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Article #54Re: EMS memory and Win95
From: Rude de Dude
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 00:00
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. > >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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