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Changes by Andrew Rossmann v1.57 (6/26/93) Page 3 : Corrected HMA usage report under DOS 6. Page 6 : Some work on the ATI cards. Page 9 : Corrected Printer Echo and Buffer count under DOS 6. Page 14 : Won't display drive info if the Drives parameter is 0. Page 18 : Corrected SmartDrive version number. Corrected MSCDEX detection. SmartDrive also lists if a drive is a DBLSPACE drive. Added detection and information for DBLSPACE drives. Expanded information for Quarterdeck's VIDRAM. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v1.56 (12/30/92) All : The AP command now accepts a filename for automatic output. Added an NP command switch. When specified, INFOPLUS will not attempt to read the partition table from the hard disk. This a problem on some SCSI drives or controllers. Added an F command switch. This tell Infoplus to leave 16550 FIFO's enabled. Reduced potential conflict with CBIS PowerLAN redirector when checking for the true DOS version (since DOS 5 can change it.) Reduced chances of false data being returned by some pages when running in an OS/2 DOS session. Page 1 : Added detection of HP 95LX. Page 3 : Unless Windows 3 enhanced mode is detected, will now check for both VCPI and DPMI. Page 6 : VESA will try the next mode even if no information is returned from the current one. (Thanks to Joerg.Prust@gmd.de for finding this one.) Page 7 : Added extra information about the mouse, primarily if you have Microsoft Mouse driver version 7.00 or newer, or compatible. Page 8 : Changed the Serial Port detection method. Also, 16550 FIFO's are disabled unless the 'F' command is given on the command line. Modified the Sound Blaster detection to restore modified ports. Should fix 'lost mouse' problems. Added Gravis UltraSound detection. (untested) Page 9 : If DOS 5 is detected, INFOPLUS will display the revision letter, and if DOS is using the HMA, or is based in ROM. Page 10: CDROM detection should work, but higher risk of false detection. Page 15: Added several partition type names. Page 18: Added Advanced Power Managment Specification. Corrected 386^Max Windows support info. Added extra information about Hyperdisk for versions 4.50 or newer. If Stacker is found, will display drive letters used, and what drive letters have been swapped, if any. Page 19: Added display of what interrupts an AMIS TSR has hooked. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v1.55 (4/21/92) All : Added an AP command switch. When specified, all pages will be sent to a file or printer. You will be asked the standard screenprint questions before the first page. Page 1: Added detection of many newer IBM PS/2 and PS/1 computers. Added detection of HP Vectra series. For AT's and up, will display if a special keyboard function is supported. For AT and up Phoenix BIOS's, display the version number. Page 3: Reduced chances of non-AT's showing extended memory. Page 4: Under MSDOS 5, DOS blocks show if code or data. Page 7: Mouse version number should display correctly for Microsoft version 8 and newer. Mouse Systems and Logitech drivers are detected. Some show additional information. No longer reset the mouse hardware. Should retrieve mouse information much faster. Page 8: Removed detection of Tandy digital sound, which wasn't reliable. NOTE: Under Windows 3.1, if you have the SoundBlaster drivers enabled, you'll get a warning box from Windows, and Infoplus will be unable to detect it. This is normal. Page 9: The country represented by the country code is displayed. Page 18:SMARTDRV detection should now work, including the new 4.0. VDS information now recognizes more memory manager products. Added detection of 386^Max version 6.01+. Re-arranged screens by program types. Added detection of EMM386 v4.20+. Added detection of MICEMM (Micronics EMM) NOTE: I have version 4F, and it isn't detected on my system. Page 19:NEW! This page displays programs using the Alternate Multiplex Interrupt. This is a new standard, and not too many programs use it yet. Page 20:NEW! This page displays extra information about Memory Managers. Currently, only QEMM 4.23 or newer is detected. You get information about the various memory sizes used, and a memory map. Page 21:Former page 19. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v1.50 (1/1/92) All: Added command line switches B, D, M, C, NV, H and '?'