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The struggle continues. 🙂
Played with Magic DosBox little more and found out that it supports up to 512 Mb of EMS memory, cool!
Since I didn’t give up with that “RAM drive” idea, I decided to mount ordinary ram-disk software, and figured out that all RAM disks hang in DosBox.I tried DOS RAM disks from several developers:
– MS Ramdrive from MS-DOS 6.22 (DosBox doesn’t support config.sys commands, but it is possible to load drivers from command line):
1st, you need to add available device letters with “LastDrive” utility: http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files&do=show&id=411
2nd, load RAMDRIVE.SYS with “DevLoad” utility: http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files&do=show&id=3868– ReSizeable RAMDisk: http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files&do=show&id=3867
– XMSDisk: http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files&do=show&id=399
– RDISK: http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files&do=show&id=4554
– LVDisk: http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files&do=show&id=433
(Listed all them here in case you’ll want to test them).
They all work in full DOS environment, but hang in DosBox, no matter if I try to use XMS or EMS memory.So, now the question is: is it possible to add support for software RAM disks in Magic DosBox?
I did not try the DosBox-X, it’s for Windows, and there is currently a problem with my PC… So I don’t know how RAM disks work there.
The advantage is that there will be no multiple data overwrites on SD, until finally RAM image will be saved to disk.
Come to think of it, maybe it’s not needed much for games. And Magic DosBox is aimed for games, of course.
And it seems to be difficult to implement, so maybe the result doesn’t worth the efforts.
That was just a suggestion, don’t pay too much attention to it. 🙂The only *game* I know that constantly writes data to disk is “The Legend of Kyrandia” series – when it plays voices, it stores temporary *.voc files on HDD.
Such “hardware” RAM disks should be more useful for complete PC emulators, like Limbo, when installing heavy things – Windows etc.
So maybe it’s not really needed for gaming emulator.
Sorry for taking too much of your attention, and thanks again for nice program! ?Just to note: DosBox-X seems to be able to create disks in RAM.
https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/…/bios_disk.h#L222
I didn’t try it, though.Anyway, thanks for the program! ?
