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Article #49Re: Old DOS games and memory problems
From: Graham Goring
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:00
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In article <37090420.396119AB@nmt.edu>, James Garvin <boot@nmt.edu>
writes
>Graham Goring wrote:
>
>> In article <fT6O2.233$V32.445@read2.inet.fi>, Vesa M๏ฟฝkel๏ฟฝ <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...
Well, like I say, I've got a 486 for playing old stuff, now. :)
Graham Goring
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