. Added on-line help by pressing F1. No longer reset the screen on exit unless you start in 40 column mode, or a non-standard mode. Page 1: Added detection of Tandy 3000. Added detection of Tandy 1000 series. Page 3: Having more than 64K of available UMB space will display the correct byte size (the K size was correct.) Page 6: Added additional information for ATI cards, and support for newer versions. Detect Tseng ET4000/HiColor DAC combo. Only display Tseng memory size if it's an ET4000. Hopefully corrected Trident problems. Also, tell true video memory for 8900 series. Hopefully corrected Cirrus problems. Added detection of Oak chipset. VGA chipset detections can be disabled by using the NV startup switch. Page 8: Modified sound card detections to reduce possible problems with other cards using the same IO ports. Added detection of Tandy 1000/2500 digital sound. Page 9: A second 'page' that lists all currently open files, and lots of information about each of them. Most useful under Windows or Desqview. Page 18:Detect and give information about SMARTDRV, and possibly other caches. Display version of QEMM (if newer than 5.10). Detect JP Software's KSTACK.COM. Detect Norton NCHACHE, Diskreet, DiskMon, FileSave/EraseProtect. Added detection of Stacker. INFOPLUS.ASM: Corrected bug in LONGCALL. It was restoring the wrong old DS and SI!! (Thanks to Michael Holin for noticing that!) Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.47 (8/2/91) All: Several pages should work better under OS/2. Corrected bug that caused lockups under Desqview. Could also fix other unusual bugs. It appears to have fixed the occasional 'slow screen' bug, too. Page 2: If an i386 is found, check for the POPAD bug. (This is a minor bug that is nothing to worry about.) If a 387 is 'found' with a 286 CPU, then it's identified as a 287XL. Page 3: Tell if HMA is free or in use. Detect if UMB (Upper Memory Blocks) are available, and report size of the largest available. Tell if DOS 5 is using the HMA, and how much is being used. Page 9: Minor corrections to work properly with DOS 5 and OS/2. Page 10:Added detection of DOS 5's DOSKEY. If DOS 5's SETVER is loaded, the version list will be displayed. Added a generic DOS extender check (new 'standard') Page 13:Minor corrections to work properly with DOS 5 and OS/2. Page 18:Added detection of Norton's NDOS (4DOS in disguise) Added detection of Phar Lap DOS Extenders. Added detection of the DOS 5 Task Swapper (which also identifies itself as Windows in real/standard mode!!) Added detection of HyperDisk 4.20 or newer. INFOPLUS.ASM: New subroutine added for POPAD bug test. Modified ALTINTR and LONGCALL to only pass the Overflow, Sign, Zero, Aux Carry, Parity and Carry flags TO the called interrupt/subroutine from the Flags variable in the Registers record. The standard TP Intr doesn't pass ANY flags! I need the ability for several detection routines. The full Flags register will be passed back when the interrupt/subroutine returns. This is what fixed the Desqview problem. (Thanks to Heribert Eisele - heribert@caen.engin.umich.edu for pointing this out!) Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.46 (5/29/91) Page 2: If an i486 is found without a coprocessor, then an i486SX will be assumed. An i486SX w/ 487 will show as an i486. Page 6: Most of the VGA chipsets will return more information. Page 18:NEW PAGE (sort of). Moved the TSR and drivers section of page 10 here. Corrected VDS product version number display. Also tell if VDS's BIOS data bit is set ($40:$7B, bit 5) Added detection of TBScanX (a virus scanner) Added detection of WildUnix (a Unix-like wildcard expander) Added detection of DOS/16M (a protected mode interface) Added detection of Inset (a text/graphics program) Added detection of Microsoft CD-ROM extensions (MSCDEX) Added detection of Fossil drivers Added detection of Video Fossil drivers WARNING! Page 18 could lock up under Desqview. I'm still investigating. Page 19:Former page 18 (Thank you page.) Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.45 (2/11/91) All: If Desqview is detected, all screen output will be done using the BIOS, allowing INFOPLUS to work in a window even on non-386's. This may affect screen printing. Page 1: Detailed info will only be shown on an AT or better (as told by the machine byte at $FFFF:$E.) Added detection of several computers, including Toshiba T5200/100 and T1200/XE, IBM model 90's, and the PS/1. Page 6: Added detection of XGA (MicroChannel systems only for now.) Page 8: 16450 UART now detected (was shown as 8250 before.) Added detection of AdLib, SoundBlaster, and Roland MPU-401. If AdLib detected, it checks if the SOUND.COM driver is loaded and tells you the version and interface address if found. If COM port is at address $0000 (Desqview giving no access) it shows N/A for address, and gives no other info. Ports at address above $FFF should display correctly. Page 9: DR-DOS should be detected. Under DOS 5, will tell if UMBs are part of DOS memory chain. Under DOS 4+, tell if BUFFERS are in EMS, and their handle. Page 10:If Windows 3 in enhanced mode is detected, information about the display is given. If Desqview is detected, extra video and memory info given. Added detection of TAME. Added detection of QEMM/QRAM, MANIFEST (resident), and VIDRAM. Added detection of pcAnywhere. Added detection of Disk Spool II. Added detection of DOS 4 GRAPHICS.COM. Added detection of Win 3's EGA.SYS. Added detection of DRIVER.SYS (note: DOS 4 appears to support some of it's functions, so it may show yes.) Added detection of the F-PROT package. Added detection of ANARKEY. Added detection of Virtual DMA Specification (VDS) [NOTE: Is supported by QEMM!!] Added detection of Common Access Method SCSI drivers. Added detection of PC/TCP Packet drivers. Page 16:You can use the up and down arrow keys to look at the BPB information for all drives. Page 17:CMOS info will only show for an AT or better (as told by the machine byte at $FFFF:$E.) NOTE: It seems as if 386 based PS/2's have non-standard CMOS tables. Ignore warnings about bad CMOS checksum. Tech: Program re-organized into Units. Source code distributed separately. Added information pages that you can print out. NOTE!!->I'm having problems running under Desqview. I'm still trying to figure out what's happening. Be aware that the program could lock up at any time. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.41 (12/8/90) All: Re-compiled under Turbo Pascal 6. No special features used. Page 6: Check for Tseng chips should no longer cause problems if you really have a Tseng chipset. Page 8: Corrected bug in UART detection. Page 16:When reading Boot info, no longer tries looking at the drive that is one below the current default. (ie: B: if C: was the default.) This primarily affects DOS 3.30 and 3.31 users only. Technical: .INC files renamed to .PAS for easier use under the new IDE. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.40 (11/12/90) All: New Command! Alt-P will pop up a window in which you can send a copy of the data part of the screen to a file or the printer. You can have any non-standard characters converted into Normal ASCII. You can also have an extra line added to the printout. You can use it to identify the computer, or whatever. Page 6: Display 'Checking for xxxx' before trying to detect video types and chipsets. Paradise information checking now reads the chips directly, instead of relying on the BIOS, which seemed to be causing problems with some boards. It seems as if some may not be detected. Corrected ZyMOS detection. CTI chips will only be detected if a CTI BIOS is found. Direct chip detection caused problems with some other boards. Page 8: Serial port info now displays the type of UART found. The 16450 (found on many AT's) will be listed as an 8250. The 16550AFN and 16550AN will display as 16550AN. Page 9: No longer gets stuck in an infinite loop when trying to determine STACKS on some computers. Page 11:The environments' location, size, amount used, and free space are now shown. Page 17:Day of Week no longer shown since most BIOS's do not set it. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.35 (10/7/90) All: If using <ENTER> to jump to a page, and you enter something illegal, the page name will be restored on the bottom line. Page 3: If no Free XMS is available, will now say 0K, instead of ERROR. Page 6: More VGA chipsets detected, including Ahead, Cirrus, Chips&Technologies Genoa, Trident, Tseng and ZyMOS. VESA mode detection will only check values that the board or driver says is available, instead of trying everything. Page 8: Under Desqview, if not given priveleges for COM ports, will report NA for baud, instead of bombing with 'Runtime Error 200'. Page 17:Thank You info moved to page 18. NEW PAGE! Lists information contained in your CMOS memory, if a PC/AT or compatible is detected. Page 18:Thank you information. Formerly page 17. INFOPLUS.ASM: Several new routines added for detecting VGA chipsets. DISKREAD modified to work with Compaq 3.31 and other non-DOS 4's that support >32M partitions using the extended read routine format. