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baldeagl@airmail.net (Paul Schmehl) wrote:

>On Sun, 26 May 1996 17:35:33 GMT, hlamuth@infinet.com (Henry LaMuth)
>wrote:

>>dgerber@compusmart.ab.ca (zymurgy) wrote:
>>
>>>My drivers setup wonderfully in Win 95, but when I go to run certain some 
>>>programs in DOS, I'm having problems.  I am playing with my dosstart.bat file 
>>>in C:\WINDOWS directory, but somethings work and others don't.  Do I follow 
>>>the example of my autoexec.bat or config.sys when creating the dosstart.bat. 
>>> Any other useful ideas would be appreciated.  Exactly what I'm looking for 
>>>is my Video, Sound and CD Drivers to load as in Win95 with minimal grief.
>>
>>>HELP
>>
>>I set up a boot disk with an autoexec and config.sys set up purely for
>>a dos session. Works like a charm. I have all sorts of problems trying
>>the run dos games from win95, though non-games do very well. It is
>>multimedia that just doesn't work from win95 for dos apps.
>>
>>Now, I am trying something else I read about in Windows magazine, p44
>>in the June issue. I should be able to set up a custom config and
>>autoexec for any dos application. They gave a step by step approach
>>that was easy to follow----but I cannot get the new pif file with the
>>pointers to the custom autoexec and config files to be recognized. I
>>am trying to get this one resolved. If I can, it would do away with
>>the the boot disk. Any thoughts by someone out there? I will post the
>>steps for doing it if anyone has a recommendation on how this proceed.

>If you create a folder for your DOS Games, and then put shortcuts to
>each game in the folder, they will appear on the program menu as
>selectable programs just like all your WIndows programs.

>Then reboot, and Win 95 will automatically setup each program for the
>config it needs.  You do not need a config or autoexec file in the
>root directory.  Win 95 works fine without them.  As a matter of fact,
>DOS games that I couldn't play because I was out of memory in DOS
>mode, play fine when I launch them from the desktop.

>Win 95 will manage your DOS resources just fine if you'll let it.  If
>you should happen to have a program that won't launch at all, try
>reinstalling it.

>If you want to modify the settings of an individual program, do the
>following:  Double click on My Computer.  Double click on the drive
>the game you're having trouble with is located on.  Find the folder
>for that game and double click on it.  This will open up the folder.
>Then right click on the program icon, or any shortcut icons you have
>in that folder.

>Choose properties from the drop down menu and click on it.  This will
>open up a menu box  labeled "(Name of the game) Properties".  In this
>folder you can change any number of game attributes, including the
>icons, the amount of memory needed for the game, the size of the
>screen to play on, and several more.  You can play with those settings
>until you get proper operation from the game.

>You will probably never get as much memory from DOS mode as you will
>if you allow WIndows 95 to manage the settings for you from the
>desktop.  You can even create custom config and autoexec settings,
><for that game only>, under the Advanced Program Settings if you need
>to.  But you should rarely need to.

Hi Paul

There are games that have to run in real DOS mode. Advanced Tactical
Fighters is one. It will not run in a DOS window or full screen mode.
US Navy Fighters is another one.  

What I had to do to get these games to run was to create specific
config.sys and autoexec.bat files. I could have loaded real mode
drivers in my orginal config and autoexec files, (I have nothing
listed in these files now) but then the real mode drivers would load
all the time. This I didn't want. Not when Win95 will allow me to
custom make separate configuration files for each game or program that
have to use real mode drivers.

James