Category Archives: 386MAX

From the Annals of Preprocessor Hackery

Posted on October 22, 2023 by Michal Necasek

Over the last few days I’ve been slowly attacking the source code for 386MAX, trying to build the entire product. One of the many problems I ran into turned out to be quite interesting. There are several (16-bit) Windows components … Continue reading →

Posted in 386MAX, C, Development, Microsoft | 25 Comments

386MAX and EISA DMA

Posted on September 28, 2023 by Michal Necasek

A few weeks back I was reminded that the source code to the 386MAX (later Qualitas MAX) memory manager was released in 2022 on github. Back in the 1990s I used primarily EMM386 and QEMM, but I have some experience … Continue reading →

Posted in 386MAX, DOS, EISA, Source code | 11 Comments