Re: Old DOS games and memory problems

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From: James Garvin
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:00

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Graham Goring wrote:

> In article <fT6O2.233$V32.445@read2.inet.fi>, Vesa M�kel� <vesa.makela@p
> p.nospam.fimnet.fi> writes
> >It is not so difficult. In config.sys set emm386.exe NOEMS and load then all
> >necessary drivers high (devicehigh= and loadhigh=). I have 604 kb free base
> >memory under Windows 98 dos box and about 617 kb free in pure MS-DOS mode.
>
> Hmm, I've tried the NOEMS in W95 and still had problems. Never mind,
> though.

NOEMS is funky under Win95...did you try RAM?  Also there are some nice boot disk
makers on the older games (mostly by Lucas Art...Try Full Throttle) that are
SMOOOTHHHH...they sometimes work...(sometimes not...)if you make one then copy
over the autoexec.bat and the config.sys...

  -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
  Version: 3.1
  GCS/B/H !d s+:+@ a-@ C++>++++ UL++ P+ L++>++++ E++ W--@ N++ o+ K--- w---
  O- M-- V-- PS+ PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+(++) 5-- X++ R++>$ tv b+ DI+++ D++
  G e+>+++ h--- r+++ y+++ A09 H+++>* P+++
  ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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Date: 1999/04/05
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