WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.12 -------------------------- - Added a new distributors in the United Kingdom. - 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=" See Adapter by default Options Notes ------- ----------- -------- ----- Monochrome B0000-B7FFF B400:16 Hercules B0000-BFFFF B400:48 (1) CGA B8000-BFFFF BC00:16 (Maybe 2) EGA and VGA A0000-BFFFF A000:64 (1) B000:32 BC00:16 (2) Notes: (1) Cannot be used with graphics modes. (2) WINDOWS 3.0 seems to write in this area! --------------------- End of file WHATSNEW.120 ---------------------