I have recently downloaded a very old DOS game from an abandonware site called Premier Manager 1. Here's the problem, the game needs a minimum of 580 DOS memory, my computer has 640, but it only has 534 free! I need more DOS memory,I need alot more as I have other games aswell, I need help and advice on were I can add extra memory to DOS. Thankyou.

Try running memmaker. If that fails, take a look in your Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files and see if there is a TSR you can live without. "Six hundred and fourty kilobytes of memory is more than anyone will ever really need." ---Bill Gates

Im not very good on the computer, where do I find 'memmaker'? and what does TSR stand for? And if I do delete a TSR how much memory will I recieve P.S- How can Bill Gates say that, I need 720kb to run a different game. Also I have been told to make a boot disk, will this help? there are boot disks you can download, will that work, but if I do get a boot disk will I have to install everything on my PC again such as Windows 98 etc,etc? Thanx 4 the help

Whoa! You need lot's of help. To make things easier for you and so I don't have to type until my little rodent-like fingers start to bleed, I will provide this link: The EasyDOS Internet Guide to DOS

Nothing said by Bill Gates is guaranteed to be true. If you have Windows 98, you can't run Memmaker, because it is not included in Windows 95 and later. If you restart your computer, and press F8 just when it says "Loading Windows 98...", you can select different ways of booting. Choose either 'Failsafe MS-DOS only' or 'step-by step confirmation' and answer 'no' to everything and you will get almost as much memory as is possible. You will, though, not have access to any device drivers or anything like CD-ROM, mouse, expanded memory or such. To get better memory usage, you should edit config.sys and autoexec.bat manually. TSR stands for 'terminate and stay resident' which means a program that runs (in DOS in this case) and exits, leaving part of it's code in memory, allowing it to do stuff in the background when other applications are running. Common usages for TSRs are CD-ROM drivers, mouse, ramdisks, and stuff like that. If you download a boot disk, you will be able to boot from the boot disk, change to your hard drive, and run the game from there. You will not need to reinstall anything. Get one of the bootdisks from W0rm (go to http://w0rm.8m.com). They provide a lot of free memory.

You don't need to download a boot disk to load from a diskette. If you have win 3.1 or some other windows running, go to file manager and have a look through the menus, there should be copy system files to diskette. Just pout in empty disk and thats it. Restart computer with disk in drive and it should work. Only problem i encounter with this is that all my disks and hard drive is compressed, lol that means that you can't do it unless have the game on an uncompressed disk. Try it out! If that doesn't work, type LOADHIGH or LH before th program name to load game in high memory, mostly works but you never know.

If you need more DOS memory i can give you Quarterdeck Extended Memory Manager that give you alot of memory. I have an 486DX2 that have 640KB of memory in MS-DOS but i have free only 630KB !!! only with QEMM. Contact me i hope that i will give you the QEMM.