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Re: EMS memory and Win95

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From: Rude de Dude
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <338f0284.2212409@news.innet.be>, sparky@club.innet.be says...
>
>Hello world,
>
>recently I got a larger HD. On my previous HD I had Win3.11 installed
>and a year later I upgraded to Win95.
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>Whenever I played a DOS-based game that required EMS (expanded memory)
>I used 'memmaker' to get me some.
>
>On my new HD Win95 was installes straight away; and memmaker seems to
>have gone with the wind. How/where can I get/use memmaker.
>
>Last but not least : the amount of free 'base memory' available seems
>to have taken a steep dive. Wheter or not I use the DOS window in
>Win95, or I restart my computer in DOS mode I never get more than
>+/-550K free base memory available.
>
>Any help/replies would be very much appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>William


I still play my old DOS games in Win95 requiring up to 609Mb conventional
memory and 3Mb EMS etc.  It simply a matter of loading your memory
managers in CONFIG.SYS:

device=c:\..\himem.sys
device=c:\..\emm386.exe RAM 3072
dos=high,umb

Then load all device drivers and TSRs in upper memory with devicehigh= and
loadhigh etc.

Rudy
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From: r.melster@auckland.ac.nz (Rude de Dude)
Subject: Re: EMS memory and Win95
Date: 1997/06/06
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