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.31 (9/4/90) Page 2: Corrected bug that could cause lock-ups on PC's without coprocessor. INFOPLUS.ASM: Corrected ndp routine to not generate WAITs!! Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.30 (9/3/90) All: If you are in MODE BW80 or MODE MONO, you will get black and white. Page 1: More machine types identified. Page 2: Some of the Machine Status Word bits are identified. CPU and NDP detection routines further modified. NDP detection lockups appear to be fixed (tested by George Toye.) On 386/486 CPUs, check BIOS to see if Weitek coprocessor present. Page 3: Conventional memory sizes now also given in K. DPMI detection now works!! No VCPI check if DPMI detected (DPMI takes precedence over VCPI). Page 6: If a VESA driver or board is detected, you will get a listing of all VESA modes supported and info about them. Page 10:Added detection of Desqview and Windows 3. Page 11:Show current program name and it's path. Page 15:OS/2 High Performance File System (HPFS) added. INFOPLUS.ASM: All routines are now using the FAR model. Slightly modified 486 detection. Removed FSAVE from NDP detection, appeared to be the culprit. Modified LONGCALL to have a similar format to Intr and MsDos. New routines AltIntr and AltMsDos. These use self-modifying code to generate true interrupts. The standard TP routines do not, and will not trigger protected mode routines. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.25 (8/10/90) Page 2: The CPU and NDP detection has been overhauled. First, the tests are now run seperately, making it easier to tell which part is causing problems. The CPU detection code has beeen modified AGAIN, this time from code sent to me by John Levine, who said he got it from the Intel '486 manual. Also, the NDP detection has been modified to reduce the chance of getting an 'unknown coprocessor' message. Test8087 is no longer used. INFOPLUS.ASM: New coding in the CPU and NDP detections, increasing reliability, and allowing seperate testing. This new code should also detect the 486!! Put some comments in the ATIINFO routine. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.21 (8/5/90) Page 2: Slightly modified the CPU detection to disable interrupts during the 286/386 tests. Hopefully, this will fix the ongoing problems. Page 6: The information returned when an ATI video board is detected is now correct. NOTE: The monitor INFOPLUS says may not be exactly what you have the board set to. There are only 16 possible selections, and many of the 'models' actually use the same settings. I can only use the information that ATI gives with the board. They probably have more information (such as 8/16 bit mode) buried somewhere that they won't release. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.20 (7/29/90) Page 1: Thanks to information posted to USENET by James Howard of Dell Computer Corporation, most later model Dell's will be directly identified. The adapter ROM scan now searches at 2K boundaries. This will hopefully detect what QEMM calls 'split roms.' Page 2: Due to continued problems with the CPU detection locking up computers, I am now using the original detection code. This uses differences in the Flags registers to distinguish a 386 from a 286. The 486 will not be directly identified. A side benefit is that you can now run safely under Windows 3 enhanced mode. The coprocessor detection code sometimes thinks you have one when you don't. This gives an 'unknown coprocessor - FF' message. Now, if that happens, I check to see if Turbo Pascal found one (the Test8087 variable.) If it didn't find one, I now say 'none.' Page 9: The file handle count should now be more accurate. I search where DOS keeps it's FILES lists, and get my counts that way. Page 16:Tells whether an extended boot signature is found (DOS 4.) If extended boot signature, tell the physical drive number (hard disks start at 128, floppies at 0.) INFOPLUS.ASM: Commented out 'invalid opcode' CPU detection method, and re-enabled the original detection code. This results in the inablity to detect the '486. