Date   : Wed, 09 Feb 2000 22:31:01 +0000
From   : Stuart William McConnachie <stuart@...>
Subject: Re: Help! BBC Ems for the uninitiated.

In message <38A09B7D.669197F4@...>, Adam Hamilton
<Adam.Hamilton@...> writes
>I agree, pcBBC is an excellent program, but I would like to see it
>updated to work under Window as when I attempt to run it from 'Window
>DOS'
>it falls over because my 128Mb machine doesn't have enough memory!
I would like to defend my choice of DOS as a development environment for
the following reasons:
1) A single executable will run under DOS, Win 9x, NT and Win2000.
2) You have direct access to the PC hardware (okay you could use
DirectX)

The problem you are experiencing here is a lack of memory below 640K.  A
common problem for DOS programs.  I will be making improvements here for
the next release.  However this should NOT stop you running pcBBC
perfectly successfully from Windows.  You just won't have all 16 banks
of ROMs available.  You're not using them all are you?

Regards,
-- 
Stuart McConnachie (stuart@...              )
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