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by mrlonglong 62 days ago
Voodoo mode is the ultimate test. Imagine having access to 4GB of memory from real mode.
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Shameless plug for my https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/beyond-the-1-mb-barrier-i... article from a couple of years ago. You'll find a deep dive on unreal mode (I just learned it's also known as "vodoo mode") and some hands-on code to play with it ;-P
There are things like DOS4GW that you can use as loaders.
I want vooDOS 5.0 which is 32 bit clean :)
Most people called it unreal mode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode

Yep. The microcode in real mode segment loading (as shown in the post) does not set the limit to 64KB. That is why returning to real mode with a large value like 4GB in limit gives you "unreal mode".