Re: Running Dos Games from Win95

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From: Colin Price
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:00

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In article <35480f52.58470727@newshost.li.net>, Jon@suffolk.lib writes
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>That's why I said "pardon me" and "I suspect."

That's cool too :)

> We're both just trying
>to help Kate and Andrew.  It's cool, mon.

Where are you, Kate and Andrew?
>
>I've found that Win95 is very quirky when it comes to running games in
>a DOS box.  Most, but not all of the time, I'm able to get them
>running with a little tweaking (e.g. reset screen resolution, avoid
>shortcuts).  But for non-techies, it can actually be easier to get
>those DOS drivers loaded and just run their games from pure DOS mode,
>a la Power2Play.

True!
>
<Snip>

>I do have the SB16 disks - the problem is that the drivers need to be
>extracted, which requires installing Creative's pnp manager, which
>must be installed from full DOS mode, where I can't get enough
>conventional memory freed up after trying everything you could think
>of.  :)  But thanks for the offer.

Sounds like a right pain! I hope someone else has some good ideas on
this one!

Regards,
-- 
Colin Price
(replace "nospam" by "frogmore6" when replying)

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From: Colin Price <Colin@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Running Dos Games from Win95
Date: 1998/04/21
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