Re: Running Dos Games from Win95

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From: John Allison
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:00

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I have found 2 ways to get around this problem - 1) Make a normal DOS boot
floppy and load all DOS drivers in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT  2) Use the
Exit to DOS and reconfigure CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
The secret in both cases is to ensure HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE are
activated because many DOS games require 600K plus and with out EMM386.EXE
NOEMS you will have insufficent memory.  Make sure all applications and
devices are loaded high and in my case I get 624K of conventional memory
and have never had a problem with any DOS game.

Colin Price <Colin@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<x+3OEMAwUFP1EwAp@frogmore6.demon.co.uk>...
> In article <35480f52.58470727@newshost.li.net>, Jon@suffolk.lib writes
> <long snip>
> 
> 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: "John Allison" <allisonj@escape.ca>
Subject: Re: Running Dos Games from Win95
Date: 1998/04/23
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