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.10 (7/20/90) Page 1: ROM search now displays size of ROMs found. Page 3: If an XMS driver is found, various information about it is now displayed. All EMS memory is now given in K instead of pages. Page 6: Added detection of Paradise, Video 7, and ATI VGA boards. Some additional information and the correct memory size is given. Page 7: Tell whether the Mouse driver is shadowing the EGA registers. Page 10:A hopefully generic Network check was added. The CDROM detection might work better. Also displays what drives are actually CDROM. Page 15:Now only search for drives $80 to $99. Going beyond that caused exception errors under EMM386.SYS (the Win 3 version.) Page 17:Corrected a bug that caused part of the screen to scroll when running under Desqview (I hope.) INFOPLUS.ASM: Added new LONGCALL routine. This is needed for the XMS checking. LONGCALL calls a routine using a FAR CALL instead of the more normal INT functions. Since TASM 2.0 supports the 486, the XADD macro is now commented out. Changes by Andrew Rossmann v 1.0 (6/25/90) All: Due to confusions with Steve Grant continuing to release new versions, I am renaming my version to INFOPLUS. The documentation for SYSID 4.4 states that the source and object code are public domain. SG's newer versions are copywritten, and no longer contain source code. All of my versions WILL ALWAYS continue to contain the source code, and WILL ALWAYS be public domain!! Like FRACTINT, I hope for this program to slowly grow as people add their own ideas. All: Changed colors to blue background, with text of LightGray and LightCyan. You now press the DOWN ARROW key to continue a long screen. This lets you move to another page without looking at all the information. A title telling what is on the page appears at the bottom. Page 0: New page, shows contents of each page. HOME always goes here. Also, this eliminates the chance that scanning the ROM could lock up the program, preventing its use. If that happens, you can just go to another page directly. Page 2: The V20/V30 should be correctly detected. Page 3: Added detection of XMS, DPMI (untested) and VCPI. DPMI detection is tentative, since it's still in the formative stages. Windows 3.0 is the first program to support it. Under EMS 4, handle names will be listed (not all programs give their handles names.) Page 9: Added count of FCB's (File Control Blocks.) Added count of Dos STACKS (DOS 4 only.) Page 10:Added detection of DOS (should always be YES!!) Added detection of JP Software's 4DOS (and other info on it.) Added detection of CD-ROM extensions. Page 13:For default drive, tells what type it is, if it is removable, has doorlock detection, is JOIN'd, or SUBST'd (and shows the true path.) Page 17:New page, just thanks you for using INFOPLUS, and gives some places I can be reached. The following are my versions of SYSID. It's very likely that some of these version numbers may overlap Steve Grant's!! Changes by Andrew Rossmann (5/28/90) v 5.1 Page 2: Corrected bug in 386 detection code actually in SYSID.ASM. This bug could cause lock-ups or exception errors on 386, 386SX, or 486 systems. Changes by Andrew Rossmann (1/19/90) v 5.0 Page 9: Added buffer count (and read-ahead) for DOS 4! Page 15:Added several more partition types. Changes by Andrew Rossmann (12/31/89) v 4.8 Page 2: Added recognition (I hope) of the '486. This involved replacing the code that detects the 286/386 with newer code by Robert Collins. Page 5: Added the extended modes of the Paradise VGA boards. (Considering that the CRT unit forces the screen into a standard text mode at startup, most of the entries are sort of useless right now.) Page 15:Added Disk Manager, Speedstore, Split (?), and GB (?) to the recognized partition types. Corrected some erroneous numbers in the starting cylinder and sector. Changes by Andrew Rossmann (9/30/89) v 4.7 All: Re-compiled under Turbo Pascal 5.5. Page 9: Reduced the number of files to 255 due to a potential bug under DOS 3.30. Page 10:Added a few extra programs to the multiplex listings. Some of these will probably only be recognized under DOS 4 or newer. Changes by Andrew Rossmann (7/2/89) v 4.6 Page 9: Under DOS 3.30 or newer, use a new DOS function call to set up space for up to 256 files. The number of total files available will now be closer to the FILES= setting, instead of being stuck at the 20 that is the default size. Changes by Andrew Rossmann (6/7/89) Changed the version to 4.5. ALL: Pressing <ENTER> will bring up a 'Page no.