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- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.12
- --------------------------
-
- - 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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