR.SYS C:\DRIVERS\ANSI.SYS
can now be simplified to:
DEVICE=C:\DRIVERS\HIGHDRVR.SYS ANSI.SYS
NOTE: The above shortcut does not apply to HIGHINST or HIGHTSR,
although HIGHTSR will try to locate the TSR using your PATH
environment variable.
- The following is a summary of "DOS=" options that may be useful in
combination with certain display adapters. For a more detailed
explanation, see Section 12, "Video Display Ram Above 640K" in the
LASTBYTE.DOC file.
Display Reserved "DOS=" "APPEND="
Adapter by default Options Options
------- ----------- -------- ---------
Monochrome B0000-B7FFF A000:64 or A000:64
B400:16 and A000:64
Hercules B0000-BFFFF A000:64 or A000:64
B400:48 (1) and A000:64
CGA B8000-BFFFF A000:96 or A000:96
BC00:16 (2) and A000:96
EGA and VGA A0000-BFFFF A000:64 (1) or A000:96
B000:32 and A000:64
BC00:16 (2,3) and A000:96
VGA Bios Rom C0000-C7FFF C600:8 (4)
Notes: (1) Cannot be used with graphics modes.
(2) WINDOWS 3.0 may write in this area!
(3) May be combined with DOS=B000:32.
(4) See section 13 of LASTBYTE.DOC,
"Video Adapter Bios ROMs"
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