=>' prompt. You can then type in the number of the page you want to jump to. Page 9: Added OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) Serial number to list. Not everyone uses this. Put file handle table sizes on one line. Changed current time to conform to the format of the current country code, including 12-hour format. Page16: Corrected more DOS4 errors in the Dos Disk Parameter Block listings. It seems the number of sectors per FAT has grown from 1 byte to 1 word. This pushed the sector # of directory, address of device header, media descriptor, access check, and next block pointer up 1 byte. Changes by Andrew Rossmann (6/3/89): I upped the letter to 'V'. Page 9: Added 'Boot disk was'. This will display which disk drive was used to boot the computer under DOS 4. Under DOS 3, this will always display (unknown). I changed the file used to figure out the number of available file handles from COMMAND.COM to the program itself. This is because COMMAND.COM may not always be available (especially if you are on floppies.) It's more likely the program itself will be available. This uses a DOS 3 or 4 feature that lets a program know it's full pathname. (ParamStr(0) in TP5). Page10: Added extra information about the APPEND command under DOS 4. Will display which switches are active, and the path currently in use. Page15: Added several parition types, including 'Big DOS-16' (DOS 4 partitions >32M), XENIX, NOVELL, PCIX, CP/M, and BBT. Page16: Modified the DISKREAD portion of SYSID.ASM for use under DOS 4. Will now correctly read disks with partitions >32M. Disks >32M under Compaq DOS 3.31 will probably not work. Changes by Andrew Rossmann (5/29/89): I named this version 4.44U for 'U'pdated. Don't know of any newer versions. Page 1: The search for the Copyright message in ROM has been expanded to start at F000:C000 instead of F000:E000. This test had returned nothing on my Tandy 1000SX. This may cause longer waits on other machines. NOTE: the CPUID routine does not detect my V20. It returns an unknown type. I have no idea why, and I would like to know why. (I also have an 8087 if that makes any difference.) Page 7: If you had a mouse, some information about your keyboard ended up scrolling off the screen. Some related info has been put on 1 line to prevent scrolling. Page 9: The method to find the number of available file handles had a minor problem. It used the COMSPEC environment variable to continuously open COMMAND.COM until an error occurred, presumably a 'Too Many open files' error. BUT, the files were opened as untyped files, which have a default FileMode = 2 (read/write). If your copy of COMMAND.COM was read-only (for virus protection), an error 5 (Access denied) occured, and 0 available handles was shown. This is fixed by setting FileMode:=0 (Read only) before opening files. The printer echo status is supported under DOS 4. The number of buffers is still unknown as I am unable to figure it out. Since DOS 4 can have a huge number of buffers, and even put them in EMS memory, finding out their count may be difficult. Page13: Information about a floppy now supports the parameters for 3.5" drives, and displays number of tracks. Page16: Now supports DOS 4.0 and Compaq DOS 3.31 with partitions >32M (maybe others if they follow the same format.) If you have a disk formatted under DOS 4, the boot record section will display the volume label, serial number, and FAT type of the disk. Known bugs: (Steve Grants ver 4.44) 1) Page 2: The CPU test for interrupts of multi-prefix string instructions is reliable only on machines whose clock speeds are less than about 15 MHz. The 8086 and 8088 are the only CPU's that don't handle such interrupts correctly, however, and they aren't (to my knowledge) ever run at anything like 15 MHz. (This 15 MHz limit assumes that the timer tick interrupt occurs at the standard rate of 18.2 Hz. SYSID could check that, too, I suppose.) 2) Page 5: The description of foreground color will not mention the blinking attribute, even if it was enabled before you invoked SYSID. 3) Page 10: SYSID used to report incorrectly the statuses of some of the executable files which use the "multiplex interrupt" (INT 2FH). I have commented these status checks out of the source code, determined to do battle with them another day. Can anyone supply the correct INT 2FH functions for these files? Or are some of them red herrings that simply check INT 2FH to see if *other* files have been loaded (e.g. APPEND/ASSIGN)? 4) The error beep sometimes fails to sound when you press PgDn while on the last page (or PgUp while on the first page). I have no idea why. (!!corrected in version 4.5)