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In article <3708F477.FEEFCE77@nmt.edu>, James Garvin <boot@nmt.edu>
writes
>Ah...The halcion days of Doom2....Takes me back...Actually where DO you get
>older games anymore???  Seems no one is willing to give them up!

Well, all the Doom games are available in a big box under the title
Doom Trilogy, that's where I got it. However, without wishing to
encourage piracy, a search for "abandonware ring" will reap many
rewards.

>There is a software package called system commander OR you can write your
>own...(with Win95 is a bitch...Win95 likes to take EVERYTHING and Win98 is
>MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH worse)  However, if you strike F8 direct after your BIOS
>you can boot to "DOS".  You can configure your DOS boot however your want
>though!  Just edit your autoexec.bat and config.sys and you SHOULD be able
>to play the old games...but Win9x just sucks rocks...can't wait until games
>start to be ported to Linux...*G*

Ah, even if you go straight to DOS, I find that Windows 95 DOS will
completely ignore all uses of the "LOADHIGH" or "LH" command, so all
your drivers will still clog up base memory.

Graham Goring

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