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DOS games
Name: pqc1986 Date: February 2, 2004 at 21:57:59 Pacific OS: Windows 98 se CPU/Ram: 233/96
Comment:
I can't get more than 557KB (conventional) I'd like to know if there's any way of using XMS memory.
If you've already tried that & that's the best that you can get, might want to use a bootdisk with limited drivers loaded and/or take advantage of the multiple configuration feature built into DOS
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Response Number 2
Name: SkipCox Date: February 3, 2004 at 00:14:34 Pacific
Reply:
Many old games will give instructions for making a bootdisk if low conventional memory is an issue. It's an old problem.
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Response Number 3
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: February 3, 2004 at 15:00:28 Pacific
Reply:
Post back contents of config.sys and autoexec.bat.
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system hangs up
